my heart is the sea

try not to drown in me || 20 and restless || IG/Twitter: cairabenwick

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by Lukas Neasi

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The Galaxy is a beautiful and mysterious place full of wonder.

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Best sites to kill time on

Been bored after school a lot nowadays so made a list of my most used sites. Am I missing any?

** DISCLAIMER I’m not responsible for late homework assignments, sleep deprivation, missed deadlines because of this list**

• Commaful - really addicting short stories and poetry

• The Oatmeal - funny web comics

• Find The Invisible Cow - watch the audio for this one….

• The Onion - fake news that’s actually hilarious

• Pornhub - not gonna link it. self explanatory.

• Useless Website Generator - literally does what its name says

• Best of Reddit - warning extremely addicting stuff here

• Funny Or Die - watching will ferrell as george bush never gets old

• Cyanide & Happiness - hilarious comics

• Rich Kids On Instagram - this makes me cry a little

• One Tiny Hand - they literally make hands tiny. it’s so great

And there it is……remember. With great power comes great responsibility

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omg commaful and the oatmeal made me forget my midterm last semester

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Blue Lake, Kandersteg, Switzerland

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Snuggle Up With These Beautifully Handmade Chunky Blankets During Cuddle Weather Season

Get them here!

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Not To Disappear…

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Enlightened 3/50 & Snow Star by Stuart Stevenson

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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with he darkness of other people.

Carl Jung (via psych-facts)

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Multnomah Falls through the seasons

I took the Spring photo for this series yesterday and wanted to update it for you all, since the Autumn / Winter post was so popular :)

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Island Lake Milky Way

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more

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Paul Signac (1863-1935)

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Winter Paintings by Monet

for @apaixaosegundocn

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Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics? 

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you  and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

[darthmelyanna]

Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?

[drst]

^^ I like this idea.

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Maybe if high fantasy writers and creators weren’t all fucking hacks who’ve been riding JRRT’s dick for the last fifty years and insist on making every single god damn fantasy world they create a boring retread of Middle Earth based on the same three hundred year span of time in four countries of Western Europe they wouldn’t all have to rely on the same garbage logic to justify their garbage misogyny. 

[animatedamerican]

You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials.  But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.

And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery.  Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits.  And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.

Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.

[jessicalprice]

Not to mention that some of the societies portrayed, or inspiring similar fantasy settings, actually had STRONGER protections against and consequences for rape than the ones we live in today. 

Accounts from Vikings’ contemporaries recount a lot of raiding, but not a single case of rape. Viking law didn’t treat rape as a property crime, and the penalty for it was outlawry, which was essentially a death sentence. Medieval English law prescribed that rapists be castrated and blinded. And the sagas contain vanishingly few references to rape (and violence against women is usually followed with comeuppance–often death–for the perpetrator). 

TL;DR: History wasn’t one giant rape-fest, and in fact, members of the cultures high fantasy is usually based on may have actually been more disapproving of rape than we are today (imagine trying to pass a bill making rape a capital offense today!). 

These writers include rape because they like writing about rape, not because history dictates it.