I don't know.

fuck.

[leslady79]

[homosexualontheloose]

She didn’t have to be that extra, but she did it anyway and for that she has my sword, my bow AND my axe.

[rylandgraces]

[b0dyisablade]

we've almost achieved a whole year without a marvel movie!! congrats guys!!!

[catchymemes]

[no-chill-at-all]

[chockfullochill]

[pocketss]

be there or be square

[memewhore]

[catchymemes]

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

Yes and YES!!!

[goawfma]

it was also supposed to be temporary 

[birdandmoon]

How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!

[sirfrogsworth]

Conservatives seem to think we have the same blind loyalty towards the Clintons that they do toward Trump.  

If Bill was involved, lock his ass up too. 

[kamikaze-kumquat]

Seriously. A pedo is a fucking pedo. I don’t care who you are. If my brother turned out to be a pedo, I would personally fucking volunteer to drive his ass to prison. Ain’t no one - celebrity, president, or just some stranger on the street - who I would “forgive” for violating children. NO ONE.

So, all you fucking conservatives can stop throwing that noise around. I liked Clinton somewhat but I would tear the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock down with my bare hands if he was on that list.

[systlin]

I’ve said this to a few conservatives, and it seems to puzzle them.

But seriously, go read “The Authoritarians” by Bob Altenmeyer, which he provides for free download on his website.

It explains this sort of behavior; authoritarian followers literally do follow leaders blindly, and assume everyone else does as well. They develop their opinions by being told them by someone they decide is an authority, rather than making their own mind up about stuff.

Therefore, since their entire worldview and sense of self is wrapped up in the things they were told to believe and therefore do, they take an attack on their leader as a personal attack, and assume everyone else works the same. So in the mind of an authoritarian follower, attacking what they assume to be the leader of a group is an effort to discredit the whole group.

This is also why they keep looking for ‘leaders’ of groups of protesters and ‘leaders’ of loose associations like Antifa; because they assume that all those groups MUST be following a single person, because they cannot wrap their head around the fact that a bunch of people may all just show up and do a thing without someone masterminding it all.

It’s why attacks on people like AOC, who they call a ‘progressive leader’, are so virulent. Because authoritarian followers think that if they manage to discredit ONE person, that would destroy the whole organization.

[terulakimban]

Is that why there’s such a cult following around Trump? And why there’s a conscious, conspicuous, and ongoing attempt to minimize or deny everything he’s done? Because they see accurate reporting of the actual stuff he’s done as a direct attack on them, and either they’d never do that because it is Bad and therefore he can’t have done that because he’s their leader or even if he did it, he is the leader and therefore what he does is inherently right? 

[systlin]

Yup.

https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf

Read the book. It really explains a lot about this.

[stonecrusherproductions]

So If I’m interpreting this right…

Non-Authoritarian: I’m not doing this thing because someone told me to do, I’m doing it for my own purposes.

Authoritarian: Yeah, guess what, we just showed that this prominent leader in your party is a pedophile!

Non-Authoritarian: *Immediately throw him out*

Authoritarian: Your mindset is flawed because it was made by a flawed man! You were following the wrong leader!

Non-Authoritarians: …Who said we were following anyone?

Authoritarian: You… you don’t FOLLOW people?

Non-Authoritarian: Nope.

Authoritarian: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*

[systlin]

In a nutshell, that’s exactly how it works, yeah.

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[zeroraws-deactivated20140708]

[bulletproofteacup-deactivated20]

This scene still breaks my heart each and every single time I watch it.

Azula was a terrible, horrible person. She would have set the world aflame and laughed over the broken carcass of her brother.

But she was fourteen.

She was so ruined and twisted by her childhood and by her nation, driven to insanity by the expectations placed upon her.

Azula was bad and yet I can’t help but feel so terribly sorry for her.

[halftruthsandhyperbole]

“I don’t have sob stories like all of you.”

[gelatinousfeline]

SHE WAS FUCKING FOURTEEN WHAT

[carnivalofwonder]

“My own mother….thought I was a monster. She was right, of course, but it still hurt.”

[thefortysecond]

actually, i think one of the shows strengths is that they didn’t shy away from what a horrible tragedy this was. even though she was clearly a villain and did unspeakably awful things, this scene was still framed as sad. there was no celebrating- they just look at her sadly.

the music for the battle that leads up to this moment is sad too- it’s an epic battle, visually probably one of the biggest things done in the entire series, and they could have played it with thumping, energetic, dangerous music. but instead it’s quiet and somber. because the whole scenario is heartbreaking, and they know it.

i think the fact that a kid’s show had so much respect for it’s viewers and their ability to understand the complexity of this situation is what makes avatar great.

[omghotmemes]

If April ends up worse I swear to God

[jackironsides]

Sure is something to read this post at the beginning of June.

[sandersstudies]

One of the baristas at a nearby Starbucks makes me lose my mind every time I’m working there by saying things that are not outside the spectrum of normal human words but are just slightly off-the-wall.

Barista: Welcome to Starbucks, home of delicious, what deliciousness can I put in motion for you today?

Customer: … Can I get a trenta pink drink please?

Barista: Go big or go home, we here at Starbucks appreciate your commitment, what else can I get started for you?

***

Customer: Nitro cold brew with shots of espresso please.

Barista: Brave of you to commit to staying awake for three days, anything else today?

***

Barista: *slams open drive-thru window* HI HOW ARE YOU?

Customer: …I’m pretty good.

Barista: Are you ready to be even better? Because you’re about to be. *hands them their coffee* 

***

Barista, realizing that a drink was made wrong: *slams open window* SO how do you feel about surprises?

Customer: ….they’re okay.

Barista: Great because I’m about to give you one.

***

Barista: You have two drinks so I am going to hand you two straws which means, FANTASTIC news, these straws double as drumsticks. / You have one drink so I am going to hand you one straw and, promise not to tell anyone, this straw doubles as a magic wand.

***

Barista: Here are those cake pops, I plucked them fresh from the tree myself.

***

Barista: *slams open window, holding drink* Amazing, fantastic, delicious, you are a very lucky man/woman!

***

Barista, realizing drink is being delayed or remade: Looks like it’s gonna be just one minute so they have time to put the extra love in.

***

Barista: I’ll be with you in one hot second. *beat* WOW that second sure was hot!

Anyway she has a few dozen catchphrases she rotates appropriately and it’s both distracting and fantastic to listen.

[bumblebeerror]

She sounds like a fuckin riot and I want to tell her she’s doing amazing

[phantomthread2017]

dream job: robert pattinson’s therapist …. i wanna see whats going on up there

[theshitneyspears]

[simonsayswhatnow]

thats a good birb