Here’s The GoFundMe Link

i urge my fellow brits to email their local mp telling them to urge parliament to stop exports of tear gas, rubber bullets, and other items the american police force are using against the protestors, and so on and so forth to the usa.

i will delete racist replies on this :)

What’s the difference between a police officer and a bullet?

When a bullet kills someone else, you know it’s been fired

I was looking up stuff and found this article about gender-neutral language is developing. I found this because I was looking for arab ace things.

For queer and feminist communities in the Middle East, the fight to gain acceptance in society has come in tandem with another conversation: how to define words like gay, bisexual and transgender in Arabic. Some people default to a transliteration of the English words in LGBTQ, others prefer the phrase “mujtama’a al meem” (مجتمع الميم) — or the meem community — a reference to the m-sounding Arabic letter that starts off these terms when translated into Arabic. After years of efforts led by activists in Lebanon, the word “mithly” (مثلي) and “mithliya” (مثلية) for gay is now standard for many media.

Anyways thought that was interesting to see the debate between the use of English and the active disuse of it. The article goes over more cultures as well.

Washington Post

A guide to how gender-neutral language is developing around the world

What pronouns do you use? There are, in fact, many non-binary ways to answer in historically gendered-languages.

There’s also this arab ace group if you want more ace things in arabic.

AAVE: STOP APPROPRIATING IT

What you as a non-black person shouldn’t be saying (this includes non-black poc):

killin it

-game too strong (i.e. eyebrow game too strong, etc.)

-ass (i.e. That’s some ignorant-ass shit.)

hella

turnt/turnt up/turn up/turn down for what

shade/throwin’ shade

ratchet (don’t be a smartass, the adjective not the object)

werk

yas

habitual “be” (i.e. they be killin it, he be walkin, bitches be like, etc.)

the thirst/thirsty

anything being “real” (i.e. the struggle is real, the thirst is real, etc.)

the struggle

on point (i.e. outfit is on point)

chill (as in got no chill)

side-eye

stank face

cray cray

-had me like

trippin’

boo/bae

imma be

do/dough/dat

gurl/boi

basic (as in basic bitch)

holla

finna (i.e. I’m finna do xyz)

tho/doe

reading/read

school/schooling

dope

fo sho/fo real

y’all

dig/dig it/ya dig/you dig

respect (i.e. respect man)

about that/here for that (i.e. I’m not about that life, I’m here for this)

tight (i.e. this shit got me tight)

giving life (i.e. Beyonce gives me life, black tumblr giving me life)

swag

goin’ through it

Things to avoid in general because they are offensive and/or mock black culture:

Sassy (NO YOU DO NOT HAVE A SASSY BLACK WOMAN LIVING INSIDE OF YOU.  STOP.  LOOKIN AT YOU WHITE GAY COMMUNITY).

Do not call black hair kinky or nappy. (Don’t touch it either).

Do not call things ghetto. Just don’t.

Don’t use the word thug in relation to black men.

Do not assume black people are ignorant just because they don’t speak the same dialect of English as you do.

Don’t make fun of black names.

If you use the n-word, I have no sympathy for you.  Good fucking luck.

Tagged by @isappho! I miss uuuuuuuuuu!

Name: Riley (common so eh)

Pronouns: she/her

Nicknames: Rils, Reelee (thanks Ruby (;¬_¬)) and, if your my lola, baby baket

Zodiac: Taurus (FOOOOOD)

Height: a bit shorter than isappho

Languages: English and Tagalog (native), Spanish(B1), Japanese+ Swedish+ Mandarin(A1) ngyhrrrrr

Nationality 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Favourite season: Summer (way too cold the rest of the year 😅)

Favourite scent: book smell 👌

Favourite color: Pink or blue

Favourite animals: Dogs, Red panda, sun bear,

Favourite fictional characters: Everyone but Lila (in MLB), but my all time favourite character HAS to be Saitama from One Punch Man (dudes hilarious!)

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Halo-halo all the way! Never had it? TRY IT ( to answer question, tea/hot chocolate)

Average sleep hours: Uh... Like, 2 hours or 10 hours. No in between

Dog or cat person: PUPPIES!!!

Number of blankets I sleep with: 1 but I have 5 pillows, max comfy

Dream trip: Alcala or Solana in the Philippines. I'll go see my family

Blog established: Uh... I have no sense of time but around late 2019

tagged by @boleyn-falcon (tysm!!!)

Name: Azalea

Pronouns: She/her

Nicknames: Zaley, Azza, Alea, Leelee

Zodiac: Capricorn

Height: 5′8

Languages: English, halfway decent amount of Spanish and ASL, dismal amount of French and German

Nationality: American 

Favorite season: Winter! Winter winter winter.

