Timeless (2016) S1E012 - The Murder of Jesse James 

Bass Reeves, protrayed by Colman Domingo. Rufus Carlin, protrayed by Malcolm Barrett.

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Bass Reeves was so dedicated to the law, he even arrested his own son Bennie for the murder of his wife. Bennie was sentenced to life in prison. With over 3000 arrests, 14 kills, went his entire 32 year career in law enforcement without being shot once.

He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.

Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.

He was one of the true gun slingers of the west.

I would expect nothing less from a man with such a magnificent mustache

I love the story of Bass Reeves!

One of his famous tactics was, if he was captured or in danger by a criminal he was hunting down, he would ask them to read a letter from his wife before they killed him. He used their distraction to free himself and get the upper hand.

He was also a freed slave. George Reeves, his owner and reason for his surname, took Bass with him to fight in the Civil War. However, George became violently angry after Bass beat him at a card game, and Bass was forced to fight him (or kill, on some accounts) in self defense.

After running away and entering Native American territory, Bass learned how to speak the languages of the ‘Five Civilized Tribes’ (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole). This part of his life is where he mastered marksmanship. He got married and had a family after the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, and then later became a Marshal, going on the adventures listed above (and many more… Another famous criminal that Bass captured was Bob Dozier.)

He was the very first black US Marshal. May we never forget him, as history would suffer to lose such an outstanding figure.

Always, always, always reblog Bass Reeves.

more like BOSS Reeves, amirite

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cishets love the new “queer not lgbt !!!!” shit cause now they a) get to use that Special Naughty Slur with no consequences, b) get to use a vague nonspecific term for all of us so they dont have to specifically acknowledge our individual experience and identity, and c) get to pretend that they dont have privilege cause theyre kinky or whatever and thats queer right :)

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JOSS WHEDON LOCKED GAL GADOT IN A ROOM AND THREATENED HER CAREER BECAUSE SHE REFUSED TO DO THE TIT SCENE IN JUSTICE LEAGUE????? ELECTRIC CHAIR

EXCUSE ME?????????

so this tweet was in 2018, everyone thought it was just exaggerated and a lot of half-truths, but now it’s actually looking like it’s 100% real:

THEN ray fisher (cyborg) tweeted this yesterday: 

and gal gadot’s stunt double (who was forced to do the ‘flash-falls-into-wonder-woman’s-tits a la hulk and black widow scene, because gal outright refused to do that + a lot of lines from reshoots) commented this on ray’s IG post (his post is a video of him saying joss whedon is a ~great~ director [which looks obviously forced and jason clearly doesn’t agree, like the studio made him say it] and his caption was “I’d like to take a moment to forcefully retract every bit of this statement”: 

and I’m not even going to begin to talk about how ben affleck attributes the justice league reshoots in more or less words to the reason why he quit batman altogether. joss is a horrible person, I said it after age of ultron, I said it after I read his g*d awful, misogynistic and slut-shaming wonder woman script, and I’m saying it again now that ray fisher is risking his career speaking out about a high-ranking director

Women in Bradley County Jail are being kept in horrible, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions. Literally signs for help in the window.

The best way to help is to bail them out!!

Please if you have a couple of dollars to spare we are doing our best to get as many women out. Women who can’t, will get money in their commissary for sanitary products.

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full offense but until there are studies or reputable accounts of asexual people facing corrective rape specifically for their asexuality I don’t want to hear that word come out of anyone’s mouth but wlw. corrective rape is a violent homophobic act that is done toward wlw (and sometimes gay men particularly in conversion therapies but that’s a whole other situation) and to claim otherwise is watering down the traumatic experience of many wlw.

Can we please shift the conversation from whether labels are "valid" and start asking substanial questions such as are they useful? Are they useful politically or for building communities and movements? Do they make sense? How are they materially different from other labels? What kind of message do they send about people who don't subscribe to that label? Why would we need them? What are they based on? What is their history, origin and purpose? Are they useful irl? Why do they make use feel different than older, more stigmatised labels?

