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university is just *makes appointment* *fills water bottle* *updates google calendar* *buys shitty campus food* *answers emails* *makes another appointment* *stares at review page for thirty minutes* *laptop battery dies* *eats all your snacks as soon as you get to the library* *more emails* *walk behind slow people*

#and you pay 50k to do it

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A couple Wonder Woman outfits c:

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#uh wicked

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my loves 😍✨

#beautiful!#how do u always draw exactly the subjects i wanna see #incredible

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this probably won’t get any notes since i’m such a tiny account but if you want to take this quiz you can find it here ! after pulling an all-nighter crying over tsoa, i created this because i don’t think i’ve seen this type of personality test floating around before! hopefully it’s not too inaccurate since i’m not an expert on the subject. this was inspired by the pottermore sorting quizzes here and the greek godly parent quiz here

feel free to tag what you got if you finish it! mine is the realist

if you don’t want to take the quiz but you still want to know, the possible outcomes were:

the chosen one: authentic, brave, bold, intuitive, natural, passionate, stubborn

the realist: practical, understanding, honest, brutal, logical, creator, intelligent, sensible, down-to-earth, reasonable

the doppelgänger: manipulative, self deprecating, intelligent, knowledgable, ambiguous, caring

the master: determined, obsessive, powerful, charismatic, confident, rash, challenging

the defender: loyal, selfless, guardian, youthful, honest, unguarded, courageous, basically a gryffindor

the warrior: purposeful, adaptable, loyal, agressive, mindful, decisive, skillful, isolated, destroyer

#defender

wickedlymad

An open letter to the girl who saved me today

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wickedlymad:

When I went into the store today after work, I had decided I was going to be brave. I had a pretty good day, and I wanted to reward myself with something I’d been eyeing for quite some time. Mens underwear.

I won’t lie, I stalled quite a bit before I slunk over to the mens underwear section, but eventually I wound up in the aisle looking over my various options. It was while I was trying to figure out what size I would be, that the man is all his socks and sandals glory came into the aisle. I barely had time to look up before he bellowed at me, “you fucking abomination”

I gaped like a fish while I tried to wrap my mind around the fact that yes, this was happening, and yes, he just yelled that at me. He said it again, and began to make his way towards me, very tall and very angry looking. All the clever things I wanted to say died in my throat and tears started pooling in my eyes.

Just as he was getting right up in my face, telling me about how there wasn’t a single god from any religion that would accept a piece of shit like me, you appeared at the end of the aisle. You ran towards us and put yourself between me and him like you weren’t a tiny 5 ft nothing. Then you stuck your finger in his face and told him to “shut the hole in his head that was spewing ignorance and hatred and get out because he wasn’t welcome here”. It was his turn to be the fish then, and before he could say another thing you shouted “GET THE FUCK AWAY” drawing the attention of shoppers who had been so conveniently hard of hearing before. He tucked tail and left.

You turned to me then, put the underwear I had dropped back in my hand and asked if I was okay. I was sobbing and could feel my face doing the ugly thing it does when I cry. I nodded, you asked me if there was anything else I wanted to look at in the mens section, I shook my head. You asked if I had anymore shopping to do. I huffed out that I wanted some bananas. You took my hand and lead me towards produce. You told me I was beautiful. You told me I would look so handsome in the underwear I picked. You helped me pick out bananas and told me my future was so bright and wonderful it was practically blinding.

You held my hand all the way to the cashier, and then outside. You asked me if I wanted a ride, I told you I’d like to walk, that I needed some time to cry. You stared at me very seriously, then hugged me so hard I could feel all me pieces coming back together. You said “I don’t even know who you are and I don’t care, I love you”

I cried all the way back home.

Thank you. Thank you for everything. For who you are, and for what you did. Plenty of other people passed by and did nothing, but you came in like a shining beacon and all I can say is thank you. You saved me when I was all alone. Thank you.

#important

commandergreeneyesmain

okay so ive completely changed everything @ everyone following this blog its gonna be basically unused from now on. Im leaving all my old posts for the memories and im a sentimental lil shit

anyway basically i love my second blog way more than this blog and would like to be able to reply to people and send asks with that blog but since i cant do that beCAUSE THE TUMBLR SYSTEM DOESNT LET YOU @staff 👀👀👀

I’ve decided to just turn this blog into an asking/replying blog for my main (but secondary) blog.

boy thats confusing but if you want to unfollow this blog i dont blame you and if you want to follow my blog which i love and cherish like my own child its @commandergreeneyes. thank you for sticking with me for all this time

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reminder to follow @commandergreeneyes and not this blog! :)

commandergreeneyesmain

okay so ive completely changed everything @ everyone following this blog its gonna be basically unused from now on. Im leaving all my old posts for the memories and im a sentimental lil shit

I’ve decided to just turn this blog into an asking/replying blog for my main (but secondary) blog.

commandergreeneyesmain

reminder to follow @commandergreeneyes and not this blog! :)

okay so ive completely changed everything @ everyone following this blog its gonna be basically unused from now on. Im leaving all my old posts for the memories and im a sentimental lil shit

I’ve decided to just turn this blog into an asking/replying blog for my main (but secondary) blog.

