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1953swan

fun twilight activity: find the name of your very own demon baby by mashing together your grandmothers’ names

rb with yours, mine is carginia

#disandra

gael-garcia

Tessa Thompson & Lakeith Stanfield (’Sorry to Bother You’) for GQ

“There are so many movies with people of color coming out that are like, ‘It’s the people-of-color version of a heist movie!’ Or, ‘It’s the people-of-color version of a buddy-cop thing!’ You know, 'People of color in this romantic comedy instead of Jennifer Aniston’ or whatever.” [Director Boots] Riley’s representation doesn’t mean just slotting people of color into roles “they wouldn’t have gotten originally” (read: white), it means creating roles we haven’t seen before: “This is a new movement of art for people of color that has to do with not only people being represented on screen and behind the screen, but a new way of thinking about the creation of art. [Stanfield and Thompson] are two of the prominent members of this kind of new group of actors that are coming up.”

vampiregirl2345

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

lirisa

So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands. 10/10 post, dude.

yourladyindank

Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES

404-later

It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.

knifefightscene

i never actually thought that cancel culture was toxic until people actually tried to ‘cancel’ a 14 year old who obviously didn’t know better we’re all young once children aren’t less children because they’re celebrities leave millie bobby brown tf alone

knifefightscene

one more thing i notice that people hate millie for being too mature and shame jojo sjwa (?) for being too childish and they’re both chidren none of them are mature stop being creepy to goddamn children maybe if you guys stop putting celebrities on goddamn pedestal you guys would realize that they’re just like you and not some geek gods

kajillionaires

!!!

peculiarbanana

Regardless of why people hate on her or don’t, she knows she has an audience and influences that audience quite a bit, so yeah when she comes out and says ‘You’ is romantic she only gives credence to the idea that behaviours like that are acceptable for “”“love”“” (one that the actor in the series has been trying to squash this entire time). Societal shaping or not, her opinion is harmful to her audience, and she is smart enough to know this. Just a few days ago twitter came at Noah Centineo for his support of logan paul but shes given a free pass?

knifefightscene

she’s 14 it’s not her job to be a role model she’s literally a child

friendraichu

but like also i wish she had adults around her that actually cared enough to help her understand that this attitude isn’t healthy. she’s already surrounded by such toxicity in the industry and it’s very worrisome that she as a child sees stalking as romantic in any way. :( :( :(

reys--speeder-deactivated202006

It actually is her job to be a role model. Whether she takes this responsibility seriously or not is up to her. When you are a celebrity it is your job to consider what impact your actions have. Thats literally the whole job. I am so sick of people saying celebrities didn’t ask to be role models—as if thats the damn point.

knifefightscene

you’re 28 years old asking a 14 year old to teach you how to be person seriously get help

d-annasays

One of the best feelings is knowing that you’re wanted. Knowing that someone wants to talk to you, wants to know how you’re doing, or wants to see you. Whether they pick up the phone to send you a quick text or stop by your house to catch up, someone or something reminded them of you specifically. It just feels really nice to know that you’ve been on someone’s mind and that they care enough to let you know that.

huffylemon

every other youtuber: *channel inevitably dies due to scandal*

jenna marbles: “we found out that my dog has a soap fetish, so here’s him reviewing different soap brands + we made him bed out of soap bars”

yanbd-deactivated20210412

she did blackface

bl00dshot-deactivated20190130

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/7lfpn5/a_summary_of_jenna_marbles_problematic_history/

iturnmomstransmasculine

Can somebody be like… Not a disappointment for once 😑

m1emmz

No that is definitely a tan, that’s really how she looked back then. It wasn’t good content at all and she stopped and deleted the video but they even included a part in that history post where they admitted she said it was a tan. She’s expressed regret in tanning that badly too. Also, the content she’s being called out for is from 2011/12 and she DEFINITELY doesn’t feel that way anymore, the same source you’re using cites her talking about how talking like that isn’t okay and she’s ashamed of her old videos. Back in 2012 I was sexist and homophobic and now I’m a gay feminist. Growth happens. No internalized misogyny or stereotypes are present in her content anymore and she’s way more mature. She even tries to include non binary people in her content and said that it makes her happy when people tell her they love being acknowledged like that.

