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I'm Molly-Bryn (formerly known as whorecalledbryn) and I'm here to brighten and enlighten your day with ART, THEATER, WORDS, MOVIES, a little bit of politics, FAMOUS PEOPLE, FANDOM STUFFS, HOPEFUL MESSAGES, HOPEFULLY MEANINGFUL MESSAGES, SILLY THINGS, FUNNY THINGS, AND OTHER VERY IMPORTANT HAPPY THINGS YAY

[buffythecomicslayer]

Steve Morris’ likeness tryouts for Buffy, Spike, Angel, Faith, Dawn and Xander.

[whatsthemovetonightboys]

Who wants to hear how I rekted a straight boys ego in gym class today? Because in really fucking proud rn

[ask-elizabeth-holly-hamilton-de]

*is waiting*

[whatsthemovetonightboys]

*cracks knuckles* okay nerds listen the fuck up.

So I’m in a special gym class for the swim team, so it’s coed with the boys and girls swim team for my school. It’s leg day, and I was setting up my rack for squats. Now I don’t usually go hard in gym because I don’t fucking care and I’m a 3 season athlete, I don’t actually need extra fuxking exercise. I only put maybe 10 pounds on the bar, and this fucking twig looking punk ass comes from fucking nowhere and starts laughing. Mind you I’m taller than fucking everyone in this class, I towered over this twerp. I ask him why he’s laughing, and he says, WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, “Women are so weak” and I almost decked his ass right then but I bite my tongue. For no fucking reason he decided to continue, “Why are women even in sports, they can’t do anything! What’s your max, 50 pounds?” And all his friends are laughing and telling him how cool this he is. So I challenge him to a squatting challenge, I want to see how much weight he can squat. He’s all reluctant now, saying how that wasn’t safe for me, how I might hurt myself, but my swim coach comes from behind and says she would like to see it so he’s like “Fine, whatever, if you get hurt it ain’t my fault.”

He proceeds to put fucking 100 pounds on, my ass is trying not to laugh because wow that’s “a lot”, and the whole time he is struggling, groaning and making gross ass male noises, and only got 4 reps in. He sets it back on the rack and looks at me with this fucking smirk, surrounded by his douche group, and omg I’m about to just drop kick his ass, and he does that stupid hand motion towards the rack. I walk over and my team members ask me how much I want. I tell them to double it. Everyone stops and my coach is smiling cause she knows how much I can squat. My teammates are like “… Are you sure?” And I tell them how I’m fucking ready. So they put 100 more pounds on, making it now 200 pounds, and I tell them to back off. I then walk over and add 50 more pounds, the whole time looking at this white trash. He looks like a dead man, crusty lookin ass about to pass out. The bar now has 250 pounds, and I get 15 reps in. I set it down and I walk up to him, not having broken a sweat, and just pat him on the cheek before continuing on with my workout. My teammates are all freaking out, telling me how cool that was and how they never knew, but the boys team looks like they’re going to cry. I’m really fucking sore but I regret nothing.

That’s the story how I went up in weight for my squat with the pure determination of breaking up fuckbois dreams @ask-elizabeth-holly-hamilton

[whatsthemovetonightboys]

Okay I was looking back on this because we were maxing today and my coach said that wasn’t my max and I’m like??? What, and I realized I never accounted for the bar, so that makes total weight was 295.

[interruptmag-blog]

A word of advice to trans women

Go to your nearest target. Buy a two pack of pushup bras (24$ for 2), and target’s bra inserts (12$). Then go to your nearest Walmart and buy the Vasserette Control Shapewear Panties (2.50 each), they do wonders for helping your tuck. There you go! You just saved yourself a lot of money, you can afford to buy enough to wear every day, and best of all you look fabulous. -@twidx

[orangelemonart]

recs for trans women are so rare on tumblr!! spread this, people.

[phoenixcollective]

Please reblog this, in total it’s about $38.50 to make a huge difference for a trans woman/trans feminine person. 

[gingahhh]

when are male celebs gonna stop wearing boring ass plain black and white tuxedos and suits to award shows like step it up they all look the same I don’t care who made it. I wanna see some hunger games Capitol style fashion

[dykedekuremade]

[quite-right-too]

I’m sorry?

