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Only Read if You've Watched the Sandboy Episode!!

Okay, so I'm pretty sure we all thought Marinette's nightmare-Adrien was creepy (especially how he talked)....

But you know what really stuck to me?? THIS FREAKIN' SCENE!!

ADRIEN YOU STUDY CHINESE, PLAY PIANO, ARE A CHAMPION FENCER, GET GOOD GRADES IN YOUR CLASSES, AND SAVE PARIS ON WHAT LOOKS TO BE A WEEKLY BASIS AND YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT YOUR TINY IMMORTAL MAGICAL CAT TURNED INTO A SOCK?!?!

(This is what happens when you've lived a REALLY sheltered life)

#miraculous ladybug #marinette #ml adrien #ml marinette #ml sandboy #adrien agreste #ladybug and chat noir #tales of ladybug and cat noir #ladybug #cat noir #chat noir

cheese24k

This guy plays the tune of Jason Mraz - “I’m Yours” using two Nokia Phone

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this is so fucking relaxing

4ngelbride

IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR TWO FUCKING YEARS

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When you’re too broke to afford a Launchpad

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I’m so proud of Disney’s Team of Researchers when it came to making Moana, because it made me, a proud Polynesian girl feel relatable to a Disney character. Now Polynesia consist of many islands, each with their own unique style. I thought it would be nice to share some of the elements used in Moana from my own Polynesian culture, the Maori culture, so that Moana fans can understand the significance or just something new.

Te Fiti’s Heart

This Spiral Pattern is known as a ‘Koru’ and can be found in many types of Maori Art including: Carvings, Jewellery, Tattoos and Paintings. It is inspired by a plant native to New Zealand known as ‘Ponga’ or ‘The Silver Fern’.

Her Heart is also inspired by a rock precious to our people called ‘Pounamu’ or ‘Green stone’ which is a variant of Jade. We use it mainly for Jewellery nowadays but it was also used to make weapons back in the day.

Hongi

A Hongi is a traditional greeting and farewell used by Maori people by pressing noses. It symbolises exchanging the breath of life to one another.

Moana uses the Hongi several times in the movie but her Hongi with Te Fiti seems like the most important and special to me.

Moana’s Necklace

Moana’s Necklace is made out of a Abalone Shell which we call ‘Paua’ and can be found throughout many countries around the world, however the featured shell here is a type you find in New Zealand once you polish back its nacre. The shell is used in our arts including: Carvings and Jewellery.

There are so many more elements used in this movie from the other Polynesian Islands that I cannot name but hopefully someone else can add to this post to share our beautiful and rich cultures.

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When My Friends Speak Bad About Themselves 🚫

themessenger151

this is so aggressively pure

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thetenk

boss fight

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This guy is clearly a robot. No human could do this.

hylianminstrel

This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

musicallytaken-blog

This is one of the reasons I love music

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Barbie Vlog #9

thatsthat24

PREACH BARBIE

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I’d never thought id be that much inspired by barbie

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jesuisuneetoile

THIS IS MARRIAGE!!

Thats right!

Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.

He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”

Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.

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I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT

wtfhistory

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.

In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.

Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.

Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.

Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.

FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.

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^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.

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I mean, he knew she was Cersei… lol

ohdiogenes

And the women were trained the exact same way as men were. As children they were equals ; they were not allowed to wear clothing until a certain age and at that point they were sent away to a training camp until they were 18. It was only the men who were sent into the wilderness for an extra two years to ensure their strength for battle.

Plus the women could marry whomever they pleased and the men weren’t allowed to live with the women in their house until she said so. And they were tough in Sparta but also all about family. To have male offspring was good luck, to have female offspring was an honour.

This part of the movie was true; King Leonidas really did kill a man because he insulted his wife and he always ensured that he had his wife’s approval. And while Leonidas was away in battle she did rule Sparta on her own.

Sparta knew what was up.

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The Vikings are actually very similar to this!

There’s a lot of evidence of women being super hardcore warriors, either protecting the homestead while the men went viking, or even going viking themselves. (Viking is actually a verb, the act of going on raid.)

They also had divorce, which involved the woman getting together her posse and declaring that she divorced her husband three times - first at the entry to her property, second at the door of her house, and finally at the foot of her marriage bed. After that, she was no longer married to the dude, and could take all of the property she brought to the marriage and leave, usually to return to her parent’s home, but often also to marry some other guy.

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The moral of this story is that patriarchy doesn’t just effect our present, but also our view of the past. Think that women have been oppressed across all cultures, throughout history? Wrong! Women have been kickass equals for millennia, but it is always the goal of oppressors to rewrite the past so they can use it to support their lifestyle in the present.

History is written by the victors, and right now, the victors are men.

musicallytaken-blog

Reblogging because why the hell not?

Achievement Unlocked

Used a power tool for the first time

#adulthood #being an adult #achievement unlocked #achievement #unlocked

ferisae

“Hello Dr. Jekyll. Have you met Mr. Hyde?“

Those of you who read Ch 14 of You Don’t Know Me will get the ref >:3c

ariaricx

Wut K obviously need to read this fic now

musicallytaken-blog

Be warned. Though the art is enticing, and the title draws you in, this story is not for the faint of heart...

When you walk into a grocery store to buy lunch, and at the register, you see the cashier wearing a catbug pin on their apron...

#miraculous ladybug #ml #true story #catbug

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a 90’s kid? don’t you mean sad adult?

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70,000 people have reblogged this but no one is trying to defend themselves

vanilita

There is nothing to defend

lookingforshadows

#i read a post once that described 90s kids as the generation of nostalgia #because so much technological advancement happened in such a rapid timeframe when we were growing up #that we can clearly remember having technologies that are now obsolete #like going from a corded hugeass phone to a small computer in your pocket just within our formative years is a major thing #and it sparks a nostalgia for our seemly ‘simpler’ childhoods #because so much rapid development makes it seem like it was a lot longer ago than it actually was (x)

instead-of-sighs

This is the most solid explanation of our decade I have ever heard.

fakenasty

Oh my god

retr0philia

Just to add onto that, our childhood wasn’t even technology based. We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc. Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer. We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it. We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all. Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.

breelandwalker

Not to mention, ours was the last generation that grew up with all those bright promises of “work hard, go to college, and you’ll have a successful life,” only to find those hopes abruptly dashed when the housing bubble burst. Milliennials have grown up expecting that disappointment, because for them, the problem has been there since Day One.

So 90s kids aren’t just nostalgic…we’re BITTER. And we ache for those days when we could still think that the world was boundless and full of the opportunities we were promised since the first day of kindergarten.