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ravenbane13:

kaylapocalypse:

tanfasticanna:

oceanlights:

cxntboy-drag-queen:

wlwhobbits:

Hey instead of a Harry Potter world there should be a lord of the rings world where it’s super immersive and you’re given a sword when you enter the world and giant spiders chase you and the elf actors eat dirt and offer you some

can we befriend and/or flirt with the giant spiders asking for a friend

It’s you’re adventure you can do whatever you want but watch out!

HI, THIS EXISTS, IT’S CALLED EVERMORE PARK, IT’S IN PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH

it’s more of a DND park but it’s fantasy and characters give you quests and when you finish quests they give you a tarot card with the characters on it

The town functions as a real-time story with a plot and everybody has backstory and movie-quality makeup and shit 

Guys I’ve been and it’s fucking unbelievable

OH MY GOD

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missmentelle:

Pretend, for a moment, that you’re an 18-year-old teenager from a family living below the poverty line. 

One day, you make a silly mistake and get a ticket for it. Nothing major - maybe you rode the subway without a ticket or smoked too close to the entrance of a building. Maybe you were loitering. Either way, one thing is for sure: you definitely don’t have the money to pay the ticket. 

So you don’t. 

Eventually, you miss the deadline to pay your ticket, and you get a letter in the mail that says you have to go to court. But your life is chaotic, and a court date for a missed ticket is the least of your concerns. Your family moves constantly, which disrupts your life and puts you behind in school. You have one disabled parent and one parent who is always working, leaving you to raise your younger siblings by yourself. You have no means of transportation. There is rarely any food in the cupboards. The utilities are constantly getting shut off. The week that you were supposed to go to court, your family gets another eviction notice, your cousin ends up in the hospital, and your parent finds out that their disability payments are being reduced. 

So you miss your court date. 

Since you missed the court date, you automatically lose your case - now you have no hope of arguing your way out of the ticket, which you still can’t afford to pay. You can do community service hours instead of paying, but you don’t have time to do that, now that you have to work part-time and odd jobs on top of everything else to keep your parents off the streets and your siblings out of foster care. You know that you probably won’t finish high school on time, let alone fulfill your hours. You might be able to explain your circumstances to the judge, but you have no idea how to go about doing that now that you’ve missed your court date, your literacy skills are years behind thanks to your constant game of school roulette, and even though legal help is available to you, you don’t know how to access it or if you can afford to do so. But that’s still the least of your concerns - since you missed your court date, the judge has also charged you with failure to appear. 

Which means you now have an active warrant out for your arrest. 

And just like that, you’re now a part of the criminal justice system. A silly mistake that a middle-class teenager could have solved with Mommy and Daddy’s chequebook in a single afternoon has caused you weeks or months of stress and headaches over a process you don’t fully understand, and has ended in criminal charges. Instead of having a funny story to tell over dinner when you come home from college next Thanksgiving, you are now facing additional fines (that you still can’t pay), the possibility of a couple of nights in jail, the possible suspension of your driver’s license, and the possibility of being taken into custody any time you interact with the police. The next time your parent comes home drunk and violent, or someone breaks into the house, you think twice about calling the cops - you now have to decide if every emergency is “worth” the possibility of being hauled off to jail. And in the meantime, the circumstances that caused that first mistake haven’t gone away - you still don’t have the money to pay for the subway, you are still more likely to live in a house filled with smokers, you still can’t afford quit-smoking aids, you still live in a chaotic household that deeply affects your mental health, and you still don’t understand the legal system or who you’re supposed to talk to for information and resources.

So while those other teenagers get to go through life believing that they were “good kids who sometimes made silly mistakes”, you now get to go through life thinking of yourself as a criminal. And that might be the most damaging thing of all. 

When I worked with homeless teenagers and young adults, I saw this process play out again and again and again and again. The kids often considered themselves “criminals” or “bad kids” because they had arrest warrants and criminal records, but few of them had ever actually committed a serious or violent crime - the vast majority were simply unlucky kids who did something stupid and didn’t have the skills or resources (or wealthy parents) required to get them off the hook. I had classmates in my upper-middle-class high school who did far worse things with far fewer consequences, because Mommy was a lawyer or Daddy was an RCMP officer, and some of those kids grew up to be lawyers or police officers themselves. The kids I worked with never got that opportunity. Second chances cost money, and the difference between a “crime” and a “mistake” has less to do with the offense, and more to do with the circumstances you were born into. 

So when we’re talking about crime, punishment and who is “worthy” of being helped, maybe keep that in mind.

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rhube:

annleckie:

This is so exactly the pose and expression of Sasha the Christmas Tiger:

doctortay:

daisyfornost:

the-moon-loves-the-sea:

risingoflights:

beltsquid:

asia1ei:

achilles: when I die, mingle our ashes together so that we may be together for eternity

historians: f is for friends who do stuff together

We’re seriously escalating the astronomically out-of-touch “academia is hiding all the gay from you*” meme on this forsaken hellsite to “Academics Who Study Ancient Greece Are No-Homoing Achilles?”

reALLY?  *REALLY???*  That is not remotely a current or mainstream school of thought.  I mean, fuck, if you go to JSTOR and search for “Patroclus” your third result is an article called “Achilles and Patroclus in Love” from 1978.

This shit is dangerously anti-intellectual.  It’s hard enough for the humanities to retain funding as it is, the last fucking thing we need is an erosion of the perception of its authenticity/necessity coming from the Left as well.  And believe you me, that is exactly where this road leads.  It’s the exact same playbook that the far right uses but with a different hat.

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It’s not the historians, it’s the high school curriculum.

