monster.

hanna. 27. “canada” 

[typewriter-worries]

These Violent Delights, Micah Nemerever ( @honeylover ) | Peripety Project, Jen Mazza

[notaboogeyman]

when i say this :)) it’s because i’m v happy not double chins ok

[dementedgnomicwizard]

the secret history poses some deep moral questions sure but its also one of the funniest books of all time. remember when they went to join the search party and the security guard was like “hey youre the guy with 10000000 parking tickets you bitch idiot” and francis was like “whakauakauakwa” and henry was like “change of plans we have to leave right now”

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when charles was super stoned at the funeral and he used his hymn book to try to kill a wasp and it made the loudest possible sound in the world

remember when bunnys mom came downstairs and richard and camilla had to keep her facing their direction so she wouldnt turn around and see literally like everyone else smoking weed right behind her

remember when francis and charles ran off at the funeral and richard was like Wow im glad theyre getting along now :)

remember when richard got day drunk on champagne and went over to henrys house and henry was pruning his rosebushes and richard was like FUCK you and henry was like haha i am SO cool and sexy now that i did that murder

remember when richard almost got hypothermia but he like didnt tell anyone because he was embarrassed about being cold

remember when francis literally straight up asked richard if he wanted to fuck in latin IN CLASS and richard was like Haha i dont speak latin :)

remember when richard found charles passed out drunk inside a plastic snail

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard got shot but everyone was yelling at each other so he was too nervous to say anything and he just sat down and waited for them to finish

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when francis showed up the murder in, like, a bespoke suit or whatever and then camilla was like “fuck man when you’re gonna murder someone you don’t really think about what you’re gonna serve them for dinner” and francis was like “asparagus is in season”

[dementedgnomicwizard]

remember when richard was like “when they landed on the moon—“ and henry was like

when they what

[notaboogeyman]

remember when francis was hammered at the corcoran family gathering before bunny’s funeral and stumbles on richard who is packing pills stolen from bunny’s mom and francis takes some pills on top of more alcohol and goes “i hope i die in my sleep tonight!! :)))”

[welcome-the-magick]

The head of Medusa carved from BC Jade

Artist: L’AQUART

[notaboogeyman]

[notaboogeyman]

[notaboogeyman]

[messy-boii-deactivated20190519]

Alright boys, girls, and pals in between or none the like.

My friend Cydney’s teacher believed THIS was ok to put up. It’s transphobic as fuck, and the schools gone into a whole riot about it. People are getting horrifically upset about her. Her girlfriend’s brother is trans, and both are getting hurt by this poster.

NOW despite the fact like half the school is arguing against it, their teacher STILL will not tear it down. She believes this shit is ok. Cydney tells me they’re are now debating on trying to get this on the news.

Now I, someone who is a transmasc nonbinary student, along with all of the friends she told this too, are LIVID about it. And I told her I’m posting this on Tumblr.

PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU ARE AGAINST THIS POSTER SO WE CAN SHOVE THE NOTES IN THE TEACHERS F A C E.

[daggers-drawn]

Are you serious she actually took the time to make a little watercolor painting like that somehow makes it less of a violently transphobic message?

[notaboogeyman]

[daasharjitsingh]

Turban By All Religion 

Photography By A. k. Sandhu 

[i-aint-ok-deactivated20170417]

💐💐💐💐💐 💐 💐 💐💐💐💐💐 💐 💐 💐ucking kick me down a flight of stairs

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

“Get Out” Is More Real than You Think - the History of "Seasoning” Slaves

Spoiler Alert, tw: rape, torture

I just watched Get Out last night and it was incredible to say the least. And definitely one of my favorite films that I’ve seen recently. 

What I found most interesting, though, was that aspects of the film were so much more fact than fiction. And many parts had a sadly very real basis in black history.

There is historical precedent which shows that aspects of what happened to the black people in the film has also occurred in real life.

