Syaoran Drinking Tea

29/M/IL - This blog is mostly dead. The only thing that matters here is I love CLAMP and everything they make.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[christopher-bryant]

thor and storm almost had a daughter. we were robbed of a ripped goddess from the best damn characters in the marvel multiverse.

[woyaogaoxing]

WHAT

[christopher-bryant]

LOOK AT THIS BUFF GODDESS. WE. WERE. ROBBED.

[woyaogaoxing]

this is so rude honestly

[ninja46464]

@cuppykin LOOK

[deraphim]

Into it

[berniesrevolution]

[zanmor]

these ones

[lavendermanna]

oh we can get even more specific than just a list of billionaires:

here are all of the scum who control oil, coal, and natural gas

here are the ones who run the factories

and here are the ones who extract the raw resources that the others need to make it all work

[libertarian-therapist]

23,000 people are reblogging a hit list

[bogleech]

Good.

[typhlonectes]

[starship-goldfish]

The economic realities of Baby boomers versus Millennials 

[c-bassmeow]

that comment has had me thinking for days… like im reblogging this shit a week later from my likes cus its the PERFECT analogy 

[misteria247]

Okay a little bit of a rant I guess?

Out of all the Clamp stories I hardly hear anyone talk about the XXXHolic series. That series is so underrated it’s ridiculous! It’s a great story involving the occult and other folktales of Japan. Let’s not forget it’s got some great Characters like Watanuki and Yuko. God I love those two. Plus it intermingles with another series of theirs from time to time. I just really think that the series deserves a little bit more recognition is all. Anyways rant over.

[deraphim]

xxxHolic deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Tokyo Babylon. The overarching story may be different, but chapter to chapter it's a spiritual sequel.

[gueroboyfriend-deactivated20180]

[wilwheaton]

ALWAYS REBLOG.

[misteria247]

Okay a little bit of a rant I guess?

Out of all the Clamp stories I hardly hear anyone talk about the XXXHolic series. That series is so underrated it’s ridiculous! It’s a great story involving the occult and other folktales of Japan. Let’s not forget it’s got some great Characters like Watanuki and Yuko. God I love those two. Plus it intermingles with another series of theirs from time to time. I just really think that the series deserves a little bit more recognition is all. Anyways rant over.

[deraphim]

I'm so far behind in clear card I'm basically just avoiding Tumblr now because my fee is packed full of people discussing it.

[feministism]

[kiwianaroha]

She took up acting because the malnutrition she suffered under the nazis permanently damaged her health and prevented her from pursuing her dream to be a ballerina. During the war, she danced to raise money for the resistance - even though she was literally starving, she used what strength she had to make sure more nazis got shot. 

[neveria]

She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family

[antiracistfeministanarchy]

Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.

[abbeydoesthings]

These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.

[profeminist]

Source

[hyggehaven-deactivated20200904]

I want men to try and imagine going about your day–working, running, hiking, whatever–and not being allowed to wear pants under threats of violence or total social and economic exclusion.

That’s the kind of irrationally violent and controlling behaviour women have been up against.

[stained-glass-rose]

Also for anyone who thinks it’s easy for women to be gender non conforming because we can wear pants.

The only reason we can is because we fought tooth and nail for the right to! Any rights we take for granted today we’re the result of a prolonged, bitter battle fought by our predecessors for every inch of territory gained. Never forget that.

[unified-multiversal-theory]

Title IX (1972) declared that girls could not be required to wear skirts to school.

Women who were United States senators were not allowed to wear trousers on the Senate floor until 1993, after senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore them in protest, which encouraged female staff members to do likewise.

This was never given to us. Women have had to fight just to be able to wear pants. Women who are still alive remember having to wear skirts to school, even in the dead of winter, when it was so cold that just having a layer of tights between them and the elements was downright dangerous. Women who remember not even being allowed to wear pants under their skirts, for no other reason than they were female.

So don’t talk about women wearing pants being gender nonconforming like it’s easy. It’s only less difficult now because your foremothers refused to comply.

[codex-fawkes]

My mother spent her entire school career up until high school having to wear skirts, no matter how horrible the New England winters got, because she was forbidden to do otherwise. There were times when the weather was bad where my grandmother kept her home rather than make her walk to and from the bus in a skirt. 

[epoxyconfetti]

They rebroadcast a few old interviews with Mary Tyler Moore, and in them she addressed the pants issue. There was a strict limit on what kind of pants she could wear (hence, always Capri pants, nothing masculine), and to use her words, how much cupping the pants could show. A censor would look at every outfit when she came out on stage, and if the pants cupped her buttocks too much, defining them rather than hiding them, then she had to get another pair.

[ms-demeanor]

My mom got sent home from school when she was 8 years old for wearing a pair of shorts under her skirt. She wore them because she didn’t want to show her underwear when she was playing on the jungle gym.

The principle explained to my grandmother that if she was old enough to worry about showing her panties then she was too old to be playing on the jungle gym and had to start acting more like a lady.