#lmao #boy bye

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YOU GUYS

saintdollyparton

I’m just gonna give it the realistic happy ending it deserves...

I don’t know about you guys, but I am a spiritual person. And once the whole City of Light fiasco is over and Lexa’s soul can finally go wherever it is it’s supposed to go (that is, assuming the City of LIght isn’t actually where your soul is supposed to go… idk what’s canon at this point), I imagine her telling Clarke before she leaves that she’ll wait for her. Not “May we meet again” but “We will meet again.” And then they kiss and have a heart-wrenching goodbye that leaves us all sobbing.

But then imagine… whenever it is that Clarke finally passes from this world… imagine her crossing over to the other side and she wakes up to see Lexa sitting there (with other people they both knew here on earth) and Lexa is smiling and she goes, “Clarke of the Sky People has honored us with her presence.” And Clarke runs to her beloved and they hold each other so tight because "maybe someday” just became “today” and today is the rest of eternity. And Wells, Anya, Jake, Costia… they’re all there too. And others will join eventually. Everyone is happy. The end.

But not really… because they all have forever. <3

#MY HEART IS HAPPY #THANK YOU RANDA

geralehane

If you don't get what #LGBTFansDeserveBetter is about, please read:

To anyone thinking we’re a bunch of whining obsessed fans who should get over a fictional character’s death and focus on ‘real-world’ issues:

- My ignorant male friend with an incredibly heteronormative mindset began not only tolerating, but actively supporting gays after watching Hannibal; he is an avid fan, and Hannibal/Will pairing made sense to him and ‘opened his eyes on a lot of things’, his words. He is as straight as an arrow and remains that.

- My male cousin stopped seeing lesbians as highly sexualized objects after watching The Fosters (at my insistence); he also now advocates for adoption, and finally sees gay couples, particularly women-loving-women, as valid families.

- A girl I know considered herself ‘progressive’ and ‘for gay rights’ and at the same time allowed herself such remarks as “every girl is bisexual. It’s our nature” and “experimenting is fun” and “yeah, I mean, girls are beautiful and all but you’ll want a real family by the time you’re thirty” and my personal favorite “I am not against gays and lesbians! You just don’t need to show it to the public, you know? You don’t touch us and we don’t touch you.” She got into Faking It because of Shane The Sassy Gay Friend. Just last month, we met up and she apologized for saying everything she’s ever said.

- I was helping out a local theater with their sound two years ago, and the lead was Muslim and very homophobic (not saying all Muslims are homophobic, but that was the reason she used.) There also was a bisexual actor with love for crossdressing, and needless to say she had trouble accepting him. He wasn’t fully out, but the cast knew. Now, she loves musicals, and someone recommended she watch Rent. And then she watched Glee. Year after, on premier night of his play, she brought a giant bouquet of flowers and gave it to him, saying that he “should never change”. There were a lot of tears and laughter that night.

Consider it cheesy, but this is what impact media representation has. Representation paves way for acceptance and tolerance (even Glee). Even the most close-minded of people can turn on the show, become engrossed, and see past the character’s sexuality and fall in love with them. And then, after falling in love with said character, those people realize that their sexuality doesn’t define them; that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans people are not walking personifications of evil; that there is much more to them than who they love. That they are the same people with same jobs and same dreams and they bleed the same and cry the same and laugh the same. Now , riddle me this: since when fighting for tolerance and acceptance and safety for a marginalized community isn’t a ‘real-world’ issue?

That’s why representation matters. That’s why Lexa mattered. That is why we are angry. Not because our ship sank. Not because Lexa was a cool chick with a sword. Not because we had a collective lady-boner for her. Maybe, years from now, a young straight woman would have walked up to her lesbian friend and said: ‘hey. I get it now. And I’m sorry. And I’ll try to do better.’ But the damage is done. And now, that same young straight woman might walk up to her lesbian friend and say: ‘hey. It’s just a phase. You need to meet a real man. Or just keep your “love” behind closed doors.’ Because all she saw was a lesbian being killed off and a guy getting a girl. I already discussed this whole situation with my straight friends. That’s exactly what they think. That’s the kind of message they are getting.