The film is a comedic psychological thriller in which black people are kidnapped, brainwashed into losing themselves and their blackness, and made into body puppets for white masters. As you watch as a black person, you can just sit there in shock and awe at just how evil it all is. 

But the film is not just a work of fiction. There is also historical precedent showing that many aspects of what happened to the black people in the film has also occurred in real life. And as I watched the movie, I immediately thought of slavery and specifically the “Seasoning” that slaves were put through to prepare them to be “proper” slaves on plantations.

The History of “Seasoning” Slaves

A slave’s journey did not end with the Middle Passage. “Seasoning” was then used to psychologically destroy them and make them submissive, “pliant” slaves

If you survived the slave forts known as “factories” on the African coast where hundreds of thousands died or the horrors of rape, beatings, starvation, sickness, humiliation, murder and more on the Middle Passage which killed millions more, you then were trafficked- bruised, sick, beaten and psychologically traumatized for sale to white plantation owners in the “New World.” But your journey of abuse and trauma was just beginning.

For slaves shipped to the Caribbean or South America (Over 90% of all slaves), you were then put through a process known as “Seasoning” which was intended to psychologically destroy you through torture and back-breaking physical labor in order to prepare you to be a “good” submissive, pliant slave.  

(One example of an instrument of torture used on African slaves. Image credit: Atlanta Black Star)

“Seasoning” involved torturing and breaking the person completely so that they would submit totally to your will and no longer resist or fight back. This is comparable to the practice of “breaking horses” so they will follow your commands and orders without question (x). 

The “Seasoning” period typically lasted 3 years and also occurred in large torture and forced labor camps, the most notorious ones being in Jamaica. And some reports document ~25% of new slaves dying during the 3 year “seasoning” period (x).

You were tortured, brutalized, progressively stripped of your African name and identity and anything that did not serve your purpose as a beast of burden for your white master. You were tortured for years to make you into (what they saw as) an “empty vessel” that they could pour themselves into and mold as they pleased.

Sound familiar?

Get Out embodied quite literally for me this very real history of “seasoning” slaves in action. Psychological torture and physical brutalization when you do not comply, and striving to completely break you as a black person and turn you into a submissive, pliant vessel for the wishes and orders of your white master. 

The film (intentionally or not) hit the nail on the head in depicting what a modern version of “seasoning” could look like, much like what many of our ancestors endured before. 

[psy-faerie]

[neverbiso]

Well on that note

[lagonegirl]

This is art. A masterpiece, actually.

[lavraog]

A true American hero

[deezhandztho]

Iconic

[notaboogeyman]

Heroic. 

[beaft]

i dont want to look “pretty” i want to look otherworldly and vaguely threatening

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Girls, if you’re pretty sure you do like boys but you wish you didn’t… you have options! You don’t have to date boys, even if you like them.

(You don’t have to date anyone, honestly, and it is possible to get those deep, meaningful, talk all night, “I love you so much” relationships without them being romantic/sexual!)

You can totally experiment with liking girls, I don’t care how many people you’ve heard say “experiment” with derision in their voice, they’re wrong. You are allowed to look at girls and imagine how you’d feel if you like-liked them, and compare those feelings to how you’ve felt before.

You can honestly just say to another girl, “I’ve never done this before but I wonder if you’d go on a date with me and we could see how it goes?” And you can just see how it goes.

You’re not hurting “actually” lbpqa girls by trying on this idea of being with girls and/or not being with boys. It’s okay to just… try, and see what it would be like. The possibility that you’ll find out you’re straight after all doesn’t matter - you’re still allowed to try it out!

You’re allowed to not know, and to try things before you’re sure. You don’t have to pick a label you’re 100% sure about before you’re allowed to think about kissing girls or stop dating boys or do anything else you think is reserved for “real X”. This trying-without-being-super-sure thing is how most of us figured out our orientations. You are not trespassing by doing it.

[moonlitkid]