Jul. 6th, 2020

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lightedwindows:

xingshining:

tayefeth:

stephrc79:

fishcustardandclintbarton:

katiecotugno:

winchester-with-a-wormstache:

In love with this video

I actually cried from happiness watching this. HUMANS! MOVIES! THE INTERNET! DANCING!

Bless you whoever made this, its wonderful!

It is physically impossible to have this on my dash and not watch and reblog.

I defy you to try.

Ok, but I need to know which movies these clips are from. I recognize some (Love Actually, Dirty Dancing, The Breakfast Club, Happy Feet, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins), but I’m clueless about others. And I’m sure they’re fun movies!

Off the top of my head, I saw clips from Footloose (both original and remake), Airplane!, Mermaids, Blast from the Past, Hitch, She’s All That, The Heat, Burn After Reading, Penguins of Madagascar and Magic Mike.

White Nights, Beetlejuice, Saturday Night Fever, Grease as well.

Reblog because it just makes me happy. 🥰
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amateurbitchcraft:

haikuyus:

this fourth of july think of the indigenous people of america who had their country and land stolen from them with little to no reparations or apologies. land is still being taken. sacred grounds are still being ripped away. there is no “independence” for the people who were here first.

First Nations COVID-19 Relief Fund

White Earth Land Recovery Fund

ILTF Land Recovery Fund

IEN Mutual Aid Fund

elugraphy:

Jul. 6th, 2020 09:46 am
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elugraphy:

川の畔の巨大発電所→詳細
Abandoned giant power plant in river side.
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gamebird:

Important.

buffshipper8490:

☝️☝️

livingjoke:

Things Disney Plus deems family friendly:

- Thor decapitating Thanos

- Anakin Skywalker slaughtering children

- The entirety of ‘Say No to This’ from Hamilton

- Bart Simpson’s penis

Things Disney Plus deems non-family friendly:

- Homosexuality
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[ID: a tweet from user Ren Basel. Text reads,

“It’s 2019. It’s time to admit that the bulk of people involved in self-publishing aren’t some fantasy of “lazy people who don’t want to do it the REAL way.”

Many are, in fact, marginalized people fed up with mainstream publishing’s history of bigotry and proud gatekeeping.“

End ID.]
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marzipanandminutiae:

I’m starting a charity called Chemises For Main Characters. Now you can help all the weary and chafed leading ladies of period dramas whose costumers can’t spend $10 on 3 yards of cotton or the time to fashion that cotton into a shapeless bag with head and arm holes. Our commercials will feature “In The Arms Of The Angels” played over pictures of Keira Knightley.
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I actually like this new tumblr update. They’ve got the two things I couldn’t be without–the hover-over pop-up Queue/Reblog thingy, and the tag viewer. The whole thing is now usable without X-Kit. (Which is just as well, as the update broke my x-kit.) But yeah. First time it’s given me something I wanted instead of something I hated.
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senkkei2:

how convenient i finished this on kiss a ginger day

just kylo and hux bein bros.. bein dudes… bye
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hymnsofheresy:

hymnsofheresy:

holy shit !

there’s this bitch on soundcloud whose stage name is hildegard von blingin’ and makes medieval covers of modern pop music.

Me: Oh this might be funny…

*turns on Bad Romance cover*

Me 0.2 seconds later:
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the-spawn-of-loki:

hilbeth:

lily-orchard:

bumble-bitch-sanders:

wooloo-lesbianism:

Pros of chubby gf

- soft

- nice hugs

- thigh pillows??? Tiddy pillows??

Cons of chubby gf

- none

Pros of skinny gf

- fits in ur arms rly nicely

- ur hoodies are too big on her which is beautiful

Cons of skinny gf

- none

Pros of muscled gf

- abs?? Biceps??? Please???

- strong gf pick me up pls

- most likely works out a lot which is hot

Cons of muscled gf

- none

Pros of a tall gf:

-she can reach everything

-she can wear those gorgeous and long swooshy dresses without drowning in the fabric

-she still rocks heels, I mean, hello??? Tall girls in heels??? Yes??? PLEASE?

- can curb stomp facist easily

Cons of a tall gf

-none, you’re just cowardly

Pros of a short gf

- I can give her piggyback rides

- she short which means I can pick her up randomly

- she’s got a better angle for throat punching facist

- great at stealing my clothes and wearing em

Cons of a short gf

- none

Pros of a disabled gf

- she’s still her own independent person

- she’s intelligent, often times having some of the most profound things to say that people often ignore because they’re stupid

-she’s got a unique lifestyle that’s gonna be best for her and she’s gonna live life as much as she can as comfortably as she can

-stronger than any US marine

-hates fascist

Cons of a disabled gf

-none

Finally a Tumblr Post that speaks to me

Pros of an autistic gf

-She stims when she’s happy

-She tells you about her special interests

-She’s super knowledgeable about her favorite topics

Cons of an autistic gf

-none

This makes me happy.
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whyfrenchfry:

Here’s a link to a Google Doc with a bunch of Indigenous organisations which you can donate to, including Black Rainbow (LGBTQIA+ Indigenous organisation) and groups that support incarcerated Aboriginal people and work towards ending Indigenous deaths in custody
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hello everyone today we’re thinking about: Poe Dameron with wings

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Reblog, don’t repost

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Commission for LucisAbsentia’s fic If Not For You
I am so in love with this story♥♥♥
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if you mow a lawn fuck you

middle aged white men in the suburbs: gosh it’s such a beautiful sunny day full of birdsong and joy! i am going to operate every single loud power tool item i own all at once for eight solid hours and ruin it for everyone else

oh did i want to sit outside and catch some sun? maybe do some bug cataloguing for inaturalist? read a book? enjoy the Out Of Doors? well good luck binch! all the jimsquanches that live in the neighbourhood are out doing their mating calls revving various engines and listening to the ‘hot new country’ station that plays only four fucking songs

nothing i love listening to more than Bryson slam 800 nails into the same piece of wood for an hour, stopping only to yell at his children Harley and Jaxson to stop roughhousing near the woodpile that’s been sitting there for 14 years bc they don’t even own a woodburning stove or have a firepit, it just makes his balls feel heavy to look out the window every morning and see a big pile of wood leaning against his shabby tin toolshed that’s currently functioning as the worlds biggest wasp house and is one good gust away from a scrap heap 

