I may not live to see our glory but I will gladly join the fight

I am an optimist with depressive tendencies. She/Her pronouns. I am 18, I'm asexual, and I'm homo romantic. Tbh captain Swan is my notp whoops #swanqueen4life

[the--schuyler--sisters]

!! Important for followers, please read

December 23, 2015

Hey guys, this is arooothur, a friend of Mick’s and I have an unfortunate message for all of you guys. A message that no one ever really wants to see but it’s important.  

Last night we had some incredibly bad storms in Arkansas, from about 4am-7am and the worst of it went towards Mick’s area.  I sent her a text at about 4am telling her they’d go on for a bit but she quite likes storms so she went to bed quite content.

But when I woke up this morning, my local news app went off saying an 18-year-old woman was killed and an 18-month old toddler was in the hospital because a tree had been uprooted by the wind and fell on the house.  I didn’t think anything of it, sending her a text to make sure she was okay and continued on Christmas shopping until I got more paranoid about her not replying and so I contacted her family to see if she was okay.  I didn’t want to believe that it could have been her, but that was unmistakably her house and her family confirmed it.  I’m sorry to say this was our dear friend, the–schuyler–sisters.  Her mom wanted me to know that the only reason the child survived is because of Mick. Mick had been cuddling her and her body shielded her baby sister until they could get her baby sister out.  And her wish did not go unseen, her sister has been discharged from the hospital.

I am really sorry to have to deliver this news to all of you, and my thoughts and wishes are with all of you.  She always has been and always will be loved, especially as one of my best friends.  I’ll probably have a much sappier post on my blog too so read at your own risk there.

They have a set date for the memorial and all and her family currently has a gofundme up for donations and we’re almost to our goal already thanks to the community and friends and family! But if you would like to pitch in, and anything helps even if it’s a dollar, here’s the link

https://www.gofundme.com/jqg5mws4

Thank you so much to the lovely islandofmisfitfangirls for the opportunity to get the word out to you guys, since she was entrusted with mick’s tumblr.

If you would like more info on this you can message me on my tumblr, I’ll gladly reply.  But there is sensitive info that I will definitely not share and please respect that if I can’t tell you something.  Like the dates for the funeral and all of that.

I will also have this message on queue to post twice a day for a few days to ensure that the message gets out to everyone hopefully.

Condolences, Arthur

[the--schuyler--sisters]

!! Important for followers, please read

December 23, 2015

 Hey guys, this is arooothur, a friend of Mick’s and I have an unfortunate message for all of you guys. A message that no one ever really wants to see but it’s important.  

Last night we had some incredibly bad storms in Arkansas, from about 4am-7am and the worst of it went towards Mick’s area.  I sent her a text at about 4am telling her they’d go on for a bit but she quite likes storms so she went to bed quite content.

But when I woke up this morning, my local news app went off saying an 18-year-old woman was killed and an 18-month old toddler was in the hospital because a tree had been uprooted by the wind and fell on the house.  I didn’t think anything of it, sending her a text to make sure she was okay and continued on Christmas shopping until I got more paranoid about her not replying and so I contacted her family to see if she was okay.  I didn’t want to believe that it could have been her, but that was unmistakably her house and her family confirmed it.  I’m sorry to say this was our dear friend, the--schuyler--sisters.  Her mom wanted me to know that the only reason the child survived is because of Mick. Mick had been cuddling her and her body shielded her baby sister until they could get her baby sister out.  And her wish did not go unseen, her sister has been discharged from the hospital.

I am really sorry to have to deliver this news to all of you, and my thoughts and wishes are with all of you.  She always has been and always will be loved, especially as one of my best friends.  I’ll probably have a much sappier post on my blog too so read at your own risk there.

They have a set date for the memorial and all and her family currently has a gofundme up for donations and we’re almost to our goal already thanks to the community and friends and family! But if you would like to pitch in, and anything helps even if it’s a dollar, here’s the link

https://www.gofundme.com/jqg5mws4

Thank you so much to the lovely islandofmisfitfangirls for the opportunity to get the word out to you guys, since she was entrusted with mick’s tumblr.

If you would like more info on this you can message me on my tumblr, I’ll gladly reply.  But there is sensitive info that I will definitely not share and please respect that if I can’t tell you something.  Like the dates for the funeral and all of that.

I will also have this message on queue to post twice a day for a few days to ensure that the message gets out to everyone hopefully.

Condolences, Arthur

[the--schuyler--sisters]

MY FRIEND FUCKING ASKED ME WHAT IT WAS ABOUT BECAUSE I WANT HER TO LISTEN TO IT AND I WROTE OUT THIS HUGE LONG THING AND SHE JUST passes @satans-nostril you dick

[the--schuyler--sisters]

@satans-nostril "passes" I'M STILL SO MAD

[the--schuyler--sisters]

I’m gr8 and you should all become friends w me

[ask--eliza--hamilton]

@ask-philip-hamilton

[thebadgermin]

DELETE THIS

[the--schuyler--sisters]

I CAN'T DELETE THINGS OFF THE INTERNET OR OUT OF YOUR MIND

[thebadgermin]

IM WRITING A FIC WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON HAS A DADDY KINK AND Y'ALL CANT STOP ME

[the--schuyler--sisters]

I NEED IT PLEASE

[thurston-itis]

Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson:

the actual real life Thomas Jefferson:

[kids-got-heart-deactivated20160]

it’s weird looking back at who i started 2015 with and who i’m ending 2015 with

(via pazemer)

This fucked me up

(via hermoso-dolor)

[sixpenceee]

The Milky Way as seen from Antelope Canyon, Arizona

[winterbramble]

Thanks so much for your ask! I’ve meant to do a tutorial like this for a long time. This is the way that I draw big girls, though it’s quite a short and basic tutorial. I hope it helps!

the “area of gain” part was pretty much taken directly from -here-, a VERY informative and helpful tutorial. Here’s a couple of tutorials that I think are pretty good: link and link.

