To love a war in human skin

 Hailey//ravenclaw//Aquarius//trash

[derangedsanity]

Rob Raco by The Glass Camera

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Sigmund Freud: All men secretly REALLY REALLY want to have sex with their mothers

It’s the Oedipus Complex

Oedipus: (Who literally gouged his own eyes out and killed himself when he found out he accidentally had sex with his mother) I’m sorry it’s the WHAT complex

[popprincesses]

this tweet is everything

[unicornsandbutane]

I used to work at the National Gallery in London. Old men came up to me fairly regularly to complain about the young girls (and sometimes the tourists of a particular ethnicity or nationality) taking selfies with the art. I’d smile and say, it’s an interesting diptych because so many of the most celebrated works in the Gallery are portraits– the ‘selfies’ of yesteryear– and indeed, Van Eyck’s /Portrait of a Man/ (1433) may be the earliest known panel self portrait, ant the very least in western art history, so framing oneself in that context, comparing the methods of portraiture over a span of a little under 600 years, is at its heart a commentary on the human desire to remember and be remembered, to catalog one’s existence and give it authenticity.

They did not like that let me tell you.

[tackedtothewall]

Thank you for fighting the good fight, unicornsandbutane.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Barbara Benedetti Newton (American, b. 1943, Puyallup, WA, USA) - Twilight, 2016  Paintings: Pastels

[apricops]

*centrist voice* So would you stop being friends with someone just because your favorite color is blue and their favorite color is waterboarding innocent people?

[efjkkefjnenfr]

“if feminists want equality they should support women being drafted!” is one of the best examples of why it’s bad that feminism is misconceived as being about equality to men rather than liberation from men. men create war, men created the draft, we don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t want equal opportunity to be sent to war to harm women in other countries.

[long-ago-1234567890]

tired: let women be drafted uwu

wired: abolish the draft

inspired: abolish the military

[poeticallyemm]

The way the moon falls, Dripping ink through the midnight sky Is enough to empty me.

poeticallyordinary (via poeticallyordinary)

[arthur-recaps]

me when i diet

[gaypeopletwitter]

[trainwreckbisexual]

“i enjoy being trans” doesn’t mean “i enjoy having been born in the wrong body and all the suffering that has caused me” nor does it mean “im not trans at all and i just enjoy dressing up and stealing >:3”

it means “i have grown to enjoy being trans as it is a part of who i am and my transition has been an important part of my life and although some parts of it have been unfortunate, being trans has led me to be the person i am today and has given me experiences i wouldn’t have ever had any other way. so yes, i do enjoy being trans, just as people can enjoy being a woman or enjoy being gay.”

[books-n-quotes]

The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.

Albert Camus, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)

[trademarkednothing]

Examples of Stockholm Syndrome in Disney

 Frollo and Quasimodo

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.

NOT:

The Beast and Belle

 Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.

Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.

[onlyleigh]

FUCKING FINALLY

[spiritsonic]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!

[toasterlyreasons]

this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance. 

[soracities]

Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

[justsomeantifas]

so theyve got minors fighting californias fires as punishment for crime. absolutely fucking horrific.

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

lol the article frames it as “an opportunity for trouble youth”

[sirduke]

It also frames it as job training which implies that a criminal record doesn’t get in the way of becoming a firefighter

[justsomeantifas]

california like “is your child unruly? have you thought about throwing them in coal mines? it’s hip! it makes $1.34 an hour!

with this job your child can: die letting other miners know theres no oxygen around.

great job experience!”

[justsomeantifas]

i want you all to know this comes directly from budget cuts in firefighter payments at the federal and state levels

california is increasingly relying on prison labor to accomplish necessary things, meaning they have made prison a necessary component of their economic system

which is to say california cannot cut down on its prison population even if they wanted to for prisoners are needed for californias very survival.

theyre ruining peoples lives because it’s cheaper to do that than to pay people what theyre fucking worth.

[buttonpoetry]

In America, we are taught to scream the word ‘FIRE’ if being assaulted, because no one will help us if we yell ‘RAPE.’

Carrie Rudzinski, “In America"  (via buttonpoetry)

[marquisdesad]

I have thought about this tweet every single day since it was posted

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.

You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.

(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )

Jeff Bezos currently has 140 billion dollars.