Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

herfleur:

wittyandcharming:

punkassbambi:

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE ARE GROSSED OUT BY UNUSED TAMPONS. THATS LIKE BEING GROSSED OUT BY UNUSED NAPKINS, OR CLEAN SHEETS, OR CLEAN UNDERWEAR. LIKE OMG ITS NOT GOING TO HURT YOU. ITS CLEAN. TAMPONS EXIST WHY DO WOMEN HAVE TO BE EMBARRASSED OR HIDE THEM. ugh

Once I had an unopened box of tampons in plain view and my stepdad acted like that was some huge breach of social etiquette. I asked why on earth he was acting so weird about it, and he said, “Well you wouldn’t want me leaving a box of condoms lying around would you?”

Okay first of all, that you’re even implying that tampons and condoms are comparable items is fucking stupid since condoms are used for sex and tampons are used to like, you know, not bleed all the fuck over ourselves during this biological function none of us can stop. So that begs the question of why the fuck you’re sexualizing periods or items required to live hygienically during one, wherein the answer is that you believe vaginas are inherently sexual and only exist as something to stick your dick in. Because me leaving an unopened box of tampons in view is literally the same thing as leaving a stick of deodorant or a bar of fucking soap out on the counter if you’re considering them by their function. But God forbid I remind you vaginas exist in neutral everyday circumstances and that they don’t just manifest when you wanna fuck one.

Lots of important lines in here

soulpunchftw:

agatharights:

musicofthestage:

crutchiee:

tbbackus:

lucasbieneke:

Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

There should be a blog dedicated to theatrical urban legends. Like that opening weekend of Dracula where Dracula (still hungover) vomited all over the audience during the first stage direction that everyone has a friend of a friend that worked on the show and was there.

or the one where the bridge never came out for Javert’s suicide and so he just pretended to stab himself and then lay there until the lights went out

best story i heard was when a friend of mine saw a show where juliet forgot to bring the dagger out on stage so she just ripped the squib out of her chest and blood squirted everywhere

During a passion play a friend of my brother was supposedly in, one of the roman soldiers who was supposed to stab jesus on the cross and accidentally grabbed the wrong spear- he was supposed to grab one with a fake tip, but instead he grabbed one with an actual metal tip and, well

Jesus screamed “JESUS CHRIST YOU STABBED ME”.

Since that Jesus had to be taken down due to a bad case of stab-itis, the backup Jesus came in, but he weighed significantly less than the original Jesus- which would have been fine, except that at the end the cross was supposed to ascend upwards with Jesus on it, and the weights hadn’t been adjusted.

So Jesus, instead, ROCKETED UP into heaven (or, just, above the stage).

This is wild from start to finish

insectaffection:

jean-luc-gohard:

thesabbit:

asokkalypsenow:

triasomething:

asokkalypsenow:

everyone is always like oh plato wsa such a smart guy look at all his philosophy but plato thought everything was made of triangles  and a bunch of other garbage. i dont respect dead people as experts on anything anymore, i know more things than plato did about most things easy. bet i could take him in a fight too. 

no way plato was ripped. ‘plato’ was a nickname given to him by his wrestling coach & meant ‘broad’.

thanks for the heads up but it doesnt matter how broad he is im gonna fight plato and i will Win.

you guys. plato didnt even know how the heart worked. they didn’t even know that. i know so much more about how everything works than plato ever will already and he can fricken deal with the Ideal Form of my elbow in his solar plexus

If Plato thought everything was made of triangles, maybe he just lived in a 3d rendered low quality video game. I wasn’t there. I don’t know that he wasn’t.

Plato might have been jacked for his time but remember that people were like two feet shorter back then on average so I could just put my hand on his nerd forehead and watch him swing in vain toward my empowered-by-modern-nutrition-and-medicine body.

i’m thrilled to see we’re finally getting around to beating up philosophers but could we maybe do this right and just skip straight to ayn rand?

asmcosplay:

I think the real reason why Native suffering and oppression doesn’t get discussed is because it would require a lot of people in this country to really do some serious critical analysis of what this country and government has done and is still doing and that the thought is too heavy and unfathomable for them to even process it. So instead they make excuses, they make justifications, they blow off any and all talk about it, and they put the blame and contempt on us instead of our oppressors, because the reality of it all would just be too much for them to possibly comprehend.

