Wirklich Herrlich

[lisztaffe]

An Franz von Schober

Sogar Deutsch will ich Dir schreiben, lieber Schober, um Dir geschwinder zu sagen, wie sehr mich Dein Brief erfreut hat. Ich verdanke ihm eine wahrhaft wohlthuende Stunde, und das findet sich so selten in meinem unausstehlichen - monotonen Leben! Seit 14 Tagen habe ich wieder mein englisches Joch am Nacken. Jeden Tag, den Gott giebt, Concert- mit einer vorhergehenden Reise von 30 bis 50 Meilen. Und so muss es fortdauern wenigstens bis Ende Jänner. Was sagst du dazu? -

Bin ich nicht mehr als halbtodt, so gehe ich noch Ende Februar nach Berlin und Petersburg - und komme mit dem ersten Dampfboote anfangs Mai wieder nach London. Dann gedanke ich eine Pause mit 𝄐 zu machen. Wo und wie, das weiss ich noch nicht, und hängt ganz von dem pecuniären Resultat meiner Reisen ab. Gerne ging ich nach der Schweiz und von da nach Venedig; doch kann ich jetzt noch gar nichts bestimmen.

Leo Festetics habe ich einen langen Brief dieser Tage geschrieben. Es hungert und dürstet mich, nach Ungarn zurück zu gehen. Jede Erinnerung an dort wurzelt tief in meiner Seele..... Und doch kann ich nicht zurück!

[...]

Die Nachrichten von der Königin haben mich erfreut- wenn Du etwas Mehreres hörst von ihr, so theile mir es mit. Ich habe eine Art Schwäche für sie. Über die Cantate werde ich Dir später ausführlicher schreiben.

Lebe wohl und vergnügt, wenn möglich, lieber Schober, schreibe mir bald wieder und bleib mir immer Freund.

F. L.

Verzeihe die Orthographie und Kalligraphie dieser Zeilen! Du weisst, dass ich gar nie Deutsch schreibe; Tobias ist, glaub' ich, der einzige, der deutsche Briefe von mir erhält.

[nypost]

NYU students who back Trump afraid to show their faces. 

“They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”

[railroadsoftware]

good

[lingeringfingers]

no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.

[railroadsoftware]

yeah I am

[fandomshateblackpeople]

“if you hate these bigots you’re just as bigoted as they are”

[bogleech]

This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.

Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.

The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.

Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didn’t do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.

[thepunkprophet]

Fucking. Mic. Drop.

[rainnecassidy]

The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.

This postmodern “hating the hate makes you just as bad” bullshit is what’s allowing them to re-prosper.

Fuck that.

Expose them. Make them lose their friends. Ridicule them in classes. If you can get away with it, beat their asses. Show them what it means that we will not go back to that way of life again. It’s time for the racists to be the ones who live in fear.

[i-eat-men-like-air]

Hating bigotry does not a bigot make.

[kindbloodedarlanna-deactivated2]

Imma just leave this here

[babyanimalpic]

[thetinylightsbelow]

this just changed my entire attitude

[insomnevida]

wow same

[cosmic-noir]

I thought I was having a bad day until I saw this.

[artistickacchi]

Put this puppy in office.

[sourcedumal]

This puppy for president.

[sznofthwtch666]

I swear this partially cured my hangover

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet G Yamazawa nails what it’s like to grow up in the U.S. as the child of immigrants.

[mishpacha]

Danish city makes pork mandatory in public institutions

Politicians insist directive necessary to preserve food traditions; is not an attack on Muslims

This is the kind of shit in Europe (like the kosher/halal bans) that is intended to hurt Muslim people and ends up hurting Jewish people as collateral damage.  Not that the Danes really give a shit about hurting Jewish people OR Muslims; so long as they can hold onto their white supremacy by making life for non-Christians as difficult as possible.

[janothar]

I don’t even keep kosher and this makes me extremely uncomfortable, and VERY happy that I didn’t get the job I applied for at a public university in Copenhagn, or the one in Aarhus.  I know this wasn’t Copenhagen, it was Randers (which is near Aarhus, by the way) but I can’t be sure this isn’t a sign of things to come on a larger scale.

So, in short, Randers, Denmark, Fuck you very much.

[animatedamerican]

There is no possible shred of value in “preserving food traditions” by legal injunction.  Food traditions get preserved because people want to keep them.  If it has to be mandatory, it’s no longer a tradition.

This would be a terrible law even if it weren’t transparently christian-white-supremacist assholery.

[littlegoythings]

Tonight is the Third Night of Hannukah

Tonight, December 8th, is the third night. Please remember to light three candles, and the “shamash” worker candle. Traditionally, the candles are set from right to left, but lit the other way. However, please feel free to light in whichever way you please!

[littlegoythings]

Menorah Vandalized in NYC Park After Hanukkah Celebration

Police say they are investigating the vandalism of a menorah that was found in pieces, half of it missing, in an Upper East Side park hours after it was lit during an annual holiday ceremony hundreds attended to...

How sad is it that I am relieved that they just broke an electric menorah and didn’t try to hurt people at the lighting itself.

[thatwheezingsoundthetardismakes]

Let’s take a moment to be thankful that the majority of Tumblr hasn’t found out about Sinterklaas and especially Zwarte Piet, or the next few days would be a hell for Belgians and Dutch people on Tumblr.

