“And how long did she have these symptoms?”

“It wasn’t no symptoms, Doc, it was demons holding her down. The pastor drove six out of her and that man she turned down sent back seven stronger ones to bind her harder.”

“Did you take her to the hospital with this last round of contortions and eye-rolling?”

“No, Ma’am, we went straight to church for three days straight and it was while the pastor was praying over she died.”

“I see. Well, we will proceed, and hopefully at the end we can at least tell you what was going wrong with her body.”

“Good, good, you wouldn’t find the demons. Pastor said they already gone.”

*Deep Breath*

This is rather a lot to field this Friday morn.

About your recent post where teens might think that having crushes on adults is wrong of them; I’ve already seen it happen. A girl on another site I follow used to post about Spider-Man all the time and had a big and functionally harmless crush on him. Then after awhile she stopped posting about him, and someone asked if she still liked Spider-Man. She responded “No. Tom Holland is an adult.” Like, that’s so sad to me. You just know she absorbed somewhere that her attraction is wrong ~~

caterfree10:

shipping-isnt-morality:

and that she’s not allowed to have nsfw feelings or thoughts because something something “if you were in a relationship in real life it would be problematic” All this does is cement the idea for me that this is about controlling others, especially women and girls, sexual thoughts and attractions and feelings. ~~

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Amazing how all this just loops back to policing teen girls sexuality and using it to excuse bad things happening to them, the same as it literally always has.

Teens! Are allowed! To be attracted! To adults! Anyone who has worked with or spent time around teens knows this! Those feelings shouldn’t be reciprocated, and even if they are, it’s the adult’s job to know the problems and consequences and put a stop to it.

The teen shouldn’t, y’know, stalk or assault anybody, but having the feelings and talking about them and getting very very wrapped up in them? Totally normal, arguably healthy.

tbh anyone who says that ANY teen girl is doing sexuality wrong is getting punched in the face

I’ve seen this and it’s starting to be labeled “adult attracted minors.” I cannot make this shit up.

This is so harmful and wrong. Teenagers are SUPPOSED to be swimming in a sea of their own hormones. And if they never make mental practice runs of attraction, how the hell do they plan to handle it all at once when they’re legal and in the eyes of actual predators, fair game.

In Final Fantasy, dragons are real. There are old bones lying around, and even older bones to dig up, but more importantly, there are dragons, real, live, breathing dragons walking around, landing on your trucks, stealing your princesses and fucking up your shit.

Childhood doesn’t have a dinosaur stage, not by that exact name, not in that exact way. There’s no brachiosaurus here, no velociraptor. Just dragons, in all their varied shapes and sizes, because what the world had was a Dragon Era, one that still isn’t all the way done.

Guys who obsess over girls having thigh gaps are such creepy little shits, like the most important part of a woman to them is a part that isn’t there and who the fuck do they think they’re fooling, their sad little micropeens don’t need the extra room, buncha fucking posers

enoughtohold:

FLORIDA BALLOT UPDATE FROM SEIU

We may need volunteers in the coming days. Please fill out the form here: http://seiufl.ngpvanhost.com/volunteer

VOTER PROTECTION HOTLINE: 833-Vote-FLA

IF YOU ARE A VOTER WHO FILLED OUT A PROVISIONAL BALLOT AT THE POLL, YOU MUST CONFIRM YOUR SUBMISSION WITH YOUR LOCAL SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS FOR IT TO BE COUNTED. Nelson, Fried, and maybe even the Gillum race are all THAT close to bring us to this point. If you filled out Vote By Mail, check the status of your submission at links below. #letsgo

**VOTERS WHO SUBMITTED PROVISIONAL BALLOTS: YOU MUST FAX, PERSONAL EMAIL, OR SHOW UP IN PERSON TO YOUR SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS TO CONFIRM YOUR SUBMISSION.

Miami-Dade County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 2700 NW 87th Ave, Miami FL, 33152; tel: 305-499-8683; fax: (305)499-8501; soedade@miamidade.gov; http://www.miamidade.gov/elections/

Broward County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 102, Fort Lauderdale, FL; tel: 954-357-7050; fax: 954-357-7070; Elections@browardsoe.org; http://www.browardsoe.org

Palm Beach County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 240 South Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL; tel: 561-656-6200; fax: 561-656-6287; susanbucher@pbcelections.org; http://www.pbcelections.org

Orange County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 119 West Kaley Street, Orlando, FL; tel: 407-836-2070; fax: 407-254-6596; voter@ocfelections.com; http://www.ocfelections.com

Hillsborough County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 2514 N. Falkenburg Rd., Tampa, FL; tel: 813-744-5900; fax: 813-744-5843; voter@hcsoe.org; http://www.votehillsborough.org

Pinellas County
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 13001 Starkey Road, Largo, FL; tel: 727-464-8683; fax: 727-464-7636; Election@VotePinellas.com; http://www.votepinellas.com

Osceola
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot:
2509 E Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee, FL; tel: 407-742-6000; fax: 407-742-6001; soe@voteosceola.com; http://www.voteosceola.com

Duval
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot: 105 East Monroe Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32202;
tel: 904-630-1414; fax: 904-630-2920; mhogan@coj.net; http://www.duvalelections.com

Leon
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot:
2990-1 Apalachee Parkway, Tallahassee, FL; tel: 850-606-8683; fax: 850-606-8601; Vote@leoncountyfl.gov; http://www.LeonVotes.org

Alachua
**SOE Contact info if you filled out a provisional ballot:
515 N. Main St., Suite 300, Gainesville, FL; tel: 352-374-5252; fax: 352-374-5264; kbarton@alachuacounty.us; http://www.votealachua.com/

Don’t see your county? SOE info can be found statewide here: https://dos.elections.myflorida.com/supervisors/

spacehussy:

for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you. 

thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional. 

it mattered. 

wheeloffortune-design:

bramblepatch:

dragon-in-a-fez:

dragon-in-a-fez:

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

couple things here:

  • multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
  • I’m 32

couple more things:

  • Little kids really aren’t equipped to work full time without damaging their physical, mental, and emotional development and health, and when you play the “but adults work all day!” card you sound like a nineteenth century textile baron.
  • Highschoolers can easily be “working” 40+ hours a week, between school, homework, and extracurriculars and/or part-time work, and still hear this smug “:/ wait til you get to the real world sweaty” rhetoric all the time.
  • The original claim here wasn’t even “school is too hard,” it was “school is failing to perform its most basic function,” which is different.

from an adult point of view:

– When my work day is done, it’s done. I don’t need to spend hours each night to study or do homework. 

– I don’t have tests and exams.

– I MAKE MONEY. 

As if adults wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to get the fuck out of work themselves