And pardon me if I can’t sympathize with you for choosing to tune out something that is a reality for us every single day. You’re not listening, you don’t want to listen, and because of that people are still suffering and dying. I can’t be understanding and sympathetic towards you. Not when Indigenous women still go missing and murdered in Canada by the hundreds. Not when one in three of those women will be sexually assaulted at least once in their lifetime. Not when Native children are being kidnapped by the government and taken away from their families. Not when Hollywood still continues to churn out harmful stories and messages that degrade us further. Not when people on the reservations are killing themselves. 

Hate is not the opposite of love. Indifference is. And people have been VERY indifferent towards Indigenous people for a long time.

shiraglassman:

swanjolras:

okay, i have been trying to say this in a way that makes sense for ages, so here goes:

a lot of hatred of dresses, pink, stereotypically “feminine” stuff is based on internalized misogyny. and that’s definitely something we all need to look at within ourselves and address and work on.

but: a lot of hatred of dresses, pink, stereotypically “feminine” stuff is based on the fact that femininity is compulsory for people who are assigned female at birth.

like, this is a fact. this isn’t something i’m making up. femininity is compulsory. i have to wear dresses and makeup to be taken seriously when i go to job interviews, when i go to social occasions, when i present myself in any formal setting. when i don’t do that, people notice. they’re rude to me. 

when i shop in the men’s section, store employees and customers glare at me! my relatives press feminine clothes on me during the holiday season because they think i should dress in a more feminine way! when i go to get my hair cut and ask for it to be cut in a certain style, the woman cutting my hair literally ignores that explicit instruction because it’s “too butch”. femininity is compulsory! i am not allowed to present my gender the way i would like to present my gender!

it’s not the fault of femininity that it’s being forced on me. and the patriarchy does devalue femininity. and the current rhetoric of “you can wear pink and skirts and still be a feminist and still be queer and it’s other people’s fault for not taking you seriously, not yours for dressing that way” is great. 

but i’ve heard people say to me, “you can wear lipstick and dresses and still be a feminist” about a thousand times, and i have never, ever, ever heard someone say to me, “you can refuse to wear lipstick and dresses and you are no less of a woman than someone who does wear them.” i had to figure that out all on my own.

i’m allowed to be angry at the cis women who force me to present myself in a way that i don’t want to present myself. i am allowed to do that.

I will scream the bolded from the rooftops for you if you want. <3

luckystreetx:

ileftmyheartindixie:

Remember when Never Have I Ever games used to be like “never have I ever had sex *giggle*”

Now it’s like “never have I ever had a six person orgy in a broom closet” and people are all like “crap, I’m out.”

Omg

Clearly I need to play Never Have I Ever with more interesting people.

cosmoshoe:

cosmoshoe:

What is America’s obsession with Bill Nye the Science Guy I once said in class that I had never seen it and this girl yelled YOU’VE NEVER WATCHED BILL NYE and in 5 seconds flat half the class was screaming HOW COULD YOU HAVE NEVER WATCHED BILL NYE while the other half chanted BILL BILL BILL BILL

America is starting to sound like a fucking cult tbh

just-shower-thoughts:

With the amount of “stop, drop, and roll” education I received growing up, I kinda thought catching on fire would be a more common problem as an adult.

whiteboyvevo:

life-is-a-love-story:

missycvnt:

the-fisher-queen:

ghostruto:

if you are under 18:

• your nudes are child pornography 
• people you send them to can be charged with possession of child pornography
• you can be charged with distribution of child pornography 
• don’t take nudes

This is not about body shaming, this is not about ‘telling you what to do with your sexuality’ this is literally a federal crime don’t fuck with the law okay.

I hate people who encourage underage girls on this site to share their bodies. Please report it to tumblr support if you see this. It’s not about “dobbing” people in, it’s a legal issue and is harmful to minors.

