when i was like 14, i once wore contact lenses instead of glasses to school bc i had just learned how to put them on and i wanted to show them to my friends right, and this one guy goes and tells me “i thought girls were supposed to become beautiful when they stopped wearing glasses. something obviously went wrong with you” and that was??? so incredibly rude i wanted to cry but i just stood there not knowing what to say bc i honestly thought we were friends
but the girl sitting in front of him (who was also his crush, mind u) hears him and turns around with the most disgusted expression on her face, and calls him out on it like “omg i cant believe you said that have you even seen yourself in a mirror you have no right to tell her shit” and then she turns to me and says “dont listen to him, you look gorgeous with or without glasses” and she probably already forgot about that but i always remember it whenever i feel self-conscious about myself
so the moral of the story is: if u see someone being a jerk to someone else, dont laugh along and call them out on it. stick together and bring all the fuckboys down
WATCH THIS: MAN SHUTS DOWN ANTISEMITIC WHITE POWER PREACHER
One of my friends in the Boston area took this video and gave me permission to post it. She writes: “ I stood there for twenty minutes, easily. Hitler Youth kept trying to preach about “the evils of the Jews” and the big guy barely let him get a word in edgewise. At one point, the big guy yelled, “I will be here ALL DAY” and the crowd cheered.”
I promise this will be the best thing you see today.
Where’s a goddamn bullhorn when you need it?
Caption for those who need it– the guy in the suit is saying shit like “all races must serve us as put here by God” and a lot of racist/anti Semitic drivel.
Every time he opens his mouth to speak though, the biker yells “AHHHHHHH!!!” Until the man in the suit shuts up again. When the man in the suit takes a breath and opens his mouth, the biker doesn’t even let him get started and just screams “AHHHHH”…. This happens a few times.
The guy in the suit plows ahead but the biker screams and says “No no no no!!!”
I love biker dude
I think we should all utilize the Stone Cold Steve Austin technique and just scream WHAT in the faces of fucking scumbags like this whenever we get the chance
I honestly think people forget that the church and state are supposed to be separate. Give me one non-religious reason against same sex marriage. One non-religious reason against stem cell research. One non-religious reason against safe abortions. Go ahead.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: When you treat retail employees like shit, you become an instant joke. You are the story they tell over coffee to make their friends and family laugh at the idiot. You are the person they mimic in a squeaky voice.
Next time you want to yell at a retail employee, imagine them repeating what you are about to say in a squeaky voice. Because that will be your legacy.
hoooOw dare you detective diaz i am your supIORIOR OFFICER!(BONE!!!!)whathappensinmybedroomdetectiveis none of your business (!boOoOoNE?!) dont, ever, speak to me like that again.
persephone: whos a good boys??
cerberus: :0 ??? :O ???? :o ????
persephone: youre a good boys!! all of you!! such good boys!!
cerberus: :D!!!!!!! :O!!!!!!! :Dc !!!!!!!!!
So this black guy on twitter said “black women really blaming black men for their insecurities. We do nothing but lift you up. ” which caused a fierce response from many of my followers.
Those photos of trees full of cats are cute and all, but I think a lot of folks are missing a vital bit of context.
You know how it’s always a Fall or Winter photo of a tree with bare branches, so you can see all the cats?
Well, in Spring and Summer, the cats are still up there. You just can’t see them for all the leaves.
And sometimes, when they decide to get out of the tree, they don’t climb down the trunk - they take the direct route.
Which means that if you live in a neighbourhood with a good-size local cat colony, and they happen to be climbers, there’s a big chunk of the year where there’s a non-zero chance of being suddenly descended upon by a heretofore-unseen arboreal housecat.
I’m breaking the point from my last reblog out into a separate post:
Dehumanization of marginalized peoples is not “an opinion,” it is terrorism.
Jews, black people, brown people, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ folks, disabled folks, etc. have no obligation to respect, educate, or otherwise coddle people who preach that we are not deserving of basic human rights.
Stop telling us to make nice with the fascist who want us dead and start supporting our right to be protected from fucking terrorists.
So which is considered the oldest fandom? ( By what is considered a fandom by today’s standards) Sherlock or Star Trek?
