persepnohe:

I know a lot of you guys don’t want to reblog those posts about the wildfires in Greece because they’re too long, so I figured I would make a shorter post for y’all. 

Here is a link on how to help and what the current situations are, and here is a direct link to the fundraiser.

As someone who has personally been affected by fire, I would really appreciate if y’all could sb this??

lamb-jpg:

speaking as a childcare professional and sexual education teacher, here is why i think 12 year olds IDing as asexual is upsetting and alarming:

libido, which is your biological desire for sex, is controlled by either estrogen or testosterone levels in puberty. the rate at which these levels rise, and therefore your libido rises, is different for everyone. it is not only okay, but completely expected that children under 16 would not have a libido high enough to be interested in sex, in fact people with estrogen are not expected to reach the peak of their sex drive until their thirties (for people with testosterone its usually 16). that doesn’t mean that all children are inevitably going to grow up into adults with a desire for sex, but it does mean that they all could and it is EXPECTED and HEALTHY in pubescent development to not have a desire for sex whilst a child.

so thats the scientific reasoning behind why i think its harmful and unnecessary for children to be encouraged to ID as asexual, but this encouragement also makes the worrying implication that children can be allosexual. if a prepubescent or an early pubescent child shows interest (beyond normal curiousity) in sex then that is a huge red flag that the child is being sexually abused or groomed. you may think i’m reaching but normalising children being asexual normalises children being allosexual which can absolutely lead to sexual abuse being disregarded and overlooked. these arguments are harming children.

fatdemoman:

thok-ast-thok:

honestly the “overwatch as futuristic WWE” theory explains so much about the game:

  • the implausible backstories
  • the stage names
  • the exaggerated personae
  • how nobody’s origin story actually seems to impact who they fight
  • the highly specific and long-running rivalries
  • the nonsensical timeline
  • how half the cast has “died” and then come back
  • how it’s never clear what anyone’s actually fighting for

and nothing blizzard does in-universe can disprove it because it’s all part of the narrative

parentheticalaside:

“The media isn’t covering this” is a real “What do you want me to do, come over there and click the links for you?” situation. Every single time, I can prove that the media covered it. Every time. And, by the way, how do you know about it if the media didn’t cover it, you sanctimonious little twits? Do you think the professional photos being swapped on social media came from an eyewitness’s smartphone? Was that person in five locations at once, to get all those photos and information? No. They yanked them from a news site and posted them without credit or links. And then everyone started pretending that the information came out of thin fucking air, instead of from people working their asses off in dangerous conditions to get it to us.