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remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

mostlybats-partiallyrats

How fucking old are you people?

googledocsdyke

normal amount

dailyflicks

And where do you get off telling me what’s right? You can’t just leave her.

DIRTY DANCING (1987) dir. Emile Ardolino

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For a moment I forgot this scene occurs after she finds out he abandoned Penny after getting her pregnant, and thought it was just an appropriate response to a boy handing you The Fountainhead

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Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.

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Don’t get me wrong—she was strong, and certainly not a waif, but more than almost any other female superhero actress I’ve ever seen, Lucy Lawless exuded physical power and weight that I actually believed (when she wasn’t somersaulting in front of a ridiculous greenscreen).

argumate

that’s a damn good point

ms-demeanor

INTENSE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

COSTUME EMPHASIZING BREADTH OF SHOULDERS

THEM THIGHS

WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS ABOUT HOLY SHIT

JAWLINE

EVERYTHING. ALL OF IT. I DON’T KNOW I’M JUST FEELING EXCEPTIONALLY WARM RIGHT NOW.

I LOVE HER

dee-the-red-witch

This is because the tank is not concerned with muscle or endurance. Tank is purely a matter of 60% attitude, 30% mindset, and 110% fuckaroundandfindout.

nehirose

I’ve also seen another version of the commentary on this post speculating that she was also SHOT like male action star at the time - which has nothing to do with size, but with posture and staging and yes, attitude. 😊

the-fallen-blue

She definitely was permitted to show -effort- in a way that female action stars often are not. She gets to grunt, yell, make weird angry faces, put FORCE and ANGER and JOY and just, you know. Personality, generally, into her fighting. It makes her feel more real, which means that when she does impressive or impossible things, they also feel more real and thus more impressive.

content-froggregator

A comparison of a male Pacman Frog, left, and a female, right. Or perhaps a bowl of spaghetti hoops with guacamole?

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madam spgheettey

kelssiel

and her assistant mr guack

marisatomay

parents please check your kids' halloween candy. just found heironymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights inside of a peanut butter cup.

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.

baconis42

oh what a life

dee-the-red-witch

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

jemariel

Everyone has been vaccinated for free and the virus hasn’t caused a single death in months.

Those dates you go on with your partner? They’re in public. Unmasked. Your server smiles at you. Everyone feels safe.

You can hug your friends.

You can see a movie. The people in the movie are gay people of color and they kiss and live happily ever after.

And so will you.

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LIKE TO CHARGE, REBLOG TO CAST

afronerdism

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

afronerdism

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

afronerdism

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

doriangray-deactivated20200523

what would dionysus wear if he was in the modern day?

deadpanwalking

girlbossjodiarias

#needless to say this is a pussy out look

hrmsketches

chotomy

i am on the FLOOR

chotomy

horus & seth illustrative alphabet for a design assignment :’0 i go to a College

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It had almost escaped my notice that it is now May, the month that dooms to a heartbroken death 99% of characters from folk ballads. So, if you suspect you may be a character from a folk ballad, for your own safety:

don’t fall in love, don’t go by the river, don’t go to the sea, don’t talk to sailors, don’t gamble, don’t ramble, don’t go North, don’t go North-West, don’t stand in the wind, don’t dance with anyone named Sally, Sue, Mary, Ann, or Barbara, don’t go to the pub (but if you do go to the pub at least don’t drink, and if you do drink at least pay for your own drink, and if you are absolutely broke and have to let someone else pay for your drink then at the very least do try not to forget to toast everyone you know whom you think might be there very loudly and possibly multiple times), don’t lend money, don’t borrow money, don’t wish you had more money, don’t make plans to make more money, don’t start working for a new employer, absolutely do believe anyone who says they will try to kill you, curse you, or maim you, absolutely do believe anyone who says you might die, turn down every invitation to go a-hunting, horse-riding, or a-courting, be wary of flute players you meet on your path, don’t dance with satanic men in black coats, don’t marry off your daughters to the first man who’ll have them, and don’t promise your true love any herbs you can’t readily plant and gather in your own garden.

There. That should just about cover you for 31 days. Heed the warnings and you may have a chance to last the month. Good luck.

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May the Fourth be with you!

I spent all weekend working hard on a project very close to my heart just for today: a recording and video of “General Organa” - the song I wrote in honor of Carrie and her iconic character. I have just uploaded the song to my YouTube and also made the track available for purchase on BandCamp.

A portion of proceeds from the track will go to support The Midnight Mission: a project offering the immediate assistance of food, shelter, clothing, and medical care along with longer-term solutions such as counseling, workforce training, recovery services, and education to men, women, and children who are experiencing homelessness in L.A. In 2014, Fisher was honored for her support of The Midnight Mission at the Golden Heart Gala.

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imagine if we got the cap3 we deserved and it had a flashback of young steve with sarah

imposterogers

what if there was a scene where sarah comes home from work just to have to take care of steve & steve’s visibly upset about how worn out she is & she just brushes a piece of hair behind his ear and softly says, dont worry. I can do this all day 🥺🥺🥺