local yakult enthusiast

there's an albatross around your neck

[shortkinghotline]

why don’t you sit down and watch a ghibli movie and maybe you’ll believe in love again.

[kulusevski]

society is so fucked up abba should be way bigger than the beatles 

[slowheart]

unfortunately i listened to a lot of bastille in high school so i will be like this forever

[saintluvly]

LOVE IS THE WHOLE POINT. OF IT ALL

[zelda]

[lastvalyrian]

I haven’t seen anyone mention the greatest cultural impact Yahoo Answers made yet

[secretgaygentdanvers]

to me, the thing that will always summarise the "good intentions, but low energy input and so bad outcome" type of twitter activism was the whole mess with the Amanda Gorman translations

the simple version that people reacted to was that Amanda Gorman, the young black poet who read at the US inauguration of Biden, was going to be translated into dutch by a white prose writer.

everyone went (rightfully, at that level of description) completely ballistic, because how could a white translator, and worse a prose writer, ever understand the themes that Gorman was putting out there. The translator pulled out of the project, which is still being reassigned.

but here's the thing that was lost in all of this:

Gorman chose the translator herself.

said translator was Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who is a highly acclaimed author in their own right: they literally won the Booker International in 2019. They're also non-binary, and the number of people that misgendered Rijneveld as articles, posts and tweets rushed in to the pile on against them was honestly awful.

People got so caught up in their simple black-and-white version of racial politics that they never even stopped to ask why Rijneveld had been chosen in the first place, and so missed that it was Amanda Gorman who wanted them. In essence, thousands of people, many of them white, decided they knew more about the themes a black woman was writing about than the woman herself.

Gorman had her reasons to pick Rijneveld. Who were we to tell her she was wrong in her choice of who could accurately capture her own words?

do your research. ask questions. and listen, for fucks sake listen to the people at the centre of it.

[andshecanproveitwasolidrighthook]

5pm.... still bright outside....

[b1rdonawire]

why tf would u submit that to harvard of course u didnt get in

do you really think i would submit an essay about my immortal to a school i seriously wanted to attend? anyways my ass and brain are huge and you’re a prep.

[otherwindow]

you ever look at a character you like and think

[android-spider]

:)

[smallrat36wagon-deactivated2021]

stupid fucking slut hour 

[snuv]

happy stupid fucking slut sunday

[shortkinghotline]

wonder egg priority wasnt lying. that psychological sure can horror

[kingsizehoodie]

they’re dating actually

[stickynote7]

bouncy

[shortkinghotline]

at this point milf isnt even an acronym anymore its just a word

[shortkinghotline]

if we all work hard enough we can probably get it added to the oxford english dictionary

[shortkinghotline]

at this point milf isnt even an acronym anymore its just a word

[sour-charity]

When you think about it.... film spelled backwards is milf