Listen, grasslands are more reliable carbon sinks than forests, and mowing helps the grass to grow more strongly, so I shall mow my tiny lawn for about 15 minutes every Saturday and you’ll just have to put up with it.
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Yes

darkside-fashion:

Yes

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armitage..hux… yes
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Protestors Who Were Tear Gassed Say They Got Their Period Multiple Times in a Month:

closet-keys:

On May 31, a Black pregnant woman in Austin said she was shot by police in the abdomen with rubber bullets. That same day, the Colorado Doula Project shared a post on Instagram about other potential dangers to pregnant protesters. “Tear gas is an abortifacient,” the post read, explaining that the chemical has been linked to higher rates of miscarriage and stillbirth. Rodriguez’s post quickly made its way onto Twitter, where protesters like Stewart began sharing the reproductive health impacts that they had felt after exposure to tear gas. Some tweeted about breakthrough bleeding despite their use of IUDs; other trans people shared that despite taking testosterone, they were having periods as well.

Since the Black Lives Matter protests began, police have deployed tear gas in 100 American cities. Watchdog groups, activists, and public officials have raised concerns about the safety of tear gas, a compound banned for use in wartime by the Geneva Convention, especially as the United States grapples with the effects of a respiratory pandemic. Although research is limited, some have suggested that tear gas may also be linked to higher rates of miscarriage, and anecdotal evidence has suggested it may induce cause changes in menstruation, though there’s not enough research to definitively prove that. For many Black protesters on the frontlines of demonstrations, the use of chemical weapons is not only a reminder of the police violence they are protesting against, but of a long legacy of state violence in their reproductive lives.

Public health researchers have been studying the reproductive health impacts of tear gas since at least the 1980s. In 1987, Physicians for Human Rights raised concerns about the unknown impact of tear gas on fertility in South Korea and in 1988, a United Nations spokesperson said that Israeli use of tear gas, sold by the United States, had caused several Palestinian women to miscarry. Most recently, in 2012, Physicians for Human Rights documented cases of miscarriage that were potentially linked to tear gas exposure in Bahrain.
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lowering the social stigma of gender nonconformity also lowers the threshold of how bad people have to be suffering before they’re willing to discuss their feelings openly. I guarantee you that a TON of humans who felt vaguely alienated by/uncomfortable with their assigned gender have lived and died within a cisgender identity framework, because the enormous social cost of being honest just wasn’t worth it if they weren’t miserable. that was a bad thing!

letting people weigh their options for themselves without putting a thumb on the scale is freeing. so of course we’ve started hearing people discuss wildly unusual ways of experiencing gender. it does not matter whether the teenagers who made up the goofy-sounding new gender term you’re annoyed about end up being capital-T trans or not. it just matters that they feel safe talking about it, because everyone benefits from that. you cannot lower one threshold without lowering the other. this is a feature, not a bug. this is a good thing!
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General Ren & Lord Hux

My entry for day 7 for kylux positivity week with the prompt ‘Roleswap’! I love this two and it was a lot of fun! I think they can go out like that more often xD
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enby-positive:

Here’s a hot freaking take guys but nobody gets to tell anybody else how they experience themselves. Somebody has a gender you don’t understand? Tough. That’s how stuff works sometimes. I don’t understand French but the language still exists.
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avelera:

Useful if this is how you think, though often I don’t see the outline until after the draft is written, because after awhile one just internalize this kind of stuff from all the media one ingests. Point is, use if helpful, ignore if not.

Another suggestion for anyone interested: because one of my weaknesses as a writer is sustaining narrative momentum, I’ve recently started using this mystery novel breakdown as a template, even though mystery/detective isn’t the genre I write in. It’s really useful as a way to keep track of what the story needs at a given moment in terms of balance and character.

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leahdrawsblog:

You cannot only read stuff from “unproblematic” authors. It’s literally impossible. For one, authors aren’t always stupid enough to share their bigoted opinions on twitter for the world to see. And if you’ve read anything by a white person from the 19th (hell, 20th) century, they’re almost definitely a huge fucking racist at the very least. You can, and should, make an effort to consume media made by people of a variety of sexual orientations, gender identities, racial identities, etc. But this doesn’t ensure that all of those people will be perfect unproblematic angels either.

With Rowling revealing herself as a full on TERF yesterday, I feel the need to say something about this whole thing… I mean firstly, fuck JKR, trans people are so valid. But lately I’ve noticed a growing subset of people who are either priding themselves on never having read Harry Potter, or shaming people who used to consider themselves huge fans of it, and I need to explain why that’s bad.

If you’re out here saying shit like “everyone who liked Harry Potter is probs a cop now”, or “Harry Potter was always trash anyway” that’s…. not it. It was popular for a reason. Millions of people, trans, queer, POC, Black, Jewish, etc. knew and loved it for years. If you’re only now saying it’s trash because it’s confirmed that the author is a bigot, that’s kinda fucked.

Firstly, you should be looking critically at all media you consume regardless of if you’re aware of the author’s viewpoints, secondly, you’re implying that everything made by bigoted, racist, homophobic people is automatically bad writing. Unfortunately, that’s not true.

You cannot only read stuff from “unproblematic” authors. It’s literally impossible. For one, authors aren’t always stupid enough to share their bigoted opinions on twitter for the world to see. And if you’ve read anything by a white person from the 19th (hell, 20th) century, they’re almost definitely a huge fucking racist at the very least. You can, and should, make an effort to consume media made by people of a variety of sexual orientations, gender identities, racial identities, etc. But this doesn’t ensure that all of those people will be perfect unproblematic angels either.

The fact is, bad people make good things. Bad people will make stuff you like. You cannot tie your sense of worth or your personal morals to whether or not you watch or read the “right” stuff made by the “right” people. And if you struggle with this, you’re not alone.

