contrasting reality

when the world tells you that you are ugly, unimportant, or less than, remember that the world is corrupt and not to be trusted. when you see our world plagued with war, famine, disease, and injustice, remember there is more to life than this. but never forget, that you are here for a reason: to make this world a better place. it can be through activism, science, kindness, or sharing a little joy. I hope this blog will help with that:)

[maaarine]

“Do you ever get over having to come out?” (x)

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

MY HEART

[aimmyarrowshigh]

#if this doesn’t hammer home that coming out is a constant thing i don’t know what will#but also #my heart is in bloom (via @fille-lioncelle)

[christosanesti]

i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say ‘london has fallen’ what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??

[pulchrabelle]

We have states bigger than your entire country

[zerotheduke]

ur largest city

london

[afrogwitch]

Oh…. honey….honey no

[nickyvmlp]

I’m about to blow everyone’s got damn mind.

Not a metropolitan area, just fucking Jacksonville.

[cannedcream]

[ajarfullofjoy]

11/5/17 church shooting

I know I haven't been around for awhile, but I've got something to say. This church shooting in Texas literally had me in tears today. I haven't cried over a shooting or terrorist attack in a long time. I've just felt a sense of emptiness after these types of incidents. But today, I think I started crying because everything has added up. Sad doesn't seem to describe how I feel. Not empty this time either. I feel full of a weight that had built up over years of shootings, attacks, active shooters drills at school and preparing for a drill at the preschool I work at. And the pain from the knowledge that nothing will be done to stop this from happening again. All I can do is pray. Pray for the victims. Pray for the church and town. Pray that God will intercede with people to stop them from doing things like this in the future. What else can I do?

God help us.

[perhapsarat]

Something that really bothers me about people’s hatred towards Ron is that unless you grew up really poor you have no idea what it’s like and how much it affects you. Especially if you grow up poor surrounded by rich friends. The jealousy seriously eats you alive and the way Ron acted was perfectly understandable. 

[take-my-eeveelution]

Over twenty years later, I’ll still never forget the day one of my classmates told me to just ask my parents for more money, as though I was literally too thick to work out the obvious solution. Because in her world, it was that simple. Or the day my teacher gave me an ‘are you even trying for a believable lie’? look when I had to tell him my parents couldn’t afford to send me on a low-cost excursion. Or how for an entire school year, I had to wear a school uniform skirt so small it left angry marks on my waist every day, because my mother begged me to make it last just one more year. The day everyone thought it was hilarious to ruin my pencil case, and even more hilarious that I was so upset and claimed that my parents would be furious with me - LOL, that silly girl! They’ll just buy her a new one, it’s not that difficult! (Spoiler, they couldn’t and it was). And yeah, I had my fair share of second-hand underwear too, like another character who grew up in poverty. The utter shock I felt when I realized other families not only had air conditioning, but also used it regularly… the jealousy I felt when everyone else had nice formal wear and I had whatever my parents could manage to get… the list goes on and on. And that’s on top of a bunch of other struggles and disadvantages I had.

But to hear Ron critics talk, he was the worst person alive if he ever even dared to want nice things for himself instead of just nobly being happy other people had them. ‘Why is everything I own rubbish?’ is not a permissible attitude, not even for a moment.

[rosalui]

I see a lot of people making fun/disapproving of how Ron is always stuffing his face with food and it INFURIATES ME. When you grow up fucking poor you learn to take advantage of free food when you have it. Asshats.

[ron-is-awesome-sauce]

Also does anyone realize the sheer fortitude Ron had to have to invite Harry over to his house!?

I could not invite my better off friends over to my house because things were literally falling apart inside of it and my family didn’t have the means to fix it and it ate me up inside to not be able to have my best friend over to my house when I spent the better half of my teenage life sleeping over at her house because my parents and I didn’t want her to see how rundown the inside of our home was.

Ron was so nervous about what Harry would say about his house and was embrassed by the state of it but he saw Harry needed somewhere to stay and he opened up his home to him. People who have always been well off wouldn’t understand the magnitude of that action.

Ron is a damn treasure and anyone who hates him because of his jealousy can’t understand the deeper meaning behind it.

