moved over to @kritozune

artemis fowl movie:

You can sign this official petition, which is REALLY CLOSE to hitting 4.5 Million Signatures! https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=899280973&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi.pacific_abi_gmail_send.variation.pacific_abi_select_all_contacts.fake_control.pacific_email_copy_en_us_3.control.pacific_email_copy_en_gb_3.control.lightning_share_by_medium.share_by_medium.lightning_2primary_share_options.variant

Or even better! You can go to these links and send a pre-made letter to your MEP! All you have to do is enter your name, surname and country!  These are also VERY close to their goal of signatures! https://www.liberties.eu/en/campaigns/copyright-online-censorship-europe-campaign/293 https://www.liberties.eu/en/campaigns/protect-free-speech-campaign-online-censorship/249

ALL OF THESE LINKS FOR UK AND US CITIZENS + OTHER COUNTRIES!

If you want more information, go here https://saveyourinternet.eu/

I cannot stress enough just how important it is that we fight back against this ridiculous law. If Article 13 goes through, we will no longer be able to make, share or see any transformative artwork ever again. This includes memes, parodies, fanart, fanfiction, Let’s Plays, AMVs, fan-made merchandise, AND SO MUCH MORE!

Your favourite YouTubers who are based in the EU (Jacksepticeye, Dan and Phil, Tomska, KickthePJ, PewDiePie, Dodie, Pixpit, and soooo many more!) will no longer have their content available to you simply because they live in the wrong country.

AND WORST OF ALL! So many businesses and people, especially artists, will no longer be able to continue their jobs because their work might be filtered due to copyright infringement.

And who knows, you might not be able to talk your mutuals/internet friends anymore either.

This is why I continue to reblog and spread awareness about this issue anywhere I could because for SO many of us the internet is our home. It has provided us with information, communities, relationships and more, all of which have drastically changed our lives for the better. Just think of how many friends you’ve made by joining fandoms and sharing memes and fanart and writing fanfiction! I wouldn’t have been in such wonderful communities if I hadn’t seen Jack’s content, or played games or ANYTHING!

So please, I urge you to spread this news around! Talk to your friends and family about this issue and urge them to sign the petitions! If you live in the EU, I urge you to call your MEP if you can! And if you’re a UK/US or any other citizen, then PLEASE go to these links and sign everything!

If we want to keep our home, then we need to work together. You have the ability to change this for the better, even if it’s really small. I don’t care what any edgleord cynic has to say about the issue, you CAN fight back and you CAN lend your voice. These people will not and should not go through with their plans when millions of people are objecting to this bullshit law.

“hey, so i think i got someone else’s chicken fingers, i ordered the quesadilla. oh, the cook misread the order and has to remake it? ok, i dig, i’ll wait. you’re offering me free breadsticks while i wait? sounds good, thanks!”

DO speak up, DO be specific about the problem, DON’T be blamey or sarcastic or snippy. DO realize it may take time to fix the problem, DON’T turn down extra goods/services they offer to make it up to you.

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

i wish somebody looked at me like the way he looked at that onion

france:

belgium:

hungary:

We both had kind of a strained relationship with our mom until around mid/post-college, and he’s going to be moving out to start med school in the fall. Seeing this short hit home so well and a lot of people are arguing that it’s not just for Chinese people.

Listen:

I love that all types of people can see what this short means to mothers and kids with similar relationships, and that the experience wasn’t only for Chinese people. I get it, I really do. 

But there were scenes and parts included in this short that are. My Lao Lao (grandmother) lives across the country and speaks english but there’s still a bit of a barrier. Some of the memories i treasure most are her teaching me how to make dumplings, because she was teaching me about my culture without needing words. There are a ton of other subtle things that are very specific and shared experiences for lots of asian and asian american people. And a lot of them are unnoticed by the people who don’t know a lot about that culture. 

My current partner has lived on his own for 8 years and the absolute most I have to help him with is maybe sending him $20 so he can make a bill payment on time

After I left, in the first six months I got texts or calls asking me to please tell him:

The online banking password (dude, I left you, you should really change that)

Where I ordered his special-wecial organic underwear

Where the good cutting board was (my dad gave it to us at our wedding, genius, I took it with me along with the rest of the stuff from my family)

What brand butter we bought

What brand of local kielbasa we bought

Who his doctor was

What RMV office had the shortest lines

Where the old tax returns were (in the fucking box labeled tax returns)

The phone number for his best friend

I shit you not.

Then he had a heart attack (mild) and none of his family or friends were around to take him to the hospital. But instead of calling 911, he called me, who by then lived 45 minutes away. He lived 5 minutes from an EMS dispatch location. He called me, despite the fact that he didn’t believe me 8 months prior when I was feeling suicidal and I had to call a cab to go alone to check myself into the hospital for a 72-hour hold. I told him to call 911, hung up on him when he whined about “making a fuss”, called 911, called his siblings and then texted them “your brother is having a heart attack, I called 911 for him, come home,” and washed my hands of it.