Evi

every year some clueless dumbasses get upset like "gays and drag queens at the eurovision??!?" yeah bruh, breaking news, fork found in the kitchen, i genuinely dont understand why you're surprised

"Queers found at the Queer Pageant" yeah no shit

This expresses my feelings precisely.

"you pay more for boujee products because they are made with love and care by small workshops uwu"

steal everything that isn't nailed down come back later with a crowbar

FUN FACT

Many designer brand names make their big designer labels and their affordable lines BOTH in fast fashion sweatshops with similar quality of labor, pay, and other detrimental factors. One of the major differences, of course?

The price they charge you, the consumer, for the finished product.

Paying more for a name brand doesn't free you from fast fashion, because fast fashion is not a consumer issue. It is an industry level failure.

You're absolutely going to see a difference in wear and quality between a $30 pair of fake plastic leather shoes and $100 leather shoes.

You will not see a quality difference between the $100 shoes and $1000 shoes.

So when people talk about avoiding fast fashion they aren’t talking going luxury brand names they are talking about doing your research and supporting ethical clothing companies. For example Little yellow bird in New Zealand sources fair trade cotton, uses fair wage factories and has a service you can send your old natural fiber clothes back to them to be recycled.

Luxury brands aren’t the same thing as slow fashion brands, which this post seems to be implying.

But yes it is in general an industry level failure but support the small companies that are trying to make a difference!

shave meaning full shave, not trimming or maintenance UNLESS it's eyebrows. if you trim or maintain ur eyebrows u don't get to check no. it's the rules yeah

the amount of people saying none of these options apply because their parents make them shave is making me violent 👍

since apparently this is controversial, reblog with your country in the tags and whether or not you think noodles and pasta are the same thing

if u consider yourself a horror fan you like NEED to be aware and educated on the ableism thats been put at the heart of so much horror. like... is that character actually scary or do they just have a limp/scars/disfigurement that real normal people have irl and have to see depicted as horrifying and dehumanizing? if you think any of those things or things like it are scary in ANY context you need to step away from the horror genre and familiarize yourself with the fact that people can and do look like that and they do not deserve to be an object of fear

If you like the word “queer” reblog.

#fun umbrella. we r all sitting under it like the big rainbow thing in elementary school gym class

ppl who oppose gender affirming care for kids are nuts like the extent of medical intervention for trans kids is maybe puberty blockers but they’ll still be like “SO UR SAYING WE SHOULD LET TODDLERS HAVE TOP SURGERY???????” barbara toddlers do not have a top to surgery

Saw someone asking "so do you endorse giving puberty blockers to five year olds?"

Friend, a five year old should not have puberty to block. If they do that's called precocious puberty and is the original reason puberty blockers were invented. If a five year old is going through puberty I absolutely endorse them being given puberty blockers

No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding "but I remain optimistic" at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.

Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn't what you expected or hoped to happen, but you're yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you've now vaguely implied towards might still happen. "He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic."

Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can't be affected. "Apparently it's tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic."

And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. "About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic."

Reblog if you vote! I don't care about sample sizes, I just like hearing about people's pets! also, tell me their names and what kinds of pets they are in the tags!

What

What the fuck

I have to say I love the increasing amount of tik toks made by 20-somethings that start out as pretty fair criticisms of types of people most of us meet at one point or another, but that gradually turn into surrealist horror where you’re not sure how they started anymore, and then abruptly loop back to the starting point at the end. It’s fucking surreal and I love it

I’m sure other people in the notes have pointed this out but I feel like we really can’t overemphasize it

Hi, don't mind me, I'm just thinking about how Merlin isn't your typical male protagonist

From the very beginning, Merlin's character was so appealing to me - not just because of his situation and how it could be relatable in so many ways, but also because of the model of masculinity he represented; something not often portrayed on screen (apart from LOTR). It's like the creators of the show used all the appealing-to-the-male-audience hero points on Arthur (although he isn't stereotypical either, but that's a matter for another post) and there just wasn't anything left for Merlin.

Sure, many age-old tropes pertain to Merlin. The chosen hero, the powerful sorcerer in a body of an unassuming boy, the counselor. The fighter.

But he also fits into roles that are not often portrayed as masculine in TV.

He cries, and not just shedding one manly tear; he ugly-cries, and not only in extreme situations. He cries over a unicorn. Or over the druids' fate.

He takes on nurturing roles: he listens to people's plights, he comforts them. He helps people not like a shiny hero-knight type would, but as a healer, friend, and a listener. He gives shelter to Gwen when her father is imprisoned. He heals Daegal.

It's often emphasized that being gentle is in Merlin's nature. He has a ruthless Emrys side, but his most instinctual magic is about creating beauty. In that, he's almost like an artist protagonist, except many movies about male artists still strive to show them as 'manly', where BBCM doesn't. They just show him being overjoyed by beauty.

And yeah, he's queercoded. Sometimes it's very stereotypical (like with all those jokes of 'haha, Merlin wears a dress').

