REMEMBER & RESENT

constantly becoming.

[quietlysmug]

fair warning

I haven't been on here in a minute and a half but for anyone still following me, this blog is about to get real political. Will likely be mass archiving posts/reinventing my aesthetic for the next week or two.

[gyarados]

You’re welcome

[lady-gorthaur]

This is the most useful thing I’ve ever reblogged.

[danwasonfireonce]

i used to think when people said my cousin twice removed that their cousin must’ve did some fucked up shit to get kicked out of the family twice

[happylifewiththemachines-deacti]

When I found this the first thing I thought was “now I can find out how Count Olaf is related to the Baudelaire children.”

[happydorid]

Museum of Moss 

I started this comic almost a year ago, but finally got around to finishing it! 

[jitterzart]

This is so wonderful!!

[happynewfears-deactivated201701]

Braiding Hair Risks Heavy Fines, Even Jail Time, In Iowa

[itsjustrae]

What?

[banji-effect]

Yup. This is the worst part:

“Incredibly, while braiders must be licensed as cosmetologists to legally work, state law does not require cosmetology schools to actually teach natural hair braiding techniques.” So people have to pay (upwards of $22,000) for training on things that have no bearing on their actual hair braiding careers, or face serious penalties, meanwhile the licensing agencies and schools have no impetus to actually teach the necessary information for gaining the license in the first place.

[mangoestho-deactivated20161001]

i hate this whole entire planet.

[naturee-feels-deactivated201512]

Iowa is disgusting I hate that I know everyone in this article. I’ve had my hair braided by her. White people literally want to tax a thousand year old practice. I hate living in Iowa.

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

THIS MAKES NO SENSE

[autohaste]

it really doesn’t. how does one make braiding hair illegal

[blackfashion]

disgusting.

[theinturnetexplorer]

Hydrographic Flames applied to a helmet

[kingkhufu94]

How

[meghanbacso]

[batreaux]

hes doing a great job

[mememaster]

he’ll be done in no time

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[fat-thin-skinny]

this fucks me up every single time

[acutelesbian]

I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class.

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

[conceitedtrash]

This is so fucking important and I think it’s something I needed right now

[callmekweeen]

I think about this so much 💀💀💀💀

[captioned-miscellaneous-videos]

Interviewer: “Which flavor of cheesecake do you like, Future.”

Future: “Just the regular one. The original.”

Interviewer: “What does that taste like? Just full on cheese?”

Future: “Taste like….cheesecake.” [low chuckling] “Sensational.”

[standpoor]

nardwuar

[seriousfic]

MCU fan-cast: Charlize Theron as Ororo Munroe/Storm

I’m sure she has her fans, but for me, Halle Berry never really captured the character of Storm. It’s not entirely her fault; however much the actress was miscast, the character suffered from the X-Men movies’ Notbeingplayedbyhughjackman Syndrome, a common malady. And instead of being defined by her warmth, her elegance, her power, or her regal nature, Storm ended up literally an angry black woman.

Recasting the character, you want a complete break and paradigm shift from what is, after four movies, unmistakably a failed character. Instead of a flaccid ‘leadership role’ that looks a lot like playing second banana to Wolverine, let’s emphasize the character’s strength, her beauty, her assertiveness, her regal nature. You can do all these things, even without making the character the grand leader–look at Thor or Black Widow in The Avengers, who take orders from Captain America while remaining effortlessly cool and badass. But, in deference to the character’s importance, I don’t want an unknown or some TV actress playing her. I want a genuine A-list Oscar winner backing the character, making audiences sit up and take notice from frame one.

Charlize Theron has been game for a number of weird, small genre roles. Even when the end result let her down, like with Aeon Flux, Snow White & The Huntsman, Prometheus, A Million Ways To Die In The West, et al, I think she still deserves kudos for putting herself out there, and with the right part + good writing backing her up, I think she could be as downright iconic as she was playing Furiosa (and she shaved her head for that role, so we are halfway to mohawk!).

And unlike some other Ororo Munroes, she’s from Africa. I’m sorry, I hate to get all ‘politically correct,’ but when you have a character that was born in Africa and married an African monarch, maybe we should cast an African. I might be the only one who feels this way, but representation matters, and Africans deserve to see themselves on-screen.

[mariahraemonroe]

Ororo Munroe/Storm is BLACK….. I know this is your fancast but trying to white-wash the most important black character in comics is really disrespectful…

[seriousfic]

I’m sorry, I don’t see race, unlike some people…

[bana05]

[beharyonguriop]

[acceber74]

[illmaticraj]

what kind of bullshit is this???? 

[queenquong]

angry black woman… I don’t see race…. womp womp.

[glitzoris]

“I might be the only one who feels this way, but representation matters, and Africans deserve to see themselves on-screen.” You were saying? Storm is BLACK. She needs to be played by a BLACK woman because, to use your own words, “representation matters.” So do better with your shitty fancasts and don’t get defensive when people call you out for literally erasing representation when you yourself just said it’s important ok bye 🙅🏼💁🏼💋

[rickey-dickey-grimes-deactivate]

Bruh. Stay away from my fav.

