consérvame en formol

as ordinary as can be

[emmaharwoods]

you can click on this button once daily to help palestine and support other causes in the middle east for free. it takes literally 5 seconds and could help save lives so please take the time to click and share this link.

[grelliam]

#oh it raises money thru ad revenue and ur click confirms the value to advertisers. neat

[corvuscorax77]

You mean to tell me that “falling in love” and “fawning panic response” are not the same thing?

Because that’s most-certainly how I’m wired.

Le SIGH

Fawn Response: The Trauma Survival Pattern That’s Mistaken for Kindness | CPTSDfoundation.org

[bodyhate]

Fuck this hits close to home

[petersonreviews]

Bill Paxton in a promotional photograph for Near Dark, 1987

[bodyhate]

I so need to watch this movie

[bodyhate]

Once again, I was trying to fix my hair, the guard fell off while doing it and had to buzz it all short as hell

[alexiscambremer]

[bodyhate]

And now I should reblog that nude of the hot guy so he would notice me and we'd become mutuals and reblog each other's pics and I would feel included. But I won't

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[assortedinsanities]

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

[about-faces]

[alex51324]

reblogging for Black History Month!

[bodyhate]

La cremada del dimoni

[bloodwillrain]

Joanna Cassidy as Zhora in Blade Runner, 1982.

[bodyhate]

Always reblog

[childlost1313]

Reflections of light ~

[ironpour]

i am i am i am i am

[rosieandthemoon]

In Tbilisi

[bodyhate]

Kelela - Idea 1

[bodyhate]

The cleaners from Venus - the mercury girl

[bodyhate]

PJ Harvey, Tim Phillips - Love will tear us apart

[bodyhate]

The other day I was at the beach and there were some people filming something and someone had dropped their phone and it had gone in between the rocks, which is something I'm always afraid may happen (they were able to retrieve it, there was a lot of cheer).

Simultaneously, the seagulls were going crazy trying to catch some big fish (I think) from the water. I don't think they succeeded.

It had been super sunny all morning and it got cloudy when I got to the beach.

It all felt strange.

[bodyhate]

Beharie - Adore (Official Music Video)

Behaire - Adore