The orange kitty presented...

without American politics changing after 9/11 we wouldn’t have seen michael sheen in good omens 

…explainnn

america’s response to 9/11 caused my chemical romance to form in protest

mcr inspired stephanie meyer to write twilight

twilight gets a movie deal

michael sheen gets casted as aro in the twilight films

a reporter asks michael sheen why he’s in such a silly film series for such a silly genre

michael sheen defends the genre publicly and cites neil gaiman’s works

neil gaiman hears about this and reached out and they go to dinner and eat illegal octopus

neil gaiman and michael sheen become friends

years later neil gaiman finally gets to adapt good omens for tv and casts michael sheen as aziraphale

one of my favourite things about lenin is how he clearly had like a metnal list of Guys Who Piss Him Off ready to go at all times. he’ll make a point and be like ‘and by the way here’s the names of eight guys who disagree with me and they’re all wrong’

did he really need to name all ten of these guys to make this point. no  . but its so funny that he does

i legit overheard this when i was in class

kakashi: (muffled voice) how do i save my file teacher: what? i cant hear you kakashi: (takes off mask) how do i save my file

Who is kakashi

kakashi from accounting class

february 19, 2015

Plein Air Paintings by Tomas Honz

Scenes From Atlanta Forest - Defend Atlanta Forest

Wild to see this on my dash.

The situation, as you can imagine, is fucked. Two huge areas in south/southeast Atlanta have been bought & there are plans to raze the forest. One to build MORE film studios for Blackhall Studios (think Venom, Jumanji), and the other -- Cop City.

There is a massive plan to essentially make a fake-city for APD and other law enforcement agencies to train in, to practice their increased militarization. The plan is bigger than the NYPD training ground iirc.

The Cop City news caught a lot of citizens surprised, and after a lot of push back, Atlanta City Council was basically like "Okay, fine, here's a day everyone can call in and comment". I think it was something like 13 hours of calls, 65% disapproval of Cop City. And City Council approved anyways. They pulled the same stunt with the juvenile detention center in Decatur like 20 years earlier.

And I'm sure no one will be surprised to hear that this is in a predominantly black neighborhood in ATL. City Council would never dream of allowing forest to be destroyed & Cop City to be built in Buckhead or other whiter, wealthier areas of ATL (not that it should be built at all!!)

There's a ton more information on their Twitter & their other social media in the linktree. Talk to your neighbors, call city council, provide aid to the forest defenders if you can.

Stop posting that you are a safe place to go "camping." It's performative and all it does is puts people in need of abortions in danger.

If you need an abortion, please for the love of god, do not reach out to anyone that says they are a safe place to go "camping." This is not a safe way for you to receive access to services.

Most of these people probably are well-intentioned, but that doesn't stop this from being base-level activism that is entirely performative and more focused on making themselves look and feel good than on actually helping people.

I want you to think for a second - what does this actually do? Because it's not a sneaky way to help people. Everyone knows what it means and you've just announced to everyone that you're a person to watch. That if someone suspected of having an abortion shows up to your house with you, now they have proof and evidence that that is why they were there. Some of these people might start off as well-intentioned, but as soon as their safety is on the line, they won't hesitate to sell you out.

And I can bet you, that some of these people are not well-intentioned. Some of these people will turn you in as soon as you reach out. Some of these people will try to persuade you not to get one (you know, like the Crisis Pregnancy Centers that imitate abortion clinics but really just push birthing as the only option?)

So what can you do?

Go through an abortion network. Go through agency channels. These people are trained and vetted. This is their job and they are going to be prepared a whole lot more than some random person online.

If you need to find one or are visiting a website, I suggest using a VPN. It's not a perfect safety measure, but it does give you a higher level of protection than without.

Resources:

Abortion Funds

National Abortion Federation

In addition to the VPN, I'd suggest using Firefox and DuckDuckGo -- these also aren't perfect, but they're significantly more private than using Google/Chrome.

Book I: The Abandoned Construction Site

Seeing people posting about how they don’t personally have to do anything about climate change because corporations and governments need to do the bulk of the work. Listen, this problem is so big and pressing that every fucking person needs to pull their weight in addition to the corporations and governments who need to do the bulk of the work.

