I Feel Like We Dont Talk Enough About How Distressing And Disturbing Memory Loss Issues Are. Forgetting

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

i never see enough tips for trans women/transfem people so. here’s a video that came up about tucking :] (don’t worry she doesn’t use tape at all despite the thumbnail)

Theres a 50/50 chance on if ill set someome on fire upon touching me

Alright everyone, line up to get your biohazard stickers

those are two slightly different colors, just slightly, why does that bug me so much-

guys will try to school you on colors as if THEY were the gatherers

As someome whos always lived in apartments, those "typical american homes" look huge to me, and where i live all the houses that look amything like that are at multi family homes

I literally don't care when people are like "haha americans are so annoying/dumb/whatever" cuz I can take a joke, but I've been seeing tags on posts of mine from people who like. Deeply, Viscerally, Venomously Hate USAmericans.

They see us as the privileged oppressor class of the world who willfully and gleefully fuck everyone else over so "we" can enjoy luxuries. Our big cars, our extravagant restaurants, our Disney World and McMansions, right?

And it makes something inside me die a little bit, because the USA distributes TV shows, movies, magazines, newspapers and advertisements that tell you what America is like and what luxuries Americans enjoy...

...and it's propaganda. It's propaganda, not reality. These images and mythology of a luxurious, affluent America are so inescapable, constant and penetrating, like radiation, that even Americans believe it even in spite of reality around them.

It hurts that the propaganda is all anyone sees outside the USA as well, is what I mean to say, because inside the USA it's the same. I feel average, not poor, but I have always been demeaned by these depictions that tell me, "This is a normal American" showing financial privileges I would never hope to have and that my mother or her mother would never have been able to even imagine.

Like I looked up "average american neighborhood" on google images

And there are articles from American papers and publications that use these stock photos as images of an "American neighborhood" or "American homes" and it feels like being chipped away bit by bit, because when I was in middle school I went to the house of my friend and my friend's mom asked me condescending questions about whether my family ate instant noodles and "frozen food" (which they were too good for) and that year I was too humiliated to invite any of my wealthier friends over to my house, and yet they did not live in houses as big as the houses in these photos. THIS IS NOT AVERAGE. AVERAGE AMERICANS DO NOT LIVE HERE. WHAT THE HELL. There is a neighborhood in my town that looks like this and in my head I call it the "rich people neighborhood."

I come from the Americans that live here

and mobile homes/trailers are around 12% of houses in my state, so it's not rare, and when my mom was growing up everybody she knew lived in one of these. But this isn't what the world is shown. And even in America when this is shown it's something to be gawked at and pitied.

"Americans buy fast fashion every month and on average only wear it a couple times" I wear my clothes until they're falling apart and many of the clothes i have now are hand-me-downs from my mom or from Goodwill. "Americans eat out at restaurants all the time" Growing up I would eat out at Red Lobster as a treat with my dad about once a year, and sometimes we couldn't afford that. "Americans work so much because they're so obsessed with money" when I was a kid I remember when my dad would sometimes be working until 11pm or later at his construction and remodeling job, coming home exhausted and covered in drywall dust, and we barely got to see him because he was trying to dig us out of our house imminently going into foreclosure.

And I know that I have it so much better than so many people that came before me. Compared with the world my mom grew up in, I grew up in a world of fabulous luxury. My Mamaw's family was sharecroppers and by the time she was highschool age she started working in the cotton mills making gold-toe socks. And being white they've got a position of relative privilege even then. At least they didn't face violence and hatred over the color of their skin.

Why do the articles and writings say "Americans" live in big houses and eat in extravagant restaurants, but they don't say "Americans" live in flimsy, non-permanent structures propped up on cinder blocks and eat whatever cheap processed food is sold at the Dollar General, which is the only store for miles around and doesn't even sell fresh fruits or vegetables?

We're all trained to identify ourselves with the folks in the big houses, not the folks who have to camp out under tarps underneath the bridge, but I would say more of us are closer to the second one than the first. The images of America don't look like people I would talk to and hang out with, they look like the people that used to look down on me and my family like we were less than.

Fact is, "americans have it sooooo much better than all those people in third world countries, everybody there would kill to have the privileges you have" is a fundamental key part of the propaganda, and the purpose is to make Americans, especially poor Americans, think they're fundamentally different than working class people in other countries.

