The World is Quiet Here

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S FIRST FILM SOLELY PRODUCED BY THEIR STUDIO HAD TWO FEMALE CHARACTERS AS THEIR ANTAGONIST AND PROTAGONIST WHO, BY SOME FORM OF DEVIL MAGIC, HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FACES

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S SECOND FILM NOT ONLY CONSISTED OF A CAST WITH FOUR CENTRAL FEMALE CHARACTERS BUT INCLUDED AN ENTIRE TOWN OF DIVERSE CITIZENS OF VARYING RACE, GENDER, AND AGE. LIKE A NORMAL TOWN HAS.

REMINDER THAT LAIKA’S THIRD FILM FEATURED SAME SEX COUPLES IN THEIR TEASER TRAILER

REMINDER THAT THIS IS ALL STOP-MOTION SO EVERY CHARACTER WAS DESIGNED, MODELED, SCULPTED, RIGGED, AND EVEN HAD TINY CLOTHES SEWED FOR THEM.

also reminder that they make chump change compared to disney who whines and cries that in all their years of experience they can’t handle the prospect of animating a girl with a face different than the rest and that it’s “too hard” because only females can express such a wide range of emotions that it makes them difficult to animate

if a studio with 20-30 years of experience can manage this then SURELY an established studio with NEAR 100 YEARS of experience can maybe, just maybe, include a female that ISN’T a part of their formula

Can we talk about how in District 11 after Rue’s death, the entire district rioted. They burned and broke things. Everybody watching the movie loved it because they saw the unjust government for what it was. A little black girl died. Yet when a black boy dies in real life and people start riots over their unjust government, they’re ridiculed and labelled “dangerous”.

THIS.

Watch: Josh Groban sang Donald Trump’s tweets on Kimmel — and it was amazing 

This is everything.

Schoen also gave us a pair of statements in which he categorically refuses to admit he harassed Spelman.

Gru, Despicable Me 2 (via summerscourtney)

We’re with Dylan on this one. The Every Single Word project has been highlighting the longtime disparity in representation across pop culture. The hard truth is that this disparity is present just about everywhere - even in the fandoms we hold dear.

If Dumbledore was right when he said “we must choose between what is easy and what is right,” then perhaps there’s no better time to remember that than situations like these. Instead of overlooking flaws in things we love, we must hold them to a fair standard.

We love Harry Potter. That’s why we think everyone should be represented in the wizarding world.

It’s a lie that women have been able to vote since 1920.

Well, white women have been able to vote since 1920. All Native American women couldn’t vote until 1924. All Asian women couldn’t vote until 1952 and all Black women couldn’t even vote until 1964.

Just going to let that sit there.

August 18th 1920: 19th Amendment ratified

On this day in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, thus enshrining women’s right to vote. The suffragette campaign stretched back into the nineteenth century, with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 listing male denial of women’s ‘inalienable right’ to vote as a crime against women. The focus on suffrage was promoted by the actions of feminist leaders like Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for voting in a presidential election. After the setback of the Civil War and the division of the feminist movement over issues of race and Reconstruction, feminist groups lobbied Congress for a constitutional amendment, which was first introduced in 1878 and defeated in 1886. The focus then shifted to state governments, with 22 states adopting female suffrage before 1919, and marches and pickets raising awareness of the cause. The suffragette movement was boosted by the involvement of women in the war effort during the First World War, and a proposed amendment was introduced in 1918, with the support of President Woodrow Wilson. This first attempt failed, but another amendment was eventually passed by Congress in June 1919, and narrowly ratified by the required number of states on August 18th 1920. The Southern states firmly opposed the amendment, and, one state short of ratification, it came down to Tennessee. Harry Burn, a 23-year-old state legislator in Tennessee, was convinced by his mother to break the tie and vote for the amendment, thus securing the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment; Burn declared that “a good boy always does what his mother asks him to do.” In the 1920 election, eight million American women voted for the first time. 

95 years ago

Whenever I hear of a woman who doesn’t vote when they have a chance, I want to shake them and tell them it’s hasn’t even been 100 years. Barely a lifetime has past since women didn’t have a voice, didn’t have a say. Why waste this precious thing that a generation not too long ago fought so hard for?

Women. Friends. Vote.

Really, really, REALLY important reminder that this secured voting rights for WHITE women. 

Thanks to Jim Crow laws and other discriminatory practices, black women, Native women, and other women of color did not earn these rights. Native Women were granted suffrage in 1924, Asian women and black women were granted the rights in 1964, thanks to the Voting Rights Act. 

So yes, 95 years ago for white ladies. But it hasn’t even been a full generation for Asian and black women. 

THANK YOU. NO ONE is mentioning this on any of my social media. 

ok me

this movie is the scariest shit

the scariest part is that this is exactly how most parents are

have you seen this movie i can assure you this is definitely not the scariest part

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton & Sarah Gadon in ‘Belle’ (2014).

LIKE I’VE BEEN SAYIN THIS SINCE FOREVER

What they don’t teach you in school

Wowwwwww. Fam.

I literally am always TALKIN about how Mississippi is hell. 

i really have no idea what this has to do with survival skills

Actually she has identifying which plants and berries are poisonous. She was quizzing herself. It’s foreshadowing because she later dies from eating poisonous berries; in the book, it’s seen as a foolish mistake, but because of this scene, it has implications of suicide. 

Holy shit

Well the Hunger Games just became even more devastating than it already was.

My wife and I have actually had very extensive conversations about Foxface. Specifically, my argument is that Foxface is in love with Katniss, or had another reason to want her to win, or survive. Foxface excels in subtlety and observational awareness, she is always aware of where the other players in the game are, but when ever Katniss is in trouble, Foxface shows up to show her the way. She shows Katniss how to bypass the mines at the food cache. She shows Katniss that she can make it to the “feast” and back out safely.

But there’s a question. Why would Foxface steal a handful of berries from Peeta? She was hungry? But she could just harvest her own berries, without needing to potentially reveal herself. I find it hard to believe Foxface would steal 20 berries, when Peeta just showed her what the bush looks like. So the argument is, she wanted to kill herself, to save Katniss, and Peeta (since she knows two can survive). But why not just go eat her own berries? At any point during this whole thing?

My argument is that she ate Peeta’s berries for two reasons. One, she wanted to show Peeta that the berries were poisonous, because she didn’t want Katniss to lose him. And, Two. She wanted Katniss to know, or have the opportunity to deduce, that Foxface was in love with her. There’s any number of ways she could kill herself, but she did it publicly, revealing that she’s not only been following Katniss and Peeta, but to put the question in her mind: Why steal 20 berries from Peeta?

Why?

This is a fascinating theory.

THAT IS THE MOST HEARTBREAKING QUEER HEADCANON I HAVE EVER READ

HEADCANON ACCEPTED

I have accepted headcanon and am crying because of it 😭