Listen if I want to fucking send a nude to my boyfriend of over a year I fucking will I’m pretty god damn sure the government doesn’t have my phone tapped.

the government literally does have your phone tapped… and if you break up with your boyfriend he can ruin your life with those pictures… long story short don’t send underage nudes

sweeran-soulmates13:

talkswiftietome:

talkswiftietome:

newromantic15:

causeyoureclean:

thisisanewsoundtrack:

thethirteenthpolaroid:

1989dancer:

19eightaynine:

19eightaynine:

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If you’re an international fan, use Hola to bypass area restriction.

UPDATE: We are slowly catching up on the number of votes via tweets but Iggy is still on the lead. We can do this, keep voting!

Reblogging again bc IMPORTANT

COME ON GUYS WE CAN DO THIS

WHERE IS THE SWIFTIE POWER?! CMON GUYS GO GO GO

CMON GUYS

What the fuck? How is she not winning this is a travesty!

We can each vote ONE HUNDRED times per day. That’s the limit. Why do we slack so hard on fan voted categories????

As of 11:40 am central time, Taylor has 916,908 votes and Iggy has 1,040,235. WE CAN DO THIS. 

BILLBOARD ACHIEVEMENT AWARD TAYLOR SWIFT

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pyrrhiccomedy:

one of my favorite things is that there is surprisingly little scientific literature about the common house cat, because it turns out cats are the least cooperative research animals on the planet. They don’t care what you want them to do. food? you know what, we’ve decided we’re not even hungry right now. what is this, a maze? we’re gonna sit right here and lick ourselves for the next forty-five minutes, what are you gonna do about it.

it’s like, “okay science, we’ve done about 4000 tests to determine the intelligence and emotional perspicacity of domestic dogs, let’s do cats next”

“well sir, we’ve conducted a full battery of all the standard tests”

“glad to hear it science, what did you learn”

“sir our findings indicate that cats are dicks”

ark-the-wanderer:

Every time I’m reminded about how amazing Ginny is, by a friend or a post or a stray thought —

Like how great her talent must be at Quidditch for being able to play both Chaser and Seeker competitively and even beating other players who’ve been training as Seeker the whole term while she only filled in for Harry…

Or how she always, always, always defends those who cannot defend themselves — that girl from the battle, Luna, Neville, and even Harry…

Or how she must have been the loyal friend to Hermione when Harry and Ron were being idiot boys quarreling with her…

Or how she fought against the trauma of being possessed by Voldemort, and how she never lost her sense of humor in spite of everything that had happened, and how deeply she still cared for those around her…

Or how she always understood Harry on a level that needed no words and explanations…

I think to myself, “man, Harry must love her so much.” He would probably get moments where he would just stare at her and count himself lucky not only because she loves him, but also for the simple fact that she is there with him, she is in his world, she exists. He would just look at her and think, “Marry me,” and even after they were already married, he’d still get those moments. And he’ll always have those moments for the rest of his life because Ginny is his great love and that is beautiful because I could not wish anything less for him.

tsukidaisy:

tsukidaisy:

There’s a glitter war in my house. It started with me putting glitter in my sisters bed. She then threw the glitter on me, covering the couch with sparkles as well. At this point, it has escalated to a point where there’s glitter in the fridge, the freezer. You can’t eat food without chowing down on some. It’s in every room of the house, coating everything. My brother went to school with an outfit that could put David Bowie to shame. Today we had to have a family meeting, and I have never seen two people look so disappointed and so fabulous. 

update glitter has been banned from our house

ellaneedschocolate:

uzumakijpeg:

uzumakijpeg:

have you ever finished a test in 30 minutes and no one else was even close to being done

i’m either really smart or i fucked up entirely

nailed it or failed it

wastedromance:

driftingthroughtheskies:

hogwartsforeverhome:

hanadoodles:

PETITION TO MAKE LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE COMPULSORY IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES FROM A YOUNG AGE BECAUSE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE LAZY ASSWIPES WHO EXPECT EVERYONE TO SPEAK ENGLISH AND NEVER BOTHER EVEN LEARNING ANY OTHER LANGUAGE.

Actually, most of us would love speak another language but our education system sucks so we literally learn 4 words. It’s not because we are all lazy.

