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#iim on 286k

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tumblr was designed in a lab to be a personal purgatory for ppl with moral ocd i think

#SO TRUE OP

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dreaming god

#this is so pretty #genshin #nahida #art #m

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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

#addiction #substance abuse

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I was talking to a friend about this, and I made the assertion that the majority of Zionists I know genuinely desire peace and a free Palestine (meaning: the safety, dignity, freedom, and self-determination of Palestinians in the Levant). She was surprised by this and a little skeptical of my possible sampling bias, so now I'm curious:

ONLY answer this if you identify as a Zionist!! By which I mean: you voluntarily describe yourself as a Zionist. Other people describing your views that way is not sufficient. Being absolutely cornered and forced to pick a team is not sufficient. If you are a lukewarm Zionist but are fine with it under certain conditions, that's a personal judgment call.

If you click the button, you are swearing in blood that YOU 🫵 are a Zionist 🙂

#obviously this is just a poll of tumblr users #but i think that this is important to demonstrate that 'zionist' is a lot more complicated than people think #and i think that people should have awareness of the meaning #of words that theyre using #before they use them #current events #i/p #zionism

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#antiziganism #racism

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dream's edge

#the colours are so pretty #hsr #firefly #m #art

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#hsr #firefly #m #art

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I was all alone with the love of my life, She's got glitter for skin, My radiant beam in the night.

#hsr #stelle #firefly #art #m #c #e

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caged birds fly free 

#genshin #wanderer #nahida #art #m #c #cv

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so I'm in the office when I hear it. the EIC, in the corner, my manager's manager, lights up the batsignal and voices a cry for aid:

"is anyone here who speaks Welsh?"

immediately, all heads turn to Charles' desk. Charles is Welsh. Charles takes several days to recover from the shock every time someone on a National Trust podcast mispronounces Llanidloes. surely Charles will answer the call.

Charles, the bloody nerve of him, is on Annual Leave to spend the Easter holidays with his son.

at this point I realise that several heads, including my manager's, are turning to me.

I do not speak Welsh.

I was brought up by a Welsh speaker, my grandmother, but given that we live in London and noone else in the family speaks Welsh, I only really picked up the most basic of family pleasantries. I can say cheers and goodnight, I can offer and order hot beverages, and I can answer the six questions people immediately ask when they find out you speak even a little bit of Welsh (the answer to all of these is as far as I can tell, yes but nobody says that. yes but it's baby talk. yes but it was a marketing scam. you know the ones)

I also have a master's degree in, amongst other things, medieval Welsh. as attention turns to me, I weigh up the possibility that the EIC needs someone to urgently translate Culhwch ac Olwen into modern English.

it seems unlikely. however, my CV says I have basic Welsh, and I need this job, so I head to the EICs desk with the thudding tread of someone bound for the gallows

further context-- 90% of my job is combing through business documents for aside phrases indicating business changes. this takes a lot of cross-referencing and close reading. I find this hard in my native language. I find it extremely hard in languages I'm fluent in. the idea of doing it in Welsh, a language where my conversation options are limited to "good morrow sir! the English advance on our left flank!" or "Mr fishy likes to swim", fills me with fathomless dread. in my head, I am writing my application to the next job.

the EIC turns a page around on the desk. "how do you pronounce this?"

I look at the word, relief beginning to sink in. Welsh is phonetic. even if I don't know this word, I can read it.

I do a double take. "Dai?"

"are you sure?" the EIC asks. "should I call Charles on his holidays just to check?"

"it's Dai," I repeat.

"it's not different if it's Welsh?"

I have absolutely no idea what she thinks the Welsh are doing to innocent vowel sounds that the English are not already doing. "it's Dai. like Dai Llewellyn."

"it's the same every time?"

"... yes"

"oh good." the EIC puts away her sheet and lets me go back to my desk.

as I sit down, the news editor at the next desk looks up. "so," he asks. "is it true that the Welsh for jellyfish is

#welsh

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#genshin #neuvillette #art #c #ari

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Me, a custom powerchair user: hey, I just wanted to know if your business is accessible for wheelchair users?

Business over the phone: yep we’re definitely wheelchair accessible!!! ☺️

Same business in person: actually I don’t think this will work… when you said wheelchair we expected something smaller and lighter, ngl

#disability #wheelchairs

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I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

#its one of my faves #insp

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these episodes do feel like they’re missing side characters with actual depth. they mostly feel like cardboard cutouts that are there to advance the plot for fifteen and ruby which isn’t necessarily bad writing on its own but it doesn’t quite feel like doctor who ykwim

#i dont suuuuper mind this Right Now #bc if they do it to give the doctor & ruby more development i can take that sacrifice #but this is a good point #and im gonna keep it in mind while watching to see how i feel about it #dw #dw crit

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I need War Room 3 to come out tomorrow

#dw #gallifrey #narvin #leela #c #art

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god im so sick or the “just be grateful for what you have” type of ableism.

why can’t i want more? why don’t you think i deserve better than what little i have? what do disabled people have to do to “earn” what we should have as a default?

im so tired of having to play the good & humble little disabled person who’s so grateful for any small bit of help able bodied people deign to give me.

disabled people deserve so much better than this. able bodied people should shut the fuck up about gratitude for “what disabled people already have” :/

#ableism #disability