Megs

22, she/her

[keepingupwiththecullens]

benjamin, did scaramouche ever do the fandango?

[guerrillatech]

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

alright here's today's controversial post. a good amount of you on here will be like "english was my favorite subject 😍😍😍" and then reblog posts like "here is why sex scenes CAN'T have symbolism" and "stop consuming media with toxic characters" like okay so what were you doing in your english classes then. cause it apparently wasn't learning or analyzing. i'm pretty sure it was doodling pictures of eyes.

[fishpillowses]

“This representation was groundbreaking for the time and a lot of people liked it” and “This may have aged poorly and many modern audiences from the group don’t feel represented by it and are bothered by aspects of it” are not mutually exclusive

[tetranocular]

see also: “it’s okay to feel uncomfortable with these pieces of media due to their clumsy—if not harmful—depictions” and “some people still enjoy them, despite their flaws, especially older people who grew up without the same amount of representation we have today, and it’s not your place to tell someone they can’t like it”

[jumpingjacktrash]

see also “it’s valid to dislike a piece of media because the associations it brings to mind for you are upsetting” and “the associations something brings to mind for you may not be universal or intended, so before you decide something is ‘x-coded’ or ‘a dogwhistle’ you need to fact check a bit.”

[whatshabsening]

see also “you will not be able and are under no obligation to relate to every piece of media that depicts your group” and “your own feelings about this media is not the only opinion that matters and you cannot tell other people within your group that they shouldn’t relate to it.”

[mikkeneko]

don’t make me tap the sign

[cartoonnetworkhistory]

cartoon network commercial from 2004

[thefloatingstone]

lol so anyway it’s basically canon. Johnny and Jack said so.

[rainbow-rebel]

[a-common-haitian-name]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[royal-quirk]

Why is this really cute? (◕ヮ◕ヽ) their aesthetics compliment each other so well

[ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense]

This is the forbidden reboot couple we deserved

[valtsv]

the one experience that unites all 90s and early 2000s kids is experiencing at least one work of fiction with a deceptively adorable illustration of cute animals on the cover who live in societies with an established political system, hierarchy of leadership and culture and are driven from their homes by human activity and/or engage in violent conflicts with other animals in similar communities that lead to many of the characters’ brutal deaths, which are described in graphic detail and which left you briefly emotionally traumatized by being confronted with the concept of your own fragile mortality before you were 10

[valtsv]

the 4 horsemen

[valtsv]

it has been brought to my attention that this was an ENTIRE GENRE of children’s fiction for some reason

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

You forgot An American Tail

[dreamyblackchild]

Expectation: “Yay, cute talking animals going on fun adventures and learning about friendship!”

Reality: “These cute talking animals are going through a lot of traumatic shit. The world they live in is dangerous, the stakes are super high and these small critters deal with war, death, betrayal, and oppression. Have fun reading, kids!”

[skidar]

See also

[whitepeopletwitter]

[ohgoddamnit]

As a mass comm major, IF THERE IS SOMETHING UNJUST OR IMMORAL BEING DONE CALL YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATION THEY WILL HELP MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE

Cities and government agencies HATE bad press. This story that was told to me by the journalist that covered this, and he showed us the piece:

There was a traffic light that was set up on the far side of an overpass, but it was improperly hung so you couldn’t see the light until it was too late. There were accidents there EVERY SINGLE DAY and calls to the city did NOTHING.

Someone had the idea to call the local news station and this dude went out to see. As he was interviewing someone, there was a wreck.

Guess what happened after that piece aired?

Suddenly the city had the time to lower the traffic light and the accidents stopped.

Journalists get a bad rep, and while big stations like Fox deserve it, I think more thought should be given to who you’re actually shitting on when you say “I hate journalists.” Because we’re overworked, underpaid, constantly shit on, but we still do the job because we want to help people. All professional, prestigious journalists that I’ve met hate the government and will do whatever they can to get the information and change that’s needed. Being a journalist is a dangerous profession: at every professional convention I’ve been at there’s a fund for the families of journalists that have been killed (there’s a lot!) and a long memoriam roll.

SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS STATIONS

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

[thesylverlining]

literally in my 1st grade book that I read and learned about her for the first time, it described her as “a woman named rosa. rosa’s feet were tired.” 

that’s it. rosa’s feet were tired. 

that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface, and it’s so important that we know the rest.

[anightvaleintern-blog1]

Correction:  Rosa Parks was not only a trained activist, she and her activist buddies were specifically trying to recreate an incident that had happened earlier.

You see, the actual, spontaneous, unplanned incident was done nine months earlier by a black girl named Claudette Colvin.  She was in the section designated for black people, however, the front became crowded and she was told to move to make way for a white woman (who was actually fine with standing as it turns out, to show how adamantly racist the bus driver was).  She refused and was arrested.

Rosa Parks was a secretary at one of many chapters of NAACP and they had seen the incident but they had multiple reasons for not wanting to publicize it when it happened.  One was that Claudette was a minor.  Another possibility is that Claudette had some marks on her past that could have been considered questionable or immoral and they wanted someone that white people couldn’t pick apart as a villain or a thug for when it happened.

So they staged the incident all over again with Rosa Parks as the victim and when it played out just like they thought, they slammed it with as much attention and media as they could to publicize it.

[i-am-babulous]

I remember the first time I read about her, she was described as tired. The next time, it was “she wasn’t physically tired. She was tired of giving up her position as a person to a man who probably didn’t work as hard as she did that day.” There was never anything about Claudette Colvin, which is horrible.

[screeching-painter-witch]

[for the image above: ID: a tweet by user @/twoscooters . the text fo the tweet says: “Obligatory reminder that Rosa Parks was a trained activist and the common myth that she was ‘just tired’ exists to rob her of agency & power”. end ID]

[lynati]

[findingfeather]

Honestly I think this is an excellent step for us as a culture and species but man a lot of older humans are pissed off about it. 

[hushsassenach]

Damn I really took your man AND your best friend huh

[starllex]

when something bad happens to someone you dont like and you have to pretend you’re sad but on the inside you’re like 

[industrial-order-system]

[redcabooze-moved-deactivated202]

reblog if youre an idiot. reblog if youre just a fucking fool.

[vampiredick]

[studentlifeproblems]

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[charlesoberonn]

I like this meme because the stock photos make it seem like the same woman but 10 years older.

[lore-pellegrini]

girl help there are people glorifying politicians

[ultrafacts]

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[the-adventures-of-hope-deactiva]

WHOA!

[ultrafacts]

[ayellowbirds]

They are not some anonymous “a tribe in India”, they are the War-Khasi. Speaking as a former anthro student and as a reference librarian, I am beyond sick of posts (and articles, and emails, and museum displays) like this that present the work of a people without actually naming the people. It’s erasure, it’s reducing the great works of a culture to an Ozymandias-esque curiosity for foreigners to consume rather than an accomplishment that should help bring awareness of that culture’s existence. 

They are the War-Khasi, a division of the Khasi, a people who call themselves Hynñiew Trep. They live in Meghalaya, and they have been building these bridges in the town of Cherrapunji for longer than anyone knows. They are not anonymous.

[hushsassenach]

Why do we keep kicking indigenous people off their land when they know how to work it and live in it so much better than we do? Like the native americans who were doing controlled burns and stuff and nurturing their forests. Why do we decide we need to have this land when we dont even know how to take care of it properly?