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i reblog mostly. lots of different fandoms too many to count or name. eat the rich.

[emziess]

Evan 'Buck' Buckley - S1 versus S8 9-1-1

[rhodeys]

#meet the buckley-diazes

[m4nicpsych0]

abandonment issues slayyyy

[kedreeva]

As long as we're asking ourselves questions, we might as well ask all of them.

[crunchynoodle]

Putting @ kedreeva's tags in because they are golden.

 #also there's 8 billion people on this planet they could have been friends with #so even if they choose me for only a little while #that's not nothing #I think of them as dog years friendships #even your favoritest dog in the world can't stay with you forever #they have an expiration date that's much sooner than yours #and you accept it going in #knowing it will all end someday #and that you gotta love them as much as you can while they're here #and trust that the act of doing so is worth it #not 'even though' it will end #but because you know it will #and that's okay because the point is that everything in between Is worth it #friendship #love #as a personal aside #this is why 'I'm not going anywhere' is considered a way to say 'i love you' in my friend group #listen for it in TV shows too and you'll hear it so often #like seeing the FedEx arrow #once you know it you can unsee it #anyway

[lesbianelsas]

Sesame Street Memory: Lucy Liu | #ThisIsMyStreet

Lucy Liu shares a heartfelt memory of learning to speak english by watching Sesame Street and finding a family within the cast. Share your favorite Sesame Street memory on social media with #ThisIsMyStreet!

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

I was five years old when Sesame Street first aired in 1969. I remember coming home from kindergarten and watching the show in the afternoon, and then, the next day, kids talking about what Oscar had said over snack time (he was the first character for children I saw that was allowed to be grouchy and not be “bad”).

[apatosaurus]

Sesame Street celebrated a neighborhood that was multiracial and multicultural. When I was in preschool, that was my reality, too. Though I did and still do have a lot of cultural racism to unlearn, the extent to which I was able to learn how to be friends and neighbors with a diverse peer group was supported by Sesame Street. To be clear, this is why conservatives have wanted to destroy it from the beginning.

[iheartvelma]

The Mississippi State Commission for Educational Television briefly banned Sesame Street in 1970 with the flimsy excuse that Mississippians weren’t ready to see racially integrated neighborhoods. And that happened in a few other Southern states, including one where the owner of a local NBC affiliate chose to air it, for free, no ad revenue, because he thought people were ready for it — or needed to get comfortable with it. And these state ETV commissions eventually relented after getting a lot of negative publicity.

[feminist-space]

[johanna-swann]

[everydayconman]

The ancient texts were true… They DO have a reaction image for everything…

[bilosan]

- And I believe you grabbed your belt a little bit. - I did grab my belt when I said it, yeah.

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[ashintheairlikesnow]

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

[swimmingblue]

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

[hunterschafer]

Rue was the first girl that didn’t just look at me. She actually saw me. The me that’s underneath a million layers of not me.

[hunterschafer]

Autumn Sonata (1978) dir. Ingmar Bergman Moments of Being, ‘A Sketch of the Past’ by Virginia Woolf The Lost Daughter (2021) dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal Midnight Mass (2021) dir. Mike Flanagan Susan Smith by Wych elm Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook Poplar Street by Chen Chen Yellowjackets (2021-) cr. Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Sharp Objects (2018) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée Succession (2018-) cr. Jesse Armstrong Please Look After Mother by Kyong-sook Shin Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

[hunterschafer]

“I KNEW YOU STEPPIN’ ON THE LAST TRAIN MARKED ME LIKE A BLOODSTAIN.” Maurice (1987) Euphoria (2019-) Far From Heaven (2002) Cinema Paradiso (1988) When Marnie Was There (2014) Mr Nobody (2009) The Half of It (2020) Before Sunrise (1995) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Call Me By Your Name (2017)

[trainstationgoodbye]

Barbara Stanwyck in Remember the Night (1940)

[noah-wyles]

Over 150,000 attended London Trans+ Pride today as they also ask the new PM to make a positive difference for trans people's lives.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

[sumi-sprite]

It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.

