ThePrettiestOne

haileythearies:

When non Republicans hear Republicans speak about their policies and politics, we literally fear for our bodies, our loved ones, and our lives. When Republicans hear leftist policies and politics, they fear for their status and their capital. let that put things into perspective

when you get in trouble for being rude for asking people to treat you as an adult and not be condescending.

queeraang:

the funniest thing to me about the whole “no one talks to each other because of smartphones/technology/etc” argument is that ppl totally still talk to each other?

i can hang out with friends for hours without checking my phone, or i’m using my phone to show the homies pictures and videos and articles that i think they’d like.

like hate to break it to you, but if someone’s on their phone instead of talking to you it’s cause they don’t wanna talk to you. probably cause you’re fucking terrible & likely use the word “millennialls” derisively and there’s someone 2 timezones away they’d rather chat with

“I rely a lot more on my charm than I do my physical abilities. I can talk my way out of a bad situation, nine times out of ten.”

“So how did your ear end up like that?”

“I said nine times out of ten.“

- Babar, Upper East Side ASPCA

Adopt Babar! Or any other cat for that matter! The Upper East Side ASPCA is waiving fees today only!

mashable:

J.K. Rowling opens up about why Harry named his son after Snape

fuckyeahfemaleyoutubers:

Why is Youtube so White? Re: MeowItsLucy - AhsantetheArtist

amydentata:

This is it. This is my legacy. This is how I shall be remembered in the history books. This quote.

And all the dick jokes.

mydrunkkitchen:

I don’t understand people that use judgement and criticism to somehow get the results they want. Like parents who tell their children that they are living in a sty and it’s filthy and disgusting and all that stuff. Does that sound motivating to you? It’s like “Oh. Thank you for taking a shit on my existence. I absolutely want to clean it now.”

Why can’t more people be like “Hey, I’ve noticed you’re living in squalor. Are you depressed?” or even better like “You know, honey, you always feel more motivated and happier when your room is clean. Want to spend some time doing that? We can go to lunch later if you get it done this morning.”

I mean like… that sounds awesome, right? Compliments? LUNCH??? I’m game. I trick myself with rewards all the time. For instance, right now I just finished breaking down a bunch of boxes for recycling. You know what my reward was? Writing this!

Anywho. Brain thoughts.

culturalrebel:

gehayi:

jessicajones:

You deranged prick. You’ve never loved anyone in your repulsive life.

I fucking love this.  This is perfect.

Why? Because Kilgrave is a complete monster. Everyone knows it, including the narrative of the show. He is stated to be a rapist. Those who survive their encounters with him have PTSD. Some are wrecked beyond their ability to recover, physically or emotionally. He is a destroyer of lives…and the show demonstrates this by taking the toxic trope of the alpha male to its logical extreme.

Zebediah Kilgrave fits the mode of the alpha male amazingly well. He’s rich. He’s physically attractive. He has a Tragic Past in that he has been poor and unloved. Most of all, whatever he wants people to do, they do. They cannot help but obey. This is his defining characteristic. You want to do this, he tells people. You love Chinese food. You want to invite me in. You want to play your cello for me–or donate both kidneys. You want to commit murder. You want to kill your parents and smile.

And he stalks, emotionally abuses and rapes the heroine…while he frames his behavior as loving and romantic. It does not occur to him that taking away a person’s will and compelling them to eat what he wants, wear what he wants, move as he wants, and fuck as he wants are all violations. The last example is literal rape; the rest is psychological.

More often than not, the rich alpha male with the Tragic Past who falls for the seemingly ordinary person (who is, of course, actually extraordinary) will be treated as the romantic hero. Look at Hannibal. Look at the Fifty Shades series. What does it say when so many romances in books, movies and TV present controlling the other’s behavior, manipulating their thinking, and relentlessly pursuing someone who clearly wants either a break or to flee outright as protective, guiding and passionate?  What does that do to the audience’s perception of what love is supposed to be like? How much toxic entitlement do those stories reinforce?

