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[milfholder]

here’s a twitter thread of charities related to colon cancer that you can donate to in honor of chadwick boseman (x)

here’s a suicide hotline for if any of you are in need of immediate support (x)

please take care of yourselves and your friends tonight everyone

[milfholder]

more from twitter 

here’s a thread of black cancer fundraisers/research fundraising (x)

here’s a thread of fundraisers for black students of the arts (x)

[childweanedonpoison]

people who think you can easily go anywhere in europe have never tried taking a train in italy

[childweanedonpoison]

[childweanedonpoison]

[childweanedonpoison]

[childweanedonpoison]

i have tears in my eyes. please never stop adding tags to this post

[childweanedonpoison]

i completely lost it at the swiss removing the italian trains from the timetables

[caffeinatedflumadiddlebutmerlin]

Will I ever get to experience the same kind of thrill as the first time I heard Merlin say “how long have you been training to be a prat...my lord?” or did my entertainment experiences peak at eleven years old?

[vxllxnelle]

[fandomsandfeminism]

Part of my roadtrip tool me to Atlanta. And, the Civil Rights Center was amazing. Very powerful. They have this one exhibit where you sit at a lunch counter and close your eyes and put on headphones. And It plays sounds like you are at a sit in and people are yelling. And it times how long you can sit there for. I think i lasted almost a minute before i was almost crying.

It…made its point.

[the-headless-vulcan]

And most of those people were being physically assaulted too

That’s a brilliant exhibit

[fandomsandfeminism]

If you make it long enough, the chair actually shakes a little, along with the sound of someone hitting the chair with a bat. It was super intense. (It included a trigger warning for obvious reasons.)

[alopiassupersillyosus]

What’s the address of this place? It’s now on my bucket list

[fandomsandfeminism]

100 IVAN ALLEN JR. BLVD Its right next to the aquarium and world of coca cola.

[aleena-jean-101]

What’s also really great is there’s an attendant too. If a person gets overwhelmed or has a panic attack the attendant will sit with them, console them, and give them tissues. AKA guess what happened to me when I used the headphones 

[jurasspark]

This is one of my favorite museums of all time. Last time I went there was an older couple (white girl and black guy) who I watched sit through it, and at the end they were crying and she hugged him, saying “I’m so sorry I wasn’t there with you”

[radiofaraday]

gifted kid burnout things that no one seems to talk about:

the raw panic of hearing about your potential, positive or negative

a weird brand of imposter syndrome where you genuinely think you’ve fluked your way through every success and you’re gonna be Exposed as a Fraud

never having learned how to study and having no idea where to start now that you need to

reading college level books as a kid but being basically illiterate now

dismissing your struggles as irrelevant because other people have it harder and i should be smart enough to handle this

feeling like you’ve lost all control over your life (maybe manifesting into depression, anxiety and disordered eating in a grasp for control over something)

being unable to decide on a career path because you could have had everything, only to watch those opportunities disappear as you fail to commit

[lotrlocked]

Peaking early and feeling like an eternal failure ever since

Remembering what it felt like to be motivated and at the top of your game and you could do ten things at once and cared so much, but now it’s a struggle to keep up with anything

~depression~

~functional depression~ so you feel like you are faking it

Holding a mediocre job and feeling unfulfilled but feeling like you aren’t good enough to do anything else

Being book smart but struggles with social skills and communication with others.

Feeling like you are the worst person on earth for making a mistake or not knowing something

[1000fandoms]

[bakwaaas]

the user base of tumblr is a specific demographic of people who were ‘the smart kid’ growing up but didn’t do as well academically as they got older due to mental health struggles, were probably bullied in school and were quite lonely & introverted so they took solace in reading but now rarely pick up a book, grew up on tumblr but continued using it into adulthood unlike most of their peers who stopped using it after it lost popularity

[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry 

[thorndykes-deactivated20161204]

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

[transwolvie]

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

[foulserpent]

here’s a source with some quotes

[meta-hemeralism-blog]

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

[theroguefeminist]

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

[benevolent-atrophy]

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.