If you’ve ever heard of cognitive dissonance, it basically means that there’s a distressing situation that is creating inconsistency/conflict, so your brain makes an effort to try and restore balance. For example, you know that Harry Potter is a good book series and that JK Rowling is a bad person. But those opposing thoughts occurring simultaneously make your brain feel Bad so in order to get rid of that distress, you either start thinking “well Harry Potter wasn’t good actually” or “well JK can’t really be a bad person”. You’ll see this kind of thing happen all the time with fans of musicians who turn out to be shitheads. And it’s ultimately very harmful.

Make an effort to reconcile the conflicting thoughts in your head. And try not to hold yourself up as the pinnacle of unproblematicness, like in general. We all have stuff we need to work towards, and no one is completely free of biases and prejudice.

And if you’re a Harry Potter fan feeling guilty or uncomfortable because of JKR, here’s my advice to you:

It is definitely important to look closely at problematic aspects of Harry Potter that we, as children, may have overlooked. Initially I hadn’t considered that Cho Chang’s name was racist. I never thought about how the goblins running the bank could be seen as antisemitic. You’ve seen the posts/threads; there’s a laundry list of stuff wrong with these books that deserves to be pointed out. But not recognizing this stuff when you were literally in elementary school doesn’t make you a bad person.

The beauty of reading things while being socially aware means that we can look at something critically and still enjoy its content. No, this does not mean the author is totally dead and no you can’t keep saying “Hatsune Miku wrote Harry Potter”. You cannot ignore where the content came from and pretend that Rowling’s bigoted ideologies didn’t seep into her writing. Acknowledge that JK wrote Harry Potter, that you enjoy(ed) Harry Potter, and that JK is also a huge transphobe amongst other things. All of these things can be true simultaneously.

As for what you can do moving forward, 1. if you must, buy HP merch from indie creators and buy used copies/pirate the books, and 2. make an effort to read different fantasy books written by trans/nb authors. You cannot erase the fact that your childhood was shaped by these books, but you can ensure that your future is shaped by something different, and better.

To everyone else, don’t let your cognitive dissonance give you a sense of moral superiority. And lastly, fuck JKR and fuck transphobes :)

THIS. 

In addition, there is no such thing as “unproblematic” authors - because there is no such thing as unproblematic people. There is no line between the bigots and the non-bigots. We all have prejudices and limitations in perspective. 

I don’t mean this in a “all people are bad, so it doesn’t matter” way. It matters very much. How we got to our current understanding was dependent upon years and years of evolving thought. Past works of art and literature, no matter how “problematic,” were a necessary part of that. 

Indeed it is only by accepting those problematic works and studying them that we can continue to evolve. I used to think HP was inclusive, until the profound anti-semitism that OP mentions was pointed out to me. Now when I read HP and other fairy tales, I cannot unsee the anti-semitism, and it makes me want to do better as an author. I think that is just as much of a gift to me as my original love of the HP series was. 

Everything you read, watch, see, and listen to has some problematic element to it. And, more importantly, everything you create has some problematic element to it, no matter who you are and how educated and “woke” you are. Don’t dismiss authors for being problematic (even if they are as fucking stupid on Twitter as JKR has been). Use their work to educate and improve yourself, and make the world a better place. 

Make an effort to reconcile the conflicting thoughts in your head. And try not to hold yourself up as the pinnacle of unproblematicness, like in general. We all have stuff we need to work towards, and no one is completely free of biases and prejudice.

Perfectly said. Especially during these times when we all think we’re the “wokest” please remember that you will never be “done” learning. 
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chaos-and-cookies:

Hey can u guys start reblogging this version and the other ones where they say they TOOK BACK his resignation and hes WORKING again. OUR WORK HERE ISNT OVER YET WE GOTTA MAKE THIS COLLEGE EAT SHIT FOR PUTTING SO MANY STUDENTS AT RISK.

adora-princess-of-grayskull:

Cannot stress how bad this is. I live in Utah as well and if people are protecting a man like this, we are in an extensively bad position.

starrynight0612:

Guys,he rescinded his resignation and I am physically sick by the amount of support I’ve seen in my community (I live in Utah) that he is receiving because a man “shouldn’t be fired over having an opinion.”

“He was just emotional……Haven’t you said things in anger….Freedom of speech…..what he said was wrong but you shouldn’t be fired over an opinion……Hes a great teacher.”

He’s a damn criminal justice professor! How is any minority supposed to feel safe going into his class?

I just…Ahhhh! My screams aren’t loud enough to convey how angry I get being a BLM supporter in a state that has an extremely small black population outside of Salt Lake City (still really small). I have had to bear so many “All Lives Matter” speeches and pro-police from my husbands family and ugh. My mental health is being taxed.

starrynight0612:

OMG I live around there. I am beyond grateful I chose not to attend Weber’s Criminal Justice program.

buckythelittlepuppy:

julilentille:

Weber State professor resigns after “abhorrent” tweets

He was ordered to resign. 💅🏻

chaos-and-cookies:

Sure would be a shame if this got spread around and he lost his job 💅🏽
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capupi:

here’s a site where you can donate to native Hawaiians. let me know if this is the wrong organization or if there are better ones i can link.

gyuljang:

Mark zuckerburg is suing native Hawaiians because he wants to build mansions on their land. Sign this petition (but don’t donate to change.org)
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Gripping a Plastic Bag, A Massive Fox by Artist Florentijn Hofman Towers Over Rotterdam

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dont know how many of these im gonna do but heres the first one for [profile] huxloween!! hux’s a lil shit stealing kyle’s pumpkin spice latte bc theyre both basic 
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watcherscrown:

On this 4th of july i would like to boost my tribe’s bee farm!! https://iowaybeefarm.com/ is their website! They sell honey, beeswax products, giant jars of bee pollen, lip balms and lotions!

pretty much everything is really cheap (much cheaper than it should be) and you can get a whole gift basket for 35 bucks!
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All American! I may be Mexican, but I love my old home the US. A few paintings celebrating the diversity of what it means to be US American on this fourth of July.  Have a wonderful (and social distanced) day to my friends in the US!
All paintings are available as prints at my Etsy shop.
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Nobody can mess with the Hux! XD
another commission for Yananiris

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Guys, I need your help again.

