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Holly - 22 - 5'3" master of astrophysics- occasionally awesome, mostly idiotic. Sometimes I write stuff.

[jwyunwoo]

me going on an airplane for the first time: “wow just like airplane(1980, dir. jim abrahams, david and jerry zucker)” *immediately I cough up several whole eggs*

[thegoatboy]

Just saw a leather jacket that says “my other ride is your dad” on the back and I don’t think I’ll ever be the same

[warandpeas]

Dead and Rad

[ampervadasz]

[catsbeaversandducks]

“Sir, I can has fish?? Thank you, kind Sir!”

[theskoomacat]

Translation:

[weasel? comes up to a fisherman]

Fisherman: Friend, what do you want? [weasel sniffs at a closed bucket with fish] Hungry for some fish, aren’t you? Maybe I should give you a fishing pole? Eager beaver. Let me open it. [weasel is busy digging under the bucket. fisherman gently pokes it] Hey, there is a lid up here. Come on, pick any you want. [weasel grabs a fish and runs away] Hey, no “thank you”? Well, you’re welcome. 

[alexasenna]

I’m NEVER going to get tired of watching Russians interact with wildlife

[lesbianrey]

hold up this is the only picture ever

[animatedaaron]

Person: Why do you hate centerist?

Centerist:

Me:…I have my reasons.

[ourmissallison]

[afairfight]

“… Sorry for saying BJ at the Oxfam Gala.” – Mae Martin on biphobia

[softwaring]

[anarchy-and-love-deactivated202]

Every time this post hits my dash there’s more salty landlords in the comments, die mad leeches lol

[prsephonies-deactivated20200815]

it’s funny that the “friendship group of all boys with only one token girl who has no female friends” trope is so prevalent in media given that i have never in my life witnessed that phenomenon in reality

[oceanmonsters]

friendship groups with all girls and one boy without many male friends is something I’ve observed much more frequently in real life (even within my own friend group) so that should really be a more common trope than the other way around

[thesunsethour]

look at rahul’s comment. i’m crying in the club rn

[nuderefsarebest]

[itsaubreylmfao]

i can’t believe i had to see this with my eyes

[kevinokevinokevino-deactivated2]

[gaycism]

Hetero relationships are so tragic. Imagine having to bribe your s/o into doing Basic Human Things™

[beerecordings]

Portrayal of Aunt May really tells you a lot about whether or not the writers drink their respecting women juice like everybody was all “Aunt May should be a fun and engaging character” and the most recent live-actions went “We’ll make her YOUNG and HOT BOOM DONE” and meanwhile Into the Spiderverse went “oh okay yes so she should be intelligent and competent and bad-ass!! she’ll play a role in the story and help our hero on his way!! she’ll be kind and welcoming even though she’s grieving!! she’ll keep her wrinkles and grey hair and sharp nose and have a cocky smile and love her nephew very much and also kick villains out of her house!!!!!!!” and like. who respected her character more let me ask you

[hugintheraven]

While I am always down for dunking on the Marvel movies in favor of Spiderverse, nah. Marisa Tomei was 53 in Homecoming, which is far from young, but is perfectly normal for a woman with a 16 year old nephew. In fact, she’s probably one of the older parents at PTA meetings. BUT she was portrayed as sexually active and relevant, which is rare for women over 30. She was also 1 year older than RDJ, which is a nice change from the actresses being 20 years younger than the actors they kiss. Her age was perfectly reasonable for that film.

The real problem is that most female chars are either under 30 and therefore sex objects or over 80 and therefore basically ambulatory stuffed animals. Movies don’t have a shorthand to communicate with us for a woman between those ranges, so our brains try to slot any woman into one of those two boxes. Aunt May is sexually active and desireable to a hero, therefore she must be young and hot. The actual fact that she’s in her 50s doesn’t matter, what matters is what our lying brains have been trained to expect. 

(none of this should be taken as a complaint about Spiderverse May, who was like 15 years older and therefore had grey hair, couldn’t use the internet, was 200% done with everyone’s shit, and was absolutely awesome)

[oddlyspecificquestion]

[giggleshrug]

no bro

you really don’t

[cihuanaba-deactivated20161013]

not at fucking

all

[santasirena-deactivated20130829]

stop

[historiaantiqua]

It appears absolutely no one realizes this character (assuming this story takes places during the time in which it was filmed) grew up during The Troubles of Northern Ireland.

You don’t if he’s Northern Irish. You don’t know if he’s Catholic. You don’t know if he grew up watching his people get murdered by Loyalist Protestants and British soldiers who carried heavy racial prejudice against Irish Catholics (hellooo, Bloody Sunday anyone?), who had for centuries been characterized as barbaric, racially inferior, lowly people who needed to be wiped out or converted. Attacks by the IRA, and therefore retaliation by the British, didn’t completely cease until 1998, I believe? This film came out in 2002.

You don’t know if he was an Irishman who grew up in England. Bomb attacks carried out by the IRA in England kindled misplaced aggression toward innocent Irish civilians living among the English population and Irish people were verbally and physically attacked and their businesses targeted. Perhaps similar to how ordinary Muslims bear the brunt of aggression after attacks by Muslim extremists…

You can still find yourself threatened and demeaned if you’re a Catholic in Northern Ireland or if you’re a Protestant in Ireland and some older dude in a pub in a smaller town straight up asks you if you’re Catholic or not and you’re afraid what’ll happen if you don’t lie about who you are.

You can still hear casual racism toward Irish people in everyday life and in publicly broadcast media in the UK.

You can still see and hear “Kill All Irish” and other pretty heavy anti-Irish sentiment among Loyalists in Northern Ireland who don’t consider themselves Irish at all.

