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moribundslut: Save Me Not Second Base As Breast Cancer...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:00:19 -0400

Save Me Not Second Base

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and a lot of waffling over whether I should get involved with a debatable issue. But one of the things you learn in the School of Humanities is that rhetoric is open for critique.

Go on. Save the boobies. Save the tatas. Save second base. Raise money. Sell wristbands. Base entire campaigns around a secondary, sexualized sex characteristic used pars pro toto for womanhood. You’ll get away with it.

But first save the people they’re attached to.

artetolife: What Is A Creep? (by ModPrimate) Not being creepy...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:18:11 -0400

artetolife:

What Is A Creep? (by ModPrimate)

Not being creepy means never having to convince someone to have sex with you. You don’t need tactics. You don’t need lines. You don’t need to change her mind about you. She’s only gonna have sex with you if she wants to have sex with you.

assemblyfairytale: Trina Schart Hyman

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:02:09 -0400

assemblyfairytale:

Trina Schart Hyman

im really jealous of people who can accept themselves and be confident and actually like how they...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:47:46 -0400

im really jealous of people who can accept themselves and be confident and actually like how they look because it fucking kills me looking in the mirror and just wanting to cry and crumble into little pieces

disneyfrozen: note : the bottom two are from the teaser!

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:35:33 -0400

disneyfrozen:

note : the bottom two are from the teaser!

Daniel Radcliffe | new outtakes by Andrew Crowley [2013]

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:31 -0400

Daniel Radcliffe | new outtakes by Andrew Crowley [2013]

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:37:36 -0400

thepolymathbrigade: Fairy Rings A fairy ring is a...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:23:40 -0400

thepolymathbrigade:

Fairy Rings

A fairy ring is a naturally occurring arc of mushrooms that usually appear in forests, but may also grow in grasslands. While the name of this phenomenon and lore behind it vary by culture, the most widely recognized tale indicates that fairy rings were created by a circle of dancing fairies. Numerous tales caution against entering these rings for fear of being cursed to die at a young age, being lured away into the fairy realm etc.

Modern science now recognizes this phenomenon as the result of fungus (the most common of which is Marasmius oreades). The body, or mycelium, of the fungus grows underground in an outward circle and as it grows it steals nutrients from nearby grass. Mushrooms spring up around the outer edge of the mycelium. As the ring grows the fungus releases a chemical to break down outward organic matter, allowing for a surplus of nutrient the mycelium can use when it reaches it. This accounts for the darker, taller, thicker grass often seen with fairy rings.

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Officially the best line from any show

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:54:09 -0400

Officially the best line from any show

i went to see dylan moran perform this evening and i laughed so damn hard i cried

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:51:15 -0400

i went to see dylan moran perform this evening and i laughed so damn hard i cried

whatladybird: fandomsandfeminism: allinom: fandomsandfeminism:...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:22 -0400

whatladybird:

fandomsandfeminism:

allinom:

fandomsandfeminism:

Ugh. Yes.

I find the Snape/Lily narrative to be really horrific, honestly. The fact that we are asked to feel oh so bad for poor little Snape makes me a little bit queasy.

Because, yes, I do sympathize with Snape for having a rough childhood.

But he was a horrible friend to Lily. He ignored her feelings. He screamed racial slurs at her. He favored the idealized version of her he had built up in his mind over the REAL her (I think it is significant that James’ patronus is a STAG, showing compatibility with Lily; while Snape is a DOE, showing a mimicry of Lily). That idealization and inability to reconcile how his own actions contributed to the failure of their friendship literally KILLED Lily.

I understand that we can show some sympathy for him. Watching someone self destruct their own relationships because of abuse and peer pressure and the tribulations of childhood? That’s tragic.

But then he grows up to emotionally abuse Lily’s son for having a physical resemblance to her husband.

And we’re supposed to feel sorry for him? We’re supposed to think it’s lovely and sweet that Harry names his child after the teacher who emotionally abused him for years? Who emotionally abused OTHER children for years as well?

The fans who sit around and cry about how Lily SHOULD have picked Snape, how Snape DESERVED her? How James was a horrible douche and Lily was a bitch for choosing him? Ugh. No. nno no no no on oonononononononoooooo.

also snape actually ruined a mans career fully knowing he probably couldn’t get another one.

Oh the shit that went down with Remus makes me really want to break his teeth.

Remus had been HOMELESS. Remus had spent much of his adult life implied to be on the streets, unable to find work, and completely unable to make new friendships or relationships after Lily and James died, Peter vanished, and Sirius went to jail (ALL of which is DIRECTLY Snape’s god damn fault.)

And then just as Remus picks himself back up again? Becomes a positive force and father figure to Harry? Snape deliberately and purposely gets him FIRED so that he will be unemployed and potentially homeless AGAIN.

How the fuck am I supposed to show any sympathy for an adult who completely lacks the ability to show sympathy, or even human decency, to others?

Don’t forget Snape’s bullying of his other students a.k.a. the children he was hired to teach and nurture. When thirteen-year-old Neville Longbottom was confronted by a boggart for the first time, his worst fear was Severus Snape. Most of his classmates saw monsters or creatures, things that could do you physical harm (Harry’s boggart literally turned into a SOUL-SUCKING PERSONIFICATION OF DEPRESSION) but Neville, whose parents had been tortured by this point, Neville’s worst fear is the emotional abuse of his potions teacher.

And when a fourteen-year-old Hermione was cursed by one of her fellow students, amplifying a physical feature she was already self-conscious about, did he defend her or punish the boy who cursed her? Did he offer her the barest form of human decency by sending her to the hospital wing or undoing the curse himself? No. He looked at her and said, “I see no difference.”

Snape apologists can get out of my face.