Keep an eye out for this pride flag! If you encounter someone with this pride flag as their icon, do yourself a favor and block/report them. This is the MAP pride flag. For those who don’t know, MAP stands for Minor Attracted Person, more commonly known as a pedophile. The MAP community is filled with adults who openly admit to having sexual feelings towards children, and post about how they fantasize about underaged children. It’s sick and disgusting, and these depraved individuals try and use tumblr as a platform to normalize their perversions. They appropriate the experiences of the LGBT community by feigning systematic oppression, and comparing the rightful societal condemnation of pedophiles to the violent persecution of the LGBT community, which isn’t even remotely comparable. It’s honestly reprehensible that they’d take advantage of pride by making a flag like this. It’s incrediblly dangerous because unifying symbols such as this create a platform for pedophiles to prey on children, and spread pedophilia-enabling rhetoric. Please spread this around if you can, and if you are a minor, don’t bother interacting with these scumbags. It’s not worth putting yourself in danger to call these people out or try to get them to see the error of their ways. Stay safe everyone!
Specifically, this is the NOMAP pride flag. For more proof of how disgusting this is, here’s the supposed symbolism behind the flag’s colors:
“The top two stripes are blue to represent NOMAPs attracted to young boys.
The bottom two stripes are pink to represent NOMAPs attracted to young girls.
The inner stripes are yellow to represent childhood and general attraction to minors, regardless of their gender.
The middle stripe is white to represent our innocence and unwillingness to offend.”
This is a quote by the flag’s creator. Trust no one with this flag.
More important information!!! Some people are questioning the legitimacy of this flag, and claiming it might be a 4chan hoax, but sadly, the creator appears to be serious, and it is very much real. Real-life predators are using this flag, so please stay away from any one who associates this flag with any aspect of their identity.
I know having a bf/gf etc isnt important but when no one crushes on u u cant help but wonder “whats wrong with me ” “maybe im meaner than i thought” “how ugly AM i” “its because of my body its totally my body” i think its only natural as humans that we seek approval it kind of sucks
Hey so do you think it takes Pearl so long to regenerate because she essentially has to battle through her Nine Circles of Repressed Traumatic Memories every time?
why do men want to be gynecologists? why? why. gynecology is for females and should be practiced solely by women imo
I don’t think a fuckboy is gonna go through years of college education with the mindset of “I’m doing this so I can put metal and cotton swabs in vaginas”…. (more)
lets talk about the arkansas gyno, paul becton jr. who took nude pictures of his female patients
lets talk about dr. john black (gyno) who sprayed a chemical found in drain cleaner into his female patients’ genitalia
or dr. robert hadden, a gyno who performed unwilling oral sex on his patients and staff member
or dr. bruce sylvester smith, the gyno who raped (at least) one patient and sexually harassed many others.
and while we’re at it, lets talk about male gyno, dr. john marshall who tricked, drugged, and raped his patient.
or dr. paul kelly, an indiana ob-gyn who sexually abused his patients and over-prescribed dangerous drugs.
so actually tons of male doctors abuse their patients, and the cases of female doctors abusing their patients is almost non-existent. so thanks for your comment, but next time, try doing a bit of research.
let’s talk about my patient yesterday who complained that every male ultrasound tech that has performed a vaginal ultrasound on her pushed the probe way too far and clearly had no concept of vaginal comfort during penetrative procedures
let’s talk about how not once have i hurt any of my patients during vaginal ultrasounds, and if they have issues with penetration such as vulvodynia or a history of endometriosis, i take a long, slow time to do the ultrasound and check in frequently, and will attempt to do an abdominal ultrasound instead if warranted
let’s talk about how it is most certainly because i am a woman and therefore i understand my female patients and their comfort levels much more than any dude could.
Every time someone says something like “oh yeah a guy would never go through all that trouble just to rape someone” there are a dozen examples of someone who has done just that
-Revolver fucking bursting through the roof of a cathedral in a fucking lightning bolt to save his enemy from being tortured by a giant fucking demon hand. That was a wild turn of events.
-Aoi, looking like she’s about to die: “INTO THE VRAINS”.
-Everyone dying in the Tower of Hanoi Arc.
-Faust trying to reason with Yusaku in the last moments of his duel and Yusaku just being like “fuck you”.
-Ryoken getting hotdogs. Ryoken walking up and down an absurd number of stairs to buy hotdogs from his enemies.
-Kogami dying.
-”I’m sorry, Mommy” the artificial intelligence says to the trading card of an angry tree.
-Yusaku working at the hotdog truck but refusing to sell Aoi a hotdog.
I met a fan artist from the Hobbit fandom who’s 40+ years old, who sent me a postcard a couple of years back for Christmas with her art on the card.
