If I were a guitarist in a band I’d write you a song Then play it Left hand
If I were an renowned artiste I’d use the whole palette To paint you a private Masterpiece
If I were an eminent scientist I’d build a rocket to visit the stars A magical trip Not to be missed
But I’m afraid I’m none of those All I’ve got is Poetry and prose All I can do is Put down in words Thoughts in my head Otherwise unheard I hope you like My words from deep My gifts in ink For you to keep
——- for JH
i love cutthroat kitchen but bingewatching makes it really stand out how often alton brown refers to himself as ‘daddy’ and makes contestants wear spreader bars
I’m sorry what
you heard me
OKAY BUT WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY USING SPREADER BARS ON A COOKING SHOW??!??! DOESNT THAT MAKE IT KINDA HARD TO COOK???!?
kinda, yeah
@datas-vibrating-robot-dong this seems like your speed
That logo looks familiar.
WHAT
OH MY GOD
She smiled and said, I’m your Faerie Queen sprinkled something glittery from her pouch and there we were doing that Zoolander Scene in four minutes or less, we disposed of the couch And then she winked, saying follow me dearest took me by the hand and led me to the shower coyly whispered are you down for a quickie love which as best I could tell, lasted over an hour Then she spirited us instantly back to my room with a few words, a smirk, and a shake of her head and what she performed next was beyond heavenly though resulting in the untimely demise of my bed And that’s the last I recall for at least several hours upon awakening it was even worse than I’d feared my now glittering bedroom was trashed past repair and My Sweet Faerie Queen had sadly disappeared
A wonderful piece by a tumblr friend who has supported me from the start ❤️ if you haven’t yet checked out his blogs, including his main blog @mikefrawley then you are definitely missing out 😊
Found on r/tumblr. Sooo wholesome #EthicalMemes
Can we please put books up here too?
Because all of this is true
Me: *listening to Bohemian Rhapsody* “THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTNING VERY VERY FRIGHTENING ME!!”
My earphones:
I heard this post exactly how it demonstrates
I JUST SAW A REALLY CHUNKY RACCOON ON MY WAY HOME FROM WORK
artist’s rendition. my immediate reaction was to yell “chunky boy!!!” despite the fact i was the only one in the car
This has the positive, opposite energy of my day today when I passed a Canadian Goose, rolled the window down, and called it a bitch.
i finally broke down the sides to their bare essentials
I am… so sorry…
thats exactly what i pictured
The first thing I thought of when I saw Virgil
I’m not sorry
incredible
did i do this right
you absolutely did
its complete now, thank you for your participation
i fully blame you for this @sandersstudies
When I was younger and reading Order of the Phoenix, I didn’t know that punting meant like boating so when Fred and George make the swamp and Filch has to punt the students across I literally imagined him drop kicking them across
just another day at hogwarts
the fact that so many people in the notes thought the same and never questioned an adult straight up drop kicking students across a swamp just said what a train wreck this school is
SPECTRA, an LGBTQIA app is finally live on Kickstarter! But what is SPECTRA, exactly? SPECTRA is an app designed by members of the LGBTQIA community for the LGBTQIA community. At SPECTRA, we believe that our community deserves a Digital Home, a welcoming space to meet our needs in a non-judgmental environment. We exist to make you stronger. We are a network of businesses and people who get it.
So, what’s our mission? We plan to become an online resource center for our community, a space where your voice will not only be heard but where your voice will also help the members of our great family feel safe anywhere in the world. Here’s what we have in mind!
SPECTRA is a movement emerging from a digital platform built for iOS, Android and the web. It is a network of LGBTQIA people and their allies fighting for a more inclusive future.
Because there are so many in our community that feel insecure and unsafe in unknown spaces. Because we found out that more than 70% of LGBTQIA youth said they felt more comfortable being themselves online than in the real world. Because SPECTRA is an opportunity to use the power we have online to rally our community together and find the safe spaces for us in the real world.
SPECTRA is an excellent opportunity to create an online resource center for the LGBTQIA community, where you will be able to know where to go, where to work and even where to live. SPECTRA has been created by a union of inclusive people, employers, and places. It is a movement towards social equality and will be available on iOS, Android and the web. Because we believe in a future where everyone can feel safe in the world. We invite everyone to get involved, especially allies!
