Asha John
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Asha John
 Let people be inspired by how you deal with your flaws đđ
I am feeling really shitty right now. Depression is a butt. Being single sucks. I am a bad person who makes bad choices. Life sucks.
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There will be no time when I want to see the same promoted post on every page of my dashboard. I have no idea why you chose to do this. It makes no sense. Please stop it @staff
i bet superman says pop
I bet Captain America says pop
The s o d a w a r s
Where I come from, we say soda. Or we say the brand name, or what kind. âCan I have a root beer mom?â âCan I have a Diet Coke?â âWhat kind of soda do you want?â
Honestly I think my grandpa says pop so
I say pop. Most people in Western NY say pop as well.
The further south/east you go in NY, the more people say soda. Iâm in central NY and we say soda.
we say soft drinks or everything is just coke
Normal people say soda
Real people say pop
If youre from some assbackwards shithole like Arkansas
@this-is-cthulhu-privilege we say soda here or the actual name of it. We arenât that backwards.
Are you sure itâs not just you? I thought Arkansas has a population of 7 with its main export being meth
My sister and her family moved to Arkansas and they say soda, or like absurdistgalaxies was saying. But sheâs from my area in NC as well and we all talk like galaxies
Capital District region in NY = soda. But true story on language differences. Long story as to why but when my daughter was three, we moved to Colorado, specifically Denver and soda became pop and she first thought she was being offered a lollipop. Then we went into a bank and the teller â tall dude â smiled down at her and said would you like a sucker, sweetie? Now, in NY, a sucker is someone easily fooled and an insult to be called one. She looked at him like he was a crazy man until I translated quickly, âHeâs asking if youâd like a lollipop, sweetie.â Returned to NY when she was 12 (that took way too long; hated Denver) and we go into McDonaldâs and she promptly orders an orange pop and the worker was, "Sorry. We donât sell lollipops.â
All that was amusing but I had words with the teacher who tried to correct her pronunciation of pistachio because she didnât like my daughterâs NY accent.
a fascinating regional map of the states and common names for high fructose corn syrup liquid marketed like itâs manna from heaven:
http://popvssoda.com/
for what itâs worth, iâm from alberta (western) canadia and everyone but my east-coast friend says pop or cola or soda depending on mood, but soda most of all. she says cola :b
SOFT DRINK MOTHERFUCKERS
im tired and i want to kiss a girl
non-binary as hell in my art studio
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at headshots and what you might be able to tell from a headshot. So for the past few years Iâve done a small experiment with them.
Some troubling shit always occurs.
It works like this: I bring in my giant file of head shots, which include actors of all races, sizes, shapes, ages, and experience levels. Each student picks a head shot from the stack and gets a few minutes to sit with the personâs face and then make up a little story about them.Â
Namely, for white men, they have no trouble coming up with an entire history, job, role, genre, time, place, and costume. They will often identify him without prompting as âthe main character.â The only exception? âHe would play the gay guy.â For white women, they mostly do not come up with a job (even though it was specifically asked for), and they will identify her by her relationships. âShe would play the mom/wife/love interest/best friend.â Iâve heard âShe would play the slutâ or âShe would play the hot girl.â A lot more than once.
For nonwhite men, it can be equally depressing. âHeâs in a buddy cop movie, but heâs not the main guy, heâs the partner.â âHeâd play a terrorist.â âHeâd play a drug dealer.â âA thug.â âA hustler.â âHomeless guy.â One Asian actor was promoted to âvillain.â
For nonwhite women (grab onto something sturdy, like a big glass of strong liquor), sometimes they are âluckyâ enough to be classified as the girlfriend/love interest/mom, but I have also heard things like âWell, sheâd be in a romantic comedy, but as the friend, you know?â âMaid.â âProstitute.â âDrug addict.â
I should point out that the responses are similar whether the group is all or mostly-white or extremely racially mixed, and all the groups Iâve tried this with have been about equally balanced between men and women, though individual responses vary. Women do a little better with women, and people of color do a little better with people of color, but female students sometimes forget to come up with a job for female actors and black male students sometimes tell the class that their black male actor wouldnât be the main guy.
Once the students have made their pitches, we interrogate their opinions. âYou seem really sure that heâs not the main character â why? What made you automatically say that?â âYou said she was a mom. Was she born a mom, or did she maybe do something else with her life before her magic womb opened up and gave her an identity? Who is she as a person?â In the case of the âthugâ, it turns out that the student was just reading off his film resume. This brilliant African American actor who regularly brings houses down doing Shakespeare on the stage and more than once made me weep at the beauty and subtlety of his performances, had a list of film credits that just said âThug #4.â âGang member.â âMuscle.â Because thatâs the film work he can get. Because it puts food on his table.
