Splendid Torch

Formerly deep, currently Star Wars/Hockey (Caps)/Check Please 100% certified organic vegan trash. Tumblr ancient/F/USA/She/Hers. Literally no comprehesive theme to this blog so if you follow, sorry in advance! 

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

10-year-old Newark boy was chased by the police and had guns drawn on him. Fortunately,he came home safe , but frightened to death and told his mother a story about his interaction with the police. In fact, he couldn’t even talk, he just cried, because he never experienced something like that and he knows for sure what happens with little black kids, who interact with the police, like Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice…

Police needs to be held accountable for doing this to a kid.

For more like this go to BlackMattersUs

[lavender-lemonade-soy-candle]

Say hello to ptsd

[odinsblog]

RYAN LOCHTE VANDALIZED A GAS STATION, LIED ABOUT IT AND BLAMED IT ON THE LOCAL BROWN SKINNED PEOPLE. 

Textbook racial projection complete with the “he’s just a harmless kid” narrative (never mind the fact that an innocent person could have been wrongly arrested if his lie wasn’t found out). I don’t think they could more accurately represent “the America way” if they tried.

[sale-aholic-deactivated20190809]

That last Tweet!

[ethel-beevers]

it’s so rare to read this much text on the internet without spotting a single mf lie bitch

[gambolling]

This is a real medical condition known as Gan’s Syndrome, an ocular retinoblastoma occurring in 0.0004% of the total retinoblastoma cases. Ruptured blood vessels create often symmetrical, or at least fractal patterns and though the eye can see, visual acuity is lowered. It can be treated but never cured, though most suffering with the condition live normal lives. Gan’s Syndrome was founded by Dr. Sharon Gan.

[softfeelsinc-deactivated2018032]

wow, so spine chillingly beautiful. Sometimes nature is so beautiful even if it’s hindering a person’s life. 

[violentvoices-deactivated201704]

sadly yet again another fake post A quick google and you can see nothing by this name exists.

[tanknaka]

no its real my cousin sasuke has this

[bobbimorses]

shoutout to 5th grade me for having a college reading level and apparently using up all future motivation for actual college age me to read what I’m supposed to. you 10 year old asshole

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

i respect your right to Steven universe discourse but i also think that many of you need to take a nice long break to sit in the Calm-Down Corner

[croptopcameron]

Want to support a US goalie but not Hope Solo’s dusty ass? Here’s Ashleigh Johnson, starting goalie for the US Women’s Water Polo Team! She was named Goalkeeper of the Tournament at 2015 World Championship and she’s going to Princeton to become a doctor!

[deamortis66]

IM LAUGHING SO HARD I DIDNT THINK SEXUAL DESIRE WAS A REAL THING LIKE I ALWAYS SAW PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW THEY WANTED SEX BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING OR EXAGGERATING OR SOMETHING THATS WHY IT WAS SO HARD FOR ME TO REALIZE I WAS ACE BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WENT WITHOUT SAYING SEX ISNT THAT IMPORTANT IM 19 YEARS OLD I CANT STOP LAUGHING LITERALLY 99% OF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES SEXUAL DESIRE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE

[knightarcana]

This is pretty much the definition of being an ace person, tbh, and I’m so glad.

[old-songs]

#I thought it was an exaggeration for literal years (via sonickitty)

this is literally the #that sounds fake but okay meme im dying

[overlycaffeinateddreamer]

#ME#I THOUGHT SEXUAL ATTRACTION WAS RARE#AKA#HOW TO FIND OUT YOU’RE DEMI (via @miseryauthoress)

[kyogre-blue]

Honestly, every single cheating plotline never made sense because “but why do you have to have sex with them? just don’t??”

[skidar]

^^^^ Every single cheating plot line ever I was like: What is so hard about keeping your pants on what is your problem??

[callie-quite-contrary]

…do you have any idea how hard it is to do literary criticism that will get published when your reaction to at least 75% of character motivations is this makes no sense whatsoever why do they even care? 

[sazandorable]

When people ask you why you don’t date someone just to try, and when you answer that well you’re not interested in that person, they explain that usually you don’t like the person at first, but you might fall in love after having dated a little while

and you’re just?????? but what?????????? is the point of dating someone if you don’t like them?????????????? 

what do you mean the point is making out and sex????????? why would i want to do that with someone i don’t already like?????????

