xturtletrashx

Wife, mommy, baldie, derby skater, writer, slinger of curse words and nonsense. 18+

[deanmoth]

You’re the only one.

- MOONLIGHT (2016)

[mjalti]

dont ask me what tf im talking about. i dont know ok? im just the vessel. the message has been gifted. i‘ve moved on

[superduperkas]

With everything going on right now, there are no words to explain how cathartic it is to watch a nazi get curb stomped by three women (a queer woman, Japanese woman, and a woman she believed to be a traitor to the "master" race) and then obliterated by the very child she was trying to manipulate into being the savior of the white race

*chef's kiss*

[weaver-z]

St*phanie Meyer: Vampires are all sexy heterosexual white British rich kids who are geniuses and—

Taika Waititi: Shut the FUCK up every vampire is bisexual and a MORON

[thedurvin]

See also

Various directors: Superheroes are all sexy heterosexual white rich kids who are geniuses and—

Taika Waititi: Shut the FUCK up every superhero is bisexual and a MORON

[poeiraefemera]

[requinoesis]

After quite a while, I finally managed to adapt these fun shark anatomy illustrations to Redbubble products! Many asked me to make posters or art prints available for sale and it is now possible in my little store! This is my store’s profile! ✨

I tried to adapt these arts to other products, but I think they were very ugly, so focus on looking for poster, art print or stickers options! I hope you like it and that the price offered by Redbubble is affordable! 

In the future I want to make other species of sharks! Thanks a lot for all support! ✨ If you want to follow me on instagram, this is: @AstralRequin

[harriyanna-deactivated20221223]

fun fact that many people do not know, princess tiana is real!

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[nattousan]

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 

[randomnessoffiction]

@chasingeverybreakingwave  Now this is a Batman film DC needs to make!

[largishcat]

i genuinely don’t get cishet monsterfuckers. for context, in the wake of shape of water i participated in this loving-the-monstrous type discussion event slash publishing party wherein i debuted a short story about a woman who “befriends” a cave monster—but that isnt the point. the point is i had to hear straight women talk for hours about how the appeal of monsters is some kind of weird “taming the beast” fantasy—loving a monster until it loves you back, sounding like every bad beauty and the beast take ever.

And there’s my queer ass being like literally none of you get it. this isn’t about power, this is about love and alienation and acceptance. you dumbasses, I’m the monster. this isn’t a metaphor for your shitty boyfriend, this is a metaphor for my own alienation from a society that tells me a the way i am and the way I love are grotesque. this is a fantasy of love free of judgement, separate from societal standards that I’ll never live up to anyway. that ghoul doesn’t care if I’m fat, they think it’s hot that I eat well. that immortal fae creature doesn’t care if the gender on my birth certificate matches the one I use now, they barely have a concept of gender in the first place. that tentacle monster doesn’t care if I shave, they don’t have eyes

monsterfucking is queer culture, everyone else go home

[redwaltz]

Oh. I’m guessing those were all yt women, too. Del Toro isn’t Queer, afaik, but he -is- Mexican in the us. It wasn’t really that long ago that interracial relationships were just as forbidden and taboo as Queer ones and there’s still obviously race tensions going on. The other in Shape of the Water is just as much, and likely written as, being a different race and the feeling of alienation of having a different place of origin. It happens to resonate with everyone who’s ever been considered a monster by society, and there’s not just one way this has happened.

The whole “love someone until they’re not a monster” is extra, super gross in that context because people don’t feel BIPOC are actually capable of human emotions who need to be taught to be human by some benevolent yt person who’s fetishised their body.

[largishcat]

reblog this version pls

[seekingidlewild]

The other reason that the “taming the beast” interpretation is a bad take is because it ignores the fact that Elisa is disabled. This isn’t a story about a privileged woman falling in love with the Other. This is about two characters who represent the Other finding each other. And there’s no taming involved. Elisa doesn’t try to change the creature. She just teaches him to communicate with her. And it’s notable that he wants to learn, unlike most of the humans in her orbit who can’t understand her and don’t try.

Also, the movie makes it very, very, very clear that the creature is not the monster. Strickland is. And, tying back into the point of OP’s post, so is the homophobic man Giles has a crush on. The monsters are “ordinary” people with toxic, bigoted views. They are the people who defined the creature, Elisa, and Giles as Other in the first place. Straight women trying to find parallels between the creature and the men in their own lives might do well to consider whether their “shitty boyfriends” (to quote OP) are creatures, or whether they’re actually Stricklands. 

[mysharona1987]

[roachpatrol]

I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM. 

[kaijutegu]

good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.

https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely

Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company. 

