Look mum, I made a thing

19 and living in london. bookworm, activist and a pseudo-intellectual sarcastic shit.

[badjokesbyjeff]

The Lion King ripped off Kimba

[badjokesbyjeff]

The disgusting thing is that Disney advertised The Lion King as ‘unique,’ and ‘an extraordinary original story.’

The Lion King went into production the same year,  Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Kimba, passed away!

Tezuka productions didn’t have the funds to file a lawsuit.

“We’re a small, weak company. It wouldn’t be worth it anyway … Dinsey’s lawyers are among the top twenty in the world!“ - Yoshihiro Shimizu, Tezuka Productions.

[theawkwardqueerturtle]

the disney company is absolutely disgusting and a prime example of how capitalism is corrupt

[mercy-misrule]

one of the most amazing things that has been said to me in therapy is that self esteem doesn’t exist.

and that floored people and the psych went onto say that what she meant was that self esteem is a concept that actually includes a vast array of things and labelling them all as one thing is really limiting and prevents actual improvement

you could have real strong pride in the things you create and hate your body

you could hate your creations but also want to share them with people

you could not hate yourself at all but not take care of yourself, engage in reckless self endangerment

thats all bundled under ‘self esteem’ but saying ‘i need better self esteem’ doesn’t mean anything

whereas if you say ‘i need to work on ways to keeping myself safe, refusing to act on destructive urges’ or ‘i want to be in a place where i believe compliments trusted people give me’

thats concrete, thats a goal.

having it said in therapy helped a lot of people in my group stop saying ‘i have low self esteem’ and start specifying about the actual issue they have

[bead-bead-deactivated20190901]

Wow, that is so, so helpful.

[gentek]

Somebody please buy these lmfao.

8x11 board canvas with acrylic.

1 for $35 shipping not included

2 for $60 shipping not included

3 for $90 with free shipping

Shipping is $7.65 for priority 2 day.

I honestly just want them gone and to use the money for my daughters birthday.

[gentek]

Changing my mind. Need these gone. Shipping included in all of the items.

So basically you're only paying 27$ for the painting.

[heartofthebitter-mindofapoet-de]

WHITE PRIVILEGE We wake up. We go to work. We come home. We turn on the news. We sit in silence, reading the headlines: Ferguson. New York City. Baltimore. Charleston. We turn off the TV. We go to bed. That is white privilege. – Here’s a joke: A muslim walks into a bar. What’s he called? A terrorist. But here’s the punchline – a white man walks into a church, kills nine, and we blame it on his mind. We forget our nation was built on the backs our ancestors broke. We say, “THIS IS NOT AMERICA,” while waving a Confederate flag, but do you remember Apartheid? They always bring up the Holocaust, but nobody ever looks around and says, “This. This is genocide.” We wake up. We go to work. We come home. We turn on the TV. We turn our heads. We look away. We say, “This is not us. That is not who I am.” We forget about the blood on our hands.

White Privilege by Lindsey Hobart

Originally published in The Rising Phoenix Review. 

(via heartofthebitter-mindofapoet)

[writing-prompt-s]

You, the queen of a fairy tale kingdom, got cursed to give birth to a princess who’s going to live her life isolated in a tower the first 20 years of her life. Narrate how you avoid your daughter’s fate.

[thedaemonpan]

Build a wall around my entire kingdom and call it a tower

[theconcealedweapon]

Think about why it’s illegal to hire a hit man.

All you’re really doing is speaking and giving someone money.

It’s legal to speak.

It’s legal to give someone money.

Even if they actually complete the job, you’re not the one who committed the murder.

So why is it illegal to hire a hit man?

Could it be because inciting violence is not protected under free speech?

And if that’s the case, why should free speech protect Nazis advocating genocide?

[suicunesrider]

Never reblogged something harder in my life

[smilingstark]

ok but imagine peter not caring about his secret identity anymore and not making any effort to conceal it yet absolutely no one finds out he’s spiderman. peter wears the suit under his pants and a jacket but literally no one notices. he only gets a ‘cool shirt dude’ from a student he doesnt know. he does the iconic spiderman shooting-webs-from-his-hands pose in every single picture. no one says a word. he enters the classroom through the window. just as him, not spiderman. the classroom is on the second floor. no one cares.

[las-lus]

Sounds like college

[ultralaser]

“man that peter guy really likes spider man, i hope he gets to meet him someday”

[t51bpowerarmor]

[closet-keys]

[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]

[tactical-necromancy]

[thriftedangels]

*Hades voice* for the last time, I’m the god of the dead not the god of death it’s different

[rembrandtswife]

*points to winged dude* That’s Thanatos, *he’s* the god of death! I just do the paperwork!

[hogtown-gdc]

[socialistexan]

Being working class is like this:

[plum-soup]

ummmmmm(: maybe if you spent a little bit less money on frivolous luxuries like entertainment (: you wouldn’t be a stupid broke bitch who deserves to be poor(: just some friendly advice(:

[methotrex8]

“All it takes to be successful is hard work! You gotta pull yourself up by the bootstraps and stop being lazy!” -Millionaire politician who is the son of another millionaire

[electronbait]

This is an oversimplification and a bad graphic.

[socialistexan]

That’s literally my expenses. I took a screenshot of what the app I use to track my spending is telling me.

It’s my actual lived experience holy shit.

[socialistexan]

I can’t get over this. This isn’t some random graphic pulled from a think tank or political organization, this is the actual reality I live with day to day.

“Um sowwy sweaty, but this is bad and your experience is fake because I say so”

[jethroq]

woke liberalism was a mistake

[tope-con-hewwo]

A fun fact about unions is that your dues are typically set to match your wages so “privileged” workers that make more can actually put more money into the union to help out their underprivileged siblings in labor. Putting more money into the union is actually good and not bad. If your company is telling you that you make too much to be in a union you should definitely join a union immediately.

