now more than ever, please vet gofundmes before you donate.

copy and paste descriptions into google to see if there are scam accounts reusing the same story, check to see if there are any images/updates on the fund with faces. go to the original blog, check if the post asking for help is only an hour old, or even less than that. refrain from donating if all it links to is a PayPal account, without any further confirmation of identity.

it’s horrible to say but it’s never been a better time for scam artists to exploit your generosity, when things seem so dire, and I’ve donated to campaigns before only to realise later that the entire story was stolen from an actual family in need. due diligence might take a few more minutes out of your day but at least you won’t be sending money to an opportunistic scumbag.

for campaigns on tumblr: please check out @/el-shab-hussein's list of verified fundraisers here on tumblr and also @/nabulsi. they both do incredible work at vetting campaigns.

there is also this spreadsheet made by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein.

other places to find vetted fundraisers are the operation olive branch spreadsheet and also gazafunds.

“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

I love that hozier writes music that is soft and gentle and emotional. I love that he shows a masculinity that leaves room for vulnerability and feeling. Men are not born less capable of tender feelings, and women aren't born less capable of misogyny.

Frothing at the mouth every time I see a sex ed resource that says "use condoms" without any further elaboration. "Condoms prevent STIs and pregnancy in the vast majority of cases when used correctly" but then they don't talk about what correctly IS

Correct use of a condom means

Bonus: a lot of people think hand stuff can't transmit STIs. Wrong! If you give your partner a handjob and then touch yourself you can get HPV, herpes (low risk), and infections like chlamydia and gonorrhea

This isn't meant to be stressful, and the most common STIs are the most treatable - and often curable - but getting gonorrhea in your eyes after a facial still extremely sucks and yet no one talks about the fact that any mucous membrane can be effected, not just your genitals (yes this includes your mouth and throat)

In ten years of doing sex work where I saw 10 clients a day most of the time I've had 4 condom fails ever. One was what I mentioned above when it snapped on my leg, one was a client on top of me didn't get off fast enough after he finished and the condom came off, and the other two were a Glyde brand magnum that was inexplicably twice the thickness of a regular condom and didn't stay put on anyone so I suggest just avoiding Glyde entirely (their water based lubes also stain fyi). With all other brands correct use = extremely safe

Oil-based lube and latex condoms are also incompatible! Condoms can and should be used on toys.

I'd normally tag nsfw but I never got sex ed in school or at home. Even if you yourself don't need to use this information, it's still good in general to know, whether that be for fiction writing or advice to a friend or just to have in your back pocket (which is apparently hopefully not where you're keeping the condoms). The more you know!

Certified Sex Ed Post!

I’m obsessed with ep 15 of ohshc not because of anything that actually happens in the episode but because hikaru seems to be wearing three tank tops the whole time

I’m captivated by his triple tank swag

okay I think there’s three possible options

one binder sandwiched between two tank tops. weirdo again

my argument for one binder sandwiched between two tank tops: the binder was causing sensory issues

transmasc AND autistic boy swag

Considering that the white straps are hanging out of the black layer I think it is absolutely tank top underneath a binder, but Hikaru needs to make it look like a fashion choice (tm) as opposed to hiding it under the straps.

he’s like if I wear my binder confidently enough no one will even realize what it is and you know what he’s right.

[Image description: There are 7 images that are screen caps of tiktok user @/chris.irish.rd's video

Image 1: Reminders from a slightly angry dietitian

Image 2: Consuming soy is not going to lower your testosterone, but consistently underfueling will

Image 3: Just because the body CAN function with minimal carbohydrates doesn't mean it is "healthy" or preferred

Image 4: Your brain needs carbohydrates to understand Severance

Image 5: If you're hungry an hour after eating, there is a reason. You're allowed to eat again

Image 6: Food is personal and it can serve many purposes. You don't have to justify your eating

Image 7: You aren't supposed to weight the same as you did in high school or college /end ID]

I'm putting the word "exotic" on top of the refrigerator yall can't be trusted. we live in a global world, no more using "exotic" to refer to things that are locally familiar to many people who are simply not in your area

"clam chowder is an exotic soup" is a true statement for the vast majority of human beings on this planet

from now on exotic should refer to like. newly discovered and undiscovered species. exotic mites are flourishing in my backyard

reminds me of this plant we used to have in texas that was exclusively on one property and the fringes of its fence line when i was raised on a farm

no idea what the hell it was. goats went insane for it. looked like a brown version of milk thistle but clearly wasn't poisonous; they literally prioritized eating it over everything else. got super crunchy when it dried out into a husk. didn't sting.

we called it goatweed and lo and behold when a botanist was called to identify it they'd never seen it before. took samples and asked us what we called it. those samples may be the last remnants because the goats went out of their way to eat as much of it as possible and i have no idea if that plant is extinct now :(

I. I need SO many more details about the Exotic Mystery Goatweed Driven To Extinction By Local Goat Herd

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

?????? rich people are losing it

to be clear, yes i would also do some of this if i had the money. im experiencing blinding envy over the dr pepper mirror dimension.

fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can't eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they're starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something

People finally think they’re attractive and cool and funny but they’re dead. People finally treat them well but they’re dead. Do you see the vision

Transforms into a shell of my former self and finally gains the respectability society never bestowed upon me before

after my cancer scare and finding out i might never eat like i used to again was so shell shocking i don’t think i ever truly processed it. what i did process was the fact that i felt terrible and sick all the time, still do!, and all the people around me were too busy congratulating me for “finally not being fat.”

i’ve never felt more sick in my life than i do now and some days i can’t leave my bed (bad) and other days i feel the same but i still have to drag myself out of bed and go to work (worse!)

people flirt with me more often now. people acknowledge me and speak to me like a peer rather than an outsider? and all i want to do is lay in bed and sleep. stop congratulating me i’m literally withering in my mid-20s!! i’m not attractive and cool and funny because i’m smaller. i was all of those things before and the fact i had to nearly die to be seen makes me not want to be seen at all

Mouse Armor by Jeff de Boer

Etsy Mouse armor necklace and earrings available as well as other work by Jeff de Boor.

my mom is playin fuckn animal crossing in real life

she got this painting for $75 in an old case at an antique market shes been going to for years, and she thought it looks really beautiful, so she sent an email to a local art center to have it appraised

and now she has an art conservator in her emails making a plan to have her come bring it in to be appraised as a genuine Hokusai wood block print from over a hundred of years ago

thats so fucked up to me. my mom went fuckin shopping at Crazy Redd's

no joke, she got it at an antique market. but she didnt even buy the painting. she bought a bag that the painting was in, cuz she's an artist.

when she got home, the bag fell over, and the painting fell out. into the lap of an unsuspecting small town idaho girl (my ma) (that's how she described it).

movie shit.

UPDATE:

it was NOT AN ORIGINAL, but it is a 19th century reproduction.

so she's gonna keep it and have it restored, which means eventually IM going to inherit it, which is cool because i think it looks cool and would love to hang it in my home B^]

egg magical girl where she's like "man, i wish i could be a girl all the time, this is so fun! sucks im a guy the rest of the time when im not in uniform."

her name is like. sparkle sparkle sunshine and she's so insanely miserable in her day to day life. her teammates, sparkle sparkle moonlight, sparkle sparkle loveheart and sparkle sparkle stardust don't know she's a "guy" and she's mortified of them finding out. so while the three of them hang out outside of uniform, she isolates herself.

her whole thing is fighting darkness with the Truth and her "sparkle friend" is a little sun shaped lion thing named beam who's incapable of telling lies, which puts a lot of pressure on her. she keeps telling herself and beam that she'll tell her teammates eventually, but... not right now.

sparkle sparkle transgenderism

the hatching starts when beam offhand mentions she's a girl and she's like "but you can't lie??"

YOU GET EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING FOR THERE

oh so the Yankees made their bats thicker and hit 20 runs bc of it and the league is just like yeah they're allowed to do that?? this whole time apparently it's been perfectly legal to just change the bats to make it easier and no one tried it until right now?? 150 years this sport has been around and suddenly someone had a bright idea??

look at this shit man

Did none of them watch this Bugs Bunny short?

I feel like this random factoid could easily lead to an insane sports anime where batters have insane gimmick bats that they use to defeat superpowered pitchers

hmmm. Tumblr mobile update looking pretty ugly

partner: you’re a fool for letting your daddy issues lead you to master oogway and not the ultimate daddy, po’s dad

me, holding out a rolled up pair of socks like a sword: it’s NOT daddy issues, it’s my desire for spiritual enlightenment. can you imagine how far i could advance my cultivation just by going down on that wrinkly old turtle man

actually if you’ll allow me to get a little pedantic about kfp characters! i don’t believe either of those characters would be involved in that conversation. shifu is rigidly confucian, caring more about maintaining order than promotion his own spiritual/martial advancement; he’s also obsessively deferential to his superiors, even going against what they want in favor of what he believes they want or should want, and he’s so neurotically orthodox that i think he would have an allergic reaction and die if he came within 500 feet of shizunfucking, much less shizunfucking for such callous advancement.

meanwhile tai lung is obsessed with progress, but more than that he’s obsessed with reputation and the appearance of having earned that progress—even detrimenting his own progress for the sake of doing it on his own terms. he feels nothing but disdain for people who are both inferior to him in martial skill and who are superior but he feels have not “earned” it, so he likely would not want to fuck master oogway or mr ping.

however, if i may direct your attention to master oogway’s horned-up shidi master kai, his desire for raw power causes him to turn to unorthodox methods and demonize, literally stealing master oogway’s cultivation in order to advance his own. and po’s biological father li shan, while having fatherhood issues in a somewhat unconventional manner, certainly feels strongly about mr ping’s status as a daddy. if you follow the vision

Adjusted

YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

My sister is having another baby and I'm gonna be so pissed if it isn't an alligator.