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“The big social networks, which don’t seem very keen to do anything about the conspiracy theories and rightwing hate groups hijacking their platforms, have been very active in battling breasts.”

—Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian - 12.08.18)

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Art By IG: @vskafandre

direk izle Instagram: @artwoonz

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So I’ve been ruining my kids lives by saying “weird flex but ok” to everything and when I do it they scream no and tell me they’re running away and I made this lovely photo lemme get it

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Tumblr is gonna die without me knowing a single fucking thing about Homestuck and honestly I think that’s pretty sexy of me

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i’m so tired of people justifying cultural appropriation by saying things like “Actual Chinese People ™ from mainland china don’t care that this non-chinese person is wearing a cheongsam!” and acting like this is evidence that cultural appropriation is just an issue made up by Oversensitive Special Snowflakes

like… ok… sure, of course mainland chinese people would care less about who wears cheongsam. but you’re kind of missing the whole point. most of the poc i’ve seen who are upset about cultural appropriation aren’t mainlanders. they’re fckn diaspora. 

nobody in mainland china is going to judge you if you wear a cheongsam to a formal event. but let’s pretend you’re the asian chick in your mostly-white school in the US, and your mom pushes you to wear a cheongsam to prom. you’re probably going to get the “oh of course the asian girl wears her asian dress to prom” reaction from the people around you. so you fight your mom about the cheongsam, because you want to fit in with Everyone Else. you don’t want to be the Chinky Girl in the Chinky Dress. 

your beautiful cheongsam sits in your closet, until one day, a stray clothes hanger snags on the lace overlay and shreds your dress and you throw it out.

and then a few years later, you see some white girl wearing the dress your mom wanted you to wear, but you were too ashamed to wear because you didn’t want to be a stereotype.

and that’s the frickin difference. mainlanders don’t experience the same things as people who are diaspora. they’re not gonna have the same perspective. there are no societal repercussions stopping them from expressing themselves culturally. their experiences ARE NOT THE SAME. stop using the opinions of people living in China to invalidate the experiences of Chinese Americans. thanks

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hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free

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My coworker sent me this insane Gwyneth Paltrow jewelry ad this morning and it FUCKING H A U N T S me. SPOILERS, but I have so many questions. Is the husband just in space or is he dead? I mean, he’s dead. If you took away that jaunty French music it would be obvious that he is definitely super dead. How many of those CASSETTES are there? Putting aside how spooky it is, just visually (Does Alice ever have people over? Do they just pretend to ignore that she has this CRAZY PERSON BOOKSHELF full of HAND-LABELED CASSETTE TAPES like some Martha’s-Vineyard Fox Mulder??), that must have taken literal days of his life. Locked in the bathroom for an entire week like “DON’T COME IN HERE, ALICE, I’M BUSY.” How long ago did he go to space if CASSETTE TAPES were considered an acceptable way to record audio when he went up? He has been in space for 20 years. He is dead. What is Alice’s life now? She just wanders around her giant, spotless 900 million dollar house, imprisoned by her own privilege and the ghost of her former life. Drawing the same three drawings over and over like the kid from “The Ring.” Drinking juice from a carafe with an EMPTY GLASS on the other side of the table, presumably so she can imagine her dead space husband is there. “Drink up, darling,” Alice says lovingly, reaching into the empty air to cup an imaginary bristled cheek. “You haven’t touched this delicious guava-lavender balancing tea I brewed for you, and you must get your vitamins before you go to space.” Also, she has a picture of HERSELF next to her picture OF HIM, instead of a picture OF THEM, together, which makes me wonder: is Gwyneth Paltrow’s character “Alice” at all?? Is this like that astronaut love triangle where the one astronaut attacked the other one???? Did Gwyneth murder Alice while her husband was in space, and now she pretends to live Alice’s life????  “Alice has been such a recluse since Roderick went to space in 1996,” Alice’s friends say, not realizing that Alice has been mummifying in the charming 18th century icebox in the servants’ kitchen since 1996 and Gwyneth is the new Alice. “We’re so happy together, aren’t we, Roderick,” Gwyneth croons to her tape player, wrapping her arms around her own torso, swaying dreamily before the full length mirror, wearing nothing but Alice’s special 20-year-old surprise necklace and a wig made of of Alice’s hair. I love this commercial so much. 

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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The Incredible Jessica James (2017) | dir. James C. Strouse

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Okay but marta you can NOT make a gifset about bellamy/finn/raven and NOT tag it with a meta about how ravenbell are so fucking brave and the same. And how they both see finn as a coward (that he is), raven loved finn yes but she knew he also hesitated! Please give it to MEEEEEEE

Lol have you met me? I’m a huge coward, and as such, I often have quite a lot of trouble talking about bravery!

For me, that scene is about protectiveness first and foremost – about family and loyalty. Bellamy spent his entire life protecting Octavia with all he had. His sister, his responsibility. And in his head, Raven is Finn’s Octavia. If Octavia was shot, Bellamy wouldn’t just stick to the plan. He’d stop and review the plan to make sure Octavia survives. So the fact that Finn isn’t stopping to reevaluate everything is so completely removed from Bellamy’s life experience he can’t help his knee-jerk reaction to Finn’s behavior. Cowardice is an easy accusation in this case, because it doesn’t require going into persona stuff – doesn’t require talking about family, and how Raven should be Finn’s fucking sister. Having a sibling is so foreign to their culture that I doubt Bellamy even has the language to talk about it, despite having the experience of it. I think it’s much more about love than about courage. For Bellamy, it’s easy to understand what Raven does: building a capsule, coming down to the ground, those are things people do for family. Finn, on the other hand, seems like a freaking alien, and I often have an impression that Bellamy reacts to him so aggressively because he just can’t fucking wrap his head around how this guy functions.

And because I’m a terrible person, I’d like your headcanons for an AU scenario in which Bellamy, not Finn, is Raven’s neighbor on the Ark.

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THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Lupita Nyong’o and Oscar Isaac

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(…) looking at each other like they’re not sure what the waiting limit is on these things.

in our bedroom after the war  by @shortitude / @tentaclabia

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fake novel prompt: the log: the daily lives of the crew of the discovery

sister-grimmer said: Star Trek meets Parks and Rec! and greenkneehighs said: Star Trek TOS meets “Pride and Prejudice”

the discovery is a spaceship designed to explore the galaxy, make contact, and experience daring and exciting missions- for some of the crew. the rest of the crew is run by mo, the ship’s extremely dedicated (some would say overly so…) personnel manager who oversees day-to-day basics of the ship. she constantly butts heads with the ship’s captain, a dashing man named tip. (she once overheard him call her position “useless” and she’s never forgiven him.) mo’s crew consists of the less flashy members of the discovery, such as: malek, the ship’s cook who can make any meal and is terrified of guns, and rain, the ship’s historian who knows more about alien civilizations than she’s letting on. it’s filled with mishaps and adventure and friendship! 

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