We have designed three unique features to help you find the best friendly places to have fun:
The rainbow ratings will work similarly to YELP but for the LGBTQIA community! SPECTRA members will be able to rate businesses on how welcoming they are. These ratings will help other members of our community avoid spaces where they could feel unsafe, and encourage businesses where they are welcomed. The ratings are calculated based on actual interactions through user-generated reviews. SPECTRA is a global app, which makes it easy to find affirming businesses all over the world.
You will be able to avoid places with low inclusion ratings. Plus, in the near future, you will be able to look for window stickers on businesses with a HIGH inclusion rating!
As for the rainbow map, we plan for it to be a resource that makes it easy for you to plan a journey. You will be able to take safe routes around your city and anywhere in the world! Every SPECTRA object is pinned to the map for your convenience. You will also be able to filter businesses by several criteria such as:
Finally, with SPECTRA rewards, you will be able to earn rewards at inclusive businesses and gain access to exclusive deals that are only available within SPECTRA Rewards! You can earn points as you shop with our partners and inclusive businesses all over the world!
There are so many more things we have in mind for SPECTRA and we need your help to make it happen!
Due to some complications and homophobic forces in the world, we had to hide for the longest time that we were building an LGBTQIA portal. This secrecy resulted in extra expenses and longer development. SPECTRA was started in summer of 2017.
We are finally coming out and need your support to complete the development and refine, test and release SPECTRA in BETA.
Our Kickstarter campaign went online on February 19 2019, and our goal pledges is at only 10,000. Thanks to our several backers we are a little over 10% of our goal! We ask for your help to bring our project to fruition and we have planned several tiers and rewards for those who believe in us!
We invite everyone on Tumblr to Signal Boost us and help us reach our goal! Reblog, like, share it with your friends! It might seem like a small gest, but SPECTRA will be a revolution for LGBTQIA inclusion!
Be part of our future today!
LINKS:
Our Website: https://www.joinspectra.com/
Our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gospectra/digital-platform-to-build-safer-world-for-the-lgbt?ref=29fd7v
Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoinSpectra/
This is really intersting and could be very promising. For sure going to keep an eye on the upcoming developments.
And she hasn’t said a word since. Rowling could take some pointers
Yeah but in Collins defense, her book was really good. She perfectly showed PTSD, Katnis trauma from when her mom mentally “abandoned” her when her dad died and the parallel with Katnis depression at the end of the series, perfectly depicted the society and its inherent problems, Finick’s back story, socio-economic disparities based on skin colour, Rue and the 11th district, President Coin and how she was as bad as Snow but in an other angle, distrinct 13 and the capitol trying to use her image for the war even though she did want to, and way more stuff I can’t think of right now.
I mean the following Y/A distopian books were mostly bad knock off who thought that the reason the HG had such success was because of the love triangle, but in reality Collins created such a complexe yet very realistic world that makes a parallel to our society of entretainment and war
The Hunger Games was baby’s first intro to social justice for a lot of kids back in the early 2010s. They were brilliant books that introduced a lot of complicated concepts in a way teens could understand and enjoy - plus, addictive, well-plotted adventure stories with A+ characterization and worldbuilding. But all the general public seems to remember about them is the love triangle, and I will always be salty about that.
The irony of the Hunger Games is that the media in the book and the media in the real world both chose to focus on the love story instead of the rebellion.
One of my favorite aspects of the book series was the way it dissected the art/science of propaganda/media and the often stark differences in popular figures’ public and private personas. The movies also got that frighteningly correct. Propaganda to oppress and propaganda to uplift were laid side-by-side and used as foils to show how the techniques work to achieve the desired purpose. The direct invocation of “panem et circenses” (”bread and circuses,” keeping a population docile by controlling/bestowing distractions regarding food and entertainment) made the point all the clearer. “Look. This is what is being done to distract you.”
