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[felicitykings]

3.19 | 5.10

[theglaremage]

This is a pure and wholesome game

[stanleyraymondkowalski]

hey guys you know whats great? heimdall commits treason against the throne in every single thor film & didnt give a single shit. iconic.

[spacelabrathor]

@bottomcelli

[feministkutti]

“Colorism isn’t real.”

[pilambdaod]

Colorism? Wow because the term “racism” is so blase.

[xekstrin]

pilambdaod Colorism specifically refers to people of their own race valuing lighter skin over darker skin. For example in latina culture, valuing “good” straight hair over “pelo malo” or bad, curly hair.

Racism would imply we’re talking about at least two different races here; colorism specifically is about racist ideals within one race, people of one race policing others appearance within their own race. 

(since this is an indian book, presumably made by indian people for indian children to read, depicting a light skinned indian woman as more beautiful than a dark skinned one, it’s colorism.)

[pilambdaod]

One of those is clearly Caucasian the other Indian.

Creating random new “isms” only makes legitimate grievances seem petty and stupid.

[belligerentbagel]

“One of those is clearly Caucasian”

Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut 

Karisma Kapoor, Shruti Haasan, Zarine Khan

All actresses/models born in India to parents who were also born in India (or Pakistan), in a narrow view of “race.” 

If a Papua New Guinean hooks up with a Swedish person all you get is a human.  There’s no new thing you’re going to get. You just get a human. 

- Bill Nye: Race is a Human Construct (and don’t look at the comments; it’s the usual cesspool of bigots) 

Ideas on “race” have been in slow development over the years, but colourism is a real thing (often with roots in imperialism, especially as Western ideas of beauty began to intrude upon countries). 

The 100 Years of Beauty: Philippines has a jarring jump where April Villanueva (who has light/medium-toned skin) gets her skin darkened for the 1910s-20s aesthetic, then becomes powder-white when US/European colonial interests make a stronger influence on Philippine society in the 1930s (more in the research video). 

Two more examples of skin tone variation between famous women in countries where colourism has become prevalent in celebrity culture (ie, it was a lot harder finding photos of a dark-skinned Korean actress than a light-skinned one): 

Koreans: Song Hye-kyo and Lee Hyori 

Filipinos: Valerie Garica and Nicole Scherzinger (active in the US; Filipino father, Hawaiian/Samoan-Russian mother) 

Variation in skin colour across a “race” is as real as variation in eye colour (”oh, you have brown eyes? I guess you’re not a real Caucasian”). 

Colourism also pervades a lot of modern beauty marketing. 

What’s underneath your dark skin? A prettier, lighter version of yourself! Everyone should strive to be more fair and lovely because only then you’ll be happy with your flesh prison!! 

tl;dr colourism exists and isn’t some bogeyman made up by “”es jay double-ews,”” and if you’re the person bemoaning how it “delegitimizes racism” then it’s likely you actually don’t care about racism at all and are just trying to devalue the arguments with the classic “but so-and-so people have it worse! how could you be so self-centered and selfish??” 

[glowpop]

oh my god….there are people alive in this day and age who don’t know how to torrent movies

[glowpop]

a friend the other day was like….”oh i really want to watch this movie but i cant find it anywhere on netflix or online” and i said “oh you can just torrent it” and she gave me the blankest look…and then i said “you know…piratebay? kickasstorrents?” and she just frowned at me…what’s happening to this generation

[lierdumoa]

Guys it’s so much worse than that.

A couple years ago an instructor at my college who taught basic programming courses for game design majors posted on his facebook that a bunch of his incoming freshmen didn’t know how to create a zip file. 

A lot of public schools dropped their computer literacy courses in the early 2000s because they just assumed kids would “learn it at home.” There’s a whole generation of kids who only know how to navigate a touchscreen phone/tablet. They’ve never used a laptop or desktop.

I saved the facebook post and discussion thread – you can read it here: http://lierdumoa.tumblr.com/post/162986545597/image-is-a-screen-capture-of-a-facebook-post

[flange5]

I teach a college English class and not a semester goes by where I don’t have to teach a student how to use the Tab key to indent a new paragraph, because some of them literally have no pragmatic computer experience.

[brodiebutt]

pirate bay and kickass torrents are long gone….. like ofc kids dont know about them…

[glowpop]

they’re….they’re still there. kickasstorrents and pirate bay are still there and still kickin like crazy….in 2019….i think people not knowing about them has to do more with the rise of streaming services like netflix n hulu n shit

[germanova-deactivated20220729]

But its illegal?????????

[glowpop]

this is actually the funniest objection i’ve seen so far. what are you? a cop? you love the law? you love paying 15 dollars for albums made by artists who eat lamborghinis and diamonds and will make more money in a year than you ever will in your life? it’s okay. fuck the law.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Happening right now in Hong Kong - the police is firing rubber bullets and using batons, pepper spray, tear gas and water cannons on peaceful protesters who took the streets to protest against the passing of a controversial law which would allow China to extradite people.

Protesters set up camps, gave out snacks and surgical masks before all of this started. Tanks are apparenrly out in the streets as well and people are being hurt as I write this, but they are not backing down.

