titles bore me

havartia:

witharsenicsauce:

firebendinglemur:

Me: -so after it became apparent that ‘retarded’ had become a term of abuse, educators and psychiatrists switched to other terms like ‘handicapped’ or ‘special needs’ in an attempt to -

George Orwell, whom I’ve dragged forward in time with my arcane powers because I’m lonely and want someone to talk to: You have a telephone in your pocket?  It listens to you all the time?

Me: Never mind about that, the point is, young people now mock each other by sending the wheelchair emoji - that’s a type of electronic heiroglyph - to suggest mental deficiency and shout SPESHUL!!!! while doing offensive imitations of disabled facial expressions and posture.  So any attempt to lexographically make crimethink impossible is pretty much doomed because the meaning of words in everyday conversation can’t be controlled by a dictionary entry, no matter how many Ministry of Truth employees-

Orwell: It reports your location to the telephone company at all times?

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vergak:

owowles:

they’re texting each other

(via fuck-yeah-dylan)

officiallordvetinari:

kvothe-kingkiller:

alexseanchai:

steelblaidd:

backyardbob01:

otterology:

thatsoneforamerica:

ssskeletonsoffun:

themistrustfulmistress:

brainstatic:

Jurassic World did the Avatar thing where it made a gajillion dollars and left no cultural footprint whatsoever. Name your favorite Jurassic World character. What was your favorite line. It evaporated despite everyone seeing it.

WRONG fav character was the extra that ran away from the pterodactyls with two margheritas in hand

Originally posted by relatablepicturesofaleks

Gotta do everything myself around here

So, I went into this guy’s Wikipedia page, because he looked familiar. And there’s this big “Controversies” section, so I was preparing myself to read that even the margaritas/pterodactyls guy has sexually assaulted someone. But it turns out that he hasn’t. However, he:

- Has been sued for copyright infringement for a ‘blasphemous’ musical rendition of a monologue from the 1950s

- He was on a plane with U2′s Bono and his family, and the plane was shot by the Jamaican police, who believed they were smuggling marijuana. He wrote a song about the incident.

- He’s actually a singer, and his better known song in called MARGARITAVILLE. He also owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain. And has licensed Margaritaville Tequila, Margaritaville Footwear, and a Margaritaville Foods. He owns the Margaritaville Casino, has released a “Margaritaville Online” game, and he wrote and starred in a musical called “Escape to Margaritaville”

- He also wrote a song called “Math Suks”, which was condemned by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for its alleged negative effect on children’s education. 

- He was thrown out of a basketball game he was watching for using blasphemous language in front of kids.

- And he was detained by French customs for allegedly carrying over 100 pills of ecstasy. Although he was released after paying a fine, and, according to him, the pills were a B-vitamin supplement.

So, yeah, that was refreshing controversies section-wise, but now I don’t know what to do with all that information.

Maybe its my age, but i’m a little concerned that the fact he is a singer and wrote Margaritaville wasn’t prior knowledge and is considered a controversy

☝️

Beach, booze, Buffett.

Jimmy Buffett plays the margarita guy in Jurassic World because his most famous song is “Margaritaville” and this is therefore hilarious, I thought

absolutely obsessed with jimmy buffett being called “this guy”

Love the suggestion that the song and brand Margarativille are mentioned in passing on the Wikipedia page for uncredited Jurassic World extra Jimmy Buffett

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the-exercist:

Simone Biles is a wonder, and I trust & support her to make the best decisions regarding her health. If that means stepping down from competition, then all the more power to her.

She is not a show horse, she is a person who deserves happiness, recovery, and privacy during this time. I am proud of her for putting herself first.

preciouscinnamonlizard:

Okay but you can literally feel when Snape stopped being worried and angry about this fucking kid his best friend left that INSISTS IN BEING IN DANGER ALL THE TIME and just. Accepted it. In Deathly Hallows he probably read news like “Harry Potter and co. escape with a dragon” and just “oh well of course he did”

(via half-blood-slytherpuff-deactiva)

communistkenobi-archive:

communistkenobi-archive:

the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!

also I like complaining a lot

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leatherjacketmixtapes:

anexperimentallife:

phinarei:

deepstatemedia-deactivated20250:

imsobadatnicknames:

doctorpigmd:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

justsomeantifas:

prisoners should get to vote while theyre in prison.

paid for by tax dollars. u betcha.

no looparound shit like “ok but they gotta pay for it themselves the postage and blahnldh” nope. free to prisoners.

u dont like that? then get rid of prisons. damn.