AMEN TO THAT

AMEN GURL. How can you stereotype all English people as lazy you little worm

^^THIS.  I took nine years of public school Spanish (VOLUNTARILY, I MIGHT ADD) and I can name you like six colors, five buildings, and a handful of emotions.  Working hard to learn another language DOES NOT MAKE UP FOR SHITTY-ASS CLASSES.  

blackgirlsvevo:

*nonchalant notes of pro feminism and social awareness in every statement I say so they can slowly enter your subconscious*

theongreyjoy:

please give me a billion narratives about morally corrupt siblings thank

iftheywereright:

the thing you forget until you watch a show like supernatural is how damn impressive it is that leverage managed 77 episodes without ever having a character make a dumb choice just to advance the plot

neenya:

doubleohmogar:

franerys:

katiebpeters:

chloereneeeee:

How many altos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None, they can’t get that high.

How many sopranos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

One, she holds it up and waits for the world to revolve around her.

How many singers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Two. An alto to actually do it and a soprano to stand by and ask “isn’t that a little high for you?”

u wanna fucking go

here for this fight

jenniferrpovey:

thymoss:

railroadsoftware:

no one ever says that Rome needed help from aliens to build their empire

#l laughed for days when i found out that #ancient egyptians used water to reduce friction and move blocks for distances #and that this was literally DEPICTED ON THEIR HIEROGLYPHICS #but ~western archaeologists~ #thought that the pouring of water depicted ~superstitious rituals~ #jfc

As an archeology major, I can vouch for this being absolutely true:

Any time we see something we don’t understand, we mark it down as ritual purposes. It’s actually a catch-all euphemism for “We have absolutely no clue what these people were doing here yet so until we work it out we’ll pretend it was something to do with their religion.”

And yeah, sometimes it is a white people thing. When white people went into Canada the natives introduced them to the delights of maple syrup. The white people asked “Well, how did you ever work out this sap was edible and delicious.”

The native people responded, “Oh, well, Squirrel showed us.”

White people: Hahahaha They’re off on that totem animal spirit guide thing again.

It wasn’t until this century that scientists actually observed squirrels in that area cutting holes in sugar maples, waiting for the sap to crystallize, and eating it.

The native people were actually being literal and the white people thought they were being metaphorical. Sigh.

officialkirstenmcduffie:

sonseulsoleil:

Reminder that Steve Rogers was born in 1920, and Bucky Barnes was born in 1917, which means that Steve was in his early twenties during the war, and Bucky was in his mid twenties. I know that they’re both portrayed by 30 year old men, but really? They probably looked more like these guys:

Don’t forget that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes had to grow up way too fast, not only because of the war, but because they were teenagers in the Great Depression, they were part of an extremely marginalized group during a time of extreme tension, and the whole dead parents thing. Don’t forget that Steve and Bucky probably never got to do dumb teenager things because they both had to do whatever work they could to stay afloat and then a WAR happened. 

Think about all that pressure once Steve was “Captain America” and became a propaganda piece. Think about the atrocities of war that they’d have seen. Think about the fact that they both faced death. Think about the fact that Steve’s best friend died. THINK ABOUT HOW THESE KIDS ARE NOW SUDDENLY 95+ YEARS OLD. Think about Bucky, waking up and technically being maybe 27 and having to reconcile all the things HYDRA made him do as the Winter Soldier.

Peggy Carter was born in 1919. She is only a year older than Steve. She’s still in her twenties during Agent Carter, y’all. Let that sink in for a moment. She’s still in her twenties.

That flashback scene in The Winter Soldier with the “I’m with ya till the end of the line”? They were teenagers then. TEENAGERS. 

REMINDER THAT THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGERS WERE ALL CHILDREN.

THIS IS NOT EVEN IN THE FOOTNOTES ON THE LIST OF THINGS THAT ARE OKAY

nativepeopleproblems:

startorrent02:

jewishsocialist:

nativepeopleproblems:

“~Hitler was human too!~” Of course he fucking was. If he’d been a goat he would have been a lot less effective at propagating genocide.

I will reblog this forever.

Let’s remember that being human doesn’t absolve you of your crimes - it makes you accountable for them.

Shit, that’s perfectly put. Thank you.

rubertkazinsky:

[raleigh becket bursts in] exCUSE ME, WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT RHEFCK, CHUCK HOLD MY POODLE, *grabs baseball bat* WHAT TRHE FUCK-?