#ours were blue and white

[boyhowdy5]

Just had a convo with a friend about this and I'm curious

I want to clarify that this is different than having fine china that you never use in a cabinet somewhere, these are regularly-used plates only for guests.

[reasonsforhope]

This is now a Kamala Harris for President blog btw

Obviously I'll keep posting good news as usual! And I'm going to pull up as much good news and reasons for hope about Kamala Harris's campaign as I can.

[fictionadventurer]

🌠

[wilsonpussyindulgence]

the cishet white guy who runs the theatre company of the show i’m doing, you know, the guy who chose to run a political thriller in NOVEMBER OF AN ELECTION YEAR, sent out a group text to be like “can we all get on a zoom tonight and talk about how we feel about running the show this weekend” like he was open to/wanting to canceling it

motherfucker be SO serious right now

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[tothepointofinsanity]

Some old stuff I did for my club’s Model United Nations conference as a part of their PR team last year. I still like the minimalist look to some of them, but design 3 was a bit too complex for the design theme of the event (it was used as the main banner, but understandably I think now I could have done better for all of them).

[landgraabbed]

i was sat here thinkin abt why that post i reblogged hit me so hard but then i remembered that it's basically how shit went down between me and my sibling and their partner lmfao fjsdjfdsdsdfsdf

[inv3ga-or-d3ath]

*taps on your window*

Smooch, marry, fight in a parking lot

ii in the old white mask, ii in the old black mask, some apple juice (i know u love apple juice)

Pretty much those answers in reverse. Although. White mask ii has a certain appeal. Like wearing a bloody pillowcase. Hmm...

Can ii spit the apple juice into my mouth while wearing the black mask like he did in a few older clips? #gimmedatappy

[sskk-manifesto]

Atsushi's back in the game!!! ۶( ˆ o ˆ )

[hua-fei-hua]

was working the clicker counter for our halloween trick or treat event last night, and the amount of harry potter costumes was like. frankly baffling, and the only reason i didn't go home depressed abt it was seeing all the young weebs coming through in their cosplays, sometimes with their parents also in cosplay... i love you second generation weebs...

[baby-prophet]

we did so much painting today and jesus christ that purple is rough on the first coat 😬

[no-context-nonsense]

[smallphoenix13]

when’s choices gonna make a dark academia story?

[lunar-fey]

woke up n filled out the paperwork n stuff they unhooked a lot of the machines but they left like the electrodes on my head anyway didnt really realize that the building im in is a part of a university complex. and im in the capitol city. anyway so stepped out and im like 3 streets down from the capitol building. which is weird to me. havent slept overnight in this city since like. i was real little.

oh anyway so in like an hour theyll bring breakfast n then im supposed to take a brief nap. and then in 2 hours do it again and then a third time another 2 hours later. when i was handing in my moening paperwork the tech mentioned she was marking every time i moved and i was like. yaaaa bet it was a lot (i was in bed for 7 hours, think i slept 3 seperate times for abt an hour each. the rest of the time i was rolling around not as bad as sometimes tbh the wires were pretty unobtrusive.) but anyway she was like yeahhhhh. you did. i am getting a good grade in having abnormal sleep 😌

[crystem]

Another fun old tumblr post I recall from a while back is that one where someone was trying to pretend a gif from a children's TV show was mcdonalds chicken nuggets, with a reblogged response of "bitch that's the tubby custard machine!"

And the whole chocolate fountain bird argument post.

And prev is incredibly right about fandom history here. Aesthetic vs Fandom was a very large thing and old fandom was a lot more open and accepting to the idea that you were allowed to like things. You were often fought with for someone preferring a different fandom or ship, not put down as an irreparably immoral person for liking the show in the first place.

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

[lilhawkeye3]

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic. (Edit: and please look up his history of civil rights activism, he was on the FBI watchlist and even a pallbearer at MLKJr’s funeral.)

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes (read: Drake harassed the hell out of her). *Edit: she was also fined at the 2012 Olympics for crip walking in celebration at Wimbledon.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.