Last year, Alaska reached record-breaking levels of heat. There were a bunch of forest fires, and a lot of salmon died. It was too hot to exercise, and my room was super stuffy and uncomfortable even when I opened the window and turned the fan on. This year, it seems like it’s just as hot as last year. 

The fact that the northernmost of the United States is reaching temperatures comparable to that of the southernmost makes me anxious to no end. Is this a sign that it’s too late and it’ll continue to get worse from here? Will things ever get better again? I’m having panic attacks just thinking about it. 

Hey there, thank you for reaching out  ❤️

I have to admit that I’m not an expert at all, and also don’t live in the area so I don’t know what the situation is. I live in a place that has always been hot and is getting hotter all the time, so I understand your fear. I’m not going to tell you that there’s no need to be afraid, but I am going to tell you that I don’t believe it’s too late. 

I think now is way too early to give up, as a matter of fact. I think some things are getting better, and those getting worse need us there to fight for a change. I truly believe in the power of people, and that we still have a chance. 

As for how you’re feeling about this whole situation, it’s understandable. The past few months have been so stressful as is, and when you put other stressers on top of that, it can seem unbearable. I get that. It’s important that you don’t beat yourself up over how you’re feeling. Know that you and your feelings (both positive and negative) are valid and okay, and that you are never alone in them. There are people all around who feel the exact same as you do. 

Some of the best advise I can give you from my experience: 

Exercise. If only just a little bit every day. Exercise has a great impact on out mental and psychical health, and is known to relieve stress. It might be too hot to run or walk outside, but maybe inside the house, or after dark will be better? I always prefer to exercise at night during summer, since the sun is very dangerous where I’m from and I won’t be in as much danger of dehydration. If you live in an area where you don’t feel safe walking at night, maybe consider taking someone along, if you feel alright doing so. Other than that, I know it’s not an option for many which is why I left it for the end, but if you can, gyms during the hotter days may also be an option, and pools too (a good way to exercise that won’t give you a heat stroke).

Help. I found that when I feel like I’m doing something to help, I’m not as stressed. Maybe volunteer somewhere, raise awareness, talk to people or join a group that shares your thoughts on the subject. If donating is an option, maybe consider that as well. Do what’s in your power to be the change you want to see. My anxiety about climate change was one of the reasons that I opened this blog in the first place. I needed to help with something, and it really did help me too. Especially since I now mostly follow websites that spread good news and other positive things. I also always like to feel like I’m helping others with their struggles. 

Disconnect. Maybe you need a break, and that’s okay. I don’t live in the US but I try to follow what’s been going on there as much as I can, and honestly it’s overwhelming. Sometimes we need to tune out the media. Stay away from social media networks or turn off the TV every once in a while. It’s okay to take a break from time to time, when you need it. If you feel like you should, there is no reason not to tune out the news for a while, and focus on your own health or on only good news websites and other things that make you feel good. We need everyone and everything we’ve got in this, but it’s not worth anything if we burn out and don’t take care of ourselves.

Talk. For years I’ve been dealing with fears and anxieties that I didn’t really put a name to. At the beginning of the school year, when it got even worse, I finally went to a therapist, a psychologist, and being able to talk to someone without the fear of being judged helped me so so much. Now, I know that I am incredibly lucky that I had the means and the opportunity to get professional treatment, which is why I say: talk to someone, anyone. Are you close with your parents or siblings, and other family members? Do you feel comfortable enough sharing what you’ve been feeling with them? Please do, if so. Are you in high school or in college? If so, you probably have a school counselor of some sort. Maybe you can talk to them, that’s what they’re there for. How about friends? If you have anyone you’re close to, maybe you should consider talking to them about your anxieties. They aren’t professional and might not know how to actually help you, but they’ll listen, and that is honestly just as important. Writing your feelings in your blog is also a good alternative. Humans are pack animals, and we need the mental support just as much as we need the physical protection of having other people around us.

Meditate. Or in fact do anything that you can do while not thinking. Meditation and exercise are great examples, but any hobby will do. If you’re an artist, maybe your preferred form of art will do. Draw, paint, sing, write, dance, read, take walks, take pictures. Do something you enjoy and let your feelings take over for a while. Splatter paint on a canvas. Run as fast as you can. Laugh with your friends until your stomach hurts. Bake and cook and punch the dough to let the frustration out. Now is also a great time to find new hobbies, if you feel like it. Breathing exercises too, as I’m sure you know, are a great way to relieve anxiety and stress, and are specifically helpful for panic attacks. I learnt last year a couple of breathing exercises for a presentation I had to do and they have helped me several times to get out of panic attacks.

This is all I can think of for now, but I’m sure that I’ll come up with other ways to deal with anxiety soon enough. This probably wasn’t as specifically helpful as I intended it to be, so please let me know here or in my asks if there’s anything as all that I can do to help you out. 

To anyone else who’s reading this and may not be familiar with my blog - I’m not an expert. I try to learn as much as I can and do have experience with mental health and ways to improve it, but I’m not a climate change expert nor a mental health one. However, I am always here if anyone out there wants to talk about anything at all or has any questions at all. I’ll try to answer as best and as soon as I can.

❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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erin-hart:

Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson’s slave.

Called his “mistress,” but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally’s children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God… when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson’s dead wife’s half sister. Sally’s mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson’s father.

These people left a legacy.

A legacy of entitlement under the most criminal of circumstances, and White Supremacist beliefs which pervade U.S. Society and Culture, to this very day.
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phana-banana:

Look, I’m not saying if Herman Melville was alive today he would totally have an A03/fanfiction.net account… but that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Still went a little over my time limit for this one, but getting faster I think.

[profile] theeinkibus these…. Are good points.

