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ok can we agree that the WORST feeling is when you’re just sitting around consciously procrastinating and you’re just overly aware that each second that passes is more time wasted and you like watch hours pass and you’re STILL procrastinating and you CANT STOP and your panicked brain is trapped inside a body that refuses to be productive and inside you’re screaming but outwardly you’re just eating chips
To liberals, to centrists, to color blind racists, to all the people who thinks silence or laughing about it, or fake satire are harmless, just an opinion, or a bit of nothing in a cycle that started with little things, this is for you.
He designed this special shoes, shared between him and his paralyzed daughter just to make her feel the sensation of walking.
WEEP DAFEELS PENETRATE ME
Oh my goodness
This is probably so good for her body, too! Imagine her muscles getting moved in ways they don’t normally and she is upright and hopefully not having any pressure spots! This is lovely in so many ways!
Zack Snyder caused an Amazonian uproar on social media when he started sharing pictures of Amazons from Justice League in leather bikinis.
This abrupt change of direction is a shock and these outfits look like generic barbarian women from a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They completely lack the unique flavor of the Greco-Roman-inspired armor ensembles that Lindy Hemming put so much thought and historical research into creating for Wonder Woman. The Wonder Woman designs received acclaim from fans and costume fanatics alike. They were clearly inspired by the Amazon’s origins in the Mediterranean and were feminine but very functional. Why mess with perfection?
Oh, right. The all-male team of directors and executive directors wanted women to fight in bikinis.
Wonder Woman began filming in 2015, the year before Justice League started filming in 2016. The Amazons’ design was finalized and most of the costumes completed while Justice League was still in pre-production. That means that there were discussions about what the Amazons should wear into battle in Justice League and the epic designs from Wonder Woman were rejected in favor of leather bikinis. Let that sink in. They rejected already finished costumes to redesign and remake the armor so that more skin would be showing.
“To be absolutely clear, my issue is not with the lack of modesty. The Amazons in Wonder Woman wore sports-bra-like outfits when they were not fighting and I think that is very realistic for a society that lives in a Mediterranean climate. My problem is a millennia-old military culture wearing bikinis into battle because they are women. My problem is a wise civilization that was created by the gods to protect the world thinking that soft leather is armor.
I have a problem with a really great design being thrown out in favor of something that would excite the cis male gaze.”
Not to mention that “armor” that exposes the most vulnerable part of the body is not armor. It is a bathing suit.
so my original first-pass career concept was to become an English professor, and medieval was one of my two preferred areas of potential specialization, and consequently I took this fantastic bibliography grad seminar that met at Houghton Library, and in an early class they brought out the Gutenberg, I suspect partly for bonding purposes so we could all stand around and ooh and ahh at it, but in an effort to raise the actual pedagogy coefficient they were actually handling it and turning pages and stuff, and a tiny little piece flaked off of one of the pages and came to rest on the table, and I locked eyes with it
consider: this little crumb of pure meaning was imminently about to be swept away into the undifferentiated dust. it was v v smol, and the next person to breathe or gesture in its general direction would have been the end of it
it seemed only respectful
I mean. It was the only reasonable course of action.
Ooooh a bunch of black athletes are kneeling for the anthem. A true, insurmountable affront to everything good and American. Terrifying.
you know what, i’ve gotta say something: i never wanna see another fucking conservative and/or bigot use this image of the Iwo Jima flag raising to talk about supporting our troops or to silence critics of America’s oppressive system.
and that’s because of a man named Ira Hayes.
Ira Hayes was a Pima Native American man born on the Gila River Indian Community Reservation, a community deeply affected by poverty.
during WWII, Ira Hayes felt compelled to serve, enlisting and becoming a Marine. he fought in Iwo Jima and was one of the few soldiers to survive. he is the fifth man raising the flag in the picture. when he first returned to the US, he was lauded as a hero. he was invited to the White House and paraded around. he did a press tour with the two other surviving flag raisers.
but that was it. after Ira’s usefulness to the government was through, he was abandoned. suffering from severe PTSD–then known as “shell shock”–and without employment opportunities or governmental aid, he became an alcoholic and lived in abject poverty, unable to find steady work. he died on his reservation, alone in a ditch from alcohol poisoning and exposure, utterly forgotten by the government that had so happily used him, first as a soldier and then as a promotional prop for american victory.
Ira Hayes’s story is a perfect example of the manner in which the US government and military uses young men, often men of color and/or men who live in poverty, and then abandons them to fucking starve and suffer. when people use that picture to say “support our troops!” they are unwittingly showcasing a figure who proves the government and public at large doesn’t do that. once more, when they use it to silence people protesting racial inequality, they are literally using the image of a man of color who was subjected to racism, which is fucking spitting on his name.
“Down the ditches a thousand years, the waters grew Ira’s peoples’ crops ‘til the white man stole their water rights and the sparkling water stopped
Now, Ira’s folks were hungry, and their land grew crops of weeds; when war came, Ira volunteered and forgot the white man’s greed.
There they battled up Iwo Jima hill, two hundred and fifty men, but only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again. And when the fight was over and Old Glory raised, among the men who held it high was the Indian, Ira Hayes.
Ira Hayes returned a hero, celebrated through the land; he was wined and speeched and honored, everybody shook his hand But he was just a Pima Indian, no water, no home, no chance; at home nobody cared what Ira’d done and when did the Indians dance.
Then Ira started drinking hard, jail was often his home; they let him raise the flag and lower it like you’d throw a dog a bone. He died drunk early one morning, alone in the land he fought to save, two inches of water and a lonely ditch was a grave for Ira Hayes.
Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won’t answer anymore, not the whiskey drinking Indian or the marine that went to war.
Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes, but his land is just as dry, and his ghost is lying thirsty in the ditch where Ira died.” - “The Ballad of Ira Hayes,” Peter Lafarge & Johnny Cash
