mutant queen of disco

???

[demiiwhiffin]

a beautiful boy

[killscreen]

[cowboy]

this is how it feels to live in chicago

[jeanmoreaux]

you ever look forward to commuting just bc you’re so excited to experience the fleeting joy of listening to you favourite music while wistfully gazing out of the window and daydreaming about alternative lives you could have lived

[weight-a-second]

i don’t think thin people get how inherently painful it is to have a body that society hates; no matter how body positive you have become, the amount of healing you do, the love that you’ve grown for yourself– the scars are still there, the hurt is still there somewhere

[wahtdahel-blog]

One more young fighter. May God bless these beautiful souls 

[gaylienz]

Autumn Peltier is Anishinaabe-kwe and a member of the Wikwemikong First Nation

[faggotri]

honestly the best thing i’ve done in the past year was replacing “i wanna die” with “i wanna commit a crime.” same humor and sentiment without the suicidal ideation

[faggotri]

thank you SO much for this tag

[sunshinetrooper-deactivated2016]

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

[shrewreadings]

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa. 

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO. 

[note-a-bear]

Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

[prokopetz]

Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

[hogna-lenta-deactivated20160930]

Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

[queer-wizard-dad]

Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.

[armory-rasa]

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this thread makes me so happy. See, I love the Viking aesthetic – I love the fusion of organic and geometric in its designs, I love the natural colors, the complexity of textures you get from juxtaposing metal/leather/cloth/fur–

–and I hate how the entire subculture has been so thoroughly co-opted by white supremacists. To the point where I, a person who likes viking stuff, am deeply and immediately suspect of anyone else who likes viking stuff, guilty until proven innocent, cuz that’s what the odds are these days.

Anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone can be a viking, and thus I am so, so pleased to find that the historical record backs me up.

(And amused that Arab intellectual Ahmad ibn Fadlan was so thirsty for vikings.)

[ayellowbirds]

reclaim vikings from racists 2kForever

[coolmariadotcom]

Thank, I thought I was gonna have to add some things, but I’m pretty satisfied. Atleast one Roman dude I know of has been dug out of a viking grave being buried with stuff that both labelled him clearly as of roman ancestry, aswell as integrated into viking life. Muslim coins were found in Sweden. Just. Lots. There’s so much proof of actual logical and interesting stuff. Imagine a society that shut out every other cultural infuence and remain uhhh… “pure”? How boring?? How unrealistic??

[shirleyjacksons]

me removing my cat from the kitchen counter

[antifainternational]

We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s fifth anniversary. Today: Nazi monuments being destroyed after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

[flowerpatchedheart]

If this offends you 😊 unfollow me 😊

[homoeroticisminspace]

And a note to confederates: these monuments weren’t kept because this was “history”. These monuments celebrated horrible things and we BLEW THEM UP.

[warblyzombie]

I really want to blow up some racist monuments now

[anangstyblackgirl]

outerwear looks from that’s so raven season 1

[dillyt]

my cat: *walks in my room*

me: oh!!!! hello stinky!!!!! come over here smelly!!! psspssspsspsspsst nchnchnchnch come on! please???

my cat:

[aarontaylorjohnson]

Coraline (2009) dir. Henry Selick

[hymnsofheresy]

heterosexual christians in college be like: gotta marry or i will die

[niceferatu]

they wanna fuck. they gotta fuck or they will die but God put fucking behind a paywall

[fjordstan]

[best-of-memes]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

idk what vsco girl means but i assume it’s yet another criticism on teenage girls for existing

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

‘vsco girls like crop tops and instagram’ well yes u see we are currently in the second half of the 2010s 

[vonbaghager]

Netflix: pwese stop shawing your passwowds becawse it’s making us wose a biwwion dowwars ;u; pwease ignowe ouw existing hundweds of biwwions of dowwars of pwofits because we alweady haf dat money so it doesnt count ;u;