UnlikelyLass

vaspider:

No matter how rough your day or night has been, remember that you are loved, and today you beat your personal record for most consecutive days of your life lived. Only you can do that. No one else can beat that record. It’s yours.

I’m proud of you.

fromchaostocosmos:

butchgalriri:

Another reminder that white ppl would rather hit the self-destruct button than see poc and immigrants have anything

Also rather than see Jewish people have anything.

Please don’t forget to include Jewish people in these types of posts because we tend not to get included and there is no universe in which white people like to see Jewish people have anything or succeed. 

tomewing:

Silver Age Britain was popular with fans but was rebooted post-Crisis without an Empire but as a member of the EU. Post-Crisis Britain did just fine but gradually some fans grew frustrated with the continual events such as Fin(anci)al Crisis, angry at the price of keeping up, and enraged by a media furious at an supposed influx of new characters “for diversity’s sake”. Offered the chance to reboot Britain again they took it, imagining they were going back to the Silver Age but to everyone’s horror ending up with the New 52.

vaspider:

oudeteron:

vergess:

Honestly, I can’t believe we’ve reached a point in this fiasco where “LGBT” without a + or a QIA is now a warning sign, but along with “cishet” the usage of the term has been so warped by gatekeepers that I literally, automatically am wary of anyone who uses it.

Like, maybe they just don’t want to bother putting a + in there, that’s a valid and reasonable choice. Or maybe it’s a conscious decision, so that they can draw lines that say “and your gross queer freakshow ass isn’t allowed within 300 feet of this place, because you’re too gross and queer, I can’t assimilate you, what will the Str8s think?”

Oh god, that. In general mainstream media, when I see “LGBT” my chief concern is “do you actually realize what all the letters stands for are you using it interchangeably with ‘gay’ because your stylebook told you so.” On Tumblr, when someone stops at LGBT, my automatic concern is “ok, are you a gatekeeper then?”

I’ve stopped using “cishets”. It’s too warped now.

I never used cishets, but that’s not from anything other than by the time I stopped reading it as Sih-Shets it was a hatekeeping term.

Really, in my brain I was pronouncing it as rhyming with Seshet.

*shrug*

henryfoss:

I hate this idea people have made of people like, fetishizing themselves by creating representation where-ever the fuck they want it.

Like, if a straight dude looked at every female character and said “lesbian” you could possibly consider that his motive is fetishization, but a lesbian calling her favorite characters lesbians is not fetishization. it’s hard to call “Velma from Scooby Doo is a lesbian reblog if you agree” fetishization of lesbians, especially if it’s a post made by a lesbian and reblogged mostly by lesbians

There is actually porn of Velma from Scooby Doo and other female characters, drawn for straight men to get off to. Is that fetishization? Yea! 

But honestly I’m so tired of “Autistic people calling characters autistic is fetishizing autism” “Lesbians calling characters lesbians is fetishizing lesbians” “Trans people calling characters trans is fetishizing being trans” because it’s literally just people finding or creating representation and there’s such a difference from things that actually fetishize each of these things. Calling the search for representation fetishization is so blatantly a call to avoid consensual visibility and it’s obnoxious

(Source: john-marshall)

the-nut-prince:

Britain: our country is being invaded by immigrants!

Britain:

(Source: the-nut-queen)

oak23:

newwavenova:

tiffanarchy:

lady–liberty:

steviemcfly:

comedownstairsandsayhello:

lord-kitschener:

sidneyia:

asgardreid:

jean-luc-gohard:

catsallthewaydown:

lizdexia:

jean-luc-gohard:

• Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.
  
• The phrase “hidey hole.”
• Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”
• The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.
• “…now watch this drive.”
  
• Mission Accomplished.
• “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.
  
• The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

And then we went to war.

“Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” - George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union

Okay, that’s the best one.

Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week

was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole.

Yeah, it was spider-hole

I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the “Axis of Evil” as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn’t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.

And then there was:

We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like, “That’s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,” and yet they did.

THE LAST ONE’S REAL?

Yeah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_System

Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.

Also, “Free Speech Zones” looked something like this:

It was literally a cage.

I genuinely forget that people, even within my own age group, has forgotten the Bush era since they were teenagers and below the voting age at the time, and so forgot how fucking horrifying it was.