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where a grad student becomes a supervillain for extra credit since their doctoral committee is lowkey three of the city’s supervillains. and they meet the hero who is cute and charming and idealistic. and damn, extra credit is so not worth this. but damn, grad school is expensive and the job market is competitive

“there’s good in you”

“i really think all that’s in me at this point is ramen, red bull and spite”

#all the things

firelord-frowny

It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments.

Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society?

You literally can’t.

The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle.

It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon.

I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue.

sopphistries-deactivated2016080

God bless this post this pisses me off so much Also this hyper-individualist shift of responsibility is largely an American thing and consumerism is framed as a solution- e.g., buy more shit that’s sustainable! That’ll fix the problem (buy a new, green water bottle! buy a new, green car! buy a new, green whatever-the-fuck that’ll just ultimately produce more waste)!

crybabyhellbutch

I took a course in sustainable engineering.

The professor mentioned that even if every private individual in the world were to conserve resources and the environment the ol’ Jimmy Carter way- by turning down the thermostat, recycling your glass and plastics and metals, cut down on luxuries, take shorter showers, etc., it would only get us 10% of the way to where we need to be in order to avoid global catastrophic climate change.

The vast majority of freshwater use is from industry and agriculture. http://www.worldometers.info/water/

The vast majority of CO2 emissions is from industrial and electrical generation sites and associated vehicles. http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html

Private individuals hardly make a dent, even in ideal conditions.

#capitalism #environment

thebasehrbi-blog

A lot of people like to explain consent in sexual encounters as “No means no.” This is true, but doesn’t capture as many crucial parts of happy fun sex and experiences as “Yes means yes!” Consent should always be informed and enthusiastic, never coerced, and you and your partner should be looking for consent continuously. Stay safe, stay happy, and have fun!

sexetc

Do you know what consent looks like?

#consent

kaibacorpkingmoved-blog-deactiv

adulthood is just an endless stream of phone calls you don’t want to make but have to

#ergh....#how to adult

wnq-writers

Perhaps the saddest writers are the ones writing in a foreign language, because they purposefully choose to limit themselves. They let their emotions spill out in limited capacity because they have to, they can’t write in their native language. They just can’t- it would crush them down. Native is cruel, it is life, something you experience your being through. They would feel their emotions, feel them in their bones and soul. That would be too much.

existpause (via wnq-writers)

#writing

iu

other ppl on tumblr: have cliques groupchats @ each other all the time

me: lonely hermit talks to myself reblogs memes

#accurate

chrisdornerfanclub

Let’s not ignore that the feminist (liberal and radical) efforts to universalize (white) womanhood has only alienated and isolated Black Women and other Women of Color from those feminist spaces. Anytime anyone proclaims that there is a universal womanhood based in CASAB you end up erasing the complexities of gendered/sexed violence that inherently places anyone who isn’t white outside of the gendered politics you have around the female subject, outside of the framework you’ve built or you attempt to subsume them into it without recognizing other forms of violence.

Like, Maria Lugones teaches us that sexual dimorphic theories of CASAB has always been a white thing. Only white women’s relationships to white men was sexually dimorphic. Colonizers and slavers and imperialists did not see Black and Indigenous peoples as being sexually dimorphic, but mutilated, twisted, outside of the realm of the white sexed body, more feminine/masculine, etc. This means sex/gender does not have a biological or CASAB basis since not everyone with a similar body or assigned sex at birth is placed within gendered hierarchies in the same way. The lie of universal womanhood based on CASAB is exactly that, a lie.

It’s a lie that white feminists propagate for their own agenda RE: gender politics and the female subject. It’s always been to the detriment of women who weren’t white. This ‘universal womanhood’ politics also tends to come with a lot of transhistoricism. The whole basis of “patriarchy/transmisogyny is the original oppression with no origin or end” not only is a flawed way of looking at (trans)misogyny because we can say that gender has not always existed and neither have trans women. there have been things that look like gender or look like trans women but they exist in contexts so radically different from ours that at some level we’re projecting onto the past modern dynamics of transmisogyny that only really came into existence in the last 60 years.

The politics of these white women is just wrong and racist.

#intersectionality #feminism

sheismysquishy

Anxiety is panicking about being late and then sitting in the parking lot for 20 minutes because you are so early

#anxiety

healthycie

21 Energy-boosting breakfast toasts (link)

#things to like #food #yummy

angeldelatierra-deactivated2016

*feels deeply but cannot explain*

#basically

washingtonpost

Today on our @washingtonpost Snapchat story: “What is privilege?” Check it out! (And read more here.)

#white privilege #privilege

maaarine

“15 Men React To The Idea Of Taking Their Wife’s Last Name After Marriage”

virginiaisforhaters

Men believe the family is their domain but when it comes to watching the children or doing chores suddenly it’s not their responsibility

#misogyny #family #This is ridiculous

greelin

here’s a concept: me, riding your ceiling fan like a gargoyle. you, smacking me with a broom. both of us are yelling

#things to like

gattsu

gay men who don’t acknowledge trans men as actual men

gattsu

lesbians who don’t acknowledge trans women as actual women

gattsu

transphobia in the queer community

gattsu

transphobia

#lgbtqiap #transphobia

bunney

*white parent voice* i cant believe kanye and kim named their baby North West!! thats ridiculous!! oh no, its almost 4:30, i need to pick up my kids Mackaylikiah and Ashleighyie from their water polo practice!

blonded004

kyliesparks27-deactivated201810

I always reblog this post so fucking fast every time it comes on my dash my phone shuts down the tumblr app and reboots

imericschneider

McKarty 64 is my favorite Mario Kart game.

stevetomjohn

My favorite part is that the blog post the photo was taken from detailed this mother’s decision-making process and chose this name because her husband saw it on a road sign on the way home

She named her daughter after a road sign

a road sign

characterlimit

proletarianprincess

there was a girl at my school called “zona” cause he parents went on holiday to spain and saw it and thought it was a nice name. IT LITERALLY MEANS ZONE