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His knees gave in near the top 😂
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Lmfaoooooooooooo
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Remember that whole post that @i-am-a-fish made saying that ‘if you have knees, you are valid’ but then someone pointed out homophobes also have knees and then @i-am-a-fish replied ‘not for long’
Yeah. That.
did you take his knees ovo
another day another knee
Wonder Woman is a love letter. She is a fantasy. She comes from a distant place where there is beauty and justice, and respect. I write what I see about women I know women who are every bit as just and strong, and capable as Wonder Woman. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) dir. Angela Robinson
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) dir. Angela Robinson
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) dir. Angela Robinson
“We gotta cut the kinky shit by, by what?” “Fifty. Fifty to sixty percent.” └ Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, dir. Angela Robinson (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017, dir. Angela Robinson)
She is beautiful, guileless, kind, and pure of heart. You are brilliant, ferocious, hilarious, and a grade A bitch. Together, you are the perfect woman.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) dir. Angela Robinson
PRIDE MONTH CELEBRATION WEEK Day 4: Favourite Character: Elizabeth Marston PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMAN (2017)
Book: *physically hurts to read* Me: *highly recommends*
I thought this was my hometown for a second
So this has actually been cited by academics as part of the major draw to online spaces is the fact that just existing in public is reacted to with hostility and punishment. Gretchen McCulloch discussed this is in her book Because Internet, citing research that shows teens and young adults want to be outside! We want to spend time in social places, it’s just that there aren’t any places to exist in public without being charged for it.
When I was homeless as a kid my little brother and I loved to go to the library. We would keep warm in there reading good books all day long. Until residents of the town complained about us “loitering” at the library each day. The library staff then told us we were no longer allowed to stay more than an hour at a time. Imagine seeing two homeless children spending their entire days quietly reading just to keep out of the cold and having a damn problem with it.
Here’s a relevant passage from Because Internet!
Even the fact that teens use all kinds of social networks at higher rates than twenty-somethings doesn’t necessarily mean that they prefer to hang out online. Studies consistently show that most teens would rather hang out with their friends in person. The reasons are telling: teens prefer offline interaction because it’s “more fun” and you “can understand what people mean better.” But suburban isolation, the hostility of malls and other public places to groups of loitering teenagers, and schedules packed with extracurriculars make these in-person hangouts difficult, so instead teens turn to whatever social site or app contains their friends (and not their parents). As danah boyd puts it, “Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.”
Just like the teens who whiled away hours in mall food courts or on landline telephones became adults who spent entirely reasonable amounts of time in malls and on phone calls, the amount of time that current teens spend on social media or their phones is not necessarily a harbinger of what they or we are all going to be doing in a decade. After all, adults have much better social options. They can go out, sans curfew, to bars, pubs, concerts, restaurants, clubs, and parties, or choose to stay in with friends, roommates, or romantic partners. Why, adults can even invite people over without parental permission and keep the bedroom door closed! (page 102-103)
The source I’d really recommend for lots more on this topic is It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd, a highly readable ethnography spanning a decade of observation of how teens use social media. Here are a couple relevant excerpts:
I often heard parents complain that their children preferred computers to “real” people. Meanwhile, the teens I met repeatedly indicated that they would much rather get together with friends in person. A gap in perspective exists because teens and parents have different ideas of what sociality should look like. Whereas parents often highlighted the classroom, after-school activities, and prearranged in-home visits as opportunities for teens to gather with friends, teens were more interested in informal gatherings with broader groups of peers, free from adult surveillance. Many parents felt as though teens had plenty of social opportunities whereas the teens I met felt the opposite.
Today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation. Many middle-class teenagers once grew up with the option to “do whatever you please, but be home by dark.” While race, socioeconomic class, and urban and suburban localities shaped particular dynamics of childhood, walking or bicycling to school was ordinary, and gathering with friends in public or commercial places—parks, malls, diners, parking lots, and so on—was commonplace. Until fears about “latchkey kids” emerged in the 1980s, it was normal for children, tweens, and teenagers to be alone. It was also common for youth in their preteen and early teenage years to take care of younger siblings and to earn their own money through paper routes, babysitting, and odd jobs before they could find work in more formal settings. Sneaking out of the house at night was not sanctioned, but it wasn’t rare either. (page 85-86)
From wealthy suburbs to small towns, teenagers reported that parental fear, lack of transportation options, and heavily structured lives restricted their ability to meet and hang out with their friends face to face. Even in urban environments, where public transportation presumably affords more freedom, teens talked about how their parents often forbade them from riding subways and buses out of fear. At home, teens grappled with lurking parents. The formal activities teens described were often so highly structured that they allowed little room for casual sociality. And even when parents gave teens some freedom, they found that their friends’ mobility was stifled by their parents. While parental restrictions and pressures are often well intended, they obliterate unstructured time and unintentionally position teen sociality as abnormal. This prompts teens to desperately—and, in some cases, sneakily—seek it out. As a result, many teens turn to what they see as the least common denominator: asynchronous social media, texting, and other mediated interactions. (page 90)
Anyway, more people need to read It’s Complicated, danah boyd really takes young people and technology seriously and doesn’t patronize or sensationalize, and it was a huge influence on me in figuring out the tone for Because Internet so I want to make sure it gets credit!
i think part of the reason why so many of us our losing our minds over phase four is because we’re actually seeing what a difference it makes when you have female directors. we have kari skogland for tfatws, kate herron for loki, cate shortland for black widow, and soon to be chloé zhao with the eternals, making SO MUCH of the mcu content we received this year directed by women. it’s just nice to see women in the directing chair for the mcu and honestly just in general. that’s all. it’s been long overdue <3
Blindspotting (2018) dir. Carlos López Estrada
Tall ass bike, big ass beard. Told ya man the whole city gettin weird. The more of them pop up the more of us disappear, and the peer groups still dippin out we ain’t scared. But we missin’ tho, homeless out here just pissin’ bro, camped outside the liquor store, but I keep wonderin’ where all the liquor go. It’s a coffee shop now, latte’s and espresso’s. Hard problems out here, lot of stuff we gotta wrestle, with. It’s a bit of a mental, shift. Be careful on the scene though. City feelin’ like a sea saw. Can’t believe all the kind of things that we saw. Shit, I remember growing up now the streets raw. Now all I see is paws, and dogs. Little pocket sized purses with bitches in em. Carried by bitches. Who ain’t tryna catch the rythmn. They want the bounce but they don’t want a motherfucka like me, so they try to get me up out they body like an exorcism. They can catch the vision. That’s what the town use to be about. Pitt Bulls and Shepard’s. Now it’s about littler dudes in littler sweaters. I was yellin at em, bro get your shit together. You look like you ain’t even tryin, do better.
Sebastian Stan attending Deadline’s Contenders Festival on November 4th, 2017.
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Rafael Casal as Miles Turner in Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada, 2018)