it really is crazy that women's clothes don't fit anybody. fat women can't find clothes, skinny women can't find clothes, tall women can't find clothes, short women can't find clothes, big chested women can't find clothes, small chested women can't find clothes. who the fuck are these being made for
we all really resonated with this one huh
"And we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with an enthusiasm that enabled us to rally support for them based on confidence and trust. We will have to demand high standards and give consistent, loyal support to those who merit it.
We will have to be a reliable constituency for those who prove themselves to be committed political warriors in our behalf. When our movement has partisan political personalities whose unity with their people is unshakeable and whose independence is genuine, they will be treated in white political councils with the respect those who embody such power deserve...
We will have to learn to refuse crumbs from the big-city machines and steadfastly demand a fair share of the loaf. When the machine politicians demur, we must be prepared to act in unity and throw our support to such independent parties or reform wings if the major parties as are prepared to take our demands seriously and fight for them vigorously. This is political freedom; this is political maturity expressing our aroused and determined new spirit to be treated as equals in all aspects of life."
Where Do We Go From Here; Martin Luther King Jr.
(spoken in context to the first of what MLK determined was the Negro community's three major political weaknesses, the "manner in which our politicians emerge").
The Muppet Movie (1979) dir. James Frawley
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REWATCH ROULETTE ORPHAN BLACK | 1.05 Conditions of Existence
“not every vampire is queer” first of all yes they are
so few people understand the art of the pseudo nap
naps aren’t always about sleeping sometimes they’re about setting a timer for 30 minutes and lying down closing your eyes while listening to music and/or thinking about a tv show or a cool thing that happened recently with a little bit of checking your phone interspersed
Posting on 1/13/2026
i love translators’ notes. i love seeing a little footnote that’s like “compare my good and grass-touching translation to the STUPID translations of smith and johnson, who rendered the passage ‘xyz’ because their heads are so far up their ass they’re giving ouroboroses body dysmorphia” or “this sentence isn’t translated very well, but that’s because the author wasn’t making any FUCKING sense”
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.”
still cannot get over the audacity it takes to adapt a book series about gay people and necromancy fully knowing youre gonna have to censor both the gay people and the necromancy. thats a wild call
tumblr will never count as social media to me. This shit a secret hideout and we just all happen to see each others thoughts
True isolation is when everyone else is talking about their vibrant teenage experience and you’re like. I was just trying to survive
some of u should have an OnlyClowns account
what the fuck do you think a tumblr is
worst part about the Internet is knowing that there are finally people who both match and complement your freak. the nearest one is 2,318.4 miles away and your time zones are awkward
HEAD IN MY HANDS
shout out to my parents for not supervising what i do on the internet ever
