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Not sure wtf's going on here - you may decide on my erratic mind

[rudimentalroos]

someone: it's inevitable snape turned out to be a horrible person, when you consider his childhood...

sirius: *abused and raised by blood supremacists, is disowned, is framed for murder*

sirius: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

neville: *grew up with a controlling grandmother who always told him he wasn't good enough, lived with the knowledge that his parents were tortured to insanity, bullied and looked down on by just about everyone*

neville: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

ginny: *is literally possessed by voldemort for the better part of a year*

ginny: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

remus: *had no friends until he was 11, lives in constant fear of being outed as a werewolf, forced to become a monster every month*

remus: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

luna: *watched her mother die, picked on by everyone except ginny, treated as a freak, has only one friend until she's 14*

luna: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

hagrid: *expelled at age 13 for something he didn't do, accused of murder twice, outcasted for being half-giant*

hagrid: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

cho: *has her first love be murdered by a genocidal dictator and about half the world refuses to believe it, must struggle with her feelings towards harry and her guilt about them*

cho: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

mcgonagall: *fell in love with a muggle but had to break off their engagement, for fear of turning out like her own mother, later married a wizard who she loved but he died 3 years later*

mcgonagall: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

harry: *is degraded and abused his entire childhood, forced to sleep in a cupboard for 11 years, constantly treated as being an unwelcome outsider, told he should be grateful for his abusers taking him in, lied to constantly for the first 11 years of his life about who he is and who his parents were, consistently blamed for things that he couldn't control, picked on at school and continuously beaten up by his cousin's gang, sees multiple people die*

harry: *still manages to not be a horrible person*

[thirdpartofthenight]

bryan schutmaat - heartland

[tariqah]

Like do a lot of you know that it wasn’t actually non violent “Ghandian” protests that put one of the biggest dent on the British Raj in India, but corollary measures that focused on economic self reliance, which was a huge deal for the British since their treasury had weakened greatly, and the markets of their colonies were one of the only ways they could make up the losses. This was actually seen again and again, from East India Comapny’s rule to the British Raj, there was an intense focus on stopping and putting restrictions on what Indian manufacturers could make, along with the Raj stating that every manufactured god had to be sold to them first hand because Indian goods in general tended to be better and command greater prices. Which is why the salt satyagraha and the swadeshi movement really were far more important than previously thought. And also, it really reveals the fact that non violent protest cannot work unless you have a system of economic self reliance that you can fall back on, which most countries and communities did not have due to different reasons, from geographic location, to the amount of trade and legal restrictions placed upon the colonised people of said country.

This is what actually irks me the most when people are like “"Ghandi said you need to be non violent uwu” like shut up, there is a context where you can be non violent and there’s a context where you simply can’t. And don’t use your half baked understandings of what happened in xyz country through non violence when you cannot understand what other factor contributed to their freedom. It was British economic incompetence, World War 2, and Indian self sufficiency rather than these non violent protests and petitions and what not that helped in getting rid of the British colonisers in India

[bollydastaan]

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

[niktipolos]

One of the advantages of being an immigrant is that two very different countries are forced to merge within you. The language you were born speaking and the one you will probably die speaking have no choice but to find a common place in your brain and regularly merge there. This is part of what Mikhail Bakhtin was getting at when he wrote “…language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between ones’ self and the other… The word in language is half someone else’s. It becomes one’s “own” only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention.”

Ana Menéndez. (via kuanios)

[seashellesbians]

desi wlw at pride! 🌈

[skepticalavenger]

Why Did God Create Atheists?

There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson. 

One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”

The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs and act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”

“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

ETA source: Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 by Mar

[scyphozoans]

I started reading this and was worried it would be something attacking atheists, or bashing religion, but this makes me really, really happy.

[naamahdarling]

imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Yes.  YES.

[love-indian-actress]

Parvathy as Tessa in Charlie

[runcibility]

Twenty-First Century Victorians

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.

Today’s upper middle class maintains the fiction of a meritocratic society, just as the Victorians did. This story allows them to shore up their economic position behind the backs of workers, who are taught that their health problems and dismal career prospects represent individual faults, not systemic dysfunction.

Of course, exercising, eating organic food, and pushing children to use their spare time usefully are not inherently bad things. However, they become markers of bourgeois values when they are marshaled to assert one class’s moral superiority over another and to justify social inequality. It was just as obnoxious in the nineteenth century as it is today.

We should care about health, food, and education. But instead of seeing them as ways to prop up class dominance, we should improve them for everyone. Imagine if all of the energy used to get mediocre, upper-class children into prestigious colleges was redirected into making higher education more accessible and affordable across the board. Imagine if access to healthy food for all was prioritized over attaining status through buying the most virtuous products. Imagine, in short, what our world would look like if socialist values — not Victorian ones — dominated.

This is SUCH a good read, you guys.

[ocheliya]

Munnar, Kerala

[jedavu]

[rocket-prose]

Classic animators doing reference poses for their own drawings. I’m in love with these images.

[auilix]

Part of the reason animators like to work alone, late at night when no one is watching.

[rudimentalroos]

This has so much character :')

[homojabi]

Not all lesbians are thin white girls who wear Calvin Klein underwear and go camping every weekend. Lesbians are brown girls in salwar kameezes and bindis and black girls with dreadlocks and afros and Muslim girls in hijabs and Jewish girls in tznius, lesbians are fat girls and 5X+ girls and girls with big bones and girls who are 6 feet tall, lesbians are poor girls on welfare and girls getting food stamps and homeless girls and girls working multiple minimum wage jobs, lesbians are girls with depression and anxiety and girls with personality disorders and psychosis and girls in the hospital and girls who are suicidal, lesbians are girls with disabilities and girls in wheelchairs and girls with chronic pain and girls who are blind and deaf and girls who are in recovery and girls who can’t recover, lesbians are girls who are 5 years old and girls who are 85 years old and girls who have known their whole life and girls who just found out, lesbians are girls from literally all walks of life and all cultures and all religions and our stories are so unique and so vast and to reduce us to only a small group of girls who most of us aren’t is disingenuous of who we all are as a whole.

[with-practice]

[africandiasporaphd]

[A]re we not justified in a feeling of desperation against that peculiar form of Americanism that shows respect for our women as servants and contempt for them when they become women of culture?

Fannie Barrier Williams as quoted in Brittney C. Cooper’s Beyond Respectability (2017)

[pairedaeza]

This was the summer I bathed in olive oil and sat on the sidewalks  of Jerusalem eating pistachio ice-cream with the old man whose ancient face tried to explain to me that we fought with our hearts and not our heads– therefore we would never win.

Annemarie Jacir, excerpt of ‘Pistachio Ice Cream’ (via kuanios)

[gael-garcia]

Mahershala Ali + burger + tiny dog, GQ shoot

[singaporeanhistory]

Keep Singapores only transgender shelter open

They now have a fundraising page! Please help to keep Singapore’s only transgender shelter open!

Read this previous post for their story about why they’re at risk of closing down.