distractions &/or enchantments

Ariane, live in Singapore ... Australian/Canadian but raised in Tokyo and Singapore.

[avatarstateyipyip]

gps: pronounces one (1) street name wrong

every person in the car:

[mysharona1987]

[liberalsarecool]

Republican misogyny on display. Their criticisms are mindless.

[mysharona1987]

[musicalluna]

you know what would be great?

if a year or two down the road, fury discovers that it’s STEVE who’s the huge pain in his ass, not tony.

tony’s getting his shit together and mellowing out and, sure, he sasses fury and the government every so often, but most of his real arguing happens with steve

but steve is a nightmare. yeah, he's polite and respectful–if he agrees with you. if he disagrees, he’ll crawl up your ass and set up camp, and he can usually talk the other avengers around to his side. he snaps at the paparazzi and threatens them. he gets in brawls at bars every single time he goes out. he gets in arguments with people on social media and always winds up calling out the hosts of the television programs he appears on, the self-righteous son of a bitch

he comes out as bisexual and pretty much does everything in his power to obliterate the public perception that he’s in any way repressed or old fashioned. one time he even gets in a fight with the president at the goddamned White House State Dinner because of an offhanded comment he makes about women’s pay being equal already

steve’s more trouble than all the other avengers combined.

[nativenews]

[liberalsarecool]

Nazi is term of endearment in the Right Wing.

[deanoru]

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

I love this

[bougiebussy]

Eh, while it’s great that these characters are independent, something about all these princesses of color not finding love at the end of their movies rubs me the wrong way. Just like how Disney patted itself on the back for a black princess but she was Frogger damn near the whole movie.

[esinahs-deactivated20180730]

And it would’ve been a great opportunity to cast moc in romantic roles from that culture :/

[itsmikuisa]

^^^ I’m so conflicted because yes, always having a love interest is annoying but poc never get to have a love interest

[ororomunroedontpullout]

Having the princesses of color not find love reinforces the idea that we have to strong and independent and aren’t needing of any support

But I do like it because it deviates from the norm

[ida-b-wells-b-whippin-yo-ass-de]

It might be cool if they had dudes in the movie who were interested and they had the princesses be like, “naw, I got shit to do, but maybe later!”

[seekingwillow]

Cause then it would obviously be a choice, instead of a worldstate that WoC don’t get hetero love (I’m not even gonna wish for queer love).

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

This is actually a good example of the need for intersectional feminism.

 it is very common that white girl characters have love interests and finding love be the plot line and basis for all their stories and interactions.

It is uncommon for a girl character of color to be seen as a potential love interest, in need of defense by a male character and/or support from a male character full stop.

This is because of the history of social devaluation of woc and infantilization of white women.

Thusly:

 it is subversive for white female characters to not have love interests for once and to focus on strength outside of male attention.

while at the same time 

is it subversive for woc to be love interests and treated with care and reverence and with support in relationships on screen. 

The “norms” for two groups of women are different based on the historical interaction both groups have had to suffer under patriarchal and sexist/racist media. 

This is why its okay to feel hurt and roll your eyes when you see people screaming about how michonne from the walking dead “dont need no man” because she’s too “strong” to want to be desired and cared for,  while at the same time feel hurt and roll your eyes when Black Widow is suddenly too helpless to get herself free from a basic ass cage and needs to be rescued by her randomly inserted love interest. 

@drwhothefuckyouthinkyoutalkinto @itsmikuisa @bougiebussy (the others dont have tagging on i dont think)

[wearywanderer]

This is low key racist. Because they gave us decades of white girls falling in love until everyone got sick of it. And when they started creating princesses of color suddenly none of them want love? I guess it’s so easy now to create ‘independent’ princesses because they don’t think women of color deserve love anyway. Why not appease the white girls while reinforcing this stereotype, kill two birds with one stone!

[newgodss-deactivated20230701]

pikachu being a cop means he’s not allowed at pride

[thebigblackwolfe]

Pikachu is a private investigator not a cop and thus allowed at pride and also was there when Marsha P Johnson threw the first brick at Stonewall so don’t you ever disrespect him for a Tumblr post again

[ghost-egggs]

[keybladesoras]

Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu

[dollsahoy]

Here’s the full trailer.

Wut.

[bogleech]

I wasn’t even a little kid for pokemon and the little kid in me is jumping up and down about this ridiculous super-american cg pokemon comedy.

[bunjywunjy]

oh my god this looks like SO MUCH FUN

[rosslynpaladin]

This could be really fun or really bad. And even if it’s horrible…. I smell Instant Cult Classic here.

[deathcarpets-deactivated2019042]

*republicans flip gender switch on and off* welcome to hell! welcome to hell!

[nursemchurt]

[holdnarrytight]

thanks

[would-you-b-so-k-ind-deactivate]

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day

[sliceosunshine]

This was Ms. Roem’s response:

(x)

[kayvsworld]

my body, tearfully: when sleep???

me: my dude we just woke up!! It’s time for wakefulness and doing things and Productivity

my body, weeping: but???? when sleep?????

[whitepeopletwitter]

[straightboyfriend]

[boymercuryx]

[amazoogle]

[thatssomanda]

My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.

[auntytimblr-deactivated20150403]

every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post

[gallusrostromegalus]

1.  If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.

2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:

[zillyirk32]

THIS IS GOLD

[aprillikesthings]

oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet

[artikgato]

When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT

STILL FUNNY

[ruelukas22]

The bell

The last question

The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time

It’s all beautiful

It’s all

So beautiful

[explorerrowan]

I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.

[ufocafe]

so i asked a friend what was up and she replied with this and i feel like i’m in an episode of the twilight zone

[hellotailor]

just submitted my review and: lol. 

[hellotailor]

“Fans of the romantic/sexual subtext of the comics will most likely be satisfied. While Venom is low on body horror, it offers a different but equally kinky take on Venom and Eddie’s partnership, with Eddie masochistically sticking around for Venom’s insults, orders, and (eventually) supportive reassurances. It’s a Jekyll-and-Hyde story where Jekyll and Hyde realize they’re actually into each other. ” – My review

[fuckyesfeminist]

Average size mannequin with average size woman.

[powertripenterprises]

The problem, in one picture.

[doshicryptid]

I never realized until seeing this picture that my interpretation of an average size woman has become REALLY SKEWED oh my god I wanna cry

[fucknosexistcostumes]

This reminds me of something Portia de Rossi said in an interview. When she was anorexic she would compare her measurements to that of a mannequin: “It occurred to me to measure the mannequins and to measure myself against them and try to be as small as them, and believe it or not, I don’t think I ever was. That just shows you how crazy these images are that we’re given as women.” At her lowest weight she was 82 pounds.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i gave my sister $100 for her bday, but i gave it to her in $1 bills that i folded into origami. so that’s how she pays for delivery food & now the pizza girl thinks she’s a stripper

[cornposting]

You’re really good at origami holy sh

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i learned it specifically to make these for this exact situation 

[realpersonscifi]

Aren’t you the same bitch that gave your sister $100 dollars in nickels?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

same bitch