Plaid. ^

Green Velvet. ^

Cream. ^

Red Velvet. ^

Sequined. ^

Stripey. ^

White. ^

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PLAIN SUIT FOR ME!

[weewildelass]

****** tartan

[tonks17]

So, these tweets happened.

The way I see it, “Slave Leia” embodies the objectification, sexism, and fetishization of Princess Leia in that metal bikini in Return of the Jedi, while also highlighting that she was passive and helpless at the mercy of Jabba the Hutt.

“Leia the Huttslayer” is a badass who takes matters into her own hands and strangles the life out of that disgusting sexist slug that dared to control her with the very chain he tried to leash her with. (Also, it’s way more metal, and if a girl’s gotta wear a metal bikini she’s earned a metal epithet to go with it.)

[swankmotron]

So, this is doing the rounds.

[pjslife]

Huttslayer indeed

[osheamobile]

Leia the Huttslayer, Daughter of Skywalker, Scion of House Organa, Heir to House Naberrie, the First of Her Name

[fuks]

✋🐝

[riversurface]

oh my god I literally gasped

[guiiiermo]

IM LAUGHING. THEY TRIED THO.

[shuhvon]

Why do people hate women so much

[psteeezy]

i think it’s about time tumblr saw the other side of demi lovato

[inheavensmind-deactivated201812]

Sources?

[psteeezy]

literally i shouldnt even need this but here (x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x/x)

[evilundead]

text post meme for my emo garbage son, kylo ren

[femininefreak]

Scott writes that all 23 women interviewed for the paper described doing both male and female chores. Men, on the other hand, talked mostly about male labor. Unless specifically asked, only a third of the men interviewed mentioned any work traditionally done by women. One apple grower described his orchard as a one-man business that his son would eventually inherit, with his wife and daughter only minimally involved. But, in a separate interview, his wife said that while her husband and son took care of the trees, she handled seedlings in the nursery, coordinated sales, hired seasonal labor, kept the books, and helped make decisions. She also mentioned that their daughter ran the farm’s fruit stand. The men were also more likely to emphasize male ownership of family enterprises—“my grandfather’s farm” or “my tractor.” In contrast, the women usually referred to “my grandmother and grandfather’s farm” or “our tractor.”

GENDER AND FAMILY FARMS: AN INVESTIGATION

(via psychicsycophant)

Ugh.

(via farmlandia)

this is 100% my experience

(via rikodeine)

[monstress]

stormtroopers breakroom whenever kylo throws a fit:

[arboreals]

#he’s not even their BOSS #he’s just this weird temperamental overly powerful teenager they keep on board and bosses them around sometimes #the poor stormtrooper mechanics who have to go around repairing all the tech he mindlessly destroys #they keep going to general weasley and saying “can’t you stop him he’s blowing through the budget we have no money left for #ACTUAL technical repairs and upgrades please” #and general weasley sighs and says he’ll run it up the chain but #just go ahead and submit it under expenses he’ll find the money #maybe that’s why death star 2.0 had a weak spot again #general weasley kept borrowing from the project to fund the “kylo ren destroying the entire base for no good reason” repairs (notbecauseofvictories)

[bornonvenus]

[yourbigsisnissi]

Your friends are not your therapist. Don’t just dump on them. Make sure you’re there for them emotionally too

[purpleishlove]

!!!!

[chloes-pirate-booty]

!!!!!!!!!

[2000yr]

I didnt kno they had these

[hottermelon]

brow extensions

[pastelmorgue]

Okay but do you realize how good this is for cancer patients?? People with scars who can’t grow brows??? People with alopecia??? (Sp? ) like… pls stop hating the beauty industry.

[fullmetalviolinist]

people with trichotillomania

[inkskratches]

Yes to people with trich. One of my roommates reblogged this saying they didn’t even know they made these until they met me. And the sad thing is, I didn’t even know they made these until I did a Google search one night in a fit of desperation. I’ve gone to so many therapists for trich, and instead of providing me resources like this, they would often leverage the fear of looking ugly as motivation to stop. If anything, it only ever made the problem worse.

