Elon Musk died while on the toilet. He was on the toilet backwards.

I really enjoy just existing in hotels. The long identical hallways. The soulless abstract art. The weird noises the air-conditioner makes. Strange city lights in the window. Six stories off the ground. Strangers chatting in the hall. Nothing in the dresser. No past, but an infinite present. 

MEAN GIRLS (2004) dir. Mark Waters

2021 Redraw of Padma and Parvati in their Yule Ball outfits!

She's brave enough to say all of the things in my head

WHEN I TELL YOU I CACKLED

- SOPHIE HEAWOOD

me giving relationship advice: communicate or end it

“You are too much for me, Ennis. You son of a whoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you!” Brokeback Mountain (2005, dir. Ang Lee)

I want what I give. Simple as that.

I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

Blessed_Bear

Please consider posting this: A petition to the House of Commons to repeal current sex work laws - to be signed by MARCH 30, Canadian residents only

From this Globe and Mail opinion piece:

“If sex workers are as ‘vulnerable’ as the law suggests, where’s their pandemic support?”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/article-if-sex-workers-are-as-vulnerable-as-the-law-suggests-wheres-their/ Bronwyn McBride and Jennie Pearson are community-based researchers at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity in Vancouver. They link to an actual House of Commons petition to repeal Bill C-36, that MUST only be signed by Canadian residents - which also means this petition will be delivered and actively used, if it gets enough signatories. It closes MARCH 30. https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-3132 Excerpts: …Many workers, supported by the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), ceased work to abide by public health guidelines for physical distancing. Sex workers, as workers, were expected to follow suit. Instead, what happened was just an extension of sex workers’ normal: exclusion from labour rights and protections. …After previous sex work laws were deemed unconstitutional for violating sex workers’ rights, the federal government implemented Bill C-36 in 2014, which took aim at demand for sex work – criminalizing the purchasing of sex but decriminalizing its sale. But that law deemed Canadian sex workers to be victims, not workers. This inaccurate framing has restricted sex workers’ freedoms under the guise of their protection and had severe consequences for sex workers’ occupational conditions; for instance, most sex workers can’t access government income supports created to help workers stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. These precarious workers have had no choice but to continue to work during this crisis, risking their health and safety and highlighting the inherent contradictions of laws that effectively criminalize sex work to “protect vulnerable communities.” These “end-demand” laws were due for federal review by the end of 2019, but they remain in effect to this day. Last July, community organizers called for law enforcement to cease surveillance and ticketing of sex work-related charges during the pandemic; they were largely ignored.

…Sex workers are equal members of society who deserve occupational health and safety protections, income supports, security and self-determination at work. This crisis is an opportunity for Canada to listen to decades of activism and to fully decriminalize sex work.

tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel