You will all be overjoyed to know that this was apparently a commercial pattern… in like 1993. If you can find the out of print booklet, this glorious specimen of fashion can be yours.
Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.
Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn’t even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.
The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.
Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help. He went to guidance counselors for help. He went to the principals for help.
He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.
Wayne’s lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.
So… no.
No one in my school talked about being trans.
Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.
I think sometimes people forget that the gov is the corporations’ bitch, not the other way round.
This has made the city go “wait, it sucks that we can’t punish corporations who do this”, though:
Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia tweeted Friday that StreetsLA would be fining Universal Studios $250 for trimming trees without a city permit. He also said that “outdated laws limit fine amounts and aren’t equitable across offenders, especially big corporations” and that he will recommend these laws be reevaluated.
Disability Pride month let’s not forget about the people in our community with intellectual disabilities!
I just found out about the Stay Up Late campaign to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities to have the right to go out in the evening and not have to be in bed by 8pm
I learned about it from this video:
And I found the website for the campaign which is here:
Video starts with 2 people introducing the video. An older white gentleman on the left in plain clothes, and an adult white feminine person on the right in a red tank top and glitter makeup and mickie mouse ears. There is a caption that reads “people w/intellectual disabilities cant stay up late because…”
The man on the left says “intellectual disabilities residents cant stay up late because its what our residents prefer” (sorry if this part is a little off i kinda missed it and can’t rewind in mobile post editor)
The woman on the right says “our residents??”
And the man says at the same time “our residents?”
The scene cuts and now it’s in a kitchen, there is a man in a buisness suit, a man implied to be one of the residents in a hoodie, a woman implied to be a resident in a dress, and a man who is her support worker in orange.
The man in the hoodie says “i think..” and gets cut off by the man in a buisness suit. He puts a finger up to shush the man in the hoodie. He says “its what you prefer”
The man in the hoodie says “ummm” and gets cut off again by the man in the suit who repeats “is what you prefer” but he talks slow and down to the man in the hoodie this time.
The woman in the dress says “it’s what i want to do” and slams the table in emphasis.
The man in the buisness suit says “its what you prefer”
The man in orange says “I’m sorry as their support worker can i just-” and is cut off by the man in the buisness suit who says “its what they prefer” and laughs.
The man in the hoodie says “fuck off we’re going out” and stands up to walk away
The woman in the dress says “youre ridiculous!” And starts to leave. The man in orange follows her.
The man in the suit says “no excuse me but this is not what you prefer”
The woman in the dress says “give us a break!” From the hallway. The three of them head toward the door and the man in the suit looks down.
I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven’t seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka “raptures of the deep”
basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.
she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.
if you can solve it, you’re good. that is the hardest part of the test.
because here’s what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they’re not dying, they’re not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.
a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he’d told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he’s at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can’t go down there, but he saw the woman go.
instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.
she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.
when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍
sometimes you just gotta listen to music at a volume that you know will be part of the cause of your hearing loss at the age of 28
hey yall. im 25 now and i already have tinnitus <3 dont do this. LOL
oh btw for those saying “i already have tinnitus haha it cant get worse” YEAH IT CAN BITCH! if you want to listen to music loud do it on speakers at least. headphones will Beam Pain Waves Directly Into Your Cochlear Hair Cells and a 10kHz Tone Loud Enough Will Give You Psychic Damage Forever
if i have to fucken, translate it to something you’ll understand? Imagine theres a picture of garfield here saying