Star Trek fandom basically created the idea of fan fiction, but Sherlock fandom nagged the writer to bring Sherlock back from the dead so the series didn’t end.
Sherlock or Star Trek???
*dusts off lectern*
Star Trek is generally considered the first western tv/film fandom. (The Man from UNCLE had a fandom slightly before then, but it didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Star Trek did).
Sherlock Holmes is generally considered the first western modern fandom in the sense that it’s the first piece of media to have a fandom amidst modern ideas of copyright. (There are other fandoms that came a bit earlier, especially with the serialized publication of novels, but, again, they didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Sherlock Holmes did.)
As many other people have pointed out in response to this post, fandom (aka participatory culture) has been a thing basically forever, both in terms of writing fanfiction (though it wasn’t called that) and in terms of having Feels and Opinions about stories and sharing them with the creators.
Modern notions of fandom are generally characterized by our concept of intellectual property ownership and the methods of media distribution, both of which create a divide between producers and fans that makes each identity more discrete.
(Sorry for being a bad academic and not citing anything here, but I’m on mobile and don’t feel like sourcing it all.)
(Waves) I’m a graduate student studying Classical Japanese literature, and last year a colleague of mine did her MA thesis on 山路の露 (“Yamaji no tsuyu,” “Dew on the Mountain Road”) which is an honest-to-god fix-it fic of The Tale of Genji (aka the world’s first novel) that the 13th-century author wrote so her otp could get together.
A great many Knights of the Round Table were OCs added in to the narrative by local storytellers who wanted a knight from their area of England. Some of them have absolutely fucking crazy powersets, and a non-zero amount of them have same-sex romances. Lancelot himself, one of the most famous knights, is Chrétien de Troyes’ super cool good at everything totally hawt Gary Stu from the 12th century.
The fic writers for BBC’s Merlin are arguably the truest inheritors of English-language fanfiction, especially the ones that make knight OCs and slash them.
In addition to the lovely and true examples listed above, fairy tales and most folklore and ancient semi-historical epics fall under this umbrella as well. Retellings and revisions and translations and artistic renderings and ballads and poems and plays and alternate universes where these stories are transplanted to new settings and… It’s all there.
There is no first fandom on record because “fandom” is just a modern name for a universal human impulse that dates back to long before the written word. While we may mark milestones in fannish development in different cultures, mostly driven by new technology and social structures and access, we cannot - nor should we try to - define the world’s “first fandom”. We cannot possibly know the first story any human ever told another, and that other then retold. We cannot know the first painting that a human was inspired to imitate or translate into song. That is lost to pre-history.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is basically somebody looking at the existing canon of episodic Gilgamesh stories and going “you know what, this needs a coherent character arc.”
“…..and let’s make it a lot more gay.”
omg I need to have this shit on my blog for reasons
You know what line gets me every time I watch MAD MAX FURY ROAD?
“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.”
Think about that. “Addicted to water.” It makes it sound like water is an extra luxury that people don’t need but are greedy for, something they should be able to go without, and if they are desperate for it, it’s their own fault, and not the fault of the man who has all of it, and withholds it.
Think about how the people in power tell us not to be greedy for the things we need, like healthcare, like a living wage, like the right to be free of fear and violence in our own communities. The people in power tell us not to be greedy for these things, when they themselves already enjoy them freely, and withhold them from us.
Don’t trust the narrative that tells us we’re being greedy by asking for things that we need.
Don’t trust the asshole sitting on a grassy hilltop with his hand on the spigot telling us not to be greedy for water.
it’s wild to think that like.. all the raw materials to make like an iphone.. or a laptop.. or the internet.. have all existed for literally the entire history of humanity.. all the stuff.. has been here.. on earth.. and all the natural forces.. electricity… magnetism.. have all existed.. but.. we just didn’t know how to put it all together.. like… i wonder what miracles exist around us.. right now.. at this very moment.. that we can’t even imagine
Literally all of human advancement has been putting a puzzle together.
I hate Donald Trump in a fashion, to a depth, I didn’t perceive possible before 2016.
I had a handful of Trump supporters leave my friendship as the election noose tightened. I haven’t spoken to them in months, but in reflection, I do have a final message I wish I could say to them: I regret knowing you and I’m glad we will never speak again.
