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Joel’s latest video has made me question things and I need to know

When you see Mumbo’s skin do you interpret it as having eyebrows? Please feel free to elaborate in the tags and reblog for larger sample size!

#I just thought he had really #really #REALLY prominent eye bags??

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Terrible fact about the USA: in the US, there are states that not only don’t have any standard of sexual education beyond “abstinence only”, but there are also states that legally DO NOT require for the material covered in class to be medically and scientifically accurate. It would be completely legal in, say, Arkansas, for a health teacher to say that “having sex before marriage gives you cooties, and touching the butt if someone of the same sex gives you guaranteed AIDS and will kill you in 8-10 weeks.” In that state, the only thing that must be based on “scientific research” for is dating violence.

Only 30 states (and DC) require sex ed for students in the public school system.

Only 39 states require instruction on HIV and STIs.

Only 12 states require sex ed and HIV/STI instruction to include information on consent.

12 states DO NOT require sex ed to be medically or scientifically accurate.

4 states require that the only instruction given on LGBTQ+ matters be discriminatory.

If you live and go to school in the United States and have no idea whether or not what your school says about sex is the truth, go to THIS SITE HERE for information about your state and its laws about Sex Ed.

If your school is likely failing to give you a good, comprehensive sexual education, then SIECUS also has some good resources for teaching sex ed to yourself or others at home.

This is something that is important to the health and safety of us as individuals, and to us as a society. Sex Ed is a crucial part of someone’s education, and is something everyone WILL get in one way or another in their life, whether or not sex is something on the table for them, even if it’s not something they’re interested in. A poor, incomprehensible education has proven to be disastrous for everyone.

Edit: SIECUS is the “Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States”, and it’s their job to encourage change for progressive and comprehensive requirements for sex ed curriculums in ALL (public) schools in the US. Basically, they’re not only trying to get states to stop with the “abstinence only in god we trust” sex ed “curriculums”, but to create a federal standard that’s more than just “do what you want” so everyone in the US public school system will be on the same footing with a good education in regard to their sexual wellbeing. They’re a nonprofit that’s been advocating for comprehensive and accurate sex education since 1964.

Just to be clear: Any society where the normative view is that basic health and sexual education are "inappropriate" for children or "best left to the parents to explain when the time is right" is a society designed to enable the abuse of children

#sex ed #sexual education #sex education #poor sex ed in the United States #united states #healthcare #health and wellness #education

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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

#I mean #I don’t have much of a self irl #I don’t really know or interact with many people #I don’t really interact much online either #but I definitely interact more online at least #:/

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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

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part of a birthday gift for @maria-tries ♥️

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

#hhhnnnnnnnnggg #caves

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Hack for spelling restaurant correctly every time: a lot of restaurants sell beef products, and “taur” means bull which is a male cow.

#spelling was never my forté as a kid #but not being particularly good at it means I was forced to learn a lot of tips and tricks #and how to develop them when I came across new spelling issues #and you can never fully trust spellcheck #because spellcheck sucks sometimes #so yeah #I started associating the word “restaurant” with cows #and I haven’t misspelled it since

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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I love all the fics about Steve dealing with the misconceptions people have about him, but I don't think I've read one yet focused on the fact that Steve wouldn't really know.

Like, if everyone assumes this is just who he is, they wouldn't tell him. Why would they explain his own personality to him?

Sure, he could piece together the public imagine of Captain America, from the comics and the propaganda and everything, but maybe he wouldn't really connect that to himself. Because sure, Steve Rogers is Captain America, but Captain America is not Steve Rogers.

Captain America didn't exist before 1943 and Steve Rogers had already gone through a lot by that time.

Captain America was not the guy who hated hospitals because he spent too much time in them. He was not the guy who got into fights he could never win. He was not the immigrant raised by a single mother. He was not even a person, not really.

For Steve and all of the friends he had, that distinction was very clear, and so maybe he wouldn't realize how non-existent it is for everyone now.

Not until he does something so "out of character" that someone finally feels the need to point it out to him.

It's probably over something dumb. Like one early morning in the tower when Steve thinks he's finally figured out Tony's stupidly complicated coffee machine and confidently takes a sip, only to realize that Oh no, this tastes more like poison than coffee.

He swear up a storm spitting it out and pouring it into the sink and Tony looks at him like he grew a second head. "Oh my god, my coffee machine just broke Captain America."

"Captain America is unbreakable. But Steve Rogers might break this fucking thing."

"How do you even know half these words?"

And that's how Steve Rogers finds out what everyone - and by everyone we mean the whole fucking world - thinks about him. And that's how Tony Stark unleashes hell on America, because Steve sets out on a path to correct these misconceptions.

It's really only 12% his fault.

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Pray for my Mom.

