Martin Luther King Jr. playing with his children Dexter King, Yolanda King and Bernice King in their backyard in Atlanta on November 8, 1964.

Photos by Flip Schulke

I just saw an acquaintance use "👖🛝" in place of the word genocide and. like. at what point are we going to decide that this kind of self-censorship is too degrading to abide anymore.

before 2020 people used to say that 2016 was the worst year ever. like there were think pieces being published in like july of 2016 saying that it was the worst year ever... what are you nostalgic for. everything that happened in 2016 was so fucking bad

in 2016 david bowie and prince died and my entire household was inconsolable for the entire year. my 12 year old sister cried any time a bowie song played for a month. and on top of that we had to worry about guys in clown costumes with machetes for some reason. i do not believe that you guys are missing this

harry potter fans in 2025

harry potter urls get blocked and people reblogging my shit with their harry potter ships in the tags get blocked and dumbasses who have shit bios like "marauders and drarry 4ever but I think jkr is a big meaner don't worry" you're getting blocked and I'm shoving you in a locker

i straight up do not respect your media opinions if you can't let harry potter go

so chris columbus (harry potter director from 20 years ago) who not only called jkr's transphobic views "very sad" has just publicly asked "what's the point" of the new reboot after seeing pictures of the new cast in costume. because the reboot is just. unashamedly evoking every bit of cash cow nostalgia by literally using the same costuming choices and art direction of the original films that he established, while simultaneously claiming to distance itself from his work.

like i know that we all know it's a shameless cash grab by Miss Transphobia to fund more bullshit, but it's just so transparent that it's a creatively empty project whose audience consists of people who want an overbloated line-by-line adaptation, but who don't have enough object permanence to handle a series that is meaningfully or creatively different from what they saw 20 years ago as babies. like the people making the show and the people it's being made for are beyond stupid. that's all i can say.

Taking up Japanese as a side project for myself has reminded me of something. So like a long time ago I had a professor that I absolutely adored. She happened to be Japanese American. She grew up speaking Japanese at home but never really spent a lot of time in Japan. She mostly spoke with other Japanese Americans and read books. So one day early in her teaching career there’s an exchange student from Japan who’s having a hard time understanding a concept so she explained it to him in Japanese and then he looked absolutely rattled. Like in shock. Pale. This is how she learned that the way she speaks Japanese makes her sound like a gang member. Japanese doesn’t exactly have cuss words in the same way as English does but imagine that the nicest professor you’ve ever had pulls your paper over and says “Okay listen here you little piece of shit I’m gonna fucking explain this to you. Violently.”

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