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

Banana In The Butt

bottomthedonkey:

clockwork-mockingbird:

so last night my roommate and i were watching not another teen movie. anyone who knows me knows that’s a weird thing for me to watch but

1. my roommate has a cold and had taken nyquill and wanted to watch it
2. chris evans is in it and there’s a scene where he has a banana in his butt

so there we are, waiting for the amazingness that is chris evans’s butt when my cat, who was flopped on the floor dead asleep, suddenly perks up. stands up. meows. and we’re both looking at him like ‘what got into you’ when suddenly from her window, which is at the back of the apartment, comes a sound, loud enough to scare us all, just once BANG and we look at each other and decide

1. some poor creature has just run into her window
2. we’re going back to watching chris evans with a banana up his butt

but my cat doesn’t settle down and he’s now staring intently at the window and meowing and there it is again but not so loud this time and not just once Bang Bang Bang and now we’re both freaking out just a little bit because it’s two am and we’re trying to watch chris evans with a banana in his butt

and then from the front of the apartment, at the living room window, directly in front of her room, we hear BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG and now we and the cat are all freaking because

1. what the fuck
2. it’s like two ten in the morning
3. we’re trying to watch chris evans with a banana in his butt

and the kitchen window is open because it’s one of the few that has a screen in it and a deep voice booms out our names and then the person outside, trying to get in and interrupt our chris evans watching goodness, begins beating on the door and jiggling the knob.

i knew the voice and so did my nyquill drugged roommate. her ex, with whom she was on friendly terms. until he interrupted our chris evans watching. my roommate is small and drugged.

1. i am not
2. i am now very angry
3. you interrupted me watching chris evans with a banana in his butt

i stomp to the front door, yank it open, and scream ‘WHAT THE HELL’ so loud a few apartments down i hear a dog start to bark. the ex is startled. i’m taller than him and i’m angry and he is obviously drunk and tries to tell me he’s here for my roommate.

1. “Uh no,” i say in a very black widow-esque voice “you’re leaving”
2. and i slam the door in his face and flip the deadbolt

i shut the kitchen window and drop the wood pieces in the rail so it won’t open because i live in a cheap apartment that doesn’t have locks or screens on a lot of the windows. i go back to my roommate’s room where we resume watching chris evans (we’re coming up on the scene with the banana)

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG

the door

‘WOULD YOU LEAVE. YOU’RE NOT WELCOME HERE’ my roommate wonders if i’ve always been able to yell that loud.

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG

the window

‘LAST WARNING ASSCLOWN. LEAVE NOW.’

lots of yelling our names. frustrated, i pull out my phone and call the cops. the dispatcher gets my info and says a unit is on the way and at this point i’m very upset because i’ve missed the banana scene. then she tells me if he gains entry to the house to call her right back

1. lady i have a baseball bat
2. if he gains entry his face will meet it and you’ll need an ambulance not a cop car

thirty minutes after he showed up, the cops arrive and haul him away. my cat settles down. my roommate falls asleep after a second dose of nyquill. i have missed chris evans with a banana in his butt.

moral of the story: don’t mess with me when i’m trying to watch chris evans with a banana in his butt.

I just saw this and needed to go back to the original source to reblog the whole thing in full.

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l0chn3ss:

poseidhn:

unicornempire:

astrariums:

crazyintheeast:

Quick reminder that Luke had about five minutes of training with a lightsaber and NONE of it included actually fighting against an other opponent. Remember Ben sparring with Luke? Nope. It was just him playing around with a robot that tased him

Do you remember Yoda sparring with Luke? Nope. He was teaching him about the Force but we never saw him ONCE teaching him how to actually fight with a lightsaber. Luke had precisely ZERO experience when it came to fighting with a lightsaber.  And yet none of you said anything when Luke actually kept up with Vader and later on actually defeated Vader

Rey on the other hand spend her ENTIRE LIFE defending herself with her staff. She is very well versed in fighting with a melee weapon. But when she fought against a HEAVILY INJURED Kylo Ren you immediately cry Mary Sue and unrealistic.

Think about that. Think about what this attitude says about you.

Also an important thing about fight choreography:

A great deal of thought was put into that scene, particularly Rey’s fighting style. She may seem pretty well adapted to lightsaber combat, but in reality she struggles a lot during the fight. 

This is a character who has trained exclusively - as far as we know - with a quarterstaff, which is completely different from fighting with a two-handed weapon. Form, stance, strategy - you name it. And this is actually quite apparent in Rey’s choreography for the first half of the scene.

She starts attacking Kylo Ren with these jabs that would probably crack his ribs if she were wielding her quarterstaff. But since she has a brand new weapon in her hands, the strikes are completely ineffective. 