#I literally had a long conversation about this with my sister the other day #she has zero interest in marvel #most of the movies are too focused on action and not enough on plot/character for her tastes #but I gave her the run down about how central bucky was to Steve’s story #how he’s literally the only character other than steve in every captain america movie #and about how he’s such a driving force in the story #and then I told her about steve’s ending in endgame #and her first words were “that was a dick move” #a sentiment that got stronger when I explained that he also left his new best friend in a position where #he was or felt responsible for looking after his old best friend #and the “that was a dick move” intensified #because that’s literally what steve did #he abandoned two people he cared about for a life he realistically would no longer fit into #for a women he’d already gotten a lot of closure with #along with time to come to terms with how things changed #a character who literally said that the best people can do sometimes is start over #who encouraged him to live his life #even if it was without her #it was a massive dick move #which is incredibly out of character #and we’re supposed to just accept it on the basis of #“he deserves to be selfish” #and #“he’s earned that right” #bitch please #selfish yes #out of character no

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I genuinely do not understand the animosity towards kids.

Personally, I don’t really like children. I don’t have the patience or temperament to deal with them on any meaningful level. But kicking them out of public spaces? Fuck no!!

Yes kids are loud and annoying, but so are adults. Adults who often talk on FaceTime/speaker phone without headphones in public. Adults who play their music loudly in the middle of Walmart. Adults who yell at each other, adults who make scenes out of nothing, adults who are rude and entitled and refuse to take responsibility for their actions and how they might affect others.

Hell, I’m an annoying adult in public because I have little to no sense of volume control and it’s not uncommon for me to talk loudly or even yell without realising it.

Kids are annoying, but I’d much rather hear children running around and laughing while eating dinner than listen to Martha at the next table complain very loudly over speakerphone to her sister in the next state over about how her husband is cheating on her and being encouraged to chop his dick off. Hell, I’d rather hear a child sobbing and throwing a tantrum on the floor directly next to my table instead of that conversation.

Let kids be kids. Teach them how to be polite and respectful in public, but don’t shut them away at home, because then they’re not going to have the skills to be out in public as an adult.

On another note, give back kid’s only spaces!!

I hate the “we should have child free cafes but not dog free cafes” and the “kids shouldn’t be out in public” shit that’s getting popular again cause whenever you ask them why they hate kids they say their loud annoying etc.

Just because another person is inconvenient for you doesn’t mean they don’t get to exist in public.

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#what can I say? #I go through fandoms and follow a ton of related blogs #I still look out for a lot of posts from past fandoms though #so it works out really well #I still like a lot of the content and a lot of the people are funny

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Do you guys ever think that Steve Rogers forgets that he’s in his post serum body?

Like he went from being a 90 pound 5’2 asthmatic, to 6’2 240 pounds and has the body of a God. Why does nobody ever talk about the body dysmorphia he must’ve had. Like the absolute shift in just the way he had to do things. There has at least had to be a few times where he has looked in the mirror and actually scared himself because he forgot what he looked like.

Like this is probably the most untapped potential ever

#this 1000% #it just wouldn’t be something he’d think of #like #I can imagine him still making those tiny interaction calculations that no one really thinks about still under the mindset of being 5’4” #like he’s sitting down and someone new walks in and his brain automatically says “taller than you” #so he stands up and immediately looks up to see their face in this new position but now he’s looking half a foot above their head #and he has to make a correction #when it’s time for him to get his own Future Car #(that doesn’t fly) #(really Howard???) #his first instinct is to get a smaller one because he doesn’t want to constantly have to heave himself up into the drivers seat #and he just ends up feeling squished and claustrophobic in several cars before it clicks in his brain #he’s big now #then he goes for a motorcycle instead #he’d also smack his head on every single low doorframe he comes into contact with #that one just never sticks #he’d probably also generally feel claustrophobic a hell of a lot more than he used to #changes he Does Not Like

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Okay but let’s really think about this here because this is something that’s worth obsessing over.

So Steve absolutely would’ve gotten a hell of a lot of vocal training during the early days of his Captain America USO Tour. It definitely wouldn’t mask his accent all the way, but it definitely would’ve softened it a lot, and it probably would’ve been enough to beat the habit of using that accent into him.

When he’s in Captain America mode, he uses that damn transatlantic accent he was taught, even if it feels unnatural in his mouth.

So when he goes to rescue Bucky and the rest of the prisoners from HYDRA, he’d probably still be in the mindset necessitating the usage of that accent. He was initially there for tours, after all, and Captain America has always been more of a character to play rather than a person that he is. To be honest, it would probably just be so engrained that he doesn’t even think about it. It’s just how he talks now.

And now let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that this would probably be at least one of the top five weirdest changes Bucky sees in Steve. Like, yeah, his friend is now 6’2” despite being 5’4” the last he saw him, and yeah he put on 150lbs of height and muscle, and sure he’s now inhumanly strong and fast and has a near perfect memory, but he’s still Steve. He’s still got the same face, same hair, same big mouth.

But when he opens that big mouth? That would probably be the most surreal moment for Bucky, who’s never heard anything other than a hardcore brooklyn accent from him, one with extra Irish influence. Steve probably would’ve had an even stronger brooklyn accent than Bucky to begin with.