[naidje-deactivated]

It already is hell for Dutch and Belgian POC every year. I honestly think white folks from the Low Countries could do with a little shaming.

[thatwheezingsoundthetardismakes]

If you really experience something so innocent that is never ever meant to be racist as racism, maybe the problem lies with you.

[borg-collective-deactivated2018]

Maybe you need to keep your ignorant mouth shut. If you’ve not experienced the racism then that’s because you’re white, and you have no business telling people who are negatively affected by Zwarte Piet that the racism they experience isn’t real.

Learn about our colonial history, our involvement in slavery, learn about blackface too. This ‘dirty little secret’, this ‘colonial hangover’ is not so innocent.

[christophoronomicon]

It’s time to lay the fable of the tolerant Dutch people to rest once and for all: the Netherlands have a huge discrimination problem (with the main victims being Muslims, black people, Eastern European people and queer people), and pretending it’s not there is not going to help. Zwarte Piet is just one of the symptoms of this giant problem, but trying to sweep it under the rug is not going to help the kids of colour who get called “Zwarte Piet” at school for a month per year.

This problem may not express itself in as destructive ways as in the US for instance, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect people’s lives negatively.

Remember: the first step to solving a problem is admitting there is one. The Netherlands have lived in denial for long enough. This is not the beacon of tolerance people thought it was in the 90′s, and it’s time for people to admit it.

As for me, I am French, white, gay, and living in the Netherlands with my Dutch husband. Being white shields me from most of the racism that other people experience in the Netherlands, but that didn’t prevent us from having to clean the eggs thrown at our front window for years.

So never, ever claim that people experiencing discrimination are the ones with a problem. You have no idea what you’re talking about, and how it feels to be victim of discrimination.

[tesshollidayofficial-blog]

Today is Transgender day of Remembrance #TDOR. Today we remember the trans folks we have lost to anti trans violence. Their lives mattered. #TransLivesMatter. We must end the structural violence which takes far too many trans lives, 22 trans women this year in the U.S. alone the deadliest year for trans people on record, probably because of better reporting on who these folks really were. We must say their names. We must continue the work to end the intersectional structural violence which took their lives. #NotOneMore

#TransIsBeautiful (RP @lavernecox)

[cishits]

The fact that US politicians can even suggest “screening for Christian refugees” is just so incredibly telling of what is deeply wrong with US politics.

[cishits]

Also, the fact that Donald Trump can repeatedly confidently suggest that Muslims should have to register in some sort of national database/carry around an identification denoting their faith, & he’s STILL in the running for presidency with a significant number of fans is actually terrifying beyond words.

[amandla]

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[lisztaffe]

What people think self-diagnosis is: "Wow that is sure one funny disorder, claiming to have that would surely give me a lot of attention on tumblr."

What self-diagnosis actually is: "Wow, there's a name for this... There are terms for the things I do and experience and a community of people with similar experiences. There are coping methods and advice written for people like me. Maybe I'm not exaggerating, maybe I'm not making stuff up, maybe I'm not a failure... Maybe my experiences are completely valid."

[kingcheddarxvii]

This just in professional animators who have endured years of rigorous training are still figuring out how to design and animate girls. It’s very difficult, and nobody in the history of the company has yet to figure it out. Please be patient with them, or you may hurt their feelings

[beesmygod]

to be fair no one has ever been able to draw a woman in the history of mankind. nor have they been able to even capture a woman on film. im highly skeptical that women even exist. one blurry photograph in the woods does not prove anything.

[nooby-banana]

[bigfatfae]

I laughed entirely too hard at this

[robothugscomic]

New comic!

I remember that I was doing this exact thing, I was asking for explanations and definitions in a conversation about disability, and I just wanted to help, and I thought if they just could explain this concept to me that I hadn’t heard before, then I could help more. I remember my friend turning to me and saying, not unkindly, ‘I bet, if you tried, you’d find some really excellent blog posts about this’. I’m fortunate that I got the implied ‘shut up’ there.And she was right. 

I’ve seen people online react really badly when someone gives them a link and says ‘I think you’ll have a better idea of what we’re talking about if you look this over’. We’re expected to slow down, be patient, be kind, be clear, we’re expected to be knowledgeable and articulate and calm and accommodating. We’re expected to do this for free, as a basic part of our identities, the constant willingness to educate. Often we’re expected to do this in order to receive ‘support’ from people. 

It would just be really wonderful to be able to talk about gender without constantly landing back into 101. 

[geekandmisandry]

I want a 3 hour episode that shows Ruby and Sapphire meeting for the first time and the build-up of their affections with Ruby making Sapphire laugh and Sapphire soothing Ruby and kisses and hand holding and their first fuse and just hours of cute tiny space lesbians.

[ultrafacts]

The Empowerment Plan is an American humanitarian organization established by Veronika Scott.

The coats are ordered by nonprofit organizations for free distribution to the homeless, and the Red Cross has even shown interest in the item for disaster relief.  With the help of donations and machines, materials for the coats, and contributions from Detroit-area companies like General Motors and clothes-maker Carhartt, the Empowerment Plan is producing 6,500 coats this year and have made over 9,000 coats since they began. [x]

(Fact Source)

[queen-kevlarr-heartt]

That is great and I’m glad she took that poor woman’s advice

[twerks4loanpayments]

I’m glad the woman listened to her. Too often you have people that don’t wanna listen to those that suffering and really help with what’s actually affecting them