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[pikkulaku]

Imagine being a kid in school. Your teacher comes up with an idea for class picture. Every student will draw pictures of their friends.

Everyone starts drawing enthusiasticly, and can’t wait to see what they look like in the drawings. When pictures are ready you notice that popular students have more pictures than rest, but nobody has done a drawing of you. The teacher notices that too, and asks if someone would do your picture. To your horror the class clown takes the job, and comes up with a caricature of you. Others are laughing, but you’re not. You feel awful. The teacher notices that. and asks again someone to do a drawing of you. One of the ‘good students’ starts drawing, but the result is forced. It’s just a drawing of a generic child wearing a shirt of same color as you a wearing. There’s no spirit, no soul in it. You start sensing that the class is geting frustrated with you. They want to be done with this. You ask quietly the teacher if you could do a drawing yourself.

After school your classmates confront you. Why did you have to make such a big deal out of it? The first picture was funny. The second picture was just fine! The drawing you did yourself wasn’t right, do you think you are that good-looking? There were other kids who got only one or two pictures of themselves. Who are you to demand special treatment? Maybe there would have been a picture of you if you weren’t such annoying baby, nobody likes you anyway, and nobody’s going to if you keep on being like that, you don’t deserve a drawing!

This could be story of bullying, but it’s also about how I see portraying LGBTQ+-people and PoC in mainstream entertainment.

Thanks to Fandoms and Feminism for inspiration!

[fandomsandfeminism]

This is a great metaphor. 

[vicepresidentgay]

This is the most accurate fucking post I’ve ever seen in my life oh my god.

[spiritscraft-deactivated2025031]

weeping

[naamahdarling]

This is incredible. A perfect metaphor. And it really points out how fucking childish it is to insist that representation does not matter.

[phantomrose96]

I read Hamlet back in high school and to this day my absolute favorite thing about it was when Guildenstern was trying to fool Hamlet into doing something or other and Hamlet’s savvy to it but rather than saying “you’re lying and trying to trick me” instead Hamlet outta nowhere whips out this flute and tells Guildenstern to play it.

And Guildenstern is all “I dont know how to play a flute, my lord”

And Hamlet takes a dramatic pause before he absolutely ruins Guildenstern with, “Well thats funny considering you thought you could play me”

[phantomrose96]

this post sounds like im exaggerating but im not it’s straight up canon

[cloudfreed]

YOU THINK IM EASIER TO PLAY THAN A FLUTE???

[alexthedoctor]

me: *about to send someone a message*

myself: hey

me: ? hey what's

myself: if they wanted to have any kind of contact w/ you they would have initiated it.

me: alright, neat, neat concept, but communication is actually a two-way street so

myself: they have no desire to speak to you and never have any desire to speak to you, ever. they never think of you. they will never think of you, at all, ever, even in passing. you are nothing.

me, tossing my phone out the window: alright! neat! awesome! fantastic!

[just-shower-thoughts]

The recommended age to have an Ouija board is 8+ years old. So, you need to be 21 to drink alcohol and 8 to summon the devil.

[orriculum]

Laws are picky about what sort of spirits you’re allowed to deal with.

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

wallace and grallace

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

[targuzzler-deactivated20180224]

@tripropellant @paeinovis

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

[setheverman]

don’t worry, you’re still in the “early life” part of your wikipedia page

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

[tastefullyoffensive]

[93gal-deactivated20131124]

Legitness!!

[biinarykid]

i enjoy how they didnt over sexualize their prince costumes. like esp with jasmine. she couldve totally been in aladdin’s vest, but nope. fully clothed. thanks. 

[captainthief]

laughing because Mulan looks the same

[wolfenartistofhetastuck-blog]

things i loved more then i expected, this

[al-the-stuff-i-like]

this is honestly one of my favorite posts ever

[cana-mochi]

Meanwhile the Princes:

[postingwhileblack]

And for the record, Bill Nye didn’t say that “gender is determined by your chromosomes”. He was talking about genes that are stored in part of our cells - chromosomes. He just explained that they contain all of the genetic information and all the instructions you need to make a person. So the first comparison was fake and was supposed to vilify the scientist guy and liberals. No such luck.

However, no doubt Bill Nye has developed his knowledge over the years and that’s how real science work! 

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

Five seconds earlier he literally said “We used to think gender and sex were synonymous”

[winosaur]

BILL BILL BILL BILL

[bloodqueenmsk-deactivated201710]

That face when transphobes don’t know that science evolves

[theredpelican]

we’re literally floating on a tiny planet in fucking space why are we surrounded by hatred and misery. why can’t everyone just calm the fuck down and lay on some grass. the sun is a GIANT BURNING ORB why does money exist. fuck everything

[hellokittyismyspiritanimal]

[ar-mah]

[thetomska]

[source]

[bravelittlepixel]

[sophaea]

[sassafrasjungle]

#the poison#the poison for kuzco#the poison chosen especially to kill kuzco#kuzco’s poison#that poison

[forgondor]

If anyone is interested and confused by the French presidential elections, which is a total disaster, I found this cool thread on Twitter More info about the candidates under the cut

Keep reading

[guerrillawar]

[shitpost-senpai]

ding dong you are wrong

[unclebeanbag]

Yep, they can. 

[joosh-actual-deactivated2018092]

[androginking]

lol full offense but stop policing how frequently bisexuals date either genders. just cause i’ve dated 5 girls back to back doesn’t make me a lesbian, just like another bisexual woman who has dated 5 men back to back doesn’t make her straight. being bisexual means the person has the potential to be attracted to more than one gender and that’s it. what they do with it is their business so just let us live for crying out loud let us live.

[ultramaga]

“ 5 girls back to back doesn’t make me a lesbian “ Kinda makes it likely that you are more into girls than guys tho’. Guys are much more available as partners for women unless they are quite unattractive. But let’s imagine it was exactly equal that you would select a girl or a guy - that their sex genuinely was irrelevant, and that there was no difference in availability. I’m rusty at maths, but from memory, the chance it’s coincidence is (1/(2^5)) *100% = (1/32) *100% =  0.03125  *100% =3.125% Feel free to correct my maths - it’s been about 35 years now since i did probability. But if i was a betting man - i’m going to say my money is going to be on a woman for your next partner. Maybe you are a lesbian, and maybe dudes need to know that so they don’t get hurt? Just a thought.

[androginking]

hoooooomygodddhooomyygodddhoooooooomygodddlmaaaaaaooooooooooooooooo

[1ivoryandsalt1]

here’s a passive aggressive thing I made to put on FA