It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

A list of slavery-free chocolate companies:

Aldi

Aloha Feels Chocolate

Alma Chocolate

Alter Eco Chocolate

Amano Chocolate

Askinoise Chocolate

The Beach Chocolate Factory

Belicious

Black Mountain Chocolate

Cacaoteca

Caribeans Chocolate

Castronovo Chocolate

Charm School Chocolates

Chocolate Cartel

Chocolat Celeste

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Troubadour

Choconat

Coco Chocolate

Compartes Chocolates

Dandelion Chocolate

Dark Forest Chocolate

Denman Island Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Co.

Eating Evolved

Eat Your Hat

El Ceibo

The Endangered Species

Equal Exchange

Fairafric

Forever Cocoa

Fresco Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate

Gayleen’s Decadence

GEPA Chocolate

Giddy Yo Yo

Grenada Chocolate Company

Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate

Guittard

Habitual Chocolate

Hagensborg Chocolates

Health by Chocolate

Hilo Shark Chocolate

HNINA Gourmet

Honest Artisan Chocolate

Hooray  Tuffles

Ithaca Fine Chocolates

L.A. Burdick Chocolates

La Iguana Chocolate

Lake Champlain Chocolates

La Siembra Cooperative

Lillie Belle Farms

Madecasse

Malagasy

Maverick Chocolate Company

Max Havelaar

Mayan Monkey

Mayordomo

Mia Chocolate

Montezuma’s Chocolates

Nayah Amazon Chocolates

Newman’s Own Organics

Purdy’s Chocolate

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company

Ombar

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate

Original Hawaiian Chocolate

Parliament Chocolate

Montevérgine

Patric Chocolate

Plamil Organic Chocolate

Potomac Chocolate

Pure Lovin’ Chocolate

Rain Republic

Rapunzel Pure Organics

Ritual Chocolate

Samaritan Xocolata

Sappho Chocolates

Seed & Bean Chocolate

Shaman Chocolates

Sibú Chocolate

Solkiki Chocolate

Sweet Earth Chocolates

Sweet Impact Fudge

Sweet Riot

Sun Eaters Organics

Taza Chocolate

Terra Nostra Organic

Terroir Chocolate

TCHO

The Chocolate Wave

Theo Chocolate

The Original Chocolate Bar (Houston, TX)

Tobago Estate Chocolate

TONY’S CHOCOLONELY

Vivani Chocolate

Vosges

Wei of Chocolate

Xocolatl Chocolate

Zotter

[weeelllp]

Crazy how the main three chocolate companies in the US are all terrible

[scootsenshi]

Makes sense

[middleearthorcseeksspaceorc]

Sign me up for this.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Chocolate companies that deserve support here <3

[salamencerobot]

Sweet impact is my mom’s company!!! She doesn’t sell fudge anymore, just truffles, chocolate bars, and caramels!

[brucebocchi]

[thedunwichwhorer]

Go a little fart

[gizmoera-deactivated20240601]

be ded

Go a little fart

Dig a little dee

Reach a little

Catch the Cat

and pass it on

[moved--306389]

[artesbw]

 Ele Não!

[refinery29]

This incredible 95-year-old transwoman flight instructor found love late in life– only to be denied social security benefits by the government because she’s not cisgender

A beautiful interview with a woman who transitioned in 1976 shows how life for transgender people has changed over the years, although some terrible consequences remain the same.

Gifs: Lambda Legal

FOLLOW REFINERY29

[rainnecassidy]

what an amazing lady!

[bi-trans-alliance]

Trans people have always existed 🌈

[farewllyouth]

so MassDOT is planning on bulldozing a 10,000 year old village near Northampton, Massachusetts after they discovered it last year trying to build a roundabout. im putting some info about it here, and i will reblog this post with a link to a petition and the twitter thread if you want to read up a little bit on what’s happening

[farewllyouth]

here is the petition: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/preserve-the-10-000-year-old-undisturbed-ancient-village-in-northampton-ma

Do Not Destroy the 10,000 Year Old Ancient Village in Northampton, MA

Noted archeologist Dr. Richard Gramly (PhD Archeology, Harvard) was able to review the state’s report: “Lands along New England’s Connec

here is the twitter thread shown above:

https://twitter.com/lumpleygames/status/1276871066170937344?s=19

[tora42]

More info is here from the Daily Hampshire Gazette, a local newspaper in Hampshire County MA

[scoutingcore]

Here’s a more recent article about the site from the same newspaper with more information

[satsekhem]

@pvwitch you see this yet?

[pvwitch]

Just saw it now on The fBook

[zaziesource]

This is the best fucking thing I’ve ever seen. This should’ve been in the episode!!! #iconic.

[seawitchedd]

Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson || Sorry to Bother You

[machonnes]

Lakeith Stanfield as Damon in The Incredible Jessica James (2017)