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

kittens-tbh:

dumbkili:

dumbkili:

oh my god okay @all tourists coming to new york for the first time:

street hot dogs should be one dollar, maybe a dollar fifty. anything more than that and theyre swindling you. walk another block and get urself a decently priced hot dog

you dont have to yell “TAXI” when ur tryin to hail a cab, we all know u want a cab, thats why ur sticking ur arm up like a square

seriously. walk faster and in a tighter clump. people have things to do and the sidewalk is not yours to command

thats all please come visit nyc but do it smartly

addendum: nobody here calls it the big apple casually its like the number one way to spot a tourist and could lead to aforementioned overpriced hot dogs

reblog to save a tourist

sphearicalcow:

Guys and men get raped too, but that is almost never taken with due respect.

Reblog if you support the victims and don’t blame them or laugh at them.

bogleech:

Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt

geodude:

imboobsus:

I’m in fucking danger guys. He wants to take out the amendment that makes immigrants’ children a U.S. citizen and deport those families where the parents are illegal. Please stop supporting him as a joke. Please stop thinking that his racism and sexism is funny. Take this upcoming presidential election serious because now many families are in danger. Please I’m not kidding, I’m scared now of this excuse of a human.

this isnt a joke this is really scary

duskygrayknights:

but morning person + not morning person could make the worst (or maybe the best?) otp

“Gooooood morning dear :)” “fuck you and everything you stand for”

vanconcastiel:

gothamsnexttoprobin:

charmancler:

there are 2 sexes but a lot of genders. when a child is born, you have to take care of them as the sex they are because they are uncapable of understanding the difference between all the gender identities. it’s not transphobic or cissexist it’s literally giving the child proper care

THANK YOU

THANK. YOU.

amusewithaview:

countalexandersfriend:

terryreviews:

iguanamouth:

bertb0t:

antique-symbolism:

bertb0t:

antique-symbolism:

Imagine a dragon at Antiques Roadshow, appraising its hoard

Imagine the dragon hoards monetarily worthless things like newspapers or old bones and the person appraising it getting more and more nervous about telling the dragon their stuff isnt worth anything

Imagine that the dragon knows this and just likes watching the person squirm.

The dragon actually hoards uncomfortable situations

This is fun :)

Except I’m pretty sure you can only bring 2 items to be appraised on Antiques Roadshow.

…do YOU want to be the one to tell the dragon that there’s an item limit?

halleberiberi:

vulvapeople:

radfemale:

my nursing lecturer was saying how her daughter almost died at birth and the doctor said ‘you’re lucky she’s a girl because girls are more resilient, even from birth’ and she just thought he was comforting her but she researched it later and there had been studies literally done into it

Not even just from birth.  Female fetuses are less likely to miscarry in adverse conditions, such as famine.  It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.  If a sexual dimorphic species is to survive, it needs far more females than males.  In nature, males are pretty expendable.

#natureisafeminist

roachpatrol:

queermarauders:

*looks at straight couple* so which one of you is the YA protagonist and which is the romantic subplot?

SCREAMING

lippahelpmenow:

I just randomly thought of something that was probably inspired by another post about fans interacting with the people they admire and I thought I might as well put it out there while it’s in my head.

Now, I’m sure you are all familiar with the meaning of consent and I don’t need to go into the details of what defines consent. I mention it now because it’s going to be the entire point of this post.

Which brings me to this:

DO. NOT. TOUCH. A PERFORMER. WITHOUT. THEIR. CONSENT.

When you are at the stage door, for the love of all that is holy, do not lay a single FINGER on a performer unless they give verbal consent or they initiate physical contact. For example: hugging a performer. I’m going to draw from two personal experiences for this point. Last summer, when I saw Phantom, Sierra Boggess was playing Christine and she came to the stagedoor. One of her fans, out of nowhere, practically jumped on Sierra in order to give her a hug, which left Sierra wide-eyed and stunned for a few seconds. Don’t be that person. Instead, be like the girl I saw at the stage door in Toronto when I saw Julia Murney in concert who asked Julia if she could have a hug before the two of them hugged one another. Just take two seconds to ask if it’s okay instead of assuming that the performer you want to hug is okay with you invading their personal space. Or, if the performer knows you well enough or recognizes you from a time you’ve gone too see them perform before and initiates the hug, then you’re in the clear.

I won’t even wrap my arm around a performer when I get my picture taken with them unless they wrap their arm around me first (which is something I believe every stage door patron should put into practice). This allows the performer to be the one to, you guessed it, initiate physical contact.

