My Wingz Give Me Hope

Hi, I'm Lisa. 29 / she/her / aro/ace. Canadian. Fashion Design Graduate. This is my personal blog. It's not very organized, sorry. Lots of hyperfixation/fandom stuff, historical dresses, animals, important issues, ace/aro-spec things, fangirl stuff, and things I just find interesting are all over the place here. I rarely tag when I reblog, sorry. I try to tag the more obvious & mainstream triggers and misc upfront. Please ask me to tag something if you need it and I'll make a note to.

[windwardstar]

Think we should bring back REG as a term. It stands for Reactionary Exclusionary Gatekeeper. It's why every round of exclusionary discourse that denies a specific groups' oppression and places in the community follows the same rhetoric because regs are regs are regs. Deny the group faces any specific oppression for their identity, attack any and all vocabulary so they can't discuss it, say what they do face is really just misogyny/homophobia/transphobia, say they're incapable of recognizing their own experiences, say they're just desperate to be oppressed, and really oppressed the real queer people. Rinse repeate. Fall silent once the pendulum swings towards acceptance until a new target reveals itself.

Regs are regs are regs.

[toshio]

the MOST iconic 20 seconds of any anime dub i’ve ever experienced

[misfit-freaks]

EVEN THE FUCKING MUSIC OH MY LORD

[femmeslash]

i looked through the notes to see what this was (it’s cyber city oedo 808) and ended up crying laughing at the wikipedia article for it

[femmeslash]

every so often people start liking and reblogging this post from me, and every time i forget how funny it is until i watch it again. hey bentn. don’t crap ya paants if ya see a vampire out deeah. get lost. you wouldn’t recognize a gaddam vampire if one jumped up and bit you on the end of your fucken dick. So just get off my back.

[the most violently 1980s synthesizer sting i have ever heard]

[undeadhousewife]

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

Ok now I’m curious… Which do you prefer:

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer the city

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer out of the city

Bald/vanilla extract/I reject dichotomies under all circumstances/I can’t read

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

[i-am-a-fish]

whose dumb ass idiot fuck idea was it to make medicine cost money

[thekalpar]

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

[apolladay]

Which set of song lyrics do you, personally, think best evokes a sense of drama?

1. "For you, I'd start a war, war, war. I'd watch the world burn down, just to see you in the lighting of the embers."

2. "Set the crowd alight, heart never waver. No one is waiting to catch you tonight. Don't look down if you fall from grace..."

3. "The seeds we planted grew, but not like roses do. We had the thorns and leaves, but buds they never bloomed."

4. "The child will be born again, that siren carried him to me. First of them true loves, singing in the shoulders of an angel, without care for love and loss"

5. "Breaking all my bones, just to hold you close; cut my heart right out my body. Tearing off my skin, just to let you in... isn't it a bit unethical?"

Which lyrics?

1

2

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Remaining time: 4 days 7 hours

(Source song titles and artists under the cut. Hoping for more of a blind vote.)

"PEACE & VIOLENCE" by Faouzia

"Snow Globe" by Forestella

"Flowers" by MARINA

"Ghost Love Score" by Nightwish

"UNETHICAL" by Faouzia

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[headedoutleft]

something i want to mention because i’ve seen it growing as a trend online is that not only do people do this just for their own gratification, but watch for glasses. smart glasses are a growing segment of the consumer market, and creeps like this are harassing people in public in order to gather content without the victims being aware they’re being filmed

good job on how you handled it, op!

[pangur-and-grim]

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

[pangur-and-grim]

[pangur-and-grim]

it is actually haunting me that I forgot to wave. if he looked out the airplane window, he wouldn’t have seen me…..

[usernameofrassilon]

don't die wondering

[theorangepdf]

getting fixated on something is funny because the first like week i have an insatiable need to tell everyone i know about it and spread the good word but by weeks 2 and 3 it becomes so intense and personal that even hearing it mentioned in public makes me sweat as if a dark secret was alluded to

[apolladay]

Are you American, and when you’re speaking in the third conditional (past tense that didn’t actually happen), do you use the word “would”, or “had”? So for example, do you say “I wish I WOULD have told you sooner”, or “I wish I HAD have told you sooner”? Or do you only ever say “I wish I’D have told you sooner” without thinking about what words you’re contracting?

American: I say “WOULD have”

American: I say “HAD have”

American: I just say “I’D have” and don’t think about the words I’m contracting

American: I say both

American: Never said anything like this before in my life

Not American: I say “WOULD have”

Not American: I say “HAD have”

Not American: I just say “I’D have” and don’t think about the words I’m contracting

Not American: I say both

Not American: Never said anything like this before in my life

Other

Where I’m from we exclusively say “had have”, so despite the fact that most of the movies, shows, and content creators I watch are American, “would have” just never ceases to sound like gobbledygook to me 😭

Are you American, and when you’re speaking in the third conditional (past tense that didn’t actually happen), do you use the word “would”, or “had”? So for example, do you say “I wish I WOULD have told you sooner”, or “I wish I HAD have told you sooner”? Or do you only ever say “I wish I’D have told you sooner” without thinking about what words you’re contracting?

American: I say “WOULD have”

American: I say “HAD have”

American: I just say “I’D have” and don’t think about the words I’m contracting

American: I say both

Not American: I say “WOULD have”

Not American: I say “HAD have”

Not Amer.: I just say “I’D have” and don’t think about the words I’m contracting

Not American: I say both

Not American: Never said anything like this before in my life

Other

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

[meltesh28]

ch177 storyboard! hualian… HUALIAN. ….!!!!!!!!!!! 🦋🦋✨💕😭😭

—— do not repost!! ——

[tiramasucat]

good morning

[allpiesforourown]

Extremely underrated part of svsss is when Shang qinghua goes "hey how do you feel about Binghe" and shen yuan mentally says "it's like we're little girls talking about my crush" and it's so insane that even the book has to clarify its all in shen yuans head

[hyog-blog]

Chasing Jade - ep.34

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Xie Wu, about to have a heart attack, seeing his whole life flash before his eyes, rethinking every life choice that led to him being stuck in the middle of his boss's marriage drama: YOU WHAT!!??

[melonatures]

[She's so wonderful. She's resilient, more so than many women from noble families. I only want to see her grow wild and free, like grass in an open field.]