Trash God

I can have a little cry on the bathroom floor...as a treat

my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

Yeah, this isn’t some Greek myth story about a hero or demigod or something, Agnodice was a real person who actually did this.

I’m 100% down with Lorde being a storm witch

#this town is a cryptid

#okay#so in one little exchange#edmund shuts down miraz’s attempt to patronize him#corrects his knowledge#states that he is king and thus miraz’s equal#makes a witty joke about his title of the Just that sails right over miraz’s head#humbly affirms peter’s higher authority#and finishes off by making miraz look like an idiot#in under a minute he reverses and takes control of the entire discussion#as easily and casually as if he’s having a chat with reepicheep#lewis says that he was the diplomat-king#and my headcanon is that he was head of narnian espionage as well#because look at this boy#how he dances with words#how he masters men three times his age#and tell me he wouldn’t be absolutely LETHAL

that’s my boy.

Can we also talk about how Edmund made that pun about his title? He’s not the high king, Peter’s the only one, but Edmund IS the “just king”??

why is there an american flag just chillin on the wall there is that normal

Yes they are in every classroom in America

Is that sarcasm

no.

do…do other countries not put their flags in all their classrooms??

Why would we put up a flag in a classroom? Are people afraid the children would forget which country they are in?

My favorite thing about the multicultural nature of Tumblr is watching people from other countries learn that America is much, much worse than they ever dreamed.

no one tell them about the pledge…

the what

but lets be real here, even with the “darling”s and “pumpkin”s Harry still wouldn’t catch on and he’d go home and tell Ginny all about McGonagall’s lovely gal-pal and Ginny would have to be like “babe…that was her wife”

You’re right, fuck! How could I forget how deeply unobservant Harry is?!

“Wait,” Harry said. A wild thought had occurred to him. “What other mentor figures have I known who have been gay this entire time?”

ok ok listen i know a lot of people have been bringing up the fact that they dont like brooklyn nine nine because they feel like it’s a “pro-cop show” and it’s “idolizing a gross system” but like?? please try to understand that that is not the point of this show at all?? they have explicitly stated the problem with the police system in one of the episodes, where amy lists real concerns and holt puts up a poster that says “tell us how we can be better.” this is one of the very few shows who i see actually addressing real problems like gun control issues, homophobia, racism, and transphobia (it was just a mention, but still way more than any other show), while still being lighthearted and hilarious. just because this show is set in a cop setting does not mean they are praising anything?? please don’t diss an genuinely funny, good show so quickly because of that. it’s not perfect but it’s trying so much more than anything else on tv right now.

It should also be noted that outside of the squad itself, there are many, many policy officers that are depicted as corrupt, racist, and otherwise not at all praised or glorified. Both narratively and explicitly through character dialogue, the world of the police force that the characters exist in is criticized and challenged – not romanticized. And the point of the show, at the end of the day, is not the great acts of heroism these cops do. It’s about the deeper bonds between the characters and their completely zany quirks; cop stuff is just like, On The Side. So idk just … i completely understand aversion to any cop rhetoric in media that isn’t obviously negative, but maybe before you write off b99 as inherently disgusting or condescend any of its viewers who dare to praise it, maybe actually become familiar with the show itself?

this is important and also just to add on, this is one very small squad (one captain, one sergeant, and like 6 detectives) in one precinct, in one city in the us. it’s known by the characters that, by and large, cops are not like them, and they kind of acknowledge that while they can’t change that, they can themselves be “good cops”. notice how they hate the vulture and wuntch who are portrayed as bad people but also seen as being the kind of cops/captains that the 99 squad wants nothing to do with. notice how in coral palms the cop they run into is all the negative stereotypes of a cop and it truly bothers jake and holt. they know they are not the standard and the show, i think, makes that very clear.

It’s a pretty good visualization of ‘not all cops are bad, but the police system is corrupt’

This should be mentioned every time someone talks about how black people’s culture is “inferior” or how America is a “Christian nation”, because there is no original American art that is white and Christian in origin.

All this is true.  Though I’d add one.  Another Black artistic/cultural development that I do think is truly American is Rock-n-roll.

Musical theater is also an original American art form, and also created by Jews.

Let’s not forget that black people created tap dancing

#what makes this line so iconic?#science doesn’t know

because it’s something usually considered an awkward situation but lilly was so fucking rad that she just refused to feel awkward and just unapologetic and great

#her line delivery here is seared into my brain

ABSOLUTE CRISIS I GAVE THEM THE LEMON DRIZZLE AND THEN THEY INVITED ME IN TO HAVE A SLICE AND A COFFEE WITH THEM AND GAVE ME A TOUR OF THEIR HOUSE AND LET ME HOLD THEIR PUPPY. AND THEN THEY CAME AROUND TO HELP ME BAG UP THE HEDGE CLIPPINGS. THESE MEN ARE NICENESS PROS AND I CANNOT WIN.

The Gay Agenda, everyone.