Hot Air

If Tiktok has gotten criminal minds this popular just a year ago, then it wouldn’t of been cancelled and we’d be waiting on season 16. This will keep me up at night for the rest of my life.

BABY BOY!!!!

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THIS IS ACTUALLY FACTUAL AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED MORE

http://www.usms.org/articles/articledisplay.php?aid=294

“Knowing that they were losing “valuable product” due to their slaves’ propensity to swim, slave owners began taking drastic steps to protect their property. One of these steps was to instill a fear of the water by dunking disobedient slaves in water until they nearly drowned and by creating fear through stories of creatures living in the water. Thus it didn’t take long to excise or destroy the West African swimming tradition from African- American culture. The Jim Crow laws that were enacted after The Civil War prohibited blacks from the popular seaside resorts in places like Atlantic City, N.J. and Revere Beach, Mass. And by the 20th Century, as the swimming pool began to gain in popularity in the United States, the color line prohibited blacks from enjoying this pleasant recreational skill.

In addition, self-segregation also played a role in limiting those of African ancestry from getting in the water. I remember my Aunt saying to stay away from the pool because, “black folk don’t swim.””

Such a long and consistent history of anti-Blackness and swimming. Long before police openly assaulted little black girls in McKinney, GoodWhitePeople™ were enforcing White Supremacy and segregating swimming pools.

Motel manager, James “Jimmy” Brock, pouring acid into a swimming pool to drive black people away from a “Swim In” protest, in St. Augustine, Florida on June 18, 1964.

Next time you hear someone ask questions like, “Why don’t black people swim?” Or “Why are so many black people afraid of dogs?” And, “Why are there do so many black people live in poverty?”…..let ‘em know that those aren’t coincidences. These things didn’t just happen naturally, all on their own. There’s a reason for it, and you don’t have to be an historian to know they’re all interconnected through slavery, endemic racism and persistently racist cultural norms.

always reblog…

oh my god

this is my favorite spencer gif ever. everrr.

I took a break from my Bar Prep to reread Matthew Gray Gubler’s AMA. Here are some of my favorites. 

The one time I’m jealous of Gubes for meeting someone else is him getting to meet Ray Bradbury. Honestly one of my heroes.

Really specific criminal minds headcanons (like, really specific):

Rossi knows every word to Nicki Minaj’s Superbass and has been known to perform it while drunk and/or bored

Reid and Morgan made out once while playing truth or dare on the jet. They got really into it and it got wildly uncomfortable for everyone else. They haven’t spoken of it since and truth or dare is now banned

Prentiss plays the French horn and will not shut the fuck up about it

JJ always wins the 4th of July hot dog eating contest, with Hotch in close second

Reid eats grapefruit like this:

Hotch takes a Zumba class at the YMCA on Fridays and thinks no one knows. Everyone knows.

Morgan has a Tik Tok where he makes vlogs, self defense videos, and thirst traps. He has 2 million followers.

Garcia also has a tik tok and the only videos she posts are duets with Morgan in which she makes fun of him

Reid and Prentiss have a weekly thing where they get wasted and watch riverdale

Rossi is afraid of horses

JJ once got into a twitter war with Jennifer Aniston

Emily spoke in a British accent for three straight years when she was a teenager for no particular reason

Garcia habitually DMs Justin Timberlake on Instagram just to see if he’ll answer. He blocked her.

Hotch’s favorite movie is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and if prompted can and will recite the script from memory

The one time Rossi went to Disneyland, he rode the spinning teacups and promptly threw up

Once, Morgan and Garcia got drunk and got each other’s names tattooed

Whenever Rossi has a book signing, the rest of the BAU shows up and they go way over-the-top fangirling over him

Similarly, whenever Reid gets a new degree, they’re always there to hype him up when he gets his diploma

bonus:

I’ve never seen this with the update and it makes it so much funnier

Yeah , like same.