Having Katniss– the symbol of The Common Person at the bottom of the societal hierarchy who most heavily bears the brunt of oppression– be stiff and awful at scripted propos but a fucking goddess at unscripted, passionately angry speeches and stoking reflection and resistance and rebellion was very deliberate. It is a call to be genuine, to question media narratives and seek facts, to take a long, hard, honest look beyond the sparkling lights and glamor projected by the media to really see and take the downtrodden seriously before their collective patience wears thin enough to snap and they bring out the bombs. Or guillotines, if you want to look at IRL history.
One of my favorite scenes in the series is in Catching Fire: the interviews with the Victors being forced to take part in the Quarter Quell. Especially with the visuals of the movie. The entire thing builds up to when Peeta “drops the baby bomb” and the audience breaks into dismayed/horrified pandemonium and there are calls by the privileged to stop the injustice; it is an escalating series of oppressed, re-victimized individuals turning their glamorized re-victimization into a platform to scream their humanity at the citizens of the Capitol until it seems to finally start seeping in. Stanley Tucci play’s Caesar Flickerman’s growing discomfort perfectly; IIRC, his calling for the lights and cameras to be cut when the Victors show unity is to use the gesture of slitting a throat. It’s a common gesture, but in this case it has a greater weight: “Cut this, kill it, don’t let people see it, these people we’ve set up to hate each other joining hands in united defiance is dangerous.”
That also veers off into an extended lesson in “the powers that be seek to divide you and turn you against each other to keep you weak.” In modern terms, you can see it in such things as “wow why should burger-flippers get raises to earn more than the legit heroes who fight crime and save lives and defend our country?” to turn those groups against each other on the basis of accepted social hierarchy instead of talking together and coming to a consensus of, “You know, we’re ALL getting screwed and should ALL make more money; let’s work together to achieve that.”
It is highly relevant to this period of civilization. It resonates with the masses. That resonance is amorphous; allowing it to gel into something more solid could erode media/propagandist influence. Thus, whether conscious or just the nature of the beast,
“LOOK AT THE LOVE TRIANGLE! ROMANCE! FOCUS ON THE ROMANCE! ISN’T IT ROMANTIC?! THINKING ABOUT THE DEEPER STUFF IS UNCOMFORTABLE, SO LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN AND HANDSOME MEN AND CHOOSE A SIDE AND FIGHT FOR IT! R-O-M-A-N-C-E-!”
In other words, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
In other words, “Let’s play up the circus part of panem et circenses.”
It’s like a social ourobouros. I observe it with a sort of morbid fascination.
Just FYI, Suzanne Collins was pressured by her editor to make a love triangle, and decided to make President Snow be the one pushing the Peeta romance to show that it was forced.
“Yes, Captain America has LEGS!”
You’re telling me, a man in a luigi mask
tuck in baby
it all started in new jersey
scrom scrom
“uuuuhuhhhhuu i just smoked AWUALL of FUKAWMIS WEED AWUUWW SHIT, AWUUEE SHIT”
Marisa and I went for a walk and saw a disposable camera.
strangerly
“I’m more thirsty than anything”
NOOT NOOT,
*soft whisper* what’s on the menu
*screaming*
The blood moon has risen
Captain America is a thigh
Jimmy don’t touch that
John LaUrEnSS!!!!
*twirls fingers around each other*
spiiiiiiiicy yeast!
I’m being facetious *hits the nearest object*
fear.jpg
*incoherent, sassy mumbling*
me screaming “mOOD”
“HE DIED SIX MONTHS AGO”
“oh-Oh-OHH!”
Get off my farm!
Stephanie…stephanie it didnt work
…on oak island????
🦀🦀🦀🦀
“you’re nearly halfway done guys! so i’m going to fill the screen with pictures of cats for seventeen minutes”
“I wish I had arms”
“Those are fucking nuts, not a pillow you shit”
“That wasnt very prussia of you”
“Hella fuck”
“Thotman” or The Mugman cult.
OREOS ARE NOT FUCKING YIN AND YANG THEY ARE GODDAMN COOKIES
Just Mugnika
Sharkfred
The Vore Bros.
