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tsunamiwavesurfing

darkislovelyyyy

This shit is still funny

candiikismet

Lmao what the hell!

maesterroshi-deactivated2020041

Lmfao fuck that’s me

yafavblogger

Why was he in jail?

hi-imkingdavid

hallaisme247

@illmaticraj right now

booziebooz

Yeah I wanna know what he did cuz in all honesty if he r*ped this girl I don’t wanna be supporting him and shit by reblogging

quasmellito

Facts

ellsworthej

Nah he sold some weed to a undercover and used this as a pickup line

futureblackwakandan-deactivated

Ok in that case lmfaoooooooo

milf-adjacent

Everyone at the farmers market wishes to know me carnally

noshadeintheshadowofthecross

posts on here are like ‘everyone at the farmers market wishes to know me carnally’ (25,000 notes)

bookmqrk

do you still say reading is one of your favorite activities/hobbies even though you haven’t actually read in months but you used to read like a book a day when you were younger so much so that it became a personality trait and now you for some reason cannot for the life of you make yourself read but you’re still emotionally attached to that part of you and hope by speaking it into existence you’ll someday rediscover that happy version of yourself or are you normal?

stavingdarkness-deactivated2015

It’s like this…

You’re fourteen and you’re reading Larry Niven’s “The Protector” because it’s your father’s favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what it’s about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because she’s been doing it her whole life and he’s only just learned - and he gets mad that she’s better at it than him. And you don’t understand why he would be mad about that, because, logically, she’d be better at it than him. She’s done it more. And he’s got a picture of a woman painted on the inside of his spacesuit, like a pinup girl, and it bothers you.

But you’re fourteen and you don’t know how to put this into words.

And then you’re fifteen and you’re reading “Orphans of the Sky” because it’s by a famous sci-fi author and it’s about a lost generation ship and how cool is that?!? but the women on the ship aren’t given a name until they’re married and you spend more time wondering what people call those women up until their marriage than you do focusing on the rest of the story. Even though this tidbit of information has nothing to do with the plot line of the story and is only brought up once in passing.

But it’s a random thing to get worked up about in an otherwise all right book.

Then you’re sixteen and you read “Dune” because your brother gave it to you for Christmas and it’s one of those books you have to read to earn your geek card. You spend an entire afternoon arguing over who is the main character - Paul or Jessica. And the more you contend Jessica, the more he says Paul, and you can’t make him see how the real hero is her. And you love Chani cause she’s tough and good with a knife, but at the end of the day, her killing Paul’s challengers is just a way to degrade them because those weenies lost to a girl.

Then you’re seventeen and you don’t want to read “Stranger in a Strange Land” after the first seventy pages because something about it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All of this talk of water-brothers. You can’t even pin it down.

And then you’re eighteen and you’ve given up on classic sci-fi, but that doesn’t stop your brother or your father from trying to get you to read more.

Even when you bring them the books and bring them the passages and show them how the authors didn’t treat women like people.

Your brother says, “Well, that was because of the time it was written in.”

You get all worked up because these men couldn’t imagine a world in which women were equal, in which women were empowered and intelligent and literate and capable.

You tell him - this, this is science fiction. This is all about imagining the world that could be and they couldn’t stand back long enough and dare to imagine how, not only technology would grow in time, but society would grow.

But he blows you off because he can’t understand how it feels to be fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and desperately wanting to like the books your father likes, because your father has good taste, and being unable to, because most of those books tell you that you’re not a full person in ways that are too subtle to put into words. It’s all cognitive dissonance: a little like a song played a bit out of tempo - enough that you recognize it’s off, but not enough to pin down what exactly is wrong.

And then one day you’re twenty-two and studying sociology and some kind teacher finally gives you the words to explain all those little feelings that built and penned around inside of you for years.

It’s like the world clicking into place.

And that’s something your brother never had to struggle with.

becausedragonage

This is an excellent post to keep in mind when you see another recent post criticizing the current trend of dystopian sci-fi and going on about how sci-fi used to be about hope and wonder. No. It used to be about men. And now it’s not.

themarysue

Tell us again why equality in spec fic doesn’t matter. We dare you.

hillaryrene

I’m crying tears of rage and joy. THIS.

kayas-wife

A book (or genra) can be about nore than one thing

just-shower-thoughts

Maybe medieval people happened upon a T-Rex fossil and came to a relatively logical conclusion that dragons existed.

beedlebeeb

I’ve read a couple books on this actually, thats exactly what happened. Also cyclops are from looking at bones from a certain type of baby elephant. The giant note hole and tiny eyes made it look like a single eye.

awed-frog

Yep, can confirm! And what’s even funnier to me is that back in the dark ages, Greek people used to find a lot of prehistoric bear skeletons - and those look exactly like human skeletons, except they’re like eight feet tall or something - so they naturally assumed those were the heroes of legend, and made armour and clothes for them and reburied them with the most splendid and sacred religious ceremonies they could think of? Fast forward five centuries, Athens’ all modern and rational, philosophers and scientists aren’t taking any shit from anyone - but the problem is, people will randomly find graves containing giant-ass warriors, so that’s something that can’t be explained away and yeah, demigods were a thing and yeah, they used to be eight feet tall and sorry I don’t make the rules.

cameoamalthea

(source)

Ancient people had no idea what the bones of ancient creatures would look like or a concept of extinction. So strange bones that looked unlike modern animals were imagined based on their similarity to modern animals. A beaked dinosaur was imagined to have the head of an eagle, it’s clawed feet looked like a lion. So many mythological creatures are an assortment of different animal features, head like an X, body like a y. This may be from finding fossils which didn’t resemble any one modern animal but sort of resembled different features from various sorts of animals.

martymartinloki

I never thought of this before!

neptuneconjvenus

Low key make sense especially when they say dinosaurs had feathers lol

boyegaz-blog

look at him,,how could you be so cruel

sensuals

he cannot possibly really look like this 🤕

xcarnage-and-carnationsx

He’s unreal

prochoice-activist

pro-lifers when we call them forced-birth: EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION 😡

Pro-lifers when abortions happen: the poor baby 😢 brutally killed 😢 by her own mother 😢 what about her body 😢 2 more hands 😢 that will never feel 😢 2 more eyes 😢 that will never see 😢

moonzoned

200619 Music Bank ∴ WayV - Turn Back Time (超时空回)

studentlifeproblems

whitepeopletwitter

duine-aiteach

[ID: an image of a simple Celtic knot in the centre of the original rainbow, normal rainbow, gay man, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, nonbinary, asexual and aromantic flags]

[ID as Gaeilge: pictúir de snaidhm Cheilteach ar dhá bratachaí bogha báistí agus na bratachí aiteach, fear aerach, leispiach, déghnéasach, il-ghnéasach, trasinscneach, neamh-dhénártha, éighnéasach agus gan-rómáns]

I am interested in finding a way to easily show my pride at being Irish and being queer so made these. I decided to use a shamrock, a Celtic knot and the tri-spiral design from Newgrange. I placed them in the centre, large, but also to the top right, small.

Having made them all I think my favourite is the small tri-spiral but I have queued all six designs up so you can use whichever you like.

If you do use my edit for something please let me know - I’d love to see. Credit however isn’t needed.

This is post five of thirteen.