proud member of the oy division

(((that bitch)))

[theghostiedyke]

[mothman-dontpullout]

tbh “andrew hussie trivializes the holocaust for views” happening on the first day of 2019 proves pretty conclusively that we’re arent outta the bad timeline yet

[mothman-dontpullout]

welp.

[mothman-dontpullout]

dave would call me a trap. john would think its funny, and rose would get mad at me for defending myself. jade would stay neutral bc shes a liberal. karkat would double down and call me a tranny. terezi would join in because she’s a fascist ironically. kanayas a terf

[powerfulwizard]

Not to be pretentious about art but male photographers that have portfolios that are almost exclusively filled with naked skinny white women with big boobs aren’t artists they’re just perverts

[awesomlyautistic]

Not to be pretentious about art but female photographers that have portfolios that are almost exclusively filled with naked muscular men with big penises aren’t artists they’re just perverts.

There, now both sides of the coin are shown.

[powerfulwizard]

Could you provide an example my dear

[powerfulwizard]

[mothman-dontpullout]

I remade at @dodi-li

Gang Gang

[statsdead-deactivated20200602]

I HATE STIM INSTAGRAM

[liquidstar]

slime the hands are coming. oh my god it has airpods in. it can’t hear us. oh my god

[hyrude]

this blows my last “straight ppl play night in the woods” vid out of the water

[psychedelicswamp]

i am SO SICK of unhappy endings. idk about anyone else but the #1 reason i like fiction is because everything can always work out no matter how bad it is. “what if the good guys lost” shut up. you are so fucking boring. give me happy endings or give me nothing

[psychedelicswamp]

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

“But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”

[leatherfacebishoujo-deactivated]

(transparent white marina by @splooshomaticloveblog)

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

wild how in the Aquaman movie the Atlanteans have such different culture from humans that Mera thinks flowers are food but she still instinctively knows how to wear a full face of makeup 

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

are you seriously asking me if I think it’s more plausible that an isolated and largely inhuman culture just happened to develop a female beauty standard that’s absolutely identical to what 21st century moviegoers would recognize as attractive?

because no, I don’t. I think that sounds ridiculous, and it’s just lazy worldbuilding that’s so common as to be entirely predictable.

[lanternwisp]

The idea that underwater makeup is more likely than underwater flora is what really slays me tbh

[acespacejay]

Hold on, why can’t it be that she just doesn’t understand human customs?

She sees everyone eating everything around her and just assumes “well… when in Rome” *buhdum* and takes a bite.

All sorts of places have different customs. What one country eats, another doesn’t.

The make up thing I have no answer for, haha.

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

that’s sort of the point I’m getting at

making Mera (adorably) clueless about human customs in some ways but presuming that she’s perfectly capable of replicating involved makeup routines - without even a scene of her struggling with a mascara wand or trying to navigate purchasing makeup from a human drugstore - is lazy worldbuilding because it fails to interrogate why this woman should blend seamlessly into another culture’s beauty standards so effortlessly, except that the filmmakers take for granted that a woman should be beautiful

[sasquatchsightings]

There’s actually a pretty good video on this topic, because it’s incredibly prevalent. Lots of media, movies especially, seem to gravitate towards female characters having fully adult bodies but with infantile mindsets, so they act like they were born yesterday, but are still viable for specializing, eg “born sexy yesterday.”

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

I’ve seen the video before, and I appreciate the recognition of the trope a lot, but I’m not sure Mera’s a full-blown case. she’s naive about certain aspects of surface dweller life, for sure, but I don’t think it makes her vulnerable or malleable to nearly the extent of many of the characters described above - especially since, unless I’m misreading the movie, she and Arthur are both mutually “fish out of water” (excuse the bad bad pun) in each other’s respective culture’s, making their relationship much less imbalanced than most cases of born sexy yesterday.

I should also point out that this isn’t really the critique I was trying to make at all; my issue isn’t with Mera not being all-knowing, but that her selective knowledge of surface culture blatantly illustrates that female beauty is so taken for granted and expected that filmmakers don’t even feel the need to justify it

[unicorncryptid]

Not to mention that even if they wanted to adhere to standard western beauty ideals and not explain it, which is frustrating and lazy and I’m tired of movies that do that, they had license to do so in far more interesting ways. Maybe using CGI or practical makeup to give the Atlantans scale patterns on their skin, or bioluminescence, or reflective streaks in their hair. Arthur got cool glowing contact lenses, does anyone else get something similar?

I mean, this was done on a tv budget (Zhaan from Farscape):

But apparently false eyelashes is the extent of anyone’s imagination.

[hustleinatrap]

I just want you to know this was a black woman behind this song. Give her a credit she deserves.

[empressaquarius]

This is why I say fuck Elvis on a regular basis (he’s all over Memphis so it happens often)

[winter-seance]

Night at the Museum 2

[maggins]

[niggazinmoscow]

You can tell a white owns BET

The whole story https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-sad-strange-life-and-death-of-devonte-hart-the-crying-black-boy-who-famously-hugged-a-cop-2

[ororomunroedontpullout]

There was also evidence of abuse and neglect before the incident happened and it was ignored because they trusted their white caregivers more than their own safety. Those kids were forced to do videos like that even when they said they were uncomfortable.

[between-stars-and-waves]

Don’t let evil jackasses like this one decide your future. Vote.

[dr-archeville]

What the absolute fuck?

[tabythakelley-deactivated202209]

friendly reminder that steve bannon used to own a world of warcraft gold farming company and realized that a lot of gamers are disenfranchised young white men who are absurdly easy to take political advantage of, and brought milo yiannopoulos on board to do it. which is a large reason why white supremacy and misogyny are so prevalent among the young white male age group right now. We can laugh at people like this all we want, but this is a phenomenon purposefully engineered by the current administration.

[ororomunroedontpullout]

I’m sorry but the Trump administration did not create the conditions for these white men to become terrible. Sure they harnessed their power but white men, especially those who feel disenfranchise for one reason or another, have always been like this. The radicalization of white gamer men through the internet is something we can talk about but acting like “oh these guys are brainwashed by Trump & co to be like this” is the wrong move. Banning and Milo have simply mobilized them. White supremacy and mistgony have always been prevalent and always been high.

[itched]

‘Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature […] In fact, do not assume there are only two genders.’

-The Bisexual Manifesto, 1990

for all you dumbasses trying to insist that bisexuality doesn’t include attraction to nonbinary people, or that pan is a necessary label to express attraction to nonbinary people

[memewhore]

[gildatheplant]

Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.

[minty-mayhem]

I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.

[prescribedburning-deactivated20]

im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me

red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

[teenagerposts]

We don’t deserve dogs (Source)

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

I’m going to cry omg

[ororomunroedontpullout]

“You ain’t bout to do my mans like that.”