i'm just going to start redirecting people to free resources for developing reading and language skills in children and i don't even say this in a mean way from the bottom of my heart i think it could actually sincerely help some of you in your day to day life to brush up on your reading comprehension because something somewhere has gone terribly wrong and it's concerning
I am so proud to say that my college is so LGBT friendly, that in a survey Res Life put out they forgot to include straight people.
This is a fucking power move
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Basketball doesn’t make people tall
I want that commenter to look at some of the top athletes who win medals in sports like weightlifting and shot put in competitions as high up as the Olympics
Chase Ealey
Joe Kovacs
Courtney Bennett
I even found this blurry picture when looking at pictures of Courtney Bennett of the winners of the Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship who are ALL fat
Another picture of winners from a track and field championship who are all fat
This picture of Lasha Talakhadze is literally the FACE of the Wikipedia article for Olympic weightlifting
Li Wenwen who made an Olympic record lifting 397 pounds, or 180 kg
Holly Mangold
Kia Stevens, described online as a “Five-time Women’s Champion” who “was not only ranked as No. 1 in the inaugural Pro Wrestling Illustrated Top 50 Females list, but was the third woman to EVER enter the WWE’s Royal Rumble event.”
You think pro-football player Alejandro Villanueva of the Baltimore Ravens was thin?
There are even fat people who are runners, the very sport that commenter claims is for skinny people only. Not only are there countless fat people who run for fun all the way up to the most famous marathons you can think of, but most of these fat people stay fat despite years and years of running marathons. I was reading an article about fat marathoners written by a fat marathoner. This is her finishing a 5K marathon in 2018, which she says she is the exact same weight here that she was when she started running four years prior (The article is from 2019 at which she was STILL the same weight as before she ran marathons):
My own step-mom runs marathons every year and is fat. She has an enormous collection of medals for running long marathons.
The reason why you don’t see more fat people in sports is not because fat people aren’t capable. It’s because we are excluded. There are no sports equipment, exercise equipment, or athletic clothing made with our size in mind. When Nike decided to make some athletic clothing in fat people sizes and displayed them on a fat mannequin in their store, people were outraged. And this was despite all of these people demanding us fatties to exercise and lose weight for them (since they believe weight loss is as simple as eating less and exercising more, which even science says it is not.)
Fat people are turned away when we try to join athletic clubs and teams. If we do get to join, we’re shamed and ridiculed for our bodies. People stare at us when we try to play sports or even do so much as go for a walk. The media portrays us as inherently bad at sports, so some of us grow up internalizing that and decide not to even try because we already have been told there’s no point. I was terrible at PE as a fat child not because fat children can’t do sports, but because PE was the designated humiliate-fat-children time of the school day, so I wanted as little to do with it as possible and had been made to believe by others that my body meant I could never succeed at sports in the first place, so why even try? I would let each child go in front of me in line so that I would never have to go up to bat during baseball where all eyes would be on me. I chose the boring and tedious written assignment all alone in my classroom for a week in 5th grade instead of doing swimming lessons at the local pool with my classmates so that no one would see my fat body in a swimsuit, so that the kid I had a crush on and already believed would never like me back because I was chubby wouldn’t see my body. I was ten years old, and I loved to swim. Do you know how alienating and horrible it feels to be the only fat child taking ballerina lessons while all the other children have lithe, thin bodies that society has made synonymous with ballerinas and their beauty?
In middle school I did whatever it took to opt out of PE requirements not because I didn’t want to be able to run around after stressful classes, but because I didn’t want to undress in a locker room full of thin girls who would laugh at me. I took an online class for my PE requirement in high school so that I could exercise in the comfort and privacy of my own room on my old exercise bike I loved using everyday regardless of school requirements. And at that point I had actually unhealthily starved myself in an attempt to conform and was now mid-size but was still afraid for people to see my body.
I loved jumping on my trampoline and swimming everyday in my pool in the Florida heat as a child. My mom would always tell me I had green hair as a kid because my then-blonde hair would turn green from the constant chlorine. I ran around pretending to be a horse because I loved how horses galloped. I played tag. I wrestled with my brothers. Until all of that was beat out of me over the years as I was taught that fat kids are not meant to show their bodies or be active. My earliest memories are of the shame I felt for being bigger than my friends, and looking at old pictures I realize now that I wasn’t even that fat at the time, but I had already been taught that my body was wrong and hideous.
And nowadays at age 24, soon to be 25? I would never step foot in a gym and subject myself to all of the people snickering at me, “encouraging” me, and believing I was there to lose weight. I’m also terrible at sports because I never learned how to do them. And without my beloved exercise bike I used to exercise at home, I don’t exercise much at all anymore because the options are either yoga or exercising somewhere that isn’t behind the closed doors of my apartment. I even feel too ashamed of my body to dance alone in my room.
