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@whiterosesonawednesday
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
Your Best Life Now (Joel Osteen)
Really needed this rn
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When you are one with the music
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WHO IS SHE
ALONDRA DE LA PARRA
#a warning to anyone out there attracted to women#she looks great in a tux
Have some more photos of her in action, because I love her:
And my all-time favorite:
She looks like she’s casting spells
I love her?
I think my least favorite Hetero Trope is when the girl eats a burger or whatever and the dude is like “Wow, I like a girl who can eat” like what the fuck did your last girlfriend do, photosynthesis?
#also this isn’t news but what they mean is ‘I love a girl who can stay skinny but not annoy me with diet restrictions’ #men don’t actually love ‘girls who don’t go on diets’ or ‘girls who don’t wear makeup’ or ‘low-maintenance’ girls #what they DO love is women who can stay thin and flawless without ever having to reveal the effort behind it #it’s baffling to me! #like some Orwellian bullshit #you can’t knowingly demand women look a certain way and then complain when they go on diets lmao (via @halffizzbin)
I was just thinking the other day about how they do a very similar thing with men in the media as well. It may not be as prevalent as with the female characters, but you almost always see superheroic male characters with extremely toned physiques in bars, drinking beer and eating pub food, portrayed as “man’s man” types who let their scrappy lives give them saran wrapped eight packs, when in reality the actors playing those guys are on extremely specialized diets coupled with intense workout programs. At the same time, “gym rat” characters who are actually shown doing the work a person would actually need to to maintain bodies like that are almost unilaterally made out to be stupid, vain, often meanspirited meatheads.
I remember watching the behind the scenes footage of a Jason Statham movie where he’s complaining about only being allowed to eat a plate of steamed veggies while the entire rest of the crew was having a party with cake or something. In the same movie his character is pretending to eat and drink things that real dude Jason Statham was not allowed anywhere near to maintain the idea that regular blue collar working class movie character got sweet abs by drinking beer and driving fast cars.
Then there’s the issue of these actors being harassed in real life when they don’t upkeep their intensely high-maintinence bodies between movies. Like, The illusion has been created that the jacked up bodybuilder physique is their effortless natural state of being, so any deviation from that must be caused by flawed behaviour and you see constant articles about how “[Popular Action movie guy] Really Let Himself Go” or people bombarding the actors’ personal accounts with fat jokes and accusation about their lifestyles
I guess the overarching issue is, people seem to be fed this idea that attractive qualities people may posses are only valid if they came naturally and effortlessly. The person with beautiful hair is desirable, the person who spends an hour making their hair beautiful is “self obsessed”, the person with the athletic body is hot, the person who goes to the gym every day and works on being more athletic is “a dumb jock”. It’s all appreciating the results while devaluing the effort it took to achieve them.
Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes.
I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…
I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation.
I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.
I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.
Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.
Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.
Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear.
Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.
We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.
So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.
Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!
Comrade Shane
Edit: *Comrades
Hey do y'all fucks remember two years ago when just before the election all these “don’t vote both parties are bad” or “vote independent!” Posts were going around and then Trump won and now two weeks before midterms there’s all these “don’t bother voting, revolution is the only way!” And “your vote isn’t gonna matter and is an ineffective way to protest” posts are going around? Yeah knock that shit right the fuck off, don’t fall for it and get your ass to the polls, we are not doing this again.
the plant has a question
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god no. not again.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Always unsure. [Via @nathanwpyle]
I really like that Eugene calls Rapunzel a woman, while her parents keep calling her a teenager, reminding the audience that she’s technically both right now.
These bathrooms have a privacy strip for the gap
You know, the Richard Spencer getting punched thing has made it VERY clear which groups of people I’m not actually safe around, if push comes to shove. People who had SAID that they’d defend Jewish people, or even promised that, if shit hit the fan, they’d hide me, have said that this was inexcusable, and now I’m not wasting emotional energy on them. Because they won’t.
If you think you’d have hidden Jews during the Holocaust, but think that punching Richard Spencer was “inexcusable,” then you’re kidding yourself.
I encourage everyone to reblog this!
this argument is fucking stupid and both situations are completely different
They are different. The risk for punching Richard Spencer is lower. And here I’m not even saying that it is morally correct to do so, but rather that people who advocate against small risks to defend the marginalized can’t be counted on to take large ones for them.
So you’re comment has mainly had the effect of signaling to people that you are against those who take risks to protect them from people who advocate for genocide.
Very few people helped jews during the holocaust. The odds are extremely likely that you would not be one of those extraordinary people who put their own lives and safety on the line every day, lied to every person they knew and shared the meagre amount of food they had to keep people alive in secret, at a time where their friends and neighbours wouldn’t hesitate to give them up in an instant. Like if you think ‘oh yeah I totally would have done that ofc’ without thinking about it any further, then the likelihood is you actually wouldn’t, because you haven’t really realised how difficult and dangerous it was to do. If you think nazi’s can be stopped by doing nothing then you do not have the slightest clue. We’ve said over and over again for 100 years ‘never again’ without putting any tools in place to stop it happening because everyone believes themselves incapable of ever doing ‘evil’ but the evil of the nazi regime wasn’t special, it was the evil of people, people hating, people ‘following orders’, people ‘obeying the law’, people doing what everyone else was doing, people doing nothing.
If you really want to be able to say ‘I would never let this happen’, then learn some history, read up on your own biases and start actively working to do better and be better and be an ally. The Psychology of Evil Bystander Effect. Groupthink Herd Mentality
German responsibility
