And, As Always...

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.

[alacerlucifer]

[electricbreeze]

Schrödinger’s boys

[klubbhead]

FUCK

[alphahoennomega]

What about cracking open a cold milkshake

[crystalsoulslayer]

As we all know, the milkshake brings the boys to the yard. The presence of the boys is a prerequisite for the cracking open of a cold one, but cold ones do not have any inherent boy-attracting abilities. Milkshakes, however, do. All else being equal, the boys would proceed to the milkshake yard. While it is possible to announce the presence of cold ones in the hope of attracting some boys, the pull of the milkshake is much more powerful by comparison.

[6qubed]

mind you, all of this nonsense hinges on whether or not the boys are back in town

[myeclecticdream09]

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

[cubanpercy]

[what-a-catch-donkey-deactivated]

[lotrlocked]

[rinasaurusrex]

[andthosearesmalleragents]

[pettycentral]

[homoslovenc]

not even God can predict this ending

[somefagonyourdash]

OMFGGGGG

[dovne]

[astrocyte-deactivated20171202]

“are you wearing the-”

“the chanel boots? yeah i am”

[edwaddd-deactivated20141015]

*phone rings* “hello” “hi! is your refrigerator running” “yes it is” “mine is as well! can’t wait to see your fridge at the race tomorrow”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god

she was a child

she was a child trapped in a legendarily abusive studio contract where she was being pumped full of drugs and sexually abused by producers

what is the point? “think about this the next time you watch the wizard of oz”? and do what? this tweet is so pointless

not for nothing but she was also a lifelong advocate of the civil rights movement and held a whole press conference to denounce white supremacist terrorism after the 16th street baptist church bombing

there are politicians who did blackface in office right now

judy garland has been dead for 50 slutty, slutty years

[thehours2002]

If you want to use this information to actually learn about minstrelsy I would recommend the chapter “Past Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stage” from Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. Gottschild covers the Africanist dance influence in minstrelsy, the re-appropriation of and resistance in minstrelsy by Black performers, the legacy of minstrelsy, and much more.

In a similar vein I would also recommend the Marlon Riggs documentaries Ethnic Notions, which covers anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement, and Color Adjustment, which covers the representation of African Americans on television from its advent through the 1990s.

You’re not going to raise your consciousness by watching The Wizard of Oz and feeling bad that Judy Garland did blackface (in not just Everybody Sing, but also Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway, for the record) because she was a minor under the thumb of her abusive stage mother and legally obligated to perform in these films because of her contract with MGM. Engage with the work of Black activists on the subject instead and think about or criticize how the stereotypes from minstrel performances still manifest in popular culture today in different forms.

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

this isn’t showing up in my replies because of the links so i’m boosting it, tumblr user thehours2002 is smart and thoughtful as always

[reactionary-bot]

sad but true: it doesn’t matter if people die as a result, opening a sports-themed bar & grill is too important

[deeby]

august 11, 2018

[socialdistancing]

[hellolovelyscientist]

can’t hid these in the tags, because this is all true

#It is precisely the same thing America says about guns#too bad so sad#some of you are gonna die#healthcare same thing#social security same thing#i’m so disappointed by my country

[mahboi]

[christineebersole]

i am shaken by how viscerally unsettling i find this set of images like wtf guys

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

[blackness-by-your-side]

my utopia

[gentlyepigrams-deactivated20180]

The drag queen from this photo has spoken up about the photo.

I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.

[theroguefeminist]

The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”

[counterpunches]

the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”

[a-star-in-the-night]

When Gus the Theatre Cat ends and you hear the music start up for Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat

[omghotmemes]

Google Earth is Amazing

[kingscrown666]

Wait for it…

[hereisisa]

everytime. i laugh like an idiot everytime

[thedreamyperidot]

@unnaturaldecay

[medoisa]

this is a lot funnier when u know that this is the place where julius caesar got stabbed. its a cat sanctury

[omghotmemes]

This horse is a great reminder that our generation did not invent shitposting, it merely adapted it to another form

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ipsumi]

sir you are SO close to getting the point. you can do it, I believe in you!

[twitblr]

[sistertaxon]