Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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I’m sorry
I can’t imagine how black Americans are feeling right now
I’m sorry. We failed you. Again.
Back when I was in high school, I sat for the pledge to protest the Iraq War. This was in 2002-2003 when people were hyper-patriotic and nationalistic, slightly more than you see today (though still maddening today).
Anyway, I got sent to the principle’s office and so on and…
There’s no such thing as being “neutral” in this situation. If you are not absolutely livid, you are part of the problem.
also reblog if you are Will Shakespeare and therefore are bisexual and support bisexuals
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Have you ever seen the research capacity of fandom? It’s incredible. Turns out he had Snickers and Hershey’s in the 1940s but he’d be pretty alarmed to find the kind of apples he used to eat are extinct and chickens are now three times as big. Turns out his sex education would be better than the kind in schools now, and that living through the Great Depression might put him into a state of grim nostalgia regarding the failures of the current banking system. Turns out Steve Rogers lived in a queer neighborhood, six blocks from an “artsy queer house,” and he wouldn’t say “under God” during the pledge of allegiance.
oh my god
But anyway, I recently sat down to figure out exactly where Steve’s local gay bars would be, or where the closest ones would be, for purposes of plotting things out, and uh … turns out that Steve Rogers lived in the MIDDLE of the biggest cruising/gay bar/gay hangouts area of Brooklyn. Like, a couple blocks from the St. George Hotel, which was almost entirely gay by the early 40s.
This is actually a really great, fascinating essay (by thingswithwings) on the area and time Steve grew up in. The whole idea that Steve (and Bucky even more) would be completely, totally clueless seems even more ridiculous when you really look at this stuff.
I sometimes have to keep myself from commenting on posts about Steve Rogers and how his life was back in the day. Because WOW some folks don’t know anything about history!
Where are the posts about Steve snarling about Hoovervilles? How are people not taking advantage of how one of the reasons…
i fucking love whenever people are like “how would steve rogers react to the fact that people now curse and talk about sex?”
yo
he grew up as a poor orphan in Brooklyn and joined the fucking army i think he’s got that shit covered
Also, remember that the 1935-40s had BETTER and MORE HONEST sex education than we get now.
In all likelihood what would REALLY shock Steve would be the way that sex ed is taught, not that sex ed is taught.
On a serious note…
Ferguson Municipal Library remains open and ready to welcome the public, including the many children for whom school was cancelled this week. If you are safe and warm where you are, and worried about this little city that is hurting right now, please consider a donation of any size to the library. Link is in upper right corner. Let’s do what we can to spread some joy and support today.
Ferguson Municipal Library
Andrew Garfield thinks it’d be cool if Spider-Man swung a different way. (He also wanted MJ to be played by Michael B. Jordan.)
“He’s so charismatic and talented. It’d be even better—we’d have interracial bisexuality!”
When EW later mentions the idea to Webb, the director says, “Michael B. Jordan, I know.” Oh, so he’s heard this too? “Uh, are you kidding?”
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#here’s a fact: Andrew Garfield can’t shut up about how bad he wants to make out with Michael B. Jordan #and everyone in his life knows it #i bet if you asked emma stone ”so michael b jordan huh?” she would sigh and roll her beautiful eyes #IT’S CONSTANT she would say
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#andrew garfield #michael b jordan #sittin in a tree #k i s s i n g #but like #upside down
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The world would be a better place if we got a movie with a canon queer Spiderman, who has a boyfriend played by Michael B Jordan :D
I need to prove a point to my mom, who thinks teenagers should be focused on scholarships and a…
can straight girls please stop shitting their pants over being mistaken for lesbians or being called lesbians as an insult?
when someone tries to insult you by calling you a lesbian, they’re a homophobe. if you actually find it insulting to be called a lesbian, you’re a homophobe too. this is not a difficult concept to grasp.
same goes for straight boys being called gay.
straight people who think they can use the word ‘faggot’ are probably the same people who don’t know ‘cracker’ doesn’t refer to the food but to the act of cracking a whip
#i actually did not know that #it’s almost as if white society wants to completely erase the fact that white people once were literal slavedrivers #who could have known
self aware white people are beautiful
imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he sees a same-gender couple holding hands in public imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he sees an interracial couple holding hands in public his smile could literally light up the whole universe
He would be SO FRICKING HAPPY
And anyone who thinks he wouldn’t needs to shut the fuck up because they don’t know a damn thing about Captain America <3
i scare people lots because i walk very softly and they don’t hear me enter rooms so when they turn around i’m just kind of there and their fear fuels me
Tolkien died in 1973. Reverse it and you get 3791. Three rings for the elven kings under the sky, seven for the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, nine for mortal men doomed to die, and one for the dark lord on his dark throne.
my follower count is my birth year
did you know jesus personally?
slam DUNKED
what if you woke up and found your blogtitle tattooed on your body
honestly if disney ever did make a movie about lesbian princesses every single review would be like “a heartwarming tale of strong friendship despite the odds”
even if things end up a bit too heavy, we’ll all float on.
If someone ever tells you a certain song is important to them you should turn it up and lay on your bed and close your eyes and really listen to it even if its 10 minutes long because at the end you will know that person much better I think
My love for this post is unbelievable.
as we grow older, we are taught to put homework first, always. we are taught to set aside our interests to complete busy work. we are taught to indulge in time fillers, rather than doing what we really want. and so then, once in a blue moon, when we happen to have a day of no work, we don’t know what to do with ourselves. we forget what it means to be spontaneous; we learn to sit at a desk and focus. and I think that’s a shame
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)
And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.
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compulsive auto reblog
i want this tattooed on me at some point
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Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is.
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MY QUEEN
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