But that’s what’s so amazing about this scene. Rey adapts. She’s analyzing Kylo Ren’s form the entire time and she’s learning how to apply it to her own fighting. When she uses the Force to help her focus, she overcomes the translation between one style of weapon to another and secures her victory.

Rey is the first character we’ve actually seen learning how to use a lightsaber against another opponent. And we see it happening in the middle of a fight. 

I really enjoyed this scene because I knew they’d spent all this time building up how smart and quick and adaptable Rey is as a character, and we get to see her really shine when she’s pushed into a corner and has to think on her toes.

Remember how she lost that second Tai Fighter when they lost their guns? How she remembered that giant ship she’d been excavating for years and used it to her advantage and knew how to position the gun to get Finn a shot?

Or how she used the doors on that freighter to cut off the (Whatever’s) tentacles when it had ahold of Finn, because she couldn’t run to keep up with it?

There were so many instances of great improvisation for Rey, but I don’t think a lot of people who watched the movie really caught on that she was very quick thinking or smart because the other characters didn’t spend a ton of time congratulating her or patting her on the back for being smart, and these are traits that are often only given to male characters, so people are confused as to why she’s so successful and simply think it’s poor writing, when the reality is that she’s just as smart/quick as Han was in the original Trilogy.

I’m so tired of the argument that just because Rey can do shit, she’s a “Mary Sue” character because guess what, women are capable of doing things men can too you know. Han was a smuggler who learnt how to get himself out of tight spots. Rey is a scavenger who learnt how to get herself out of tight spots. What is the difference? Some people can’t comprehend the idea that Rey doesn’t really need saving because she is so capable of taking care of herself, which is something soooo revolutionary or whatever idek. I mean, even Chewie who was Han’s partner for more than 30 years accepted Rey as his copilot, accepted Rey to be in Han’s position. And Rey is a freaking Jedi goddamnyou!

The girl was trained to fight, to survive, and I’m just sick of the double standard where people just accepted Farm Boy Luke being a fantastic Jedi and pilot but suddenly a girl can do shit and there’s outrage like how dare a girl be intelligent and strong right???

@fullmetalgrigori

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ATTENTION PET OWNERS

st-rks:

japantheband:

demonhunter-dean:

toxic-w0nder:

cutewalmartboy:

This post is going to rushed but I’m still shaking and it’s hard to type but I NEED people to know this

My mom just took my dog to the vet
She(my dog) was(still is?) having a seizure

Last month we took my dog to the vet and they told us she had developed diabetes, they told us it was caused by the food she was eating, purina beneful.
They told us that there have been many many many reports of Beneful has been causing diabetes, seizures, and even death in dogs.

We had no idea

We immediately switched her food and put her on a special diet plan for her diabetes, unfortunately the effects were already permeate.

Today at 11:20 my mom woke me up crying, I helped her carry my dog to the car (while she was still having a seizure) and watched her drive away red faced and still crying.

Please please PLEASE if you are feeding your pets Purina beneful PLEASE switch their food ASAP
Beneful is poising dogs and I don’t want anyone else to experience what I just did
Also if you could please help me signal boost this so everyone can know

This would explain why my dog has seizures now…fucking hell

Reblog and save lives of dogs

found out purina was the reason my dog winston had been having seizures and puking. please don’t feed your dog purina.

reblog even if you don’t own a dog or even if you’re not “a dog person” because I can’t even imagine how horribly depressed I would be if this happened to my dog

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Why You Need to a) NOT PANIC and b) Leave John Boyega the Fuck Alone

primarybufferpanel:

vgersix:

hauntedfalcon:

First of all, this is unprofessional as fuck. Chris Mandle quoted three words of something John Boyega said entirely out of context and tweeted it in order to get hits. And it worked! There are already five articles on Google News and a whole bunch of people posting about it in the Stormpilot tag! I saw a gif of the Titanic breaking in half! 

The full article will be out in Shortlist on the 21st, and if you weren’t already going to read it, you are now, aren’t you? You’re damn right, because you want to know what John Boyega actually said. Unfortunately that means we’re playing right into Chris Mandle’s grandstanding, and I hate to reward that, but I’ll do what I have to so I’m not just taking his word for it. 

Secondly, this is the same John Boyega who totally went along with Oscar’s “I was playing romance” statement in their Ellen interview. Do you really think he was trying to sink this ship? Really? 

Thirdly, OSCAR ISAAC SHIPS STORMPILOT, WHERE IS THE CONFETTI AND TICKER TAPE PARADE? I need a thousand percent more celebrating the fact that he is on board with this. How many fandoms ever get that from the actors who play the dudes they ship?

