ao3: percymons

[irresistible-revolution]

instagram: sudansolidaritycollective the ssc is doing amazing work supporting frontline organizers and grassroots activists in sudan. they distribute donations directly to people on the ground and are a great resource for learning about and joining the effort.

[askinnyblackman]

dems will be like “we need to give more money to ICE for training”

[thetalee]

See, I was gonna scroll past and ignore this but

This isn't true. This is very much not true. There are multiple democratic candidates running this year on the platform of abolishing ICE.

Dems aren't perfect, but this kind of bullshit thinking kills voter turnout and leads to... Well, where we're at right now.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[skrankku]

Sisko: Contemplating the moral dilemma of the week.

Bashir: O_O

[weird-goodbyes]

never give up on your dreams. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are dating. that's not a dream come true for either of them or any of us, but it does prove that things you cannot even fathom of happen every single day. So, why not your hopes and dreams?

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!"

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[brionysea]

*sees whatever the fandom is doing* there's a really good story happening on the actual show if you want to watch that instead

[anxietyproblem]

[xclowniex]

Recent Twitter update shows where an account is based. So now you can see where your propaganda is coming from

Based in the UK? Nah, based in Jordan

Your life in Gaza? With a PayPal link? How about your life in East Asia and Pacific

Palestine Action Tunisia? More like Palestine action Turkey

[carsonjonesfiance]

Twitter exposing thousands on thousands of foreign accounts pretending to be American but here on Tumblr if you suggest that LAGoneGirl and co were actually run by Russian troll farms and Verizon/Yahoo! was right to delete them, you’ll get called slurs they haven’t even invented yet by the most gullible 20 somethings alive.

[carsonjonesfiance]

I saw a post that casually claimed all those accounts were genuine on my dash in the past week. This idea that Tumblr couldn’t have possibly been included in the ongoing Russian led social media disinformation campaigns because we’re too obscure is still alive and well, but I remind you that we were bought by fucking YAHOO!—The internet homepage for 80% of people over 40– parent company (at the time) Verizon, the world’s second largest telecommunications company.

[garbandier]

“If the reading of adults is as inefficient as Professor Adler asserts—and I agree with him—it is because most of them are reading only in order to escape from their own thoughts or to be socially respectable. If they are to improve, the first thing to say to them is not—"You don’t read enough,“ or “You read bad books,” but—"You read far too much. You haven’t the slightest idea what kind of person you are or what you want to know, and it is no use your trying to read at all until you have, and are compelled to admit that the truth you discover is most disagreeable. To read the Iliad because Professor Adler tells you it is good is no better than reading the Saturday Evening Post because your neighbor reads it. No one can tell you how to become a civilized person. There is no ready made answer because to become civilized, you will have to be reborn.“”

— W. H. Auden, review of How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler

[irresistible-revolution]

trans folks and allies who are serious about holding the line on a rowling/hp boycott should check out the interview clip where keira knightley is asked about working on the new audiobook project. her response is so callous it's deranged. you have to see it to believe it, honestly.

[irresistible-revolution]

i've been re-reading "the lord of the rings" and 1. the frodo/sam relationship is beautiful. tolkien really achieved something deep and poignant and queer (whether he intended to or not) 2. gollum is actually incredibly tragic and horrifying and i don't feel like the pj films captured this, in fact i think gollum was too comical and meme-fied in the films 3. most sacrilegious of all....i don't know if elijah wood really captured frodo T_T 4. i don't like movie!faramir anymore

@anghraine

[dogdykeafternoon]

when i forget what alkaline compound is used in traditional soap making and the soap ghost shows up to remind me

[softwaring]

[dancyrilkingston]

OVER THE GARDEN WALL (cr. Patrick McHale, 2014)

[apoemaday]

All Hallows' Eve

by Czeslaw Milosz tr. Leonard Nathan

In the great silence of my favorite month, October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks, A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches), I celebrated the standstill of time.

The vast country of the dead had its beginning everywhere: At the turn of a tree-lined alley, across park lawns. But I did not have to enter, I was not called yet.

Motorboats pulled up on the river bank, paths in pine needles. It was getting dark early, no lights on the other side.

I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches. A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs, And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living.