[gayerluke]

your employer: unions are problematic :\

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Do you know what us “priveleged” workers do? We ensure that the Union has enough members that the employer can’t ignore us.

My Union branch covers three organisations. Two of us have high membership. One has low union membership. The one with low membership has been through lots of redundancies and lots of people have lost their jobs because while we threw our full support behind our fellow members who worked there there were not enough members actually working there for strike action to be effective.

If you don’t join a union because you think you don’t need it then when you do need it your union won’t be strong enough to help you. Only joining a union when you need help is like saying “let’s build a hospital” after you need open heart surgery: you’ll be dead long before it can help you.

You never know when you will need your union. Never know when you might be unlawfully fired, harassed by a bad boss, falsely accused of something by a colleague. All of these are cases that my branch dealt with this month, I’m on the committee so we get case briefings and if I didn’t get those briefings I wouldn’t know that my colleagues were going through these things. Your colleagues are going through this stuff right now and you have no clue, and they have no help, because they don’t have a union.

You have health insurance, car insurance, house insurance.

Get job insurance.

Join a Union.

[sixth-light]

The tech industry specifically has a long history of trying to persuade workers that they are special and skilled and highly-paid, pay no attention to the routine fourteen-hour-days behind the curtain, and that’s why they don’t need unions. Unions are for The Poors, unions are for the saps who work in factories, they’re not for the people who’ve made it. Which is you, programmer with a student loan making barely over minimum wage! You are a Skilled Tech Worker!

Look at how Kickstarter emphasise their ‘flexible’ hours, their catered lunches, their staff, ‘some of whom’ (not all) receive “compensation’ (so…total package? does that include expensive health insurance) ‘twice the average income in NYC’ (mean or median? how’s that stack up relative to the cost of living?). Absolutely none of this rules out them employing poorly-paid and overworked people. 

[baawri]

[karayray1-deactivated20230129]

White people get so angry when they’re presented with the truth.

[biculturalist-deactivated201612]

That moment when a single scene in a Bollywood film educates you about the reality of American politics.

[fictionisalwaysbetter]

This movie is called Kurbaan and thats my man Saif Ali Khan

[dancefloors]

SCREAM

[alicentsgf]

wait…

christopher eccleston…

AS IN THIS CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON???

[mysteryhack]

The self-described working-class actor also says that cultural inequality is “much more pronounced” in Britain than it used to be, and that it would be difficult for a young actor with his background to succeed in the industry today.

“You can’t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but inequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that’s already happened,” he argues.

Eccleston stresses that it’s not just about the working class though. “There’s not enough writing for women or people of colour” he says. “It frustrates me when they insist on doing all-male Shakespearean productions – a wonderful intellectual exercise, maybe, but it’s outrageous because it’s putting a lot of women out of work.”

source: https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-04-14/christopher-eccleston-why-my-doctor-had-to-be-northern/

this quote is tangentially related, but I think it helps show where this is coming from. he’s already very aware of Britain’s cultural inequality (maybe even experienced it himself, idk), and who better represents that inequality than the parasite queen herself?

[surfeit-of-stoats]

Laziness: I’d rather sit here than pick up those clothes

Executive Dysfunction: I need to pick up those clothes I need to pick up those clothes why am I still watching this thing on Netflix while sitting down c’mon stand up I need to pick up those clothes I need to pick up those clothes I need to-

[ace-feminist]

Holy shit you nailed it

[mad-dyspunktional]

Laziness: I don’t want to do the thing so I’m not going to do the thing and I’m not going to worry about it because I don’t care.

Procrastination: I’m purposely putting off doing the thing because I don’t want to do the thing and this may or may not be causing me anxiety depending on how important the thing is.

Executive Dysfunction: I may or may not want to do the thing but regardless I can’t seem to do the thing and it is causing me great anxiety because the thing needs to be done.

[trufemale420]

The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))

[newtonssidedick]

What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?

[trufemale420]

Endemetriosis

Vaginal Thrush

Menorrhagia

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Fibroids

Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.

[hyggehaven-deactivated20200904]

Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.

Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.

Chronic pain is overwhelmingly experienced by women, and women are less likely to be taken seriously or given treatment by medical professionals. I went through two years of diagnostics to finally find out I had occipital neuralgia; I felt doubted when I described my pain at every step of the way, but was lucky to have a partner who was persistent in helping me get treatment.

Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.

[feminerds]

Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects. 

This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!  

Sources: Nature, Nature, Medscape, Biomedcentral.

[prokopetz]

Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.

Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?

Except that’s not right at all.

Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis - and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.

Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.

And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.

[dottewa-deactivated20200728]

Bonus round: Look up PCOS and gender identity.

Then look up PCOS and diabetes.

[thepageofhopes]

Ok, to show how incredibly important this post fucking is, I just looked up endometriosis and I match just about every sympton, and it would explain not just my incredibly painful periods but many other things as well. I had no idea this existed. Please, read this post and reblog this so others can learn.

[philosopher--queens]

I will reblog this every time because my cousin (a cis girl) went through seven years of pain without being taken seriously until SHE suggested it was endometriosis. And that’s not even unusual - that’s the average amount of time it takes between first symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis.

[khealywu]

Only 20-40% of menstruating adults experience cramps???? Fuuuuuck >:[

[torchcaps]

[inscarletsilence]

good christ steve your face

[tokidokifish]

#their entire relationship in a single frame

[movedto-jibblyuniverse]

Get your fucking hand off my shoulder before I star Spangle beat the shit outta you