It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)
all my life I’ve somehow only ever seen the gifs of this. I never even knew that the pumpkin man was dancing to the Ghostbusters theme. This whole thing is so much better than I ever could have expected from the gifs omg
Hey I’m really sorry if this is weird and you can delete it if it is but I had a dream last night that you were like going through a divorce??? Like in real life??? (Idk if you’re even married in real life???) So all your cat drawings stopped being cute and fun and you started only posting like pics of sad little cats going “NO MORE LOVE!!” and “BROKEN-ASS MARRIAGE!!”
This was intentionally manufactured by Facebook. Facebook implemented it’s “accountability culture” starting with its rule about only using your real name and photo on its service and encouraging you to disclose other information in your profile, and from there it just got normalized. It was entirely to gather data for advertising purposes, but now we associate that level of openness with “accountability”. Entire generations are now being raised with this as the norm. Privacy is no longer a priority, or even really seen as an option.
This is to your detriment. Your privacy protects you from predators of all kinds. You really should be guarding it carefully. Disclose what you feel is important on a case by case basis, but even your mental health status and beliefs are exploitable by big business and small-time bullies and abusers alike.
Even if you’re not overly fussed about what people know about you, just understand that not everyone has the luxury of feeling the same. Some people have stalkers and abusers they’re trying to evade, or don’t want to attract new abusers into their lives by being that vulnerable and open again. Some people have extreme social anxiety. Some people are protecting other people in their lives. Some people just don’t want their grandmothers to find their smutfics. Some people are Internet privacy advocates who keep their details private as a political statement and as a matter of principle.
You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours. You are allowed to just be an anonymous username until you feel safe to disclose more.
You are not entitled to anyone’s information, and you do not owe anyone yours.
The odds of Stephen Hawking having both an extremely rare form of ALS AND being one of the smartest people on the planet must have been infinitesimally small
Look, Penelope. Look. There is nobody out here. Nobody. Do you see that? Do you see that? Look- Look over here. There’s nobody. Look over here. There’s nobody! There is nobody out here.
“Age 17 is fragile and dirty, weak and beautiful, full of promises and cussing, and bad eyes, and love is a fucking sociopath at seventeen. And at 17 I threw my friends away like cigarettes, and I cried for the wrong man, and I missed an old friend, an old lover, he was still handsome, months later , after I left him, he was still beautiful. And he still made my eyes sing. And I was hunted by divorces when I needed to be haunted by my bad grades, I settled for less power, when I am known to be very dominant. Horrific, I am known to be a woman of thousands. At 18, I made a comeback. I cracked the scene, I’ve said my prayers. I’ve fell in love, with an old friend. I pinned him up against the wall, I told him: Now I know, I know wildness. I want to built a nest in your belly, I want to be the bird giving birth. Cause darling, for you I explode in feathers.”
