grey light.

like most nomad women she wore her wealth

[1000-life-hacks]

[wearethe15percent]

The McDonald family - Seattle, WA

[willitbeard]

Beard and Umbrella

As requested by @geo_rgina

[grey-light]

gettin tropical

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

[averdantchaos]

Opal; Opalville Mine, Queensland, Australia

[beyoncexknowles]

Beyoncé listening to her music.

[heaveninawildflower]

 Picture of cockscombs from Xian’e Changchun Album.

Qing Dynasty

Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)  http://ttoopp.pixnet.net/blog/post/30587356 Wikimedia

[woodendreams]

(by Tracey & Dee)

[grey-light]

wow i bet this place smells so good and crisp and cold

[faeriekins-deactivated20140310]

HOW IT FEEL TO KNOW GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN

[theserpentempress]

we have literally created our own dialogue? language? here on tumblr and i think that is the most amazing thing ever please disregard my shitty editing skills

[implicit-demandforproof-blog]

no listen this is actually really amazing because this is a real thing. i think this counts as a pidgin language. a pidgin language is basically a changed, simplified version of a language. you can change the spellings of words, pronunciation, grammar rules, or even make up new words. i think. i’d have to research it a bit more to be sure but i’m 90% sure this is right. if its not a pidgin language, then its a lingua franca but thats more used for trade and stuff like that. but still a new language. so yes, we’ve created our own language. we’ve changed the whole sentence structure. we can trail off sentences, say things like “i just cant”, and use words like ship, OTP, fic, fandom, feels, and ship names and everyone will understand what you’re saying. the part that i love most is how people go “OMGH IM CRIIY NIG SOIOO HARD” and understand each other. for example “IM LIUA GHMNIG”. that one was incredibly easy, but if you knew that said “I’m laughing”, congratulations. You speak a pidgin language. we can even say stuff like “Does anyone know of a Johnlock fic, at least 20k words, not a WIP, with no OCs, and is Post-Reichenbach? Or just a Destiel PWP would be great.” To someone not on tumblr, that wouldn’t make any sense. but you understood, didn’t you? One characteristic of a pidgin language is that you have to learn it like a second language. Another characteristic is that it is frequently changing. tumblr goes through many trends with how we talk. if i remember correctly, when i first made an account about two years ago, talking like this wasn’t quite as common. also, that thing of suddenly capitalizing your sentence is fairly recent. you know, when people go “the new epISODE IS TOMORROW”. Like one of the people up there said, all of this is awesome because how else do you easily show emotion and tone over the internet? we’ve even made a whole sense of humour that most people here share in. There’s so much more that I could talk about with this, but i’m tired and i may be entirely wrong about everything. but yes. people on the fandom side of tumblr who speak like this are speaking a new language

[tardisity-deactivated20180723]

It’s more amazing when you think that the new language was developed almost exclusively through indirect communication.

[fuchsimeon-deactivated20180714]

Man I wish I still had linguisitics classes because I am sure this totally counts as a pidgin language…

[berengia]

[thevoyaging]

Cherry Blossom Night, Kyoto, Japan

photo via autumn

[poietike-deactivated20200109]

Ryoichi Kurokawa.

[floralls]

A92532_2 (by lawa)

[adamnrayofsunshine]

Here’s a fun exercise: swap out the term “political correctness” for “empathy.”

“Empathy is a form of censorship.”

“Empathy is ruining this country.”

"I don’t care about being empathetic.”

Reeeeeeally puts a different spin on things.

[herhonestlife]

This. All damn day.

[malcolmjamalwarlock]

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Also, ALWAYS WORTH RE-WATCHING.

[lolatmra-blog-blog]

White guys are so proud of their ability to be not offended. When one of them tells a rape joke or uses a racial slur, they wink and pat themselves on the back and give endless attaboys for their superior skills in being not offended. They decry the “politically correct” society they find themselves in and look down on anyone who has the lack of fortitude to be offended by anything.

Of course, what allows them to be not offended at rape jokes and racial slurs is that they are not targeted at them. For white guys, these are fun toys to play with; while for much of the rest of the world, they are tools of violence and oppression. Not just relics of the past, but very much alive and well today. So, then, the magical quality that allows these guys to remain so aloof and above-it-all is, quite simply, privilege.

And if you want to watch hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance in action, simply bring up privilege to these not offended white guys and see how fast and hard they become offended. Privilege is a concept so simple and obvious that most social scientists take it as axiomatic, but the mere mention of it gets these guys worked up into a rage. They’re so proud of their ability to be not offended by oppressive language and stereotypes, but they’ll be damned if you point out why. Funny. It’s almost as if they are the beneficiaries of systems of oppression and want to subtly encourage those systems so as to continue benefiting, while simultaneously stifling all mention of those systems, so as to mollify their fragile egos and underused consciences. 

But by all means; continue to congratulate yourself on your superior ability to be not offended by oppression and cruelty.

[fashionably--chic-deactivated20]

[r2--d2]

cradle of light by (Colin Gallagher)