Don’t invalidate our feelings, please. Don’t downplay our cause. We stopped talking about a ship a long time ago: why do you, some Bellarke fans and some Bellamy stans and oh God, AfterEllen?! keep making it about Clexa? I am not attacking you. I just genuinely want you to understand where we are coming from. Sometimes it seems like you just don’t want to listen. But I beg you to try and open up your minds at least a little bit and look at the bigger picture.

#boom there it is

riovidalll

every day in the Clexa fandom since Thursday:

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I’ve turned this into a more cohesive post so its not like one after another, and I will continue to update daily just so we have a quick reference point of what’s been going on:

3/3/16: general despair

3/ 4/16: rising from the ashes like a motherfucking phoenix, mass exodus of JRot’s twitter followers, trending things about Lexa constantly

3/5/16: more trending, more being extra and dragging JRoth and watching happily as our favs dragged him with us, damage control from everyone but Rotinhell, etc, mass migration to the FTWD fandom

3/6/16: IMDB ratings go way down, twitter followers continue to drop, more twitter trending, wikipedia war

3/7/16: the rise of Elyza Lex and Lexark, lexamatters.tumblr.com starting to pull ALL THE RECEIPTS ON THESE BINCHES, and probably best of all: Julie Benson and Shawna Benson’s Periscope that confirmed that JRot is an actual human disaster because apparently it was confirmed that not everyone in the writers room wanted to kill Lexa (aka probs just Jason wanted to) and ADC said she would come back

3/7/16 continuation: Actual human disasters Shawna and Julie Benson manage to not only invalidate Clarke’s relationship with Lexa, but Clarke’s sexuality too, all to push Blarke endgame to gain a few viewers back. (this snippet via @decaheda)

3/8/16: trending worldwide once again, increased rage, pulling more receipts on how these fuckers baited us, Isaiah Washington actually being a gem, more negative reviews as the next episode sneak peek is released and has twice as many dislikes as likes on YouTube, Elyza Lex rises even higher

3/9/16: subtle shade from Isaiah Washington, explosion of Elyza Lex headcanons, Elyza Lex TRENDING ON TUMBLR, more trending worldwide on Twitter, JRot remains silent still, the sneak peek has three times as many dislikes as likes on Youtube, we’ve raised over $10,000 for the Trevor Project, we are all sleeping and fueling ourselves for the absolutely hell storm that will occur on Thursday as we trend all the things and watch the ratings plummet

3/10/16: started the day by trending WATCH ALYCIA ON FTWD worldwide… which, great, but please leave her out of this; continued the day by becoming steadily saltier until the episode and then watched as JRot live tweeted BY HIMSELF - none of the cast live tweeted or has really acknowledged the show right now, the 1oo didn’t trend AT ALL when it has trended every other week (gee I wonder why), its confirmed that Kim, Javi, and Layne know about Lexark which is hilarious, the Clexakru has raised almost $30,000 for the Trevor Project, and the responses to JRot’s live tweets have watered our crops and fed our families. And of course: worldwide trended LGBT FANS DESERVE BETTER for several hours.

3/10/16 continuation: Henry Ian Cusick started tweeting after the episode ended. JRot retweets a post essentially calling us “bullies and trolls” with the hashtag #RenewThe100 and then promptly deletes it.

3/11/16: THE WILD RIDE CONTINUES. Trending ALYCIA IS OUR COMMANDER worldwide (plz leave her out of it and trend that Jason is a jerk or something instead), multiple news outlets pick up our story, INCLUDING THE BBC, the show gets renewed but no one wants it and we’re about to fight like hell even harder, ratings hit an all-time low for 3x08, the cast hits Survival Con and RICKY AND LINDSEY SHADE THE HELL OUT OF JASON SO HARD ITS NOT EVEN SHADE ANYMORE. I am living.

3/11/16 continuation: in true JRot fashion, stills from 3x09 are released featuring Lexa’s dead body, sending us all into horror and sadness. JRot continues to lose Twitter followers. Anonymous reps from the entertainment industry have informed us that this situation is all people are talking about within the different networks, and they’re for us.

3/12/16: CW STOP JASON ROTHENBERG amasses over 135k tweets on Twitter and trends worldwide for several hours, Trevor Project donations have reached almost $40,000, Mercedes Mason BLESSES the ADC fandom with not one but two Instaram pictures in which we see Alycia BLONDE and we’re all left for dead by her beauty, and lgbtviewersdeservebetter.tumblr.com is launched as a one-stop shop for what we’ll be trending, more articles are written (one poll asking fans if they were mad about Lexa’s death with 99% reporting yes), and the entertainment world continues to notice. JRot’s twitter follower count drops to 104.6K. Javi reveals that he is “amicably parting ways” with the show.