Right so pedophiles, rapists, and deranged murderors should have a say in our democracy? They caused harm to others dipshit that’s why they’re in prison.

What percentage of prisoners are pedophiles, rapists and deranged murderors?

As if literal and not imaginary pedophiles, rapists and deranged murderers aren’t already having more of a say than any or all of us in our “democracy” by being the ones running said “democracy”.

The majority of prisoners are non violent offenders, mostly on bullshit drug charges. Meanwhile, way too many lawmakers are known sex offenders that people just overlook because… people don’t actually give a fuck, they just want to cite something they consider a socially approved reason to lock people up.

As long as prisoners can’t vote, politicians have motivation to lock up people who oppose them. And that is NEVER a safe system.

The rulers of any society that does not allow criminals to vote have a vested interest in declaring more people to be criminals–especially those who may vote against the wishes of the ruling class. The US is number one in incarceration, and the architect of the “War on drugs” has admitted the crackdown on drug users was specifically formulated to target Black people and anti-war activists. Every non-violent drug offender in jail in the US is a political prisoner.

A lot of drug addicts end up in prisons when what they really need is a rehab/recovery program. A lot of drug addicts (or our qualifiers, as we call them in Nar-Anon, because they are people we care about, with civil rights, first and foremost regardless of their active addiction or recovery status) commit crimes like burglary and armed robbery at points in their addiction while using or in order to obtain funds for drugs. Does this mean those people completely forfeit their civic role in society because they’ve gone through that in their life? It shouldn’t. They’re still people and politics influence them as much as any of us.

I don’t like living in a country where my brother’s friend, who committed armed robbery while on drugs at the age of 19, who has served his time and gone on to be a wonderful father and not only finish his bachelor’s degree but be elected the president of a national honors fraternity, who is currently an Ivy League law student at Columbia, has worked incredibly hard to be a successful man and defy societal expectations of felons but still can’t vote in our home state. How do we preach rehabilitation for those with criminal convictions but we keep pushing them down when they try to exercise the rights that everyone else is entitled to and try to do their part in shaping a better democratic government? If you say All Lives Matter and All Votes Matter, you need to take a look at who is being actively excluded from that.

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msfehrwight:

wtfzurtopic:

wtfzurtopic:

I hate when men smirk and gloat and say shit like “Women are attracted to powerful men,” like that negates any feminist impulse, like they think that at the heart of all women is this little, mincing girl that wants to be dominated.

I just roll my eyes because, dude. If you ever read the second half of any fucking harlequin novel ever, and saw how the hero always ends up blubbering on his knees and saying shit like “I can’t live without you! You unman me!” you’d realize that being attracted to powerful men is just the first part of a two-step plan.

The second step is to completely fucking annihilate him.

Apparently this is the most important thing I’ll ever say.

*clears throat* Allow me to quote Jayne Ann Krentz:

“In the romance novels … the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees. More than that, she forces him to acknowledge her power as a woman.” (“Introduction” from Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of Romance.)

The romance hero may start as a total alphahole, but by the end of the novel, as stated above, HE HAS TO CHANGE. He needs to become respectful and treat the heroine as an equal partner, otherwise it won’t work. This is why Elizabeth Bennet refuses Mr Darcy the first time but accepts him later. This is what so many people miss. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this post.

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chronicallyinvisible:

sometimes depression is so scary because you stop being able to achieve any sense of fulfilment. a huge part of being human is looking forward to things and having treats, goals, rewards, outcomes that you strive towards. if you don’t have those things it can be really, really hard to find any sense of purpose. having depression is asking yourself what do i want to eat, what do i want to watch, what do i want to play, what do i want to listen to, what do i want to do, what am i looking forward to, what’s driving me to keep going, and having the answer be a resounding ‘nothing’

(via fuck-yeah-dylan)

formerlyfebricant:

incorrectoldguardquotes:

“For my second date with Nicky we met in the city and went to a party and ended up at a restaurant at 3:00 AM where he reached across the table, grabbed my hands, looked at me adoringly, and said, “I hate this. I wanted to go to bed at 9:00. Do not expect this of me again.””

