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

iztarshi:

Inspired by various tumblr posts.

Humans quickly get a reputation among the interplanetry alliance and the reputation is this: when going somewhere dangerous, take a human.

Humans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans heal so fast they pierce holes in themselves or inject ink for fun. Humans will walk for days on broken bones in order to make it to safety. Humans will literally cut off bits of themselves if trapped by a disaster.

You would be amazed what humans will do to survive. Or to ensure the survival of others they feel responsible for.

That’s the other thing. Humans pack-bond, and they spill their pack-bonding instincts everywhere. Sure it’s weird when they talk sympathetically to broken spaceships or try to pet every lifeform that scans as non-toxic. It’s even a little weird that just existing in the same place as them for long enough seems to make them care about you. But if you’re hurt, if you’re trapped, if you need someone to fetch help?

You really want a human.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy:

The other logical thought about Furiosa is that if she wasn’t made for men, she must have been made for women.

And, 1. there’s nothing wrong with that

but, 2. she might be made for everybody

There’s that myth about genre media where the genre is human experience, dividing everything into categories, not so much because it’s helpful to find what you’re looking for but because it’s assumed only people from certain communities will be interested in consuming certain media

so you get women’s cinema, and lgbt cinema, and black cinema, and disabled cinema, and when you’re just looking for a regular good movie you don’t really go near those shelves unless you’re connected to the subject because it’s just not universal enough, it’s going to have “an agenda” and you won’t be able to identify.

What horseshit, right? 

And people get so angry about Fury Road being described as feminist because they think that puts the film on the Feminism Shelf where only angry activist women can browse. Someone actually got so angry they said “It’s not yours, it wasn’t made for you!”

Well shit, friend, it’s made for everybody. And if it’s made a little bit more for the women than the men, is that a problem? Strike that: if it’s made a little bit less for the men and a lot less at the expense of women,  is that really a problem?

You enjoyed the film, it’s yours. You identified with someone who wasn’t like you- GOOD. No one’s gonna try and take that away from you. But don’t you be selfish and spoiled, either, don’t try and act like it belongs to you and no one else. Just accept that you enjoyed a movie that wasn’t putting your needs first. Is that so hard? Is that something to be ashamed of?

Because I think it’s fucking wonderful. Especially if you’re in that demographic that always gets catered to.

(via bonehandledknife)