When I was about 14, I once befriended, and lost contact with, a 40 year old woman with a full head of gray, curly hair, who was one of the best known Good Omens fan artists of the community. She had apparently been in and out of asylums for years, and I worried for the longest time. I even sent her an email when I was around 18, asking after her well-being. But then she resurfaced when I was 21, here on tumblr. It was one of the greatest and most memorable fandom experiences I’ve ever had.
When I was 15 and using slurs I didn’t know were slurs, 30+ year old LGBTQ+ comics fans on scans_daily patiently but firmly corrected me. I felt mortified, but they never attacked me or treated me as anything other than a dumb kid who made a mistake.
I have a long time friend of close to a decade, who was late twenties when I met her in the comics fandom, and I was a teen.
OLDER FANS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF FANDOMS. Not ONLY because they’re literally the ones keeping fandom afloat (AO3 wasn’t created or maintained by kids, let’s just say), but because older fans generally don’t attack or bully or fuck up a fandom by being aggressive or volatile or overzealous, destroying any enjoyment of a medium.
Single women, married women, LGBTQ+ fans, all in the range of 30-60 years old. I’ve met all sorts of older fans, from when I was 12 on deviantart to now, in my mid-twenties, and not a single one of them has ever hurt me or treated me like dirt. I’ve always felt safer with older fans than with younger ones, because of the people I’ve seen harass, accuse, doxx, bully, and generally engage in harmful behaviour in this fandom, they’ve largely been in the 13-21 age bracket.
Obviously most young fans aren’t like that, but the toxicity is palpable regardless.
@younger fans, if somebody older in a fandom acts in a creepy way, then feel free to avoid them, block them, report them.
But this apparent DELUSION that younger fans have that older fans are “creepy” just for existing needs to be eradicated. Just. Stop. You do not deserve the fandoms they built, they maintained, they keep alive in themselves and all the younger fans they took care of, if you cannot RESPECT THEM.
A female character who is a cold, relentless leader, always pragmatic, and able to make whatever hard decisions need to be made in order to ensure success and survival, tremendously skilled and devastatingly efficient at her job, tragically terrible at being overtly nice to people, who is also not evil and is still fundamentally a good person.
The Moral of This Post is: No matter how genius your idea is, Hiromu Arakawa probably already did it, and she did it better than you could ever hope to.
As someone pointed out to me tonight, and as something I have known for a long time and I know others know too, I’m just going to say it, even though it sounds childish:
It’s not fair.
It’s not fair that the creators of our favorite shows are allowed to hang and display fan art of their shows on the walls, but they can’t even touch fanfiction.
It’s not fair that fan artists can be hired by authors and content creators to design content for them, but writers can’t.
It’s not fair that fan art gets thousands of notes, but fanfiction rarely hits more double digits (all likes, no reblogs).
It’s not fair that we have to beg for responses to our work.
It’s not fair that people demand us for new updates moments after we put out a new one.
It’s not fair that if we charge “too much” for a commission, we don’t eat dinner that night, but I’ve seen fan art sketches get sold for over sixty dollars.
It’s not fair that every time a writer makes a post about how much it SUCKS to be a fanfiction writer, we get people in the comments saying “artists work hard too!”
We know they do.
It’s not fair that I have to put a disclaimer in to every post like this saying that I recognize how hard artists work, that I appreciate and adore them.
But fandom, every single fandom, creators included, is not fair to its writers.
And it fucking sucks.
One more thing I thought of:
It isn’t fair that, when content creators DO react to fanfiction, they pick the ones with bad grammar, with awkward spelling, with poor characterization, and they make fun of it. They pick apart and tear down a young writer who genuinely likes the content and was trying to make something that they were proud of.
It isn’t fair that young artists get praised and given advice on how to better their drawing, but writers get torn down the moment they fuck up on something as small as grammar or spelling.
Realistic Stuttering: “Sorry, I uh… I didn’t mean- I didn’t mean to do that…”
When people stutter, they usually reword what they’re saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert “filler words” such as “uh, like, you know,” and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic “I, um… well I… look it’s just that… so we…” that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words you’re seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.
With this you will also sometimes see the classic “S-s-s-sorry…” especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when they’re written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!
1 - Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 - This is where you’ll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 - This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.
My mum has apraxia and I just wanted to say that’s one of the most concise and clear ways I’ve seen it explained, thank you!
I feel like the reason certain dog-lovers insist cats are evil is because they read their body language as if they were dogs. So here’s a very basic guide to common “mean” things cats do that actually aren’t mean at all if you know what they’re thinking.
