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Because Reasons

@astreiks / astreiks.tumblr.com

I reblog things that I find funny, interesting, and/or thought-provoking—not because I necessarily agree with them. ...I also, apparently, ship way too many things.
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reb-chan

A while back an anon requested I draw Kylo in a Star Wars shirt so…I’m just gonna…leave this here.

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reblogged

 You gotta love how Amethyst and Pearl, when they revived, are like:

Beauty and Grace

Beauty and composed

But when Garnet once revived:

FUCK YEAH!!

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"Straight couples shouldn't be at pride"

Well uh…

1.) one or both of people you see as a “straight couple” could be pan/bi/poly/ace

2.) one or both of them could be trans or non binary

3.) you could be misgendering someone

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anidragon

4.) They could be there to give moral support to a queer friend or family member who didn’t want to go alone.

5.) they could be there to educate themselves in support of a queer friend/family member

They don’t even have to know anyone who’s LGBTQ??? If you’re heterosexual and simply want to go to Pride to celebrate and or simply show support for the rights and joy of the LGBTQ community then go ahead and I hope to have a great time while you’re there.

Don’t even try tell people not to go to pride and then whine about not being “accepted” by society, when in the end YOU are telling them not to have any involvement.

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The Anatomy of a mermaid

yes, thanks.

i hate when people draws mermaid’s tail like it was some sort of goddamn suit on normal human legs like this:

it just doesnt work

yeah we wouldnt want to make our mermaids too unrealistic

this asks more questions than it answers. they don’t really have vestigial legs, like those aren’t even motile fins, so why do they still have fully formed hips, why hasn’t the pelvic bone changed significantly? and where did the tail come from?

whales as we know them evolved from land animals that went back out to sea, and it’s all spine all the way down to the tail fin. the pelvis is vestigial to the point of being tiny and unrecognizable, and the rear leg structure is //gone//. and by the time they evolved all that, their forelegs had turned into proper fins and they didn’t have hourglass figures, because they built up walls of insulating fat and blubber where it was needed most - around the vital organs.

which brings us to the walrus. as you can see the skeletal structure and the external appearance are fairly ursiform - the rear legs are basically still in there forming the tail, and the pelvis is intact, and above that it may as well still be a land animal. if mermaids did exist, as hominids who went back out to sea, and if they hadn’t evolved into basically dolphins, then a walrus skeletal system, complete with vestigial thigh bones inside a kind of muscle skirt, and with significant fat and blubber deposits //on the main body// would be most likely. which is to say, mermaids with human torsos and seagoing lower bodies would waddle around on their tails, have clearly defined thigh structures, and would be a hell of a lot rounder above and about the waist than they’re usually depicted.

which begs the question, then, if you see a mermaid and it’s a skinny little thing with a slinky waist and an eel-like tail and a perfect bosom and a coy smile, //why does it look like that//? because whatever that is? it is not a land animal that readapted to the sea. it is not your distant kin. it is a sea creature that adapted //to get your attention//.

maybe it’s all an illusion, a frilly mane, an hourglass shape, and narrow antennae that mimic the shape of human arms, waving lonely sailors into the water, only to realize too late the bioluminescent patterns of lipstick and pert breasts are to distract from what lies behind them - viselike jaws and row after row of stiletto teeth.

or maybe it’s all soft tissue, the gelatinous bell of a jellyfish folded into a pleasing shape, luring the unwary down to be caught up in a tail that is nothing more than thousands of barbed lines of stinging neurotoxin cells.

or it could be that the tail goes deep into a shadowy well, and the beautiful woman is a mask for a single enormous jaw, the internal skeleton just the endless spine and ribs of a vast and hungry sea snake.

or, perhaps most terrifyingly, the face is real but not the face of the eyes looking out of it - a human mask for an intelligence both cold and calculating, wearing an inviting smile to bring you within reach of the dagger behind it’s back. waiting to slice the skin off of you because it needs a new disguise, because it is shaped like you but does not look like you, because it must pass as you so it can go among you, so that by starlight it may go on land and into town, where your kin are sleeping, unsuspecting.

Jesus Christ back up a minute buddy

I am 100% on board with eldritch horror mermaids.

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brigidkeely

Can I set up something to just reblog this every time I see it? Like automatically? Because this is perfect and I love this.

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HeroesandHeartbreakers Seeks Romance Stories for Possible Publication - Pays $2,000 Advance

HeroesandHeartbreakers.com, a popular social network of diehard romance readers and authors, is inviting writers to submit short romance manuscripts for possible publication. The site has updated its submission guidelines with new word lengths and pay rates.

The editors will consider short stories, 10K-15K 15k-30k words, as well as novellas (30k-50k words)

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what if J.K Rowling just releases another harry potter book in 2017, 19 years later 

What if in 2017 she releases Albus’s first year. In 2018 she releases his 2nd. And so on. Because she never stopped writing…she just kept it under wraps, biding her time, waiting until she could publish one book per school year.

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“nerd” and"loser" were like hard hitting insults in the early 2000’s and now they are used as affectionate terms we have truly come full circle

Sorry, but no, we did a 180. A full circle would mean we went back to them as insults

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yewglow

nerd

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Friendly reminder that Lena duhnam emotionally and sexually abused her sister and is still being hailed as a feminist icon

wait but don’t forget that she also

STILL SUCH A FEMINIST ICON THOUGH A TRUE HEROINE THE VOICE OF OUR GENERATION

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Hayley on Agent Carter

  • She said in the next week or so we will be hearing about season 2!
  • There will be more Dottie in season 2
  • Hayley loves that there is a female protagonist and female antagonist and the show isn’t just Peggy hating men
  • She said the producers are very conscious about their representation of gender roles and inequalities
  • She said that they want everyone and their story to be represented so there is a big chance of race issues being discussed in Season 2
  • She would like for Peggy to have some romance in season 2
  • She’d love for Steve to come back in a dream sequence or flashback after Peggy has found love because in Season 1 the loss of Steve and Steve himself were her motivation
  • She wants more Angie and Dottie because all kinds of female relationships are very important and women deserve to see them on screen
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alannamode

Something I really appreciated in Age of Ultron was how they depicted Quicksilver’s abilities. Despite the super speed he still had to dodge things and avoid repulser blasts and jump out of the way. When he runs, things are moving in slow motion rather than just standing still.

Even more awesome was the fact that he actually seemed out of breath sometimes and would stop and pause to catch his breath before continuing to run.

Like yeah he’s fast and enhanced but he’s still a human being that needs a break and science and math are still factors - there are some things he physically can’t do.

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