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Angélique Kidjo -  ONCE IN A LIFETIME

THIS. IS. BRILLIANT.

[itsdailyactress]

Lynda Carter in Zac Posen  attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.

[brutgroup]

@socmonumentalart Majdanek concentration camp, the Monument Of Struggle and Martyrdom at the entrance to Majdanek death camp near Lublin, Poland. Majdanek, or KL Lublin, was a German concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The monument was designed By Victor Tolkin,1969. The symbolic Pylon meant to represent mangled bodies reads like an abstracted Yiddish sign for Lublin: לובלין #brutgroup Photo via #socmonumentalart

[reapersun]

reminder series: bleak yet comforting thoughts.

i specifically chose animals that are (or believed to be) extinct due to human influence: thylacine, great auk, baiji, west african black rhino, golden toad, dodo, passenger pigeon, and quagga. there are many other species i could have included. the plants are also based on extinct species, but i found much less information about extinct plants, unfortunately.

the text doesn’t necessarily relate to each animal or their extinction. it’s all basically the same idea: let’s all be nice to each other, because today, the universe is vast and incomprehensible, we are all suffering, we are all going to die, and we’re all in this together. for today.

i’m busy for a couple weeks with conventions, but after that i’m considering a companion series with ancient extinct animals, so feel free to send me your favorites :)

[timronca]

West LA - 2018

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Vitamin

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[nirvanasoul785]

by Clare Elsaesser

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Horse Meat Disco

Happy Place

[juliafae]

📷 . 2011 . . . Fashion by @hauntedheadfashion . Makeup by @genevievejoyj . Taken by @photoblackburn . Edited by me. (at Ocean Deep)

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Edoardo Piermattei, Porziuncola, 2017 Thomas Brambilla Gallery

[teachingliteracy]

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In Lyme Regis, Britain.

Photo taken by Serena Rosemary

https://www.flickr.com/photos/serenarlunn/14715256507/

[aces-away]

Ok so I was watching X-Men: First class

I’m Jewish, and my dad- a goy- was watching it with me.

one of the scenes that really got to me was

because you can see the way Erik’s face changes because Charles just doesn’t understand what he was doing when he said that. 

Think back to the bar scene in the beginning. What does the Nazi say to excuse his actions?

So when Erik heard that? It just reminded him of what he knew and has been saying up until that very moment. Nothing’s changed.

I identified so much with Erik’s plight and I felt a physical ache in my chest when he spoke the next lines

Because growing up, all Jewish kids have heard or seen that in remembrance of the Shoah. Never Again.

My father made it clear that he didn’t understand; “So he’s gonna kill them all for following orders?”

“Dad, following orders blindly, without even questioning them set us up in some really dark times.”

“Whatever, the guy’s just blood thirsty and ready to blame anyone.”

And the thing is, Erik isn’t bloodthirsty, and never really has been. He’s logical and see’s the world based on his experiences of human actions. He’s seen the worst of them and refuses to be lulled into the false sense of security that working with the government had given some of them. Or the never-ending optimism Charles seems to have for the human race.

Because the fact is, Charles didn’t go through what Erik did and that’s one of the biggest causes of their thought differentiation. 

It just showed me how much Erik’s backstory impacted me more than it did goyim. Sure we didn’t experience it like our grand and great-grandparents did. We weren’t actually in the Shoah; But it’s left such an intense impression and stain on our history that we are still triggered by it, threatened by it as ‘jokes’ and forced to see it used as a rhetorical device in arguments with no relation to it.

We didn’t experience it but it is part of us in ways others can’t understand. And I think Erik-an actual survivor- really truly realized that when Charles spoke that line.

[rembrandtswife]

I am reminded of a crucial moment in MCU fandom: The sequence in Captain America: The Winter Soldier when Steve infiltrates the Triskelion, goes on the PA system, and reveals to everyone in the building that SHIELD has been infiltrated by Hydra, the helicarriers are going to attack U.S. citizens (for starters), and he wants to prevent the launch. We see one techie at a console refuse to follow orders, refuse to press the button that will start the launch, even though Brock Rumlow is holding a gun to his head. “Captain’s orders,” he says quietly, putting himself under the authority of a man who’s been declared a fugitive from justice, an enemy of SHIELD. It is not insignificant–not accidental, I think–that the character is named Cameron Klein and he is played by a Jewish actor, Aaron Himelstein.

It is always possible to refuse an unjust order. Sometimes that will mean risking or losing your life. “The price of freedom is high,” Steve says, “but it’s a price I’m willing to pay.” Specialist Cameron Klein was willing to pay it, too.

[anauthorandherservicedog]

As a Jew, I identify so much with Erik, especially in this day and age, because Jews are other.

Starting in second grade, I learned that people – total strangers – wanted us all to die simply because we’re Jewish.

When I was 13, a friend from Colorado found out I was Jewish. He asked, in all honesty, if I’d had my horns and tail removed at birth or if I still had them.

For the 30ish years I hid my identity – I married three goyim in a row and took their last names, I didn’t go to temple, I didn’t talk about growing up except to say I was from New York – out of fear of being targeted simply for existing.

My last husband had no idea why I spent 2016 in growing terror as I watched white supremacists crawl out of the shadows and seize power. He dismissed it as me being irrationally afraid, because PTSD, anxiety, whatever. I’m not even sure it’s something most white goyim can understand.

Charles, for all that he’s brilliant and compassionate and a fucking telepath, has no fucking clue what “they’re just following orders” means to a man like Erik – or the rest of us Jews.

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Also Magneto is literally a Holocaust survivor. He survived the Warsaw Ghetto, until it was liquidated. He survived Auschwitz.

Read Testament. It’s a very powerful book

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Vivian Maier, Self Portrait

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she was a genius. Great that her, and her work, are getting some recognition.

[odysseu]

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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A lot of people really like this book. But I found it incredibly depressing. Perhaps that was the point, to be crushed down by a tale of unrelenting privilege and entitlement? Perhaps someone could tell me if I got that wrong.

[aiiaiiiyo]

Princess Elizabeth leans out of the Duchess’s box at the “Dick Whittington” pantomime at the Lyceum Theater. 6 February 1935. [900 x 609] Check this blog!

[yesthisissatire]

Bill Nye the Science Guy gets love the love it deserves for promoting science to American children but what about the lasting influence Horrible Histories had on British kids??

[yesthisissatire]

my name is

my name is

MY NAME IS

CHARLES THE SECOND

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For those of you who missed out on this classic bit of British tellie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5abHKvUBQ