this will shortly get completely out of hand

cajun-wingnut-paladin-desert-femme

[mineralia]

Azurite with Malachite from Arizona

by Weinrich Minerals

[historicaltimes]

Oklahoma City Tornado, 1898

via reddit

[taraantino]

Cinematography Appreciation

Blade Runner (1982)

Director: Ridley Scott

Cinematography by: Jordan Cronenweth

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

[thescienceofjohnlock]

This advice on how to deal with "racist mouthy twats" has gone viral because it's good advice

Some great advice from Facebook user Paul O’Connor who might make you think how to handle a potentially dangerous situation differently than a straight on confrontation or silently ignoring it. Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person. …

[twodefenestrate]

Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person.

NEVER engage the perpetrator. He (and it is usually he) is looking for confrontation. Instead speak to the person he is abusing. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Shake his or her hand. And just stand with them. Keep talking. About anything. Weather. Bus schedules. Football. This kind of bullying never works against a group of people having a conversation. Usually a single person travelling or a mom with a kid or maximum, two women are targeted.

Form a group of people with and around them if you can. Don’t tell them they are not alone. Just don’t let them be alone. I speak from experience. Once, I encountered a young girl wearing a hijab being abused as a terrorist by a drunk man on a train. I just went and sat beside her and started a conversation with her. After a while, the dude lost interest. I had a lovely chat with a young student from Qatar. She wanted to study literature while her dad was only prepared to pay for engineering or commerce as he wanted her to join the family business. It helped her feel safe and it expanded my horizons.

This is known in behavioral psychology as “non-complimentary behavior”; by not fueling the aggression of another person and you can flip the whole script of all their expectations, and without any footholds for their aggression (like direct provocation and confrontation/conflict) to launch into further tirades against, the aggressor can’t continue their angry scene-building. The more people who participate in script-flipping, the more successful it gets, as in this post you see with the advice to form a protective group between the bigot and their target for that very purpose.

There’s an NPR podcast called Invisibilia which goes into detail about how it works and what sort of people rely on it everyday professionally and for survival alike, in their Flipping the Script episode.

[amemait]

Ooohhhh

[accurant]

[mineralia]

Chrysocolla with Malachite

by Weinrich Minerals

[intoasylum]

game of thrones | text posts

[pedalfar]

[raychillster]

i hope you always have enough money to pay your rent on time, to buy your favorite groceries, and to invest in your art.

[lady-billi-deactivated20180104]

I receive that blessing & send it to everyone that follows me

[misguided-ghost21-deactivated20]

And So It Is.

[refinery29]

Watch: Leslie Jones gave a touching tribute to Whoopi Goldberg about why representation matters

Gifs: The View

[stillrestlesstymes]

Just beautiful <3 @lemonade-time

[medie]

oh my god. Imagine being Whoopi and hearing that though.

Well, when I was nine years old Star Trek came on,“ Goldberg says. “I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, ‘Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there’s a black lady on television and she ain’t no maid!’ I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.” - See more at: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/goldberg-whoopi#sthash.gKeuf3XI.dpuf

That’s three generations. Nichelle Nichols to Whoopi Goldberg to Leslie Jones.

Originally posted by geekandsundry

Representation fucking matters.

[cumaeansibyl]

petition for Leslie Jones and Gwendoline Christie to star in a movie

I really, honestly don’t care what kind of movie, it can be about two accountants dealing with tax season, I just want them to be super tall together

Why do people never want to tell you their middle name like who gives a shit its not a nuclear launch code its your damn name

[fireworksdraco]

reblog with your middle name in the tags

[chromium-phoenix]

Actually, the practice dates back to the reason we have middle names in the first place!

Some time around the dark ages, everyone believed in witchcraft and wizardry, like ya do. A big principle of magic was the idea of “true names.” If a spellcaster knew your full name, they could do whatever the hell they wanted to you. Of course, people didn’t want that, but there were enough people with the same first names that you had to give people your surname as well, to avoid confusion.

The solution? A secret name in the middle that you don’t tell anyone (unless you believe that they’re not able to do magic and/or you trust them enough that if they DID do magic, you’d be fine).

[nebulousboundaries]

no no you misheard I wasn’t taking you someplace romantic I was taking you someplace Romantic now let’s go explore that graveyard

[davetheshady]

i mean you say that but

(x)

[annabellioncourt]

Mary Shelley is the most Gothic Romantic person to ever Gothic or Romantic.

Byron wishes he could be this hardcore.

[fire-in-the-aviary]

Richard W Brown, Tasha Tudor making beeswax candles, 1990s

[garcon-manque]

so one skywalker twin took magic lessons from a frog, killed his dad, and fucked off to an abandoned island in his bathrobe. the other skywalker twin gunned down space nazis, hooked up with han solo, and governed the free galaxy with snark and hair like a botticelli painting. and you’re telling me *luke* is the one i should be inspired by?

[redandpointy]

Truth.

[voidbat]

not for nothing, but i’d do anything to fuck off to an abandoned island in my bathrobe right now.

[aryastarksource]

Arya Meme: (5/7) Relationships ↳ Arya Stark and Robb Stark

[lousysharkbutt]

sam… i have to be the very best… like no one ever was

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