[lesbianrey]

[melaschasma]

[angryschnauzer]

You have GOT to be FUCKING KIDDING ME

They’ve done it again

[madamethursday]

I’ve been thinking about this and how the Simpsons called it and I think maybe they just read the room way better than anyone else. 

1. trump being (the former) president sounds and is and was just absolutely ridiculous, but even back then people knew he was a con man with exactly as much unearned and often pretend wealth as it would take to successfully buy the presidency, the conman’s instinct for finding out what people wanna hear and saying it over and over and the ego to be magnetic to those who are, frankly, pathetic. The Simpsons was a show that started out being reviled by a lot of Middle America. The creators were always aware just how backwards America could be, how much conservative backlash we were capable of. And trump banked on that. And he was the kind of guy that the people who were in a position to stop him would dismiss with a, “pfft, he’s a sideshow, he’ll never make it, it’s absurd”. Right up until he’s dismantling democracy from the Oval. The Simpsons was known for imagining ridiculous but not 100% impossible scenarios and just flying with it. They were the walking definition of “your chances of being killed by a cat are extremely, extremely low, but never zero.”. The chances of trump being POTUS were extremely, extremely low but sadly not zero.

2. Any female head-of-state would have to have a certain look, because misogyny. They’d have to ride the line between not too masculine (so no strong blues or reds, no neutrals) and not too feminine (no pink, yellow or pastels), not too adorned and not too plain, not so rich looking it puts the middle class off (no diamonds or big stones) but appropriately coiffed enough to make her success evidence (so some jewelry must be worn). A cool purple is a good color because it can feminine-to-neutral (a male executive could wear this as a tie color and no one would think twice) while still lending itself to an outfit that’s the spiritual heir to Hilary’s power pants suit. Pearls, as well, ride that line. They’re classy, but not flashy, they’re classic but never outdated. Reasonably good looking fakes can be obtained by the lower classes yet the upper classes continue to wear them so their status as a class marker remains. 

If I were thinking carefully about how a smart, determined woman like a grown President Lisa Simpson would present herself, I’d pick just about this outfit. 

So, I think that’s how we got to this place. Perceptive writers in the past, keen design sense, America being exactly as fucked up as they imagined and yet containing enough people determined to keep marching forward so that a woman could be President or Vice President. 

[broken-seal-deactivated20240220]

I totally agree with your analysis but also please consider the much funnier alternative:

Kamala Harris saw this episode and did it on purpose.

[juhani]

ok. we aren’t falling for this again right

Yall think the gods take classics classes for fun

Professor: whys your drawing look like that lol artemis would be paler

Apollo, twin sister to Artemis, has seen her at least once a week for 4,000 years:

professor: ares is the god of war and is evil.

ares:

[your-villainous-neighbour]

Professor: Hades is the god of the underworld and is therefore evil and cold and heartless

Persephone, who has seen her husband cry secret tears of Manly Anguish every time she has to go live with her mother for six months:

[ultrawebcomics]

Professor: Not even the crack of dawn was safe from Zeus. Zeus:

[naiive-and-starry-eyed]

Professor: *says literally anything about Dionysius*

Dionysus:

[stargazing-at-the-moon-deactiva]

This is great but are we not gonna talk about how OP doesn’t have a url?!?!?

I mean, ????????????

[peridot-the-kitten]

[livepasthope]

my wish for all of us in 2021 is to finally get the 6 different tattoos we thought of over the course of the pandemic

[new-anon]

[ORIGINAL WORDS BY @ewanmcgregorismyhomeboy12]

EDIT: this is a quote from the movie KUNG-FU PANDA 2. This is just a fun joke, and is not intended to be taken seriously.

[caroldanversenthusiast]

BRIE LARSON GAY?!?!,!?:/):&;@;@“

[randomadventurousallie]

‘Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.’ - Delirium, Lauren Oliver

[userpoe]

Don’t give up. He still might show up. Whoever it is you’re waiting for.

[lievecomeneve]

grogu sending SOS’s through the force: [please send help] [my dad and i need help] [if there’s jedi listening] [my dad is very caring] [he’s fighting imperials] [but he can’t keep holding them off] [even if he could totally kick their ass] [he’s been protecting me so much] [he’s afraid of nothing] [he’s also very strong] [won the super darksword] [from evil gideon] [with a stick] [so strong] [so brave] [took out a sand dragon] [on his own] [he’s a real warrior] [big armor] [tough] [so badass] [big hard armor] [but he’s lonely] [lonely warrior dad] [also single] [did i mention big armor?] [please jedi] [dad needs you]

luke, grabbing the tightest Gucci pants he owns: I’m on my way

[left-reminders]

Capitalism kills art

[pisss-offf-ghostt]

So I know we all joke about Din’s skills. But this was Dins brightest moment as a father. He let grogu go even though he knew how much it would hurt. As parent you do that. You give up everything for the betterment of your child’s life knowing that someday, they will go off on their own. And you do it without remorse because you love them whole heartedly.

[casualavocados]

endless gifs of ezra bridger [1/∞]

[lullabyknell]

I am begging people on AO3 to stop tagging characters and relationships unless they are a major, featured, significant part of their stories. If you want people to know the worldstate of your fic that badly, put your pairings of choice for this fic in the author’s note. Character tags aren’t warnings; I’m not going to throw a fit if I come across an untagged minor character if I’m reading fic for that fandom, especially if they have one (1) snarky line and then vanish. 

Clogging up the tags like this makes finding actual fic that focuses on side characters and supporting relationships a slog. I truly dislike FF.net for a variety of reasons, but sometimes I think they had something going when they were like, “PICK FOUR. YOU GET FOUR.” 

[berusaes]

“have you ever been in love?”

“a long, long time ago. you?”

“so many times, yeah, all the time.”

[queen-calanthe-of-cintra-moved]

#relationship status: it’s complicated

[actualfrog]

I think it’s very pog that Grogu has Two dads now :)