I understand that you may be a touchy/feely person. I am aware that their are performers out there who are the same, who have no issues whatsoever when it comes to physical contact with fans. But this doesn’t give you the right to invade a performer’s personal space against their will.

TL;DR: DO NOT BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER TOUCH A PERFORMER AT THE STAGE DOOR WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT

PLEASE BEHAVE AT THE STAGE DOOR

browngirlblues:

her-name-is-wena:

browngirlblues:

I hate it when men make unsolicited comments about a woman’s body. Like “she’s got a nice shape but she needs to tighten up her stomach”

How about you tighten up your lips and never speak again you ignorant shit.

Wow maybe you need to accept constructive criticism jesus christ.

Men telling me (or any other woman) what I need to do for them to find me sexually attractive is not constructive criticism.

mswyrr:

okay so let’s break this down. first the sisters save furiosa by pulling nux off her:

that’s your pretty clear, straightforward life-saving courage. and it’s significant that the sisters are ready to fight like that even so early in the story.

but then furiosa goes for nux’s throat

in the sort of interaction she’s internalized after years of repetition: one of the war boys comes for her, she ends them. end of fucking story.

a moment of reflection, a moment of flinching back from immediately killing, would have doomed her in the past

she’s programmed herself to kill without mercy in order to survive. she doesn’t even consider if there’s an alternative. there never has been.

20 years and nobody’s ever stopped her. the only people who tried wanted to hurt her. but they didn’t succeed. otherwise, no matter what she did, who she hurt, nobody cared enough to stop her. they gleefully supported it or considered it her right or her obligation

murder, murder, murder, life means nothing. only weak people flinch from inflicting pain. and you know what happens to weak people. they end up dead or in cages. that’s the law of the Citadel

furiosa didn’t intellectually believe that fully, but you do something long enough and it gets inside you.

but angharad makes her stop

it’s brave and a bit self-destructive, given that this is Imperator Furiosa she’s fucking manhandling (good thing the Vuvalini seem to consider it a cultural virtue to take shit/major challenging lip from the younger women they mentor lol)

but for the first time in twenty years someone knows right from wrong and cares enough to stop her

i think angharad mostly cares for the principle of the thing. definitely condemnation is in there. but… you can read it as a very angry form of reaching out. you can read it as angharad’s response to furiosa’s lecture earlier about how “everything hurts” out here. whatever the case, furiosa is and always will be someone who kills. that’s key to how she survives and protects those she loves. but it’s possible to fight and kill without losing touch with the idea that killing doesn’t have to be the only answer. that killing is always wrong, even if it’s necessary. that you should be thinking about when it’s unnecessary to kill.

i think the sisters save furiosa’s life and nux’s life here but also are part of the journey of saving their souls in this scene

the lecture on Wasteland feminist theory nux received is more obvious, but angharad stopping furiosa is also this huge huge thing

for the first time in her adult life someone cares enough to stop her. to say: he’s just a kid. you don’t have to this time. and if you don’t have to, you shouldn’t.

you can stop

riyoyukai:

immortal-axolotl:

arachnescurse:

swanjolras:

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us— we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

REBLOG EVERYTIME

This post tastes like Asimov

penfairy:

damnmydooah:

penfairy:

When Furiosa finds the Vuvalini, she announces herself with the following words: ‘I am one of the Vuvalini, of the many mothers. My initiate mother was Katie Concannon. I am the daughter of Mary Jo Bassa. My clan was Swaddle Dog.’

This tells us Furiosa came from a matriarchal culture where ‘initiate mothers’ and older female role models were considered just as important as real mothers. She was raised and taught by a whole host of mother figures, and she clings tightly to this part of her identity.

We also know that Furiosa was stolen to act as breeding stock, but when she failed to produce any children she was discarded as worthless and had to become ‘one of the boys.’ By her skill and determination, she worked her way up through the ranks of Immortan Joe’s war boys until she reached a position where she was able to escape.

And all this makes me realise how cathartic it must have been to meet the wives and form a relationship with them. Throughout the film we watch her care for them, protect them and teach them. We watch her pass on her skills and knowledge to this new generation of women. We watch her relate to these women as a woman herself. We watch as her attitude towards them becomes almost entirely protective and maternal. Her mention of having an ‘initiate mother’ is particularly striking, since it would appear that Furiosa became just such a mother to the wives.