Let's move beyond individual feelings and immediate gratification and start asking what's useful and helpful for us as a movement if we want to achieve material change

the government be like hey guys the pandemic is over! but also no it’s not :) it’s totally fine to go out now but like still stay home! wear a mask but you don’t have to! stay six feet apart but like if you wanna go to a concert packed with hundreds of people that’s totally fine too!! Anyways guys stay safe out there haha :)

if the pandemic is over, no it’s not. don’t go out because it’s over. no it isn’t. yes ❤️

4th of july. May this be the last one of americas existence.

remember to cover up when burning your american flags so you dont breathe in harmful fumes!

bi wlw dont need to have everything in common with lesbians to be "full wlw". bi wlw are as much wlw as lesbians no matter who they date or their preferences. both our similarities and differences in our experiences as wlw are beautiful and important and enrich our community.

amazon producing a fallout series… do they actually understand the main themes of the series

fallout was originally anti-fascist, anti-capitalist. amazon producing a series is a smack in the face to obsidian

fallout: old world politics and corporate greed destroyed the world and we need to create a better one

jeff bezos:

i rly dont like the mindset that all lgbt people want is to be “accepted” and that all out community is about it “inclusion”. no. we want access to trans health care. we want anti discrimination laws for housing and employment. we want marriage equality. we want to stop trans kids from being forced to go by their dead name at school. we want to abolish the gay/trans panic defense. we want to stop corrective rape. we want black trans women to stop being murdered. being “accepted” by cishets isnt the goal, and neither is being an all-inclusive club. i want to be able to live my life freely as an lgbt person. our community was created out of the need to survive. that has nothing to do with being “valid”. 

I saw a few mutruals reblog from this OP, and just a heads up, OP is anti-ace as fuck

Honestly, that line about not being an all-inclusive club is what caught my attention to dig a bit deeper and whoomp there it is.

anyway…….. op is right. 

this is so funny oh my god. the sheer amount of inclus crying “aphobia!!!!” on a post talking about actual real issues and lgbt people dying is so telling 

I hate how when someone starts their period for the first time adults are always like “You’re all grown up now!!!!! You’re a real woman now!!!!!!!!” Like hi bitch that is an 11 year old child. Their bedtime is 9pm and their favorite tv show is spongebob

it's literally disgusting how people will leave lesbians out of lgbt art / discussions n it's even more disgusting how those same people will include all those stupid ass mogai identities and then turn around and be like "Uhm lesbians were mean to me once at 3.45pm on june 4th, 2011 so they don't deserve to get included :/" get a fucking life

if you aren’t a lesbian you don’t get to tell us to share a flag with gay men even though our experiences are wildly different ESPECIALLY if you have 400 other flags because demiheteroplatonic quasiromantic rights or something or if you think lesbians hold privilege over those people

This post doesn’t belong on here but because she’s someone I look up to and care about I’m gonna put it on the blog where the most people will see it.

Emily Gwen, who created the sunset/orange lesbian flag, is receiving threats and is having rumors spread about her. To be clear, this is not the pink flag or the flag with the lipstick mark, which was made by a biphobic and transphobic racist. It’s this flag:

Emily is trans inclusive and ace inclusive, as is her flag, and it always has been.

Her flag, the lesbian flag, was almost featured in the google pride doodle, up until the final draft. All because people told the heads of the project that she was transphobic and acephobic, and that her flag didn’t “deserve” to be featured, so they told the artist to get rid of that flag and put in a new one. Those things aren’t true. Emily believes in including everyone and has not participated in discourse for years now. The artist wishes he had known this, but in the end he didn’t have a choice and had to do what the heads told him.

Please stop spreading rumors and lies about her. She is a struggling human being. She has already had to quit so much social media and use a fake name because she is worried about being known due to how people treat her, and how they choose to believe lies over her.

Stop spreading rumors about the lesbian flag too. You have no right to judge what flag lesbians use, especially now that it’s literally bled into the mainstream that “lesbians don’t have any good flags because the creators are all horrible people so let’s just not use any for them!” Let lesbians have visibility. The rainbow flag doesn’t count. Keep in mind it’s the community flag, and that while most places don’t use the actual MLM flag the rainbow flag has always had the strongest association with gay men. Most people don’t even known Gilbert Baker made it for all of us.

And let Emily Gwen have some peace for once in her life, she is going through really terrifying and hard times right now with her family.

Stop harassing someone based on lies, and when she gives you truth, stop ignoring it and tell other people they’re misinformed.

chiming in to say that it literally does not matter whether or not emily is an inclusionist because ace people are not oppressed and y'all need to recognize that by pulling shit like this you are literally demonstrating the amount of power and privilege you hold over LGBT people. stop silencing us. stand up for lesbians. recognize your privilege as someone who is not SGA or trans. quit trying to excuse your homophobia and lesbophobia. be fucking better.