It's an Allegory for McCarthyism

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[starsfadingbutilingeron]

[markantonys]

coruscant nine nine [18/?]

[nxrdy-nxnbinary]

WHERES THE PICTURE OF OBIWAN THROWING MONEY AT POLE DANCING ANAKIN?!

[earthboundjedi]

I FOUND IT

[forcearama]

You know, I know the type of people who follow me on tumblr well enough to know that all of you deviants have no doubt seen Pole-Dancing Anakin something like 217 trillion times now, but honestly? This is still such an incredibly well-done Photoshop and it is SO legitimately, truly funny and perfect (and frankly, the original photo is like, BARELY less suggestive than this doctored version which somehow makes it even funnier,) that I feel compelled to share it regardless. 

[lamaenthel]

shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’ 

when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu

[chupicronian]

Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.

EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.

This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.

This is your average adult pig.

[catbountry]

Big ole’ pigs.

[louisville-redcoat]

Reblogging because I feel so misinformed about pigs right now. My life is a lie.

[weirdnessisgood]

[dudettte]

The math books warned us about you

[calyxofawildflower]

Hey let’s destroy the pernicious myth that preteens were regularly marrying in medieval and early modern Europe and were having children as young teenagers. It’s just not true. Church records show the typical age people got married was around 18-23. Sure, around a third of brides were pregnant at the time of their marriage, but premarital sex was actually completely fine in medieval and early modern Europe if the couple intended to marry. (Oh look! Another historical fact the Victorian period completely mangled!)

Very young girls were not having babies in medieval times, people. The only people who ever bring this non-fact up are paedophiles looking to defend their dangerous paraphilia. So cut it out. Stop spreading this myth. It’s not historical, it’s not factual, it’s not true.

[calyxofawildflower]

By the way the texts in support of these facts are here and here.

[durablenotebook-deactivated2016]

“Emerging evidence is eroding the stereotype of medieval child marriage. Goldberg and Smith’s work on low- and lower-middle-status women has refuted Hajnal’s argument for generally early marriage for medieval women. Even Razi’s ‘early’ age at marriage for girls in Halesowen hardly indicates child marriage, as a large portion of his sample married between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two… .  Goldberg has offered evidence from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Yorkshire showing that urban girls tended to marry  in their early to mid twenties and rural girls married in their late teens to early twenties, and both groups married men who were close to them in age.” (Kim M. Phillips, Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, c. 1270-1540, p. 37 (x).

Bolded for emphasis.

[calyxofawildflower]

Reblogging this as a reminder since I just saw another long thread on a social media website about how “the stigma of marrying at age 13-15 is recent”. No it isn’t, you’re just a pedophilia apologist.

[meishuu]

Thank you for saying it.

[prokopetz]

Pat of the problem stems from the fact that the mainstream of the study of history tends to suffer from a great deal of unexamined economic classism, and one of the effects of that classism is the spurious positioning of the mores and morals of the economic elite as normative.

We see that wealthy nobles were marrying fifteen-year-old girls off to fifty-year-old men, and assume that must have been acceptable - but we forget that the nobility was only ever a tiny fraction of society, and that such practices may have been seen very differently by the bulk of the populace. Indeed, a deeper examination will often reveal that the common folk regarded the sexual mores of the economic elite with disgust.

Basically, imagine that an historian five hundred years from now is trying to piece together the sexual mores of early 21st Century American society by looking at the sex lives of Woody Allen and Donald Trump.

[sarah531-deactivated20180901]

….huh, that explains why whenever I look up random historical queens and princesses, they always seem to have been married off at a disturbingly young age.

[derekhalesprayercircle-blog]

The anomaly for queens and princesses being married off disturbingly young to older men can also be explained by culture: in lower classes age heterogamy was not an issue because they were typically not marriages for opportunity. When talking royals, marriage was almost always a political alliance, so a king marrying off his daughter or sister to an allying country’s prince or king.

[mrcincity-deactivated20161102]

#sandrabland

The officer that arrested Sandra was recently fired and her death has been ruled a homicide. Stay involved!

[beperrinoid-deactivated20170116]

BOOST.

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/us/sandra-bland-officer-fired/

[artemiskitsune]

Omg @JensenAckles showing the prank @Mark_Sheppard played on @jarpad lol #spnminn #minncon X

[kyleehenke]

its the simple things in life

[moistyaoi]

“this vine doesnt look very funny but why does it have notes” *clicks the audio on* I was wrong

[misswendybird]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE VINE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

[haulaway]

I think about this a lot

[godtechturninheads]

@infiniteadventureswithyou

[coyacoonadillo]

See I’d caption this but it’d come out as *offscreen* hohohoheheHYEAH hohohoHEHEHYEAH HUHUHUHEHEHYEAH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH

[oldtoadwoman-deactivated2018121]

^ This is where the presidential candidates stand on vaccinations.

[italymystery-swanqueen]

The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #VACCINESWORK. Let’s protect all our kids.

[sasquatchandleatherjacket]

Sam’s little half shrug (◠﹏◠)

unloved series [2/?] | 8x18

[just-shower-thoughts]

I have never seen grape ice cream.

[loftyskies-deactivated20161129]

Actually, i know why this is:

Grapes contain a  a special molecule Anthocyanin that prevents freezing, so you’d keep ending up with grape milk. Many ice cream companies and manufacturers have made bold attempts at grape ice cream, hardly any of them successful.