The only part of motherhood Joe valued was the actual birthgiving - a sentiment gruesomely displayed by the crude caesarean forced on Angharad. But the Vuvalini had many different ways to be mothers, and Furiosa proves that the most important part of motherhood is not the production of children, but the act of teaching and protecting. This, alongside the wives’ assertion that ‘Our babies will not be warlords,’ the culture of toxic masculinity that surrounds the war boys from being separated from their mothers at birth and the fact that a new, peaceful generation is ushered in by the war pups lowering the lift and the Milking Mothers throwing off their chains to give water to Wretched, tells us that the true value of motherhood does not lie in the ability to bear children, but in a woman’s ability to teach, influence and shape future generations.

Marvel are you paying attention?

I’m sorry for the self-reblog, but thanks to this comment I can’t stop thinking about the contrast between the way Age of Ultron and Mad Max dealt with having an infertile female lead.

Natasha called herself a monster. It was her deep, dark, tragic secret. She feared no man would ever be able to love her. She thought it would keep her from being with the one she loved.

On the other hand, it was patriarchal society that told Furiosa she was worthless because she couldn’t have children. She was stolen to act as breeding stock, and when she failed to accomplish the one thing she was considered useful for, she was discarded.

And in response, Furiosa says fuck that.

“I am one of the Vuvalini,” she says. “I am one of the many mothers.” She may be infertile, but so what? Her place is still with the many mothers because motherhood is so much more than birth and pregnancy. She is the initiate mother of the wives and she protects them with all her rage and love and ferocity. She’s welcomed as the new ruler of the Citadel by children and the Milking Mothers.

Furiosa of the many mothers refused to let her worth be defined by the patriarchy’s narrow definition of motherhood. She spat in its face and tore the entire toxic institution to the ground so she could create a world where women’s roles as mothers went far beyond the mere production of children.

So yeah, take notes Marvel.

primarybufferpanel:

theconcealedweapon:

If someone assaulted me, I would want it to be on video, so I can use it as evidence to convict them of assault.

If I had to kill someone in self defense, I would want it to be on video, so I can prove that it was self defense.

If I had a video of me killing someone in self defense and everyone was accusing me of murder, I would plaster the video all over the internet to prove that it was self defense.

So why don’t police officers feel the same way? Why aren’t the police begging for politicians to require all involuntary interactions with police to be on video? Why do police officers object, sometimes violently, to people filming them? Why do they wait so long to release the video when they’re accused of using excessive force?

Additionally, if I’d shot somebody I did not mean to die? I’d be calling an ambulance FIRST THING and then try my damnest to stench their wounds and keep them alive while waiting for it.

amusewithaview:

rainnecassidy:

amusewithaview:

yesiamcold:

fuckyeahorchestra:

The Boston Symphony was performing Beethoven’s Ninth. In the piece, there’s a long passage about 20 minutes during which the double basses have nothing to do. Rather than sit around the whole time looking stupid, some bassists decided to sneak offstage and go to the tavern next door for a quick one. After slamming several beers in quick succession (as double bassists are prone to do), one of them looked at his watch. “Hey! We need to get back!”

“No need to panic,” said a fellow bassist. "I thought we might need some extra time, so I tied the last few pages of the conductor’s score together with string. It’ll take him a few minutes to get it untangled.“

A few moments later they staggered back to the concert hall and took their places in the orchestra. About this time, a member of the audience noticed the conductor seemed a bit edgy and said as much to her companion.

“Well, of course,” said her companion. “Don’t you see? It’s the bottom of the Ninth, the score is tied, and the bassists are loaded.”

heheh

rainnecassidy

bitch i literally tagged you on this like 3 weeks ago

it doesn’t show up when I search my tags, but I’ve long suspected that that function is broken.  *shrugs*  SORRY!

satan-has-assended:

crashthefandoms:

Seems like barely anyone even cares about the clear and blatant ableism in the movies

My cousin is 75% deaf and losing what he has rapidly. He’s also 7 years old. I remember the day he came up to me with his flurry of hands and slurred speech because everyone was buying his brother spider man stuff and he didn’t have a super hero like him. And I remember leaning in front of him, pulling his hearing aids out and signing the best i could to him about Hawkeye being deaf, and how he was still a super hero and his deafness didn’t make him any less. Granted, it was choppier than that because my signing isn’t spectacular. But his big eyes lit up and he went off running to his dad about Hawkeye. And when he saw the movie, he was so excited, he thought Hawkeye would be signing in the movie. And when he wasnt, when He barely had any lines and when he was hearing, it broke his heart.

Dont tell me ableism isn’t a big deal, or that representation doesn’t matter. Deaf Hawkeye made that little boy feel accepted and happy and the movies stole that from every deaf little boy and girl.

mjwatson:

reblog this and put your eye colour, hair colour, and height in the tags!