i found my beating heart again

we might also ask: why iranian artefacts for the premiere of a film adaptation of a greek epic? & the obvious answer is because well we respect greek cultural heritage more than iranian + the greeks are better able to protect their material culture from looters than iran, currently being bombed by the us (cf. the looting of iraq's material culture during the american occupation)

I think the badge system thing on Tumblr is great cos it immediately helps you identify who not to take seriously

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

funny to me that people like to complain that bi women are male-centred when being bi actually helped me get free from the male gaze and take on an edgier + wilder goth bitch hyperfemininity like tits raised to the gods and pit hair growing inches no fucking issues going to the grocery store in daisy dukes and hairy legs because the crazy array of women that i’m attracted to made me see beauty in every feature the world’s gotta offer, not to mention the nb people that really took apart the more binary ideas of gender and gendered beauty i grew up on. thru my attraction to everybody from all walks of life and all forms of identity, i learned to see beauty and joy in the things i used to hate about myself and felt were wrong but instead were just natural parts of being a human.

this is not an isolated event it's kinda a weird phenomenon and it's rly just...idk feels kinda dehumanizing. the concept is thoughtful but the execution ends up being a new form of a microagression

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

It does piss me off a little bit that serious polyamory representation in media is pretty much non-existent

The fact that no one even seems to care makes feel like I'm going to explode, I'm tired of such a significant part of my life never being represented and often seen as less serious than monogamy.

just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight

i’m not going to call myself “the friend who’s too woke” or hedge around my opinion because this is my deeply considered belief: horror literature is the theater of disgust, and the disgust that drives the vast, vast majority of classic horror media from the 1890s-1940s—dracula, jekyll and hyde, king kong, nosferatu, the mummy, universal frankenstein, the wolf man, cthulhu, and more—is the exact disgust that drove the worldwide tide of violence in the 1930s and 40s, a tide that has never fully receded, and you have NO business adapting a piece of classic horror media if you aren’t willing to put in the work to identify what is portrayed as disgusting in that property and enter into some form of dialogue with it. if you don’t want your movie to be “about” race or class or gender or sexuality or ability, you’re free to choose a source material that isn’t already about that, but unluckily for you giant hypersexual apes do not exist in a vacuum