Herman, thanks for creating the ‘AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED’ trope for all of us writers, forever in your debt man.
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lowkey I feel like a lot of people my age & younger think selfcare is like “treat yourself to new outfit” or “put on a facemask” or “have an extra scoop of ice cream” but i cannot stress enough that sometimes selfcare is “brushing your teeth” and “cleaning your room” and “eating some fruit” or “going for a walk”

It’s not just about the frivolous ‘treat-yourself’ stuff. most of the time it’s about actually taking care of your body’s basic needs 

I did not expect this post to blow up but it’s officially gotten big enough that the people on this site that have never heard of a little thing called ‘reading comprehension’ have found it
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me sitting here today thinking how much i don’t want to finish off the kidfic sequel bc wehhhhhhhh getting slapped in the face with this post

reetlejuice:

“If you’re only going to write when you’re inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you will never be a novelist — because you’re going to have to make your word count today, and those words aren’t going to wait for you, whether you’re inspired or not. So you have to write when you’re not “inspired.” … And the weird thing is that six months later, or a year later, you’re going to look back and you’re not going to remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you wrote because they had to be written.”

- Neil Gaiman

this made me realize i was literally just using inspiration as an excuse to procrastinate

yellowpoet:

The best advice really is to just write. Write badly - purple prose, stilted conversations, rambling descriptions. Don’t delete it, pass go, take your $200, save all your garbage in a big folder. Look at how much you’ve made - it doesn’t matter if it isn’t perfect, isn’t polished, it was practice. Every time you write you learn a little more, and find another piece of your voice.

‘WRITE IT BADLY. Write it badly, write it badly, write it badly, write it badly. Stop what you’re doing, open a Word document, put a pencil on some paper, just get the idea out of your head. Let it be good later. Write it down now. Otherwise it will die in there.’

— Brandon Sanderson on overcoming writer’s block to create a first draft as a professional author (quoted in this tumblr post here)

‘Writing tip of the day: it is perfectly acceptable, when working on a scene that vexes you, to write “DUMBEST VERSION” along the top of the page and start from there.   As I, a human who has been writing professionally for 25 years, just did. Give yourself permission to suck.‘

— John Rogers (on his twitter here)
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amyraudenfeldsdonutshirt:

There is literally an entire Amanda Bynes movie about this

“The footage was filmed as part of an experiment for Spanish TV show El Hormiguero to ‘destroy some of the myths’ around women’s football.

El Hormiguero script writer Jordi Molto said: ‘Women’s football doesn’t have any presence alongside men’s football which receives all the media attention.’

‘Some people might say women haven’t got the same physical capacity or the same strength but this shows the technique can be the same and women and men with a ball at their feet can put on the same spectacle.‘”

Read more and watch the video here

“I knew something was up when she scraped the shit out of her knees and just, like, kept playing. I mean, she didn’t even fake a scream or anything.”
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Detroit.  Where the Columbus statue used to be.
(photo credit: Rosa María Zamarrón)
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If Hux was a young Cadet and Ben was still a Padawan….My part of an art/writing collab with [profile] wisekrakenwise for [profile] kyluxpositivity‘s AU day prompt! (part 1 of 3 so far)

The outer wool robes scratched against Ben’s neck.
No, he thought to himself. No matter what he was about to do, he was Kylo now.

The fabric was itchy nonetheless. He’d have been grateful for its warmth on a night like this, had it not been so blisteringly hot in the midday sun. Kylo scratched the back of his neck and tried venting the collar. He was certain all the day’s rays had tangled themselves in the fabric and now despite cooler temperatures falling, his face was still undeniably flushed. 

Or perhaps that was due to his proximity to the cantina.

Hazy yellow lights blared into the darkness; the noisy world of nightlife radiated in a vast circumference. Kylo was sure people traveled for miles to get here, night after night. It wasn’t exactly the smallest of watering holes. 

That was why he was here though, wasn’t it?

In a place this large, it was so easy to get lost; so easy to find what he was looking for. 

If he had the courage, that was. 

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Hux: I was researching sharks for a potential new droid design. Do you know who else mauls people who are only trying to help them?
Kylo: ...
Hux: Did you guess sharks? Because that's wrong. The correct answer is nobody. Nobody but you is that pointlessly cruel.
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outlawarya:

you looked at me like no one ever had

I will never forgive Star Wars for wasting this amazing bond…
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Happy Pride, here’s an important article for us to read, talk about, and work on.

Warnings for discussion of sexual/reproductive violence, antiblack racism, and fetishization.

“Black asexuals deserve to have more visibility and clarity, and Black people deserve to embrace our sexualities outside of the confines of prescribed hypersexualization.”
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 I spend a lot of time thinking about The Last Jedi as I work on my fix-it fic, and I’ve finally been able to articulate one thing that’s bugged me ever since I saw it. For me, the film divides very neatly into two parts: one where Rey is anti-Kylo, the other where she is pro-Kylo. The cave scene at the film’s midpoint also marks the transition between the two.

From a storytelling perspective, the problem isn’t that Rey becomes zealously pro-Kylo, although I must admit I am not a fan of this particular evolution in her character. The problem is that the writers use a twist to subvert their audience’s expectations and surprise them with a “Gotcha!”–except that in so doing, they skip over the parts that make that transition emotionally plausible to me.

Let me explain. Up until the cave sequence, Rey’s only interactions with Kylo have been through three unexpected, unwanted conversations via the Force that neither one is controlling or directing (even if Rey/the audience is skeptical of this at first). [The fact that Snoke is setting them up is a different story problem, but that’s not relevant here.] They are all negative.

In their first encounter, Rey straight up shoots him with a blaster. (It doesn’t take.) In the second, she’s standing by the ocean next to the Falcon and she calls him a monster. (Kylo agrees.) In the third, he gives her his own version of what happened the night the temple burned, and tells Rey her parents were junk traders who sold her for drinking money. As a result, Rey heads for the mirror cave to investigate, demanding to see her parents.

