like idk as a white lesbian more white ppl in the lgbt community need to get serious abt intersectionality and learn abt black culture from a place of respect for what the black community has done for us. it’s starting to get fucking embarrassing how racist (whether through ignorance or outright bigotry) the white ppl in this community are. and if i’m secondhandedly embarrassed i can’t imagine how black lgbt people feel seeing white queers treating blackness as an uncomfortable and alien Thing instead of a subculture that has a lot to teach us about intersectionality pride and liberation. all you have to do is listen & a lot of ppl can’t even do that

little thingy from the other week, stuff on my mind

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

XXVI. XXXVIII.

So late to the party, but the tears I had in my eyes while reading this silly pirate book Treasure Island for the first time, doing my Black Sails fangirl homework. The great well of emotion I felt when they talk about Flint's villainy, or refer to Silver as a monster, or sensing Flint's spectre haunting the story, or Hawkin's recognizing Silver's desperate scramble to survive. The way everything in this simple little story is completely recontextualized just to break my heart.

"You have heard of this Flint, I suppose?"

"Heard of him!" cried the squire. "Heard of him, you say! He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed, Blackbeard was a child to Flint. The Spaniards were so prodigiously afraid of him, that, I tell you, sir, I was sometimes proud he was an Englishman. I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back-put back, sir, into Port of Spain."

"Well, I've heard of him myself, in England," said the doctor. "But the point is, had he money?"

"Money!" cried the squire. "Have you heard the story? What were these villains after but money? What do they care for but money? For what would they risk their rascal carcasses but money?"

What indeed, what else could it have all been for?

Food scarcity is a construct we need to destroy.

Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

one of the most underrated dynamics in the show actually

Post-canon MaxAnne...

Process video under the cut:

- Blythe Baird

Me, chewing on my Bad Decisions™ Bagel in the corner:

The Universe: What’s that in your mouth?

Me, chewing faster:

The Universe: I said, WHAT THE FUCK IS IN YOUR MOUTH

“Oh boo hoo you shouldn’t ask your friends for favors we’re all adults”

I just spent three hours pulling up carpet and staples for a friend’s home renovation and we all did nothing but chat and joke and have wonderful conversation the whole time.

Helping somebody move or renovate or giving them a ride to the airport is functionally the same as going mini-golfing or playing a board game: it’s an activity that you do that is made more fun by having good company, and which provides something to talk about when the conversation lulls.

“Shared joy is double joy, but shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”

i will never be against piracy ever but i also need physical media to remain

the average blockbuster carried about 3x as many films than that that are streaming on Netflix or any other streaming service, physical media along with piracy is more important than ever.

I thought this wasn’t true, because how could it be true? How could one small store have more movies than an online database? So I googled it.

I am surprised and depressed to learn it’s 100% true, according to google. A Blockbuster store was required to have a minimum of 7000 titles, but most averaged about 10,000. Netflix has 4000 movies. (And 1800 tv shows if you want to count those, but even included, it’s still less)

Now I’m even more depressed about the collapse of physical rental stores.

I’ve recently finished Black Sails!!

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (2017) dir. Chris McKay