She learned without being called out, instead commenters just helped her and she expressed gratitude for that, but then years later it’s resurfacing despite the fact that her content is NOTHING like that any more. And yeah, it’s good to be aware, but y'all are spreading this without information and as if it’s representative of her as a person, especially when most people don’t read sources and take words at face value.

Most people in the notes claiming she did blackface don’t even know the context when asked and it just goes to show how obsessed with call out culture people are. One person has even claimed she did blackface in 2017, but there’s no explanation unless they mean her “100 coats video” where she did many layers of lashes, foundation, hairspray, lipstick, and spray tan. They could have meant the fact that the spray tan she put on her arm eventually got dark, but she even admitted she didn’t know that would happen and washed it off. She definitely wasn’t trying to get darker though, she was just following a fun trend with beauty products.

TL;DR: Jenna marbles, like everyone else on YouTube in 2012, was dumb and edgy and kind of said whatever. She also tanned way too much. Over the years she’s matured, hasn’t repeat offended, and is remorseful for her past videos. She now just makes content to have harmless fun

shitty-check-please-aus

AU suggestion

when a player is signed to a hockey team, they get special superpowers associated with the team’s name. if you sign to the sharks, you can become a shark. if you sign to the golden knights, you can bring a sword to the rink

whoacanada

“You don’t grow up with Bob Zimmermann for a father and turn a blind eye to this stuff,” Jack fusses with the corner of the contract. “Do I get a Falcon sidekick? Or turn into a Falcon? What’s the bonus to signing with Providence?”

“Alright, I can tell you,” Georgia leans across the stained coffee shop table with a sly smile and takes a deep breath. “Ready?”

Jack clicks his pen, ready to jot down any notes.

“Sometimes … you can see better in the dark,” she whispers excitedly. “How’s that sound. Night vision.”

“Every other animal team can either turn into, or gets, whatever the animal is. I can just see really well?”

“Ours doesn’t wear off, though. Not like these other metro teams that want you. Play for the Fliers? Sure, you get super-speed but the second your contract is up? Gone. Not with us. You’ll have your power forever. It’s a bit of an investment but we believe in you boys. Also, if you were ever to become a team Captain, you also get this second-sight thing, allows you to look through a bird’s eyes and see what they’re seeing,” Georgia takes a sip of her drink. “Usually they end up training a falcon to be like a familiar or something, hence, Falconers.”

“Roundabout, but good to know,” Jack scribbles down a note about the animal husbandry beside a crudely drawn buffalo creature wielding a sword. “Neat. I’ll think it all over and get back to you. Thank you for your time.”

“My pleasure, Jack,” she rises to shake his hand goodbye. “I’m looking forward to hearing from you very soon.”

draw-blog

Rejected anthology submission

#Yeah.

venusmacabre-deactivated2019053

Every single stereotype of gay women being predatory, manipulative, violent and entitled is just a projection of straight men onto us.

venusmacabre-deactivated2019053

“Lesbians and bi women just want to turn straight women gay” = Straight men legit go around making songs about “fucking us straight”.

“Lesbians and bi women are sex obsessed women-objectifying freaks" = Need I say anything about this one? lol

“Lesbians and bi women react violently when a straight girl doesn’t want them” = NEED I SAY ANYTHING AGAIN?

