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you guys reblog this every wednesday every wednesday i wake up and wonder what day it is and i see bigweld in my tumblr notifications and im like ah its wednesday again bigweld wednesday just like last wednesday its wednesday its bigweld wednesday

guess how i found out today is wednesday

it's because the bear wouldn't kill me just for being a woman. the bear doesn't kill me for fun. the bear can be shouted at, and will leave me alone. the bear won't make a tiktok complaining about how i crossed to the other side of the path when i saw him coming. if a bear kills me, it's just being a bear: it cannot understand logic. it is not acting out of malice - just fear or hunger.

bell hooks once wrote about how porches might be the only outside space left for women - it is still the domain of the house while it is also outside-but-safe. when i am in the woods, i am in the bear's home, and he has a right to defend his property. outside spaces - anywhere at night, certain parks in the day - those are often implicitly "owned" by men. i cannot explain the feeling of knowing when you have entered a man's "territory." you walk into a place and just know you are in their space. you get a sick sense - you're in danger.

the other day a group of about 8 men were fooling around in the woods while i walked my dog. i had to go around, take the extra 3 miles just to avoid them. it's okay, i like walking. this wasn't even a #feminism moment. it was just a tuesday.

what a plain and easy question. only one of the situations is seen as a tragic accident. i would rather die and have a park bench erected in my honor rather than have my family questioned about why they let me, an adult, walk in the woods in the first place when i should really be at home in the kitchen.

i worked in retail and food service. i have had women say and do absolutely heinous and abusive things to me - not because i was a woman, but because i was there, and they were angry. the way men treated me when angry was different - it was because i was a woman. you can always feel the difference, how there's an undertone of i'd hurt you worse if i could get away with it. i keep seeing people try to cite stupid statistics. why is there always a strange rage whenever women agree on things? like men can argue their way out of our lived experiences? it isn't a buzzfeed quiz - which of these traumas are you? 10 super cute ways not to fear strange men.

i have actually (thrice!) seen a bear in the wild, by the way. i died each time, obviously, and am a ghost writing to you. (it was scary but completely and utterly fine). the second encounter was a black bear with her cub. she looked at me like - do we have to do this or are we good? my dog was busy sniffing a bush, completely nonreactive. i felt like i was in a sitcom: feminist poet reacts - does she actually mean she'd choose the bear? my only thought was - she's so beautiful. her paws are massive.

and there's a part of me that feels the rage spinning out in a corner. why do we have to come up with quippy little comments in order to teach men empathy. would you rather die in a car accident or due to a mugging? and would you rather your house burn down due to an electrical fire or due to arson? gee willikers - it's almost like we're human people, and want to risk the accident versus the intention.

i would rather my last thought be oh shit, a bear rather than i'm a person too. why doesn't that matter? why don't you care?

So, the 3 hosts ended up being therian lol (in case it wasnt obvious already). So here is how we look now. Both me and Bridget are cats and May is a shark

(Also no energy to make the different heights and shadding, tis is best I could do - Mio)

The Happening meter begins to beep

Beeping increases in volume

𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕦𝕤𝕒𝕘𝕚 𝕥𝕤𝕦𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕠 ‎♡ ̆̈

ID - A screenshot of a tweet by @\LocalSoundwave reading "Imagine being a bigot and into nerdy shit. Bro you're the villain in every story lmaooooo", following up with "'Oh no they hate the X-Men because they're different ☹️' that's YOU you dumb ass motherfucker LMAO"

"And that right there is how Jack (Bauer) fulfilled our American fantasy; America is Goliath, but in Jack Bauer, we could reimagine ourselves as David. And the thing about Goliaths is that they always want to be David."

- Jon Bois, "I Wish Everyone Else Was Dead." Pretty Good.

Have a great day everybody

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This could save your life.

BOOST.

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:

* I might use it in a story someday.

* Any knowledge that staves off the dying is good knowledge.

oh boy I can't wait to watch this SPOOKY movie about a WEIRD OLD TV SHOW surely it won't give me an extremely striking narrative about being transgender

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Guys there’s literally a day of the week that starts with a J you don’t have to assimilate saturday for your sick pleasures when one already exists and works perfectly fine

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related, ive been looking at starfield mods to see how things are going and found this a mod called "Better Amelia Earhart" and it sucks my immediate first thought from modding skyrim so much was "god fucking damn it they're gonna babeify AMELIA EARHART."

turns out they just buffed her a ton so she's a better pilot

idk anything about starfield but in isolation 'buffed amelia earhart to make her a better pilot' is hysterically funny. fixed crash issues.

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This way people can see they’re not alone. I have them and this would help me see that.

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