Before vs After Adoption

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Truthfully the most precious thing I have ever had the privilege to repost.

This makes my heart so happy. ❤️❤️❤️

Loki + threatened

                                                   LITTLE WOMEN 2019 posters

I think my fans pretty much understand me. They know I don’t leave my house, they know that I’m lazy, they know that I’m pretty open but also pretty private. I think we have, in a weird way, a pretty close relationship.

thinking about when taylor went to jury duty and responded that “songwriter” was her occupation

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

A barn rasing:  a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.

because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive. 

What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin” 

LOVE IN LARGE GROUPS WITH OVERWHELMING FORCE DONT ASK FOR PERMISSION AND LET NOTHING STOP YOU

Love in large groups with overhearing force

this is it this is the post that finally makes me sob

… it’s 2020 and I’m still on tumblr

This pandemic is really proving that government has the means to solve all problems they just choose not to

Double standards and examples everywhere in this video!

So many to unpack...the ones that stood out to me the most:

The Man being celebrated in the workplace while the women are all his subordinates, one even raising a coffee mug to “The Man”

The classic trophy wife scenario, while if a woman marries or dates younger she is a cougar or a cradle robber...

The single dad being celebrated as a hero while single moms struggle every day and don’t get any special recognition, it’s just “their job as a parent”.

Women being used as objects for men’s pleasure...

Men getting all the credit for women’s success..

Men using clout from raising money for “women’s charities” to pat themselves on the back when they really have no interest in supporting women...

The ending is the best though.

@taylorswift my brain reads this as “Anything you can do I can do BETTER” not the other way around. GREAT JOB! CONGRATULATIONS on an iconic video! 👏🏻👏🏻 This was definitely worth the wait!

@taylornation @letsgetthesetaylorlove

Best Cameo

this is my new favourite gif

i have never noticed before today that spidey wasn’t real

still laughing about it 3 hours later

Have you noticed her hair’s flying in the wrong direction?

this is just all messed up

Golden Globes 2018 // Oscars 2018 // Oscars 2020 Nominees

I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.

I…wasn’t taught this. Only about penises being broken off as censorship.

When I was in primary school (around 8 or 9) I asked why none of the Egyptian statues had noses. They lied to us and said that they broke off because they were a really fragile bit of the statues so when I learnt the real reason (years later) I was so pissed off with teachers for lying to millions of school children around the world. It’s disgusting and needs to be taught properly.

That’s one of the reasons for all the missing noses out there! But there are other aspects to consider as well.

For one thing, noses are one of many features that wear off over the years. The Great Sphynx, for example, had a whole lot more damage than just the nose before efforts at restoration began:

Lookit the lil dude on its shoulder! Most of it was completely submerged in sand and had to be excavated. Who knows how beautifully it may have been carved before it was eroded by all that sand and wind.

Time and weather definitely aren’t the only cause of missing noses, though. A lot of it was done in malice. Thing is, there are a bunch of different reasons people are malicious.

For one thing, ancient Egyptians were pretty heavily into symbology and the afterlife. All these beautiful statues aren’t just idealized or fantastical imagery; they often depicted real people and gods. From what I gather, the person’s… personhood, essence, soul… was there in representative form. Attacking the statue affected that person, and their ability to affect you from the afterlife along with it. A quick way to “kill” them and save yourself from their wrath if you were, say, a grave robber, was to prevent it from breathing. But of course, if you could easily destroy the whole face, like with hieroglyphs, that was even better.

So long before modern white people came to dig up and steal these artifacts, ancient Egyptians were attacking the art of their own culture. And let’s not forget that this was a culture that was around for over a thousand years. It’s hard to even imagine it, but even late Egyptians who are ancient to us had two whole previous civilizations who were already ancient to them!

There was actually an interesting exhibit about this just last year: https://pulitzerarts.org/exhibition/striking-power/

There’s also this whole thing where Pharaohs really, really wanted to be the most important Pharaoh ever! No one as powerful! Build my statue bigger, my pyramid taller! And if that means defacing the previous guy? Have at it my dude! Shoot, even lesser folks might have someone else’s imagery broken–or even their mummy itself. Not to mention how much mummies and their wrappings were commodified by the modern world and sold by the thousands to be viewed, or made into paint, or ground into “medicinal” powder, or…

Anyway.

Then of course we have the lovely colonizing religion, Christianity, always down to destroy any record of other cultures to promote their own tri/monotheistic creation myth. Can’t have people worshiping “Pagan” imagery, amirite? This has also been practiced by Jews and Muslims and ancient Greeks, etc. But Christians are some of the worst in terms of the sheer volume of their iconoclasm.

Poor Aphrodite here even had a frikkin cross chiseled into her forehead, along with the classic nose removal.

Cutting off the nose was also something that was done to actual people, not just statues. There’s an interesting  page about that here: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/argonautsandemperors/2015/10/23/effaced-the-missing-noses-of-classical-antiquity/ which includes reference to a place in ancient Egypt called Rhinokoloura,  where criminals would be banished to, many of whom were disfigured to both punish and mark them. It has also been called Tjaru. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjaru

Now, none of this is to say that Egyptology doesn’t suffer from immense racism, because holy shit does it ever! People have been trying to suck the colour out of Egypt for decades. There’s a great blog post about it here:  http://kemetexpert.com/race-theory-racism-and-egyptology/ and the rest of the blog is worth checking out too for a perspective that centers Egypt’s Africanness.

I’m by no means an expert on this subject, and I welcome corrections :) This post touched on something I’ve thought about before, and it inspired a handful of hours of research on my part (I miss being a student and having access to more and better sources!). – – – – – – – TL;DR: While we are indeed taught a racist perspective of ancient Egypt, the missing noses is not necessarily a major part of that. There are a number of contributing factors in the chronic noselessness we’ve come to know and hate.

Captain Marvel (2019) dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

So many dudes are freaking out about this and it’s beyond funny because this is pretty much every woman’s fantasy reaction to creepy dudes being assholes from the age of like 10 on up. Like 80% of us would do this every time given the slightest chance of getting out of it alive