and then, i thought why not...

It's nice to love and be loved but it's better to know what you can know

[whitepeopletwitter]

[machigaeru]

I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli

Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back

Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it

Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it

Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly

[memory-thought]

The span of human experience is so insane.

[vampires-and-witches]

I saw everyone on twitter tearing Emma Watson apart for saying she’s self - partnered instead of single and decided to watch her interview for British Vogue to know what the hell was she trying to say with that. I was very surprised to find a 30 minute video in which amongst other things she talks about the following:

She felt undeserving when she was appointed as UN Women goodwill ambassador and sought out Gloria Steinem to learn about feminist activism.

She thinks the criticism she received for being a white feminist was useful because it made her educate herself.

She says there’s a desperate need to reform the education system in the UK to change the way they are taught the history of how Britain has been involved in foreign affairs and how they profited from slavery.

She felt anxious about approaching 30 because there’s a lot of pressure to have a husband and a baby by then and she’s still figuring her life out.

She was so young when she was casted in Harry Potter that she doesn’t remember much of her life before it and she went to therapy to deal with her issues with fame. She used to feel very guilty for being unhappy because she thought she should enjoy fame more.

The interviewer is a transgender woman and they discuss transgender issues for a while. Emma is in regular contact with a trans child which makes the topic of trans rights emotional for her because she’s very anxious for this kid’s safety.

She talks about her role as Meg March in the new Little Women movie and defends that unlike what many people say choosing to be a wife and a mother doesn’t make Meg a less feminist character and quotes a line from the movie, “Just because my dreams are different than yours it doesn’t mean they are unimportant.”  

She wishes more people would realize she’s not Hermione Granger but also understands why they want to see that in her because Hermione is a symbol for her too.

She used to think she could never be happy without a partner and now that she has learnt to navigate that better and is genuinely happy single she’s started to think of herself as self - partnered in contrast to the time when she thought of herself as single = lonely.

Every media outlet decided to focus in an out of context quote from the three minutes she talked about her dating life when the actual interview had a lot of depth and way more important things were discussed. I’m sad and angry but not surprised.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[g4yporwave]

This radiates pure joy

[snazzy-adam]

SHE IS OUR DISCO QUEEN

[imyourdreamwife]

She time traveled from 1978 the moves are too good

[mysharona1987]

[conceptadecency]

eat them

[eelizabit]

men b like wow I’ve never met a girl who liked music before..

[hergraveyard]

You obviously know nothing about men if this is what you think they say

[auckie]

Men will see a mouse and eat it

[hergraveyard]

No they won’t because why would anyone eat a mouse that’s stupid not all men are bad and not all men are stupid you may have had a bad experience with a man but not all men are bad granted there bad men but instantly accusing all men as bad is immature I’m dating a man and he is nowhere near stupid and I know for a fact that he won’t eat a mouse and in pretty sure I could name at least five other men that won’t do something as immature as that and saying that a man will see a mouse and eat it won’t get you a anywhere with a man if anything it will drive them away.

[auckie]

A man will see a mouse and be like is anyone else gonna eat this and not wait for an answer

[agent-of-empathy-deactivated202]

tbh as weird as Riverdale is no scene will ever be weirder than Archie and Veronica singing "All Around Me Are Familiar Faces" while Betty pole dances and strips in order to join a biker gang.

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

[drsarcasticraspberry]

@ everyone i am begging you to please NEVER ever explain Riverdale to me because it is infinitely more entertaining for me to just occasionally hear random things that happened on the show and have zero context for them. i am greatly enjoying Riverdale this way, in fact, and i don’t want my experience of the show to be ruined by (a) actually watching it or (b) understanding what the fucketh is going on with it

[chromolume]

the most exciting thing about tumblr is when you’re reading an issue post and you have to guess if you’re supposed to agree with it or not before getting to the last comment

[konohaeleven]

Me reading a text post

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

So this is love So this is what makes life divine I’m all aglow and now I know The key to all heaven is mine My heart has wings and I can fly I’ll touch every star in the sky So this is the miracle I’ve been dreaming of So this is love

CINDERELLA (1950)

[surprisebitch]

i had to do a fucking double take because it was actually a bot wtf

[yourkpopidolsucks]

the bots are racist now…..just great

[yennwood-deactivated20210608]

racist and horny

[principaliti]

6th september 2019

[medievalwitch1431-deactivated20]

books for when you want to feel like a beautiful 15th century milkmaid or an adventurous schoolgirl in the english countryside

(I honestly couldn’t think of a better way to categorize it) 

We Have Always Lived in The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce

Thistle and Thyme by Sorche Nic Leodas

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Bernett

I Capture Castle by Dodie Smith

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Howls Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

[madeleinesbooks]

Ugh so many good titles here

[theglitterous-deactivated202208]

No porn on tumblr we describe our nudes in detail instead

[gxlddustwoman-deactivated202411]

today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

[gxlddustwoman-deactivated202411]

there are ppl reblogging this not knowing what my immortal is and it’s so fucking funny

[andthwip-deactivated20220219]

Thousands of protestors singing “Do You Hear The People Sing” in a Hong Kong international airport. This is part of a 3-day sit-in and is only one example of the many marches, rallies, and sit-ins that are occurring daily.

The people of Hong Kong are fighting. Please do not let their voices go unheard around the world.

[shinystarship]

Hong Kong’s huge protests, explained by Vox.

Just in case someone wonders what they’re protesting against.

[andthwip-deactivated20220219]

This is happening RIGHT NOW in Hong Kong. It is August, 2019, and they are fighting for their freedom being taken away from the totalitarian government of China.

[idontwikeit]

The government and pro-china supporters are trying to spin the whole story that we are fighting for Hong Kong Independence. Yes we are protesting against the Chinese and Hong Kong government but we are fighting against the Extradition Bills. Our goals have always been the same as beginning:

1. Complete withdrawal of the Extradition Bills

2. Implementation of Dual Universal Suffrage in Hong Kong

3. Retraction of the characterisations of the protest on 12 June 2019 as “riots”

4. Establishment of an independent investigation committee chaired by retired judges to investigate the police’s actions

5. The Department of Justice maintains its political neutrality and not conduct political prosecutions

There were also tourists complaining how we should go protest on streets instead of airport. We TRIED that, we HAVE BEEN protesting on streets, and we got teargased, police beating us, mass arrest. The whole point of taking the protest to airport is to raise international awareness to our situation, less chance of police brutality because we will be under international spotlight, and to affect the ECONOMY, which is the only way that will get OUR government to respond.

[prettyaveragewhiteshark]

Don’t even TALK to me about how Bobby Berk from Queer Eye, who was disowned by his family when he came out and lost his home at 15, has built an entire career around creating a home for other people so no one else ever has to go through that experience of feeling uncomfortable or lonely without a home

[melonmemes]

[greenteacology]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/videos-chinese-military-vehicles-gather-in-shenzen-hong-kong-protests-2019-8

Videos show a massive procession of Chinese military vehicles gathering along the Hong Kong border as China mulls over its next move in resp

An expert described the display as part of a wider strategy meant to intimidate and deter, though China is considered unlikely to intervene

[veryfunnymemes]