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Nocturnal creature called fayth. Do not tap on the glass. No flash photography is allowed.

[altonzm-deactivated20170213]

obviously international media bias is a thing but I’m just begging ppl to recognise when ‘completely unreported by mainstream media’ actually means ‘I don’t follow the news’

[door-maker-gal]

The best is “Mainstream media isn’t reporting on this!” *link to an AP/CNN/Reuters article*

[sillyjimjam]

I’m at the pop up globe watching twelfth night and I kid u not the fool basically just went ‘anyway here’s wonderwall’ and is actually fucking playing it with all the audience singing along???? And all i can think is how happy shakespeare would be that his play is being upstaged by a fucking meme

[foxmouth]

Public Projects, 2015 | by Miguel Marquez

[horriblewarning-deactivated2025]

DEATH TO TRANSPHOBIA

[maxistentialist-deactivated2020]

I regret writing this card, it was a mean, cheap joke. We took it out of the game a while ago.

[cs-inactive1-deactivated2020060]

thanks! I wish that more people in comedy realized they could just, uh, do this, and not throw a big fucking stink about it, and go on to make more jokes that are good instead of bad. It is strange that so many people seem to imagine that a simple and sincere apology is a difficult or terrible thing to give.

[almost-always-eventually-right]

Cards Against Humanity is a group of people writing immensely offensive joke prompts and punchlines for a living, and if they’re collectively a better person than you are when it comes to being called out on offensive language and jokes, you should really reconsider your behavior.

[ayellowbirds]

This is encouraging.

[denzelle]

the part of howl’s moving castle where he cries WHAT’s THE POINT OF LIVING IF I CANT BE BEAUTIFUL and generates gallons of ectoplasmic slime from every pore because he accidentally messed up bleaching his hair is INCREDIBLY relatable

[sarahmackattack]

Baby Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, raised in the Nyholm Lab, Spring 2014. 

[d3dans]

@kingrebecca

[catbountry]

They’re so small.

[thepoliticalnoteboo1deac]

@vox takes on the trope of the hypercompetent female sidekick. You know her – the one who’s the smartest, toughest and most capable yet ends up being rescued by the less talented, but extremely straight, white, cisgender and male hero. 

This intersects well with discussions about the pay gap and obstacles women face in their careers. For those of us who aren’t straight white cisgender men – the persistence of being typecast as not-the-hero (or the boss, or the leader, or the expert commenter) despite qualifications, talents and capabilities is a lived reality. 

[tehawesome]

not sure why i rewrote the copy on the men’s clothing section of the uniqlo website, but i did it. the words are different now.

and here’s one that didn’t fit in the photo set:

[fan-troll]

i almost made the mistake of scrolling past this

[sophiesuffocate]

This I beautiful

[virgoprivilege]

reasons moulin rouge should've been about lesbians

- satine’s whole bird-in-a-cage ‘one day I’ll fly away’ imagery, talk about being in the closet

- Christian’s entire character. what man is that sensitive and considerate? a butch lesbian in a nice old-timey shirt, on the other hand…

- you ever watch that scene where they sing together on the elephant and you’re like, why the hell would a het couple be so reluctant and scared. there’s an easy solution to that, my friend

- imagine the ‘roxanne’ number but with the added theme of a lesbian couple being trodden down by a heteronormative world. powerful, I tell you

- the duke is a much more upsetting antagonist as a whole when you consider him as a threat to a lesbian couple’s happiness, actually

- Toulouse lautrec hanging out with them would also make a ton more sense, historically

- ‘freedom, beauty, truth and love’ maaaaaate

[virgoprivilege]

more

- ‘it’s about love overcoming all obstacles!’

- ‘silly of me to think you could fall in love with someone like me’ 👀👀👀

- ‘we should be lovers’ ‘we can’t do that’ :0

- the moon sings in celebration every time they make out like come on

- they’re so bad at hiding as a couple tbh they could only get away with it due to Gal Pal Syndrome

[officialweatherwax]

Sometimes when I’m bored I imagine famous musicals if they were about lesbians, so I am totally here for other people’s lesbian rewrites of same. <3

[kyojinsenshu]

THIS 👏 IS 👏 HOW 👏 YOU 👏 OPEN👏 SHOW

[florencelovesyou-deactivated201]

this is so beautiful

[captain-ameriadoc-brandybucky]

[Brexit, pursued by a bear].

[provendermalkin]

There’s a new “horror” movie coming out, and the premise is that a female diver gets stuck sitting on a rock 200 yards from shore in what looks like maaaaaybe 30 foot deep water, with a great white “circling” nearby.

It is very stupid looking.

I could make all kinds of arguments about how there are only a few documented cases ever of sharks intentionally going after humans, about how we’re already trying to hunt them to extinction because people are terrified of them for no logical reason, about how the creator of Jaws regretted the shark phobia his work inspired for the rest of his life and became an extremely staunch defender of sharks as important ocean wildlife. I could say how pissed I am that yet again someone is making a “horror” movie whose premise is animals are evil and malicious and go after humans for no reason, nature and man are inherently at odds.

