moonlitwitch:

I LITERALLY SAID “Elizabeth Bathory tried that already and it clearly didn’t work” ONLY FOR ME TO SCROLL DOWN AND UNEXPECTEDLY SEE THE ATTACHED BATHORY PICTURE, I’M SCREAMING!

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Okay but like. They’re not talking about bathing in the blood of murder victims or whatever… They’re talking about old folks having an amount of degenerated brain function renewed after exposure to an injection of plasma from a young person. Right idea, wrong… execution.

When there’s a new lesbian in town

I honestly think about this post like twice a day

I LOVE THIS

interrogating a student athlete

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Marvel: we can’t make one of our film or show leads Asian. That would be…. against the original source material. That’s also why we can’t make them LGBTQ+.

Power Rangers (2017): hey what’s up. 4/5 of our leads are POC. One is autistic and one is confirmed LGBTQ+. We have the first Asian superhero in a big-budget film, the first autistic superhero in a big/budget film, and the first LGBTQ+ superhero in a big-budget film. None of this was really in the original source material, but representation matters and we specifically casted them with the intention of making a diverse film.

I once had a girlfriend that memorized my cycle and would bring me chocolate or bath salts on the first day and it was the best 10/10 would recommend 

But boys don’t get periods??? lol 

Nerdy Fact #1434: Wonder Woman was originally based on two women: the wife of creator William Marston and one of his former students that both he and his wife had sexual encounters with. 

(Source.)

How about you actually name ‘em?

Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne were among a number of women who contributed to the original Wonder Woman, and they’re fascinating people in their own right.

Elizabeth Holloway Marston was a brilliant woman. She earned three university degrees in psychology and law at a time when few women received any tertiary education. She was a successful career woman who assisted her husband with his work and was frequently the breadwinner of the family.

The main reason she was able to continue working after having children? Olive Byrne, who was not simply a casual “sexual encounter”, but the Marstons’ lover and life partner. To enable Elizabeth to work, Olive stayed at home and raised both her and Elizabeth’s children. She also wrote for Family Circle and contributed to Marston’s research.

Elizabeth is credited with pushing her husband to create a female superhero, and after his death she worked hard to preserve his vision for the character, urging DC to employ her as the comic’s editor (she was ignored).

Wonder Woman’s bracelet’s are Olive’s bracelets: Olive was known for wearing a pair of wide silver bracelets, and Marston had these in mind when he envisioned Diana’s bullet-deflecting accessories.

Marston died in 1947, but Elizabeth and Olive continued to live together until the end of their lives.

Wait. Clarification please. Are you telling me that the creator of Wonder WOMAN WAS IN A POLY-AMOROUS RELATIONSHIP?

Yep! They were in a poly relationship and had four children together, two by Elizabeth and two by Olive.

(And for those who’ve asked about sources, the Marstons’ story is covered in detail in The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore and Wonder Woman: The Complete History by Les Daniels)

Wonder Woman was inspired and shaped by not only a man who was incredibly progressive and awesome by todays standards let alone the standards of the day he lived in but also by a fierce, intelligent and awesome bisexual woman

This is one of the many reasons why the ways DC has ruined Wonder Woman in their pursuit of making the book as backwards and heteronormative as possible pisses me off…

Not a fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual woman.

Two fierce and intelligent and awesome bisexual women. 

You are correct :D

Imagine growing up in that house

“Mom wants to see you.”

“Psychology mom or bracelet mom?”

“Bracelet mom.”

According to Lepore, the kids called Elizabeth “Keetie” and Olive “Dotsie”!

That is adorable.

I have reblogged this before and will continue to do it until the day I die. The origin story of WW comics is as fucking great as the character herself.

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“had sexual encounters with” … look there’s nothing wrong with casual sex but a lifelong partnership that included living together, having children, and raising a family for decades is not “had sexual encounters with” good gods. How vile to try and write off these amazing women and their family, decades of their lives, as “had sexual encounters with ooooo how scandalous.” Do not let history erase them.

Lionsgate and Saban went out and found five unknown actors with either little or no acting experience (in movies) because a) they want to start a franchise with them and more importantly b) because they wanted their movie to be diverse. And the actors were all amazing. So people can no longer use the excuse of Hollywood only casting white actors because they’re well-known and good actors or because it’s hard to find good non-white actors. It isn’t that hard and Power Rangers showed us that. Hollywood just prefers casting white people in main roles and in non-white roles.