So, the first time I did this exercise, I didnât know that it would turn into a lesson on racism, sexism, and every other kind of -ism. I thought it was just about casting. But now I know that casting is never just about casting, and this day is a real teachable opportunity. Because if we do this right, we get to the really awkward silence, where the (now mortified) students try to sink into their chairs. Because, hey, most of them are proud Obama voters! They have been raised by feminist moms! They donât want to be or see themselves as being racist or sexist. But their own racism and sexism is running amok in the room, and itâs awkward.
This for every time someone criticizes how characters of color and female characters of color especially are treated in text and by subsequent fandoms.  Itâs never âjust a television/movie/bookâ. Itâs never been âjustâ.
ââŚand by subsequent fandoms.â <â bless this addition.
This one is always worth reblogging. When I say, âRepresentation matters,â itâs not just the presence of PoC, women, PwD, LGBTQIA, in narrative, itâs the roles are those characters are occupying.
The hall of mirrors that is the interplay between fiction and real life becomes a negative feedback loop with real consequences, because we internalize things and then we act them out.
Storytelling is a powerful thing. What stories are we telling, and why?
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
Change the paradigm. Change the stories. Change the world.
Britain is not open about the stuff weâve done at all.Â
Slavery is taught but thatâs about it. And even then the focus is on âWe stopped itâ, often leaving out the part about profiting from it for 200 years.Â
The crimes in Ireland are only taught at A Level history, meaning that most of the public is truly ignorant of British colonialism in Ireland. A huge portion of the English public voted Cromwell to be one of the greatest Britons ever, and he committed horrific acts against Ireland and Scotland.Â
Thereâs little mention of any imperialism in Africa. When it was revealed the Mau Mauâs would be getting a memorial statue funded by the UK, people were outraged and basically denied that we ever did anything wrong. The Boer and Zulu wars are forgotten, especially the bit about the concentration camps.
Thereâs absolutely 0 public discussion regarding British imperialism in India. Peopleâs knowledge seems to go as far as âWe gave them trains so they should be gratefulâ. The British tied mutineers to cannons and blew them up. The Indian economy shrank under British rule more than any other nation in the modern era. From about 20% of global GDP (Similar to China and Europe) at the start, to about 1% at independence.Â
And thatâs not even mentioning the Native Americans. Long before someone ever dreamt up the idea of  United States, the European colonists were quite happy killing, abusing, and conning the natives.Â
Thereâs a reason another phrase for the Union Jack is âThe Butcherâs Apronâ. You donât get to be the worldâs first hyperpower without slaughtering a lot of people.Â
People really are awfully naive if they think the whitewashing of history happens only in one country.Â
Prime example of the British mentality is this: âwe made their countries betterâ.
My dad has actually said that. Mention the war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and general horrific stuff and he gets genuinely angry with you. Iâm sorry, but history is not there to be swept under a rug. If you want to celebrate how successful we were, remember who we were standing on to get there.
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Hooooo brah! MEEEAAAN!
That was just so powerful
I felt this like literally felt it. Iâve never seen something more beautifulâŚgod
Every time Iâm sad Iâm gonna listen to this
This is so cool
@ nerds hearing mysterious music on your dash
Itâs your adblock software not completely blocking some ads that include autoplay content.
First off, Tumblr isnât going to care, because Yahoo wants to make some money off this sinkhole of a site, and more and more intrusive ads are the way to do it, especially if weâre all trying to block them anyway.
However, running the site WITH adblock disabled, I could see the ads, but not mute them (pausing/muting went away if I scrolled up or down), so Iâm going to say theyâre being fucks anyway and donât deserve the advertising money if theyâre going to assault me with unwanted autoplay sound that I canât stop.
Open up your ad blocker, create a custom filter for: *.tubemogul.com* and that should stop it. Has worked for me so far, but I literally just did this 10 minutes ago so I donât know if itâs a complete or correct solution. If anyoneâs a bigger nerd about adblock filtering or wants to dig for other sources for the autoplay ads, hit me up.
I recommend switching to uBlock Origin, which is a bit nicer to use and doesnât have this problem. But the above is a good solution if you donât want to do that.
I had this problem, and adding a filter for:Â
https://s.yimg.com/av/moneyball/ads/
worked for my situation. Â
THIS IS REAL MUSIC PEOPLE
Adele is shook
Honestly, I find so hypocrite Taylorâs defense rant over the song with Kanye. I canât even believe she has the nerve to say in the same rant things like âbeing falsely painted as a liar" âI was never given the full story and played part on this song is character assassinationâ or âyou cannot approve a song you havenât heardâ.
