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I reblog history things, men with accents (mostly), marvel, Tolkien, and contemporary social issues. "I have opinions: a statement that surprises absolutely no one who knows me." Welcome aboard. 

[halcyonpromise]

Current tumblr situation’s not working out for me for assorted insignificant reasons that just compile into a heap of “I can’t get this under control.” So going for a fresh start with renewed enthusiasm at a new location. I’m following most of the same people there. If you follow me here and enjoyed the content, it’ll likely be similar over there, but with increased history nonsense. It would be a pleasure to see you all follow me there, but no pressure. <3 Stay grand, all. Hi! I’m here.

[halcyonpromise]

reblogging for people to see.

[halcyonpromise]

Current tumblr situation’s not working out for me for assorted insignificant reasons that just compile into a heap of “I can’t get this under control.” So going for a fresh start with renewed enthusiasm at a new location. I’m following most of the same people there. If you follow me here and enjoyed the content, it’ll likely be similar over there, but with increased history nonsense. It would be a pleasure to see you all follow me there, but no pressure. <3 Stay grand, all. Hi! I’m here.

[glumshoe]

My roommate from Beijing is fascinated by English expletives and is asking about the most offensive terms we have. I tried to explain the difference between insulting swear words and offensive slurs, and he was delighted by ‘asshole’, ‘motherfucker’, ‘bastard’, ‘dickhead’, and ‘shithead’. Explaining slurs without using any proved to be difficult, as he just tried to insult me by saying, “You are a big slur!”

[glumshoe]

I told him that he can combine different words to make new ones and he just pointed at me and said, “Fuck you, you son of shit-sucker! You loser!” 

[glumshoe]

“In China, we say ‘fuck your mom, fuck your ancestors, fuck your parents, fuck everyone… but we don’t say ‘fuck yourself’. I love that! In America, you can fuck anyone, even yourself!”

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FCC HOTLINE: [phone]

[kicsterash]

I don’t normally reblog things like these on this blog, but this is very serious. There’s plan for another protest on the 12 of July which I plan on being part of.

[patroklos-moved-blog]

adrienne de lafayette: the woman, the icon, the legacy

was only FOURTEEN when she married sixteen year old, awakward, lanky, redheaded fuckboy lafayette

(her mom loved laf but hated them together so she almost didn’t let them marry, didn’t let them sleep in the same room on their weddng night, and sent people with them on outings well into adulthood)

her dumbass husband ran off to america to fight in a war without telling anyone including his wife, so nice job on that one gilbert

her first daughter henriette fucking DIED as an infant, when laf was still in america. so adrienne dealt with that without her husband even being there

she was actually without her husband for quite a while come to think of it. like around 4 years total

handled their family’s finances on her own, because she was a fierce and brilliant woman

popped out four (4) of laf’s weird lookin kids

joined an abolitionist society along with her husband and purchased a cinnamon plantation with the sole purpose of freeing the slaves on the land

 had to deal with her husband doing stupid things like naming their child after general george washington and changing their family motto to “why not?”

and then, to everyone’s surprise and shock, her husband took up another post during the french revolution and went away for five months only to get sent to jail

she and her daughters were put on house arrest

oh and also a bunch of her family and friends had just been beheaded

while on house arrest, she sent letters to a whole shitton fuckton of people to try and get her husband out of an austrian prison and back to france

yeah she didn’t hear from laf for like two years while he was in prison because no one would let him write to her

smart smart woman burned any document or letter that could get laf in trouble 

anyway she finally got to this prison with her daughters except they would let laf out so she was like “fuck you and fuck your rules if he can’t come out i’m coming in”

LITERALLY ALLOWED HERSELF TO BE IMPRISONED FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS BECAUSE SHE LOVED HER HUSBAND THAT MUCH

(did i mention he cheated on her? twice? and she still went through all this shit and never had a bad thought about him :)))))))))

oh and! surprise! she got lead poisoning from the dirty water in the prison ah what a life

so they get out of prison and do you know what she does? she regains all their property, all their money, and gets them out of 200,000 livres worth of debt, because she was a badass

the hilarious end to her story is that she died a very painful death when she was 48 due to the lead poisoning she got n the prison

her last words ever spoken were to laf. and do you know what she said? “i am entirely yours”

anyway i’m dead inside and this woman deserves a bajillion dollars and a halo

[halcyonpromise]

listen up, july. get your shit together. an entire month of this is not sustainable.  sincerely, me

[st-pam]

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[tastefullyoffensive]

by The Oatmeal

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rb with traits your classmates made fun of in primary school

[mysharona1987]

[tzikeh]

I know that I’m just one of the millions of people who will lose their health care if the ACA is repealed and this becomes law, and I don’t have that many followers on tumblr and I’m not “important” in fandom. But I am a human being, and the ACA is all that stands between me and suicide.

The anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications I take are literally (and I am using this word correctly) keeping me alive at this point in my life. If Trumpcare goes through, it will mean my death, unless I can find a way to come up with $2250 a month to pay for my medications, because with Trump’s health care plan, even if I were able to get a full-time job with a health insurance package, my employer’s insurance could deny me benefits due to my pre-existing conditions. 

I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve tried pretty much all of the meds (and combos) available for my illnesses, back when I had a job with insurance. Now I pay into the Marketplace and get my insurance there, and I’m finally at a steady place w/r/t my disease. I’m not going to go all caps-lock and bold and whatever, but “death” is the outcome if I lose my ACA coverage.

I hope you are all calling your senators. I have been. 

[madlori]

My GOP Senator is one of the ones on the fence. He hears from me a lot.

But no matter who your Senator is, GOP or Dem, let them hear from you. A LOT.

