omgthatdress: gothicwhoreoine: Camp is difficult to explain but easy to spot once you’ve got the hang of it. This is my interpretation based on my opinions, other people might describe it differently. Susan Sontag, in ‘notes on ‘Camp’’, describes camp as “the consistently aesthetic experience of the world” “the answer to the problem: how to …
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overheard from children playing in the woods
glumshoe: “This is our territory.” “No it’s not. We claimed it first!” “Well, it’s ours now.” “You can’t just walk on someone else’s territory and claim it’s yours now! That’s like if people came to America and said ‘this is Spanish now!’” “Um, isn’t that just how colonization works?” “Oh, yeah…”
glumshoe: This morning, a very young boy came up to me and whispered, “I know how to kill people with my mind now.” #cool that’s not a skill we practice at camp ok
glumshoe: One of the most awkward/heartwarming/humbling experiences I’ve had at camp was in 2015, when my campers decided that they trusted me enough to ask Earnest Puberty Questions. While I’m a firm believer in frank, unsqueamish sex ed, I’m also… not trained in giving it, and unsure about our specific policies of discussing that stuff …
glumshoe: I don’t think I shared this story from camp before, but I just related it to my dad and remembered how funny it was. One week this past summer, I had a cabin of really funny boys who all had kind hearts but serious meme problems. One boy was tall for his age and …
leaveliestotheliars: bogleech: souryellows: when i was in like third grade i went to this science camp and one night at campfire they told us a story about a ufo crashing into a lake nearby and then later in the middle of the night they woke us all up and told us the aliens were back …