Save Keanu Reeves When The Revolution Comes

I’m so tired, man

[kxowledge]

“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarum about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”

— China Mieville (via twoclaws)

[neoyorzapoteca]

The Woman Dies | Aoko Matsuda | Granta Magazine

[obstinatecondolement]

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

[keeveet-talks-deactivated201612]

Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

[schumie]

When men decided they liked them.

[startrektrashface]

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

[changelinglili]

I propose we call this “mentrification”

[shiralipkin]

YES

[rosalarian]

MENTRIFICATION that’s genius

[roachpatrol]

by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything? 

[electricloveinc-deactivated2020]

We can also witness the reverse happening, where women move into a space and suddenly it is deemed weak or unimportant. Some examples are teaching, nursing, and psychology.

[hubblegleeflower]

…and any kind of clerical work.

[lotrmusical]

Top Ten Shanties and Sea Songs That Perfectly Embody The Line Between Homosocial and Homoerotic in Naval History

[lotrmusical]

many people demanded the list so here we go! this list is anachronistic and uncomprehensive! cheer up me lads let your hearts never fail! [spotify playlist]

1. Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate

it doesn’t get more homoerotic than this

2. The Handsome Cabin Boy

three cheers for the ‘girl dresses as a boy to go to sea’ motif! ‘And the captain’s wife she says to him, “My dear I wish you joy, / For it’s either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy.”’

3. My Johnny’s Gone To Hilo/Tom’s Gone To Hilo

shoutout to the first-person pov in this mournful shanty about a lover who’s gone away to sea

4. Golden Vanity

the pathos of cameraderie in the face of a cruel captain! ‘So then the cabin boy he swam unto the starboard side / Saying, “Messmates, take me up for I am drifting with the tide.”’

5. Greenland Whale Fisheries

depending on the version - some have the captain lamenting the loss of the whale more than the lives of his crew, others vice versa. all are bops

6. Leave Her, Johnny

the lyrics make it pretty clear that the ‘her’ refers to the ship, but the ambiguity is still good, and either way it has a strong sense of cameraderie and the tune is a+

7. Admiral Benbow

some good old-fashioned rousing patriotism and loyalty to your heroic captain. there are two versions of this song and they’d both do fine on this list but i’m going with this one for this verse: ‘Now the guns they did rattle and the bullets did fly, / But brave Admiral Benbow for help would not cry; / “Take me down to the cockpit, there is ease for my smarts, / If my merry men see me, it would sure break their hearts.”’

8. Haul Away Joe

‘haul away together’/‘haul for better weather’ is up there on the list of ‘good if unintentional metaphors for gay solidarity’. also featuring the very gay moods of regicide and being told to kiss girls by your parents

9. The Bonny Ship The Diamond

‘Now don’t you weep, my bonny lass, though you be left behind, / For the rose will bloom on Greenland’s ice before we change our mind.’ this earns points for being very similar to some verses quoted in moby-dick

10. Northwest Passage

this is a song about holding hands with franklin. what more do you want

[totallyfubar]

I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[classiclinds-deactivated2024103]

A person with an abusive nature will always register you standing up for yourself as an act of betrayal. Betray them.

[spacejelly710]

This is so important. As a good person, you may choose to stick around to prove to someone that you’re not a bad person. You have nothing to prove to a bad person. You cannot help everyone. You cannot fix everyone. It’s not your fault.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to get too deep on main but did anyone else have such deeply rooted issues with their self worth for so long that they thought as a kid/teen that their only redeeming feature was being “low maintenance” and now as an adult you give yourself guilt pangs asking for any more than the barest minimum in virtually any relationship because asking for things might negate your only good quality which is just “doesn’t ask for things”

[splickedylit]

#you don’t believe you can be liked so you settle for being useful 

[romansleftshoulderpad]

Ouch

[butchdotgov]

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

[crystalandrock]

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

[fiftysevenacademics]

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

[sci-fantasy]

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

[necrofuturism]

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

[mao-tenno]

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.

[jukeboxemcsa]

Millennial Odysseus is starting to suspect there’s something wrong with his GPS…

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Ask me about that time I signed up a classmate I disliked to receive a free mormon bible in the mail every 2 weeks

[locketbycrumb]

Why is this so great

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

because

it wasted mormon church money

the classmate was hella confused and had no way of figuring out what the hell was going on

and no way of stopping the mormon bible influx

this was in boarding school. the mailroom was a common area. so i got to watch, repeatedly for months, the growing look of concern on my high school classmate’s face as they unwrapped yet another mormon bible 

they never found out. i never told anyone. it’s been 10 years

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Send a frenemy a free mormon bible HERE

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

UPDATE: i shared my address w/ my followers awhile back.

guess what arrived in the fucking mail 

[memepants]

[synthetic-ultramarine]

hypothetis: “stabby the space roomba” is a folkloric figure

[synthetic-ultramarine]

you all collectively came up with this character to tell each other stories about. you did a folklore. congratulations.

[danceswithphantoms]

A couple is walking in St. Petersburg Square on Christmas Eve. They feel a slight precipitation.

“I think it’s raining,” says the man.

“No, it’s snowing,” replies the woman. 

“How about we ask this Communist officer here? He is always right!” exclaims the man. “Officer Rudolph, is it raining or snowing?”

“Definitely raining,” Officer Rudolph replies before walking off.

The man turns to his wife with a smile. “See? Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.”

[breaktotheotherside]

What pisses me off is the complexity of the context required to throw this pun so it made any sense.

[orwell]

Johan Deckmann

[babyanimalgifs]

the best thing you’ll see all day

[nerudas-muse-deactivated2019111]

A baby armadillo plays with its pink bear.

Is there anything cuter?! ❤️

[papillonnne]

ANNIE HSIAO-CHING WANG

ARTIST

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Red is holy. Nobody understands it. It goes on, on, without the world’s understanding. Blue is holy. Blue goes on without the world’s understanding. And the heart…the heart can’t wait. Revolts without understanding. Boom. Goes on. Without the world’s understanding.”

— Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “Oriflamme,” c. January 1944