[unclefather]

Excuse me she was WHAT

[instagrampa]

I really struggled to believe this until I looked it up

[scottandhiskind]

[tenderbeasts-deactivated2019101]

Those links for all asking Deadly history of women using perfume as poison -Girlhood, medusa and female rage -The allure of gothic horror -Essays and thoughts on girls in horror -Why girls get hungry in horror -Mothers and witches -Women in horror -The female poisoner -female werewolves -Monstrous women - Catherine Lundoff -Female cannibals and consumptive horror -Horror films directed by women -Women, killer plants and annihilation -Female identity within the gothic genre -Women in horror - the vvitch -the vvitch, female sexuality in horror -Angela Carter - The beast is female sexuality -Body horror/monster reading list -Consumptive horror

[leepacey]

the woody allen thing

In case anybody doesn’t know about Woody Allen:

Woody Allen was accused in 1992 of molesting his girlfriend Mia Farrow’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was seven years old. He later married Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow’s then-teenaged daughter. He was Mia’s children’s father figure for many years.

This case is extremely controversial for a lot of reasons, but I’ll just list some of the facts:

source 1 - source 2 - source 3 - source 4 

Dylan’s claims have been consistent her entire life. She said that the molestation began when Woody Allen took her into the attic of Mia Farrow’s home.

Woody Allen had been in therapy for “inappropriate behavior” with a child psychologist before the abuse allegations were ever presented to the authorities or made public.

Seven-year-old Dylan Farrow’s pediatrician was the one who first reported the molestation to the police.

Allen initially said that he had never been in the attic where the molestation allegedly took place, but his hair was found in the attic, so he changed his story and said that he had been in the attic just a few times. The investigation later concluded that his account of that day was not credible.

Ronan Farrow, one of Dylan’s brothers, who today is the journalist who wrote the infamous Harvey Weinstein exposé that helped spark the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, has said that he remembers witnessing Allen “climbing into her [Dylan’s] bed in the middle of the night” and “forcing her to suck his thumb.”

Three other adults besides Allen were present in the Farrow home the day Dylan was molested. A babysitter told police and gave sworn testimony that Allen and Dylan went missing for 15 to 20 minutes. Another babysitter told police and also swore in court that on that same day, she saw Allen with his head in Dylan’s lap facing her body, while Dylan sat on a couch “staring vacantly in the direction of a television set.” The third adult, a tutor, told police and testified that on that day, she’d found that Dylan was not wearing underpants under her sundress after disappearing with Allen.

Multiple employees of the family testified that Dylan used to be terrified of Allen, and that Dylan once locked herself in a bathroom for four hours when Allen came over to their house.

Allen refused to take a polygraph administered by the police during all four court cases about Dylan’s molestation. Allen lost all of these cases.

In his 33-page decision, Judge Elliott J. Wilk found that Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.”

You can read Judge Wilk’s full original court ruling here.

Woody Allen was never prosecuted in a criminal trial - some claim he was never prosecuted because there was no evidence, but the state attorney, Frank Maco, said publicly that there was probable cause to press charges against Allen for child molestation, but declined to do so due to “the fragility of the child victim” and the toll the trial process would’ve taken on her.

Read Dylan’s story, in her own words, here. 

Woody Allen has famously said about his relationship with Soon-Yi: “I was paternal. She responded to someone paternal. […] I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision-making, just as a gift.”

So, here’s a list of celebrities who love Woody Allen, worked with him, and/or have defended him:

Jeff Goldblum — defended him

Kirsten Stewart — repeatedly defended him

Cate Blanchett — defended him

Stephen King — called Dylan a “bitch” after her 2014 article was posted

Emma Stone — worked with him post-2014 and expressed her love for him/his work

Blake Lively — worked with him post-2014 and said that Woody Allen is “empowering to women”

Kate Winslet — defended him and said: “I think on some level Woody is a woman. I just think he’s very in touch with that side of himself.”

Jesse Eisenberg — expressed his love for Woody Allen and has worked with him, both post-2014

Richard Ayoade — repeatedly called Woody Allen one of the greatest directors of all time and implied “art” is more important than real life victims

Diego Luna — worked with him post-2014 and has said he doesn’t regret it

Javier Bardem — defended him

Diane Keaton — defended him

Adrien Brody — defended him

Scarlett Johannson — repeatedly defended him, and has been called his #1 fan

Zach Kornfeld (of the Try Guys) — said he loves Woody Allen (post 2014)

Alec Baldwin — defended him

Louis CK — defended him

Miley Cyrus — worked with him post-2014

Selena Gomez — worked with him post-2014

Elle Fanning — worked with him post-2014

Justin Timberlake — worked with him post-2014

Jude Law — worked with him post-2014

People who worked with him before Dylan’s 2014 article which made the case much more well known, and have made no comment for or against Allen since:

Owen Wilson, Tom Hiddleston, Larry David, Meryl Streep, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Hugh Jackman.