3/13/16: just when we thought our rage could not increase. in short, Lindsey Morgan is a damn queen and deserves to be protected at all costs. She is a real life Raven and the world does not deserve someone so perfect. Donations to the Trevor Project surpass $40,000, and we trend worldwide MINORITIES ARE NOT DISPOSABLE, amassing over 135k tweets. Bob Morley comments on how BELLAMY SEES LEXA AS A TYRANT SO NO MORE POSTING ABOUT HOW BOB CALLED LEXA A TYRANT DONT TAKE IT OUT OF CONTEXT. Bob also made comments about the backlash but for a good take on that, here’s what @decaheda had to say. So chill. Don’t hate the man. The whole cast is very likely very limited in what they’re allowed to say - and for that, we blame Jason. The story continues to gain media traction around the globe. Javi reveals that they had multiple death sequences thought out for Lexa including her jumping in front of the bullet, but instead, they chose stray bullet. Solid. As usual, we blame JRot for everything. Also, support Clexa in these polls. JRot’s twitter count is 104.5k. Reminder to unfollow him if you have not.

3/14/16: Mo Ryan of Variety writes a phenomenal piece about Clexa and the LGBT viewers deserve better movement and directly calls out JRotinhell. Actor Orlando Jones retweets the article, and we continue to gain traction. STOP QUEERBAITING 2k16 reaches the Top 20 trends on Twitter and reaches around 65k tweets. Reportedly, JRot has tried deleting his tweets and unliking Clexa related tweets, but bitch jokes on you because we have the receipts. Clexa reaches the Elite 8 in the Zimbio March Madness poll.

#this fandom #making history

todays-wendy

This show (The 100) had a choice, and it chose to deliberately build the idea that a female/female romance would be explored as a main relationship on the show, only to cheaply destroy it in a few minutes. That’s not something I feel like watching.

On The 100’s 307 “Thirteen”

https://medium.com/@thrace/the-100-let-down-a-great-character-and-a-vulnerable-queer-audience-86bad07ed964#.9d52o9dtc

(via fearwanheda)

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Thoughts on “Thirteen” and “The 100″ as a whole

There was a lot of rightful anger over the last episode of “The 100,” in which the key character met her fate. But there was also a lot of misplaced hate, as well. “Thirteen” is one of those episodes around which an entire season (if not series) actually pivots, and I don’t doubt that the repercussions will be felt for at least the rest of season three. But the fact that it was THIS character that died generated a lot of concern from fans that keenly identified with the now deceased character.

Hopefully, by now, you’ve closed the browser if you aren’t caught up on “The 100,” so let’s name Lexa outright and skip the vagaries. Here’s what I’ll say about my reaction to “Thirteen”: Those involved with the show did themselves no favors by all but announcing Lexa’s death in the run-up to the show on social media. Here’s a program that prides itself on hard choices, and it’s a tendency that myself and other critics have praised as well. But there’s also a point in which hard choices become so commonplace that they lose impact, and I’m worried that the show doubling down on these types of no-win situations will soon lead to caricature.

In the short-term, here were the two things that bothered me about the reaction to the show: One, that many took out their grief on episode writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who came onto the show this season and has subsequently left to reboot “Xena: Warrior Princess” for NBC. Like most staff writers, Grillo-Marxuach simply executed the vision of the showrunner , in this case Jason Rothenberg. Grillo-Marxuach took that blueprint and crafted an often lyrical hour of TV, weaving theme and plot masterfully over the course of the hour. But the architecture was in place all the same long before Grillo-Marxuach was assigned this episode.

Secondly, I took issue with those that tried to deny the feelings of those felt that Lexa’s death was a blow towards representation of complex, three-dimensional LGBT characters on television. I didn’t particularly take it that way in the moment, but that really doesn’t matter: Just because I didn’t see it that way doesn’t mean others didn’t truly feel that. While I often advocate on television for diverse perspectives and characters, it’s also not something as a straight, white male that I’m keenly tuned into every second of every day. It’s a nice luxury to have, but it also means that a death like Lexa’s makes me realize just how perpetually heteronormative my perspective truly is. So while I think “The 100” does a much better-than-average job of representing characters with diverse racial and sexual backgrounds, I also don’t think women who saw Lexa’s death as personal a slap in the face are overreacting.

