do not go gentle into that good night

Harley. 29. she/they. Unapologetically running a multifandom blog. Music-obsessed. Writer of things. Author of Teen Wolf fanfic Ignite and Extinguish.

[smallestchurch]

Last time I seen my brother. Last time I seen the sun. And just for a few hours... we was free.

SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

[ringvamp]

using her acceptance speech to highlight the la protests, gaza & trans rights that’s MY swamp princess

[stuckinapril]

“do you know where you’ll be headed in 5 years?” no. but i do know about themes and motifs. and friendship. and putting garlic on everything

[kaljara]

To the asshole that commented on my post about the KKK rallying on my campus last night, saying ‘pics or it didn’t happen’: go fuck yourself.

Racism is alive and well in West Virginia. Racism is alive and well in the United States. Prentending that it doesn’t exist is ignorant and hurtful to so many people.

Here is my reality after the election: my friends and I cried our eyes out after Trump was announced as our new president. Not even because we were upset that Hillary lost, though that too was disappointing. We cried because of what Trump and Pence represent. I literally cried myself to sleep thinking about what hate crimes and terrible things were to come. I cannot stop thinking about the fact that Pence wants to psychologically torture kids like me with conversion therapy. My friend Ethan was so upset the day after the election that he missed all of his classes. Later that night when he Facetimed his boyfriend, he could barely form a sentence, he was crying so hard. We fear for our rights, our loved ones, and our lives.

Our international students were advised not to come to classes the day after the election because it was deemed unsafe. Some of the Muslim girls that I know have taken off their hijabs because they’re afraid of what might happen if they wear them. Our new LGBTQ+ center, a safe space, was defaced by a Trump supporter, who then entered the lounge and began harassing the kids there. And last night, in front of Colson Hall, our English department building, there was a KKK rally.

This is America. These are things that have been happening for years, except for now people are getting more bold with their actions. Because hatred has become commonplace, and people tolerate it, embrace it even. Because the presidential elect is a sexual predator, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic piece of trash who endorses a policy of fear and hatred.

This is my reality, and your reality too. So excuse me if I didn’t want to walk my gay ass down the street in the dark to have a photo op with monsters who harm and kill people for being who they are. You want to see a picture of what is going on? Take a look around you, anywhere in the country, at all the hatred and fear and violence. That’s the only picture you need.

[kaljara]

I wrote this when I was 19 years old in 2016.

I'm once again living in my undergrad college town at age 27 after getting my both my BA and MA degrees. I came back home after living in NYC to be closer to the people I love.

I'm still surrounded by those queer friends from back then. I live with them. I was part of their weddings. We've grown into adults with one another, experienced joys and terrors and the most mundane days imaginable side by side.

The result of this election was not as much of a shock as it was to that 19-year-old kid. It's a grim reminder of the festering hatred that walks among us daily, salivating for all that is different to be crushed once and for all under the boot of fascism, misogyny, racism, homophobia...the list is endless.

And yet, so are we. Our love, our grief, our hope, our rage- it transcends. It evolves in new ways. It uplifts our communities and holds us together in the darkest nights. It saved me before, when I was a newly out 19-year-old who believed we could overcome the worst of this country to take steps toward something better.

I hold my teenage grief in tandem with my present grief. Old and new anger have melded to create an incandescent rage. But in my adult years, my joy and hope have blossomed, as well as my clarity. Build community, as always. Listen and learn, as always. Fight, as always.

[seenthisepisode]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[thestuffedalligator]

Over the Garden Wall is almost ten years old and that both feels too old and unbelievably young.

I remember first watching this in the backroom of a museum on my ipod touch in late August in 2015 and it still feels like it’s been a pillar of Americana for the past thousand years.

[thestuffedalligator]

Over the Garden Wall is timeless and ancient and boiled out of the aether of American folklore and happened to be caught in animated form like a photograph of a lightning bolt, and it’s also the most 2010s-ass thing I've ever watched.

