“I’ll pay her bloody ransom . Gold. Sapphires. Whatever you want. Just get her out of there.” -Jamie Lannister

I saw people doing this and loved the idea, so here you go, my personal asexual aesthetic ☺️

wierdly specific/odd ancient greek words

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ecco a voi gli highlights di questa interessantissima conversazione (io avrei voluto essere sorda):

- di maio è “bravo con la lingua” - è “ben piazzato” e “lo sa usare bene” - gli piace “fare sesso sulle sedie e sulle poltrone” (???????) - altre ragazze hanno concordato nel dire che è un gran pezzo di manzo (cant relate) - la tipa ha detto che voterà M5S solo per poter dire di essersi fatta il presidente del consiglio (…….)

la sfortuna di essere napoletana è che una cosa del genere non è improbabile sia successa sul serio

MA COSA CAZZO COSA CAZZO COSA CAZZO

2018 national finals winners [1/?] -> non mi avete fatto niente - ermal meta & fabrizio moro (italy)

You haven’t done anything to me You’ve taken nothing from me This is my life, and it keeps going Beyond everything, beyond people You haven’t done anything to me You haven’t got anything Because there’s more than your pointless wars

happy international women’s day! this is a reminder for u to include women of colour, disabled women, LGBT+ women, women of all religions and nationalities, poor women, fat women - ALL WOMEN in your activism. you only fight for women if you fight for all of them.

How to Escape a Hair Grab or a Neck Grab ? Look at them, carefully.

tai chi pants on http://www.icnbuys.com/tai-chi-pants give you surprise at the new year.

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REBLOG TO SAVE A FUCKING LIFE!!!!!!!

SIGNAL BOOSTING LIKE SHIT

self-defense is important.

Is this relevant to my blog? No. but currently there are 13K of you following me and this could help some of you. 

Mark Hamill goodnaturedly patting Chadwick Boseman on the shoulder to celebrate his success is one of the most blessed images I’ve ever seen.

This is the Money Chadwick. Reblog In 47 minutes to get 48 million dollars.

Doug Jones at the 2018 Academy Awards

Dear everyone who is currently working on a Thing, whatever that Thing may be,

Good luck with the Thing. You can do the Thing. You will do the Thing. You just have to do the Thing.

Best wishes,

Someone who is also doing a Thing

wait….are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldn’t concede to western oil demands….and how that coup was the reason for the shah’s return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorship…..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???

No. No we don’t know about it. 

Americans aren’t told this shit. 

The only thing we’re taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) it’s where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. That’s it. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isn’t about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, it’s not important.

Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. It’s not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shah’s return to power, and even then you’d be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: they’re racist as shit) by the time they get there. And it’s almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.

The only reason I knew about it is because there’s a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.

“All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.

!!!

I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people it’s insane.

She’s 60. She never heard of this.

As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.

He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods.  Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but that’s a side tangent.

And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said “Yeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasn’t surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldn’t they resent us for that?”

And she just looked floored.

“So…” She started, after a few minutes. “What do you think of Trump?”

“I hate him. He’s a coward and he’s going to get good people killed.” He didn’t even blink. “

She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.

“I research things.” I said. “Google is great.” He nodded enthusiastically.

And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, “I didn’t know.”

She lived through it.

American schools don’t teach you any of this sort of thing.

I thought of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi too. Never underestimate the power of a good book.

Every year in my entire schooling in small town Indiana, we’d start the year studying the revolutionary war. By the end of the year we would reach world war 2. The next year, the cycle would repeat. Every year. Revolutionary war to world war 2. Rinse and repeat.

We never studied the Vietnam War. Korea. No current events. No ancient cultures. No history of other countries. When 9-11 happened I was in high school, and me and my classmates legitimately had no idea who would attack the U.S. or why. We were baffled. Because we were taught our entire lives that America is always the good guy.

History class in America is an utter joke.

tumblr literature analysis drinking game

take a shot for 1) “shakespeare is literally just dick jokes” 2) lolita discourse 3) “wuthering heights isn’t a love story because everyone involved is horrible! it only counts as a love story if everyone is nice!” 4) Romeo and Juliet Were Just Stupid Horny Teenagers, and it Took Me, an Intellectual, To See This

5) Symbolism is nonexistent! If an author writes about something it’s for absolutely no reason other than it sounded cool.

6) The author had this character do a bad thing therefore they are endorsing it and are bad

7) Everyone is gay, it’s canon

8) Cool female villain is an amazing role model!

9) This character does a bad thing, therefore they are bad and cannot be redeemed by character complexity or development

SCREAMIGN

decode your teen’s texts!

lol: lord of light

brb: baratheon’s royal birthright

rotfl: renly on the floor losing

wtf: watching the fires

smh: stannis, my hero