March 2012
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Anonymous asked: did you give up on killjoystuck? 'cause it looks really awesome and i think you should at least find people to help you because it could be the best AU ever i'm serious
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Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
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beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never...
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threadspinner:
sour-idealist replied to your post: Top six favorite kinds of AU? (are you an AU kinda person?)
oh man, those are some of my favorite kinds of AU out there. NOIR, ahhh. (btw - I don’t know if you ever actually look for posts on your username tags, mine won’t work right because of the dash? if you already figured that out, I apologize.)
Yeah I track both threadspinner and...
February 2012
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“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
BOOM.
(via tehblackbirdisincognito)
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Anonymous asked: Oh, dang, I didn't know Dante Basco was a body-shaming dude. hffff..
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tommy wiseau is tommy wiseau and shouldn’t be considered a professional
because it’s fucking tommy wiseau
and no honey you’re reading into what i’m saying whether you admit to it or not
you are leaping...
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The Witch of Mind: dear every fandom ever
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sour-idealist:
[snip]
this is terribly tl;dr so i’m going to read the closing paragraph
what i’m doing is dismissing shitty guro fanfics/aus
that is literally all i am doing
horror...
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The Witch of Mind: dear every fandom ever
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sour-idealist:
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this is terribly tl;dr so i’m going to read the closing paragraph
what i’m doing is dismissing shitty guro fanfics/aus
that is literally all i am doing
horror is a good genre when it’s done right
amateurs who...
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noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
The Witch of Mind: dear every fandom ever
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sour-idealist:
[snip]
this is terribly tl;dr so i’m going to read the closing paragraph
what i’m doing is dismissing shitty guro fanfics/aus
that is literally all i am doing
horror is a good genre when it’s done right
amateurs who live in their…
>listing the room as...
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dear every fandom ever
noitemsfoxonlyfinaldestination:
sour-idealist:
[snip]
this is terribly tl;dr so i’m going to read the closing paragraph
what i’m doing is dismissing shitty guro fanfics/aus
that is literally all i am doing
horror is a good genre when it’s done right
amateurs who live in their parents’ basements don’t usually do that
No, actually, that’s not what you’re doing. Your initial...
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>grimdark aus where the characters are rapists and murderers and dissect living people and bathe in blood etc
i bet you think you’re original and making something genuinely creepy huh
okay wow i’m aware that this post was probably written solely to piss people off, seeing as how the person who made it is a ~cohort of tumblr user...
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Theatre: eternally the source of sentences you...
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some peculiar puritan given names
ragbag:
in addition to ultimate gravel skiing and kite surf jousting, i’m also an avid fan of anthroponomastics, the study of personal names. naming customs have always been a hot topic around the ganan dinner table—and no group of people has a weirder body of names than those pesky new england puritans.
some names like be-strong philpott and kill-sin pimple sound more like cries at a...
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SCARF COMMISSIONS
roxanneritchi:
So, not that I knew it at the time, splurging turned out to have been a bad idea. Work’s cut my hours down yet again and this time by a truly outrageous amount, I did not get that other job, and I’m basically at the end of my rope. I need money for lunch and the bus, I have to pay my phone bill, I owe my mother $100 and I feel like a douche every time I put off paying her back,...
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flashandthunderfire replied to your post: okay so apparently the U.S. Sherlock thingy has a…
basically my feels i am too sad and tired to articulate, thank you. (also i know reili is really fucking sore over watson, not sherlock, being an asian lady and i must say i agree because LUCY LIU AS SHERLOCK WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER)
THIS BETTER BE AN ADAPTATION THAT ACKNOWLEDGES THE AWESOMENESS AND...
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okay
so apparently the U.S. Sherlock thingy has a lady Watson but a dude Holmes? And the Watson in question is Lucy Liu?
Well. Girl!Watson as played by Lucy Liu, OH HELL YES. And I may well watch this (and if I don’t it it’ll be because… what is attention span, what is wrestling control of the TV, what is tuning in regularly, how do I television), and hell, I may even ship it...
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“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from...”
– The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via gypsy-sunday)
This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media.
(via raeseddon)
I will forever reblog this.
(via roachpatrol)
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maspower:
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grief-bacon:
so Homestuck became this really big thing among my friends while I was away in Jerusalem, and I never felt interested enough in it to see what all the fuss was about.
Then I got back and one day I was hanging out with them, and the conversation topic changed, and I genuinely worried for a split second that I was having a stroke or something because...
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
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For women, heart attacks look different. →
bec-de-corbin:
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Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves...
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““When a puppet lingers a beat behind, he becomes a rebel soldier,” he drawls,...”
– fuck I love Strider-Lalondes
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is there anyone who doesn’t have a thing for collarbones
like seriously can we just officially declare them a sexual organ and move on with our lives
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Something that kind of, on a personal level, deeply confuses me about being queer:
in discussions of it, of queerness in general, other people’s and my own, it sounds like something so huge and vast and alienating, something life-altering and terrifying that sets you out aside from everyone who isn’t, just… something huge. And something that it’s very hard to believe has...
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tumblr fic: way tight [molly hooper/greg lestrade,...
gyzym:
Let’s call this a little baby sequel to An Avalanche of Detour Signs, featuring a week in the life of Molly Hooper and Greg Lestrade.
There’s an unseasonably hot week at the tail-end of May, and Greg gets tangled up in a nice little mess of a case; there’s a very public bank robbery with a very private murder two doors up the street, and though it’s obvious there’s a connection, it’s a...
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And then I wrote a drabble of it
sunspeared:
Rose’s mom is chill as fuck.
The grown-up version swung through LOHAC real quick once, dropped a few nasty little nak-naking crocodiles on her way, blew you a kiss, and moved on; this one’s a god tier Rogue with a big-ass rifle slung over her shoulder. Void swag, nullifying bullets, hells yeah, she told you when you met, and then she shot a giant imp over your shoulder without...
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