Did she forgot the times she humiliated her exes and women with her songs? Did she asked them for âapprovalâ?
In 2008, she publicly told Ellen Degeneres in her live show that Joe Jonas broke up with her over a phone call, repeatedly after that she kept on mocking him. Which Joe explained himself saying he did not break up with her or was unfaithful, he called her to talk, she told it the wrong way, and break the call. However, Joe suffered pranks for months. She also wrote the song âForever & Alwaysâ about him calling him âscare little boyâ, did she asked for approval? Did Joe wanted to be part of the character assassination?
Following that accident, Joe found a new girlfriend, the actress Camille Belle, Taylor wrote a song called âBetter Than Revengeâ with the following lyrics: âSheâs not a saint, sheâs not what you think, sheâs an actress, sheâs better known for the things that she does on the mattressâ âsheâs soon gonna find out stealing other peopleâs toys in the playground donât give you any friendsâ. The song was put in the same album as the for song Joe, and was not shy to point out whoâs song that was for. Did she asked Camilleâs approval?
In 2010, Taylor dated John Mayer for a couple of months, following their spit she wrote a song called âDear Johnâ accusing him of dating her since she was too young (19), so it made the song look like he played her. In which John replies he felt humiliated with the song and feels like she took the situation to far as to make it public. Did she asked Johnâs approval to be involved in the song so openly ? I think not. Following that, we know John dated Katy Perry, which is the reason for Taylorâs song âBad Bloodâ, even Katy knows this song is about her and she has exposed Taylorâs âdonât pit one girl after anotherâ rants.
In 2012, Taylor dated Harry Styles for short moths, not only did she wrote a couple of songs about him (Style, Out In the Woods) but she mocked him on international television, during Taylorâs performance at the Grammys 2013, she was performing her song We are never getting back together; in the middle of the song she did a really bad British accent begging herself to gave him a change, while some back up dancers were dressed as clowns, Harry Styles was at the audience that day.
Kanye West, we all know the big accident in 2009, were Kanye takes Taylorâs moment to say she didnât deserve the award but BeyoncĂŠ did (which was true) it was an horrible thing to do, he acknowledge it and even apologize to her wanting to make things right. Taylor took the opportunity and publicity given to her to publicly humiliate him in an award show, singing her song âinnocentâ, trying to paint the black man as the angry awful person and sheâs the little bird victim of the whole situation.
Jake Gyllenhaal was also part of Taylorâs little game with the songs we are never getting back together and all too well. Which exposed pretty heavy stuff. Sheâs been doing this even with her non-famous exes.
So, itâs very hypocrite of Taylor Swift to come and be like âoh, Iâm so offended Iâm being targeted as the bad guyâ GIRL, your whole career has been about targeting people with your songs and make them feel embarrassed in the media, and the media will obviously take her side since sheâs been putting this âAmerican sweetheartâ âsweet angelâ imagine that the audience and society supports. So Iâm REAL GLAD sheâs getting the drag she deserves and celebrities are finally exposing her.
@taylorswift :)
afternoon tea anyone???
i honestly could care less what her fake ass says about white men (after all they privileged af fuck i look like defending them) but if shes supposedly all about âgirl powerâ and white feminism then why did she slut shame that camille girl? why did she attack nicki minaj when she was exposing antiblack racism in the industry?Â
why did she say she was shaking of the haters when called out for her racist subtle blackface in the video for shake it off? why did she go to serengeti, tanzania, africa to film wildest dreams which was this weird disgusting antiblack colonist ass shit which featured zero Black ppl? why did she use two Black girls in bad blood as her tokens which was a song about hating katy perry (another trash bag ass white bitch btw)?Â
she, a white woman, does have privilege over men of color in certain aspects. im tired of her demonizing black men as angry villains. im tired of her using her fragile white victimhood and white feminism as an excuse to be a shitty lying ass bitch. im tired of her consistently being antiblack and her stans defending her to the ends of the earth. honestly fuck @taylorswift
hereâs a thought
letâs tell young boys that they are brimming with kindness and imagination and nobility. point out their gentleness, their fierce joy and limitless capacity to love everyone and everything. tell them they are princes in a kingdom of wonders and beauty and thoughtfulness and the warmth of their own hearts. take them to museums and symphonies and forests to make tree forts in. raise them to empathize, innovate and do good things. with confidence and humility.
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