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this is my fav video now
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I watched WITHOUT sound at first and can I just say, big mistake.
Anonymous asked:
'Hurry up i'm in a hurry' well Karen then you shouldn't go grocery shopping during our peak hours when you're running behind on your errands or some shit. the field of fucks i give is barren, i will uphold the social distancing rules which mean that i will not start scanning your order until the customer in front of you has packed and left. we're in the middle of a pandemic so deal with it.
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Y’all don’t understand. This building is on the city’s logo and promotional tourist material. It stands in a traffic circle in the middle of downtown, where, aside from a placque on the interior wall, there is no context to inform passerby the original purpose of the building. (White) people take ~aesthetic~ photographs of the sun shining through the arches and sell prints of these photos for over $100. While the organizers of the Fayetteville protest denounced this action, this was a very powerful act against the ongoing legacy of white supremacy, and it was a long time coming.
I live here and I will admit, I never knew what it was used for, but I get scared now because I live alone in town and while I do believe they have a right to protest and even burn down a building like this, what good does it do? Why hurt the small buisnessess around it? It just seems to be making things worse and more terrifying for those uninvolved or even those peacefully involved
I remember one time someone tried to compare JKR and Rick Riordan to me and claimed that Rick is also writing representation for publicity but they are literally in no way comparable?? Like?
JKR:
- Never shows Dumbledore as explicitly gay as canon
- Falsely claimed that Hermione had never been described as white even though she had
- Gave Cho Chang, a Chinese character, a name made of two Korean surnames
- Took South Asian mythology and cast an East Asian woman to play the character, who is literally a pet snake to wizard hitler and whose hobby is to obey her master
- When asked if Charlie is gay, responded ‘no, Dumbledore’s gay’
- Made Queenie, a Jewish woman, side with the other wizard hitler
- Compared lycanthropy to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and made one werewolf go around biting children
- Signed off on Cursed Child. Enough said about that
- Made a super side character Jewish in a tweet
- Had Dumbledore repeatedly send Harry back to people he knew were abusing him
Rick:
- Literally made the series so his son with ADHD and dyslexia could feel represented
- Makes a major character in PJO gay and gives him a boyfriend in canon
- Addressed abusive and neglectful parents without having people enabling said parents
- Wrote a load of main characters that are canonically POC (Hazel, Piper, Frank, Alex, Leo, Grover, Carter, Sadie, Sam, etc.)
- Has a relationship between a homeless guy and a mixed-race genderfluid trans girl
- Wrote a deaf elf character and a male dwarf who loves fashion
- Wrote about internalised homophobia and heternormativity
- Has a hijabi Muslim main character
- The main characters in Kane Chronicles are mixed race and talk about how people assume that Sadie isn’t related to Carter because she’s white-passing
- Apollo is canonically bisexual and is the POV character in ToA
- Used his popularity to help publish a book about Hindu folklore written by a Filipina/Indian woman so his fanbase would be able to read an accurate representation of the lore
Maybe Rick’s representation isn’t perfect all the time, but at least he used his platform to try to give as much canon representation as he can and in a way that children can understand, instead of just tweeting about it and refusing to put it in his books
Sokka: Aang y'know how you took away Ozai’s firebending?
Aang: I recall yes
Sokka: can I have it
Aang: …what?
Sokka: can I have his firebending. just for like ten minutes
Aang: what no
Sokka: why not I wanna prank zuko
Aang:
Aang:
Aang: okay five minutes
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This fukn post had me reeling so ofc I had to draw it
hi take everything I own
There’s more!
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i love cats that sit like this. thank you, cats that sit like this
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the fact that anyone has to fucking explain this blows my mind
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teach, child.
So I know Barley to us looks like a DnD loving, punk nerd but like in the context of the movie it’s so funny cuz he’s just a major history buff?? He’s the equivalent of a guy Who likes to dress up and use Georgian era lingo.
i learned that you are less likely to die during an economic depression. This is mostly attributed to cleaner air, reduced traffic, and fewer dollars spent on vices like tobacco and alcohol (x)
*shows up 15 months late with starbucks* anyway here’s my vine compilation
Fuck, Millennials are fucking hilarious
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I always feel better about youths after a good vine comp.
t-t-t-t-t-target!!!!!
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“Do you speak any Japanese?”
“I’m Chinese I don’t speak any-”
“‘Cause if you do, I’ll sleep with you right now.”
