when you’re working in class and suddenly a theater kid starts singing some dear evan broadway shit and then five more join in

I am the theater kid lol

WIP - Going Away On Holiday 

This is supposed to be England sarcastically listing off the “fantastic” features of their very outdated bed and breakfast they’re staying at for the weekend while waiting for their train and America playing along oohing and awwing. But I got a bit in perfectionist mode and drained my energy cleaning up the piece and not working on a background. I don’t know when I’ll come back to this piece so I thought to post what I had done

Audrey says “fuck your gender roles”

This movie is super underrated.

Audrey is so underrated. How can you not love her?

I have a love-hate relationship with this movie. On one hand it’s got awesome PoC characters who defy racial and gender stereotypes. It also discusses colonialism and how people tend to destroy indigenous cultures to obtain land and resources (which is why the crew ultimately decided a to pretend they never found Atlantis because they don’t want anyone else to try and destroy the culture). But on the other hand, the whole plot is that Atlantis needs a white, cishet man to save it from extinction and for some reason he understand their culture and language better than they do.

hEY FUCK YOU OKAY MILO WAS THE ANTITHESIS OF WHITE SAVIOR HE WAS A NERDY USELESS LITTLE SHIT WHO WAS COWARDLY UNTIL OTHERS FORCED HIM TO ACT HIS ONLY STRENGTHS WERE HIS MIND AND HIS ETHICS HE WAS THE PERFECT DUDE FOR THE JOB AND THE REASON HE KNEW BETTER WAS BECAUSE HE RIGOROUSLY STUDIED TEXTS THAT HAD BEEN LOST OR DESTROYED IN ATLANTIS BECAUSE KIDA’S FATHER INTENTIONALLY LET HIS KINGDOM LAPSE INTO DECAY AND OBSCURITY DO NOT PULL THAT WHITE SAVIOUR BULLSHIT BECAUSE MILO WAS A DAMN GOOD DUDE

I’ve been trying to tell people this for years. Also, what differentiates Milo’s experience from the white savior complex is his expectation and his attitude. When looking for Atlantis, the last thing Milo expects to find are people. He says the most they thought that they would find are carvings and pottery. And he would have been happy with just that.

And even when he finds the Atlanteans, he treats the culture and people with the utmost respect (peek the scene where the crew has their audience with the king). He never tries to interfere in the people’s way of life nor change them. He’s merely an observer fascinated with the culture/people and just wants to know more about them.

In most movies, the white savior comes into the situation with an attitude of superiority and only through his interactions with the native people (and a lot of times a beautiful native woman) is he humbled and then eventually brought in as an honorary member of the people. Milo never asks for thanks or wants to make a name for himself. He does what he does because he loves it and it’s a way to keep his grandfather’s legacy alive.

Yeah. Milo was a damn good dude.

And another thing about Milo that’s made evidenced by this scene in particular? He’s got respect for women. He doesn’t ask why it’s a GIRL mechanic on the expedition, only why it’s a TEENAGER. Doesn’t question Kida’s leadership and knowledge when he meets her. (I can’t think of more examples off the top of my head but I’m sure they’re there).

Milo is a wonderful Disney protagonist, and this movie deserves the underground love it receives.

((Reasons why space Jam 2 is late/never happening))

Do you ever see an art style so rad that it just blows your nipples clean off and you have to follow the artist immediately? Well, I encountered one such artist, and just went on a forty-five minute Google hunt to track them down because my initial introduction to their work turned out to be a repost.

I reported the repost (and a few others I found along the way), did all that Pinterest dodging to find their actual blog, dug through the blog to find the particular piece I’d originally liked so I could have a guilt-free reblogging experience, and you know what???

The really nice Gravity Falls piece I liked was an isolated incident and the rest of their work is Gorillaz inflation porn. I’m so mad.

For Eternity

Author: Butterfish

Summary:  Alfred and Arthur have a past together - but what is it and how did they end up the way they are today? At an old age Arthur is interviewed about his past as a criminal robbing banks together with his lover Alfred. But the interview turns out to be something more.

Read it on AO3.

Argy got a new collar with his name on it! Cute!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BW7Y2EWhgrn/

bisexual culture is being very specific with the men you’re interested in but having absolutely no type when it comes to girls because they’re all so beautiful

ok but headcanon that america owns like 200 fidget spinners and one day it’s finally quiet at a world meeting and you just hear a slight ’vshhh’ sound and everyone just turns towards america who’s spinning like 50 spinners and england strangles him

The Smiths - This Charming Man

@zzi_oni

Standby

Author: Car

Summary:  Arthur was never going to fly standby ever again. Sure, it was convenient that his brother was a pilot and could get him tickets a fourth of the price of a regular ticket, but that didn’t do him any bloody good when he spent six hours at the airport because he couldn’t get on a flight. Oh well, at least he could admire that cute American while he waited… USUK

Read it on ff.net.

In the East my Pleasure Lies

Author: RobinRocks

Summary:  USUK AU: It’s 1937 in Egypt and historian Arthur Kirkland and his eccentric, genius accomplice, Alfred Jones, plot to steal The Heart of Ra from the University of Cairo. If all goes to plan, its owner, Turkish collector Sadiq Adnan, won’t even notice. Mini multi-chapter fic.

Read it on ff.net.

The Second World’s War

Author: RobinRocks

Summary:  USUK. On 4th July, 1950, America unloops history in his bid to rid the world of Communism. The result is the initiation of War Plan Red: war with Great Britain and all that inevitably follows in 1939.

Read it on ff.net.

Fluffytalk: RobinRocks is a brilliant writer and this really drills in the precarious balance our world is in. It’s an eye opener. And you better read it. Do it.