— Joe

I adore this but also, consider, while we all know Italy was not a single country until many years after his first death, this is an aggressively Italian man. “–the perrrrrrson who paid for your betrayal.” I digress. Nicolò eats dinner at 11pm. He thinks nothing of eating an entire plate of pasta in the middle of the day. GOD help you if you interrupt his mid afternoon nap. If you’re not up at midnight in the piazza getting through some fruit based liquor and arguing with the old men playing backgammon are you even alive?

Joe on his first trip to anywhere in southern Italy that isn’t Sicily: “So, you think we’re barbarians for our ways but it’s fine to have coffee at midnight?”

Nicky: “coffee is a digestive.”

Joe: “I cannot begin to tell you how wrong you are. I adore you. Go beat that guy at cards and wave your hands around.”

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A Thought

shieldmaiden19:

lurkinglurkerwholurks:

iamthedukeofurl:

Any analysis of Superman and Captain America should involve two main points.

1) They are every bit the caricature of honest goodness that they are said to be.
And 
2) BEING a a caricature of honest goodness means not just fighting obvious villainy, but raging against institutional injustice, even when it comes from “Legitimate” sources. 

There is a difference, however.

The Kent’s raised Clark with a strong moral compass, but also good sense. He’s very aware that, as Superman, anything he does comes with a tinge of Threat. He’s keenly aware that with the power he wields, the only way he can continue to operate is by appearing completely nonthreatening to the status quo. Unless he is preventing immediate, obvious harm, he has to be very careful with his intervention. He’ll see a city councilman skimming funds from schools, a factory illegally disposing of waste, or Cops inflating their quotas with bogus charges, and he’ll be outraged. But, Superman can’t do anything about those things. If he intervenes, people won’t see Superman protecting civilians from police abuse, they’ll see Superman Threatening A Cop. If Superman expresses any opinions besides the most milquetoast “Be Kind To One Another” stuff, it gets spun into “Scary Indestructible Alien Man Wants To Take Over The World”.
So, Superman takes all that rage, every injustice and abuse he sees, and those that he cannot solve as Superman, he gives to Clark Kent. 
And behind the “Aw Shucks’ Kansas Farmboy affect, Clark Kent is RUTHLESS. He will pick apart your life and nail you sins the sky for all to see. 
Like, everybody knows about Lois Lane, and she’s objectively the better journalist, but people always underestimate Clark. Those that remember anything about him usually think of him as harmless, the guy who comes to collect the statements your media people prepared, so you’re caught off-guard when the fangs come out. A Clark Kent interview goes like this:
First Question: Hello Police Chief Smith. So, how did you get involved in law enforcement?
Second Question:  What are the key values that drive your police department? 
Third Question: On September 14th, you called your officers together and told them to, and I quote “ Pull over every [racial slur] you can find out there. If they let you search, say you smell weed and bring them in. If they don’t, bring ‘em in for refusing to cooperate. Just get those [expletive deleted] in cuffs and paying fines, or else start looking for a new job”. Would you say this policy of deliberately targeting racial minorities is in line with the values you described earlier?” 

And Clark Kent doesn’t stop after he gets his headline. It might end up on Page 3, but he’ll keep the story going until your career is torn to shreds and staked outside as a warning to others. 
And then it’s back to human-interest stories and the feel-good beat until he selects his next target. 

Superman is forced to overlook things, but he IS looking, and he won’t forget, and just because he’s not throwing you into the sun, doesn’t mean he intends to spare you. 


Steve Rogers on the other hand will interrupt an interview to kick the shit out of a crooked real estate developer for driving people out of their homes. When arrested he’ll say “I’m sorry, how about we just chalk up the next time I save the world as community service”. 

#…….someone pls write me clark kent interviewing steve rogers #idk what would happen but I very badly want to know via @aethersea

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Steve Rogers grew up a scrawny queer kid with more sass than sense, and he is now more than willing to throw his weight around (especially now that he has weight). But at the same time, he would be in awe of the work Clark does. Because whoever can eviscerate a homophobic politician in less than three sentences is the real hero here.

Oh my god.

LET STEVE DRAW POLITICAL CARTOONS TO CLARK’S ARTICLES

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penny-anna:

me watching dr who in 2005, age 14: ah yes there is rose tyler, she is 19 which makes her an adult. 

me watching dr who now, aged 29: that is a child!! that is a large child!!! what the fuck!!!!