I could go on.

wwwearps

the-future-now-deactivated20170

Watch: Carl Sagan schooled B.o.B. on his flat Earth theory more than 30 years ago

Follow @the-future-now

micdotcom

🐸☕️

trashboat

bipch erastosthenes schooled b.o.b. 2,230 years ago

luckyladylily

Ok so this is cool but I always wondered how they knew the shadows were different at the same instant. I mean it is not like they had phones. How did they sync up that instant. I feel like that would be interesting to know but no one ever says.

when-it-rains-it-snows

^^^Does anybody know this one? How, that far apart, the time at which the shadows were observed was synced up? I am genuinely curious, not a goddamn moron asking a gotcha question. High/Low tide? (I live in the middle of the country I do not know for the precise habits of tidal activity.) The appearance of a star (or planet) in the sky? Something as utterly mundane as sunrise?

kerosenekate

Well, first of all, it wasn’t actually pillars! Eratosthenes was told about a well in Syene that, in the summer solstice every year (June 21st) would be illuminated at the bottom entirely and without any cast shadows. This indicated that the sun was directly overhead. Going off that well known curiosity and an intelligent hunch, our dude Eratosthenes waited until high noon of the summer solstice to measure the angle of a shadow cast by a stick in Alexandria. (Sidenote: Eratosthenes was a librarian of the infamous Library of Alexandria.)

His next course of action was to hire bematists, surveyors of the time whose professional specialty was to measure distance by walking with equal length steps. They measured a distance between Alexandria and Syene of about 5000 stadia. (Guess where the word stadium comes from.) Once he had that measurement, Eratosthenes did his math-y thing, and there you have it.

when-it-rains-it-snows

ANSWER EVEN COOLER THAN I HOPED!!

cellarspider

Eratosthenes’ work was thorough enough that by the time he finished revising his calculations, he ended up only 66 km off of the actual polar circumference of the Earth, or an error margin of 0.16%. [wiki]

xcleanx

may 2019 bring you your “i’m doing better than i ever was” moment

dubiousculturalartifact

i think the most egregious example of the manic pixie dream girl trope was this play i but I just remembered seeing it, several years ago…

it was about this sad-sack guy driving across the country to try and reunite his old band for one last show

he’s accompanied by this girl who he was in the band with, back in the day… and he was in love with her then, and she’s cool & smart & funny & talks only to him for the entire play, even when the rest of the band joins him on the drive

& at the end of the play it turns out that she was a ghost the whole time, nobody else in the play could see or hear her, & the ‘last show’ he kept referring to is actually going to be her funeral wake bcs she died..

That her ghost had accompanied them on this trip bcs he was grieving & she wanted to help him let go of her…

which, you know, was a surprise & it was really emotional & legit the play was pretty good

But I just started thinking about it randomly…

And I keep being struck by the fact that the play only works if the entire audience is so used to the idea that a female character would literally only speak to the main male character for the entire length of a narrative.

Would only converse with him, interact with him, even when there were other people around.

That even as he talked about what he was doing next, she never discussed their future goals. She never touched any props or anyone other than him.

That nothing she did or said would genuinely have anything to do with herself as a person, except in the context of how he felt about her.

The entire play hinges on the audience not expecting anything hinky about a female character who acts like that,

& most of the audience bought it, hook, line, and sinker.

even I did. there was genuine feeling of surprise in the room

and I just…

A woman can literally be an incorporeal ghost & as long as she is emotionally supportive of a man we see her as a fully realistically person

if that isn’t a sad indictment of how female characters get treated idk what is, honestly ETA: FOR THE LOVE OF HECK, THE POINT OF THIS POST IS NOT ‘CHARACTERS ARE SECRET GHOSTS SOMETIMES’, PLEASE STOP CITING THE SIXTH SENSE.

THE POINT OF THIS POST IS I CAN THINK OF MANY OTHER STORIES WHERE THE OSTENSIBLY FLESH-AND-BLOOD FEMALE ROMANTIC INTEREST OF THE HERO COULD HAVE BEEN REVEALED TO HAVE BEEN A INCORPOREAL GHOST AT THE END OF THE STORY. AND THE REST OF THE NARRATIVE WOULD STILL WORK FINE, BECAUSE SHE WAS OTHERWISE THAT UTTERLY LACKING IN AN INTERIOR LIFE. FURTHER ETA: THE PLAY WAS CALLED ‘Back Kitchen Release Party’ PLEASE STOP SENDING ME ASKS ABOUT WHAT THE PLAY WAS CALLED