cool cool cool

pokemon: hurts itself in confusion

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:33:32 -0400

pokemon: hurts itself in confusion
me: lets out a bellow so deep it is only audible to other whales

megalovriska: enenkay: fauxboy: hellyeahscarleteen: Sometimes...

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:22:35 -0400

enenkay:

fauxboy:

hellyeahscarleteen:

Sometimes people have a hard time understanding what a happy relationship between two people who obvs think the other is awesome looks like.

We think this is one great (and holy bananas, so freaking hilarious) example.

this is glorious

Oh my GOD it just kept getting better and better

this is literally the best thing

troybakers: hey u kids wanna buy some drugs

Tue, 21 May 2013 02:11:31 -0400

troybakers:

hey u kids wanna buy some drugs

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Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:38 -0400

sexintartarus: excuse you our porn is of the finest quality

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:28:03 -0400

sexintartarus:

excuse you our porn is of the finest quality

sherlockscarf: havetardiswilltimetravel: ragejolras: (x) This...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:03 -0400

sherlockscarf:

havetardiswilltimetravel:

ragejolras:

(x)

This is gorgeous!

So beautifully done.

foreveralone-lyguy: troix: foreveralone-lyguy: internetexplorers: change the world today by...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:56 -0400

foreveralone-lyguy:

troix:

foreveralone-lyguy:

internetexplorers:

change the world today by doing a thing

How much thing?

like 8 thing

That’s too much thing

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:55:19 -0400

The memories that never happened.

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:44:13 -0400

The memories that never happened.

Dear Liberal Allies – what your college courses on oppression didn’t tell you

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:33:12 -0400

trungles:

I’m not angry or upset about anything in particular at the moment, but I thought I’d take a little time to write something out that had been bugging me about allies. It’s certainly not all-encompassing or totally comprehensive, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about in terms of being a good ally and a good neighbor, especially here on Tumblr.

Before you step in to help us out, I’d just like to clarify a couple things.

You and I, we may have taken the same seminars and maybe even read the same Audre Lorde excerpts or Ronald Takaki books, but know this: we learned very different things in very different ways

For students of color, for gay students, for trans* students, for the children of immigrants and refugees, these classes aren’t always about learning new concepts when it pertains to us. It’s more about learning the names of things we already knew fairly intimately. Do you understand that? You learned it another way. You went in, you got this set of key words and a list of definitions. Your learning was, in all likelihood, “Here is this word. This is what this word means.”

For you, it was “Xenophobia: a strong fear or dislike of people from other countries.”

For us, it was “Xenophobia: the time that boy in my kindergarten class spat on me because I couldn’t speak English yet. Or when I saw that clerk yell at my mom in the grocery store because her English wasn’t clear enough. Or when USCIS had us confirm our American citizenship with the same set of papers seven times over the course of sixteen years because they wanted to confirm that we were, in fact, actual American citizens.”

For you, it was, “Racism: unfair treatment of people who belong to another race; violent behavior towards them.”

For us, it was, “Racism: that one time I saw that manager tell that sales girl to follow my dad around at Kohl’s. Or that one time my neighbor’s kid got shot by the police and they tried to cover it up by convincing everyone he was in a gang because he was Hmong, but we knew he wasn’t. Or that one time my dad told me I shouldn’t rollerblade to the library because I’m not white and it’s not safe for me.”

For you, it was, “Homophobia: a strong dislike or fear of homosexual people.”

For us, it was, “Homophobia: that time in the sixth grade when Ryan shoved me against a glass door and banged my face in it while yelling, ‘faggot!’ at me until the teacher stopped him. Or when my Catholic high school’s president told me that, though he loved me as a child of God, he still believed I was sinful when I suggested that we start a GSA.”

For you, it was: “Classism: prejudice or discrimination based on social class.”

For us, it was: “Classism: that one time when my best friend came over to hang out in high school and her parents didn’t want her to come over again because they didn’t like our neighborhood. Or that one time when my friends had no idea what food stamps looked like and I was too embarrassed to explain what they were.”

So while you were learning that these academically-framed phenomena were real problems, we were just getting little figurative nametags for awful things that we already knew. Your weekly vocabulary list was, to us, just a hollow shadow of our lived experiences.

