Perceptive Reality

This space is for my thoughts and writing. Mostly revolving around Swan Queen. I'm open to prompts so feel free to ask.

[solo-insignificance]

If anything can happen off screen, why not this…

[byecolonizer]

Trump says he could declare Antifa a terrorist organisation

President brands group ‘Radical Left Wack Jobs’ in tweet

Republicans are just mad that the fbi said white supremacist violence responsible for spike in US domestic terror.

[profeminist]

“It’s 2019. Can we all now please stop saying “climate change” and instead call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency? #ClimateBreakdown #EcologicalBreakdown”

-  Greta Thunberg‏

[profeminist]

In related news: 

Huge swathes of the Arctic on fire, ‘unprecedented’ satellite images show

Earth’s boreal forests now burning at rate unseen in ‘at least 10,000 years’, scientists warn

[dealanexmachina]

“In June alone, these fires emitted 50 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is equivalent to Sweden’s total annual emissions. This is more than was released by Arctic fires in the same month between 2010 and 2018 combined.” Date: 7.23.19.

[bitchycode]

Friendly reminder.

[synthient]

The story of Cats is that in the 1930s, the famous poet T.S. Eliot wrote a book of cutesy little cat-themed poems for his godchildren

And then 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber found a lost cat poem that T.S. Eliot had cut from the cat book for being too sad for children, and ALW was like "woahhh. A cat....that's sad. That's deep, man. I wanna make a musical out of this"

So the producer assigned to the project was like "okay, I guess you could maybe read these cat poems as a satire of 1930s British society? We could probably do something sort of interesting with that, I'm thinking a cast of about 5 and--"

And ALW was like "no. Forget the satire. Also I want a cast of dozens and the most advanced special effects technology ever seen on stage. I've taken out a second mortgage on my house to fund this"

And the producer was like "wh-- you-- wh-- do you even have. a plot"

So ALW got a bunch of actors and writers and artists together and they holed up and did cocaine workshopped for 5 weeks, and at the end of it they emerged and said "the plot is that a bunch of cats are having a dance contest for the right to take a ufo to cat heaven :)"

and then it made 2 billion dollars.

[punkimonki]

365 Days of Emma Swan: Day 141

[sistertaxon]

types of stard

mu

ba

[brunhiddensmusings]

this is oddly close to real ‘ard’ is a real suffix in the english language just like ‘ly’ or ‘ify’, it just isnt common enough for us to notice its usage. ‘ard’ means ‘too much’ or ‘too easily’ so ‘mustard’ is something that is ‘too pungent’, just as ‘wizard’ is someone who is too wise, ‘coward’ is someone too easily cowed, and ‘drunkard’ is someone too often drunk

this implies that ‘bastard’ is someone who is too ‘bast’ and this needs experimentation and research

[sistertaxon]

Are you fucking serious omg

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

ok I looked and “bast-” as a root may have meant something like marriage/lust/passion

so a bastard is someone who comes from too much lust

[mandywondering]

So if I swear enough someone will give me custard?

[transimailisa]

I believe in you.

That’s because you are good.

[ao3feed-supercorp]

From Outerspace to Out Her Face

by Emma_Swan

When Kara shows up at the lab unannounced, Lena seizes the opportunity to finally express her feelings for her best friend. The last thing she expects is for Kara to run, but what’s a girl in disguise to do when she accidentally encounters Pink Kryptonite?

Words: 5825, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of From Outerspace to Out Her Face

Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Lena Luthor, Kara Danvers, Alex Danvers

Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

Additional Tags: Kara gets doped on pink kryptonite, Gay Panic, Discussions of Feelings, Comedy, Sexual Tension, Awkward Sexual Situations

from AO3 works tagged ‘Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor’ https://ift.tt/2K0fu42 via IFTTT http://archiveofourown.org/works/19942318

[butchsource]

Butches: An Infographic.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “she has naturally red hair”

screen adaptation:

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “she has naturally curly hair”

screen adaptation:

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

book: “red hair, freckles”

screen adaptation:

[spite-cadet]

Book: “she was black”

Movie adaptation:

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

Book: she was a lesbian

Screen adaptation:

[sparrow-va]

Book: “…he asked calmly.”

Movie:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Book: “she was plain and not very attractive”

Film:

[theuninspirednovelist]

Book : She was …

Film:

[aberrantemotion]

None of the images will load but I know exactly what they all look like

[bellaxiao]

[explainguncontrolandsafespaces]

It’s like millennials do not understand that middle east has been at war for 1000′s of years. That we intervened on behalf of Kuwait. That without “bombing” people that want to kill and oppress others, millions will be murdered and tortured.

[mideast-nrthafrica-cntrlasia-de]

“at war for 1000′s of years”

you clearly know nothing about Afghanistan nor the middle east

here’s Afghanistan in the 1950′s, 60′s, & 70′s

if you really want to know what caused all the instability & growth of extremist groups I suggest you take a look at the US foreign policy towards Afghanistan during the 80′s

It’s interesting to note that when the communist government came to power in Afghanistan in the late 70′s, one of the first things they did was declare equality of the sexes, made education for girls mandatory, & banned child marriages. The conservative tribal leaders who the US armed & funded (& who later became the Taliban) declared this to be a “war on Islam” & fought against the central government.

The US had no problem back then with encouraging the growth of Islamic conservatism to counter socialism/communism. You created your biggest enemy & you have no one to blame but yourselves.

[sniffyjenkins]

BLESS THIS POST

[blackfemalescientist]

its crazy to me how the US talks about war in the middle east as if its this ancient problem inherent to the area instead of a recent problem created by western countries to further their own interests.

[nevaehtyler]

☕️☕️☕️

[urulokid]

the CIA took out the democratically elected leader of Iran in the 1970s over oil and that set off an entire chain of events leading to ISIS, here’s more about multiple other countries we’ve fucked over 

[lily-orchard]

The United States: Fucking monsters.

[yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20]

America, 1953: The Iranian government is terrible, we should steal their oil liberate them.

America, 2019: The Iranian government is terrible, we should steal their oil liberate them.

[weaselle]

will probably keep reblogging every time I see it

[miss-lkb]

Just an FYI on FaceApp...

Not to be that person but just thought I’d give people a heads up, just in case you’d hate for your face to be a profile pic for some Russian bot account on social media....

AI photo editor FaceApp goes viral again on iOS, raises questions about photo library access – TechCrunch

[fuckyeahasexual]

[crazy-pages]

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust? 

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn’t care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded. 

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration. 

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State’s detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference. 

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut the fuck up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you’re diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust” bullshit. 

[liberalsarecool]

Trump regime is using the power of the state to chill dissenting voices. In addition, it is perpetuating a culture that doesn’t just condone, but requires, lying to the American people.

[pollyannapocket]

Here’s a link to the video so you guys can watch it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/cbs-news-interview-with-ice-whistleblower-interrupted-by-federal-agents/

[ianvs-deactivated20241214]

Since a lot of folks like to bleat about freedom of speech, this is what it looks like when that right is actually impinged upon.

[smitethestate]

They didn’t take him away because they didn’t have a warrant for his arrest or anything, they were just literally there to intimidate him in the middle of an interview I’m sure they knew was happening.

[stimman4000]

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[viostormcaller]

Me when the pic was finished: Yoooo!

Me when he put that shit into the dark and the shit starts glowing: YOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[not-safe-for-democracy]