But then, finally, those geniuses at Ben and Jerry’s did it. So why don’t we have grape ice cream?

Here’s the thing: Ben confessed in a People Magazine interview in 1984 that he had a huge crush on Becky and promised to create the flavor just for her. Knowing the history of grape ice cream, she coyly requested it, thinking it to be impossible. Ben began to include the grape skin and juice to better see the differences between batches. While he didn’t understand the science behind this at the time, he found that including the skins increased the levels of anthocyanin enough to make the ice cream freeze. “Becky was impressed,” he remarked, “We were at her house, alone. I gave her the scoop – on a cone. I was really getting somewhere. She was laughing and happy. She couldn’t believe I did it. I’ll never forget what happened next.”

“Becky jokingly gave her dog a lick from the cone. He liked it and took a couple of licks. Then he just gasped and dropped dead. He flipped down onto the floor and was just gone. I had no idea grapes are toxic to dogs. Specifically to the anthocyanin. Becky was devasted. I had invented a deadly dog poison, and I definitely wasn’t getting anywhere with her now.”

Yeah. 

tldr; The reason we don’t have grape ice cream is because Ben from Ben and Jerry’s killed Jerry’s hot sister’s dog with it.

[louisthesixteenth-moved-blog-de]

holy fuck

[thpock]

Remember the ice bucket challenge? It just funded an ALS breakthrough

ALS association says money raised by the viral charity challenge, dismissed as ‘slacktivism’ by many, has helped identify a new gene associated with the disease

as someone who has to market nonprofit campaigns on social media, seeing this succeed is like so huge to me

[crypdoezoology]

i’m laughing so hard he’s asking the ghost all the questions and it’s giving answers using the one beep/two beep system, then he asks if it’s a boy or a girl and it just starts screaming

[fauxfable]

nonbinary ghost isn’t having any of it today

[trans-road-warrior]

Ghost realizes it’s genitals didn’t make it through Haunting Customs and panics

[bomtrack]

i have a weird feeling that the suicide squad movie will somehow be responsible for the rebirth of scene kid culture and its something i knew would happen eventually but i never thought it would be so soon

[sassking-trevor]

Later this year high schools will be filled w/ guys trying to act like the joker in that “edgy on purpose lol u mad” kinda way and scene girls w/ pink n blue dyed pigtails giggling about how “lol im SO CRAZY LAWL X3″

[peppapigvevo]

i cant believe you two made me read this on my own dash

[bomtrack]

look at this shit. we’re gonna have to relive some dark times. myspace is aboutta make a comeback. preps will have to hide in fear once again. the hot topic CEO is rubbing his hands together as i’m typing this. get ready for thousands of deviant art suicide squad ocs complete with scene hair and too many belts.

[peppapigvevo]

if someone does that “rawr means i love u in dinosaur” think im holding you personally responsible

[rottermelon]

XxXx get fucking ready xXxX

[blondegingersaxon-deactivated20]

I. Swear. To. Fucking. God.

[suckit-aynrand]

[snailkites]

Not in the job description: protecting native wildlife from Pokemon Trainers carrying Rana virus.

It hasn’t come to the park yet, but it’s nearby. This might be the month it shows up in our frogs and turtles.

[markscherz]

Important!!!

[derekhalesprayercircle-blog]

Entitled

Me: This older generation pisses me off so much

Therapist: Why?

Me: Because when I was growing up, we were forcefed the idea that if we didn't want to be 'flipping burgers at McDonalds,' then we'd better go to college.

Therapist: And?

Me: And now we've all gone to college, have degrees, can't get a damn job, and the same people that told us to go to college call us entitled assholes because we refuse to flip burgers

Therapist: Touche

[hpandcarbs]

Molly and Arthur Weasley raised seven kids on one government salary.

Molly and Arthur Weasley raised those seven children to be courageous and loyal and kind.

Molly and Arthur Weasley were purebloods who made it a point to be known as “the biggest blood traitors there are”.

Molly and Arthur Weasley raised Fred and George during their accidental magic stages without letting the house burn down.

Molly and Arthur Weasley treated Harry as their own child, not because of his fame, but because he was Ron’s friend and he was in desperate need of a family.

Molly and Arthur Weasley made sure that everyone who entered their home felt loved and cared for and well fed.

Molly and Arthur Weasley won money and spent it on a family trip to see their son and help their daughter out of the depression she was sinking into.

Molly and Arthur Weasley sent Easter eggs and Christmas sweaters and fudge to their children while making sure to include enough for friends.

Molly and Arthur Weasley went out of their way to secure two tickets to the Quidditch World Cup on top of the eight for their own family, just to ensure that Hermione and Harry were included.

Molly and Arthur Weasley warned Harry about Sirius Black and tried to keep him with them after Voldemort’s return and tried to shield him from Order business because they remembered how young he was, how utterly unfair it was for the world to expect so much from him.

Molly and Arthur Weasley are so damn important.

[ladynorbert]

Arthur Weasley was supposed to die and JK Rowling couldn’t bring herself to kill him because he was the only living example in the entire series of a good father.

Molly Weasley made Harry eat third helpings of every meal, despite how difficult it may have been for their family just to put food on the table, because she knew that his guardians often deprived him of meals as punishment.

Molly and Arthur Weasley ARE DAMN IMPORTANT.