Introvert in the city

[nicolecoenen-deactivated2016091]

Women Self Defense in 1947

[littlekiwi37-archive]

I’m not sure what’s the best part of this video: the fact that she’s in heels, the fact that she does the whole thing looking like she don’t give a fuck, that chick in the back just exercising and enjoying the show, or the fact that both men and women are observing this and the girls are laughing and the guys look concerned/pensive as fuck as they watch all their tactics get shut down like nothing is even happening.

[slenders1ckn3ss]

… msties is it just me or is this familiar?

[leaper182]

Some of these are moves I haven’t seen before.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Some of this looks similar to the self defense I learned in a course three or four years ago. It’s definitely got some judo in it (arm bars, throws, fighting to and from the ground). I love this lady. She is rad. I feel like she, much like the rad lady I had as my self defense teacher, would also warn the women that if they don’t think they can gouge out someone’s eyes, don’t start trying because you’ll attack better with something you can follow through on.

[satanstrousers]

crimelords I’m sorry I couldn’t not reblog this for you

[i-feel-fantastic-deactivated202]

The cheerful music makes it even better

[lawtriz]

massacre at pride parade in poland

this is a signal boost. please share it, for the love of god, media doesn’t cover this enough yesterday my city held its first pride parade. we were warned by the far right that they won’t allow it to happen, we knew it was going to be bad, but not this bad. nationalists from all across the country took trains here and occupied the area where parade was supposed to start, waiting to begin a massacre. the first people to have appeared at the spot were brutally beaten, there are 4 officially unconfirmed (clarification: this might be fake news, nobody knows anything) deaths of teenagers. they were attacking children they pledged to protect from “gay pedophiles”. i saw them covered in blood. i saw them crying. i saw them running, hiding in nearby shops, chased through the streets by organised groups of nazis that kept screaming: WE’LL KILL ALL FAGGOTS. 50 grown men against a single kid. 10 different men against a 14-year-old girl. she was thrown on the ground, kicked, and beaten, because she had a rainbow on her shirt. the parade was disrupted, but continued to march on. the amount of rocks, bricks, glass beer bottles, bottles with piss, rotten eggs, explosives that were thrown at us, is uncountable. my throat is sore from screaming RUN RUN RUN each time some landed nearby. then they exploded. have you ever experienced the ringing in your ears, so frequently shown in war movies after a grenade detonates nearby? i did, yesterday.  people have burns, traumatic brain injuries, broken bones, broken noses, not to mention bruises and cuts. i saw so much blood that day. we were choking because of smoke and pepper spray that police used against those who attacked them. them, not us. people who threw rocks/glass/bricks/explosives/eggs, slicing our temples, cracking our skulls, breaking our bones, are facing no consequences, unless they’ve attacked the policemen. 25 had charges pressed against them. 25 out of thousands who gathered with the sole purpose of attacking us. they outnumbered and surrounded us. they chased people after the parade ended, screaming death threats. screaming that they will find us through the photos, and kill us.  do you know what our right-wing media does? they’re claiming we, the peaceful parade whose numerous members are currently hospitalized with terrible injuries, were the ones who threw rocks/glass/bricks/explosives/eggs at “good christians who were protecting traditional values”. do you know what our church does? it’s thanking those who attacked us. the church approves violence. and so does the government. welcome to poland. run.

[consistingdelay]

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[tanrak]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[prehistoricopossum]

**POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR ENDGAME**

So I have seen a lot of things about why we need an all female Avengers movie, and so far all of the articles I have read have mentioned the success of Captain Marvel and other women in the MCU. While I can’t argue with that (seriously, that’s fucking awesome), I would just like to ramble in my two cents.

I don’t really do feelings, but the moment all the women lined up on the screen in Endgame I sobbed. All I could think of was how much that would have changed my life had I seen that as a little girl. I remember seeing all of the male heroes (who have also impacted my life and I in no way want to degrade them) and wishing I could be that, but leeching onto the secondary, and often sparse, badass female roles because I felt that those women were the closest that I could be to becoming a hero. The men were the heroes, the women backed them up.

Now, seeing a line up of women HEROES as an adult has to be one of the most empowering moments that I did not realize how much I needed. I am an adult, but seeing that I was transported back to being a child and felt all the hope that I needed then. That I could be the hero. That I don’t have to settle for second.

So that is why we need an all female Avengers. So girls don’t have to go through their lives thinking heroes are cool, but feeling like they have to settle on secondary roles. They need to be able to look up and see that badass women don’t have to be backup/supporting roles, they can be the star. They can be the hero.

[consistingdelay]

I too sobbed when I saw them all lined up

[pr-ay-the-gay-away]

[e-mfh]

The straights are at it again.

[wigster07]

okay….okay….uh huh…..but first, just one question.

BITCH WHERE?

[marvel-0101]

To the haters

[thegaylists]

this is still a work in progress and im still adding to it slowly, but here’s my Queer Film google spreadsheet. Anyone w/ the link can comment so if you want to suggest a movie/provide info about it, that would be awesome!!!! 

(filterable by demographic, representation, genre, setting time & place, trigger warnings, coming out y/n, gay romance y/n, year released, language, length, and lastly my own personal rating) 

link to LGBT musician spreadsheet

link to Queer Animation spreadsheet

[heroicmlm]

lgbt+ culture is being touch starved but so unused to human contact that you don’t know how to properly react to or initiate it

[consistingdelay]

Happy Earth Day! Proceeds from the streams and merch sales are going to various environmental organizations to help combat climate change! So give it a listen! It's for our planet after all. :) <3

[readpenguin]

Are you bored and scrolling through your Tumblr feed right now? You should try reading a book instead. We promise it is more fun. 

