Love is a much more vicious motivator

I reblog things I enjoy.

[thepowerofblackwomen]

“Let’s get back those 37 cents” - Serena Williams

[entertainmentweekly]

This is a deep The Office reference and we are here for it.

[apoeticmythos]

aries: i am sorry for your angry fists, but just keep them in your pockets, just keep the hurricane in your pockets this time. taurus: you were made to hurt as you were made to fly, you were made to love him as you were made to love others. gemini: kiss your body electric, kiss your starry knees and your bright paint brush fingertips, kiss your pain goodbye. cancer: you were beautiful before you were told so, just like you are loved even when you cannot feel it. leo: i know that her eyes are so bright, but so is our soul and your soul is your home. virgo: your apologies trapped in your skull like fluttering birds, but i promise you that you are still yours. libra: being split open is only one step closer to being filled, even sutures and stitches sting. scorpio: do not let this destroy you, this is not a disease, do not let this destroy you, we do not want to find your body. sagittarius: i know that it hurts but that is the way of growing pains, you are growing you are growing, this can only make you more beautiful. capricorn: i want to tell you about all the ways that it gets better, though it seems that soon you’ll see for yourself. aquarius: the emptiness is ringing but you deserve to be with someone who does not see your love as an annoyance. pisces: wipe away your tears, this is not your end, you are above this, it is only your beginning.

for the signs: moving on; l.m. (via apoeticmythos)

[destinyrush]

This is Myya D. Jones. She is a 22 year-old Michigan State University senior and she is running for mayor of Detroit!

[tomastuchel]

character posters

↳ remus lupin | harry potter series

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿

[papricots]

Fucculent (Echinocereus imperitus). A rude cactus to usher in the new year.

I designed a few enamel pins recently that I’m going to be sharing here over the next little while. I’m particularly proud of this one. Gold-plated, hard enamel lapel pin measuring ~1.5″.

[Etsy]

[ikkoros]

Please look at this rude cactus. This is my favourite cactus in the whole world. Please.

[toughlovemuse]

So great.

[thecheshirecass-deactivated2018]

@zora-zen please come look at your child.

[gayrab]

@galactits we need this irl.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[thelovejandles]

i remember the first time i saw a trailer for Split in the movie theaters. i was with family and the theater was full and i’d been mildly enjoying the trailers and perked up a bit when the tell-tale ominous music of a horror movie trailer started, because i love good thrillers.

except then it was frame after frame after frame of a person with dissociative identity disorder being portrayed as everyone’s boogey man, the shrieks of the little girl protagonists as he appeared wearing different clothes and a different voice, people in the theater jumping and giggling every time they showed the man doing something horrific. and i felt frozen in my seat.

my sister leaned over to me when it was finished and said “i want to see that” with a look on her face like it was the greatest trailer she’d ever seen.

like it wasn’t a punch to my gut everytime i heard someone whisper “psycho” or “crazy” and other terrible things. like in that moment i didn’t feel like running away from all these people, like i didn’t feel unsafe and filthy. because these people getting their thrills from a demonizing potrayal of a mental illness.

and the thing is, it matters.

because if i bring it up people will say “oh but it’s not really mental illness, like depression or something. he was just fucking crazy which is totally scary haha”. yeah well, not haha. not haha because DID is a real mental illness but that’s not what it looks like. people with DID aren’t murderers or dangerous. but now, because movies like Split are all people have seen of illnesses like DID, that’s their frame of reference.

the media does it with DID, with schizophrenia, with every single personality disorder, with bipolar, with everything else that is “scary”. raising awareness for depression and anxiety is important, they’re valid and serious illnesses. but hardly anyone tries to protect people with “scary” disorders. this halloween when costumes of the main character crop up, people will giggle and buy it because it’s so creepy and cool.

i’m reminded that, although i don’t have DID, much of my mental illness is defined by symptoms that are used in other horror movies. that people who have “scary” disorders are the entertainment in everyone else’s world. and for people who do have DID, that movie is absolutely devastating.

so if you buy a ticket to see Split, please know that’s it’s not harmless entertainment or a good thrill. it’s fucking ableism and you’re being ableist if you go see it.

(please reblog, neurotypical or not)

[rumblerooaar]

this is what i’ve been trying to say to everyone talking about it in school but of course no one listens.

[pureslime-deactivated20191020]

in a parallel universe, Shrek opened with “One Week” instead of “All Star” and we’re all making “it’s BEEN” jokes instead of “some BODY”

[bangilliad]

forgive me for I have sinned

[captainlordauditor]

reblog if you ARE A JEWISH GIRL, SUPPORT JEWISH GIRLS, or if you like to open NEO NAZIS’ WINDOWS and put DOZENS OF ANGRY GEESE IN THEIR HOUSES

[asavelveteen-deactivated2024121]

good post op

[retrogaydad-deactivated20190324]

reasons thomas sanders is better than ur fave:

his pranks are harmless and funny

he adds LGBT themes in his vines without making them the punchline

he puts his pronouns in his description, despite being cis, to normalize asking for people’s pronouns so people stop assuming gender

he’s hilarious

he’s the only white boy to come from vine that isn’t a complete asshole

he’s super nice to fans

he’s as nice irl as he seems

[boy-positive]

Normalize boys touching eachother without it being sexual. Normalize boys hugging. Normalize boys being affectionate. Normalize boys needing each other. Normalize strong friendships between boys.

