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

emmahay:

Owl Shop. (Or, when Harry found Hegwig’s successor - before it could fly).

(Honestly, I just wanted to draw a snowy owl chick - which are essentially fluffy dust mops that stomp around the taiga choking down lemmings larger than their heads.)

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taintedloverxo:

valeria2067:

risewiththetits:

ya-biiiish:

mediamattersforamerica:

We were going to do a “Top 10 Awful Displays of Sexism on Fox News” video, but the clips just kept rolling in. Here are 70.

I want to throw up

Uhm.. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!?

IMPORTANT: If you don’t like this, and you are American, but you don’t vote (in congressional elections especially), THESE PEOPLE are going to be in charge of your country and your life for four to eight years.

AND they will fill the Supreme Court with copies of themselves - that’s two or three DECADES of Fox News clones making and interpreting the laws of our land.

Vote for anyone but a Republican. Please!

This is disgusting

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bonehandledknife:

bonehandledknife:

fuckyeahisawthat:

bassfanimation:

fuckyeahisawthat:

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mswyrr:

vespermartini:

-You’re more than welcome to come with us.

-I’ll make my own way.

#never have I wanted more#to gently reach into the screen and turn two people’s faces towards each other (mumblingsage)

#goddam you and those tags#cos now i’m gonna cry#or at least feel a very strong urge to do so#sigh#these two#why won’t you look at each other?#why only when it hurts?#*sadface*#max x furiosa#mad max fury road#my life was ruined on the 19th of may 2015#when i saw mmfr for the first time

mmfr, fury road, that tiny smirk on Furiosa’s face, I can’t tell if it’s because she knew he’d say no, or, I just want to drive to CT’s house and knock on the door with this screen shot printed out, hello Charlize yes I realize you’ve called the cops, that’s fine but listen, what does this mean, what is going on here, you need to explain to me this thing right here, before I go to jail, I need to know what you idiots are thinking.

Reblogging for this hilarisad string of tags. In my head that little smile is definitely Furiosa laughing at herself for even asking, like, What did you expect, you idiot? He won’t even tell you his name.

A+++ use of hidden from other character/revealed to audience blocking to maximize the emotional pain of this scene.

#Mad Max Fury Road#max x furiosa#these two wasteland idiots and their stumbling attempts to connect#movies for emotional masochists

mmfr, fury road, when I get out of jail I’m going to fly to England, knock on Tom Hardy’s door, hi yes hello Tom I’m sorry I interrupted your tea but, look at this screen shot I’ve tattooed on my chest, what were you guys thinking in this scene, I’m so sorry your children and wife are terrified of me but please I need to know,Charlize wouldn’t tell me she just screamed, before I am put into an English prison tell me, what you fools were trying to do to me with this scene, AH so Max and Furiosa are basically completely wasted for each other but you’re both too, emotionally distraught to admit that, so you say NO and she is smirking because she feels she was a fool to think you’d go, so you’re both going to just be in HeartBreak Land forever,THANK YOU FOR CONFIRMING THIS TOM, oh man English prison is going to suck I hate tea, but at least I have this knowledge to die with.

And Max slowly putting it together that he could have, and maybe should have, said something else, but not yet ready to take it back…

#She knew he would say no because she would’ve said no in his position#and she knew that he would say no but she still went and talked with the others#went to bat for him so he could have a place with them#even though she knew he wouldn’t go with them#because he’s haunted with his own overwhelming sense of guilt at not being able to save the people he cared about before#and they both know it#and it’s awful#I love this movie (via the trekkiehasthephonebox)

LOOK AT THEM THO, THE HESITANCY, is that a word I don’t know, you can SEE their brains working it over, look at their eyes, barely glancing to or away from eachother at just the right moment, she’s like Go ahead say no, He’s like you know I’m going to say no, she’s thinking Are you sure because I want to tell you that I want you to go, Do you want me to go with you, I cant tell you that I don’t know how, I don’t know how to tell you yes, FUCKING HELL, screaming at own ass, more effective communication than these two are with words. (via bassfanimation)

valkyriestrikeofthelashatterdome:

gotterdammerungs:

