You’re Always Better Off With A Really Good Lie

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
fancylala4
princess-ibri

So @gayfergus sent me these amazing pictures of two rare Disney Dolls that came out in the 90s of a couple of Mermaid girls meant to be Ariel's friends

Kayla:

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And Shelly:

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Don't know why her box art tail and shell colors are different then the dolls but gotta say I adore how she has a underwater Walkman xD

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Nothing says 90s Teen like a Walkman! Even if its under the sea and before the invention of electronic x)

I dunno the 'Swimman” probably works with magic or 'eel-lectricity' or something xD

Looking up these two led me to find Ariel’s other “Cool Teen” friend (my gosh that’s so ‘Hello fellow kids’):

Pearl!

Who apparently has a “Shell-o-phone” (can’t be a Shellphone cuz it has a seaweed cord I love it xD)

Also Cool Teen Ariel apparently came with under water Pizza xD

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But I love that this adds to Ariel have more friends/peers and that so many of them are POC!

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So here’s a little doodle of them all, including Urchin and Gabriella from the tv show

noonesgaylikegatson
kirinandvlindertje

“transition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.“

This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: “from what age do you gain bodily autonomy?” Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment you’re fucking born.

itsjustmesonoworries

I’m sorry, I’m reblogging this twice in a row it is that important

numinous-queer

Stand up and say it again for the people in the back row. 

drtanner

This is all completely true and correct, of course, but on the topic of changes that irreversibly change a child’s body, prithee, go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.

If you start ballet at 16, you are too old to ever expect to be able to do it seriously. If you start at 12 you’re too old. If you want to do ballet as a serious thing, as a career, you need to start at like eight years old or even younger, because your bones and joints need to be trained while they’re still flexible in order for you to be able to perform many of the required motions and stances of ballet. In particular, you need to be able to perform turnout of the hips, but all of your joints in your legs and feet will be affected, and this irreversibly changes your body.

And yet! Nobody talks about this as a negative thing! Little girls say they want to be ballet dancers, and if their parents have enough money, that’s what they get to be! Does it cause problems in later life? Yeah, sometimes! Often, even! But nobody talks about that because it’s a thing for cis people to do and so naturally it’s all fine!

Go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.

miniar

Even common everyday sports do this.

If you play soccer for a few consecutive years sometime between the ages of 8 and 15 it will permanently affect your knees.

If you play a lot of soccer and for longer it will affect the entirety of legs, muscle and bone, and not for the better.

Almost every soccerplayer in the world has a shortening of the back of the thigh muscle that will cause pain as they age.
Most develop severe knee problems by the age of 30.

People don’t age out of sports in general around 30 because they’ve “passed their prime physical condition” in the sense that age has taken it’s toll, but in the sense that the sport itself has taken it’s toll.

And yet, no one is advocating against letting children play sports.

scifigrl47

My brother started playing PeeWee football at 10 years old. TEN. And you can call it ‘flag football’ or ‘no tackle football’ or ‘limited contact all you want, they’re putting 10 year Olds in a helmet and pads because it’s a contact sport.

It will always be, accidentally or on purpose, a contact sport.

He played until his college team interfered with his education, and then quit. He was 20. For ten years, he played football. He had 2 major concussions that I know of. One required hospitalization, one required round the clock monitoring.

That’s what we know about.

And from what we now know about CTE and traumatic brain injury, that second severe concussion was enough to escalate his risk of Altzheimers, dementia and associated disorders. It may help explain his extreme anxiety in his early twenties. It might have contributed to his depressive episodes.

By the age of 19, his choice of sport may have changed him far more than hormone blockers or a binder. How many people argue boys shouldn’t be able to make that choice?

teaboot
dissociatingdumbass

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allegra-writes

Reblogging again because I got an anon last week whining cause they did this to one of my unfinished series and the bot killed Y/N so now they want ME to give them a happy ending. Like. No. Suffer, bitch.

teaboot

None of yall know my A03 but if I ever find out that anyone fed the fics I put my heart and soul into to a brainless plagiarism machine so it could spit out some shitfuck part 2 like a goddamn happy meal, as if a lifetime of genuine hard work and effort is worth that goddamn little to you that you can disrespect like that, I'm going to open up fics I haven't updated in years just to canonical kill off everyone in the worst fucking ways I can think of

teaboot
teaboot

Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't

teaboot

FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:

  1. There is never any justification for someone putting their hands on you in any way without your consent short of immediate risk of harm or death.
  2. If someone tells you that "the way I'm acting is your fault because you know that doing X thing would make me do it and you chose to do it anyway" is just fancy bullshit talk for, "I know my behaviour is wrong, but I don't want to be held responsible for it so I'm pushing it on you"
  3. Nothing good ever, ever comes from someone who tells you, "I don't want you talking about our relationship with anyone". This person cannot handle accepting responsibility and processing criticism so they need you to never, ever question them. That's easier if they control the narrative and your friends aren't there to cut in.
  4. Nothing constructive comes from screaming.
  5. "It's not like that all the time" is optimistic and sweet, but the truth is, it shouldn't be like that at all. Sweet words and gifts and gestures don't erase being frightened for yourself or for your loved ones. That is not normal. Don't minimize it.
  6. It is not healthy or normal to be genuinely afraid of saying "no" to someone, for any reason at all. Violence, outbursts, retaliation, anything. You should not have to be afraid of someone's reaction to your boundaries.
  7. You are not responsible for saving anyone. Even if you love them. Even if they have nobody else. At the end of the day, if they want to hurt themselves in any way, they will, and you can't stop them forever. People need to want to improve before they can actually improve, and if they're threatening to harm themselves to keep you around, they're using your love to hold themselves hostage. You do not decide their choices for them, and they don't get to shunt that off on you.
  8. There will always be other people who can love you better. You will not be alone forever. This will not be the last time you care for someone like this and it will not be the last time someone cares for you
teaboot

This applies to ALL relationships btw