Rolling and exposing belly- attacks you when touched Does not mean: Give belly rubs! - haha I tricked you! Actually means: I’m playful! If you reach for my belly I’ll grab your arm and bite it because I think we’re playfighting!
Lazily exposing belly - still attacks when touched Does not mean: tricked you again! Actually means: I’m showing you my belly because I trust you. Please don’t break that trust by invading my personal space. I might accept a belly rub if I’m not ticklish and I know you well.
Snapping at you while being pet Does not mean: I suddenly decided I dislike you! Actually means: You’re petting me in a way that gives me too much restless energy. Please focus on petting my head and shoulders instead of stroking the full length of my back next time.
Is in the same room but makes no attempt to interact Does not mean: I’m ignoring you Actually means: We’re hanging out! I’m being respectful by giving you space while still enjoying your company.
Slapping/scratching your hand when you try to pet them Does not mean: I hate you! Actually means: You’ve failed to establish that we’re not playing, or the way you’re approaching me scares me. Be calmer, speak more gently, make eye-contact and blink slowly at me before you try again.
I love this post omg, thank you so much. As a lifelong cat person, dogs perplex me because they’re so completely different behaviourally.
I love dogs too but, I’ve been trying to tell people, you canNOT treat cats like you treat dogs. They arent the same animals and have very different personalities
P.s.: people often pet cats way too hard. Dogs like a firm pet or a pat on the belly, cats dont have the same bone structure and are more flexible than dogs so what you’re doing probably hurts them
Sitting and staring Does not mean: I am challenging you/plotting your demise/just generally evil and creepy. Actually means: I am a desert-adapted species, so my natural tears are very thick and keep my eyes moist for a nice long time. I do find people interesting and enjoy watching them. I just don’t need to blink very often!
Staring and blinking slowly Does not mean: I’m smug and think I am smarter than you. Actually means: I like you! But I don’t need to get up in your face to show it. I can just sit over here and blow kisses at you to show you I am glad you are around!
It’s very frustrating for me when people expect cats to act like dogs, or act like they’re deceitful. They aren’t! They just AREN’T DOGS.
I want to add another thing to the ‘Slapping/scratching your hand when you try to pet them‘ section.
It can also mean ‘I’ve have been over stimulated (perhaps from to much/to vigorous petting) and it’s making me uncomfortable but I don’t know how to let all this energy out’ (the answer is play, use toys and play).
And the rolling on back and exposing their belly can very between cats. Some cats hate having their bellies touched and will bite at you if you try and touch it, and then there are others that love having it touched(as long as you’re gentle and only as long as they want). Our cat Bella for example loves having her belly stroked when she rolls onto her back.
Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.
Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.
Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.
FUCKING FINALLY
I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!
this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance.
Also worth noting: a scene from the musical not included in the movie, the EXTENDED “SOMETHING THERE.”
The library scene isn’t just “oh, look, this is yours.” Belle immediately runs to a shelf and exclaims “I love this story! The Tales of King Arthur. It’s my favorite! Have you read it?” The Beast immediately becomes flustered and embarrassed and says “well, no.” He and Belle then argue–him embarrassedly, her excitedly–on whether he will let her read the book, or whether she’ll give it to him to read first. Until it transpires: he, like Gaston, can’t read, but to him this is a source of great embarrassment. The song continues over Belle reading him the book, with him interjecting excitedly when Arthur is crowned king and ending the book (with Arthur’s death and the end of Camelot) tearful and clearly moved.
He becomes embarrassed about the idea of not being good enough for her because he thinks he can’t share her interests, and when Belle finds a way for both of them to enjoy the book he’s absolutely delighted and into it, with no “but she’s a GIRL” involved (something that’s heavily played up in the musical, where Gaston’s proposal is replaced with a nauseatingly good song called “Me” and a second half to “Gaston”).
The musical just hammers home what the movie didn’t have time for: this is absolutely a story about two lost people finding peace with each other.
if you actually played a soulmate au straight it would be super fucking hilarious
like w the names? youre telling me it wouldnt end up like w horses? people aiming for the most unique possible name to ensure their kid finds their soulmate? like white people names might almost make sense w that in mind
or first words? like no one would be willing to recite Customer Service spiels from the get go, basic greetings would probably be somewhat limited and only really expected by people who found their soulmate. half of meeting people in a group would just be everyone making sure to address one another directly w some random ass bullshit like “toes are my favorite animal”
first touch activates telepathic bond or whatever? either everyone touches eachother or everyone avoids tough. some inbetween of course but this is humanity were talking abt
i love me some schmoopy romance but lbr any of this shit in whatever universe would shape culture wildly and theres no way it would be nearly so recognizable as wed expect them to be