And here’s a list of celebrities who worked with Woody Allen but later regretted doing so, or have publicly said that they support Dylan Farrow:

Susan Sarandon — said “He sexually assaulted a child” on stage at Cannes

Ellen Page — called working with Allen “the biggest regret of my career” and said she supports Dylan

Natalie Portman — said that she supports Dylan, that men should support and believe female victims “not because you have a daughter, not because you have a wife or a sister, […] but because we’re human beings,” and is also one of the only celebrities to say she regrets signing the Roman Polanski petition

Reese Witherspoon — said she supports Dylan

Shonda Rhimes — said she supports Dylan

Oprah Winfrey — led a discussion about Woody Allen and Time’s Up and supporting Dylan

Hayley Atwell — “I stand in solidarity with his daughter and offer an apology to her if my contribution to his work has caused her suffering or made her feel dismissed in any way. It’s exciting that I can say this now and I’m not going to be blacklisted.” (Atwell’s first film, in 2007, was a Woody Allen film)

Michael Caine — “I’m a patron of the NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] and have very strong views about pedophilia. I can’t come to terms with it, because I loved Woody and had a wonderful time with him. I even introduced him to Mia. I don’t regret working with him [in 1986; five years before the first allegations], which I did in complete innocence; but I wouldn’t work with him again, no.”

Freida Pinto — said she would not work with Allen again, “Because I don’t know how some people can get away with it.” 

Colin Firth — said he would not work with Allen again

Evan Rachel Wood — said she would not work with Allen again

Timothée Chalamet — expressed regret for working on a Woody Allen film and pledged his salary from the film to RAINN, Time’s Up, and the LGBT Center in New York

Greta Gerwig — “If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again. Dylan Farrow’s two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman’s pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization.”

Rebecca Hall — said she regrets working with Allen, and: “My actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed.” She also donated her salary to Time’s Up.

David Krumholtz — said “I deeply regret working with Woody Allen on Wonder Wheel. It’s one of my most heartbreaking mistakes. We can no longer let these men represent us in entertainment, politics, or any other realm.”

Griffin Newman — said he “believes Allen is guilty,” regrets working with him, and called himself a coward for not quitting the film he worked on with Allen

Peter Sarsgaard — said he would not work with Allen again

Mira Sorvino — wrote an open letter to Dylan, saying: “I cannot begin to imagine how you have felt, all these years as you watched someone you called out as having hurt you as a child, a vulnerable little girl in his care, be lauded again and again, including by me and countless others in Hollywood who praised him and ignored you. As a mother and a woman, this breaks my heart for you. I am so, so sorry.”

Joaquin Phoenix — said he had no idea about Dylan’s letter when he worked with Allen in 2014, but: “If you were a part of supporting something with someone that did, in fact, cause pain, how the fuck would you feel? You’d feel shitty.”

Marion Cotillard — said that if she were asked to work with him again, she would do much more research and that before working with him in 2011, she had not heard of his allegations

please only add updates and additional people with sources

[strangehorse]

i love how occasionally cultural differences crop up on this website and they’re like, mind-blowing. they’re so minor but so fucking intense. anyway washing machines belong in the kitchen

[bebechan-deactivated20221008]

They belong in the washing machine room???

[strangehorse]

how big do you think our houses are

[bebechan-deactivated20221008]

The little tiny cupboard room that just has a washer, dryer and cleaning supplies???

[strangehorse]

average UK house size = 88 square metres (x)

average US house size = 266.3 square metres (x)

no

[strangehorse]

everyone responding ‘they belong in the laundry room’ is giving me a fucking headache

like, do you think we all have a small vacant room in our houses with plumbing that we’re just not using for anything else? like, there’s a space that would clearly fit a washing machine and we just stare at it sadly going ‘WHAT could go there? what could we possibly do with it?’ 

[strangehorse]

other questions/answers:

Q: what about the basement?

A: most of us don’t have basements

–

Q: what about the garage?

A: many people don’t have garages

–

Q: let me describe a laundry room to you as if you are too foolish to comprehend the idea

A: i’m going to egg your house

[what-are-even-humans]

time to be controversial but they belong in the bathroom

[hamenthotep]

There’s nowhere to plug it in. The bathroom has no wall sockets because that’s the room with all the loose water.

