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grotesquery: No such thing as too much Llewellyn on my blog

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:01:59 -0400

No such thing as too much Llewellyn on my blog

People when talking about online activism that challenges their prejudice notions: Why don't you get out in the real world and do something?? Whining on tumblr and the internet doesn't change anything!

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:57:35 -0400

People when talking about online activism that challenges their prejudice notions: Why don't you get out in the real world and do something?? Whining on tumblr and the internet doesn't change anything!
Same exact people discussing the internet in every single other instance: The internet is such a powerful tool it really brings us together in so many ways and connects us, it's the most essential tool for spreading information and changing things the most immense way because everyone is on the internet, social media has really changed the world.

Adventures of a Girl Janitor: Does Han Solo complain about the Friend Zone when he thinks a girl he likes doesn't like him back?

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:54:11 -0400

Adventures of a Girl Janitor: Does Han Solo complain about the Friend Zone when he thinks a girl he likes doesn't like him back?:

alexandraerin:

girljanitor:

fuckyeahmelancholy:

NO.

omg why is this so funny

The problem is that Nice Guys see this and know that he ends up with Leia anyway, and they internalize that this is how it works, that what he says there is just… something you say….

scattergoriesofevil: neil-gaiman: thelyonrampant: How To Tell...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:51:54 -0400

scattergoriesofevil:

neil-gaiman:

thelyonrampant:

How To Tell If A Toy Is For Boys or Girls

Time to remind people…

(Need to remind people from http://scidoll.com/an-open-letter-to-tesco/)

True!

sexincomics: sexincomics: pharaohhearts: sexincomics: Your...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:43:09 -0400

sexincomics:

sexincomics:

pharaohhearts:

sexincomics:

Your daily reminder that Wolverine is the fucking ~~worst~~ man.

Fixed it :D

Nah son. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah son.

Wolverine is the fucking worst.

He’s wrong, to start with, She-Hulk didn’t get with Juggernaut, some version of her from the multiverse did. So you got this hairy little Canucklehead absorbing and spreading fuckshit rumors about the sex life of one of the (relatively) few high profile superwomen in his field of work.

Then you got the fact that, right or wrong, Logan is on that slut shaming bullshit. Hey, Wolvy, you don’t want to have a one night stand with Jen? Fine, your loss. Hey, Wolvy, you wanna put down Jen because the sex she may or may not be having lowers her value to you? Drink some bleach.

And since bullshit comes in threes, you also have the straight up hypocrisy of it all. This is goddamn Wolverine we’re talking about, who despite all odds has a list of sexual partners as long as his arm. If he didn’t have a healing factor, the last hundred and fifty years of freaky loving he’s gotten would have left him literally riddled with diseases. (Son had half a dozen kids he didn’t know existed, you can’t tell me Wolverine places a high value on safe sex, or even pulling out). Wolverine has literally less authority than anyone else in the Marvel Universe when it comes to judging people based on their sexual history.

But no, it’s all good, respectability based on your sexual history is a one way street. Get a lot of pussy? Player. Get a lot of dick? Skank.

She-Hulk sees y’all, and doesn’t think much of you.

HEY GUESS WHAT GUYS, I’M GONNA REBLOG THIS LIKE FIVE TIMES TODAY BECAUSE SOME PUNK ASS, INSECURE, BETA PERSONALITY ASSED DUDEBRO CALLED ME GAY FOR SAYING IT. WHICH I CAN ONLY ASSUME MEANS I SAID SOMETHING WORTH SAYING.

Reblogging to piss off aforementioned anon. Also because valid commentary is valid. Also, way to be a dick, James. Also She-Hulk is awesome.

Devour Me: gabbigeist: walkingintowishful: gabbigeist: At this point I consider...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:38:58 -0400

Devour Me: gabbigeist: walkingintowishful: gabbigeist: At this point I consider...:

gabbigeist:

walkingintowishful:

gabbigeist:

At this point I consider goth to be more of a cheeky, aware, omnipresent entity rather than a genre of music. It merely uses musicians and DJs to channel itself and drag followers in!

But I’ve munched a lot of acid in my day.