Most of the protesters are young people, university students, even high schoolers.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The police are now stopping ambulances trying to help the injured and are taking people out of the ambulances and arresting them insteading of letting them get the help they need. This could cost people their lives, their vision (they aimed the rubber bullets in the heads of the protesters), etc. It’s like those police officers forgot what their jobs actually are and lost their humanity in the process.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The man covered in blood and lying on the floor in one of the photos above is a journalist and the police shot him in the head! The protesters moved to let the ambulance pass through and directed them to the man and let them pass to the hospital freely, clapping at the ambulance workers all the while. The man has since lost consciousness and his condition is reported as being serious.

Meanwhile, the police had since blocked other ambulance vehicles from passing through and arrested the injured.

A video of the journalist being shot was captured and is currently spreading on social media - in it, you can see that the man was just standing there and didn’t do anything to warrant being shot whatsoever.

[loonyheather]

approx. 10 riot police beating up lone protester while journalists (in yellow vests) film

[loonyheather]

earlier (approx 5:30 HKT 12/6/19 (dd/m/yy)) a protester was shot in the face ; not sure if its by rubber bullet or bean bag

[sonicrainbooms]

TW BLOOD

Video of a man coughing blood 

Urgent medical supplies the protestors need:

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[ithelpstodream]

[iicarys]

why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.

[jadedsoggy]

Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck

[cctinsleybaxter]

“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”

[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]

[erinye]

woops

[cartnsncreal]

Society should protect women

[whatbigotspost]

And really not even “women” in this case…girls: she was a minor. What the ever loving fuck is wrong with people?

[jonphaedrus]

notre dame is burning.

this is ok.

it has happened before. it will happen again. it has been lost before. it will be lost again. and again. and again. and again. art and architecture are transient, and temporary, and 850 years may seem like a lot to the individual, who will live maybe 100 if they are very lucky and very healthy, but even the pyramids at saqqara have only existed for about 6000 years and that’s still not all that much, if you consider the grand scheme of things.

yes, this is terrible. as someone who is deeply religious and literally a professional historian with a focus on art and architecture, this is terrible. im mourning. im gutted. im horrified and upset and miserable. but.

it’s not over.

victor hugo wrote hunchback because notre dame du paris was in the process of collapsing and falling apart, and revitalized the entire world’s focus and love for this church, and that was not even 200 years ago. it led to it being renovated.

the roof has fallen in. the scars of fires are on its buttresses. the rose window has fallen out. the beams and piers have collapsed. the spire has toppled. the stones have suffered, and will suffer again, but it is not gone.

renovation work is essential. sometimes things collapse and burn and break and have to come back. it’s not a terrorist attack, it’s renovation, an accident, but we have so much evidence, history, carefully documented everything on one of the most studied places in the world.

it’s not the end.

[johannesviii]

Hey so, French person here. And also an ex History student. I’m here to say: Please listen to o.p. above.

Obviously everyone is shocked but here’s a few important key facts:

The roof is completely gone. Part of it dated back from the 13th century but the rest was from the 19th. The stone arch roof under the top roof is fine.

One of the three main stained glass rose windows has fallen out. Most of the other stained glass windows are okay.

The spire has fallen down and that’s the saddest part. BUT! It was in the process of being restored and the 16 statues that were there were removed just four days ago! So they’re fine.

The main structure is still here and nothing has “burned down” unlike what some people have been saying.

The “treasure” (sacred objects) is safe.

Notre Dame is still there. It’s just damaged. Almost nothing was lost today, and nobody was wounded either. It’s scary, but it’s gonna be okay.

[shakespork]

DON’T TRY TO CHEAT WITH ANTIBIOTICS

I’m seeing a disturbing amount of posts here claiming that people are not finishing their antibiotics (or not carrying on with their doctor’s intructions) in an attempt to “save” their antibiotics for later use.

DO NOT DO THIS.

If your doctor says to take your medicine for 2 weeks, take it for 2 weeks. 

Not finishing a course of antibiotics properly means the bacteria are not all dead. They may come back and you’ll have to do a full course again.

Furthermore, not finishing a course contributes to the rise of resistant bacteria, because you haven’t killed all of the bacteria that were making you ill and they can now mutate to become resistant to antibiotics. Your illness could come back, but this time, it won’t be treatable with the same antibiotics.

[jewishdragon]

In addition your next infection is likely a different bacteria and could easily require a different antibiotic!

[crimesonsatin]

not to be dramatic but 850 years of human history is burning down and it feels more and more like the end of the world

[hanecdote]

I spent about 15 hours stitching this feminist art meme 😂

[oh-snap-pro-choice]

Embroidery is fucking hard, and fucking cool.

[theoppositeofadults]

“our work should equip the next generation of women to outdo us in every field this is the legacy we’ll leave.”

- rupi kaur

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

I 100% went outside and spent awhile practicing kicks and swings to get more comfortable making fighting sounds for Voice Over

Dedication

[theinfiknight]

Bruh you are a legit nature spirit and nothing can convince me otherwise. I feel better knowing that the forests are under your protection

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

We are always watching

[morallyambiguoussodacan]

I swear I’m gonna fuckin draw you as a legit nature spirit,,

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

We’re waiting

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

Huh…..me realizing I was also called a forest creature a little over a year ago as well

Welp

[samxcamargo]

If you’re scrolling through tumblr trying to distract yourself from something you don’t want to think about or you’re looking for a sign that everything will be okay, this is it. So, breathe. Relax into this moment. You’re alive & that’s all that matters.

[niggazinmoscow]

This is amazing! A true beautiful princess!!! 😍😍😍