Reblog if you have used dude as a non gender specific term.

bonehandledknife:

hollowedskin:

septemberpoems:

the-real-ted-cruz:

nobody-told-the-horse:

noble-moon:

simplyfx:

annlarimer:

disparition:

where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.

I said it to a faucet today. 

A customer once came to me to order a sandwich and said “I want this dude”

Dude is more than a word, it’s an emotion. 

dude is a way of life

maybe the real dudes were the friends we made along the way

it feels like an inverted exclamation point, in a way. “dude, look at this” feels a lot like the way “!!!! look at this” could be used here on tumblr

I WILL ALWAYS USE DUDE AS A GENDER NONSPECIFIC PLACEHOLDER WORD
UNLESS

UNLESS

UNLES!!!!!!!
you are uncomfortable with being called dude and then i will try my best to not do that because i respect that it can be dysphoria inducing my friend.

I am Californian so I apologize in advance for Dude-ing u if u prefer not to be Duded at and will try my best.

I grew up in the nineties. ‘Dude’ can be anything or anyone. Lemme know if this isn’t cool with you.

gemdervoid:

u ever just want to sit at the bottom of a pool or something. like if i could breathe underwater it would be a really nice, peaceful environment. especially if it was sunny and the water was nice and warm. just sittin there, watching the sunlight dance on the tiles? yeah. that’s a nice thought

yadivagirl:

brutereason:

I find it fascinating that people who choose not to have children are generally assumed to feel really strongly about not having children (or even to feel really strongly against children, anyone’s children, in general). I am probably not going to have children, not because I REALLY REALLY HATE the idea of having children, but because I don’t really really love it. Out of all the major decisions I will make in my life, this one is the only irreversible one. I can sell a house, quit a job, divorce a spouse, whatever. I cannot unhave a child. I cannot opt out of being a parent once I become a parent. I can’t even take a step back for the sake of self-care or whatever, or else my child will suffer.

So for me, having children is fuck yes or not at all. The default will be to remain childfree. Having children should be an opt-in decision, not an opt-out one. Until/unless I develop really strong feelings about wanting to have children, I won’t have them, even if that means I never end up having them at all.

As a mother, I really wish more people gave having children this kind of clear contemplation and thought. It’s an irreversible decision. Too many people don’t understand that.

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deathpoolquinn:

rebeldawns:

do u guys ever look back at a piece of half-done writing and think ‘this could be brilliant. this could be my mona lisa. my starry night. my idris elba’ but you have absolutely no drive to finish it despite an unfaltering desire to see it finished

my idris elba

The reason that you don’t finish it – or at least that I struggle to finish things – is that it locks the work into its final form. As long as it’s unfinished it still has that limitless potential to be stunning. When you finish it, that’s it, only the things you put into it are actually in it, the potential dissipates, it has to stand on its own. And that’s scary, because usually you discover the thing is not as perfect as your dreams of it imagined it could be.

BUT very often for me that initial fear and disappointment fades pretty quickly. A few weeks after I finish a story that didn’t feel ‘right’ to me just after finishing, the fantasy of the story fades and only the story remains. And usually I find it’s actually pretty neat. So there’s that.