Do not fall into despair. Continue calling your local officials, attending protests, boycotting companies that fund open genocide. Because of this media blackout, we are now Palestine’s voice - please do your best for them.
“NOW LIVE: Prints for Palestine has launched! PRINTSFORPALESTINE.COM Prints for Palestine is an online art auction organized to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians, an organization directly supporting Palestinian healthcare workers on the ground.”
if you live in the us and have literally 2 minutes to spare go fill out the form here – it will give you a script and also prompt a phone call that will patch you through the the office of your district’s representative. specify that you will not consider voting for them again, or for any elected officials, if they don’t call for an immediate ceasefire and end to us funding of genocide. jewish voice for peace has a lot of other action items, most of which can be done from home if you aren’t able to attend a protest.
Thinking celebrity crushes was just an exaggerated way to say X is aesthetically pleasing and that people weren’t actually serious. Making up celebrity crushes just to fit in.
Being able to acknowledge that someone is conventionally attractive by beauty standards but not feeling attracted towards them. Friend: “Aren’t they hot?? I’m dying over those abs!!!”. Me: “I mean sure, they look fit and healthy. shrug”.
Making grossed out faces when asked who I would frick during the ‘fuck, marry, kill’ games. “Look here, the guys in our group are cool and all but even if the opportunity to be intimate with them came, I still wouldn’t do it.”
Thinking demisexuality was how attraction worked for the vast majority.
Being VERY confused on why the girls in my high school year thirsted over the young male student teacher.
Being genuinely surprised when peers in my high school year got into sexual relationships (“Huh?? Aren’t we too young for this?”)
Not understanding what people mean by “the butterflies”. Never experienced the physical symptoms commonly associated with a crush.
Not understanding why thirst traps are used and thinking 'sex sells’ is an obvious lie.
Not understanding the appeal behind hookup culture.
Reading smut fics and thinking the hyperfixations on a character’s physical appearance was so “grown up”.
Not understanding why abstinence is difficult. (“What do you mean you couldn’t resist… just don’t do it???”)
Not understanding why couples broke up over sex. Not understanding why lack of sex is a deal breaker in relationships. Thinking that I would be perfectly fine if my partner didn’t want to be intimate.
Happy ace week everyone. 💜🤍🖤
EDIT: To anyone that’s questioning: if you do relate to some of these, there is a possibility you could be on ace spectrum. However, don’t take this as THE guide, this is just a recount of my own personal experiences. Instead, I highly encourage you to read up more on asexuality and other ace people’s experiences - asexuality is a wide spectrum, and I just happen to fall in the “no attraction whatsoever” side. I’m also happy to answer any questions, feel free to hit me up.
not joking I would kind of like to brutally murder whoever thought it was a good idea to take away clicking on a person’s name to see their reblog and make it borderline impossible to get to the original version of a post without spending ten minutes scrolling with ctrl f
Helpful tip:
If you have the post date option turned on you can click the date and it will take it to the original post like before. It’s annoying, unintuitive, and harder to click but it should work on mobile or desktop
this is the most ridiculous possible workaround thank you SO much tumblr user suffusionofyellow for sharing
Definitely works.
Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to boop on mobile, at least for me. But yeah, it’s a silly functionality to have gotten rid of.
Hello, you can actually just boop the empty space *next to* a person’s name to go to that specific post in a thread
god i wish i wouldn’t have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you’ve been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.
well.
today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year’s trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)
jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven’t even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.
and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they’re part of the lowly proletariat.