Favorite scent: Lavender or the ocean

Favorite color: Purple or yellow

Favorite animal: Seahorses or stingrays probably

Favorite fictional characters: Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Lex Foster, Ethan Green, Hannah Foster, Emma Perkins, Annabeth Chase, Samirah Al-Abbas, Alex Fierro, Chloe Valentine, Brooke Lohst, Miles Morales, I could go on but I’ll spare y’all 

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea, hot chocolate, coffee, in that order.

Average sleep hours: 05:00-09:00 or 01:30-08:00

Dog or cat person: I’m not a huge animal person in general but I have three dogs at one of my households and I love them all very much

Number of blankets I sleep with: two comforters and one blanket on top

Dream trip: I want to go to California, Louisiana, New York, Alaska, Hawai’i, Greece, London, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. In that specific order, on one trip. 

Blog established: Sometime last year but I didn’t use it for anything other than liking posts until like September lol

Followers: 56 (i just want to say I still don’t know how that happened this is literally just me screwing around and finding stuff I like)

Random fact: oh gosh okay uh one time in third grade I got locked in a classroom for a full two hours (lunch and music, which was a different classroom) and didn’t even notice because I was reading in a corner and didn’t hear my entire class and teacher leaving.

tagging: @sweetestrequiems, @clockwork–frog, @aveasorae, anyone else who wants to do it (also idk if you three have done it or not and you don’t have to if you don’t want)

An easier way to tell the difference is through the literal meanings of "kita" and "sa'yo"

"Kita" means 'you' and "sa'yo" means something like 'to you'

This means that "Isinusampa kita" means "I curse you" and "I sinusampa sa'yo" means "I gravely promise to you"

But don't completely take my word, I didn't ask my parents (they're the native speakers)

Edit: DANG WROTE IT WRONG

Filipino Lesson #4 [Tagalog]

SUMPA can have two meanings depending on moral purpose.

It can mean CURSE or GRAVE PROMISE.

"Isinusumpa ko" can mean "I curse" or "I gravely promise". It depends on the context, but putting different nouns can distinguish them.

Isinusumpa kita - means I curse you.

Isinusumpa ko sa'yo - means I gravely promise you.

Why would I say 'gravely promise' instead of just 'promise'?

The things is, using SUMPA for promise means you are definitely taking this promise seriously that you are willing to die for it.

There's a lighter and more casual way to say promise: Pangako.

(for all random lessons, click ano-po filipino lessons on the tags below)

Baba means down

Baba means chin

Just learned that lalaki doesn't only mean "man", but also translates to "will grow bigger/taller". The only difference is the pronunciation:

Lalaki - man

Lalaki - will grow bigger/taller

how to be less racist

im exhausted from blocking u and sending ur dumbass posts to my friends to talk shit so here’s a tutorial on how not to be a demon. ur welcome white devil

broke: speaking for us

woke: boosting our voices

broke: #im white tag

woke: putting that you’re white in your about page where we can always see it instead of tagging the bi monthly post you rb about racism with this

broke: uwu please let me know if i do something racist

woke: taking responsibility for yourself, monitoring your own actions, being receptive of criticism even if it’s not delivered to you in a nice way

broke: distancing yourself from your whiteness by making white people jokes and talking mad shit abt other white people

woke: understanding that you are not somehow less white than other white people bc you aren’t a cishet able bodied nt man

broke: getting mad when we make jokes abt hating white people

woke: understanding that you don’t get to monitor how we express our anger abt the trauma we’ve experienced at white people’s hands

broke: arguing with us about what is or isn’t racism

woke: understanding that you have never actually experienced racism, staying in your lane, actually listening to us

broke: making racism abt you and your feelings

woke: understanding your experiences with and perspective on racism are dumb and don’t matter, focusing on people of color instead

broke: constantly asking your friends of color to roast people for you

woke: not dragging us into all your messes, handling your own beef, understanding we’re probably tired of ur shit, learning to roast people yourself

broke: reblogging posts abt racism with #let me know if this is ok to rb

woke: not rbing posts if you think rbing it would be overstepping boundaries, contacting op to ask if you can rb their post, developing critical thinking skills

broke: “yeah i dont do this” or “omg i didnt realize that was Bad and i was actively hurting people by doing it” on posts abt racism

woke: reading and comprehending them, reblogging them silently and without commentary, not trying to get brownie points at all times

broke: answering asks from other white demons consoling you after you get called out for racism

woke: blocking those racist bitches, not feeding into the idea that any poc who calls you out is a monster, acknowledging that you fucked up, apologizing, not doing whatever you did again

broke: thanking me for teaching you how to treat poc like people

woke: realizing you should be embarrassed i had to tell you this shit

CLADISTICS ruined my life

My Body Is Failing

Hi everyone, I'm a disabled intersex jewish lesbian. My mucous membranes are literally sloughing off layers of skin and im in agony. please help me cover my cost of living while i struggle to figure out what the hell is happening to me. I have not been working consistently due to this. Thank you for taking the time to read this and stay safe

im trying this again, i hope the gofundme helps with visibility. please reblog, i dont have a large social circle to help signal boost. thank you so much everyone!