The washing machine goes in the little room under the stairs

[what-are-even-humans]

but also what kind of bathroom doesn’t have any sockets??

[azzandra]

Look at these people living like actual fucking kings, with rooms big enough to fit washing machines into so they don’t have to cram it in a hallway outside the bathroom like animals.

[cillianmurphy]

I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT

[anttonystark]

I FOUND PART TWO AND THREE AND LET ME TELL YOU THIS MAN HAS HAD A LIFE

[mvslimdaily]

The most beautiful thing ❤

Just look at the pure joy and happiness these simple things like books, pencils and toys bring to these children in Uganda. Their excitement is beautiful to watch, but at the same time it’s sad when we reflect on our own lives and how much we take for granted. God bless these beautiful kids.

As the holy month of Ramadan soon ends, Muslim children across war torn and hunger and poverty stricken countries will be celebrating the day of Eid where children normally receive gifts. You can help us give gifts and bring joy to children like this from as little as £5 in countries like Syria, Yemen, and many more.

To donate tap here and click on the Eid gift appeal. The distribution video will posted up after the day of Eid. www.RamadanAid.com 

[dogs2thesequel]

i remember in 2014 everyone was pointing out how creepy twilight was and how edward was constantly depicted as a stalker and the shit with jacob literally falling in love with a fucking baby and now its 2018 and people are trying to claim twilight was actually good all along and we only hated it bc of misogyny or whatever like… how did y’all get less woke

[valtsv]

from now on my blog focus is going to be niche memes about and aimed at the prince of egypt (1998)

[valtsv]

moses when he leaves egypt and flees into the desert:

[valtsv]

moses returning to egypt:

[valtsv]

ramses: you can’t persuade me to let your people go

moses:

[valtsv]

[valtsv]

ramses: i’ll never let your people go

moses:

[marvel-feed]

‘BLACK PANTHER’ REVIEW ROUND-UP!

FORBES - “Black Panther is a tour de force, one of the smartest, most original action-packed blockbusters of the decade. This is bold and visually stunning filmmaking, unique and relevant in deeply emotional, truthful ways few films of the genre achieve. Believe the hype - Black Panther rules!”

ROLLING STONE - “Marvel’s [Black Panther] is a masterpiece. An exhilarating triumph on every level from writing, directing, acting, production design, costumes, music, to special effects. The end result feels revolutionary” 4/4

EMPIRE MAGAZINE - “Black Panther is a giddily enjoyable, convention-bucking 134-minute epic that somehow manages to simultaneously be a comic-book blockbuster, a pulsating espionage thriller and an Afro-futurist family saga. It challenges as much as it exhilarates” 4/5

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER - “Getting it right where other franchises get it so wrong, Marvel and Disney have another commercial leviathan here. An action-packed combat epic. With Black Panther, Marvel takes superheroes into a domain they’ve never inhabited before and is all the better for it”

VARIETY - “Black Panther not only holds its own, but improves on the formula in several key respects, from a politically engaged villain to an emotionally grounded final showdown”

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY - “Black Panther’s nuanced celebration of pride and identity and personal responsibility doesn’t just feel like fresh direction for the genre, it’s the movie’s own true superpower” A-

COLLIDER - “Black Panther is Marvel’s boldest movie yet, and also one of their best. Production design, costumes, and visual effects are all on point. It isn’t just a triumph because it’s an important and unprecedented film, but because it’s also a fantastic superhero movie and a joy to watch”A-

USA TODAY - “Black Panther is the best Marvel origin since Guardians of the Galaxy. [It is] a roaring solo adventure that unleashes James Bond-style spycraft, geopolitics galore and tribal intrigue a la ‘Game of Thrones’. Yet while there are plenty of fantastical aspects, Black Panther is extremely grounded” 4/4

VANITY FAIR - “Black Panther arrives as a welcome refreshment, adding mythic tones and chords of classical drama to the Marvel universe. It’s easily the most engaging Marvel film in a long while because it has something new to say. More like this please, Marvel. Oh, and, of course: Wakanda forever”

NEW YORK TIMES - “A jolt of a movie, Black Panther creates wonder with great flair and feeling partly through something Hollywood rarely dreams of anymore: myth. It’s axis point is the fantastical nation of Wakanda, touching down in a story that has far more going for it than branding”

IGN - “Black Panther delivers the goods as an adventure film, a political statement, and a cultural celebration. Long live the King!” 9/10