Oscar winning, African… Lupita Nyongo.

Bye.

[tarons-daydream-deactivated2023]

^^^^^^^^!!!!!!!!

[roguesenigma]

what white bullshit is this???

[quietlysmug]

THERE ARE SO MANY BLACK AFRICAN ACTRESSES. CAST ONE PLZ

[catbushandludicrous]

[graceebooks]

OH MY GOD

[theseaisalesbian]

It’s back

[worldstopcarryon]

Lit

[jok3n-jok3n]

#BeyonceAlwaysOnBeat

[gquedd-deactivated20160430]

Fuck it up bae

[bootyscientist-deactivated20160]

if a million isn’t “a lot of money” then y'all niggas just fiscally illiterate tbh cuz u fuckin buggin

[nosoggyrice-deactivated20230601]

i feel like people blinded by all the money athletes, rappers, companies, celebrities, etc make and think in that mindset and not from their own perspective. to a regular person that’s a lot of fuckin money. car and a house paid off completely and money left to blow and invest

[e-lsien-deactivated20180817]

A million isn’t going to set you up for life but it definitely will give you a good leg up. Depending on where your situated you can buy a small house and a car and pay off some of your student debts. What I find comedic is when first year students expect to make 100k once they graduate 😂

[bootyscientist-deactivated20160]

y'all better stop lying to me cause 1 million will absolutely set you up for life. no debt, a house, car, an entire wardrobe, food, drugs (if that’s your thing), insurance, utilities, and some regularly luxuries with money left to spend. yeah you gonna have to work again, but 1 million isn’t enough to allow you to never work again (unless you wanna live a different type of life)

if that’s not “set up for life” then i genuinely don’t know what is.

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

lol @ a million not being a lot of money

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

A million dollars isn’t a lot of money compared to living expenses lol. Like I could pay off my student loans and maybe get a car and buy a condo but that’s about it?

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Yall bugging, you gotta understand your parents Probably raised you and never made a million through all the years they’ve ever worked total

[bumbacloht-deactivated20210616]

maybe not but in the world we live in today with inflation and all of that, its definitely possible for us to make a million if we started off where our parents did. but that also depends on the variables as well.

[wtfced]

ONCE AGAIN YALL NIGGAS CANT COUNT AND HAVE BAD LOGIC SKILLS if you got a job that pays 50K/yr in a dual income household at that rate it equals 1 million in 10 years

yall niggas gotta stop acting but more importantly stop thinking like youre poor cuz your views and expectations of the world are terrible

[brandieblaze]

My mom ain’t never made 30K a year, never mind 50K with my dad also making 50K. I barely know that nigga. But, anyway, Donald Trump out here talking about how hard he had it and how he’s self made because his dad *only* loaned him a million dollars and he had to pay it all back!!!!!! Why doesn’t everyone just get a loan from their parents?????? Bruh, with a million dollars (after taxes hopefully), I would buy a duplex or 2 family so me and my mom both got a house, buy both of us cars, pay off our debts and still have enough money to go shopping, go on a nice vacation and have a nice ass amount in savings.

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

75% of Americans don’t make 50k that’s a dream salary to most but even if you did, You still have to pay taxes takes that 50k down to 35k, mortgage/rent, utilities, groceries, leisure, miscellaneous etc, you’d be lucky to save 5k outta that after all your expenses. If I won the lottery and got a million after taxes realistically I could turn it into 20 in 3-5 years it takes money to make money in this shitty ass country

[surra-de-bunda]

Token Black Girl (This is just some movies. Not including all the 100s of tv shows)

[wocinsolidarity]

OMG

[tastefullyoffensive]

[glrlband]

guys be like “makeup is why you take a bitch swimming on the first date!!!” but sweetie I got that urban decay setting spray ayeeee

[sarahasnoh]

Hourglass mineral veil primer makes any makeup you put on top of it waterproof 💁

[jeankd]

WHAT!?!?!? No one told me these things. I been sweating and reapplying make-up in the summers and you folks knew this shit the whole time… THE WHOLE GOTDAMN TIME!?!?

[loveandddrevenge]

So does benefit and stila. And putting translucent powder over your lipstick makes it waterproof and matte. You really shouldn’t need to do much touching up on anything ever.

[pinkgliitter]

reblog to help lives

[harryandmesohappily]

[shofie-irl]

Please unmute this

[segolily]

Walking through town with my new glamour.

[becausebirds]

It’s back with a new jam and better than ever.

[stankface]

Words cannot express how elated I am that it’s common knowledge that Hermione is black in 2015

It’s no longer a headcanon, it’s a widely accepted interpretation of a character described as brown with a hair texture that’s NEVER found outside of the African diaspora.

There are hundreds of drawings of Hermione depicted as she was written. People are cosplaying her without being asked why they don’t look like Emma Watson.

This is so beautiful and idk what started it, if it was a text post, a racebent fancast or ppl just collectively coming out and saying “hey, I thought that when reading the books too”, but I am forever grateful.