[trashbandikyut-deactivated20181]

I have literally experienced all of these.

[silvermoonphantom]

^Same

[allofthemoths]

THIS

[bloochikin]

Omg yeah

[schedulingemotions]

Yes. Yes to all of this.

[asvpxvlad]

[efjkkefjnenfr]

“if feminists want equality they should support women being drafted!” is one of the best examples of why it’s bad that feminism is misconceived as being about equality to men rather than liberation from men. men create war, men created the draft, we don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t want equal opportunity to be sent to war to harm women in other countries.

[darkfemalley]

A+ point

[work-eat-sleep-blog]

Dear check please! Fandom, I love you but

They don't play NHL games on ESPN. They barely play hockey highlights on ESPN. Hockey plays on local sports channels and NBC/NBCsports (and other channels depending on the market). This has been a real hockey PSA

[itsybittle]

Jack you precious child, you save all of Bitty’s notes and aasdfghjklwowtndiwkenfifd

I’m dying, I’m dead

[pawspaintsnthings]

IM LITERALLY PASSING AWAY GOODBYE FRIENDS

[omgcheckplease]

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[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

like there is a point i’m making by not tagging spoilers for Poussey’s death, people.

the fact that 99% of the outrage surrounding this latest on-screen death is about spoiler warnings instead of about what actually happened is very relevant to this conversation.

the fact that the outrage for the very brutal and racialized way she was murdered is so much smaller than people being mad they know about it too soon to enjoy seeing it themselves? that’s important. that says something about the way we think about these things.

and the fact that this “spoilers!” outrage wasn’t there when we all knew within minutes when other high-profile tv deaths happened in April? that’s important too. that says something about who is more important than spoilers - and who is not.

I saw multiple complaints about spoilers before I saw even a whisper of what had happened. In April, I don’t think I saw a single complaint about spoilers. In April, 80% of the LGBT characters who died were women of colour, but the most high-profile case was a white woman. How many WOC can you name from the April Massacre? Because they were the bulk of it.

Now a black lesbian dies on TV in a particularly brutal way at a particularly cruel time and people are suddenly worried about not being able to properly enjoy her death.

That’s relevant. Our reactions are relevant to this conversation, because the cultural attitudes that create media like this are not mysteriously absent from the fandom that consumes it.

[temipanarin]

[scully]

This isn’t just another shooting. 

This is now officially, with over 50 casualties, the worst mass shooting in United States history. And the fact that it took place at a gay club was not merely coincidence. This was not just another act of senseless violence in America. This was a hate crime. 

A man walked into a safe space for the LGBT community with an assault rifle and lined them up and slaughtered them. 

Don’t do what the media is inevitably going to do. Don’t erase where this happened and who this happened to.

When you make your statements for/against gun control, remember this was a hate crime. When you make your statements about the gunman’s reported religious beliefs, remember this was a hate crime. When your politicians make empty promises about changing the way things are, remember this was a hate crime. When you make your statements about the media’s coverage of this, remind everyone this was hate crime. 

Do not gloss over the identities of the victims. They were killed for them. This was a hate crime. 

[househunting]

this is not househunting related whatsoever but i have 90k followers and i know many of you live in florida:

Orlando hospitals are in massive need of blood donations after the unbelievable hate crime/terrorist attack (50 dead, 50+ injured) that happened at a gay club last night. 

“There is an urgent need for O Negative, O Positive and AB Plasma blood donors following a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida,” said the news release from OneBlood.

please, if you can, head over to a donation center today, and boost this post. 

Four local OneBlood banks are open today 8 a.m.-4 p.m.:

-Orange Park Donor Center 2153 Kingsley

-South Jacksonville Donor Center 8013 Beach Blvd. (near Parental Home Rd.)

-West Jacksonville Donor Center 5209 Blanding Blvd.

-Mandarin Donor Center 10501 San Jose Blvd

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-orlando-nightclub-shooting-blood-donations-20160612-story.html

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/urgent-need-for-blood-donations-after-orlando-mass-shooting/338339345