I completely respect the point of your post. It is easy to cast actors and actresses of color. Movie companies are letting people down and not looking deeply if they want to claim they can’t find good actors and actresses of color. Your post is, however, mostly incorrect.

I assume by the wording you think Lionsgate is not a part of Hollywood. This is incorrect. Lionsgate is both physically and culturally a part of Hollywood. They make big budget block busters, with headquarters in SoCal, and they have a studio in Hollywood. They are very much a part of Hollywood. Your whole post doesn’t make sense if Lionsgate isn’t a part of Hollywood. The companies in Hollywood don’t give two shits about other companies because they don’t gross nearly as much as movies that come out of Hollywood usually do. Hollywood would look at Power Rangers and essentially say, “well, it hasn’t grossed it’s production budget, so why would we want to model our movies like they did that one?” Hollywood looks at movies like Civil War, which grossed nearly 5 times its 250,000,000 dollar production budget. Civil War used name, white actors. If Lionsgate is not a part of Hollywood, it doesn’t matter to Hollywood.

On the other hand, if you’re saying Lionsgate is part of Hollywood (which it is), then the validity of your point crumbles because of the example you are using. Power Rangers was, objectively, a bad movie. The writing was choppy, the plot was weak, and the acting was mediocre at best. Special effects were relatively rudimentary. Even the positive reviews of the movie (of which I read dozens) said that they liked it because it invoked nostalgia, but it was a bad movie.

To actually prove your point (which, again, I agree with), you’d want to use a movie like Moonlight. Moonlight was not produced in Hollywood, the acting (even by the small children) was phenomenal, and it was immensely successful in awards shows and was financially successful (it made ¼ of what Power Rangers has made, but you have to keep in mind that it has a niche audience and the release was limited). Power Rangers is not the movie to use to prove a point about casting actors of color and how Hollywood ignores actors of color.

I’m not saying Lionsgate isn’t a part of Hollywood because it definitely is and it’s had its share of badly cast movies, but the fact that they took a risk with this movie is commendable. It was most likely Saban and the director of Power Rangers who made this decision with the casting though. And Power Rangers still is a good example of good casting and good diversity. Look at Star Wars for example. With these new Disney led Star Wars movies, we’ve been getting so many British Brunette women in lead roles even when women of color audition for these roles. The recent Han Solo movie has a shortlist of three women of color for the lead female role, but they decided to go with Emilia Clarke. Star Wars is a big brand and having it be more diverse wouldn’t damage Disney’s profit off of it at all, yet they don’t take any risks when it comes to casting lead roles for their female, with the exception of the men of color they cast in their films recently. Lionsgate proved an point with Power Rangers that you can easily find so many new actors who aren’t white and they won’t hinder the movie, both performance and box-office wise. But I agree with your point about Moonlight because that movie deserves to be commended on for their innovative and for doing something that seems too risky for Hollywood. It’s also good to see smaller movie companies like Lionsgate succeeding with such great diversity in their big franchises, because it’s something we don’t see as much with companies like Disney or Warner Brothers (although WB is better with diversity than Disney)

5 New Stills of the Power Rangers Movie Cast

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a healthy relationship with a significant other in which we both love and support each other and genuinely enjoy being in each others company

sometimes life is just really great

the lord works in mysterious ways

associating a song with a person is a risky move

Why do Americans put the month first. It just makes no sense.

We put the month first because in conversation we say, “July 1st, 2015.” Because it’s quicker than “The first of July, 2015.”

“Tomorrow is May 29th” not “Tomorrow is the 29th of May.” That is why we write it 5/29/15 and not 29/5/15. Because we go by how we phrase it in conversation rather than in sequence because it converts better between numbers and language when written in the former. We also use the month first because that’s how calendars are organized. You have one year and one calendar so the year is a constant and can go in the back. However, calendars aren’t organized my days, but rather by months. You flip to the months first and then find the day. So…. p>

While on this topic, we also use Fahrenheit and not Celsius because a 0-100 scale of measuring temperature makes a lot more sense to a human. We know that 0 is really fucking cold and 100 is really fucking hot, which makes sense. Celsius, however, is just about how water responds to temperature, and makes no sense when applied to humans. Fahrenheit is for people, Celsius is for water. And I am a people not a water.

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I find this very funny cause you say that but your independence day is not called July 4th, its called the 4th of July.

What I find funny is that our armies were about half the size of the British army and yet we were still able to crush your crumby asses, declare independence and pour your tea in the ocean.