@realphilosophytube , “The Philosophy of Antifa”

I feel like US conservatives went from a 3/4 to 7 on transgender people over the course of a year and a half.

Basically, if this passes, the state Florida will take away your children if you are transgender or one of your children is transgender (as the bill notes it will take away cis children if they have a trans sibling).

Absolutely monstrous.

me irl

GONCHAROV (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

My sister has been sending me the most bizarre images made with dalle mini, I really need to share them with you.

absolutely hate this fandom trend of looking at your media of choice’s token female character and being like “ah yes. she is The Holder Of The Braincell. the most reasonable of the group, if not the ONLY reasonable one. she is in control of her emotions, only looking upon the boys’ foolish antics with mild, bemused exasperation for she knows that boys will be boys. she will not participate since she is, after all, the Most Rational of the group, looking over the lads like a nanny, or perhaps even a mother”. like. yawn. I for one would like to see some funny women instead 

“…why are you all sitting at one side of the table, huh?”

The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci (c.1490) WATCHMEN, Zack Snyder (2009)  Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson (2014) The X-files (1993-2018) ALIEN: Covenant, Ridley Scott (2017) That'70s show (1998-2006) M*A*S*H, Robert Altman (1970) Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh (2017) Viridiana, Luis Buñuel (1961) The Simpsons (1989 —)

Seems bad

Barry O'Brian

they're tearing it to pieces on japanese twitter. also, it's racist as fuck.

also it's really stupid. i mean really stupid.

If we all get super lucky someone will sell this to police for enhancing security camera footage and they won’t know what to do with all the white men it generates

They whitewashed my dog

This month I’ve decided to participate in an event called “October,” where for every day in October I’m going to experience a day in October.

Here’s the prompt list I’m using in case anyone wants to join me in this challenge:

Next month I’m thinking of trying out the “No November November” challenge, where I’ll refrain from experiencing November for the whole month of November.

twilight (2008)

a summary of the consequences of my life because I read percy jackson

1. I steal my older brother’s PJO books, read them, and download Pinterest on my Kindle to get my first taste of fandom 

2. I spend a lot of time online, secretly, and am exposed–for the first time–to the fact that it’s weird that I share a room and bed with my dad and am not allowed anywhere else 

3. My dad brings me to a corn field and tells me obama is the anti-christ who’s been sent by god to end the world, as foretold by the bible. I believe this and cry when he’s elected because i don’t want to die 

4. I begin googling and discover that my situation is not great. I begin a careful attempt to ~distance~ myself from my father by sleeping anywhere else through any means possible. Eventually, I’m allowed to sleep in my own room

5. Now that I’ve been exposed to the real world and the fact that I’ve been groomed, I’m not ~obedient~ anymore and my dad Dips(™) to find a new kid. We lose our house and have to move to government housing in a new city 

6. Eventually my parents divorce because of this. My dad moves to a horse ranch. I visit him on the horse ranch, think it’s cool, and invite my friends over for a sleepover. I have my first gay kiss with a girl in a tent. The next day my father tries to ~kill~ me on the horse ranch(™) with a golf cart

7.My dad disappears from the face of the earth. He forgets his phone is connected to the family iMac. We know all about the crimes he is committing. He fakes a heart attack in a Wal-Mart at some point, idk

8. The FBI is onto his life of crime. He flees to Romania to escape them and lives with a millionaire Romanian woman. She’s suspicious of him after a while. She hires a private investigator and unearths his life of lies and crime. He flees to Alaska. He gets a roommate in Alaska. The roommate goes to federal prison. We never hear from my father again. He is, perhaps, dead.

9. It’s revealed to us that my grandmother is also involved. She’s been smuggling drugs from the hospital. She also goes to federal prison. Also apparently my older brother and I aren’t related. This was another scam from my father

Understandable response

uhhhh hh hh hhh

Me reading from point 2 to point 3:

It’s time to activate it…

Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!

Am I having a fucking stroke

world heritage post

this vine is one year old but everything about this is art. the camera rotates a full 180 degrees around a point. the child in the background misses an easy basketball shot then gets hit in the face in the face with a basketball. the fact that this kids name is semi. the fucking beat is three notes and semi kills that shit with one of the hottest bars dropped in this decade. ‘money add then multiply’ means that semi knows his fuckin shit but he doesnt know how to say mathematics. put this fucking vine on a cd so it can be looped by aliens 3000 years in the future

you missed the kid’s genius - he can spell mathematics, he goes an extra step, it’s (M)oney (A)dd (Th)en (M)ultiply, I call that MATHM-Mathematics

world heritage post

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

god those were lawless times. 

i’ve heard a lot of stories about writers that i love but i think my favorite one is that the dragon age writers called the game world “thedas” because it was originally short for “the dragon age setting” and then they just didn’t change it

Okay, here’s my controversial opinion: if you’re writing for an adult audience, you don’t have to “show” that an evil character’s actions are evil, at all, period, outside of maybe like...portraying their consequences with a basic level of realism/honesty, and as an adult reader, you can’t read stories intended for adults with the expectation of being “shown” that bad things are bad/good things are good

stories written for adults generally presume their readers already have ideas about right and wrong, and good stories written for adults expect the reader to reason through and think about the characters’ actions using pre-existing powers of critical thinking

I mean, almost any story worth reading requires a non-zero level of mental participation of the reader. It’s not reasonable to expect stories to be completely unambiguous in their “portrayal” of actions as good or bad, because it’s a given that you, as a reader, are SUPPOSED to think independently about a character’s actions, and the fact that the lowest common denominator readers won’t does not mean you need to More Clearly Portray bad things as bad.

It’s often implied that you have a responsibility to make sure readers come away thinking and feeling the right ways about the actions your characters take, but you’re the writer. You can’t read the book for them. If you want to convey an important message, you have to meet the reader in the middle and give them the raw material to think about, but you can’t go farther and do the thinking FOR them.

A good story is supposed to make you feel and think in new ways. It can’t reach inside you and MAKE you do the right things with this, and the best stories are the ones that don’t try to, but that make that thinking process hard to resist.

Also: A story can have an important, valuable message and still not clearly lead the reader to a moral lesson. Like I hate even saying “message” because it sounds so packaged, but “message” is not a synonym for “unambiguous statement about the moral value of something.”

Like, “abusers use their power and authority to get away with abuse” is a “message.” “War gives young men a way of feeling like they can attain manhood, but leaves them unable to function in a peaceful society” is a “message.” “Poverty leaves people trapped in the patterns of behavior that they used to survive or to cope with it” is a “message.” As an adult reader, you do not need to be taught that “abuse is bad,” “war is bad,” or “poverty is bad,” as if you need to have a whole ass moral compass popped in like a VHS tape.

Books can convey shitty messages. If the book appeared to be portraying that “Poverty is the fault of people who are poor, because they are lazy” you very much could rightfully criticize that!

(And there’s nothing wrong with arguing about the portrayal of things in a story and hating or disagreeing with some aspect of it. Being able to think this way is GOOD. Doing it is good. Even with stories you like.)

But “shitty message about poverty,” for instance, is incredibly different than simply the lack of a clear message on how you’re supposed to judge the behavior of characters who are living in poverty morally.

Sometimes it’s not even that important whether you can personally excuse a character’s actions or judge them as moral or immoral, because the story’s meaning is not really “X is Bad/X is Good.”