Someone…

Second

a large, fruit-eating bat.: if there is one thing radicals/progressives/liberals have failed to get right in the new age

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:30 -0400

a large, fruit-eating bat.: if there is one thing radicals/progressives/liberals have failed to get right in the new age:

youneedacat:

megachiropteran:

navigatethestream:

mothballwombat:

I generally agree with you but disagree with arguments that make it seem that it is irrelevant to curb harmful behavior when possible. I am vegan because I can be and it would be bizarre of me to accept that food practices that utilize animals are painful and unethical to the animals, destructive to the environment, create additional health and safety risks to food workers that already deal with horrible conditions, etc. and to do otherwise. Most of the people I have met since going vegan seem to operate similarly and I think understandably expect other people to come to the same conclusion when and if they are able. I was not vegan my entire life because I didn’t have the knowledge available to me that I needed to understand the pros and cons of my food choices and I don’t blame myself for that just as I don’t blame people that are currently in that situation or are in some other situation that affects their ability to make choices about their food.

That still doesn’t mean that there are any good reasons to discourage people from making ethical choices when they can just because other people cannot, or (and this is really what I feel is being communicated and what makes me uncomfortable) devaluing and dismissing ethical choices others have made because others cannot or because it does not entirely solve a complicated issue. I find this especially strange because I like to think that, especially for people that have limited abilities to contribute to causes and movements that they find important, every small contribution against a harmful practice is valuable.

“That still doesn’t mean that there are any good reasons to discourage people from making ethical choices when they can just because other people cannot, or (and this is really what I feel is being communicated and what makes me uncomfortable) devaluing and dismissing ethical choices others have made because others cannot or because it does not entirely solve a complicated issue.”

and this is where reading comprehension is a hell of a thing.

nowhere am i discouraging people from making “better choices” if they are able. please point to the paragraph or sentence where you managed to arrive at that conclusion.

i am saying “ethical” is relative to a person’s ability to survive

and the notion of “ethical consumption/abstinence from unethical consumption” isn’t a holistic tool of social change considering most people are going to put their need to survive over adhering to a person’s notion of “ethical” who is probably not in their socio-economic situation let alone cultural context.

you mention being vegan because you find the practice of eating meat and the ways in which meat production causes harm to people/the environment/animals objectionable

let me ask some critical questions:

does your veganism work to end food deserts by bringing healthy and fresh foods into places where access to such things are limited or non-existent?

does your veganism work to expand food stamps and federally funded food assistance programs so that per month budgets for food are way larger than they currently are across the board and participants are given incentives to buy healthier food?

does your veganism seek to decolonize itself and locate itself in an anti-racist praxis through the way you engage with recipes, ingredients, alternative healing methods, alternative skin care/beauty methods from the global diaspora of color? meaning if you’re buying recipe books, “health books”, whatever, where white authors have appropriated these elements from cultures of color and subsequently are profiting off them. more so than a person of color would. then you’re choices aren’t as ethical as you’d make them out to be

because if not your choices are not necessarily more “ethical” than others. they’re really just located in an individualist “ethic” where you prioritize certain things over others, and there is still room to poke holes in your notion of ethical consumption.

i’m not out here to stroke the egos of people who think of themselves as “ethical consumers”. i’m out here to interrogate an individualist politic that is classicist and by and large racist and is being used as a rhetorical device of change.

instead of “discouraging people” from making unethical choices, provide them with more affordable, economically sustainable, and culturally relevant choices.

do that work and then i can pretend to give a damn about your “ethical choices”

a better response than my medication-addled sleep deprived brain could compose.

Agreed except possibly the part about “incentives” built into food stamps, to buy healthier foods. It reminds me too much of other “incentives” that basically amount to “let’s control what poor people do with their lives, because we can”. And as someone who used food stamps until I stopped being able to eat, I really don’t appreciate anyone telling me what to buy with them. Maybe that’s not what you meant, I don’t know. But that’s what things like that often turn out to mean in practice.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:01:34 -0400

prettyblackpastel: http://ptuhn.tumblr.com/ hi :3 !

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:27 -0400

prettyblackpastel:

http://ptuhn.tumblr.com/

hi :3 !

