I think we should start putting less pressure on gay people to ‘come out’ and more pressure on straight people to stop assuming everyone’s sexuality is fucking straight
Can I reblog this forever?
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thing I hate: people pointing out a woman’s high IQ as a way to make a point about women’s empowerment or something
“people keep treating this woman like she’s less than human and talking down to her! But actually her imaginary ‘smartness number’ is fairly high so she is in fact worthy of respect.”
Or more often:
“she scored really well on this arbitrary pattern test rooted in eugenics and ableism, so she’s better than you and you can’t criticise her”
(Source: unpopulargirls, via academicfeminist)
i keep telling boys that ask me out on dates that I haven’t seen The Force Awakens so that I can go see it again for free. I’m about to go see it for the 6th time
good news my friends! it was just as good the 6th time
Okay but I just thought of something. In Harry’s first year, his Nimbus 2000 started bucking him off and basically trying to end him. Now we know it was Quirrell but to the average eye it probably just looked like the broom was defective. McGonagall got him that broom. And she was watching the game.
Imagine how horrified and guilty she must have felt to think that the broom she’d bought for this young boy might be trying to kill him.
HOLY SHIT AND THATS WHY SHE TOOK NO CHANCES WHEN HERMIONE TOLD HER SHE THOUGHT HARRYS FIREBOLT COULD BE JINXED
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You hear all these “you’re not a real fan unless” and it lists a hundred things, but I met a dude today who saw my Deadpool pin and asked what my favorite story arc was, and I explained that while I loved Deadpool, I was new to Marvel (I only really got into it a year and a half ago) and hadn’t been able to find a lot of the comics. Instead of making a face or a derogatory comment, he just offered to send me all the stuff he had. That is a true fan.
I told the guy at the comic shop when I went in for Black Widow that I’d seen a few Harley Quinn panels on Tumblr and thought it looked badass but didn’t know where to start because my entire involvement in DC fandom was watching the Batman cartoon as a kid. This guy sitting at one of the tables playing Yu-Gi-Oh, wearing a comic shirt and carrying a definitely-hardcore-fan amount of swag, spins around and goes “dude! You’ve never read DC? Check out the back issues wall. They’ve got all kinds of Harley Quinn.” He then proceeded to explain how “New 52″ was a spinoff, and had some split opinions in the fandom, but either continuity is good as long as you pick one and stay with it so you don’t get mixed on what’s going on.
True fans love to see other people loving the stuff they love.
YES THIS. I’m one of those terrible people who’s like “Why yes I do own a Marvel Encyclopedia that I read front to back when I’m sad” and the X-Men are, like, my first love, and I have a mental laundry list of all the ways I can share LITERALLY ANYTHING ABOUT THE X-MEN with my friends. You like the animated series? Yeah bro, I’m here for that. Movies? Honey, sweetie, darling, tell me all your opinions ever, my body is ready. You watched X-Men: Evolution as a kid? Dude, I still watch it when I’m sick or upset. Comics? Yeah baby, talk nerdy to me about time-travel plot lines and clones. I heard someone tell a girl a couple years younger than me that she wasn’t a ‘real fan’ of something (the Avengers, I think?) because she’d only seen the movies and I was like “*hisses* THAT IS MINE NOW I WILL TAKE OVER.”
Nice girl, actually. Real sweetheart.
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Rohypnol is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. Some people report a VERY slight bitterness to it, but it’s not extremely salty. At all. That’s why rapists use it.
THANK YOU. It’s true that some date-rape drugs have a taste to them–if your drink tastes off, stop drinking it. But it’s a much safer rule of thumb to assume that you wouldn’t be able to taste anything and keep your drink in your hand and under your eye at all times.
remember when we all thought that mitt romney would be the worst possible thing to happen to politics ohohoho boy were we naive
I guess you could say He Got Trumped
Remember when we thought John McCain of all people would be a conservative nightmare? It’s like each Republican candidate to emerge is part of the same supervillain who after each defeat keeps saying “You fools! This isn’t even my final form!”
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*cis voice* idk like, I feel like using they for a singular person just brings out my sudden and previously nonexistent strict adherance to prescriptive linguistics but maybe it’s just me
My roommate the linguistics major has decided that the singular ‘they’ is her hill to die on. She’s started yelling “HAVE YOU EMBRACED THE SINGULAR ‘THEY’ AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR” and honestly I think it’s my favorite development of the school year. Also, fun fact, there is no grammatical rule saying that ‘they’ is only for the plural, so fuck the man and live your life.
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these are some of the most ridiculous figures i’ve ever seen like
- this time of year is a deadzone for movie releases. when hollywood thinks its gonna lose money on a movie, they dump it out in jan/feb bc its after awards nom season and before summer blockbuster
- they do this bc their studio money is tied up with promoting the tentpole films or Oscar bait shit they released around December…they focus on awards season
- going back, like, 30 years, generally ppl don’t go to the movies as much during jan/feb because they spent all their money during the holidays. and also because weather
- deadpool had a president’s day release, which is usually when a romance of some kind takes over the box office bc it’s close to valentine’s day. last year it was 50 shades, which set the world record for a pres day opening until it was obliterated by DEADPOOL
- it has an r-rating. they always make less money likeALWAYS
- what the fuc
-numbers this high means ppl r seeing it three or four times, and,
-as of this post Deadpool has only been in theaters for t w o w e e k s
this is so fucking hilarious considering ryan reynolds had to fight since 2004 for this movie to be made & fox dragged the concept until they gave in and it’s MADE THIS MUCH????
also considering:
- deadpool is openly pansexual
- sympathetic to survivors
- it’s sex-worker positive
- disability positive
- teen girl kicking ass
- future installations can only include way more representation ^^^
boy its almost like people want movies featuring characters they can relate to hmmmmmMMM
BAFFLING.
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