Oracleofthepast - So Yeah, This Is A Thing

every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year i’d like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa

romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone

we still face oppression. what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma

the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.

we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.

we’re the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, we’re forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.

You mean J.D. from Heathers?

“I will destroy you, and everything you have ever cared for.”

“You do realize that includes you, right?”

“I’m counting on it.”

How Shoto is the one who cooks and not Deku

I’m curious, if Waifu deku and husbando were to have a Small/pety married couple argument, what would it be about?

No serious ‘you lied abaut being a villain’ answers okay ;)

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

I cant believe asexuals officially own Halloween

Ace week 2020 is october 25-31st

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

Here are a few more types of conflict!

Image ID below the cut!

(Image ID: a Nine-by-Nine grid labeled "Conflict in Literature". The first column is labeled "Classical" and it has (going top down) a man in a red shirt using a pitchfork to fight animals with red eyes with the caption "Man vs. Nature"; the same man holding a sword fighting another man with a sword and armor with the caption "Man vs. Man"; and the same man shaking his fist at a hand coming down from a cloud with the caption "Man vs. God". The second column is labeled "Modern" and has the man backing away from a crowd that is throwing things at him with the caption "Man vs. Society"; the man walking alone with a bottle and the caption "Man vs. Self"; and the man shaking his fist at the sky again, though this time, there is no cloud/hand, with the caption "Man vs. No God". The third column is labeled "Postmodern" and has the man waving a stick at a row of computers and the caption "Man vs. Technology"; the man walking on wavy ground that appears to have eyes below a sky full of dice with the caption "Man vs. Reality"; and the man sitting on a book shaking his fist at a hand holding a pen coming from the sky, captioned "Man vs. Author". Below the lower-right box ("Man vs. Author") there is the name of the author of the comic "Grant Snider".

im about to maul someone.

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

since people are asking, here’s a list of places you can donate to help the australian bushfires. donating literally $1 means you have done more than our prime minister. (* = can donate internationally; for the other ones you might have to google it) 

cfa (VIC firefighters) 

rfs (NSW firefighters)*

rfbaq (QLD firefighters) 

cfs (SA firefighters) 

red cross* (apparently not great in the us)

WWF NSW bushfire crisis*

WWF koala crisis* (both WWF links are in aud so use a currency converter if you’re outside aus)

St Vincents NSW (partnership with channel 9)

St Vincents SA 

RSPCA NSW 

here is a list from the abc (but maybe don’t donate to the salvos bc they suck) (x)

WIRES (x)

i’ll keep it updated as i find more