The mirror cave sequence is eventually revealed to be a flashback: Rey is wrapped in a blanket next to a fire in one of the stone huts, narrating her experience to someone. We’re supposed to assume it’s Luke (or maybe Chewbacca, although goodness knows the narrative forgets about him until they need someone to fly the Falcon). But then Kylo says, “You’re not alone,” and the camera shows us Kylo, sitting across the fire from Rey. He’s been there the whole time, not Luke. And his relationship with Rey is now radically different from anything else we’ve been presented with before.

The problem is that because of the way this scene is framed–because of the twist–we don’t see the transition from angry/antagonistic!Rey who (correctly) calls Kylo Ren a murderer for killing Han Solo to the calmer, more open Rey who is willing to share personal intimate details about her life and experience with someone who literally tortured her in the last movie. I know, I know, the writers of TLJ would like me to forget that, but I really, really can’t. Sorry. That happened. And, silly me, I think that would impact their relationship. You know. Just a little.

So I don’t see how Rey softens towards Kylo, I only see the end product, when the movie presents it to me as an accomplished fact. And I don’t know about you, but I personally need to see that transition in order to find her “conversion” to the “Kylo Is Good” cult believable.

Unlike JJ Abrams, who never met a Force vision he didn’t want to show the audience in jarring and confusing detail, the writers of TLJ don’t show us what Rey experiences when she and Kylo make contact in the infamous, slow-motion “hand touch” scene that follows. All we know is what Rey tells us, and what she sees is clearly enough to convert her all the way to Team Kylo, because she immediately attacks Luke when he intervenes and orders her to stop. We don’t see what she sees to make her believe that Kylo can be redeemed, that he is trustworthy/reliable/necessary.

You can argue that we did see events from Kylo’s POV in the flashback prior to the mirror cave sequence, but if that’s the case, what makes Rey’s vision in the hand touch different from the information she got then? What changed to make her believe it now when she didn’t believe it then? And if it is different, what makes it different? 

All I know is that Rey jumps from “Kylo is my enemy” to “Kylo can be redeemed and I have to go rescue him right now” and it’s so sudden and jarring, I can’t see how we got from one to the other so quickly. I can see what the writers are trying to do. I can see what they think they’ve done. But what’s presented in the film as it stands just doesn’t work for me. I don’t find it convincing. But the film doesn’t care, the film says, “Okay, wasn’t that great, Luke is pathetic, Rey is awesome, let’s go!” and moves on, assuming that Rey is now so pro-Kylo now she’s willing to drop everything to save a man because she’s convinced everything will be saved if he can turn back to the light.

The unspoken subtext: because Rey doesn’t think she’s good enough to save the world herself? Because she’s lonely and wants a companion/lover/boyfriend? Because she needs a man to complete herself? Unlike Luke, who had a meaningful, if one-sided relationship with the idea of his father before he learned the truth, Rey and Kylo have… nothing outside of negative interactions. (Comforting Rey by saying, “You’re not alone,” doesn’t make up them, and I personally don’t consider it as positive interaction given all other gaslighting that’s been going on in their interactions over the past movie and a half.) Luke has to believe that Vader can be redeemed because otherwise he’s left wondering if he himself can be truly good if he comes from evil; restoring Vader to Anakin is the best way to resolve the cognitive dissonance. Redeeming Kylo…. doesn’t do that for Rey, because her core issue isn’t with Kylo, it’s with her identity, her relationship with her parents, and her struggles with finding her place in the galaxy. None of those things are something that Kylo–redeemed or not–can give her. So why is this suddenly her driving motivation?

And then the rest of the movie happens, and it’s more or less consistent with Rey’s character transformation as pro-Kylo, right up until the point he takes up the mantle of Supreme Leader of the First Order and roundly rejects her overtures. But it rings hollow for me because I don’t see the transformation myself–all of the important bits are deliberately kept off-screen and so I’m just left with this trailing feeling of “Wait? What just happened?”…. which is my default reaction to TLJ in general.

And I think that there are those who would argue that my feelings of bewilderment are proof of this movie’s sophistication, people who like the “gotchas!” and the twists and the “things aren’t as you thought they were” topsy-turvies. I enjoy my plot twists as much as the next person, but they only work for me if they are emotionally plausible and explained, not assumed, and I don’t see any evidence for that when I go back and re-watch the film specifically looking for it.

And this is a recurring theme throughout TLJ; in fact, film’s tagline ought to have been “This is not going to go with the way you think!” It happens with Rey’s relationship with Kylo, it happens with Luke’s death, it happens with Holdo and Poe, it happens with DJ’s betrayal… every relationship, every trope from the previous films and movies is upended. The patricidal Kylo draws the line at killing his mother; the courageous Finn is revealed as a coward; Poe’s daring becomes arrogance. The Resistance is no better than the First Order because they buy their weapons from the same vendors and slaughter innocent bystanders in their struggles, while the New Republic stands by and lets it all happen.

It’s not that there’s no place for nuance, for subversion, for this kind of moral examination in Star Wars. I just wish it was better executed. As it stands, the film comes off to me as a kind of grimdark moralism, with the message that “All your heroes will disappoint you, and there’s no point in trying to accomplish anything because you’re doing it wrong,” and I just… don’t find that uplifting or enjoyable.

TL:DR: my relationship with this movie can be summarized by this handy meme:
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altonzm:

post apoc media is always banging on about the necessity of macho survival skills but frankly it’s the gardeners/farmers who know 150 preservation techniques for winter beets and who understand the art of good pH balance in compost who will survive on our non energy dependent farms while you all butcher each other with katanas in burnt out shopping centres
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In Mesopotamian mythology, among the earliest written records of humanity, there are references to types of people who are neither male nor female. Sumerian and Akkadian tablets from the 2nd millennium BCE and 1700 BCE describe how the gods created these people, their roles in society, and words for different kinds of them. These included eunuchs, women who couldn’t or weren’t allowed to have children, men who live as women, intersex people, gay people, and others.