At first it doesn’t strike him as odd, at least not consciously, because he was just strapped to a table and probably has only half a clue as to what’s going on. He’s on the “this might as well happen” train and just focusing on keeping Steve from being a self sacrificing idiot and putting on foot in front of the other. Then there isn’t exactly much time for chatting on the march back to base, and Steve would probably actually be all over the place for most of the trek, trying to help out wherever he’s needed and making sure that the group is as safe as possible.

But during their first bit of relative downtime?

Steve opens his mouth once, probably doesn’t get much further than “Hey, Bucky” before the alarm bells that had been ringing in Bucky’s head that his brain couldn’t immediately spare the thought to acknowledge are blaring. His voice sounds the same, but the way he says everything is completely wrong, completely not Steve.

He’d probably say as much, blurting out a “what the fuck happened to your words”, rather than voice, because again, it’s the what he’s saying that sounds different, not his actual voice. He still sounds like Steve, he just doesn’t talk like him.

Steve would probably explain the vocal training he was given for the USO tours, they’d probably leave it at that, and out of habit Steve would probably use his New Accent most of the time. To be fair, he’s also acting as Captain America most of the time, even around the commandos.

But get him relaxed and happy enough? The accent comes out full force, and anyone outside of Bucky immediately has a hard time understanding him if they’re not paying close attention.

That’s all well and good, his best Transatlantic Accent comes in handy during meetings, making sure he’s clearly understood by everyone, he’s still got his brooklyn roots, and he doesn’t always sound weirdly off to Bucky’s ears.

Flash forward 70 years, the Avengers are now in the game, Cap is their leader, and he’s only ever in Captain America mode. The other Avengers genuinely would’ve only heard his transatlantic accent, because even when he’s relaxed and comfortable with them, he’s still pretty firmly in Cap mode. Maybe his accent slips towards the north east sometimes when he’s having a particularly good time, and he’d probably be teased during those instances (light hearted, no malicious intent), mostly by Tony.

But pretend, if you will, a happier universe, one where Bucky ends up being an Avenger or at least goes through his recovery with Steve at his side.

The first time any of the other Avengers actually hear Steve speaking like Steve Rogers, the foul-mouthed, brooklynite that grew up in a rough neighbourhood and whose best friend (boyfriend) worked at the dock yard while he was off getting into back alley scrap fights, instead of Captain America, the polite and well mannered, if incredibly stubborn, patriotic icon, their sense of reality immediately implodes.

Because let’s not forget, a lot of accents in America have softened a lot over the years. Migration, changes in popular vocabulary, and classism all have had massive effects on local dialects and accents. So what’s considered a strong brooklyn accent now, probably would’ve been considered normal way back when. And Steve? Steve had a strong brooklyn accent, even if it has been tapered by the years of using just his transatlantic one.

Maybe it happens because Steve is genuinely able to relax in that specific way that lets him speak and act as just himself when he’s around Bucky, maybe he makes an effort to talk how he used to around Bucky to try and help him feel more comfortable around Steve, or to try to help jog his memories. Maybe Bucky makes a comment about how Steve sounds weird in a way he can’t quite pinpoint but just strikes him as off (he knew Steve for two decades, and almost all of that time would’ve been accompanied by Steve’s strong brooklyn accent (it’d be as engrained in Bucky’s mind as his blue eyes, bloody noses, and bruised face, something present even when he can’t remember or think why that would be the case)), so Steve makes the effort when it’s just them.

Tony immediately reacts like someone just used an incredibly filthy and insulting word to describe his mother and needs a moment to process before he can get mad.

Clint drops whatever he’s holding and stares, feeling weirded out but is probably also getting a lot of joy out of this.

Banner’s more uncertain than anything else, still processing the fact that what he just heard did, in fact, come out of Steve’s mouth, and trying to reconcile that fact with the guy he knows.

Nat has no outward reaction, she objectively knew that Steve would’ve had a very strong brooklyn accent once upon a time ago, and that he would’ve sworn like a damn sailor before the nation looked up to him as the peak of moral righteousness. She was probably one of the people who had gotten closest to hearing Steve cut loose and talk like Steve Rogers rather than Captain America. But still, that same feeling of wrongness Bucky once felt at hearing a stranger’s inflection coming out of his best friend’s mouth is something that not even Natasha can completely ignore.

Sam’s the least surprised, and probably recovers from the shock first, asking if Steve kissed his mother with that mouth before moving on.

After that, Bucky probably makes a game out of getting Steve to talk like himself around others, rather than just being Captain America all the time. Riling him up in just the right ways at the right times around others that Steve can’t help but snap back like he’s all of 5’4” and 95lbs, ready to fight god and win.

Does he do it because he gets a kick out of it? Yes, obviously. But, does he think it’s also a necessary step for Steve to embark on his own journey of recovery, his own path to regaining personhood? Absolutely.

And I’m gonna leave this here because otherwise I’ll be writing for hours.

Friendly reminder that Steve and Bucky probably have absolutely wild Brooklyn accents. Maybe it’s mellowed out over the years but sometimes, woild, goil, woist, poifume. Cwafee. Wourder. Fugeddaboutit.