[tintinintibet]

theres the tea everyone log off

[manicbones]

you know what’s more freeing than killing yourself? running away to a small town and getting a job as a waitress. buying a cheap car and sticking a bed in the back and driving southwest. adopting a cat. learning a new instrument. moving apartments. visiting a friend in another city. chopping all your hair off.

you can kill your current life without dying. you can kill this version of you and make a new one.

maybe I’m just a bipolar sucker for rebirth but sometimes that thought is all that keeps me alive

[pikafem]

pulling a wholesome gone girl > actually killing yourself

[figuregayting]

Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy is an LGBT anthem

[brehaaorgana]

It follows Sugar we’re going down (actual liner notes: wishing to be the friction in his jeans + the line about sleeping for the wrong “team”) and the other really LGBT fob song “Gay Is Not A Synonym For Shitty.” (“I’m supposed to love youuuu WHOAAAHHH) and of course Thks Fr th Mmrs (he, he tastes like you but sweeterrrr)

[figuregayting]

Uhhhh approved so jot that down

[howdareyouotterthosewords]

irrestiable says “mon chéri” meaning its about a man, so irrestiable is gay as well.

[quailfolk]

Also The (Shipped) Gold Standard has the line “I want to scream I love you from the top of my lungs but I’m afraid someone else will hear me” so that’s gay too

[figuregayting]

Heterosexuals aren’t allowed to listen to fall out boy anymore, I just decided

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

[morrigan-darkbringer]

I knew I liked Fall Out Boy for a reason

[graceking]

I love these comics by Nathan W. Pyle.

[prancinggiraffe22]

Let me absorb

[seriousfic]

Best part of Agent Carter

Realizing this guy

is going to help raise this guy

[spiderverse]

Alright, assholes.

I don’t usually defend Tony Stark. But this “Something went wrong” bullshit really rubbed me the wrong way. Wanna know why? Because the “Something that went wrong” was Howard Stark. The man that Tony idolised, and the man that abused him. And don’t give me that crap that in the MCU universe, Howard didn’t neglect or hurt Tony — he did. It’s very evident in the tie-in MCU comics.

But in both universes, Tony was raised by Edwin Jarvis. In 616, he has a father — Howard — who is constantly aggravated with his son, both as a result of his own drinking and because of what he feels Tony should be.

While Jarvis might be sensitive, thoughtful, intelligent and occupy roles that aren’t traditionally occupied considered “masculine” (which is bullshit in itself) if Tony ever displays anything remotely indicative of  a “softer side” he is ridiculed, called a sissy, told that Stark men are “made of Iron” and abused by his father: 

In the MCU, things aren’t depicted of being much better: 

And in the MCU Jarvis, often, tried to soften the blow of Howard’s words an actions. But don’t think for a second that Tony didn’t internalise all of that. That he didn’t think that Howard Stark was the man he was supposed to be, and the man he wanted to be most like. 

Of course, generally speaking — when Tony is the most like Howard — like at the Stark Expo, or during the senate hearings — it’s almost 100% preformative. That’s not who he is, or who he ever was, it’s who he thinks people want him to be, because it’s who his father wanted him to be.

I would go so far as to say that a lot of Tony’s womanizing ways, his alcoholism, his struggles with self-identity and importance all stem from the fact that he is often torn between being the man that he assumed his father wanted to be, and who he actually is.  

If you look at Tony when he’s alone, or when he’s with the people he cares about the most, what you see is the caring, compassionate person who Jarvis raised, and that he is a lot more capable and a lot more loving than his father ever was. And it took him a long time to be okay with that, and with showing other people that that was who he really was

So yes… Just a reminder, Jarvis helped raised this man:

  Don’t confuse the armour….

with the man who wears it.

[birdystark-moved-now-punkr0xy-d]

THANK YOU.

[luv4fandoms]

[medie]

always reblog the best takedown ever.

[lokasennahiddleston-deactivated]

I know I reblogged this before, but it deserves ANOTHER reblog.

[princessbelle23]

THANK YOU FOR THIS POIGNANT EXPLANATION OF TONY STARK’S CHARACTERIZATION!!!! 

[cruelfvkingsummer]

FUCK! YEAH! FUCK! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!

[thatawkwardtinyperson-deactivat]

YES YES YES

[rainbowjensenackles]

@reioka I feel like this is something you should see.

[aurumacadicus]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[the-weeping-doll]

Don’t confuse the armour with the man you wears it

[candiliam328]

I’m sorry I haz to reblog everytime I see it.

[hellomissmabel]

@themcuhasruinedme

[tin-can-iron-man]

Best part of this is the gifs that they showed for the ultimate take down. “The armor” was shown as Tony, giving a speech in front of people. “And the man who wears it.” That was Tony in his armor, but not, showing who he really is. @itsallavengers I think you’re gonna wanna see this.

[rileywrites-parker]

Perfect.

[kingpepperony]

Couldn’t reblog fast enough. Now that’s a takedown…

[tonystarkdefensesquadmember-dea]

The infamous take down ya’ll

[agdistis-sanctified]

I just want to say again that in the Deadpool movies, women are allowed to have real muscles and armpit hair and girlfriends and sex work and I love that.