XXI

I am Alice. I'm in wonderland. Where's the rabbit? He is late again.

[amoisthobo]

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Part 3.

[thetrippytrip]

Welp my decision about buying one has been made.

[excima]

[drxpjericho]

LMFAO 

[miniangel]

i’ve been laughing at this for 15 minutes

[queenotrera]

History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

[terpsikeraunos]

because being a linguist, fleet commander, and powerful ruler doesn’t matter, only her looks

[destroymales-deactivated2023032]

Her Arab contemporaries raved about her being very interested and knowledgeable in the sciences.

She completely reformed the system in Alexandria, and Egypt at large; making it much more of a functional powerhouse. 

She did what 300 years of her ancestors couldn’t: Managed to get the support of both the Greek AND Egyptian subjects she ruled.

There is a sculpture that has been identified as her, through comparisons to coins minted under her rule, that proves beyond a doubt that she wasn’t particularly beautiful.

It isn’t that people just happen to believe it by mistake. Rome was fucking terrified of her and painted her as a vapid, scheming, beautiful, sex obsessed queen to discredit her to their people. She was a threat, and that was how they handled it. The unfortunate thing is that that is the most surviving record of her. A smear campaign against one of the smartest, most powerful women in human history. 

[jinxmyride-deactivated20161103]

This is a woman who became her father’s co-ruler at nearly 14 years old in order to train for her actual ascension to the throne, who was forced to marry her own siblings in order to keep her power, and it’s widely believed that she poisoned them so she could rule alone. She’s a Pharaoh who led Egypt into a new era of wealth, who went fearlessly into war to protect her rule and Egypt’s independence from the Roman empire, a woman who took her own life rather than face being raped and tortured by her conquerors, knowing full well that she was leaving her surviving children in their uncertain mercy. Cleopatra is one of the most interesting, morally ambiguous, complexing historical figures we have and the media has turned her into a tantalizing sex object for the male gaze.

Even after Cleopatra died her influence on those around her lived on: her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, was the only child of Cleopatra’s to live to adulthood, and she became queen of Mauretania along with her husband Juba and it’s believed they married for love, which was extremely rare for that time period, especially among nobles/the upper class. Not only did she grow up in the house of her mother’s worst enemy and technical murderer, but she still went on to become a queen who possessed an equal amount of political power as her husband, even having her face minted on coins on the opposite side of his likeness, showing they were equal rulers.

Cleopatra and her influence on history, and her daughter’s legacy, have both been brushed aside in favour of the sexy Cleopatra visage. It’s bullshit. Egyptian mythology is interesting and vivid, and full of powerful women and it’s bullshit that we take some of the most powerful women in Africa’s history and try to turn them into fashion icons or sluts who only ruled through toying with men. 

[luthienmuse]

I LIVE FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THIS, people still refuse to believe that a woman can/could have achieved anything without beauty or fucking magical powers  

[tomfordvelvetorchid-deactivated]

If selena gomez had a gun to your head and asked “can i sing” what would you say

[ithotyouknew2-deactivated201710]

Like, you can arrange your voice into a melody…

[violaslayvis]

At least I would die as an honest person

[wanted-for-wanting-more]

Death

[chasingthathigh]

[ayungbiochemist]

This was THE most powerful scene

[the-goddamazon-deactivingsoon-d]

And then she fucking forgave him…but not until after she left him stewing in his own excrement and filth for a while.

[king-emare]

This was a great movie.

[blueklectic]

She shoulda left him to die

[richist-deactivated20150511]

What movie is this

[msdecember31st]

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

[b3hold-a-lady]

the only Tyler Perry movie im here for tbh

[silkandcinnamon]

^^^^^^^^

[wanted-for-wanting-more]

What about Daddy's Little Girls?

[kamonra]

This is the money pentacle. Reblog and unexpected money will come to you!

[darkcocosb-blog]

Shiiiiit. I reblogged, and I got $750 in two days for basically nothing! The first day this client/POT asked my agent to invite some girls and I to his end. We basically sipped wine and left with $500 each. He called me yesterday and we took a ride on my highway and gave me $250😂😂😂. Money blogs everyday any day!

[soflobrat]

Won’t chance it.

[br0wnsugarandspice]

Yo this shit works not even gonna front like I didn’t just get money

[tastelikehoney-sb-deactivated20]

Let me reblog this 2x then 😂

[nudiemuse]

Do the thing pls

[quickweaves]

im screaming it worked lmfao

[hunter-dahl-deactivated20161208]

Not to be a “tumblr witch” but I’ll try anything twice

[dunsparce]

Guys…. I didn’t think it would work but wtf….I just checked my email…

I have an extra $600 I didn’t have before ;____;

[witchoncampus]

Fuck it, I need the money 😂

[fenland-witch-deactivated202005]

I need next week’s rent!

[thesnobbyartsyblog]

Yerrrrr

[thesnobbyartsyblog]

who is she? I know ya know her IG by now.

[thesnobbyartsyblog]

i love you

[thesnobbyartsyblog]

fuck you

[straightboyfriend]

someone: the babadook is gay

me: hahahah yeah!!!

buzzfeed: THE BABADOOK IS THE NEW QUEER ICON !! THE GAYEST QUEER TO EVER GAY SUCH A SASSY GAY ICON! SO QUEER!

me: you killed it & its dead now

[lowkeybaddiee-deactivated202109]

[brendenfraser]

[ihaveitwitheverybody]

This might be the best thing ever filmed.

[mediokrek]

I’ve seen the gif, but it’s even better with the context of how little time it took.

[tinafey]

please watch this show

[capricornhumor]

[swordsafetyy-deactivated2019092]

normalize brown vampires

[gloryholeaction69-deactivated20]

arent vampires suppose to b pale cause theyre dead in stuff

[swordsafetyy-deactivated2019092]

melanin doesnt evaporate when we die lol this is p good example of how to go about it properly: http://frogopera.tumblr.com/post/151726950160/cracks-open-a-bag-of-candy-and-a-jar-of-salt-so

[inchesandpounds]

when you use a blog on tumblr as a source for information :/

[swordsafetyy-deactivated2019092]

why do i gotta give u a works cited on why its good to make vampires non-white and how to draw them lmfao???? 

[shazampanic-deactivated20190720]

when someone needs a full dissertation fully formated to consider vampires dont need to be pale as fuck:

Eat, Ass, Jr. “Eat My Entire Ass.” Just Admit You’re Racist. Kal’s Ass Too, 17 Oct. 2016. Web.

[fandomsandfeminism]

People are aware that when black people die, their bodies don’t suddenly become like, WHITE, right? 

Source:  Dick, Suck A. This Should Be Obvious. Vol. 5. Obvious Town: WTF Publication, 2003. Print.

[caliphorniaqueen]

lmao

[crimeshetyped]

I’m dyin 😂

[bellygangstaboo]

Cast her in the Black Widow film.