#pirates of the caribbean was kind of a formative influence #so here’s the thing #after years of chasing curses and hearts and fountains; losing the pearl and winning her back and losing her again #after rum enough to drown his sins and sorrows both#captain jack sparrow wakes up one morning and he’s immortal #just like that #no deals with calypso (he hasn’t been able to find her since the brethren court broke her chains) no desperate double-dealing #one morning he just…stops #stops aging stops dying #he gets the seas forever—except #except #the edges of the map are closing in #the lure of undiscovered treasures is waning and merchant ships are becoming better defended #the day that the East India Company takes Shipwreck Island; Jack feels a great chapter in the world’s history close #(he flees to the Barbary coast with the rest of his ilk; but the romance has gone out of it—the is too much desperation #too much hunger too much blood to it nowadays #the age of the swashbuckler won’t live out the decade) #I imagine this thing he’s chased all his life would crumble through his hands as he bounced from ship to ship #he never gets used to the square rigging on the clippers; though they lead to some good work running tea from china #but the first time he sees a steamship he nearly walks off the dock out of shock #of all the ways sailing would have changed; who thought you’d get rid of the /sails/ #(he swears he’s never getting on one of those monstrosities; let alone sailing on one) #(he manages to hold out until 1893 when the longing for the sea overwhelms him and he decides that even #that ghastly smog and the humming of the engines can be endured) #sometimes he’ll see calypso out of the corner of his eye—leaning on the deck railing; darting alongside the ship with the dolphins #(someone in the early 20th century tells him they’re not fish and he nearly busts a gut laughing) #he wears a hundred names and a hundred looks; cuts his hair short or grows it long #calls himself american; spanish; english (british); caribbean #he has two dozen different copies of Stevenson’s Treasure Island—it reminds him of something gone and half-forgotten #and in 1920 when Seitz comes out with Pirate Gold; Captain Jack Sparrow is in the first row (x)

And then in the future, everything changes. He’s been through it all, of course-watched humanity rediscover the heavens above them, watched them begin to wonder what’s out there. He cheered with the rest of the world when they landed on the moon, cheered as if he’d found Isla de la Muerta all over again, because there was something new. New treasure, a new horizon. But then they stop going, stop exploring, and he goes back to riding tankers across the rising seas. So he’s surprised when one day he wakes up from a night with his bottle of rum (his truest companion), and hears that there’s colonies on Mars now, and they need ships to supply them. He spends the next decade crafting new identities, learning all he can to qualify for the job, and after several tries (and even more faked deaths-this immortality thing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in the age of the inerasable digital self) he gets it. The ships go nearly constantly now, the needs of the terraforming project creating an unbroken line of vessels from Mars to Earth and back again. “Show me that horizon,” he whispers to himself, his personal prayer of thanksgiving, each time they leave orbit, because the worlds, the stars are in motion and it’s never the same, with nearly three years for a round trip the ports are always different, even if they keep the old names. And finally one trip something goes wrong with the reactor, they’re too low on power and have to deploy the backups, and Jack (Lucky Jack, they call him, for he survives too many things he shouldn’t but science has yet to accept that maybe some things weren’t old wives’ tales after all) goes out for the spacewalk to bring up the solar panels. And as they rise, geometric patterns black against the sun’s glare, he’s struck by a powerful sense of déjà vu, because it’s all here-wind and sails, a ship beneath his feet and stars above his head, horizon in all directions. He wonders, for a moment, if the reason he’s still here is because the universe wanted a witness, to mourn the end of one age of exploration, and rejoice in the birth of the next.

Well shit.

(Source: jamesfrancos, via bonehandledknife)

mumblingsage:

mswyrr:

mumblingsage:

zombeesknees:

#oh noooooooooo  #growing up at Citadel it wasn’t just that she couldn’t grieve for her mother  #it was that the life at Citadel made many human reactions impossible  #human habits and rituals and ways of being  #so many things would have been shut off and shut down and put into emotional cold storage  #because it’s not like Citadel was lacking ritual - they were lacking the basic humanity behind the need for ritual  #all Citadel rituals were about control and containment (eg ONLY those based on fear/awe)  #and any other human action with symbolic value that might have to do with community and memory - that’s gone  #stamped out  #there’s no lighting birthday candles in Citadel - only holy dread and worship  #so she’s actually forgotten - you can see it on her face - totally forgotten this gesture  #and she’s remembering another way To Be in mirroring it  #yes - like this - we remember her  #we acknowledge her - like *this*  #with this gesture I thee recall  #with this gesture I thee respect  #7000 days of repressing that communal value and it comes back in 2 seconds  (via harrietvane)

also I just want to point out that this gesture symbolizes both preservation–keeping someone with you forever–and closure because the rest of the Vuvalini did not do this until Furiosa told them her mother died and that whether it’s done immediately upon witnessing someone’s death (Valkyrie and Maddie) or two decades later it is just as important  (via @hauntedjaeger) 

