[valtsv]

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

[valtsv]

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

[valtsv]

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

[prismatic-bell]

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

[math-is-magic]

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

[deconsecration-deactivated20170]

*sees same stranger three times on campus in one day* what are we

[prettylies-uglytruth]

Look, I'm just going to say it. Be mad at me if you wish. Yell at me, block me, whatever. But this is the truth, and a lot of neurotypicals need to try to understand it.

Nobody develops an eating disorder because they see a photo of a skinny girl one day with a caption romanticizing her size. And nobody stumbles across thinspo "accidentally." Blogs intended to deal with eating disorders use vague, discreet tags, if they tag things at all. So if you "stumbled upon" it, you were actively looking for it.

Seeking out thinspo in the beginning is very, very common. You may not even realize that you are developing an ED, but if you search for it, you already have some of the disordered thoughts and behaviors.

Eating disorders are complex mental illnesses that develop over a period of time. They do not happen overnight because you saw a model and wished you had her body. All women - and men, and literally everybody else under the sun - has compared their looks to another's. It doesn't mean you have an ED or are in danger of developing one.

Consider this a PSA. I just felt this needed to be said.

Of course, if you feel like you are in danger of falling down this hellish rabbit hole, I beg you to get out while you can. Talk to somebody, ask for their support in steering you away from it. If you can escape before it's too late, then please, do!

[musically-introverted]

God I haven’t been on here in forever

[fluffygif]

seamus_n_angus on ig

[ruinedchildhood]

[musically-introverted]

I just officially came out as bi to pretty much everyone via Instagram and Facebook with a very lame and totally wonderful photoshoot featuring me and my new flag

[steviemcfly]

“When did slavery end in America?”

If you ask a white teenager, you might get the answer, “Four hundred years ago.” But that’s not the answer. Four hundred years ago was 1615, when the Jamestown colony had only existed for eight years and chattel slavery was just beginning.

Others might say, “When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, of course.” But that’s not right either. That only freed slaves in Confederate territory seized by the Union. The Union slave states—Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the then-in-formation West Virginia—were exempt and allowed to keep their slaves, along with Tennessee, which had more or less been returned to the Union, and Union-loyal areas of Louisiana (including New Orleans) and coastal Virginia. Because it was unenforceable in most of the Confederate states, only about 1-2% of slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

“Well, then,” they might say, “it was definitely when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed.” And still, they would be wrong. While that pivotal law did free the vast majority of America’s slaves, the text of the law is this: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“

So when did slavery end in America? The answer is, “Never.”

As discussed in the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name (available in full by clicking the link), as the federal government withdrew funding and support for Reconstruction, the South began a system of leasing prisoners—allowed by law to be used as slaves—to the plantations to replace their free labor. Those affected by this system were treated even worse than those held in bondage under slavery before the Civil War, as slaves were an expensive investment—the $800 average cost of a slave in 1860 is roughly $21,000 in today’s dollars—but leased prisoners were replaced by the prison if killed and payment continued as scheduled, deincentivizing what little humane treatment was afforded slaves.

It was so profitable and in such high demand that, within ten years of its implementation, the stereotype of black people in America had changed. Prior to the Civil War, the stereotype of black people was that we were inherently docile, servile, and loyal. This only makes sense, because if we were viewed as inherently violent and thieving and criminal like we are today, why would they have trusted us with their livelihoods, their crops, and their children? (Side note: this is also where the stereotype of black people loving watermelon came from—the idea that if we were just given a cool slice of watermelon on a hot day, we would work forever). But once they were no longer allowed to own us outright and had to lease us from prisons, police and judges did everything in their power to make sure they had a robust source of free labor. Black people were arrested on false or trumped-up charges, and within ten years, the recorded arrest and conviction rate for black people had skyrocketed so much that the stereotype was entirely inverted from what it had been previously.

The prison system may have stopped leasing prisoners to plantations, but they still lease prison labor to corporations and local governments. Prisoners—primarily black, of course, because we are targeted—are forced to fight wildfires, manufacture consumer goods, and even make goat cheese for Whole Foods. Our economy was built on slave labor, and it still runs on it to a disconcerting extent. And to make that work, black and Latino neighborhoods are targeted by law enforcement and manipulated through things like school closings and schools being unfathomably underfunded to ensure an ever-growing population of prisoners, an ever-growing population of slaves.

So the next time someone asks you when slavery ended in America, tell them the truth. Tell them, “Never.”

[socialjusticesummoner]

Read this because it’s so fucking important to know.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The word “Fuck” is by far the most adaptable word in the English language. Verb, noun, adjective, adverb, good, bad, filler word, expletive etc.

[musically-introverted]

#sorrynotsorry for all this spam after literally never being active but this makes me so fucking happy I cannot even say and if this upsets you then gtfo because this was courageous as fuck

[danandphilnews]

[chelseaandcats]

“What Phil and I had was OURS”

😭😭😭😭

I’M SO PROUD AND I’M CRYING

[radicalconceptussy]

He embraced the void and just gave so many people the courage to exist.

[cinnamondoodles]

literally not to get back into the dan and phil fandom at this point in my life but my inner 8th grade self is losing her shit

[shadeandadidas]

Dan Howell coming out by ROASTING every person hounding him for an answer is all i need out of life.

[ofallthegxnjoints]

if you reduce dan to his sexuality and only care about the fact that he is gay then i’m gonna break your kneecaps. he did not make a 45 minute coming out video for you to go “wE bEeN kNeW”

[makemybedth3grave-deactivated20]

“Queer people exist, choosing not to accept them is not an option”

Daniel Howell