Collectively, the difference between you being someone who buys less, plants more, eats more ethically, recycles, takes totes into stores, uses mass transit or rides a bike and being a person who doesn’t do anything because you’ve decided it’s always someone else’s problem is fucking huge. That time you littered adds to the millions of other times other people littered. The time you left the water on while you brushed your teeth adds to the millions of other times other people left the water on while they brushed their teeth.

You influence people. Your actions are noticed. People follow your lead. Yes, you.

You are part of we. Do your fucking part.

Today I learned

Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

Helpful links to all of the above:

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/

Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

Freegal: https://www.freegalmusic.com/home

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More places to find FREE EBOOKS:

Standard eBooks (basically stuff off of Project Gutenberg, but prettified)

Baen Free Library

Book Bub - Free eBooks and Free Kindle books

Bubblin Books

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Useful if you’re an ebook power user: Calibre

many libraries also give you access to KANOPY which has free movies (mostly documentaries but last i checked Moonlight was on there!)

WHAT?!?!

I’m going to my library on monday. no joke…that’s awesome.

It doesn’t end there:

another addition

do you ever just like. feel unbelievably proud of someone you’d never even heard of previously

oh my god

Name a better real life character arc

me: chillin

brain: tom was never freed from his yeerk he died infested and spent years tortured, unable to speak through his mouth even just to communicate to his family that he loved them. tom died having not genuinely spoken to his brother in years, forced to watch as a parasite stole his life

me: hh

Pleinair painting I did in Providence while visiting RISD, My alma mater. 

gouache, 2016

Concept: AU Aftran survives the war, and gets her life together enough to figure out that she looks really good in menswear.

(Cassie’s invited her to something fancy. Everything’s great until Aftran gets drunk and tries to fistfight a stranger over intergalactic political differences.)

Into the Spider Verse is finally doing what mainstream CGI animation should have been doing for years: creating visuals only possible BECAUSE of the chosen medium.

CGI is a modern crutch. It’s cheaper than 2D by a landslide, and easier to churn out with the support of a studio.

But the actualization of a medium clicks when the medium is being used in ways that only it can. Focusing on rendering every hair, on recreating beautiful photo-realistic landscapes, that’s fine. It’s impressive. But the approach reaches a point where we’re left wondering:

“Why didn’t you just make a live action movie?”

Spider Verse brings the aesthetic, the aim, and the FUN of comics to the screen in a gorgeous way. I’m fucking thrilled that Miles is getting such a beautiful, unique, and frankly revolutionary introduction to the big screen.

“straight passing privilege” literally every lgbt person is “straight passing” until they come out, please stop smoking 2015 lgbt tumblr discourse pot

unless we’re actively Being Gay™️ we’re all presumed to be straight that’s how heteronormativity works read a book ladies and bottoms!

Hmmmm there are many , many lgbt youths who are visibly not-Cishet in their mannerisms, dress, etc. like before they come out or even understand their identity they are recognized and targeted for their gender noncomformity.

It’s also important to recognize that gender non conforming individuals be they trans or cis are often unable to present themselves as straight even if they wish to. I’m not saying that those who are able to appear straight have privilege. I feel that discussions of gender and orientation need to have the nuance to describe these variety of experiences without falling back on the idea of privilege .

You all: Spider-man Homecoming was so good! But we should have gotten a Miles Morales movie :( but Tom holland is SOOO cute and we FINALLY got a perfect peter Parker movie that really understands him!!!

People that read Ult. Spider-man: Homecoming ripped many crucial elements of Miles Morales’ story off to give to Peter in an attempt to make the story fresh and new. By doing this, Marvel could still have a revised take on a modern day spidey story but also play it safe by casting a white boy in the lead, even if that means glossing over the things that made Peter Parker an interesting character in the first place. But now when Miles’ story is adapted to the big screen, core aspects that are unique to his character and lore won’t feel as iconic, because we just saw them in Peter’s latest movie. But Tom Holland is likable enough to stop people from acknowledging these issues so Marvel can have its cake and eat it too

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