[trashythingsgohere]

Those Jorts make it though

[rainy-days-will-never-end-deact]

[meatswitch-deactivated20231107]

Uhhhh lest we forget

[crisiskode]

You can read the shirt perfectly too and if you think her face didn’t make this image 100000% better you’re fucking wrong

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

good ending

[snowydragons]

Moana + Parallels (Part 1)

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

[becomingonewithmybed]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via DaliKwesha)

[alicentsgf]

theres so many things wrong here i want to Scream hollywood is such a fuckjng mess

[alicentsgf]

you all know why lord of the flies was written about little boys? golding very specifically believed that 1) he was not qualified to write about little girls as he had never experienced being one 2) he did not believe that the same events would transpire if it had been girls because he thought boys behaviour more likely to paint a picture of (male dominated) society and its problems. you can’t keep a female version of the story ‘faithful’ to the book because then it would be unfaithful to what the author was originally trying to portray. why dont you go and spit on goldings grave while you’re at it too.

[steadfast-deactivated20191017]

We read Lord of the Flies in my sophomore year of high school, and I wrote an all-female version where all the girls worked together to build their own little society, and they eventually signal for help and they all get rescued because they weren’t actively trying to murder anyone.

[a-taller-tale]

Every time Lord of the Flies comes up, and what the story would look like with a female cast, I have to recommend Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. 

Teen beauty queens competing for Miss Teen Dream are stranded on a deserted island. You’d think they’d tear each other to pieces, but this crew, including a diverse cast, a trans girl, and girls falling in love, build each other up to survive. They use skills and hobbies they cultivated to place in pageants that might look good on college application to figure out how to get themselves out of this mess and get a little vengeance too. It’s hilarious and triumphant and gives me those “Miss Congeniality” feels. I highly recommend. 

I wish they’d make a movie of this instead of whatever they’re cooking up above.

[transgenderhelp]

I’ve read Beauty Queens! It’s a good read 

[full-time-n8ive-deactivated2017]

Alaskan teen traumatised after getting death threats for killing a huge whale

An Alaskan teen was lauded for his hunting prowess in catching a gigantic 200-year-old whale to feed his entire village, but is now traumatised after getting death threats for killing it. When Chris Agra Apassingok, 16, harpooned the 17-metre bowhead whale in April, his family and neighbours on remote St Lawrence island celebrated the occasion as his rite of passage. Proud of his achievement, his family shared photos on social media of the mammoth carcass being sliced up for distribution to the tiny village where subsistence hunting on land and sea keeps them alive.

[the-yaadihla-girls]

Animal rights activist keep your colonial ethics off of our children. Look at yourself and your own complicit-ness in policies that are genocidal and problematic. 

[worldohworld-deactivated2019032]

He literally fed his whole village. Alaska is known for having very high food prices and he provided for his village. I’m proud of him.

[karnythia]

I’m proud of him too. Also bowheads aren’t endangered. At all. Welcome to ethical sources of food.

[onlyblackgirl]

White people.

[cartnsncreal]

Everyone in America should rightly be pissed about this! Out-of-control cops violating our civil liberties w/ impunity

[jaimields]

I saw someone’s Facebook response saying “if they’ll do this to a nurse they’ll do it to anyone” and all I can think is that this has been happening to black and brown people continuously all over the country. We have the same videos showing wrongful arrests and excessive force. We’ve been telling y'all that these officers and the system is trash!

[onlyblackgirl]

They attacking white women now so america’s going to start paying attention. Also want to point out that even tho she’s white, it’s literally ONLY black people who have been bringing attention to this case. Where all lives matter at?

[rooish]

a small child at the mall told me i looked like ‘a girl who likes circles’ and gave me a nickel today 

[xviistars]

this sounds like someone a pokemon NPC would say before handing you a stone or some shit

[justbadpuns]

What did the cell say to his sister when she stepped on his foot? Mitosis.

[memewhore]

[yellowjuice-deactivated20190512]

[ayemuhhfucka]

this is great 😂

[the-s-p-l]

Some of your favorite movie SFX and how they were inspired

[not-quite-human-enough]

I need to find a foley artist so I can study their brain. It must be a wonderful state of mind.

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

tag yourself I’m (except in the 2009 film, it’s the sound of a Russian train’s toilet flushing)