“MITSUBISHI, TOYOTA”
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“Bitch cone get me, not only is he ugly but his dishes talk!” “Who you talking to Belle?” “Uh… No one…. bitch that was his plate!”
Amanda: Sarek and I are having another kid.
Kirk: Wow, congratulations M-
Amanda, slamming papers down: It’s you, sign here.
Kirk: This is a marriage license and an official name change certificate.
Spock: Mother, are you proposing to Jim for me?
say what you will about the world ending and 2020 being hell. since quarantines started, the air is filled with laughter and talk. i hear kids playing in backyards with their family. i hear people talking happily on the phone with loved ones. everyone has their doors open to the porches at our apartment. you smell cooking, see the lights of backyard firepits, hear children delighted to spend time with parents that are never home. i love the videos of people playing music with their neighbors, playing bingo from their balconies, pranking their family members, and streaming with their friends. i love that my mom and dad keep stealing access to netflix because they are home from work and finally have a chance to watch movies together. my neighbors wave at me when i take the dog out while they laugh with each other over a beer. i know more than anything its a commentary on capitalism but it’s still great to see people being people. its good to know there are still humans and that they are being relentlessly, beautifully human, regardless of what happens.
My absolute faves - a spirk fic rec list
No one asked for it, but I’m doing it anyway.
JIM KIRK/SPOCK
→ Papers in the Roadside: 50k, rated E
Summary: Non-Starfleet AU. Jim owns a small bar in Chicago, keeps on picking up strays and taking care of everyone no matter how hard it makes his own life. Spock is a journalist writing feature articles for the Chicago Tribune; he depicts the world with uncanny skill, but hides more than one personal drama and is possibly under surveillance from the Vulcan royal family. They meet by accident just before their lives start to spin out of control.
This is one of the few AU’s I really love of spirk.
→ Something Smart to Do: 21k, rated M
Summary: In which Jim finds himself fake-married to his first officer every other month. It’s not his fault. Mostly. Dowries and Klingons are involved. Starfleet is decidedly not amused.
The 5+1, pretend relationship we all love.
→ Jealous Orbits: 5k, rated E
Summary: In which Kirk and Spock have had sex half a dozen times, but this time it counts.
Probably my all time fave, it has everything I love about this pairing.
→ Kiss Me (or Five Times Jim Kirk Had To Steal a Kiss From His First Officer, and One Time He Didn’t Have To): 2,5k, rated T
Summary: In which Kirk and Spock have had sex half a dozen times, but this time it counts.
I love 5+1 fics, that’s a really good and fluff one.
→ Lessons of Love: 28k, multichapter, rated M
Summary: Spock visits his father on New Vulcan before the five-year mission and he takes his still recovering captain with him.
Friends to lovers with the help of Spock Prime, I’m a sucker for this.
→ These Things Tend to Get Messy: 5k, rated E
Summary: A lot, Jim tells himself. A lot of heartbreak.
Or:It begins because aliens make them do it, and then it becomes one of those things.
A trope I absolutly love but that is not much explored: fuckbuddies. Also, aliens made them do it.
→ Twist the Knife: 5k, rated E
Summary: “Captain,” Spock says, as elegant on his knees as he was standing up. “You are a man for whom action speaks louder than word. I endeavor to prove my loyalty, now and always, in language you will understand.“
It’s a TOS spirk set on the mirror!verse. It’s dark and I love it.
→ Chains of Command: 9k, rated E
Summary: Admitting to each other that they are in love is not an issue. The problem is revealing it to everyone else.
This is how Jim and Spock’s relationship would be if Starfleet actually enforced fraternization regulations.
Angst. Pining. Love it!
→ Five Times Spock Was Sexted Anonymously: 5k, rated E and less than three is just a tease (send those nudes, make me drool): 5k, rated E
I love, love, love this trope, but there are so few fics of them sexting. Why?
→ How We Got Together: 3,5k, rated E
Friends to lovers, developing relationship, it’s so well done, feels so right!
→ Paper Tigers: 92k, multichapter, rated E
Summary:Thirty years ago, the war between Earth and Vulcan ended with a shaky armistice. Now, Earth’s monarchs hope their volatile neighbors might formalize peace and ally with them against a growing Klingon threat. But Vulcans are fiercely independent, and are currently fighting their own war against a rebel insurgence. An alliance remains unlikely.In spite of this, the two planets’ sons, Prince James Kirk of Earth and Dorli Kahr-lan Spock of Vulcan, find themselves passionately drawn toward each other the moment they meet, and their own private alliance could change everything.