IT’S THE HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Yup. And the Hollywood versions are of course based on the high school curriculum…

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shakescene:

“feverishly obsessed with hamlet after reading it once in twelfth grade english” is just as important and embarrassing of a phase as emo/scene/anime and should be acknowledged as such

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cripcraft:

cripcraft:

terry pratchett’s witches series & his tiffany aching series are some of the best books i’ve read so far about community care, self-belief and magic.

[some minor spoilers for a hat full of sky]

from miss level’s approach to magic and communal support to tiffany’s persistent resilience to granny weatherwax’s creative approaches to problem solving they are such wonderful books!!

in a hat full of sky [tiffany aching #2, discworld #32] mr weavall is a 92 yr old man who has thick toe nails, a box of mostly copper and some silver coins for his funeral under a chair & a terrible memory. tiffany hates coming to visit him everyday with miss level [the witch she is apprenticed to] helping to care for him. she doesnt think he shouldn’t be cared for but she grumbles that its part of her work - i think these feelings are so present for a lot of us in activist space, the belief that we all deserve care alongside the lack of patience and will that it might sometimes [have to] be us who provides it for others. we cry out that care is important! but we also see physically [and often emotionally] caring for people as someone else’s job or problem.

and ppl like mr weavall fall through the gaps because unlike in discworld their aren’t any kind double-bodied witches to help us out! [as far as i know!]

and dont get me wrong it shouldn’t be only one person doing all the care work, mr weavall is being failed by the other community members, they should all be supporting him more - he only gets visited by miss level and tiffany and another woman does his laundry for him. tiffany learns you can’t just outsource this stuff, even if it is boring, repetitive, uncomfortable and a bit gross - sometimes you have to step in and fill the gap if you believe in care [or magic] in practice as well as theory.

it’s such a call out for me & such a good reminder, especially at the beginning of this year when i’m trying to come back to myself after the hell of 2018. when you have limited energy and need /+ lack care yourself it can be so easy to resent people who ask for it/need it too and obviously sometimes you dont have energy/ability/money/time [which is fine, i’m not suggesting we beat ourselves up about that] but sometimes you [i] can and you (i) should!!

magic for some witches in discworld is healing [it’s midwifery, elder care, making ointments and salves etc], and miss level might be my favourite witch because she believes something i do - that care is magical and caring can change people’s life so profoundly. here’s granny weatherwax in a hat full of sky talking about miss level’s kindness, patience and work:

“‘Because she likes people,’ said the witch, striding ahead.  'She cares about ‘em.  Even the stupid, mean, drooling ones, the mothers with the runny babies and no sense, the feckless and the silly and the fools who treat her like some kind of a servant.  Now that’s what I call magic—seein’ all that, dealin’ with all that, and still goin’ on. It’s sittin’ up all night with some poor old man who’s leavin’ the world, taking away such pain as you can, comfortin’ their terror, seein’ ‘em safely on their way…and then cleanin’ ‘em up, layin’ ‘em out, making ‘em neat for the funeral, and helpin’ the weeping widow strip the bed and wash the sheets—which is, let me tell you, no errand for the fainthearted—and stayin’ up the next night to watch over the coffin before the funeral, and then going home and sitting down for five minutes before some shouting angry man comes bangin’ on your door ‘cuz his wife’s havin’ difficulty givin’ birth to their first child and the midwife’s at her wits’ end and then getting up and fetching your bag and going out again…We all do that, in our own way, and she does it better’n me, if I was to put my hand on my heart. That is the root and heart and soul and centre of witchcraft, that is. The soul and centre!”

truly this quote makes me cry.

another wonderful thing about the books is how they present angry women and girls and how that anger is part of magic; a tool for creating change and for bolstering yourself. 

granny weatherwax is regularly angry (and maybe a little grumpy) but she’s never represented as a person without depth or as someone who can’t be sympathised with. in wyrd sisters [witches #2, discworld #6] pratchett writes that: 

“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. […] you had to learn how to control [anger]. That didnt mean you let it trickle away. It meant you damned it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge”

and tiffany realises near the end of a hat full of sky that: 

“If you’re full of anger, there’s no room left for fear.”

and so anyway! this is very long!! i’m so excited to read more!! i read a hat full of sky first at the beginning of 2018 and relistening to it again now is so nice and refreshing!! see me using my anger to make magic that centres community care in 2019!!! 

pasttheshy asked: Have you heard about the mutated Bulbasaur plushie yet?

bulbasaur-propaganda:

You mean this one?

partlysmith:

mmmskulljuice:

i would be very scared but very honored

baptism by ape

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fluffygif:

Funny Cats on YT

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elodieunderglass:

mysticalcoffeequeen:

tooiconic:

drkarayua:

mastergir:

the fucking slapping noise is incredible

This is unsettling.

1-800-R-U-SLAPPIN

A round of applause

Hat tip to @luritto

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siphersaysstuff:

aokayinspace:

witwicky:

down-to-venus:

When ICE isn’t cool.

Kal El…. is literally Hebrew. It means Voice of God. He’s a Jewish illegal immigrant. For a reason. He was written in the 30s.

I mean Superman was literally written as an allegory for first generation American Jews dealing with the struggle of assimilation vs maintaining traditional culture. The birth of Superman as a comic was essentially Jewish Immigrant history.

Not all heroes wear capes, but a hell of a lot of supervillains hire uniformed thugs to terrorize innocent civilians.

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domhnall-na-feannaig:

Changing Danger Mouse’s name to Donnie Murdo for the Gaelic version ‘cause he had ‘DM’ on his chest is the greatest translation decision ever.

a-spooky-one:

goblinson:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you’d like to read the best children’s series of all time, here’s the beginning.

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