[the--schuyler--sisters]

I’m gr8 and you should all become friends w me

[ask--eliza--hamilton]

@ask-philip-hamilton

[how-dragonish-of-you-deactivate]

what thE FUCK

[the--schuyler--sisters]

<3 <3

[the--schuyler--sisters]

Musicals: A Summary

Act 1: A little funny then gets kinda serious

Act 2: DEATH

[the--schuyler--sisters]

friend: *lives across the country*

me: come over

[colonialamerica]

What did Alexander Hamilton get for Christmas?

Shot. He got shot.

[the--schuyler--sisters]

Hamilton: *speaks once*

Burr: can i offer you some advice?

Burr: literally shut the fuck up

[ratladyme]

[masquerading-as-a-genius]

HEY FRIENDS HISTORICAL REMINDER: ‘WHAT’S IN THIS DRINK’ ISN’T TALKING ABOUT DRUGS, HE IS NOT TRYING TO ROOFIE HER

THE SONG IS TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL

but still a pushy song

[aphony-cree]

historical reminder that the reason pina coladas and pink squirrels are known as “girly drinks” is because they mask the taste of alcohol and men were know to give women these drinks without informing them that they were alcoholic. It takes a couple of drinks to realize you’ve been consuming alcohol and by then you’re more susceptible to suggestion, making it easier for him to convince you to stick around and have a third drink. When this song was written in 1944 most women didn’t drink regularly, meaning they had a low tolerance and it would only take 2-3 drinks to get her drunk enough that she wouldn’t be able to put up much of a fight. This was the 1940s version of being roofied

[dangerwaffle-deactivated2016121]

No no no it was not.

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol. 

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do – and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.“ But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink – unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?“ It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren't supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because unlike in Blurred Lines, the woman actually has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposedto, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…" She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

[finnglas]

Reblogging for that last bit because this is what I rant about to Kellie every time this discourse happens on my blog but I’m too lazy to type it out. SO thank you to @dangerwaffle for not being as lazy as me. This song has a cultural context, and a historical context, and it’s worth talking about how fucked up that context is, but you have to get WHICH context it is right first.

[delcat177]

I see the Annual Discourse has been reblogged, it is Christmas in fact an deed

[putmeincoach]

Facts about Japan and Islam

* Japan is the only nation that does not give citizenship to Muslims.

* In Japan permanent residency is not given to Muslims.

* There is a strong ban on the propagation of Islam in Japan.

* In the University of Japan, Arabic or any Islamic language is not taught.

But barely any of you know this because the Japanese are “people of color” and should never, ever be painted in a negative light.

[eggtrolls]

LITERALLY ALL OF THIS IS FALSE. ENTIRELY UNTRUE.

1) The University of Japan is not a university. There is no university in Japan called “The University of Japan” - there are many Japanese universities: the University of Tokyo, Osaka University, the International University of Japan, but there is no “University of Japan”.

2) “Japan doesn’t give citizenship to Muslims” - hah, try again.

The Japanese Constitution states that “第１４条 すべて国民は、法の下に平等であって、人種、信条、性別、社会的身分又は門地により、政治的、経済的又は社会関係において、差別されない。 Article 14: All of the people are equal under the law and there shall be no discrimination in political, economic or social relations because of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin.”

There is no place on the written online application for citizenship to state one’s religion. However, given that there are many Egyptian, Pakistani, and Iranian-origin naturalized Japanese citizens, and that many of these people come from Muslim-majority countries, it is highly likely that, yes, they are also Muslim. There are also many people coming from countries with significant Muslim minorities, such as India and China, that have permanent residency or citizenship in Japan. It took me about 1 minute to find lawyers who specialize in Indonesia-to-Japan immigration - Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation in the world! How funny is that?

3) Permanent residency is not given to Muslims in Japan - so false! So amazingly false!

Let’s back that up with numbers! Here’s a link to a veritable WALL of immigration stats published by the Japanese Ministry of Justice!

http://www.moj.go.jp/content/000108878.pdf

Unfortunately it’s all in Japanese - well here’s an English article about the DOZENS of mosques in various parts of Japan.

http://www.japanfocus.org/-kawakami-yasunori/2436/article.html

But that’s not a very “scholarly” article. Okay, try this one from the English journal “Japanese Journal of Population” Kojima H., 2006

http://www.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/webjournal.files/population/2006_3/kojima2.pdf

Go ahead, read it. I’ll wait.

The cherry on top: here’s a link to the Arabic studies department at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/education/ug/studies/arabic.html

They also teach Urdu, Persian, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Turkish, if that’s enough Islamic languages for you.

Signing off with a picture of the BEAUTIFUl Kobe mosque, which my friend Amy and her girlfriend visited last autumn. 

Egg out.

[dagashi-deactivated20160725]

28 year old white americans got nothing better to do than lie about other countries online

[bopeep]

this is so embarrassing 

[edgylitetm]

Listening to Hamilton on shuffle is like playing musical roulette because yeah, you’re most likely gonna get a great, upbeat song you can jam to, but there’s also like a 1 in 7 chance you’ll experience intense emotional suffering

[marthas-feral-cat]

my new favorite game Hamilton Roulette