The media also doesn’t give much spotlight at all to fat athletes because that wouldn’t help keep thin privilege and diet culture making corporations hundreds of billions of dollars. So these athletes I showcased earlier in this post you might not have ever even heard of despite them winning gold in the Olympics and other famous competitions. A lot of fat Olympians can’t even get sponsors because they’re fat and thus not a conventionally attractive or “normal” athlete, so no one wants to sponsor them. And when you can’t make money doing sports because no one wants to see fat people doing anything other than comedy acts where we pretend to be walking fat stereotypes, how are you going to continue being an athlete as a career?
And even when you are a professional athlete as a fat person and doing what every fatphobic thin person demands of you, famous news outlets will make headlines about you like this:
”The NFL Has An Ob*sity Problem. Bigger, faster, stronger, unhealthier,” by the Huffington Post, and by far not the only news outlet that has made a fatphobic garbage article about fat athletes.
You can’t win no matter what you do. You could be fat and the greatest athlete in the world, and yet media and fatphobes like that original commenter will still berate you for having a body that doesn’t conform to their whims.
If you don’t see fat people in a sport, it’s not because we can’t play it or be good at it. It’s because we are excluded at every single point in the process of trying to play that sport. And being athletic is not a qualifier for being a fellow human being who deserves respect and compassion to begin with.
Can this poll end on exactly 69,420 votes. Not notes, votes.
Of course
Yes
Maybe?
No
Hahaha funny number but no
Max you've been here 10+ years you know better
Vanilla Extract will equally help and hurt
Button
Another Button
Jesus with the buttons Max
Unfortunately, this will require reblogs.
HELLO!! So lately the internet is uh, scary for nsfw artists, so I made a little archive of my homestuck nsfw art from the past 10 years (2013- 2023)! I'm selling it for $10 on gumroad!
I hope to update this every once in awhile whenever I draw more homestuck art! :)
All warnings are on the gumroad page!
Reblogging always helps!
good. you do not deserve to have bird imagery
Tumblr has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing with their next mobile icon update
Restored film of San Francisco’s Market Street version of a film shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the Great Earthquake, and the attempt to colorize and sharpen the video-converted film.
Oh wow that’s incredible
I love the guys at the end who are all like “Oh hey look, there’s a camera! Hello camera!”
I’ve seen these restored films going around, but without credit. The original 13-minute film is A Trip Down Market Street, which was shot and produced by the Miles Brothers. It was preserved in the Library of Congress and Prelinger Archives, and in 2018, Adrianne Finelli scanned and uploaded the footage for the Internet Archive. Now in 2020, Denis Shiryaev restored, upscaled and colorized the film. Shiryaev’s channel has even more restored footage, so check it out if you’re interested.
Remember to source and credit works that are not your own and respect the process and people that gave us this literal glimpse back in time.
THANK YOU.
This is spectacular work.
anyone else kind of obsessed with those mysterious sour faced witches in long black veils
feel free to visit my animal crossing island
see how many pictures of a cockatoo you can spot
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Go have a nice day everyone ☀️
hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you've been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page?
Anything will do, like a smudge of graphite or a blob of ink, or perhaps a very scribbly dinosaur. Just put something there. Please, or the dinosaur will be sad.
I was SO SAD for this dinosaur that I grabbed the nearest notebook (a calendar) and drew a little sailing ship for him
oh thank goodness!
IT’S OKAY IF YOU MESS IT UP
SKETCHBOOKS ARE FOR MESSING UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY ARE!!!! It's right in the name! Like @sleepnoises said a while ago, they're for the quick putdowning of ideas! to catch the stuff that comes out of your brain!
(I don't mean to say that pretty sketchbook pages are bad, but it's important for your health to do quick scribbly stuff too. if not in a book then perhaps on small scraps of paper)
The dinosaur is very glad to see so many doodles in the notes!
Also lots of comments with very good suggestions for people who have a hard time starting, like starting on the second page, just signing & dating it, numbering the pages, or using the first page to put samples of all your usual pencils and pens and such.
Here's how I started my new sketchbook, which I got for 5 dollars at Dollarama.
I would have drawn on that first blank page instead of just signing it, but it was partially glued to the endpaper and wouldn't lie flat.
(Also, since the sketches are about making velvet mites with little wired legs, I must mention that if/when I get around to doing that it'll be posted on @vincentbriggs where all my non-dinosaur arts go.)