[hymnxl]

feeling the need to post again about this. i'm standing with every single person who is protesting for palestine right now. especially all the people at these universities setting up encampments and having guns and police brigades pointed towards them. these are PEACEFUL protests and should not be threatened with tear gas, force, or even snipers pointed at them. palestine needs our voices more than ever. we're nearing 50K marytered palestinians when there shouldn't have even been 1.

if you personally cannot protest in public for whatever reason it may be, at least voice your support for protesters who are and also voice your support for palestinians. they need your voice. their voices are getting silences constantly online whether through suppression or the IOF marytering them along with everyone else.

i stand with every palestinian in the world. i stand with every protester in the world speaking for palestinians.

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!!!!!

[love-nakamura]

In Korea we've been feeling uplifted by the activism of students in the USA, we had a press conference about it in front of the embassy in Seoul today and we've been going around putting up posters about the encampments around our own universities!

Of course we are focusing on Palestine, Gaza, and especially Rafah as the genocide continues but as one of the students at the press conference said today,

As they (the governments, the police, the armies, the politicians) show unity against Palestine, we (Palestinians and everyone who protest, support, and fight for a just and free world) show that we are more united than they will ever be and we will see Palestine free.

So, I'm literally on the opposite side of the globe from the USA students and we stand together for Palestine. Sharing/posting/donating/commenting etc. etc. makes a difference in our attitudes and hearts, even if you can't be there in person.

Free free Palestine, from the river to the sea!!

[ihatemegayachts]

[4x01]

saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

[petrichara]

Mother and baby viewing Van Gogh's Madame Roulin and Her Baby at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. By the Boston Herald

I’m not sure how to look at art by Lynda Barry

[fridgebride]

the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

[fridgebride]

despite mass arrests by NYPD and several students (including rep ilhan omar’s daughter, isra hirsi) being suspended for their participation and having their university identification deactivated, the gaza solidarity encampment is still going strong well into its second day. def recommend following independent reporter talia jane who is taking part and providing live updates. (talia was the first reporter to break aaron bushnell’s self immolation in february; she was one of the reporters he contacted personally prior to the protest.)

[fridgebride]

thank you so much alexa @shivsblunt for mentioning it…..anyone who wants to contribute to their jail support fund can do so @ bcabolitioncollective on v*nmo. also, if anyone is in the area and available to join (via cssw4palestine on ig):

[fridgebride]

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[rlyehtaxidermist]

"you sound smart" that's because i've spent years doing academic writing to the point that it's my default cadence plus or minus the use of profanity as a tone indicator

"you sound stupid" that's because i'm dumb as fuck

[goodsirs]

Patricia Arquette as Kissin’ Kate Barlow in Holes (2003)

[lizardsfromspace]

The exception is cheesy local commercials. Those should be the only ads. I will listen to someone who runs a store in my city doing an awkward rap. We once had a furniture store with these awful CGI ads and the slogan "where the deals are so low, it's almost criminal!" and then they got shut down, by the cops, because it turned out. It turned out the deals were so low because. You're not going to believe this but the prices were so low it was in fact

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

unrequited love for siblings is the saddest thing you could ever portray on its own but over the garden wall said what if the kid is like the sweetest most kindhearted five year old you could imagine and he loves his brooding wistful bitch of an older brother sooo so much and enough to offer up his life in exchange for his brothers when his older brother saw him this whole time as just an annoying step sibling at best and a nuisance at worst and you cant be too mad cause hes also a kid and then when he finally figures it all out it saves them both, the decision to leave lethargy and the rot of melancholy behind and take the love he already has as proof the world is worth it after all and aaa a a. aaaaaa. aaaaaaa. aaa. what a sweet story. what a lovely thing.

[ad-wills]

[crystal-bytes]

GIFTOBER 2023

DAY THIRTY-ONE: FREE CHOICE

A timeline of DONALD GLOVER and MILES MORAELS

Spider-Man 3 (2007) / The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) / Donald Glover: Weirdo (2012) / Community 2x01 "Anthropology 101" (2010) / Ultimate Fallout #4 (2011) / "Not Going Back" Live Performance (2011) / Ultimate Spider-Man 3x11 "The Spider-Verse: Part Three" (2015) / Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) / Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

[snow124-art]

I recently had a dream about them