Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. BlueSky: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.

“You have to understand everyone’s body was built to do something…I think the world is realizing we were promoting one body type and there have always been many.”

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Michelle Carter, Team USA Shot Put GOLD MEDALIST in Rio (x)

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What’s more, this badass-world-champion-athlete is the founder of “You Throw, Girl”: ‘a sports camp that focuses on the complete female athlete through confidence building and athletic empowerment’ (x).

#swoon

(via qfeminism)

This is just to say

librarianpirate:

the-real-seebs:

librarianpirate:

I have eaten

the spiders
that were in
my cave

and which
you were probably
counting
for statistical purposes

Forgive me
I am an outlier
adn
should not have been counted

“Average poem parodied three times a year” factoid is actually statistical error. Average poem is parodied 0 times a year. This is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams, which is not a metaphor for Plato’s cave and is parodied over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

I’m not sure when this bottom bit here got added but it really is the best addition to my post I’ve ever seen.

“I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying, “Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.””

—

a post my mum shared on fb earlier (via mnrva)

Written by the poet Michael Rosen

(via coldalbion)

YES YES YES

Facism almost always walks in and offers two things:

1) identification of a legitimate problem (often poverty/a failing economy/a lack of jobs)

2) identification of an Other who can be blamed and removed so that the problem is solved and the future is prosperous and safe.  (The Other almost never caused the problem, but that’s not the point; the point is how you can tell the story to link them together.)  The idea of the Other being to blame is often softened, at first:  “Well, we’re not talking about ALL [group], just the bad ones!”  Just punishments for the “bad” people, and you and your friends and family get your future back.  

It’s a deal an awful lot of people will take, if they are brought to believe in it.

(via decepticonsensual)

I’d argue though, that actually the Other is NEVER the problem, and that that is precisely the point: fascism intentionally misidentifies the source of the problem so that the problem can never be truly solved, because in order to survive and thrive, fascism relies on the citizens living in a state of perennial insecurity and fear.

I’d also argue that the “friendly” facade of fascism usually coexists with very explicit declarations of fascism’s true intent: fascists DO say things like “our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution” out loud. But a lot of people are all too willing to focus on the promises of protection, employment, honor restored, and pretend they didn’t hear that last part, or if they acknowledge it, they justify it by saying well, but of course we don’t mean ALL Others, only the “bad” ones! And then, weirdly enough, it always turns out that the vast majority of the Others are “bad”.

(via fearlessinger)