Flowers, fairies, and fighting the patriarchy

Leia leads the resistance.

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[alone-to-dance-deactivated20240]

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Push play and just trust me

[leaper182]

This sounds like something that would be playing in a story set in Victorian London slums or something? I DON’T KNOW.

[the-cones-of-dunshire]

ITS A GODDAMN SHANTY

[brunhiddensmusings]

its appropriate anywhere from the wild west to a pirate ship to imperial russia a jaunty steampunk adventure to one impressive bard

[flutejesus]

ok this shit FUCKS

[everynight-cainite]

@broadwaytheanimatedseries @dia-mond-universe

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Damn this fucking slaps

[elodieunderglass]

Vitamin String Quartet do covers of pop songs with classical string arrangements. Some of them are really close to the original, like:

Take Me To Church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs_-SXZGqE

Bohemian Rhapsody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjD80dBPelI

Wonderwall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHkxAb3tNY

But others are just far enough away that they sound like classical music for a minute:

Pompeii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcDIZGlr9U

this oddly sad cover of Despacito: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAi-F1Io7gc

Alejandro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6kkHp_Qj-U

[emilyelizabethfowl]

wasn’t there a Sherlock Holmes song sung to this exact melody?

[magic-owl]

If I may add some of my personal favorites, we have:

Animal I Have Become — (My personal fave) The perfect tango-style spicy dance number you need when your hero and villain are having a tense dance number together

Rockabye — For a group of plucky young fantasy protagonists trekking on a LOTR-style adventure!

Stressed Out — Another high-tension Victorian slum/ball-style one like Thrift Shop up there

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs — Training montage before a gigantic battle scene/just preparing for battle in general, hype music!!!

CrushCrushCrush — And here’s the battle sequence!!!

[lovblush]

why i gotta be so sensitive!! why does everything gotta hurt my feelings!!

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

here are some reconstructions of Tenochtitlan 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

just a note, we don’t think of old european cities as ruins, because those civilizations continued and kept building over the old–there are no abandoned ruins for us to visit & photograph. when we picture those old cities, we have only mental images drawn from our own assumptions & prejudices–images that tend to glorify ‘civilized’ europe.

since victors write history, our image of native american cities was created by colonizers motivated to uphold the ‘native savage’ myth. when we think of these civilizations now, we think of ‘uncivilized’ (rough, broken, abandoned) ruins, because that’s what remains. ruins are the only thing left. because of the destruction wrought by western invaders, these civilizations never had a chance to continue building. they were destroyed, and all we have left is an unimaginative shadow of their former glory. 

[baby-yodas-mom]

went to peru and visited some of their museums and learned inca history that american schools don’t teach you. basically you know why they were beaten out by the spanish invaders? because incas were mostly scientists and not warriors. they had advanced medicine, farming and science technology. THATS what they were good at - tech - not building weapons to most efficiently kill people. the spanish were good at that. so they won. basically the real savages and thugs won and murdered a bunch of scientists, and their technology and advancements are lost forever. it took into the 20th century for colonizer technology to advance in the field of medicine and agriculture to the level of the incas. colonizers literally set human knowledge back like 500 years. 

[molothoo]

It’s crazy to me that, literally everyone in the world was doing just fine until Europeans showed up flipped the script

[romance-incubomp3-deactivated20]

Women should be able to go their entire lives without wearing makeup or heels if they don’t want to, without getting called slobby, or unprofessional, or “doesn’t care about her image”, or being fucking denied jobs for not wanting to wear heels or makeup at work every day. If men aren’t expected to cover their faces with makeup or wear incredibly uncomfortable shoes every day of their lives neither should I.

[cherry-punk]

This goes doubly so for trans women, gnc women and woc

[romance-incubomp3-deactivated20]

ANYWAY THIS IS A GOOD ADDITION AND TERFS ARENT ALLOWED TO INTERACT WITH THIS POST WHATSOEVER!!!

[kumagawa]

lMAO

[lizzy-stardust-deactivated20160]

I like my whisky like I like my men.

Twice my age and from Scotland.

[gap-var-ginnunga]

smoky, full-bodied and leaves you gasping a little.

[varyingdegreesofawesome]

left in an oak barrel for at least 3 years, with very little oxygen

[bravemercutio]

nowhere near my genitals

[soulmatetours]

i know everyone makes fun of ya dystopian fiction and books like the hunger games or divergent, etc. like “lmao one teenage girl can’t save the world” but uhhh 

that is literally????

what’s happening?????

right now?????

like idk about you, but i can smell a revolution coming

and she’s leading it. 

[whokilledlordmorley]

I Feel Like Dancing

“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.” – Mata Hari

September 21 is National Dance Day!

[megitating]

patrick talking to david (2/2)

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[percyfraser]

TOY STORY 4 (2019) directed by Josh Cooley

[ava-deb]

 A boy. A girl. An open grave. It was my first funeral. You were so beautiful. Pale and mysterious. No one even looked at the corpse. THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[mysharona1987]

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[oleathe]

Marsha P. Johnson, by Alvin Baltrop (1975-1986)

[pablo-neurotic]

This is such a beautiful photograph. I want to get a print and hang it on my wall.

[oleathe]

That’s exactly what I said when I saw it

[firefly-in-repair]

[heartshapedmoodring]

Being pretty but not photogenic is a thing

[vandercunt-deactivated20181213]

Being photogenic but not pretty is also a thing

[axel-d0rland0]

Being neither is me