sass-monster

yo this my blog I post stuff about tings I like

[auditorycheesecakes]

the only bad thing about garlic is all the paperwork you have to do before you can even cut it up

look at that

layers and layers of bureaucratic bullshit

[western-woods]

[rattle-my-stars]

[misstanwyck]

[annetdonahue]

The importance of consent: a narrative.

[maxontrax]

I will forever reblog this gifset.

[forsciencejohn]

look at how badass she is though i mean some of it gets on her too and doesn’t even give a fuck

[yamumsahamster]

She pours hot liquid on her own leg she’s that badass.

[avatargrimes]

fire cannot kill a dragon.

[catchymemes]

[finalgirl-fiorello]

Guys you don’t understand this man also escaped the nazis THREE TIMES. Dude’s immortal

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

i will say that one of the funniest parts of a avengers endgame is how literally everyone else fucked up in one way or another when trying to get the infinity stones from the alternate timelines but rhodey just. did it. and it went off without a hitch. everyone else is getting captured or dropping the ball or having emotional closure with dead parents. but rhodey just comes back like "yeah i got the stone. no i didn't try to murder my past self wtf. why do you guys make everything so difficult?"

[delphinidin4]

alysontabbitha on IG

[lemonade-sky]

[firewhisky]

[ebulliens-deactivated20160720]

#Viktor was obviously deeply in love with her #just remember the fact that he took her to prom #even knowing that he could’ve choose any other girl #remember how he forgot about everyone and danced with her all night #remember how he looked at her while saying ‘write to me, please’ #remember how, a few years later #on Fleur’s wedding #he danced with her one more time #probably being conscient that her heart already belonged to Ron #this is why I love Viktor Krum so much #he just enjoyed being with Hermione #and didn’t care about the future #mostly, because she wasn’t going to be a part of his.

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[whiskeyfortheway]

#never understood krum hate #he’s like what everyone wanted draco to be #surrounded by dark magic and bad influences #treated like royalty #even without his famed seeker status he was pureblood elite #and yet he never treated anyone as lesser #he liked muggle born hermione for her mind AND physical beauty #thought harry was a great quidditch player #and never once compared harry to his own skills because he’s humble #was genuinely flattered that ron wanted his autograph #liked cedric and made a poin to tell harry so #also told harry he would be an ally in the fight against voldemort #the only time he did dark magic was under the imperius curse #to which he can’t be held responsible #three years later he talked to an in-disguise harry at bill and fleur’s wedding #just a regular person he didn’t know was harry #and investe himself in that conversation #he made such an effort to interact at hogwarts and i feel like most the fandom dislikes him for no reason #because he was the type of character who wanted to rise above the expectations others held of him #he knew durmstrang’s bad rep and actively wished to do better #i don’t know y'all i just think we should all appreciate viktor krum more (kneelb4todd)

[gramanderbae-blog]

read this guys, read.

[purplefairydragon7]

Just appreciate him. If for no other reason then because he appreciated Hermione.

[definitelynotaminion]

Victor Krum was ready to fight Xenophilus Lovegood of all people in the goddamn street because he was wearing the wizard Nazi symbol from ww2. Like no holds barred throw down.

Protect my foreign son and his goodness. Let Victor punch Nazis 2k17

[letitrainathousandflames-archive]

Also in the wedding he told Harry that “that symbol” [the one xenophilus was wearing] would be graffitied here and there in durmstrang by students who “agreed with grindelwald” (neo nazis, in a sense). But victor and his friends kicked their asses to show that kind of thing would not be allowed.

Boy straight up had his own gang of nazi-punching bros, heck yeah

[gryffindorssource]

WE STAN

[bilko]

CRABBE IN THE BACKGROUND WITH HIS BF OMG

[hellomynameisscreams-deactivate]

Frankenstein’s Monster literally got the exact opposite of what I like to call “The Fandom treatment.” Instead of having a horrifying and/or not-normally attractive and inhuman creature being turned into a beautiful and/or sexy human by fans, a considerably attractive and goth prince who was pretty much MADE of human has been turned into a slobbering, grotesque, and ugly monster by the media 

[hellomynameisscreams-deactivate]

to give you visual aid to what i mean, here is what he is usually depicted as by the media:

and this is what he is actually meant to look like as described in the book:

“His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.” (5.2)

[rannulfr]

Reblogging to add that the second image is from the 2004 Hallmark production.