And he doesn't get a female love interest except for Freya. It's very interesting with Freya, though. Very often, when we have a story about an underdog, a nerdy, less popular guy who finally manages to obtain a female love interest, stories are written so that he has to 'man up' to gain the love (fight for her in a very macho way, make big gestures etc.). But in The Lady of the Lake episode, Merlin wins his love by being caring and nurturing - and the same episode makes those dress jokes! It's a rather unusual situation for modern TV. Merlin doesn't lose any of his ambiguity, but he still gains love, at least temporarily. Well, maybe that's why Freya dies...

I've heard some opinions in fandom that Freylin in canon doesn't feel like it's really love, but more as if Merlin has found kinship. And I agree, it's sudden and it's very teenager-y, and much of Merlin's love is tied to the fact that he can share magic with Freya freely. But I also wonder if some of this doesn't also tie to the fact that we're not used to romance being portrayed that way - at least not in films that are catered to men. Sure, male love interests are often portrayed as romantic and caring in movies catering to women (mostly romantic comedies) - but it's not something we expect in an adventure story. But in The Lady of the Lake, Merlin is nurturing, gentle and caring, and he helps Freya calm down in her bastet form and prevents her from killing more people.

Merlin takes on an anti-violent role. Instead of fighting for a girl, he de-escalates the situation.

And that, for a male protagonist in an adventure fantasy story, is really unusual.

(btw I wrote more about Merlin's masculinity in connection to Freylin and Mergwen here)

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it would be interesting to know how detailed the direction was, whether it was specified that merlin should cry with tears unstoppably flowing or a single tear would have been enough, but either way colin made the best of it

What if there was an apocalypse but some people were really really in denial and optimistic and thinking everything will be back to normal soon?

Like they’d be foraging through the ruins of New York for supplies, shooting raiders in the face and saying “Man, this recession is really bad, huh?”

Umm….

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

this post, plus that satire one about the increasingly ridiculous callout culture that slowly became more and more accurate

this one

was anything going on in 2017??? did everyone randomly have prophetic visions????????

Another one from 2017 by @nullsynth

the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

turns out we had the 2020 vision after all

“the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls” is actually a really fucking metal quote and i will be using it in the future

@handoverthehands it’s from Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. Referenced as well in Spirit of the Radio by Rush and again in Disturbed’s cover of the original.

And that in itself was a reference to the Book of Daniel from the bible, when the words of the prophet were written on the Babylonian palace walls.

In the real world, it’s not the kings and people in power who see the signs of doom, but the poor people in the subway, helpless to stop it.

what happened on this post

Dino cube :)

My 2 year old son is obsessed with your Dino cube. When I showed him he audibly gasped and took my phone from me so he could zoom in and look at different parts of Dino cube. He looked at Dino cube’s face and turned to me and said “happy!!!” and I said yes, Dinosaur is happy!

He spent 5 minutes just admiring every part of Dino cube, he would’ve spent longer if I’d let him lol. Picture saved so he can look more later.

Genuinely the cutest thing I’ve read :’) Your sons “happy!!” comment is the single most greatest art critique I’ve received

This makes it so much harder for Spoonies, who make up the bulk of people who need them. 🤬

I the whole thing and it’s not as dire as expressed in some of the comments.

Clarifying because a lot of the people in the notes are panicking because they think it will affect their refills or make them see a doctor every time they need it renewed. This decision is still crummy.

It sucks for people who have barriers to physically getting to a doctors office and there is an important discussion in what can be done to increase accessibility to seeing a doctor face to face in those cases.

and yes there is a nuanced discussion that needs be had about how to address substance abuse of prescription drugs in a way that doesn’t deprive those who need the drugs for their quality of life, and some may feel this goes too far (addiction is such a complicated topic I don’t feel educated enough to have an opinion on this specific decision)

I am also coming from a place in the community. I have adhd but due to regulations in my country I am struggling to get the prescriptions I need. So I completely understand that, but also I don’t want people to just read the title and panic.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations

3. Nature of violation

to simplify: churches are forbidden to promote specific political parties or candidates, in order to maintain tax-exempt status.  no religious institution is allowed to make explicit political statements, including “this party is bad,” “this party is good,” “you should vote for x,” “you should not vote for x,” or “let’s raise money for x political party or campaign.”  all of those things are super illegal!  if they’re going to act as a political entity, they need to pay taxes like any other political entity!  report their asses!!!!

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL - REBLOG IT ….. REPEATEDLY

My American followers, please do your part

these people tell on themselvesss like they’ll swear up and down that skincare is about ✨self care✨ and 🌱health 🌱 and 🤍 pampering yourself 🤍 and not an obsessive fear of aging and ugliness that’s being exploited by a 100 billion dollar industry, but if you express any modicum of surprise or exasperation or disinterest at their nightly twelve-step routine, they’re like shut up you ugly wrinkled dusty hag. umm okay patrick bateman but i thought it was about self care not beauty 🤔