In creating a character as compelling as Lexa, Rothenberg and the rest of “The 100” also created something akin to a no-win scenario. Here’s a world in which death comes for everyone, and in which nothing is spared. Eventually, that sword would fall on a primary character that wasn’t Finn. Did it have to be Lexa? In order to drive the story forwards, probably. I would argue that true inclusion on a show like “The 100” means that LGBT characters can’t be spared any more than their straight counterparts, but I’m not dumb enough to think that Lexa’s death is just another death within the world of the show.

Ultimately, this comes down not to simple things like being “right” or “wrong,” but simply by being “curious.” Curiosity is probably the most important trait anyone engaging with either art of any other person on the planet can have. Fans of the show should be curious why Rothenberg thought this was the right way to go. (Hell, I’ve been questioning the garbage fire that is the Pike/Bellamy storyline all season.) Fans dismissive of the Lexa outrage should be curious about what really sparked that intimately painful reaction. There’s no reason that you have to agree with either answer, but you should at least make the attempt to understand.

Originally posted by groundergirlsdoitbetter

There are plenty of things that I find problematic with the current season of the show. As just mentioned, the Pike/Bellamy storyline has been a terrible burden on the show. The idea of bringing in the paranoia and fear that currently pervades our real-world political landscape is great, and part of what makes sci-fi/genre storytelling so perpetually potent. But it’s been dragged down by the show incessantly skipping over groundwork to make anyone’s decisions make anything resembling sense. And while I know a lot of people have loved the recently Polis/Polaris/A.L.I.E. intersection, it strikes me as very Moffat-esque storytelling. By that, I mean the show is favoring “clever” over “smart,” seeking to make puzzle pieces ultimately click down the line without maintaining interest in the present.

But the fact that I don’t find Lexa’s death part of the show’s overall problems at this point does not mean that I don’t sympathize with those that imbued that character with importance far beyond the show itself. Yes, I often profess that I am over shows about middle-aged Caucasian male anti-heroes. But I don’t know the first thing about what it’s like not to have myself represented in popular culture. My thirst for something new comes from a pretty privileged place, and on my best days, I remember that. It’s not my place to judge reactions to Lexa’s death because that death doesn’t have to mean the same thing to me as it does to others. While my job as a critic is to articulate my perspective, it’s definitely not my job to invalidate the perspectives of others. In other words, I shouldn’t react like this.

Originally posted by bumblebee-cuttlefish

That’s where curiosity comes in, and it’s something that should be in large supply online instead of being all but absent. The idea that not all art is supposed to be for all people should be an inherent assumption, and yet Peak TV has only confused things further. I’m not the audience for all shows, whether they be “Blue Bloods” or “Broad City” (two shows I’m pretty sure have never been compared until now, so you’re welcome). And that’s fine! Honestly, it’s often a relief to see a show aiming so far away from my general area that I don’t have to engage with it. That doesn’t mean I should dismiss those that love those shows in a way I don’t, and it should probably mean that I take the time (when possible) to find out why some of my colleagues flip their lids for Ilana and Abbi.

Usually, when I do so, I learn a lot more about me than I do about either critics or the shows they love. The acute pain in the wake of Lexa’s death illuminates for me just how few characters like her are on TV, and why it does matter when characters like her and Tara on “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” die. It’s one thing to say “all people are equal” as a very nice, trite aspirational statement. But it’s simply not true, in terms of representation, on television. So these death do matter more than others, simply because of their place in the current cultural climate. I don’t think it’s right to not kill a character simply because he/she is gay, but it’s ridiculous to claim that it’s simply the same as a straight character dying. I’m all for equality without denying reality.

I hesitate to make any grand statements here, because I’m (hopefully) smart enough to know what I don’t know here. All I do know is that I want to learn more, and the only way to do it is by listening instead of shouting. Twitter is a great medium for a lot of things, but “nuanced back-and-forth conversation” simply isn’t one of them. Hell, a blog post really isn’t all that great for anything except limitless space for me to try and work this out in real-type in typo-riddled prose. I just find it somewhat ironic that a show that continually depicts how often problems could be avoiding through sympathy and empathy have engendered such a divisive reaction to it. In some ways, it’s good: I’d rather a show inspire passionate reaction than indifferent silence. But there simply has to be a middle crowd for the current maelstrom surrounding the show online. And maybe, it can be found if people stopped trying to shout over one another and simply listen to what the other side is saying. It’s easier said than done, but it’s worth a shot.

So I’ll stop talking now so I can listen. Tell me what you are feeling. I want to hear it. I want to understand it. I want to understand you.