It won an Emmy, has an 89% approval rating on Amazon, and is to date the singular most faithful adaptation of the book ever made.

It was finally released on Blu-Ray a few years ago due to fans rallying and you can also watch it on starz or pick up the old DVD for a few bucks online.

[connemor]

[starssight]

*touches things*

[tvandfilm]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) dir. Chris Columbus

[yayoroses]

iconic!

[thefoxconfessor]

[averagefairy]

working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay........ being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS.... sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine

[fbdbsgdg]

8 days....never thought about it like that 😓

[revere-irreverence]

This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off.  They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.

I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:

grow my own food

find my own clean water

heat my house

shit in the woods

[nubiana-americana-deactivated20]

[aggressivelycalm]

Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.

[ekelarsons]

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies.

[gahdamnpunk]

American Girl stories were the best tbh

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house

[allthefandomss]

Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.

[smugkoalas]

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.

[chaos-in-the-making]

Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.

A slave doll. Please. Read the books.

[switchingtogeico]

I could eat bagels for every fucking meal I’m not kidding I love them

[ramshackle-boon]

[switchingtogeico]

[ramshackle-boon]

[switchingtogeico]

[sassy-echidna-deactivated202202]

I love seeing the revival of classic art

[ants-are-fascinating]

When ants die, a few days later they emit oleic acid, which tells the living ants to dispose of their corpse.

A myrmecologist named Ed Wilson discovered this and dropped the chemical on a living ant. It was immediately carried off, despite the fact that it was still moving, and clearly not dead.

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

“I’M GETTING BETTER”

[kuroba101]

Bring out your dead. Eh, close enough.

[glitterandgrunge]

IM NOT YET DEAD SIR

[lazorsandparadox]

You left out the part where the ant, believing HERSELF to be dead, stayed in self imposed exile in the ant graveyard until the acid wore off and she realized she was not supposed to be in the ant graveyard.

[silent-wordsmith]

@finite-experience, this seems like the sort of thing you’d like to see

[mister-christmas]

Ant 1: To the ant graveyard with you

Ant 2: But I’m not dead

Ant 1: You smell dead

Ant 2: Fair enough

[eric-coldfire]

Ant 1: “I thought you were dead.”

Ant 2, after acid wears off: “I got better.”

[ottermatopoeia]

Ant 2, returning to the colony: i lived bitch

[fantasticfelicityfox]

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

[fuck-yeah-classic-monsters]

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

[mllemusketeer]

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

[theblamegabe-deactivated2019102]

@mortalityplays

[protom-lad]

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

[bloodcountessabendroth-deactiva]

Nobody ever talks about Dracula’s pet bee.

[toastbutteregg]

GIVE ATTENTION TO THE BEE 

SOMEONE WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THE BEE PLEASE

[feministism]

[kiwianaroha]

She took up acting because the malnutrition she suffered under the nazis permanently damaged her health and prevented her from pursuing her dream to be a ballerina. During the war, she danced to raise money for the resistance - even though she was literally starving, she used what strength she had to make sure more nazis got shot. 

[neveria]

She and her mom also denounced their royal heritage because of the Nazis in their family

[antiracistfeministanarchy]

Also Audrey was a humanitarian until her death, though ill with cancer, she continued her work for UNICEF, travelling to Somalia, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and the United States.

[abbeydoesthings]

These are things I literally never would have known about. I’m tired of women being painted as just being pretty.

[belleandwhistle]

I’M SO HAPPY TO SEE HER AT AN OLDER AGE I SWEAR!

[kittiesatemypronouns]

Here’s another nice one.

[witchaj]

For the longest time I assumed she had died really young because I never saw any pictures of her at an older age. She was an amazing woman.