[the-real-commasplice]

Guys, this is it. Seriously. If this passes the Senate, any one in the US who isn’t independently wealthy is fucked. Like fucked.

And by some miracle, you’re not fucked, I guarantee you someone you love and care about is fucked. 

CALL your Senators. 

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

SERIOUSLY HERE

MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD ABOUT THIS

[vashiane-archive-blog]

Natural Eye Color Chart

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tag your eye color

[halcyonpromise]

what’s the general consensus on visiting a country for 8 days, getting a job offer (that comes with a limited time frame, 4-8 weeks) and seriously considering dropping just about everything in my life to go do it?

Fabulous opportunity or running away from problems?

[sherlollyandspoilers]

I need advice!

When I got married I was 20 and my maid of honor was 19 - she was just finishing up her first year at college and still lived with her parents. Now I am one of my best friend’s maid of honor and I have no idea what I’m doing - I can’t use my MOH as an example because we were so young and my sisters picked up most of the traditional roles/tasks that I feel if I did what she did my friend would be really disappointed. (I mean, my MOH was great, don’t get me wrong!)

So any suggestions or links to good sites would be really helpful!

[mizjoely]

Get with the moms and other bridesmaids, make sure you have all their contact info. This will come is super handy when arranging things like the wedding shower and/or bachelorette party.

[halcyonpromise]

Set up an email chain of communication & use it freely. Try to pin down dates for events (dress fittings, bridal/wedding shower, bachelorette party, etc) early. Figure out events (and costs for the bridesmaids) ASAP because last minute surprise fees Are Zero Fun.  Consider having a pocket calendar/date book and get major events in the wedding party (could be groomsmen too if you’re doing combined events, could just be MOB/MOG, bridesmaids, etc) in there so you can plan around them as necessary/possible. Keep your calendar updated zealously. Alternatively if everyone is a facebook person, you can set up a bridal party group (bride inclusion is optional - depends on the bride. If your friend is the “I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING” she may be relieved to be included. If she’s the “I don’t care how you do it, the planning is stressing me out” type, she may not want to be in the group) to discuss things/keep dates/reminders going out. 

[yarnzipangirl]

This is just your daily reminder

That Gal Gadot has never ‘supported the Palestinian genocide’.

Does not have a rifle with the notch marks of all those she’s killed.

And has stated outright that she believes in coexistence.

She worked as a fitness instructor, never seeing combat during her mandatory stint in the Israeli army (IDF), and the only thing she said was that she wished luck to her former colleagues in the army (you know, the equivalent of ‘Support Our Troops’) and specifically wished them luck against (and condemned) Hamas, which is a terrorist organization.  Her tags then went on to note #stopterror and #coexistance.

You don’t have to like her, or Wonder Woman, or DC, but if you could keep the antisemitism out of it, that’d be great.

[milkywait]

marawi city, a part of the philippines, is under attack right now. please spread this and pray for my country and manchester

[bertann]

Wonder Woman Needs Our Help

I don’t normally make posts like this, but I feel like this is something I need to do because it’s bigger than myself. So, I don’t know if you’ve heard but the Wonder Woman film comes out June 2nd… And if you didn’t know that, there’s a reason for it. Warner Brothers aren’t spending money on promoting the Wonder Woman film. No tv promotions, billboards, nothing. A film about a strong, powerful, amazing woman superhero directed by Patty Jenkins who happens to be the first woman to direct a superhero film with a female protagonist and one of only a handful (a literal handful… you can count on one hand) to direct a superhero film at all. They are setting it up to fail so they can say “I told you so” and not only continue the blatant sexism in the film industry but blame it on Patty if the movie fails, setting female directors up (whom are already told they won’t get hired) so they can have an excuse to say “Oh well, we tried hiring a woman to direct a film and it didn’t work. Lets not do that again.” This film is bigger than just being a superhero movie… It has the ability to bust open the glass ceiling of Hollywood to tell them that yes, superhero movies about women do well and yes, women can not only direct blockbusters but they can do it well. Because I can guarantee you, Patty does it well. PLEASE spread this around and let Warner Brothers know we aren’t going to stand for this bullshit. GO SEE WONDER WOMAN JUNE 2nd!!!

[megumilovesyou-deactivated20180]

This is a called a glass cliff (when men put women in positions of power + set them up to fail). I hope it doesn’t work this time!

[emeraldfox11-deactivated2024010]

An article that highlights the budget differences between super hero movies, such as super man, in comparison to wonder Woman’s : https://filmschoolrejects.com/we-need-to-talk-about-that-wonder-woman-budget-ef4b1b70f6d8/

[bertann]

[fantastic-pizza]

Some articles talking about exactly this:

http://uproxx.com/hitfix/wonder-woman-no-promotion/2/

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/04/wonder-woman-marketing

http://www.vogue.com/article/wonder-woman-gal-gadot-bad-marketing-promotion

[eustaciavye28]

Go see this movie!

[araceil]

I don’t like DC, but Wonder Woman is actually the first one of their films I’m actually INTERESTED in watching. It has a completely different feel to it than the other ones before hand, and that has nothing to do with a female lead. There was actually HUMOUR in the trailer! Humour in a DC film? Unheard of.

[riarkleobsessed-blog-deactivate]

SIGNAL BOOST PLEASE

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(UK) HOLIDAY INN MANCHESTER #:  0161 836 9600

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( SOME HAVE BEEN REPORTED FOUND BUT OTHERS ARE STILL MISSING!! )

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IT IS OFFICIALLY 2 AM IN MANCHESTER UK, CHILDREN ARE MISSING. THIS LADY IS TAKING PEOPLE IN. 

[chrisevansfuckbuddy]

Find these babies and bring them home, God.