Vulcans never bluff

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Wed, 22 May 2013 15:20:30 -0400

typette: I would be extremely okay with it if they just went...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:04:00 -0400

I would be extremely okay with it if they just went ahead and remade the Lion King as an animated movie but with humans

I dunno, inspired by the broadway or something.

….Don’t think about the logistics. Just do.

also open in this in another tab please

“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off…”

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:02:48 -0400

“Mr. Sulu, remind me to never piss you off…”

deeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaadpool: I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:56:17 -0400

deeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaadpool:

I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING

kalbane: I was gonna do the whole burning up in the sky thing,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:55:18 -0400

kalbane:

I was gonna do the whole burning up in the sky thing, but I really liked this :)

Kirk: Chekov, go put on a red shirt.

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:54:16 -0400

Kirk: Chekov, go put on a red shirt.
entire theater: CHEKOV, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 14:52:45 -0400

z33zy: Syrup: Four types of women. I FUCKING LOVE THIS UGH SO...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:30 -0400

z33zy:

Syrup: Four types of women.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS UGH SO MUCH

megan rosalarian gedris: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:47:53 -0400

megan rosalarian gedris: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de...:

rosalarian:

michaonthemoon:

yaoibutts:

I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”

like what stupid frenchman saw this:

and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”

j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:

et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”

(z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)

Well then.

krypto-the-hellhound: saltyfeathers: The first scene of s9 should be a montage of a bunch of...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400

krypto-the-hellhound:

saltyfeathers:

The first scene of s9 should be a montage of a bunch of angels fucking normal shit up.

maybe they’re the ones on all those infomercials

Chris Pine for Out (June 2013)

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:30:31 -0400

Chris Pine for Out (June 2013)

favorite outfits (season 8) - dean winchester

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:40:38 -0400

favorite outfits (season 8) - dean winchester

vaginapowersactivate: vrisrezi: hellalara: i wish i had a super tight-knit group of friends that...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:50:32 -0400

vaginapowersactivate:

vrisrezi:

hellalara:

i wish i had a super tight-knit group of friends that i fought crime with

i wish i had a super tight-knit group of friends that i committed crimes with

i wish i had a super tight group of criminals that i knitted with

↳ “Archangels are fierce. They’re absolute.They’re heaven’s...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:33 -0400

↳ “Archangels are fierce. They’re absolute.
They’re heaven’s most terrifying weapon.”

jazzseeksjustice: mirime-veon: recreationalcannibalism: Someon...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:20:43 -0400

jazzseeksjustice:

mirime-veon:

recreationalcannibalism:

Someone wanted this rebloggable and I didn’t see til just now. Sorry bout that, love.

Thank you so much for this. This post actually changed my view. Thank you!

I think this explains it in a way that might help a lot of people understand

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Tue, 21 May 2013 11:30:37 -0400

Quoting myself because it's relevant to an argument going on on my dash...

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:40:24 -0400

sourcedumal:

moniquill:

Where is it that your piece is set that there just aren’t any POC there? I mean, I’m sure there are places like that. Wherever it is that white people fly to when they take white flight comes to mind. Maybe you’re writing a story set in a gated community in the suburbs of Portland (Ranked Whitest city in the US based on census data!) Maybe you’re writing a story with a very limited cast, like a family saga of a white family, or a Protagonists-vs.-nature survivalist story where there just aren’t very many people.

But even if that’s the case?

It is relevant to ask yourself why you chose to set it there.

Because this brings back the argument of ‘It wouldn’t be realistic to have POC there!’

I mean, it’s not TRUE that there were no POC in medieval Europe… But it’s a well-accepted cultural myth. And given that myth, the question still begs: Why are so many people so eager to choose to set their stories there? Why are people deliberately choosing places where the audience will accept ‘POC just don’t exist here’?

Why are the fairies in Ferngully white, when the movie is set in Australia?

Why is it that the only black people in Middle Earth are orcs?

Why are there Chinese words but no Chinese people in Firefly?

Why did Pixar make a movie set in (whitewashed) Medieval Scotland?

What’s the explanation for the overpowering whiteness of LA in Buffy The Vampire Slayer?

Why are white Disney Princesses from ahistorical fantasy-worlds, but POC princesses have to be from quasi-historical locations? Pocahontas is from Virginia. Mulan is from China. Tiana is from New Orleans. Meanwhile Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, and Aurora are from unknown and untagged Kingdoms. Ariel lives in what appears to be a Caribbean reef, but all the humans and mermaids are white. Why do the POC princesses need scaffolding to explain why they’re there? Why are the POC Princesses -not actually Princesses- (unless they marry into it, in Tiana’s case)?

The answer to all of these is, of course, ‘creator choice’. Individual TOTALLY NOT RACIST (tm) people made individual choices.

But these choices aren’t made in a void.

So, yeah. If you don’t have POC characters in a piece with a sizable cast, it’s probably pretty racist. Even if you set it somewhere where GOSH, there just AREN’T any POC and that’s not your fault! They just aren’t there!

Because why are you setting it there?

Does the story REALLY demand that? I mean, some stories do; Downton Abbey is set in WWI Era England among a particular rich, landed family; the story is kind of about how awful that place and time was. The Secret of Roan Inish is set in a remote area of Ireland that hasn’t seen immigration since the vikings stopped showing up, which is relevant because some dude decides to fuck a sealfairy because she’s a slightly different shade of white and that’s kind of a crux of the story. Both of these are good and sense-making narratives where POC are thin on the ground.

They still don’t exist in a void.

The creators chose these stories about white people as the important ones to tell.

That’s worth looking at critically.

Like I said, they just need to come out and say it:

“I deal with you brown people all the fucking time in my real life. I don’t want to see you in my fantasies. My fantasies are white and white only. You are not enjoyable in my fantasies unless you are subservient, being the destroyed evil, or just plain NONEXISTENT”

"Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women. White women wake up in..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:50:24 -0400

“Black women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see Black women. White women wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see women. White men wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and see human beings.”

- Michelle Haimoff, on privilege (via queerthanks)

well damn

(via ancestryinprogress)

im in no position to have high standards but it doesn’t stop me

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:10:22 -0400

im in no position to have high standards but it doesn’t stop me

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:20:30 -0400