America is a failed state

A, Aotearoa, 20s, she/they/he/whatever

[innerchildabortionclinic]

trauma dashboard

[itsapmseymour]

I knew she had colors hiding in there 🥹 (Source)

[atomicdaydream]

Taken by Artemis 2😁😁😁😁 Look at that shit!!!! First time seeing the other side of the moon!!!!!

[daenystheedreamer]

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

actually that's evil masculinity which is reactionary and bad. unlike good masculinity which is just about being smarter and better than women in every way.

[saintfelina]

handmade faux orchid hair clip

[motherlicker]

There’s a thing where you can look up your primal astrological sign, and mine is a salmon. Which means, essentially, that you are devoted to one thing, and you swim upstream for your whole life. You get shredded, take a beating, reach fruition, and then you die. I'm a salmon.

Jeremy Strong for W Magazine 'Jeremy Strong Just Wants Something to Believe In'

[greenbloods]

I think the ultimate fantasy that people have when depicting Brienne is thinking 'Well *I* wouldn't think she was ugly just because she doesn't fit medieval Westerosi beauty standards. In fact, I would think she was HOT!' OK. Cool. Would you still respect her if you did, in fact, think she was ugly though? Or is morality tied up with appearance still, just behind one additional layer of abstraction?

[insufferablelesbian]

all the female characters in asoiaf have to deal with beauty as a real, material condition that affects their lives. it's socially constructed, and maybe those constructions don't line up with our understanding of beauty, but that makes it no less real. the text is not concerned with whether Arya, Sansa, Brienne, or Cersei are attractive to a modern reader. it is concerned with the way it shapes their available choices. Brienne's choices for marriage are severely limited because people agree she's ugly. Cersei and Sansa are commodities in part because they are agreed to be beautiful. Arya is treated with more respect when she wears a dress and conforms to gendered expectations, but the supposed ugliness of her gender non-conformity merits worse treatment. what we think they look like is irrelevant.

[greenbloods]

All the characters in the books are text on the page, and we have no knowledge about their appearance other than through the filters of our POVs. Who and what is defined as beautiful is dependent on societal constructions of beauty.

That being said, I think that the reader who conceives of Brienne as physically beautiful to them is constructing a reading of her character which ignores the point, that Brienne is a worthy and honorable person regardless of her physical appearance. The point is not that beauty somehow isn't a material reality, the point is that it shouldn't be. That doesn't mean that Brienne is ontologically unattractive: within the story, Jaime is actively attracted to Brienne. But it does mean that a Brienne who is perceived as simply unconventionally beautiful instead of ugly by most every beauty standard seems, to me, to be missing the point.

What we think they look like isn't irrelevant. But what they look like is irrelevant to how they should be viewed as people.

[wizardshark]

Imagine being the first animal to get eaten by another animal in the cambrian era you would be like oh hey dude haha what’s up oh shit oh geez

[fleshdyk3]

easily one of my favourite tweets of all time

[american-troubadour]

Phil Ochs performing in Second Beach, Vancouver, B.C., Canada on June 28, 1970.

Photographed by Vladimir Keremidschieff

[throwupgirl]

aborted doechii: i mean fuck i wouldve liked pills i wouldve liked drugs i wouldve liked gettin money i wouldve liked strippers i wouldve liked to fuck i wouldve liked day drinking and day parties and hollywood i wouldve liked doing hollywood shit snort it probly would!

[sizeofyoursoul]

[kingcatnine]

maybe prometheus's liver is the eagles safe food?

[skittynation]

[angelicdewdrop]

[trans-asajjventress]

This continues to be a top contender for favorite tweet