Closure, yes. Logically I know the religion of the Citadel can’t be based on American white Evangelicism because of little details like it taking place in Australia, but comparing “Witness me/I live, I die, I live again” vs this gesture I was reminded of nothing so much as Slacktivist’s commentary on Rapture theology. It’s not about dying, it’s about evading or bypassing death. Same with Valhalla. It’s not about dying in glory but instead about being escorted to the gates (pearly or chrome as it were) and living forever.

This hand-to-heart gesture is not about living forever. It’s about accepting death, accepting its inevitability and absoluteness. And the grief that comes with that.

I apologize for coming into this thoughtful conversation with only one cry to shout but: CHARLIZE THERONS’S EYES!

/stomps around, flailing arms excitedly/ There’s so much in them in this movie. She does so much work with her gorgeous, amazing, talented, brilliant eyes and face.

Her acting here absolutely blew me away. You know without words that this is the first time she’s been able to grieve her mother. You know it in your bones. Just like you know holding Vaylkie in the Vuvalini embrace was like being able to breathe for the first time in decades for her. 

And then when she learns that the Green Place is gone, spoiled and ruined…

I legit tear up remembering it.

The thing about Furiosa is that she is a woman of strength but not a Strong Female Character. Her strength is equal to her vulnerability. Her rage is equal to her love, it exists because of her love. Tears come to her eyes more than once, she loses a physical fight… she’s allowed weakness but it is portrayed as an organic part of her and her courage and strength. If she wasn’t the kind of person who had the love left to tear up when Angharad is lost she wouldn’t have been the woman who risked everything to help the sisters escape.

I’m repeating myself but… there’s a Green Place in her heart that has not been spoiled, has not gone to ruin, and Max’s advice to turn back around and take the Citadel only works because of what these people have in their hearts. Because of the way we, as this gesture shows, live in and remake each other’s hearts.

Because Furiosa knew the love of her people and hid it deep but never let it die; because of the freedom the sisters gave each other learning with Miss Giddy, fashioning new ideas, liberating their minds; because they were able to reach Furiosa out of that and turn the key on her heart, a group of women speaking to the child of a group of women as only they could; because the Vuvalini endured and survived and kept their ways, and that alone is enough of a victory to make change possible, enduring and surviving; because of the gift of kindness Capable gave Nux out of that; because Furiosa helped lead Max back to himself. So much so that Max, after warning against hope, comes back and asks them all to hope and give their lives for it.

Everyone liberates each other, everyone holds each other in their hearts. The kind of witnessing Nux asks for and the kind that Capable gives is about holding someone in your heart. Which is a recognition of death, but it’s also a recognition of relationship, the way people change each other, which is something Joe did not want - he wanted everyone to fruitlessly seek after relationship with him as their demi-god; only he could lead you to Valhalla, only his approval meant anything, etc, etc. 

People connecting with each other and touching each other’s hearts is how liberation happens. And ALSO. This is an action movie, yes?

But if none of that work had been done–if, for one exmaple, the sisters had not mentally liberated themselves w/ Miss Giddy before escaping–the whole effort would have failed. It doesn’t matter how far you run or how hard you fight, if all you have is brute strength you are not free.

It really, really honors the kinds of non-physical work the sisters did and the relationship work the characters do for each other. Furiosa reaching out to Max is as important as any fight; the sisters changing Furiosa’s mind is the most important moment of all. And all of that happened in conversation. Relationship.

No wait you started on Theron’s eyes and came back to QUALITY ADDITIONS TO THIS THREAD OF META how did you do that?

What’s that Mary Shelley quote?  “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe.  If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”  I think that encompasses Furiosa excellently.  Stolen from her family, she finds herself cut off from satisfying the depths of her love.  In indulging her rage, though, she manages to claw her way up the ranks to the point we see in the movie, where she fights her way back to a place from which she can love.

(Source: angharxd, via bonehandledknife)

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