Color and Light

Opera, Sondheim, TV, movies, adorable things, and Feminism

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[notabadday]

“average superhero gets 3 films a day” factoid actualy just statistical error. average superhero gets 0 films per year. Spiderman Georg, who lives in a cave & gets over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[trinklied]

[senatorgana]

top five john boyega #looks?

omg yes 

in no particular order:

1. purple on purple quilted joy

2. the #iconic premiere look i’m not even gonna try to be funny what a #look

3. the GQ aesthetic blue steel

4. casual v neck of fucking death

5. hAT

honorable mention: this nonsense

[skipinouterspace]

Where were you when the most important news broke

[palimadar]

Super-cute backstage interview with Diana Damrau conducted by Renee Fleming at intermission of the HD Live performance of Rigoletto at the Met, 2013. Picture is out of focus but I just love the way Diana picks up her son and tries to make him say hello to his grandparents… adorbs

[memelovingbot]

if tumblr is so accepting, why is it that i, a bird school *flickers lights on and off* welcome to hell!!! welcome to hell!!!

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

Why even meme anymore when this bot is producing better shit than I ever could

[sam-keeper]

Meme farmers were right to be suspicious of memedustrialization. Now robots have taken our jobs and we can’t feed our families

I’m joining the lolddites

[gideonseymours]

miscommunication as a plot device makes me angry

if you just talked to each other but no

[squirrelstone]

on the one hand i agree with this but on the other hand one of my coworkers rented an alpaca from a petting zoo and brought it to work because my boss said she wanted an alpaca sweater but the guy didn’t hear her say sweater and didn’t want to upset her by asking why the fuck she’d want an alpaca

[weloveshortvideos]

This dog sucks at fetch

[queenotrera]

History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

[terpsikeraunos]

because being a linguist, fleet commander, and powerful ruler doesn’t matter, only her looks

[destroymales-deactivated2023032]

Her Arab contemporaries raved about her being very interested and knowledgeable in the sciences.

She completely reformed the system in Alexandria, and Egypt at large; making it much more of a functional powerhouse. 

She did what 300 years of her ancestors couldn’t: Managed to get the support of both the Greek AND Egyptian subjects she ruled.

There is a sculpture that has been identified as her, through comparisons to coins minted under her rule, that proves beyond a doubt that she wasn’t particularly beautiful.

It isn’t that people just happen to believe it by mistake. Rome was fucking terrified of her and painted her as a vapid, scheming, beautiful, sex obsessed queen to discredit her to their people. She was a threat, and that was how they handled it. The unfortunate thing is that that is the most surviving record of her. A smear campaign against one of the smartest, most powerful women in human history. 

[straightwhiteboystexting]

boxedwinemom

[hannahitsapalindrome]

[ape-of-naples]

if we keep accusing ppl of being the zodiac killer eventually well get it right

[loreofcardigan]

maybe the real zodiac killer is the friends we made along the way

[jawnbaeyega]

[ultimasheir]

mark hamill you absolute fucker

[copperhamster]

He learned the Force from a little green troll, what do you expect?

[tinwhistlings]

More for Literary Starbucks art month!

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[idontgym-deactivated20170122]

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[katrinageist]

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.  

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

[jumpingjacktrash]

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

[kelseyridge13]

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.

[calamitycons]

This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about “cultural appropriation.”

[okayilubuhbye-deactivated201611]

This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!

[muslimmingle]