The mythology that the USA is the best place on Earth is a threat. Truth be told, a lot of poor folks are panicky conservative reactionaries in part because they can't afford to travel and see what the cities are like, let alone another country, and they have been told their whole lives that this is the best possible society, and they are scared to death of things getting worse.

Idk where i'm going with this, I just think seeing nation states as discrete categories of people that have more in common with each other than they do with anybody outside their country is a nefarious piece of propaganda

and also I have seen people claiming specifically that Black people in America have it better than the rest of the world by virtue of being American, which is so fucking stupid but i didn't wanna start shit but now i'm sick and in bed and kinda do

we are more alike than we are unalike and the people that say otherwise are mostly trying to get us to identify with a nation state that sees us as lower than garbage

Thanks! I love the boots and long nails, I hadn't honest thought of their outfit other that the top, would you mind if I used this for my profile and only in Gotham bio pic?

@gotham-bitch

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I dont have any money to donate but i sincerely hope you raise the money you and your family needs

Rebloging this so I can remember this exists, lol

☢ Fallout OC asks ☢

BASICS:

1. Are they a human, ghoul, synth, or something else?

2. Are they a canon main character? (Lone Wander, Courier Six, etc.)

3. What is their SPECIAL?

4. What perks or tagged skills do they have?

5. What is their highest skill? Lowest?

PAST/PRESENT LIFE:

6. Were they born pre-war or post-war?

7. Do they wish they lived before the war / could go back to life before the war?

8. Did they live in a vault? If not, have they been inside of one?

9. Where did they grow up? Where do they currently reside?

10. What language(s) do they speak?

11. What type of education have they received?

12. Can they read, write, and/or do math?

13.What is the most frightening experience they have endured?

14. What is their fondest memory?

15. What is their proudest moment / accomplishment?

16. What is their biggest regret

17. Do they have a job? How do they make a living?

18. Do they have any disabilities, mutations, or implants / enhancements? Do they have any chronic illnesses?

SOCIAL:

19. Who (or what) are they emotionally closest to?

20. Who do they consider to be their family?

21. Do they travel alone or with a companion?

22. Do they have any pets?

23. How do they feel about physical touch / affection?

24. Do they have a romantic partner or partners?

25. Are they quick to trust others?

26. How would others describe them / their disposition?

27. What faction(s) are they a member of / allied with?

28. What faction(s) do they despise?

29. What is their moral alignment / karma?

30. What decisions have they made or actions have they done that affect their canon wasteland? (Did they blow up Megaton, have they killed/spared any major characters, etc.)

31. What is their goal in life? What impact would they like to leave when they’re gone?

DEFENSE/COMBAT:

32. What is their go-to weapon or weapon class?

33. What is their fight-or-flight response?

34. What armor / clothing do they typically wear?

35. Do they have power armor training? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

36. Have they ever saved someone’s life? Have they ever killed someone?

37. What is the worst injury they have experienced?

FAVORITES:

38. What is their favorite radio station?

39. What is their favorite song?

40. What is their favorite type of weather?

41. What is their favorite time of the day?

42. What is their favorite wasteland creature?

43. What is their favorite meal and drink?

44. What is their favorite smell?

MISC:

45. Do they have any specific hobbies or talents?

46. Do they play any sports? How about board games or card games?

47. Do they enjoy reading?

48. Do they collect anything?

49. What item(s) do they always have on their person?

50. Do they travel by foot or by other means?

51. Do they own a Pip-boy? If so, how did they get it?

52. Can they swim?

53. What do they think of the ocean?

54. Do they prefer showers or baths?

55. Are they past, present, or future oriented?

56. How do they feel about robots? (Eyebots, Mister Handys, Sentry Bots, etc.)

57. What is a sensation / texture they cannot stand?

58. Do they believe in luck? Do they have a good luck charm?

59. Do they idolize anything / anyone?

60. Are they religious? Spiritual?

61. What are their thoughts on chems and alcohol?

62. Do they have any weaknesses or struggle with any vices?

63.Do they need / wear glasses?

64. How / where do they generally sleep?

65. Describe their living space. (How do they decorate it? Does it have running water and/or electricity? Etc.)

66. Describe their eyes.

people who are afraid of snakes are fuckin’ WILD, like dude, just carefully step over these fat babies’ sausage bodies and gently move the burmese python chillin’ against the door, then you become unfathomably rich. i would do this for $10. i would do this for FREE. 

Found this on Pinterest, but count this screenshot as a reblog