"Feminism should, by default, include trans women. I’d go so far as to say that, as trans women are..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:07:11 -0400

“Feminism should, by default, include trans women. I’d go so far as to say that, as trans women are many, many times more likely to be raped, killed or discriminated against on the basis of their gender than cis women are, we cis feminists should not just be including them but making them central in our activism. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. We’ve long known that feminism as a movement is overwhelmingly white, able-bodied and middle class. It is also overwhelmingly cissexual.”

- Why Cis Attendees of Reclaim the Night are Letting Trans Women Down (via slutgrrrlinternational)

srsly.

THIS.

THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

(via sexxxisbeautiful)

intuukkawetrust: There is an amber alert for two young Vietnamese children who were abducted in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:26:40 -0400

intuukkawetrust:

There is an amber alert for two young Vietnamese children who were abducted in Braintree, MA. Their names are Sarah and Patrick Nguyen.

They were supposedly kidnapped by John Lockwood, he is an older man 50s-60s. He has light brown hair and brown eyes and he has a light brown BMW with the license plate “478RF8”. Please PLEASE SPREAD THIS.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 23:50:02 -0400

"I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet. Which, by the way, is..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:23:32 -0400

“I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet. Which, by the way, is also the title of my autobiography.”

- John Cho (x)

yo my heart is racing at the guts it takes to say something like this knowing full well what could happen. damn!!!!

(via strugglingtobeheard)

He’s not even in the realm of shade anymore.

(via rainaweather)

Well, considering he and Kal Penn created Harold and Kumar as a vehicle for themselves because they were fed up of being type cast by Hollywood, is it really any surprise?
(via thestaticinhersmile)

readysetallonsy: orima-kazooie: milkydayy: i know everyones freaking out about yahoo buying...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:19:41 -0400

readysetallonsy:

orima-kazooie:

milkydayy:

i know everyones freaking out about yahoo buying tumblr but maybe just maybe its the beggining of something

GODDAMMIT TUMBLR

Oh my

warmcozy: yokhakidfiasco: pumpumreligion: You share pics of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:38:52 -0400

warmcozy:

yokhakidfiasco:

pumpumreligion:

You share pics of angry cats share this too!

Signal boost to my south florida followers

please reblog, power of the internet saves people

zilliah: ohgoditsafurry: foervraengd: Okay so I followed this...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:04 -0400

zilliah:

ohgoditsafurry:

foervraengd:

Okay so I followed this video about foreshortening and…

Sycra. I love you so much for making this video.

YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME

WITCHCRAFT!!!

thestaticinhersmile: invinciblend: thestaticinhersmile: Ami,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:14 -0400

thestaticinhersmile:

invinciblend:

thestaticinhersmile:

Ami, I hate to tell you this but…

I always felt like Ami actually meant to print those lyrics, but feels like she has to tell people it’s Super Smart Stuff (or just does it for kicks).

Poor guy sucks at English. She’s all “Oh, I’ll help you translate it.” So what you’re saying here is Ami is just trolling. I could get behind that…

maymay: “Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:24:25 -0400

It turns out that if you ask the right questions in just the right way, some men will actually tell you that they're rapists. They'll just…admit it.

The key is, don't use the word rape. Just ask them what they've done.

Researchers asked 1,882 men: "Have you ever tried to have oral sex with someone by using (or threatening to use) physical force—twisting their arm, holding them down, etc.—if they did not cooperate?"

and: "Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone, even though they didn't want to, because they were too intoxicated to resist your advances?"

120 answered yes.

(That's rape.)

1,882 men…

120 rapists.

They admitted to a total of 483 rapes and attempted rapes. 483!

Whoa.

maymay:

“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)

Sources:

College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]

Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]

By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:

These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.

Knowledge is a seed; sow it.

I…I feel the need to solve puzzles and free two brothers...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:01:16 -0400

I…I feel the need to solve puzzles and free two brothers trapped in books, for some reason…

daverichelieu: HIIIIIIIIGHWAAAY TO HOTH (c/o my geek group on...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:01:35 -0400

daverichelieu:

HIIIIIIIIGHWAAAY TO HOTH

(c/o my geek group on the facebooks)