These save me so much time in the morning. Before I discovered them, I would have to meticulously pencil my brows on every day just to feel normal enough to leave the house. By contrast, I can keep the fake ones on for about three days at a time, and gluing them in place takes only a few minutes with a bit of practice.

I’ve been getting mine from headcovers.com for over three years now. They’re a bit pricier than the ones offered on other sites, but they last 3-4 months if taken care of properly (meaning to buy the site’s adhesive remover as well and clean them after each use). They also look very natural. Everyone who’s talked to me about them told me they didn’t even know my eyebrows were fake until I alluded to such or took them off in their presence.

[spoonie-living]

This sounds like it could be quite useful for some of my readers!!

[trichotillomaniak-blog]

of course something ignorant was said about this product by the original tweet poster, but

reblogging for the false eyebrow site^^ really thinking about purchasing some.

[kickassfanfic]

Going bald during chemo didn’t bother me nearly as much as losing my brows. I’m not sure if it was because I had adorable wigs or just because I was prepared for that part, but nobody tells you how much the color, thickness, and shape of your brows affects your face.

[astralizey]

I didn’t even know eyebrow extensions were a thing. Reblogging for my followers with trich and alopecia

[harzburgite]

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic.

there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially if you’ve learned from it. If you’re humble enough to admit it, I guarentee there’s a bit of a good person inside of you. 

[gothicprep]

i H A T E how “let’s watch a movie” has become a euphemism for sex like… if we have a thing and i invite you over to watch a movie sometimes i rlly wanna show you it? you haven’t seen david fincher’s academy award winning film “the social network”? come over and watch it! dnt touch my boob… you will miss important plot details…

[pastelq-tip]

I bet Luke sensed Rey was coming and made her walk up all of those stairs anyways so he could have his grand entrance scene on the cliff because he has been the drama queen of the galaxy since the day he was born

[a-golden-lasso-of-my-own]

Yay! Feminist Anthropology time!

Prehistoric Cave Prints Show Most Early Artists Were Women

Alongside drawings of bison and horses, the first painters left clues to their identity on the stone walls of caves, blowing red-brown paint through rough tubes and stenciling outlines of their palms. New analysis of ancient handprints in France and Spain suggests that most of those early artists were women. This is a surprise, since most archaeologists have assumed it was men who had been making the cave art. One interpretation is that early humans painted animals to influence the presence and fate of real animals that they’d find on their hunt, and it’s widely accepted that it was the men who found and killed dinner. But a new study indicates that the majority of handprints found near cave art were made by women, based on their overall size and relative lengths of their fingers. “The assumption that most people made was it had something to do with hunting magic,” Penn State archaeologist Dean Snow, who has been scrutinizing hand prints for a decade, told NBC News. The new work challenges the theory that it was mostly men, who hunted, that made those first creative marks.  Another reason we thought it was men all along? Male archeologists from modern society where gender roles are rigid and well-defined — they found the art. “[M]ale archaeologists were doing the work,” Snow said, and it’s possible that ”had something to do with it.”

I added the emphasis in bold, but the “that” was already italicized in the article, and it’s probably my favorite part. I love this article, although I’m not a huge fan of the fact that it’s considered so incredibly shocking and radical to imagine that women possibly participated in society 40,000 years ago.

In other awesome feminist anthropology news: it is now somewhat accepted that the venus sculptures, rather than being depictions of female beauty by male artists, were self-portraits by women looking down at their own bodies. The paleolithic figurines lose their distorted proportions and acquire representational realism if we understand that they are self-portraits created by women looking down at their own bodies. 

See also: This quote by Sandy Toksvig

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. ‘This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar’ she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’

It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book The Women’s History of the World (recently republished as Who Cooked the Last Supper?) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.

[erikacpataki]

the willendorf sculpture and others like her were /the first selfies/ and its amazing

[spybrarian]

The paleolithic figurines lose their distorted proportions and acquire representational realism if we understand that they are self-portraits created by women looking down at their own bodies.

I really, really love this sentence.

[lottebagpipe-deactivated2017092]

THis is so fantastic that I almost want to cry

[deerthing]

oh look it’s time for me to reblog this again

excuse me while i wallow in my prehistoric art feelings