Fourthly, do you know what else once only existed in Oscar Isaac’s head? The idea that Poe Dameron grew up on Yavin IV.

And now it’s canon. 

Keep tweeting Lucasfilm and Disney and Rian Johnson and asking for queer representation. Keep making petitions. Keep talking about how much you love Stormpilot and queer Poe Dameron. 

But if I see anyone hating on John Boyega for this before we actually know what he said, I’m going to murder. 

Also remember that Gwendoline Christie was only cast to play Captain Phasma AFTER fans complained and called for more female characters. Phasma was originally a male character. YOUR VOICES MATTER.

Also remember that it absolutely doesn’t matter if it’s canon because you can still ship it to your heart’s content. Seriously, take the elements, go nuts, ship away! Nothing is stopping you. Canon is utterly irrelevant to this. 

ethergaunts:

telegantmess:

dethklit:

smitethepatriarchy:

holymashedpotatoesbatman:

klinki:

self diagnosing is so hard because everytime you’re like “maybe I am mentally ill” theres also a big part of you going “nah you’re probably just a naturally lazy/nasty/disgusting/useless person trying to find an excuse for your behavior” because of the institutionalized ableism that runs through everything

So go to the doctor and get an actual diagnosis?

Why don’t poor people just buy more money?

The way they diagnosed me at the hospital was literally by asking me what i thought i had. so fuck off with that shit. Self-diagnosis is actually better because you know yourself, ur mind, and ur body better than a doctor who doesn’t really give two shits about you.

My GP told me something really interesting at my yearly checkup back in November when i mentioned some concerns i had but prefaced them with “i don’t want you to think I’m self-dx’ing…”

wanna know what he said? Hold on to your butts…

He said “in my experience, most self-dx’s are either right, or are close to the mark. You’re the only one qualified to tell me what you are experiencing.”

I know. Shocking.

don’t even get me started on how bias, stigma, and bigotry on the part of medical professionals impacts diagnosis and treatment, which has been the center of both activism and academic study. I’m lucky to have the doctor i have, but most people don’t. So if you’re gonna act like “official” diagnoses are a unidirectional flow of knowledge, coming from an “expert” and bestowed upon those of us not “worthy” to be considered “experts” in our own experiences, at least acknowledge the power dynamics you are enacting when you do so. 

It’s so weird how there’s such a major disconnect between how people assume diagnosis works and how diagnoses actually works. Therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. are not diviners who can just mystically know what you have by blessed providence. They require an understanding of how you feel and what you’re going through because modern psychotherapy is about making sense of what you feel in comparison to generally known medical diagnoses and the practitioner’s (some aren’t even truly doctors yet yall who are so anti-self dx act like they are) own personal experience based on other patients they’ve had.

If you understand how you feel and you think you have a good idea the direction you need to be headed, you’ve already done a good amount of their job for them. It’s when you don’t know how to process what you’re experiencing or how to express it that the practitioner will then begin therapy to understand what you deal with in your day-to-day life and how you react to that. All of this information is brought into context with personal family medical history and, sometimes, regional medical issues as well as additional medical testing (if it’s really necessary), and then a more definite diagnosis can be made.

Most people who self-diagnose do so because they’ve come to understand how they feel and how they react, they’ve done the research into certain kinds of medical issues in lieu of visiting a potentially costly practitioner, and they’ve reached their own conclusion and they feel safe in self-diagnosing.

The hell that people raise about self-diagnosis on here should definitely be redirected into hellraising about the state of medicine in this country and how seriously financially debilitating it is trying to get your foot in the door for any treatment, much less reasonably priced treatment.

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dj-slappy-d:

festivebonesaw:

fishu-fishu:

I hate scrolling down my dash and seeing all these heart breaking personal posts about how much people’s family’s hate them and laugh at them during the holidays.
Guess what?
I’m you family now
Your dad’s being a jerk? I’m your new dad now.
Your mom? Guess who’s your new mom.
Grandma? Grandpa? Aunt? Uncle?
All me. I’m all your family and I will love you forever.

i am 110% here for holiday support cause sometimes we just need it. maybe someone’s there for you, maybe they aren’t so nice. maybe you’d rather have more company to share in the festivities. consider me your new gay cousin.

COME TO YOUR TRASH COUSIN AND I WILL HUG YOU

I’m strange and I’m a little off-kilter and I’m a little broken and I will be your family.

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smitethepatriarchy:

Men are always talking about what’s “natural” but in nature it’s always the males of the species that have to be pretty or work really hard to get the females.

I want to see more men dressing up and wearing makeup. Dance for me. Build me a fucking house. Impress me, you mediocre fucks.

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