booyah!!

everyone who hasn't heard must get the news via this meme

not to post about barbie movie but america ferrera’s speech at the end - while it has been hailed as a masterpiece in feminist writing by some - just fell so, so incredibly flat for me. i don’t know, but i think the whole “it’s so hard to be a woman! you have to be confident, but not too confident; thin, but not too thin; a working woman, but also a mother” etc. narrative kind of…doesn’t like, actually apply in real life? if you’re a celebrity, or a corporate worker, then yeah, sure, maybe. (though i think like, maybe a total of 1 person ever has been considered “too thin.”) but i don’t see this struggle of How To Be A Woman at all in my real life😭 and i don’t know, maybe the republican suburb i live in is secretly a feminist utopia, but i don’t see anyone making these demands of most women! or maybe i’m just a lesbian, so i’ve never felt the need to cater my whole existence toward what men feel about me - but then, would greta gerwig think i’m a woman?

LEE SOO HYUK in SCHOLAR WHO WALKS THE NIGHT (2015) as GWI

i am looking directly at it

everyone what is your favorite badly rated or b movie that u just love. mine is sucker punch

The Barbie Movie is peak white feminism...period.

Uh so I made a character bingo if anyone wants to try it (:

I'll do anyone from Obey Me, JJBA, JJK, AOT, Bleach, Berserk, Star Wars, or from any of the shows I've seen :3

oh u alr know i’m gonna ask for anakin but... what about obi wan? 

>:)

GET THE FUCKING ADOPTION PAPERS BC SOMEONE NEEDS TO MOTHER HIM

OISDUFIAS DFAS DF;SAFD; JULES I DO INFACT WANT TO HEAR A TEN HOUR SPEECH ABOUT HIM..

can another billionaire die i'm tired of hearing about these two movies

behind every hot girl is a tbr of 100+ books

Benji and Q working together on location doing typey typey

i also have district and circle ! was published in the early 2000s, not exactly one of his iconic works but the genius still shines through. i rlly liked ‘a shiver’

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

Draw your own conclusions.