sassybobcat

"That's how we're gonna win. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love."

[gael-garcia]

Nope (2022, Jordan Peele) + "Nope."

[sophsun1]

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

[mikelogan]

VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers

[whenyoureplayings0litaire]

Something I think about with Katniss's parents and the fact that one of them is a sainted dead man and the other is a disappointing failure is that often, when someone views their parents through a hero/villain dichotomy, at some point, if they really examine that, they will realize something about the one they think is the hero.

Probably, they are both just people.

[princesspufflesposts]

Something I appreciate a lot about Katniss is also that we see her grow in her understanding that her mother is a person outside of just being a mother who has frankly failed her in a lot of ways, even if readers want to ignore that.

She speaks favorably about Asterid’s skills and talents as a healer and is very clear that her mother is a pillar in the community who has helped a lot of people. She admires the way her mother and Prim can focus and face people’s suffering + the ‘grossness’ of people’s poor health conditions when she has trouble with that herself. In District 13, she’s also somewhat affronted by the fact that the medical staff have relegated Asterid to being a nurse instead of a doctor, despite Asterid’s many years of working miracles tending to the sick without any supervision.

Katniss can understand that Asterid is a person with her own internal and external life outside of how she is as a mother. It’s kind of absurd to me that readers cannot do this themselves, even with the fact that the prequel has also touched on Asterid’s identity and vital place in the community before motherhood.

It’s clearly something Suzanne Collins wants to stress this time around… if she wanted to perpetuate the way Asterid has been reduced into just a mother figure who is nothing more than her illness and relationship to her daughter, she wouldn’t have written about how Asterid cared for impoverished sick people free of charge + was one of the last holdouts trying to care for Haymitch and only gave up when he literally assaulted her with a rock. Okay end rant and thank you for this post OP!

[chronivore]

Theseus and the Minotaur - Alice and Martin Provensen

Alice Rose Provensen ( 1918–2018) and Martin Provensen (1916–1987) were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together.

[nepptunii]

who’s gonna tell him

[dispelzine]

Walls / St. Clair Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.

[depsidase]

[moonstonecassie]

@isuggestrevolution

[demoncity]

25TH ANNIVERSARY OF SPIRITED AWAY Released on July 20th, 2001 in Japan

[anarchistmemedistro]

[anarchistmemedistro]

hurtful

[teaboot]

Not the point in the slightest but are cigarette ads not illegal in the USA❔❔❔For some reason that one is blowing my mind

[ayellowbirds]

Only as of 1999. The original, unedited version of this cartoon, by Clay Butler, was published in 1996, and looks like this:

Someone went to a lot of effort to not only remove the cartoonist's credits, but also make the joke weaker. In the original, the graffiti is a lone and comparatively small, unremarkable tag in single-line monochrome. It contrasts with the billboards and signs by being unobtrusive, making it all the more absurd that the pig notices it with such vitriol. The edited version loses the impact by making it stand out in bright color and cover the whole of the wall.

[artverso]

Bengal - Lady Sif

[ratbreadd]

go watch (and read) project hail mary right now. this instant. go go go . go. go.

[radicalgraff]

Last month crews of anarchists put up hundreds of anti-tech posters across Los Angeles. This was an experiment in coordinating across geography between multiple affinity groups and part of a focus on anti-tech agitation.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[dduane]

It's coming, cousins. ...This could be as big as March 15th if we made it that way...

[allcops]

“The police spend very little of their time dealing with violent criminals—indeed, police sociologists report that only about 10% of the average police officer’s time is devoted to criminal matters of any kind. Most of the remaining 90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrative codes and regulations: all those rules about how and where one can eat, drink, smoke, sell, sit, walk, and drive. If two people punch each other, or even draw a knife on each other, police are unlikely to get involved. Drive down the street in a car without license plates, on the other hand, and the authorities will show up instantly, threatening all sorts of dire consequences if you don’t do exactly what they tell you. The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physical force—even, death—into situations where it would never have been otherwise invoked, such as the enforcement of civic ordinances about the sale of untaxed cigarettes.”

— An excerpt from Ferguson & the Criminalization of American Life by David Graeber (via actjustly)

[noneedtofearorhope]

since i think many will have had the memory slip with just how many other atrocities have occured in the past 11 years, or are simply too young to remember, the last bit about the sale of untaxed cigarettes isn’t just some hypothetical, it’s a reference to the killing of eric garner

Killing of Eric Garner - Wikipedia

this is the origin of the slogan “i cant breathe”, which was revived in the wake of the killing of george floyd.

[alanshemper]

On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

[six-demon-bag]

EVENT HORIZON (1997) dir. Paul W. S. Anderson

[punkrockhistory]

43 years ago today

Punk Girls in Stockport, England, July 19, 1983.

Photo by Shirley Baker