AU, pre-reform Vulcan. Hot as a Vulcan desert.
→ Devil’s Bargain: 17,5k, rated E
Summary: Set after TMP. Spock’s impending pon farr makes him wary of agreeing to a second five-year mission, so Kirk agrees to lend a hand (so to speak) should the situation arise. What could possibly go wrong?
TOS spirk, pon far.
→ Send Me the Moon: 6k, rated Teen & Up
Summary: Vulcan is sixteen light years from Earth. When James T Kirk is twenty-two, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute receives a transmission from a six-year-old Vulcan child named Spock. 21st Century AU.
It’s a very unique view into their relationship.
And, the ones that make my heart melts: the best kid fics out of here!
→ So Wise We Grow: 81k, rated M
Summary: "Commander Spock, we have located your son,” the Vulcan lady on the screen says, which would be great, except Jim can tell by the look on Spock’s face that he’s never heard of this kid before in his life. “If it is expedient, the child will be sent to join you on the Enterprise within the week.”
Spock has to deal with a Vulcan child that’s supposedly his son. Jim tries to help.
→ The Trouble with Vulcan-Human Hybrids: 54k, mutichapter, rated Teen & Up
Summary: A story in which Spock and Kirk meet their future children when accidental time travel happens. Future Spock and Kirk have twin children, a son and daughter, who each take after their parents in unique ways. After a bit of an accident, the two children are thrown into an Enterprise where Dad and Father are still only coworkers, learning how to get along with each other.
I love their kids so much in this fic!
→ a sequence that you never learned: 64k, multichapter, rated E
Summary: “‘Spock,’ Jim breathes out, completely overwhelmed by the gesture—not quite believing that Spock knows him so well, that’s he’s already started researching, that he trusts Jim with a member of his own endangered species.
"When Jim gets it in his head to adopt an eight year old Vulcan, Spock presents a logical solution to the issue of Jim’s humanity: marriage to a Vulcan citizen.
I love this Vulcan boy so much, I can’t even start to tell…
*listens to ur heart with a stethoscope* *takes ur temperature* *flashes a light in ur eyes* yep…. it’s exactly as i expected…. ur really cute….. *writes a prescription for lots of kisses*
The reason most millennials don’t make a scene when an establishment doesn’t treat them right is because we function more on positive reinforcement than negative reinforcement. For Boomers, they can make a scene because they know negative reinforcement gets them what they want; they want to PUNISH these establishments or workers, but Millennial purchasing patterns are very different.
Growing up in the computer age, we’ve become masterful at filtering junk information, and that includes advertising. It doesn’t matter how much a politician or restaurant or whatever memes, we’ll find them funny, but we’re still not going to shop there or give them our money of we dislike them. The way brands become successful with Millennials is actually just word of mouth.
So when an establishment treats us poorly, we don’t make a scene. We simply never go back and don’t tell our friends about it. Conversely, places that treat us well we immediately go tell others about.
The simplest ways to get Millennials to support your business is to give them good economic value for what you sell (Boomers can think we’re irresponsible, but we’re actually quite thrifty), you have to treat us with dignity, but ALSO, you have to treat your WORKERS with dignity. Unlike Boomers who get off on laughing at someone working at McDonald’s, we’ve all had to work shitty, underpaying jobs and we don’t like when we go to an establishment and see workers mistreated and poorly paid, because WE’VE BEEN THERE, and we don’t want to contribute to that gross abuse of the working class.
These rich CEOs can complain that Millennials have “no brand loyalty” or that we’re “killing XYZ industry,” but the truth is that selling to us consistently requires ethical business practices that most of these companies are unwilling to partake in.
everyone watching steven universe seasons 1-5: oh man this sure is gonna traumatize steven
steven universe future: steven’s traumatized
everyone:
How people thought cute little Steven would externalize his trauma: *singing and crying*
How cute little Steven externalizes his trauma: *micromanaging people to feel like he has a purpose, forcing people to do as he thinks it’s right, bottling up his feelings despite learning time and time again how toxic this is, unleashing destructive powers at the drop of a hat, not wanting people to change and “abandon” him, harboring resentful feelings towards his guardians who love him but failed him many times*
“Bro I don’t like this new Steven” BRO THERE WAS NEVER ANY NEW STEVEN, WELCOME TO HOW ACTUAL TRAUMA WORKS.
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fuck. the final fucktier. these are the fucks of the fuckship fuckterprise
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