knuckle tats that say GODS PEED

edit: THIS POST BREACHED THE CONTAINMENT OF THE TARGET AUDIENCE, "28-YEAR-OLDS WHO SAW THEIR FIRST ANIMES IN PIECES ON YOUTUBE DURING THEIR TEENAGE YEARS." PEOPLE WHO WATCHED SAILOR MOON WHILE SIPPING APPLEY JUICE IN PRESCHOOL I'M SORRY I GUESS THIS ONE MAYBE ISN'T FOR YOU

"why is the kendrick/drake feud trending on tumblr?" is a fair question to ask given that this site isn't usually known for being big into hip hop, but I ask you to consider that I still regularly see posts doing numbers about how hbomberguy murdered tommy tallarico. tumblr, first and foremost, is the bread and circus website.

Every protein bar is called something like "double chocolate indulgence caramel cookie dough delight crunch" and tastes like clay and sawdust

Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, how did you did that.

kill me three times, this time loop fucking sucks

kill me four times, at least kiss me first

kill me five times, ok I might not mind redoing this if we keep doing that

honestly it wasn't my impression that it was our reference point for state *violence*, but rather *censorship*. basically every reference to tiananmen I see on the internet is centered around chinese state censorship.

Hundreds, possibly thousands of people died at Tiananmen. We won’t ever know how many the government killed because, unlike literally every other event mentioned, the state continues to threaten violence as a punishment for even talking about what happened.

When I was studying at BeiDa literally only people whose families were from Beijing knew that “something” had happened at Tiananmen.

You know what you get when you search for “the June Fourth Incident” (aka the Tiananmen Massacre) on the Chinese internet?

You get this:

The entirety of Weibo. 600 million active users. And there is nothing.

On Baidu, the Chinese equivalent of Google, you get a jumble of random unrelated crap:

(The scene with blood is a photo from a Baghdad market.)

Literally nowhere can you find this image:

To even show my roommates this picture, I had to get a VPN to get through the Great Firewall of China. And one of them frankly told me she was pretty sure it was Western propaganda hoax and that the event had not occurred.

And it happened at Tiananmen fucking Square! That is the stage for political symbolism! Imagine if the U.S. government used Black Hawk helicopters to kill hundreds of protestors who’d been inside the torch of the Statue of Liberty and Americans couldn’t even google it. And the consequences have been with China ever since. They put you through TSA-level security now before you can even step out onto the Square because they need to control speech acts on that symbolic stage.

The protestors wanted freedom of speech. And even the fact that they spoke up has been obliterated from history.

By contrast, the American government lets you google every single one of those American incidents. I have heard Neil Young’s “Ohio” at the fucking grocery store. We are all here talking about these events! We don’t even need to come up with coded alternatives!

Tiananmen should be remembered as a reference point of state violence. The subsequent blackout censorship is a direct result of the threat of state violence backed up with tanks. Until people are afraid to mention Ferguson on social media for fear of getting harmonised, I don’t see why we need to belittle the heroism of Chinese students and workers by making false comparisons.

Talk about American atrocities. Talk about Wounded Knee in both 1890 and 1973, while we’re at it. But there is a reason we talk about Tiananmen as state violence.

"ohh what if my kid starts identifying as a CAT because of the trans agenda we have to prote—" well they've always done that. do you remember the psychological effects of h2o on young girls. of warrior cats on autistic children. i believed i was a demigod because of percy jackson. twilight came out and kids were telling their friends they were secretly vampires. this is just a thing kids do. worry less

remember when captain america said he wasn't dating because "it's kinda hard to find someone with shared life experience" and then later in the movie they revived his best friend and silly rabbit and right hand man and the only person that could hope to understand his specific set of circumstances and then they walked the earth together as two men out of time soul-tied by fate and loyalty and blistering unwavering devotion. and that wasnt meant to mean anything

im in a group message with a bunch of straight guys and i have no idea what’s going on. for example one of them just shared this meme which is simply enlightened:

Laois really said:

"While you studied the blade, I got three square meals a day with balanced nutrients, 8 hours of sleep and time to rest after my injuries, and thats why im gonna KICK YOUR ASS"

babe wake up, new renaissance painting just dropped

Listen. Listen! How many times to I have to tell y'all that this is not Renaissance, this is MOTHERFUCKING BAROQUE!!!! Get y'all's art movements correct and put some RESPECT on the Mac Daddy of art movements, the icon, the queen, my babe, the love of my LIFE, the Baroque. She is the DRAMA. She is the MOMENT. She is all of the dramatic lighting and theatrical storytelling and unconventional angles. Those Renaissance Italians could only DREAM of standing in the same room as my beloved Baroque, much less have my man Hozier compared to them!!!

Was this reply written by Jacob Stone? 🤣

sense8 has plenty of issues to go around and i am not diminishing that but to this day nothing fills me with joy like the what's going on montage. no sequence in any show ever made has been filled with so much love, and so much joy over connected humanity like that sequence was. it still brings happy tears to my eyes. and it was done so simply with the power of editing, concept and actor's chemistry. i love it so so SO much, if it was a food i'd eat it every day

“ExcUSE me?!”

the thing i love about social animals is they necessarily have a concept of manners which means that you can be rude to them. not threatening, but rude. and they’ll be annoyed at you for it.

(via @SmudgeTheInsultCat over on Mastodon)

I mean.....

And then the search function doesn't work

AND THEN THE SEACH FUNCTION DOESN’T WORK

excuse me I'mtearing up a bit

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