I like a lot of things

I literally post everything.

[kingpinnn]

[yourbigsisnissi]

from notes in the hallway to name on the building. wow

[snydergurl]

‘Cause what you got is Gold, I know, you’re gold

[genandhisqueen-deactivated20160]

October 31st in the World of Harry Potter

Bonus GIF (my headcanon):

[zechery-deactivated20220114]

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

Somehow, MRAs got this idea that feminism is about killing men and taking their place or something. That just goes to show why feminism has to exist, because somehow men’s rights activists took a movement about women and made it about them. But here’s the thing. The terrible shit that happens to men? We pretty much do all of it to ourselves. First of all, there’s the idea of toxic masculinity. We raise boys to believe that they have to be tough. “boys don’t cry,” we try and tell them. And because of this, they feel pressured to be tough and to feel nothing, so they’re emotionally stunted and filled with anger. Second of all, we throw out dangerous ideas that grant them more freedom to be shitty to each other. “boys will be boys,” we say as we write off bad and violent behavior. Let’s look at that mixture. We’re telling young boys that they aren’t free to express their emotions in the natural way, so they end up bottling up everything. Then, we grant them the freedom to be physically and verbally aggressive to other people. That’s a dangerous mixture. Even beyond that, MRAs are so quick to shout “things are bad for men too” at so many things, then when presented with those ideas, they write them off as invalid. Whenever we talk about the statistics of women who are raped and how it’s a problem and a crime of aggression, men are so quick to say things like “Men get raped too!” But if you look on Facebook, as soon as someone posts an article about some 35 year old teacher who raped a 17 year old boy, it’ll literally only be the men who say things like “heh, that boy is so lucky” or “wish I had a teacher like that!” do you know what it means to claim that men are also raped, and then immediately joke about how lucky it is for a man to be raped by a woman? It means that you don’t give a fuck about other men. It means that you don’t give a fuck about other human beings. It means that literally the only reason that you said it, without caring about the men who are hurt in those crimes, is because you want to take attention away from the VASTLY higher number of women who are raped and make it about you.

“The most terrible thing to men? IS MEN” by @mattjosephdiaz

(via feministingforchange​)

[daughterofmulan-deactivated2018]

The Glorification of White Crime

Take a facet of crime, and then look at television shows/movies that feature those criminals as protagonists.

White mobs.

White pirates.

White serial killers.

White political corruption

White drug dealers

I mostly want to talk about this as a TV phenomenon, but pick a crime, any crime, and Western media has probably made a movie/TV series/play/etc. with a white person that romanticizes the criminal activity. No matter what, a white person can do whatever terrible crimes and still have a TV/movie fanbase that loves them.

When you see black or brown people committing crimes on screen, you are to see them thugs and criminal masterminds and people to be beat down.

When you see white people committing crimes on screen, you see a three-dimensional portrait of why someone might commit that crime, how criminals are people too, and how you should even love them for the crimes that they commit because they’re just providing for their families or they’ve wronged or they’re just people and not perfect. This is particularly a luxury given to white male characters, since there few white female criminals as protagonists.

If and of the above shows were about black or brown folks, there would be a backlash of (white) people claiming that TV and movies are romanticizing criminals and are treating them too much like heroes and that it will affect viewers and encourage violence and “thuggish” behavior. And yet fictional white criminals get to have a deep fanbase who loves these white criminals, receive accolades and awards, get called amazing television that portray the complexities of human nature. Viewers of these characters see past the atrocious crimes and into their humanity, a luxury that white characters always have while characters of color rarely do. The closest that mainstream TV has come to showing black criminals as main characters is probably The Wire, and even then, the criminals share equal screen time and equal status as main characters as the police trying to stop them.

The idea that crime can be so heavily romanticized and glorified to such a degree is undoubtedly a privilege given to white characters. The next time you hear someone talk about Dexter Morgan or Walter White in a positive way, it may be an opportunity to rethink how white people can always able to be seen as people no matter what they do, while everyone else can be boiled down to nothing but a criminal.

