i am a total genius and i'm totally gonna get a 100% on my ap statistics quiz tomorrow. like i'm literally the smartest person in the class and i always get the highest marks. i even got a 100% on all of the review. i'm so ready and so prepared, i don't even need to study. i can just walk into class and get 100% on the test because i'm that smart. and statistics comes so easy to me. i was born knowing all of the calculator functions and the difference between t-tests. the test tomorrow is actually going to be the easiest exam i have ever taken in my entire life. like it's just going to be so easy and i'm going to know the answer immediately after i look at the problem. especially the multiple choice. i am a boss at ap-style multiple choice questions. everyone in the class is probably jealous of me because my grade is the highest and they are barely passing. whatever, i can't help how perfect i am. math just comes really easy to me. i was blessed that way.
Everyday at school I eat breakfast because in my district we get free breakfast and lunch. The breakfast is pretty okay most of the time but occasionally they have really good things such as funnel cake, a waffle bar(with like whip cream, strawberries, chocolate chips the works yk), and donuts. I get off the bus and my friend asks if I wanna walk to the cafeteria with him. After being reminded of breakfast I say, “you know what? There will be donuts at breakfast today I’m manifesting it” We walk to the cafeteria and what do I see ? Hella kids eating donuts. So I excitedly run up to the kitchen where the food is served and they’re fresh out of donuts. Ngl I teared up a little bit because I really wanted some donuts but ANYWAYSS
Was this a success … ? Because on one hand I did say that because I intended to munch on some donuts but on the other handddd I did only say “there will be donuts at breakfast” not that I will be eating any.
Idkkk I’ma just say it was a success so that way the day wasn’t a total loss ig. Butttt I’m curious on what y’all thinkkkk ??
you see how we all shift realties so effortlessly? very cutesy. very mindful. very demure. 💋ྀིྀི
Never shooting my shot again 😭🔫
Bonus !! (My homeboy’s response)
Shifting culture is trying to figure out where your house will be on Google maps
Shifting culture is…
as most girls do
My wonderful Ao3 authors and fanfic writers in general, I believe in you to write us a better ending, please I need it so I can move on
Today someone said to me"not everything is about colonisation" and all I could think about was the irony that they were wearing a bikini swimsuit.
Bikini is a colonial misspelling of the indigenous name for the Pikinni atoll. It was one of the many places in the Pacific where Western countries tested atomic bombs. In order to carry out the nuclear testing at Bikini, the USA relocated the islanders to an atoll with no shelter, inadequate fresh water, and so little food that some islanders starved to death. They were exposed to radioactive fallout anyway. Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated by the USA, was tested at Bikini and sent radioactive particulate as far away as India, the USA and Europe. After detonating 24 atomic bombs on and around the atoll, the US told the islanders that it was safe to return despite knowing that radiation levels were (and still remain) dangerously high. Generations of islanders are still paying the price with their health and their lives.
The guy who created the bikini swimsuit named it after Bikini Atoll. He said that he wanted it to be "a bombshell" and "explosive" on the scale of a nuclear bomb. He said that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating" and "atom bombs reduce everybody to primitive costume."
The point of this post isn't to suggest that we should stop saying bikini. It's a word in our language now, for better or for worse. My point is that colonialism and white supremacy are in everything. How do you heal, how do you move on, when the violence is embedded into our very vocabulary?