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Willem Dafoe as Rat, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

ninjamelissajulien

The Voltron Fandom @ the Finale

gaythoughtsandfeelings

“Sir, That’s my emotional support ship”

beat-alls

“The rage in Germany is skirts on fellas (don’t knock it, girls, the Romans wore ‘em and looked quite groovy)”

From 16, November 1967

eden81

Joanna Newsom // Sprout and the Bean (2004)

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Ok guys Trump’s old lawyer just turned himself in and has confessed that he helped Trump manipulate campaign finances and that Trump was in on it. In order for Trump to be investigated for illegally taking the presidency the Senate and House need to open up an investigation.

Guys we need to take Congress back from the Republicans. If we help the Democrats win this November 6 we could possibly help get Trump impeached.

Please vote if you can. We actually have a chance.

Remember: November 6, 2018 Midterm Elections

rory

good thing about the hurricane though is its making all of those fun facebook hurricane event groups

rory

this is facebooks only contribution to society. the ability to make events to stop the weather

whitepeopletwitter

Dont give them permission!

filmgifs

jadecoded

Pushing Daisies (2007-2009)

Pie is home. People always come home.

scretladyspider

*sips coffee* what a beautiful day to remember that asexuality is real and what the A in LGBTQA+ stands for and that they are not straight but a part of the LGBTQA+ community

harperhug

What a beautiful day to remember that the people who create the “ace people are straight,” the “bi people are straight,” the “trans people are misogynist,” etc. propaganda are trying to tear the queer community apart to make us all easier to pick off so if you’ve fallen for it or spread it yourself, you’re enabling people who want to do harm.

prismatic-bell

What a beautiful day to remember the Q stands for both Queer and Questioning, and that Queer isn’t a slur and also it’s okay to not really know what you are yet.

feministkutti

The Bangladeshi genocide was not 200 or 100 years ago, it was 44 years ago. My aunt still remembers moving from camp to camp, the sound of bombs, and the crowded train ride back home. Don’t tell me to get over something that robbed my people of their sons, that left us in poverty,and crime. The Pakistani government still has not apologized, they don’t even inform their own citizens about the events that occurred in ‘71.

feministkutti

dont let this post die out. america enabled pakistan to kill my people. my people are still suffering from this catastrophe.

art-woonz

Art by IG: @shasaku1977 Instagram: @artwoonz

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caligula had anime eyes

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wait romans painted their marble sculptures

it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot

memejacker-deactivated20150111

yep

here’s a statue of Augustus

and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored

misterqueasy-blog

i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art

space-gynecologist-deactivated2

“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”

prokopetz

And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.

Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.

(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)

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Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.

themarysue

WUT

ten-and-donna

Knowledge bomb!

thescienceofjohnlock

Many more fig leaves in strategic places appeared thanks to the Victorians too.

thatpoodleperson

Source for archeologists rubbing the paint off Greek and Roman statues

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/true-colors-17888/

Also, surprise, surprise it’s also tied to white supremacy. Not so much the colors themselves but that, at least according to a pioneering 18th century archeologist “the whiter the body is, the more beautiful it is as well”.

I couldn’t find a source confirming that archeologists would break the noses of Egyptian statues, though it appears to be a decently popular theory amongst scholars.