[hannahdrew22]

hypocrisy of the signs

aries: tells you off for doing something…then five seconds later goes and does it

taurus: gets mad at you when you don’t share, but refuses to share themselves

gemini: hates when people are rude, but are actually rude themselves

cancer: is clingy as shit, but hates when other people are clingy

leo: hates being blamed for situations, but blames their problems on everyone

virgo: has high expectations for people, but hates when expectations are placed upon them

libra: wants you to play fair, but manipulates the game so they always win

scorpio: wants you to give up all of your secrets, but refuses to let you in

sagittarius: hates when people aren’t open-minded, but refuses to see the other side of situations

capricorn: holds grudges for no reason, but gets super sad and angry when you do it

aquarius: preaches equality, but believes they’re better than others

pisces: berates you for doing something they do all the time

[helluva-pilot]

crying males: “disney is destroying star wars with female leads”

“rogue one also has a female lead? ugh”

“great another mary sue”

me:

[thesmilinggoth-deactivated20160]

I don’t mind if Star Wars has a female lead, as the Star Wars franchise has always been home to strong female characters, I do care if she is another giant Mary Sue like Rey was. Rey was so Mary Sue that it became distracting to the movie. A character with no force training takes down a trained Sith Knight, she flies a freighter designed for two pilots with no help despite the fact she had never left the planet before, and she can also repair said ship with no problem because she had spent years salvaging parts off of a broken star destroyer? The only thing she didn’t do was have all of the male characters try to romance her at once and I thank the force for that small concession.

The only good new character in episode 7 was Finn. The rest of the characterization fell flat or was just used to make Rey ascend to Mary Suedom.

[alltheladiesyouhate]

anakin built the worlds fastest pod racer and c3po when he was nine

[shinykari]

the first time luke flew a spaceship he destroyed the fucking death star.

[roane72]

Kylo Ren: Not a Sith. Not fully trained. Also? Injured by a bowcaster that we’d seen could take out several stormtroopers at a time. 

Rey: Literally spent all of her downtime flying a flight simulator to the point that it could no longer throw anything at her she couldn’t handle. For all kinds of ships. Nor did she solely scavenge star destroyers. She spent her entire life scavenging every imaginable wreck on Jakku, and her survival depended on her learning what ships had what parts and what was valuable. This, while competing with other scavengers, most of them working in teams. 

Which meant she had to learn how to fight, or else she wouldn’t have gotten out of childhood.

Basically, Rey had way more in-canon reasoning to be as good as she was than Luke Skywalker did–who basically went from never flying much out of atmo to piloting an X-wing under combat conditions and rocking it… apparently just because of genetics and the Force. Who then went on, only half-trained, into a fight that even YODA thought he was going to die in, and survived, against a man literally birthed by the Force, trained as both a Jedi AND a Sith, with about 25 years of combat experience under his belt, whereas Luke had had a lightsaber for about 3 years. What a Mary Sue he was, huh?

Rey had more reason to be what she was than Anakin Skywalker, who accidentally wound up in a fighter and accidentally destroyed a droid ship. Anakin who was such a Mary Sue he was LITERALLY A VIRGIN BIRTH. How Mary Sue is THAT?

The creators, in short, HAD TO GIVE REASONS for every single thing Rey knew how to do, because of assholes like this person, who would take any special skill she had as proof that she was a “Mary Sue” just because she was a female character. No one bothered to give those reasons to Luke or Anakin. Because they’re the hero. OF COURSE they can do the impossible. But Rey? Jesus, what a Mary Sue.

[lemonsharks]

Reblogged for excellent commentary. 

(I’d thought the Rey-hating twerp up there was like sixteen, in which case I’d cut them some slack, but nope turns out they’re in their 40s.)

[moved-nerf-this-you-clods-deact]

DESTROY THEM REY IS MOST REALISTIC NEW JEDI THUS FAR

[carnivaloftherandom]

“I don’t mind if…” I literally spent 38 damn years waiting for Rey, who both onscreen and in the tie-in books was given supporting evidence for every skill she HAS, and you, “Don’t mind.” Well I DO MIND. I mind that at 43 years of age, there are still benign ASSHOLES trying to gatekeep not just me, (I’ve been dealing with this shit for 38 years, too. I’ve got a callused soul about it,) but every damn girl and woman who finally feels like she’s got a door into Star Wars. And that’s not counting the actual direct, violent abuse we have been and are still being subjected to. I mind that you have the utter privilege to feel like you get to mind or not, like it MEANS something.

We do not exist BY YOUR LEAVE, we are not impossible, magical Mary Sues just because your experience of what we are capable of is so lacking that it boggles your mind that we might be able to do things at all.

[wonderali]

every time I see dudes ranting about “all these women leads in Star Wars” I think of this. and laugh. 

[kateordie]

This is kind of long but holy shit I lost it at this ^ gif

[siristar]

This sums up everything I feel and so so so much more. 

[hither2]

me online: men are absolutely evil. nothing they do or say can be trusted and they should be avoided at all costs

me at a bar: convincingly fake laughs at a guy’s borat reference because he’s 6′4