Aside from his mind control being literal instead of figurative, Zebediah Kilgrave is not unusual. He is an example of a common type in fiction   The only unusual thing about  Kilgrave is that–for once–such toxic behavior is not normalized, and the narrative presents him as the destructive, damaging, manipulative monster that he is.  

This is the first time that I can recall not only having the narrative agree with me that a person like Kilgrave is primordial slime, but also having it point out that the media reinforces the image of control, manipulation and emotional abuse as loving. Entitled assholes like Kilgrave are scum…but they are not operating in a vacuum.

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE SHIPPING JESSICA JONES WITH HER FUCKING RAPIST

cosmos-kitty:

cosmos-kitty:

Salty, 2015
Mixed Media on paper

Well, since I’m getting many messages asking to buy the original and the anon hasn’t taken the hint, I’m selling this one on my Etsy and the proceeds will be going to an anti-bullying charity I’ve picked out so maybe the anon can have some kind of positive impact for once. ❀◕ ‿ ◕❀

bettieleetwo:

The Master.

the-real-seebs:

Ayup.

thequantumqueer:

[tweet from William Gibson (@GreatDismal): People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.]

iamryanhenly:

decoratormax:

iamryanhenly:

Exactly ^

the paris attackers were in fact Syrian refugees.

The attackers were actually French and Belgian nationals, none have been identified as born in Syria or Iraq. One of the attackers was found with a Syrian passport which authorities have determined to be a fake, according to a report by the BBC.

tepitome:

Obama drops the dad joke of 2015.

sharpslut:

FEELING LIKE YOU ANNOY THE ONLY PERSON YOU WANT TO TALK TO SUCKS

“Failure is an event, never a person.”

- William D. Brown, Welcome Stress!
(via purplebuddhaproject)

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In the Common Sense department: from the Where In Oslo website.

There are jobs that have to be done on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and every other day of the year. We need doctors and nurses and firefighters and police. Then there are jobs that don’t have to be done … but workers are forced to do them anyway, because profit. Because the workers aren’t given a choice, other than the choice between working on Thanksgiving or losing their jobs.

So if you're lucky enough to be sitting down to a big Thanksgiving meal with your loved ones today (or for that matter if you’re Netflix binging or spending the day in silent meditation), spare a thought for those who are forced to skip the holiday to work. Spare a thought also for people who can't afford the big meal with turkey and all the trimmings—and remember that many of the very same people working at Walmart and Target fall into that category, or barely escape it.

If you're thinking about heading out for a little shopping after dinner, remember that workers had to be there hours earlier. Remember that many of them don't want to be there, even if they don’t feel able to speak out publicly or put their names to petitions saying so. And remember that common reasons to be glad to work the holiday include not getting paid holidays off of work, and being so underpaid that extra pay for working a holiday could mean the difference between paying the bills and not paying the bills.

Whatever Thanksgiving means to you, it shouldn't be a symbol of the race to the bottom.

insilentshadows:

After a longer workday than expected, the phone rings.

It’s a stereotypical Windows scam. A scam artist telling me my computer has errors in order to get me to pay them money or grant them access.

I told the man, multiple times, to please remove me from their list.

He keeps insisting and I keep asking nicely but firmly to be removed.

He insisted that it wasn’t a list, that he was calling on behalf of Windows for Julie.

I informed him that Julie no longer works at my company, and to remove me from the list.

He asks me, are you not Julie?
I respond, I’ve already answered your question.

And he says “OK I lovvve you”

Silence.

I hang up.

He calls back, and tells me, accusingly that I’ve hung up on him.

“I told you I love you”

I ignore that, and ask him again to remove me from his list.

He says that he’ll remove me IF I say “I love you too.”

I tell him “that’s sexual harassment actually”.

And he says “well it’s up to you”.

I hang up.

***

This. This, children of the planet, is the type of interaction women have every single day.

