why dont we ever talk about how movies condition girls to associate glasses and curly hair with ugliness because that is so fucking damaging to young girls who grow up seeing girls who look like them always be the “before” of every makeover
read this post. read it again. read it two more times. read it aloud. i want this to be ingrained into peoples’ minds
Can we please just talk about how sassy Professor McGonagall was?
Just look:
"Ah, of course. There is no need to tell me any more, Ms. Granger. Which one of you will be dying this year?"
I mean really:
"I should have made my meaning plainer," said Professor McGonagall, turning at last to look at Umbridge directly in the eyes. "He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher."
So much sass:
"Are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?"
She's just full of it:
"I doubt it will make much of a difference," said Professor McGonagall coldly, "unless a mad axe-man is waiting outside the doors to slaughter the first into the entrance hall."
Her zingers are the best:
"Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans --"
Seriously though:
"You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in."
And finally, my all-time favorite:
"It unscrews the other way."
if you’re ever worried about what you wanna do after college just remember that my best friend graduated and said “i wanna be a mermaid” and now she performs as a mermaid in aquarium shows
there’s this stereotype that girls are only into comics and nerd culture to get guys, and you know, i think that’s absolutely true. i am definitely here to get guys, specifically steve rogers, do you know where I can find him?
hades isn’t a badass. hades named his three-headed-guard-of-the-underworld-dog spot. hades whispers to his flowers to make them grow. hades grows fruit. there’s no sun in the underworld.
hades isn’t a badass. stop saying this false thing
It has been over a year since I’ve made this post now, and I swear every single fucking day I get notifications out the ass with you shits reblogging it. Let it die.
Thank you for following me. Thank you for reblogging from me. Thank you for liking my posts. Thank you for sending me nice messages. Thank you for staying followed to me. Thank you for making my Tumblr experience amazing. Thank you.
the fucking worst is when people are like “you hate people for having a different opinion than you!!!!” like im not shitting on this guy because he thinks pistachio ice cream is gross im shitting on him because he actually believes that i and people like me dont deserve basic human rights and respect and safety
I hate when the media makes The Hunger Games look like a battle for love. Get your bullshit fantasies away. This is about murder, over powered government, and a girl trying to change the way things are. News flash not every girls fantasy is to find true love.
the irony here is that our media is doing exactly what the Capitol did in the books; downplaying the murder, focusing on the bullshit love story
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.”—
if you were praised for being smart as a child and now feel crippling sensations of inadequacy when you don’t instantly know how to do something perfectly clap your hands
Why does getting your period have to be a secret??? Like why do they teach girls to “put extra pads in a secret pocket of your bag”… when literally all females have to go through it every month… Is this a big secret? Is the male population too sensitive to know that we menstruate? Why is it so shameful and what are they afraid of? I’ll keep my pads and tampons wherever I damn well please.
“Leonard was a very dear friend. One extraordinary thing about him I remember: When Star Trek was going to be done as an animated series, they cast Leonard, Bill Shatner, Majel Barrett and Jimmy Doohan only for the voice acting on that. And when he discovered that Nichelle Nicholls and Walter Koenig and I were not cast because of budgetary considerations, he said, Star Trek is about diversity, and if the two people that represent diversity to most, Nichelle and George, then I’m not interested in doing it. … That was an extraordinary thing for an actor, to give up a gig on behalf of other actors. And because Leonard was so necessary to the project, they cast Nichelle and me and offered Walter an opportunity to write a script. He was really an amazing man.”—
now that i’ve finally stopped crying about this, i just want to make an observation.
you know how successful white actors keep making jokes about hollywood’s diversity problem? like NPH at the oscars? yeah, that stuff is true & should be pointed out, but… it seems like (white) actors only snark about it, never anything more substantial. (meanwhile everyone else risks jobs, reputations, and even their whole careers if they put up a fuss.)
george & nichelle would have to risk their professional reputations if they’d complained about being left out, AND they were unlikely to succeed by it.
leonard nimoy spoke up because (1) it wasn’t right, and (2) he had more institutionalized power to leverage than either of them. it was a real risk for him too, but far less than for the other two; he clearly understood that, and he used it.
guys, THAT is solidarity.
cracking jokes about “Hollywhite” might be funny, but it doesn’t do shit. it’s the safest way to signal that you’re totally progressive & down for the cause without actually being for the cause. it has nothing to do with change.