[this-is-accessibility]

This is Accessibility!

That's so amazing! It is unfortunate that so many people will need this, but very very cool that it exists

[organizationstationone4all]

OSI HOME- | Open Source Wheelchairs

That other link seems to be broken.

[this-is-accessibility]

Thank you so much for putting the working one!

I will add it to my original reblog as well.

[consulships]

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[literaryreference]

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

[tricky-pockets]

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time on Project Gutenberg sifting through forgotten old fiction and lemme tell ya. a lot of that stuff sucks ass.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Tremendously comforting, really.

[stuckinapril]

So crazy how you have the worst day of your life but then the next day the sun keeps shining and the air’s just a little cooler w the onset of fall and you realize that there’s nothing you can’t come back from because the only time it will ever be too late is when we’re dead and not ever before

[stuckinapril]

I vividly remember talking to one of my favorite professors about how I’m scared things will fall apart after graduation and how I’m so unused to change and her just going “if things fall apart then they do and u just pick up the pieces and start over again and it’s fine. Things falling apart is not this mammoth fear u should be worried about” and I remember these words every time I want to pursue or seize something bc literally the worst thing that can happen is it doesn’t work out ….. and then I just pick up the pieces and start all over again

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[creatingblackcharacters]

White Fear has always been funny (ironic) to me. It's like, imagine a white person walking in the room, perpetually paranoid of everyone of Color around them, of being The Murderer because "look how strange they're all acting around me, they must be suspicious. And yet, THEY'RE the one covered in blood and holding the knife, the body count number floating over their head.

Like, Buddy, yeah we're acting weird, YOU'RE the one that WE gotta be worried about 😭. I'm scared of YOU.

[creatingblackcharacters]

To use a US specific example, it's like how there's so much fearmongering of being victims of Black and Latino men with guns and gun violence, a violence that white people usually don't even experience because they're not even in the same spaces.

But the demographic most likely to be a domestic terrorist, the mass shooters, the ones that find diverse places and murder people... Are white men. When I go to the store, to church, to work, to the movies, to school, the odds that the person who will walk in and decide to Let Fly is a white man! That's something we have to keep in our minds every day!

But somehow this has not made everyone that "matters" (I.e., other white people) deathly afraid of white men, despite actually, statistically fitting the mold, in comparison to the heightened stereotype of Black and Latino men being gun wielding thugs. Goes to show the power and projection of white supremacy.

[amrii-absurd]

Not to get personal on this post, but someone I care about deeply had an experience last week due to this exact phenomenon. One of my best friends is an autistic black man. He's "high-functioning" (personally dislike the term but it's a relevant descriptor here) so many people at his job, even his managers were unaware.

He works at Meijer Grocery Store, and his position is mainly to corral the shopping carts among other things. A white man pulled a gun on him the other day.

My friend was going to take his cart in the parking lot. He never touched the man's cart or him. While in the guys vicinity, he simply flopped over in the opposite direction in a poorly received joke, as if bumping into something. The white guy flashed his gun at him and took it out, essentially threatening my friends life because he didn't understand what he was doing.

White male paranoia, anger, and anxiety is normalized in this country even if the result is unwarranted violence. The cops, store managers, his coworkers, HR, and even strangers all agreed it was all agreed it was unnecessary escalation. Yet they also placated the white man, who claimed he was protecting his children, and he saw a large man in a hoodie (it was rainy/windy that day) move strange and assumed mal intent.

The next day, HR concluded that my friend "initiated " the interaction and would still get an unpaid vacation day taken off and his first infraction warning on his record. They saw the video. They asked him why he didn't back off, to which my friend replied: I was talking to him to deescalate. I'm also autistic so it was jarring that he had the response, I couldn't understand where it came from. They agreed the other man escalated. Yet he was still punished. In my opinion this ordeal was racist and abelist. I'm disturbed by what could've happened to my friend if the man had pulled the trigger.