Sometimes it’s laughing at a joke that feels weird. Or giving someone the benefit of the doubt when they don’t deserve it. Or ignoring guys when they shout at us. Or. Or. Or.

Sometimes, it’s as blatant as this. Someone trying to take power from a strong individual by insisting that they respond favorably.
Someone trying to make a woman uncomfortable or force her into saying something she doesn’t want to in hopes he will go away.

I feel so gross. So violated. By something so simple.

I stayed strong. I saw what he was doing. And it still affected me. And I will forever remember.

***

So for those who think catcalls are compliments. Commands to smile are just good wishes. This type of interaction is in our minds. This power struggle. This conversation with a stranger gone too far.

Everyone we talk to could, very swiftly, very easily… Insist that we tell them we love them.

rosietwiggs:

atomicheavybike:

Kilgrave’s verbal calling card being “smile” is such a brilliant indication of exactly the kind of misogynist he’s meant to represent. I hope any man watching who’s ever told a woman to smile has a moment of unpleasant self-revelation.

#kilgrave is terrifying because powers or not he is a monster so real that millions of us have met him (@absentlyabbie)

mattsmurdass:

I move through town, I’m quiet like a fight

smoakingmarshmallow:

Leverage | Text Post | part 2 (x)

aliceversuswonderland:

“Ratchet is a racialized term. So is ghetto. So is thug. So is welfare queen. Someone does not have to EXPLICITLY say the word “black” in order for something to be racist against black people. Speaking in flagrantly racist terms is one of the least sophisticated manifestations of racism today.”

- TemperedFury on Philip DeFranco’s, creator of the YouTube channel Philly D, use of racialized language.  (via knowledgeequalsblackpower)

cozycorrah:

Yesss… 

The storyline’s over, and now that it is, I wanted to talk a little about it.  But, you know, in a general storywriting sense versus yesterday’s stroll down awful childhood memory lane.

I’d written previously how, years ago, before Becky had been reintroduced into the strip as a main character, I knew Becky couldn’t be shuffled offpanel forever.  She had to stay.  We couldn’t get our pathos out of her and discard her.  But I knew her dad would be following her, and he’d have to be dealt with.  He’d have to be dealt with definitively.  I didn’t want the threat of him to be always hanging over her – she has enough to worry about already – and so I knew he’d have to do something terrible, enough to put him solidly in prison.

That was the genesis of everything, but I think it’s really wonderful how it all worked perfectly with what the story needed.  Joyce needed to feel betrayed by her family and her community.  Amazi-Girl needed to face a threat that was leveled up from the previous showdown her own father.  Dina… needed to be in the best strip ever.  

And I could do it all without sacrificing Becky.  Often in fiction, bad stuff happens to gay ladies, and then the narrative just gives up on them.  That’s the end!  That’s it!  Buh-bye.  Meanwhile, stories bend over backwards with supernatural zeal to keep straight folks happy and together with whatever love interest they met five minutes ago.  

I wanted to subvert the shit outta that.

So bad stuff is happening to Becky, but the narrative says Fuck No.  Her dad’s attacked by her girlfriend in the woods.  Her dad is followed by her best friend and somebody else on a friggin’ motorcycle.  Her dad is hunted down by a goddamned SUPERHERO.  And they all work together, somewhat unwittingly, to shut that jackass down.  Physics is bruised a bit, but that’s the point.  That’s the subversion.  Becky’s not going down.  The universe will melt in the face of her.  And she will get that shining final moment with her father where she backs away, all grins, double birds.  The last word.  Because goddammit, she gets to win this time.  Fuck you, dad!  God answers lesbian prayers.  

Ultimately, Joyce gets her Moment of Brokenness that her arc demands at this point, and – very importantly – without sacrificing Becky.  It’s the betrayal of her family and community that breaks Joyce.  Fridging Becky would be superfluous.  

And for both of them, life goes on.