Oh My GoD yOu HaVe ShOuLdErS
IS THERE A MOUSE IN YOUR POCKET
HUSH NOW GREGORY I AM SEARCHING
Or another favorite of mine:
EAT YOUR NOODELES
NO THEY’RE NOT BLOCK-SHAPED
im having some
firey nerve pain
I’m in a storm cloud
throw the fucking stone you thotticus!!
the Red Glove™
sings suffering!! dada da da da!!
shh okay okay. nobody tell her i told you this but uhh…. charlotte wants to… frick tom riddle
*in a weird voice* I’m sorry, I was looking at the krispy cream.
And
JoANn? JOANN? Where you at JOanN?!
*goat noise* gOAT *goat noise*
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,,, BLESS YOU
Askalamatruska and Petancanciana are besties.
See ya space binch
@shin-keyy going bathbedding
#thirsty kitchen
“P-P-Poker face P-Poker face”
“I own five consecutive Chili’s Restaurants in the state of Wisconsin”
“Rawchickenslapping”
“He’s not a yeehaw cowboy but he sure acts like one”
“Number 15; Burger King Foot Fetish…”
“If my mother’s dead body was covered in ranch dip I would love it.”
“I’m losing everything I love because of these guitar riffs”
“Gods vape cloud has descended on California”
“Let me be the goth man I’ve always wanted to be”
“Despacito caused the fall of Great Britain”
“I don’t think raspberries are supposed to be spicy”
“Personally? I like getting fisted by boxers.”
“It’s like slutty god of war, but more of a cocaine-powered frenzy.”
Or my personal least favorite
“Piss lollipops”
i. have a few of these.
“i’m going to whip and nae nae so fucking hard the moon gets pissed on”
“arm breaking time”
“tentacles!”
“hey remember that one nose fic” (followed by insane screaming by me)
“GET THE MARMALADE”
“ i LIKE BEnJaMiN “ or “ bONK “
“You guys always watch DIAGRAMS”
“ I’d cross the Danish border in an Uber and break my wrist for you uwu”
*everyone sitting at lunch* …the white one!
“His dick glows”
“GREEN YOU CUNT”
“HE HAS SO MANY CHICKS”
or
“OHMAYGAD SO HOT AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH” *sizzling sound*
*Smacks ass*
GoTtA gEt EvEn!
I gots to go make some copies. (no this is not meant to be sexual)
I’ve got a dentist appointment
Lord and Savior Cumber Lord didnt die for this
i am a scavenger. mine are the bones of the earth.
i am a voyager. mine are the stars of the cosmos.
i am a writer. mine are the words of the dreamers.
i am a warrior. mine are the scars of the fallen heroes
I am a soul. Mine are the empty spaces between the breaths of the living.
i am a wanderer. mine are the hearts of the wayward
I am a sentinel. Mine are the hopes of the downtrodden.
I am a lover! Mine are the hearts of the passionate.
I am a dreamer. Mine are the wonders of the night.
I am a skald. Mine are the tales of forgotten struggles.
I am a doctor. Mine are the interlocking hands with Yaz.
What exactly on tumbler is left without 13 and Yaz somewhere in it ??
@alexis-saint-ives Nothing and love it
Yes this could have to do with the fact that Freya the Norse Goddess of love, beauty and fertility drove a chariot pulled by cats.
So, if I ever get married, I fully expect a catmobile.
One of the other reasons why they gave cats to each other was for their valuable skills as mousers. Cats were able to control rodent populations around their properties.
Also, Norse myths are thought to have the earliest literary descriptions of the Norwegian Forest Cat. They were described as large, strong cats that drew Freya’s chariot and were so heavy that not even Thor, God of Thunder, could lift them from the floor. (Source)
They kinda live up to the legend, too. Your average Norwegian Forest Cat is twenty pounds of solid muscle, with claws large and strong enough to climb solid rock. They’ve been known to attack bears when defending their territory. And yet they’re one of the cuddliest breeds out there, particularly noted for being patient with small children.
I have a Norwegian mix, and can attest that she is the cuddliest cat but also insane enough to try and fight a bear.
i love mythology in any place of the world. It’s all just great!
“my battery is low and it’s getting dark” is so hauntingly human, so crushingly lonely. I can’t articulate the deep, profound ache that sentence evokes. It’s acceptance and defeat and terror and sadness all at once, all from one tiny machine we asked to explore the stars for us.