Just because it now appears that the island of Ireland has been allowed to move on from war and their appearance and culture generally allows them to blend into and reap the benefits of the White European demographic doesn’t mean that this character does not have the background suitable to fully empathize with her. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, we just don’t know his story.

But I guess you’ve never been demeaned as a Paddy or a Taig so you wouldn’t understand what it feels like, would you?

[aquaticrecords]

don’t worry dude it’s tumblr the mentality here is basically “if you’re lighter than a coconut you’re not allowed to have any feelings and your life is automatically perfect but that’s not racist at all bc your skin is lighter than someone else’s and that means it’s ok”

[draculah]

^^^^^^^^

not enough upward pointies in the world

[girlwithgoldeyes]

plot twist: being Irish actually sucks, seriously

[stridersister]

I normally don’t comment on posts like these but the ignorance of this makes me so fucking angry because absolutely no one in the world seems to give a shit about the Irish because we all just seem to be so happy and drunk all the time. Because they’re white, right? So obviously they have no idea what hardship means.

[slowspinningredemption]

*bursts in* *breathes heavily* Did someone mention the Northern Irish Troubles

First of all, pretty much yes to everything about Ireland up there. Growing up in Northern Ireland, I saw the violence from all sides - my father is a British Protestant and my mother is a Catholic, so I basically couldn’t win because according to one side I was a dirty taig and according to the other I was a filthy hun. Luckily I managed to make friends with a mix of both Catholics and Protestants who all thought this attitude was just as stupid as I did, but between all of us, we saw our fair share of sectarian violence, and the Catholics, without a doubt, got it worse.

Irish Catholics were robbed of their country by Protestant invaders centuries ago. They fought and fought and eventually got the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), however, thanks to the deliberate plantation of Protestants to eradicate the Catholic majority in the North, it was left under British rule. Since then, Catholics have been murdered, arrested, terrorised, tortured and driven out of their houses just for being Irish Catholics. 

I moved from Northern Ireland in 2010 and to the day I left, the violence was not over. I couldn’t wear certain colours in certain areas because I would be beaten. I had fake names depending on where I was stopped, as attackers can determine what religion you are from your name alone (and this is a trick I learned, too, for defence). I can recite my rights if I’m arrested because if I was stopped in certain areas I could be, on the assumption I could be Catholic. I know the subtle sectarian geography of the city of Belfast because if I cross the road in the wrong place I’m in enemy territory. I have been chased by a group of forty people, throwing fireworks at me, because they assumed I was a Catholic. Police were parked on nearby streets and didn’t acknowledge the commotion. My friends and I walk past graffiti screamed “Kill All Taigs”. A fifteen year old boy who lived half an hour from me was beaten to death by a group of adults for being Catholic. For fifty years, people have been detained without trial, tortured, beaten and wrongly imprisoned just for being Catholic, because apparently, being Catholic means you must be in the IRA. 

Even now, I can’t escape it. I have a noticeable Northern Irish accent, which is stronger when I’m around people from there and is noticeable as a strong accent whenever I’m not in the country. At airports, I’m always the one stopped and frisked if they hear my accent. At ferry ports, it’s alway my car (which has Northern Irish registration plates) that’s “randomly selected” for a search. All of this just happened to me, a person who got off lightly.

If you think that Irish people haven’t faced oppression and abuse, you’re wrong. If you think that Northern Ireland is past its troubles, you’re wrong. It sickens me that this happens only a few hundred miles away from England and no one acknowledges it exists, because hey, they’re just some terrorist Catholics, right?

[satsekhem]

Contrary to popular belief, racism isn’t America centric. Just ask the Serbians and Croatians.

[younger-than-the-soul]

REBLOGGING FOR THE LAST ONE JFC THANK YOU.

[ineptshieldmaid]

Hell, ask Rwanda. Plot twist: ethnic genocide involving no white people at all!

[amuseoffyre]

Ask China about Japan. Ask Tibet about China. Ask Kuwait about Iraq. Ask Ukraine about Russia.

Xenophobia is not just the purview of white people. Any other can be an enemy. They can be the same colour. They can share a religion. They can live right next door right up until the moment the blade or gun or bomb is in your hand.

[baixueagain]

By the way, the woman who wrote and directed Bend it like Beckham? She’s a Brit of Indian descent. I’m fairly sure she knows what it’s like to be from an oppressed ethnic group in the UK, so when she writes a line about Asian and Irish people being treated similarly in British society, you better believe she knows what she’s talking about first hand.

Because newsflash, American forms of racism and ethnic prejudice are not universal.

[toxicyurienthusiast]

full offense but if my college professor can look me in my eyes while im wearing a "baby slut" crop top and mini skirt and explain the homework, high school teachers should be able to fucking handle a literal child wearing shorts smh

[vicroc4]

Walk into a job interview wearing the same thing, OP. See how far you get.

[iwtv1976]

Hate to break it to you but a college lecture isn’t a job interview. You can and should wear whatever you want in college. And high schoolers should be able to wear fucking shorts. It’s hot sometimes.

[bigbardafree]

the thing about being someone who’s never catcalled is that you start to wonder why like is it because im ugly???

and then you realize that youre judging your worth by whether or not you are objectifiable to a man and thats so fucked up like honestly its so fucked up 

but the worst part about the patriarchy is that it still sits at the back of your mind regardless like “nobody thinks youre pretty because they dont see you as a sex object” like somehow thats a desirable thing and it fucks me up

[emmersdrawberry]

You’re either public property or completely invisible.

[paperfury-deactivated20260224]

Girls don’t want boys. Girls want to glide down ladders in their own private library while their red cloak flutters behind them, owning swords and many chocolates, with fast WiFi at all times.

[fictionalcharactersaremyreality]

i cannot stress this enough