But instead I’m going to leave these pictures here and make the case that this is going to be a very inconsistent, confused film about a big angry fish who apparently changes size off camera.

Here we see the shark doing a Sea World style backflip in order to eat a guy right off his surfboard. (It then chases down guy number two, gets his legs in its mouth, and then… swims backwards? to dramatically pull him away from the rock?)

Aaand here we have a perfectly circular bite in the main character’s leg where the shark apparently shrunk way down, bit in deeply enough to leave a perfect circle of ouch in her flesh, and then let go. Either that, or she’s a giantess and her thigh is as big as a man’s entire torso.

Sharks, even great white sharks, really don’t give a fuck about humans. We are not food for them. They attack divers because they have relatively poor eyesight, and from below, a human paddling out into the water on a surfboard looks like a very fat, slow, awkward seal floundering on the surface. Sharks who do attack humans generally attack only once before realizing that this is not what they expected. That’s why there are shark attack survivors; the shark doesn’t try to eat the rest of the person they just bit. Great white sharks and tiger sharks can be dangerous, but so can any large animal. More Americans alone are killed by chairs, cows, deer, dogs, and vending machines (each, not added together) than are killed worldwide by sharks even on a very unlucky year.

Please be kind to sharks.

[mandaboss]

Seeing this trailer last time I went to a movie really upset me. Sharks need our help, not more fear mongering. This movie looks stupid, but I’m sure there will be some level of response to it that elevates violence against sharks.

They are so important to the ecosystems they live in, and they are beautiful creatures. They are not out to get us.

Everyone involved in making this movie and pushing this little piece of trash forward should be ashamed of themselves for the impact this could have.

[kaijufluffs]

Please love our ocean cleaning smile friends.

[agileo-101]

#savethesharks

they had enough crap from us since JAWS, there were so many of them killed after that movie came out. The author of JAWS apologizes of what he had done (creating hysteria and harming the sharks) and uses the money he made to support shark rescues and stuff. please let’s not repeat the same stupid mistakes we made

[whatis2plus2]

Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”

And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”

Her response was, “Well, are you?”

My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.

The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”

I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.

Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular - but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.

Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.

Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place - when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.

Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.

[stephrc79]

Signal boost to this unbelievably important message.

[micdotcom]

The first episode of our new series Skirt the Issue starring Jacqui Rossi is here! Watch below:

[i-was-a-naive--antifeminist]

Here’s a link to the study that found that both men and women are more likely to penalize women who ask for more money. The participants in the study attributed their penalties to these women being “less nice.” Women in the study were aware of how they would be viewed if they asked for more money, and thus most didn’t ask.

And again, here is another study in which resumes with women’s names on them were given 12% lower starting salaries just because they had women’s names on them.

One of the most fascinating studies on the gender wage gap showed women negotiate higher salaries if they are advocating for another individual, and not themselves. Another experiment showed women ask for an average of $7,000 less than men when negotiating for themselves, but the same amount when negotiating for someone else (Summary).

So it’s not a problem of women needing to “negotiate more” or “learn to negotiate”; women already know how to negotiate, but are aware of the sexism they will face for advocating for themselves. It’s sexist bullshit.

[errantharlot-deactivated2018090]

I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying, “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.”

a post my mum shared on fb earlier (via mnrva)

Written by the poet Michael Rosen

(via coldalbion)

YES YES YES

Facism almost always walks in and offers two things:

1) identification of a legitimate problem (often poverty/a failing economy/a lack of jobs)

2) identification of an Other who can be blamed and removed so that the problem is solved and the future is prosperous and safe.  (The Other almost never caused the problem, but that’s not the point; the point is how you can tell the story to link them together.)  The idea of the Other being to blame is often softened, at first:  “Well, we’re not talking about ALL [group], just the bad ones!”  Just punishments for the “bad” people, and you and your friends and family get your future back.  

It’s a deal an awful lot of people will take, if they are brought to believe in it.

(via decepticonsensual)

[unfortunatesun]

[moderndaywarriorsawyer]

The Money Tubbs only comes around every 5628 seconds. Reblog the Money Tubbs and you’ll find money!

[modelinterrupted]

Bitttchhh the last time I reblogged some bullshit like this I booked a 2k 30minute shoot lmao

[samanthalena]

☃

[linrenzo]

Let see what happens

[emotiona1shorty]

I need I need I need

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

I need 1 k to get the work started on my car and another 1.5k to get it out of hock at the shop. Come on money bear.

[hello-quentin]

I need money because I’m tired of asking my bf for money.. damn maternity leave

[hello-quentin]

So I just wanna say I reblog get this last night.. and today I got mail from KPERS retirement (from when I was a para) that says I have $556 I need to withdraw from my account.. and then I also told my boss I would work 2 days because he’s desperate

[swftsims]

yo let this happen to me

[swftsims]

Just wanna let everyone know that I reblogged this last week and I found out I’m getting $1312.15 back in tax this year. 🙏

[novza]

Let’s see 🤔

[botanycameos]

Whenever I thought of Anton Yelchin, this was the image that came to mind first. He was such a gentle and sweet soul.

Rest in peace Anton, we’ll never forget you. ;__;