if not you, who? if not now, when?

Yasmine (Bell to friends) ✨ she/they ✨ neurodivergent spoonie ✨ wandering knight ✨ also known as stick-ball. ✨ the background is my hounds of hell. the avatar is me according to @everyonesadoptivedad . yes, they trapped me in a jar. yes I am on the shelf. unclear if I am related to elrond .✨ OH I restore very old and valuable things. if your cursed homophobic vase is broken I can put it back together

[res--publica]

The meanings behind the colors.

Gay pride flag - Gilbert Baker (1978)

[kafkasapartment]

Hussey lifting Samson, Spring 1915. Frank Hurley. Platinum-Palladium print.

[bophia]

Daily affirmations for tesla owners: your car is ugly as hell and everyone hates you

[dogpuppy]

He is my princess diana

[local-seraph]

Happy Pride to Sherlock&Co fandom, and to John Watson specifically. 🌈

[rolilikes]

A temple caretaker watching a volcano eruption in Bali [s]

[jkathleencheney]

Copyright: © Jeryl Tan

[yamelcakes]

Tan prepared to photograph the sunrise at the Gates of Heaven but the weather didn’t cooperate. However, he didn’t leave the location and stayed around for a bit, and nature presented him with this photo opportunity.

“Waking up at 3am to catch the sunrise at the famous Bali Gates of Heaven only to be disappointed as I was received by gloomy skies. Nonetheless I was soaking in the peaceful presence of the sacred ground, when suddenly Mt. Agung started smoking from afar. Standing in the middle of the gates is the local guardian of the Lempuyang Temple. Thankful to be at the right place at the right time to capture this once in [a] life time, incredible moment on camera.”

(source)

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[fidelcostco]

the human brain is so cool, if you're tired and stressed enough, your brain will go, "don't worry, I got you" and shadows will start moving

[fidelcostco]

and what's the genital situation on the shadows

[fidelcostco]

oh this is my post

[oldwayout]

My anthro professor has three forbidden words for his essays: problematic, interesting, and large. Point being they’re all filler words, he wants you to just skip straight to why it’s interesting or why it’s problematic. But anyway, any time I disagree with him in class I say to him “mm, interesting, but largely problematic.”

[teruterusky]

[neosatsuma]

[archbudzar]

follow my art on insta

[beardedmrbean]

[aster-is-confused]

my favorite genre of bird picture

[shisasan]

Edgar Allan Poe. The Sleeper Originally published 1831

[road0flife]

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

[world-beauty]

The Ghoul of IC 2118

Credits: Casey Good/Steve Timmons

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[cumaeansibyl]

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.