In the 17th century, English laws concerning inheritance sometimes referred to people who didn’t fit a gender binary using the pronoun it, which, while dehumanizing, was conceived of as being the most grammatically fit answer to gendered pronouns around then.“[11] This is an example of people being considered legally outside of male and female. 

Thomas Hall, who apparently had an equal preference for the birth-name Thomasine (c.1603 – after 1629), was an English servant in colonial Virginia. Hall was raised as a girl, and then presented as a man in order to enter the military.[12] After leaving the military, Hall freely alternated between feminine and masculine attire from one day to the next, until Hall was accused of having sex with both men and women. Whether someone was legally a man or a woman would result in different punishments for that. Several physical examinations disagreed on the details of Hall’s sex, and concluded that Hall had been born intersex. Previously, common law required that if a court concluded that someone was intersex, this would result in an injunction that they must live the rest of their life as strictly either male or female, whichever their anatomy resembled the most closely. In this case, the court ruled that "hee is a man and a woeman,” and gave the injunction that Hall must from then on wear both masculine and feminine clothing at the same time: “goe clothed in man’s apparell, only his head to bee attired in a coyfe and croscloth with an apron before him”[13][14] Intersex is not the same thing as nonbinary, and so an intersex person can identify as a man, woman, or some other gender. Hall was apparently an intersex person who did not identify strictly as a man or woman, preferred a fluid gender expression, and was then given a legal sex that was both.

Māhū (“in the middle”) in Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) and Maohi (Tahitian) cultures are third gender persons with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture. The māhū gender category existed in their cultures during pre-contact times, and still exists today.[16] In the pre-colonial history of Hawai'i, māhū were notable priests and healers, although much of this history was elided through the intervention of missionaries. The first written Western description of māhū occurs in 1789, in Captain William Bligh’s logbook of the Bounty, which stopped in Tahiti where he was introduced to a member of a “class of people very common in Otaheitie called Mahoo… who although I was certain was a man, had great marks of effeminacy about him.”

Jens Andersson was a nonbinary person in Norway, who married a woman in 1781. It was soon discovered that Andersson had a female body, and the marriage was annulled, while Andersson was accused of sodomy. In the trial, Andersson was asked: “Are you a man or a woman?” It was recorded that the answer was that “he thinks he may be both”. 

During WWII, the Jewish surrealist artist Claude Cahun (who described their gender as “neutral”) with their life-partner Marcel Moore (also a Jewish artist who chose a neutral name) engaged in resistance work and activism against the Nazis during the German occupation of France. In 1944, Cahun and Moore were arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out as the island was liberated from German occupation in 1945.

:) I hope this helped!

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Hold on dude

Give me a few minutes :)

kendallrain:

My stepdad told me non-binary only just came out and I told him it’s been a thing forever and he said it hasn’t. Help me prove a point by reblogging if it’s always been a thing
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Aha, that’s something I love to talk about. I was about to make a post about this anyway so: There’s a lot of ancient greek vase paintings that show Apollo wearing feminine robes and accessories that were usually worn by women. For example,

a veil

(Heracles ascending to Olympus)

Multi pinned sleeve

(Apollo helping Hector in the Trojan war)

Cross sash

(The musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas)

Periskelis (the thigh band)

(Orestes seeking shelter at Delphi)

Here, he is wearing the chiton in a way that girls wore

And these lithographs of ancient art have him wear such pretty dresses

Since he is an eternal youth, 99% of the times he has long hair and youthful face - those are the very important physical traits of Apollo. There are many paintings where you will confuse Apollo for a girl.

Apart from these, I have found quite a few statues and marble reliefs too. Many of these are from Hellenistic Greece and Roman era:

As you can notice, most of these present Apollo as a musician, so maybe music played a part in Apollo being effeminte? Did the Muses have a lot of influence on him?Idk, food for thought I guess. Oh and there are a number of headless statues identified as Apollo Patroos (fatherly), where again Apollo is wearing long robes.

Lastly, some quotes from literary sources (FYI I have not included the hundreds of quotes describing Apollo’s long hair and smooth chin):

“And ever beautiful is he and ever young: never on the girl cheeks of Apollo hath come so much as the down of manhood.”

- Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.)

“Apollo puts his hair in order by shaping his flowing locks with soft foliage and braiding it with a golden diadem.”

- Virgil, Aeneid 4.147 (trans. Ingo Gildenhard) (Latin poet C1st B.C.)

“These children Niobe placed above those of Latona [Leto], and spoke rather contemptuously against Apollo and Diana [Artemis] because Diana was girt in man’s attire, and Apollo wore long hair and a woman’s gown.”

- Hyginus, Fabulae 9 (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A.D.)

[describing an effeminate man]: giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes about; sometimes throwing his hands hither and thither…sometimes personating Aphrodite, sometimes Apollo"

- Tatian, Address to the Greeks 22 (trans. Pratten) (Assyrian Theologist C2nd A.D)

“[in the fragments of Lucilius’ satires (C2nd B.C)]: Taking issue with Apollo, whom Romulus mocks as a pretty boy (pulcher) with a fondness for effete dance, Romulus rants against foreign luxuries”

- The Cambridge Companion to Seneca (ed. Shadi Bartsch, Alessandro Schiesaro)

fair number of Renaissance paintings continued this tradition by making Apollo look feminine and beautiful. But for some reason most of the modern adaptations make him macho, the typical Manly Man 🙄 (just like they make Dionysus either old or obese, or both). Come on people, you’re throwing away the potential here! I wanna see an Apollo who can rock a suit and a pretty dress. Give me more of Apollo and Dionysus hanging out together at drag parties.
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Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how.:

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elodieunderglass:

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thehopefuljournalist:

“Is it possible to turn things around by 2050? The answer is absolutely yes,” says Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.

They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.

“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.

Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption. 

No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price.  Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. 

Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.

“If we have five years of really sustained efforts, making sure we reorient our businesses and our governments toward sustainability, then from that point on, this transition will seem quite seamless. Because it will just be this gradual reshaping of options,” Chan says, adding: “All these things seem very natural when the system is changing around you.”

Hoping people with more relevant knowledge and science parsing skills than I do might comment on this …

I think it is absolutely vital that people be able to picture The Healed World. Honestly I think it’s one of the most important things we can do.

Look at how many different apocalypses people can visualise. Our brains can freely feast on unlimited scenes of scarcity, competition and fear. Everywhere we turn we can consume endless content about killing our neighbors for scraps, about hurting children, about bleak planets and extinction, and lots and lots of guns. It is easy, accessible and cheap. Our minds gobble up as much of this content as the market generates and the market gleefully generates more. We feed and feed upon a future of suffering and loss. We feast on images of brown children being hurt, unnecessarily, and say smugly that “that’s just what humanity is like.” Our brains are programmed away from the natural human responses to crises (fix it, help each other, rebuild and hope) and TOWARDS the mindsets of fictional apocalypse (cause it, turn on each other [it’s just what humans do! We’ve all seen the same stories!], collapse, fight each other for crumbs, the world is doomed anyway.)

It’s pretty unnecessary. And frankly pretty cringe. Imagine being part of some of the most prosperous, empowered, educated, connected group of humans to ever exist, and having a brain that can only picture the future as apocalypse-movie.

And where is the food of abundance, equality, beauty, hope, diversity? Where is the actual food of the future? Oh. It’s in, like, three solarpunk anthologies, huh?

Huh.

Anyway not to get all Amitav Ghosh on main but we have GOT to address this unnecessary and EMBARRASSING failure of imagination. Because we are the generation currently failing in our responsibilities as caretakers of the earth, because of this deranged inability to picture the world as being a real place, and the future being a place where people will live.

So, basically, yes, let’s just say it and start saying it regularly. The work is now and we have to do it. It isn’t impossible. Yes there is hope. Yes it can all be done. Yes there is a future for fucksake. It’s within our grasp. that is what futures are.

👆 Not sure if I’ve already reblogged this, but [profile] elodieunderglass is 100% right here. We find it so easy to picture doom, but we find it so hard to picture healing.

Also, giving up on a future that is still possible means not only giving up on your own life, but the lives of your loved ones, on the poor and disadvantaged people who will face the worst impacts of the climate crisis, and giving up on nature itself.

For some people, climate disaster is already here. There are millions of people already fighting for survival. They don’t have the privilege of sitting back, giving up, and waiting for the apocalypse to come.

They don’t have the privilege of saying “Oh well, the world’s doomed anyway so why should we bother?” And neither should anyone else.
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All I can think of every time I see a character doing archery in tv/film is Voldemort.

Someone actually ask me about this please because I got myself worked up and have a rant all prepared that I would hate to be wasted. It has pictures, too. And it’s very informational.

Tumblr mobile done fucked this post up.

[profile] big_mood_energy told me to elaborate, so here we go.

Okay, so basically the tldr is a bowstring is a nearly unstoppable force and your nose is very much not an immoveable object.

The longer version is a bowstring has a couple hundreds of pounds of force behind it on average - it’s what makes the arrow go. It’s why you never dry fire a bow (all that force goes to the arms instead of the arrow and damages them), why you shoot odd color out (the bow will strip off the fletching otherwise, I’ve done that before) and why archers wear bracers. The string has a nasty habit of smacking into your arm, and at best it will leave you with a giant welt and a nasty bruise, at worst it’ll take a good strip of skin off. I’ve done both. My arms are ridiculously short just like the rest of me so the string would smack me right in the crease of the elbow where standard bracers don’t reach. Here’s the type of arm guard I wore back when I was a more active archer because of that:

The leather part goes on the inside of the arm, not the outside, I don’t care how “unfashionable” it looks!

(Btw, I primarily use recurve, but this is all true for compound as well. The whole point of compound is more force for less effort.)

Now you do want to anchor somewhere on your face in order to sight properly, but if you put anything in the way of that string - chin, nose, hair - you better be prepared to lose it. Here’s the worst offender:

Ouch.

Typically, you specifically want to anchor somewhere on your cheekbone or at the corner of your mouth. By corner of your mouth I don’t mean corner of your lips. If you run a finger across your mouth, you should feel a little bump right in the corner. That. You want to anchor right on the side of that bump. Your thumb or pointer finger should be right there. I typically anchor on my cheekbone right below my eye, but for the most part, it is a matter of preference.

Also, face the target, not the bow! Your face should be pointing straight forward, down the shaft, not - not that, look at her chin, oh my god, Katniss:

(This gif is saved to my phone as KatnissMarvoloRiddle.gif)

And while we’re on the subject, I get that movies have to make it look cool, but this is pretty much any archer’s preferred stance:

T-pose with feet shoulder width apart, front foot pointed toward target, bend your arm at the elbow, pull back with your shoulder.

Also, at least they got this part right:

And:

You don’t want to cut off the pads of your fingers because you couldn’t move them away in time, and you really don’t want to put hundreds of pounds of force directly on a joint when you have nice weight-redistributing fat right there.

And don’t squeeze the nock! The arrow will stay on the string, that’s what the nock is for. Your fingers are to keep it on the bow and guide it back.

And by the way, this? is like… the fastest way to get tendonitis:

See how his wrist is turned out? It means he has to pull with his elbow. I’ve done that before. It’s a rookie mistake, and it fucking hurts for a very long time after a very short while.

(Although it is interesting that while it wrecks your arm, it is technically faster to nock, loose, and renock that way if you haven’t had much training, like the Uruk-Hai.)

Tl;dr: Movie archers are dumbasses, and having to watch them be dumbasses is my #1 media pet peeve.

One last thing, re: terminology. You don’t load a bow (unless it’s a crossbow), you nock an arrow. Not knock, N-O-C-K. And you don’t fire an arrow, you loose an arrow.

Reblogging this just because.
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U.S. court orders Dakota Access oil pipeline to be shut, emptied:

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JULY 6, 2020

“Today is a historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people who have supported us in the fight against the pipeline,” said Chairman Mike Faith of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “This pipeline should have never been built here. We told them that from the beginning.”

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