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Pandas are ace culture, there I said it. No debate ❤😘

#Can confirm #i am ace and was obsessed w pandas as a child #personal

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I have stayed on Tumblr this long mainly bc it’s the only social media I can trust to never spoil sports games I’m recording

#mine #personal

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Very glad I experienced my conspiracy theory phase as a 16-year-old writing Tumblr posts about Zayn leaving One Direction and not as a fully grown adult trying to destroy our democratic institutions through Twitter

#politics #like #i was a tinhat but it was so so inconsequential #unlike some other ppl with actual power and platforms #js

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Bucky after getting all dolled up in iw just for steve to compliment thor's beard

#this is so funnyyyyyy #marvel #stucky

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#Reblogging this bc its one of the most clear and concise summaries of this

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SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES in CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)

#i actively try to forget about this scene bc it breaks my heart #anyway stan bucky #marvel

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are you a 'babe but platonically' queer or 'bro but romantically' queer

#definitely the romantic bro #also the platonic bro #everyone is bro #but some are....... special bro

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#omg have just applied to my dream job so #personal #random

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just watch it

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wait bro I know it’s 4am and I work in four hours but how BADLY to I want to write an ace character in an A/B/O world? Like they can still smell pheromones but they all just smell generically pleasant and don’t turn the person on ever?? A sex-indifferent ace omega whose heats are just like a rlly bad flu bc they don’t feel any desire to hook up?? Them having a terrible time figuring out their designation before adulthood bc everyone smells the same amount of distantly nice and the scents never make them crazy the way their health courses taught them they would?? I literally don’t even like A/B/O except that the world-building is always FASCINATING to me, and now I want to explore this so bad.

#asexuality #mine #fanfic #someone encourage me plz

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This is a jar full of major characters 

Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories. 

We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls. 

Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left. 

This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left. 

And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left. 

And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right. 

Until these are the bowls. 

Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other. 

This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl. 

This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference. 

This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.

The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss. 

This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world. 

I mean, imagine your party guests arrive

Oh my god they are adorable!

And they see their bowls

But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.

I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?

But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat. 

And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant. 

And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.

*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*

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✨ HP Tattoo Series ✨ Will post the new trio with descriptions later, but wanted to also do these solos in one big series!

#im in love w every one of these

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“So when 9-11 happened I was in high school. My dad sits everybody down. He’s like, “Hasan, whatever you do, do not tell people you’re Muslim or talk about politics.” “Alright, Dad, I’ll just hide it. This just rubs off.” We’re sitting there. Phone rings. I run, but my dad beats me to the phone. “Hello?” I grab the second phone. I hear a voice. “Hey, you sand ******, where’s Osama?” He looks at me. “You can hear me, right? You fucking dune coon. Where’s Osama?” “Hey, 2631 Regatta Lane, that’s where you live, right? I’m going to fucking kill you.” Click. And my dad’s looking at me. Do you ever see your parents, and you see the mortality in them? I’m looking at my dad and I see all five-seven of him. And that’s when I realize I’m a darapok. I’m a scaredy-cat. We can speak two languages. We can speak at home and outside. I should have said something. I didn’t. We sit down. I hear “thud, thud, thud” outside. Me and Dad run outside and all the windows on the Camry are smashed in. My backpack’s open. “Fuck, they stole my stuff.” I reach and I pull out my backpack. Pieces of glass get caught in my arm. Now blood is gushing down my arm, and I’m pissed, I’m fucking mad. Fuck this, man! These kids know where we live, they’re timing this, so they’re watching us. So I’m looking in the trees, the bushes… I look back in the middle of the street, my dad is in the middle of the road sweeping glass out of the road like he works at a barbershop. “We’ve got customers. Log kya kahenge? We’ve got to clean this up.” Zen! Brown Mr Miyagi, just, like, not saying a word. I’m like, “Why aren’t you saying something? I’m asking you, say something!” He looks at me and goes, “Hasan… These things happen, and these things will continue to happen. That’s the price we pay for being here.” That’s when I was like, “We really are from two different generations.” BMX bikes aside. My dad’s from that generation where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay the American dream tax. You endure racism, and if it doesn’t cost you your life, pay it. There you go, Uncle Sam. But for me, I was born here. So I actually have the audacity of equality. I’m like, “I’m in Honors Gov, I have it right here. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. All men created equal.” It says it right here, I’m equal. I’m equal. I don’t deserve this. But as soon as I say that… He looks at me like I believe in Santa. “Hasan, you’ll never understand.” “I’ll never understand? Dad, you’re the guy that will argue with the cashier at Costco when he doesn’t let you return used underwear. And now you want to be the bigger man? Now you’re like, ‘Let’s be reasonable with the bigots.’ What?” And then he just walks back into the house with glass in his feet. And I honestly don’t know who is more right. Maybe he’s right. Put your head down. Be a doctor, get a house in the burbs, let them call them whatever you want. But isn’t it our job to push the needle forward little by little? Isn’t that how all this stuff happens? I don’t know. The pendulum swings back and forth for me. And I know 9/11 is a super touchy subject. I understand. Because when it happened, everyone in America felt like their country was under attack. But on that night, September 12th, it was the first night of so many nights where my family’s loyalty to this country was under attack. And it always sucks. As immigrants we always have to put on these press releases to prove our patriotism. We’re auditioning. “We love this country, please believe me.” Nobody loves this country more than us.”

- Hasan Minhaj on Homecoming: King (2018)

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#omg meeeeeeeee as FUCK #me finding someone aesthetically nice to look at: is this attraction?

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To all the Tumblr users who tend to use tags very liberally:

Let’s play a game.

Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up.

you

also

what

when

why

how

look

because

never

#like bitch why you tryna make me hate steve rogers #i also own leather #then got rlly basic and not that indicative of what i listen to rn #like i can tell when someone is pretty #i dont remember why that was the choice or why i spelled it that way?? #how badly do i need a job banana plz #he looked at chernow’s book and said ‘this is his sandbox and i want to play in it’ #because now i'm so convinced it's a stunt #there will never ever be enough baker fics to satisfy me

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reblog with your sign + if you’re a denim jacket, a leather jacket or a bomber jacket person it for science

#pisces #huuuuuuuuuuge denim jacket gal #i also own leather #but i wear jean jackets literally always

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((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

#!!!!!!!!!!!!! #whole mood #like i can tell when someone is pretty #also ​i play fast and loose w the phrase ‘attracted to’ #bc i spent a good 19 years thinking attraction was just a distant appreciation of someone’s aesthetics #like ‘oh he is nice looking. guess i am attracted to him!’ even though i had no desire to do anything w the realization a person was pretty #anyway #asexuality