[winjennster]

This is true. The only exception I could come up with is “The Wire”.

[acceber74]

The Wire wasn’t the exception tho. That show got ZERO mainstream accolades (and for it being on HBO, that’s just BIZARRE).

The criminality and corruption were never glorified nor justified with “well, I got cancer”, or “I’m seeing a therapist for my emotional issues”, or "hey, it’s prohibition, let me make a buck against an unfair law", or “I witnessed my mother being dismembered when I was four.  Of course I’m a serial killer.  But my victims are criminals so it’s OK!!!”.  These shows started from a place of “empathize with these troubled souls”.

[prissypixipea-deactivated201704]

Not surprising though, this is exactly how the treat white criminals in real life. White man shoots 9 people in a church and we hear his entire life story, see pictures of him as a kid looking innocent. He’s called just a kid. White man shoots up school we hear about his good grades and sad former teachers talk about how he was a good, quiet kid with a bright future ahead of him until this tragedy happened and ruined his life, the tragedy being that he went and murdered a bunch of people in cold blood but that’s never what they say. And ofcourse, he is a child also dispite being well into hs 20’s. We are always expected to sympathize with with white criminals.

[amoisthobo]

Damn this a good post

[themistakeof91]

Great analysis

[archaeologicals-deactivated2016]

Self-Portrait, Vincent van Gogh / painting vs photograph

[meeshimi]

[tillydiekatze]

[canadad-deactivated20171111]

beep beep

[buddhabrot]

toot toot

[securitylucy-deactivated2018102]

Finally a gentle car alarm

[sridevi]

The original pitch for the Powerpuff Girls was a student film called Whoopass Stew.  Craig McCracken originally intended to show what the perfect little girl was before Professor Utonium added a can of Whoopass to the concoction.  The perfect little girl (sitting on the rainbow) was supposed to be the perfect mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice.  When the accidental extra ingredient was added, the three original ingredients split up to match the personalities of the three new girls.  Bubbles being sugar, Buttercup being spice, and Blossom being everything nice.

[spadesslick]

Chemical X is whoopass.

This is the greatest day of my life.

[depressed-blanket-burrito]

pictures of my kitty <3 I miss him today. 

[superfruit-is-supercute]

oreooooo

[hideinsideout-deactivated202204]

lmao Kevin

[kevin-k-o-olusola]

I’m in love.

[shunainspired]

Oh my gawd! How have I gone 2 years without seeing this gem

[myheart-s-deactivated20181106]

i know you didn't ask but yes i love pentatonix

[midnightsncupsofcoffee]

love.

[cologne-and-sage]

🎼 CALLING ALL PENTAHOLICS!

Hi guys! Me and a fellow pentaholic are making a fan video that has pentaholics holding up or writing out or drawing out the lyrics to ‘light in the hallway’. All you need to do is take a short video clip (you can choose to show your face or not) of you holding up a sketch pad or a peice of paper with a portion of the lyrics to ‘light in the hallway’ . You can also show pictures or illustrations with the lyrics imbedded in the drawing. I really hope we can get enough submissions to make this work. PLEASE SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO: [email protected] … I hope to see all your beautiful faces there!! Thanks everyone! *also everyone concerned about it getting blocked..I will figure it out when it’s done :) thank you! *PLEASE HAVE ALL SUBMISSIONS SENT BY NOVEMBER 30th*

[cologne-and-sage]

Please submit as many as you would like and please. Please. Please share and reblog even if you don’t want to, there might be someone else who will :)

[will5nevercome]

[unofficiallydisney]

This makes me so happy

[risingoflights]

There’s a very good, clear message here that is surprisingly hard to articulate. You go, dragon. You go.

[hellyeahthomassanders]

If I was a teacher…📓 by Thomas Sanders