all the stars are closer

bookmarking resources and other stuff

[superactriz]

high fidelity, 2020

[youlovetoseeit]

I love this song

[streetdogmillionaires]

When people say ‘This is my baby,’ they don’t always mean a baby. Sometimes they mean a dog.

A Somali student, on what has surprised her most about the United States.

[pollys-manganime]

I made this so you can go to your music app of choice and listen to our boys’ favourite songs

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[adriofthedead]

that girl’s a true friend

[itsmimiv-blog]

riddle me that, mankind

[truebluemeandyou]

Necklaces for Different Necklines Created by Imogen Lamport from Inside Out Style here. There’s also a link to Polyvore for all the individual pieces. First seen on Donatella’s inspiration & realisation Facebook page.

[nnt-k]

Literally.

[nishlo-deactivated20151015]

this show is perfect

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Image is Powerful: Cameron Russell at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012

[misandry-mermaid]

Most guys do not have to deal with the world of women. They’re born from us, they live around us, but for the most part, we take care of our own shit. We buy our own tampons. We deal with skeevy guys who catcall us. We deal with crappier work situations. We deal with getting told we suck at things because we have a vagina, and that we need to be prettier. […] Then, they had daughters. […] The girl goes to school, and you watch how she’s never called on. You hear someone insult someone else by calling them ‘a girl’, and it stings. Your little girl is awesome! She’s brave and smart and funny! Why would anyone use that as an insult? Then, you remember all the times you did it. And then, you realize that, all along, you’ve been a part of the problem.

Jezebel commentor kcunning, on the recent study showing that men with daughters and boys with sisters are more likely to show more generous, caring and gentle tendencies. (via misandry-mermaid)

It’s like when a man has a daughter he suddenly wakes up and realizes, “Oh my God, boys out there are going to treat my daughter the way I used to treat girls”. That’s why men are so protective of their daughters. They know how awful boys are because they acted the same exact way. And instead of teaching your sons not to be assholes, you hide your daughters away.

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The bolded.

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yeah.

that.

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[brutereason]

These days, before we talk about misogyny, women are increasingly being asked to modify our language so we don’t hurt men’s feelings. Don’t say, “Men oppress women” – that’s sexism, as bad as any sexism women ever have to handle, possibly worse. Instead, say, “Some men oppress women.” Whatever you do, don’t generalise. That’s something men do. Not all men – just somemen. This type of semantic squabbling is a very effective way of getting women to shut up. After all, most of us grew up learning that being a good girl was all about putting other people’s feelings ahead of our own. We aren’t supposed to say what we think if there’s a chance it might upset somebody else or, worse, make them angry. So we stifle our speech with apologies, caveats and soothing sounds. We reassure our friends and loved ones that “you’re not one of those men who hate women”. What we don’t say is: of course not all men hate women. But culture hates women, so men who grow up in a sexist culture have a tendency to do and say sexist things, often without meaning to. We aren’t judging you for who you are but that doesn’t mean we’re not asking you to change your behaviour. What you feel about women in your heart is of less immediate importance than how you treat them on a daily basis. You can be the gentlest, sweetest man in the world yet still benefit from sexism. That’s how oppression works.

Of course all men don’t hate women. But all men must know they benefit from sexism (via brutereason)

[queerandpresentdanger]

I like how people act like you can’t be racist and sleep with a person of color as if misogynists don’t sleep with women all the time

[thelifeguardlibrarian]

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)

#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)

And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.

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compulsive auto reblog

i want this tattooed on me at some point

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Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is. 

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MY QUEEN

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And I would like to add:

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Hero

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[hautedeath]

Chimamamda Ngozi Adiche, We Should All Be Feminists

[superactriz]

Okay so,I was initially so meh! about the season finale of Good Girls, I thought most of it was pretty rushed and sloppy and caused a lot of whiplash because things were not properly setup throughout the season but now, the more I think about it the angrier I get because those last 14 minutes or so truly reeked of white feminism to me and now I’m so mad at myself for being super invested in the girls' (WOMEN’S) journey only for them to pull shit like this.

Like, I do like Rio as a character but I was always aware that he was a dangerous gang leader who cons and kills so maybe the fact that he was playing Beth wasn’t a surprise and I was never invested in Brio as a romantic couple because there was nothing healthy or romantic about it from the get-go. The mad chemistry and flirting were fun but I was always aware they were doomed so I’m not mourning the loss of a ship there. I was always rooting for Beth and Ruby and Annie and thought I would want them to win and succeed but the way the show went about it was so badly done and the optics and external context (racist tropes, white privilege trumps it all, peak white feminism) has soured the whole thing for me. 

Idk idk, I don’t think I can ever get over the many questionable choices and the outcome left me feeling real frustrated because this was one of my favorite shows and now I have a bitter taste in my mouth and like a year before knowing whether it was worth it or not. I’m just so goddamn frustrated.

(tweets courtesy of Adelfa Marr’s twitter likes)

[superactriz]

in The Incredible Hulk: Betty wakes up in a cave with the Hulk. Hulk goes outsides, gets struck by lightning, and throws a boulder at the sky.

in The Avengers: Hulk keeps throwing/punching Thor out of frame.

me: ...gets the joke two years late