So my point is this:

If you didn’t live an experience, then step aside. Because we knew this stuff before our professors told us what to call it. We learned it from the bottom up, you learned it from the top down, and that’s not even a metaphor.

When you step out of class, you get to be like, “Oh, awesome. I am learning how to be a good ally and a better human being. This will help me.” For us, it’s more like, “Ah, so that’s what they’re calling it nowadays. When exactly did they say change was going to come for us?”

So in practice, here’s what all this theory looks like: you don’t always have to speak. I mean, certainly, you should totally call someone out on their oppressive bullshit. But if you identify as male, you don’t get to tell people what is best for women as though you have that authority. If you’re white, you shouldn’t be trying to “uplift” people of color by the grace of your intellect or your words. Nobody’s looking to be ‘rescued’ or ‘pulled up from out of their unfortunate circumstances’ as you may be tempted to believe.

All anybody’s looking for in an ally is someone who knows that “empowerment” means taking a step aside in a place where you know you have privilege. And if it is, for example, a PoC-to-PoC conversation, a woman-to-woman conversation, a queer-to-queer conversation, etc. about this stuff, and that isn’t who you are, you don’t need to be chiming in.

Just take our word for it, let us talk, and let us vent. We’d like you to give us room, and if you have to be helpful, then help make room for us by giving up some of your proverbial social girth.

Because the bottom line is that our academia has made a commodity of our lived experiences as teaching moments for you. And if you think your academic knowledge is more valid than our lived experiences, then you’re definitely not part of the solution.

Much love.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 04:22:12 -0400

maxterbate: maxterbate: Why dont you guys want Yahoo to buy Tumblr? Free chocolate milk for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:11:20 -0400

maxterbate:

maxterbate:

Why dont you guys want Yahoo to buy Tumblr?

Free chocolate milk for everyone

i have just been informed on this

2x11/2x22/3x11/4x11/5x24 ‘Rings + Almost Proposals’ | requested...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:27:51 -0400

2x11/2x22/3x11/4x11/5x24 ‘Rings + ~~Almost~~ Proposals’ | requested by anon

bestcosplayphotos: ｡✖ Durarara Cosplay ｡✖ For more...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:17:17 -0400

bestcosplayphotos:

｡✖ Durarara Cosplay ｡✖

For more cosplay : ▼

nitrimist: those: The age of green is upon us. We have reached...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:06:00 -0400

nitrimist:

those:

The age of green is upon us. We have reached a point in our human evolution where science, math, and creative genius have discovered a way to suspend a living forest in mid air. The answer to city pollution is now Stefano Boeri’s Bosco Verticale, the world’s first 27-story microclimate apartment towers currently under construction in Milan, Italy. Built to function as city air purifiers, these lush apartments will include over 900 trees, 5,000 bushes, and 11,000 plants throughout the tower balconies. Each perch of life will aid in reducing city noise, moderating atmospheric temperatures, absorbing CO2 emissions, and acting as an energy sustainer for seasonal weather shifts.

Read more: http://genyhub.com/page/the-vertical-forest#ixzz2Qg4ONZSa

One thing I hate about living in the city is the lack of trees but this is perfect and I don’t understand why it’s not a super common thing already I mean it’s 2013 for gods sake

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Sun, 19 May 2013 10:55:00 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 08:44:26 -0400

Howard Stark was a worse father than Odin. Pass it on.

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:33:26 -0400

ringasunn:

spookylittlesleipnir:

descartes-and-thosecartes:

freudian-slut:

anideaforamoth:

ecokitty:

ras-al-cool:

I see your Odin and Howard Stark…

And raise you one Brian Banner.

^^^ Oh snap, that’s hard to beat.

Let’s just throw Harold Barton into the list here.

Jesus, the Avengers should just be called the ‘My Dad’s a douchebag’ club.

At least they had dads.

Omg batman YOU DONT EVEN GO HERE

YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE

lilirulu: So I went on the FE wikia because I was looking up...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:27:43 -0400

lilirulu:

So I went on the FE wikia because I was looking up something for Stahl and I saw this.

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THEY ARE ALL ADORABLE ESPECIALLY CHROM AND HIS PUFFY PANTS

bounoromato: cokeflow: I CAN SHOW U THE WORLD HAVE YOU SEEN...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:17:06 -0400

bounoromato:

cokeflow:

I CAN SHOW U THE WORLD

HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON?