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Love Begins
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Product Placement
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@nicliz
me talking about horror to normal people: its not torture porn, horror is an incredible medium to explore personal complex emotions and the genre at large can really speak to a society's unspoken fears at a given time in history
me talking about horror to my pervert friends: ranking saw traps by how horny they are
We need to bring back free the nipple
There seems to be some people who think i refer to being able to be braless outside, so let me make it clear: we need to be able to be topless outside
Wait. Shit. They made us backtrack so fucking hard. We were trying to de-sexualize breast, and they pivoted to “actually, all titties are extremely sexual, including the fake ones” and started targeting drag queens.
10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board
The concept of a catholic school is unfamiliar to me. What do you learn there? Holy math? Christian physics? Homophobia?
unfortunately you are correct
anyone else remember being a child and seeing the very neat handwriting of other little girls and somehow knowing that you were a different genre of person than they were
literally no…i remember seeing bad handwriting & thinking “oh these other kids must be orphans or something”
fascinating to hear from the other genre, thanks for your contribution
One time, I had a teacher ask if I wanted to be a doctor, and I said “no, why” and they responded with “because you sure do have the handwriting for it.”
I carry that with me to this day,
Sorry for the quick, shitty art, but the idea came, and was too good to pass up....
Nico di Angelo, hide and seek champion.
I made a meme for today
If yall could stop lumping Dia de Muertos in your little Halloween events and shit that'd be great cause like...its not Halloween. It's not Mexican/"ethnique" Halloween it's not some cute little Halloween after party, it is its own thing.
Edit: yes you can reblog this
Hi this includes sugar skulls and sugar skull facepaint. I’m so sick of seeing it with Halloween costumes and decorations as if it’s not a part of a completely seperate holiday.
Wholesome cutlet (x)
SCHNITZEL
LOVE IS STORED IN THE SCHNITZEL
If yall could stop lumping Dia de Muertos in your little Halloween events and shit that'd be great cause like...its not Halloween. It's not Mexican/"ethnique" Halloween it's not some cute little Halloween after party, it is its own thing.
Edit: yes you can reblog this
Hi this includes sugar skulls and sugar skull facepaint. I’m so sick of seeing it with Halloween costumes and decorations as if it’s not a part of a completely seperate holiday.
Hozier is just like "I'm a corpse in the woods I have a complicated relationship with religion and I'm tastefully horny" and we all collectively went "same"
Oh my god they did NOT put the Challenger disaster in an American Girl doll advertisement…
I read her description from the site, her story is about how she likes being in control, so her story could definitely be about anxiety, and reaching out for help and dealing with trauma of things she can’t be in control of. Or I’m projecting.
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared.
Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually.
If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)
“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”
“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”
“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”
“Cool.”
It’s not hard.
You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.
this is a good post.
Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.
#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)
it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.
oh what a life
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
Everyone has been vaccinated for free and the virus hasn’t caused a single death in months.
Those dates you go on with your partner? They’re in public. Unmasked. Your server smiles at you. Everyone feels safe.
You can hug your friends.
You can see a movie. The people in the movie are gay people of color and they kiss and live happily ever after.
And so will you.
LIKE TO CHARGE, REBLOG TO CAST
Or do both for twice the punch!
my singing voice is good for showers and mornings in the kitchen and drunken nights and lullabies for babies who need sleep and im okay with this
i think it’s silly to be ashamed of your art because it’s not in a museum and of your voice because it’s not selling out stadiums. there will always be people who enjoy and appreciate what you can do.
Idk why but this hit me really hard and I’ve been staring at it for a couple minutes.
I think ppl need to stop dismissing films like “crazy rich asians” and “to all the boys I loved before” as “cool for representation but just rom com fluff.”
Because like damn guys, sometimes I just don’t wanna deal with super deep narratives about identity and misogyny. Sometimes I just can’t handle the secondary trauma of movies like the joy luck club and maos last dancer. Sometimes I just need to escape into a happy place of light humor and hot people. And sometimes I want that happy place to show ppl who look like me.
Don’t knock escapism representation y’all.
Ppl are asking if it’s ok for white ppl to reblog
Answer: yes.
Would rather y’all reblog than speak over .
i legitimately and in all seriousness think harold and kumar go to white castle is a revolutionary film expressly because its a mediocre stoner film that happens to star two asian dudes
we deserve to have mediocre stoner films as much as the next group
Tbh Harold and Kumar is about two Asian bro’s fighting simultaneously against white toxic masculinity stereotypes and also a commentary on the problematic nature of model minority culture in America under the guise of just like…really loving weed, man.
Also launched the careers of two men who wouldn’t have gotten callbacks otherwise (not to mention Kal’s political activism !) So like…yeah.
Comedy —GOOD COMEDY—is subversive !
Comedy and lighthearted romance and media that give us joy and hope are things we can’t forget even in the darkest times. We need to laugh and smile and love because that’s what we’re fighting for.
As a POC I always get so tired of the only “quality” stories being the ones that involve pain and suffering and some sort of struggle. White people get both the light and dark in their stories so why shouldn’t everyone else?
All people of color deserve the frivolous fluffy bullshit that white people get. No trope or cliche is over until people of color get their chance at them too.
Agreed. I’m here for trope wish fulfillment
She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery...
Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it. The key points:
It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates. When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department. Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do. (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)
Her characterization of the episode: “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.
A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*--quelle surprise).
(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.)
The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it--and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either. We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.
She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views. (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people--that’s a lot of different views.) If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on. (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG--I’m not sure how it works, exactly.) Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry. (Another thing our current president does constantly--notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)
So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:
The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.
Two inmates fought that policy in court.
Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so--but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).
Harris also worked to change the policy.
If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with. Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change. If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it--again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.
What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war. As VP, she’s going to need those skills--especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction. We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.
This.
I get it, I really do - but Trump has literally stripped away rights from trans kids and fucked the careers of trans people in the military. Pence believes in conversion therapy.
We can remember and discuss these issues, but at the end of the day, Trump/Pence is the greater evil and we need to vote in a unified way to get them out of office because the second term would be so much worse. Don’t vote independent, just suck it up and recognize that we’re not gonna get a perfect candidate ever.
Voting Trump is a face full of glass shards, and a vote for an independent is a vote for Trump. This isn’t complicated.
I had not seen this explanation, and I’m reblogging it because I probably have followers who haven’t either.
She still chose to do it. I think we need to remember that trans rights are usually the first to be thrown under the bus in the name of “compromise”.
We’re compromising. We all are. There are a lot of great things about Biden and Harris and there are a lot of crappy things about them. We don’t need to say “the past is erased”. Cis people especially do not need to tell trans people that their concerns about these candidates are unwarranted. What we need to do is vote them into office and then tell them, “This was wrong. Do better.”
I think Harris will listen. I really do. But she can’t hear anything if we silence each other.
To be perfectly clear, my intention in reblogging was not to say “We shouldn’t care about trans rights.” We voted Obama into office when he still felt like same sex couples shouldn’t get married, and then we pushed until he changed his mind. I feel like maybe some younger people don’t know or don’t remember that, and I’m constantly worried that we’re constantly fighting a tendency within the left-leaning side of politics to ask candidates to be perfect before we’ll vote for them rather than looking for which ones are best positioned to be in a place we can push for more of what we want.
My intention in reblogging was mostly to point out that she did work to have it changed, and she did express disagreement with it, and to maybe bring a few more details of context to something that sounded a lot like “she’s not good enough and can’t be good enough.” I realize I didn’t add any tags or commentary to make that clear, so nobody can read my mind on that, but I wanted to clarify.
She did it, she didn’t resign in protest, and on some level that matters, BUT it is absolutely not representative of her position on trans rights.
It was not representative of her position on trans rights even at the time, and she's moved considerably to the left since then.