My GNC aunt had to be forced to wear skirts right up until the second she was old enough to join the navy and then spent the rest of her life wearing the baggiest pants she could find. The reason she thought the military was her only viable option was because she had terrible grades through high school because she kept getting sent home for wearing shorts under her skirts.

[ilikemarthajones]

My mum both fought to wear trousers and to wear the miniskirt. Ironically, of the two, trousers were the bigger fight.

[rebecca2525]

Argh, this reminds me of the people who say “women can wear trousers but men can’t wear skirts, so who has is easier”.

The reason why men can’t wear skirts is not because there’s some group out there that wants to control them – the reason is that femininity is (subconsciously at least) considered less and it’s seen as weird for a man to stoop down and associate himself with it. See also why you have to make up new words like man bun and man purse just to make absolutely clear that there’s nothing feminine about it.

It sucks for the men who want to dress more feminine, but the reason behind it is still plain old sexism, not reverse sexism, even if it also affects men negatively.

[ilikemarthajones]

And women actively fought for it. It took them years, it got them in trouble. But they persisted until they had pushed society far enough to accept women in trousers. Nothing says men can’t do the same.

[fuunsaiki]

I’m here for your fight to wear skirts, men. Just say the word.

[burntcopper]

re the skirts to school thing - it’s only in the past couple of decades that girls have been allowed to wear trousers to school in the UK.  And then only *some* schools.  They’re currently fighting to let boys wear skirts to school.

[sheldrakus]

We were not allowed to wear trousers at my first secondary school in the late 80s. There was always a petition going round. It always got dismissed as a joke.

[themarysue]

How Women Are Driving the Dungeons & Dragons Renaissance

More than 40 years into its existence, 2017 was Dungeons & Dragons' biggest year ever, and not by a small margin. And while it's still early, all signs point to 2018 being even bigger.

[amarakaran]

https://netflixlife.com/2018/05/10/netflix-revive-brooklyn-nine-nine/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[godzillasflyingpizza]

direct link to Netflix suggestion form, so you dont have to scroll thru two (2) articles to find the link:

Netflix Request TV Shows or Movies page

[cartnsncreal]

Reblog and you might save someone’s life, especially with all our Black Girls going missing #ProtectBlackGirls #SaveLife

[lazorsandparadox]

For those who don’t know what’s happening in the video, she untied her shoelaces, pulled one through the inside of the zip tie binding her hands, then tied the shoelaces together. Then, by pulling downward and back and forth on the shoelaces with her feet, she created enough friction to wear away part of the ziptie, making it weak enough to snap right off her hands.

[m3rcykill]

SIGNAL BOOST

SIGNAL BOOST

SIGNAL BOOST

[jewel-charisse-deactivated20181]

Will always reblog

[yourladyindank]

Protect all the ladies and the dudes

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

Damn

[fenway03]

For those who don’t have shoelaces and for those who do but don’t want to trip over their own feet in case something goes wrong, here’s another way:

It’s all about quick, determined movement of your arms. To see it in action, watch the video at https://youtu.be/0Gr6HX_IKpw?t=9m – the zip ties part starts around the 8:00 min mark. The video also shows how to escape handcuffs and duct tape. And if you’re wondering what to do when you’ve got your hands behind your back, go to approx. the 0:20 min mark of the following video: “Moving cuffs from behind back to front position” (taken from thrillwriting.blogspot.de/2013/05/credit-wikipedia-disclaimer-this-is-non.html, where you’ll also find additional information on how to escape handcuffs). 

[8thwonderful]

For teach this to your kids….boys too. We don’t need to lose noone

[beatnikdaddio]

admiring the stockings. 1940’s.

[romanimp]

#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS

[edteachs-adhd-spiral]

Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)

[spart117mc-blog]

Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, “I’m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.’ We’re going to get rid of them.”

“I looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, ‘Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I’ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.’

“And he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, ‘Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps’s name may be second, but mine will be first.’

“Then I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sir, you’re right. They’re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers—every woman in the WAC detachment—and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us—then I’ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we’ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.’

“And he said, ‘Forget the order.’

- The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America

[sevenswansons-blog]

I’ve reblogged this before but it didn’t have these comments and HOLY HOT DAMN DID IT NEED THEM.

[cheskamouse]

So, when someone sits down to write a fiction about Women commandos, and a Dudebro steps in to say “Huh, that is so unrealistic huh.” 

Harold… oh, Harold…sit down, shut up, and stay out of our way.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

History is infinitely gayer than a lot of people want to admit <3

[deraphim]

It sucks when you feel too shitty and unworthy to do the one thing that used to always cheer you up.

Change is hard and I know it's probably right, but I miss the person I used to be and wish I could find a way to split the difference.

[axew]

[deraphim]

Man I just hope Mei-Lin grew up and started using her martial arts to fight crime and foil bank robberies and stuff. With all the focus on magic, you forget how capable she actually is.