If the population of Earth were only 100 people and one guy tried to hoard 99% of the money. The other 99 people would simply just kill that guy and take their money back.

just-shower-thoughts advocating the murder of the bourgeoisie

I mean

*Karl Marx from his coffin* Nice

the two previous movie series of Spider-Man always had it that Spidey was a Big Hit with the citizens of nyc in spite of the negative press/police departments actively hunting him down but we haven’t really seen anything like that in the mcu past Peter’s classmates simply being aware that Spider-Man is a hero who exists, like we didn’t see any slandering articles or angry officers which is WEIRD considering the canonical climate about superheros in the mcu right now so like….I really hope it carries over into this third series because frankly I love the idea of everyone in a post-accords world in constant debate about superheroes like ‘should they be held accountable for casualties’ and ‘does it make sense to give all this power to just a few people and force them to make potentially catastrophic situations’ and ‘do we even truly Need superheroes’ like any and all debate they can think of but at the same time, all the citizens in New York are collectively like ‘Yeah….but we’re gonna leave the Spider-Boy out of this….he just wants to help out….he’s doing his Best..’ lmao

The Entire City Of New York: after all the danger we’ve been placed in since these superheroes started popping up, since the Avenger’s set up a headquarters here- we’re sick of it. superheroes only prevent problems that they create in the first place and cause millions in damages doing it. we want our city to be safe!

Also The Entire City Of New York: we’ve only had Spider-Man for a year and a half but if anything ever happened to him we would kill everyone on this planet and then ourselves

J. Jonah Jameson: writes a scathing article about the ‘spider menace’ ‘terrorizing’ Queens and campaigns for his arrest and imprisonment alongside other ‘mutant menaces’ 

That Nice Old Lady that bought Peter a churro: *barges into the Daily Bugle office swinging her handbag with deadly force* 

Citizens of New York City: fuck the avengers!!

The Rest Of The World: you do realize that your Spider-Man has been spotted helping the Avengers on multiple occasions and many believe him to be an honorable member of the team?

Citizens of New York City:

a singular scuit. just one. 

an edible cracker with just one side. mathematically impossible and yet here I am monching on it.

‘scuit’ comes from the french word for ‘bake’, ‘cuire’ as bastardized by adoption by the brittish and a few hundred years ‘biscuit’ meant ‘twice-baked’, originally meaning items like hardtack which were double baked to dry them as a preservative measure long before things like sugar and butter were introduced. if you see a historical doccument use the word ‘biscuit’ do not be fooled to think ‘being a pirate mustve been pretty cool, they ate nothing but cookies’ - they were made of misery to last long enough to be used in museum displays or as paving stones

‘triscuit’ is toasted after the normal biscuit process, thrice baked thus the monoscuit is a cookie thats soft and chewy because it was only baked once, not twice

behold the monoscuit/scuit

Why is this called a biscuit:

when brittish colonists settled in the americas they no longer had to preserve biscuits for storage or sea voyages so instead baked them once and left them soft, often with buttermilk or whey to convert cheap staples/byproducts into filling items to bulk out the meal to make a small amount of greasy meat feed a whole family. considering hardtack biscuits were typically eaten by dipping them in grease or gravy untill they became soft enough to eat without breaking a tooth this was a pretty short leap of ‘just dont make them rock hard if im not baking for the army’ but didnt drop the name because its been used for centuries and people forgot its french for ‘twice baked’ back in the tudor era, biscuit was just a lump of cooked dough that wasnt leavened bread as far as they cared thus the buttermilk biscuit and the hardtack biscuit existed at the same time. ‘cookies’ then came to america via german and dutch immigrants as tiny cakes made with butter, sugar/molasses, and eggs before ‘tea biscuits’ as england knew them due to the new availability of cheap sugar- which is why ‘biscuit’ and ‘cookie’ are separate items in america but the same item in the UK the evolution of the biscuit has forks on its family tree

I love it when a shitpost turns into an actually interesting post.

Any story claiming to be a deconstruction of fairy tales but has nothing to offer except new types of violence, more explicit sex, and a general attitude of “lol happy endings aren’t real” is like. such a cultural waste of time tbh

know what actually is a good deconstruction of a fairy tale? Shrek. It fucks up just about everything in a normal fairy tale and still manages to have a happy ending with a good message and never once has to be ‘gritty’ or ‘dark’. It’s actually really well done.

- Ursula LeGuin, ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’

I can’t believe this only something I have only recently noticed. I love shipping as I’m sure a ton of others do as well. The WWE fandom in particular has quite a plethora of ships. Hundreds probably. What I don’t understand is why in a fandom as big as ours, we don’t have ship weeks. I mean I could be wrong but I have yet to see any out there. I mean I’m just looking at some fandoms and I see all the different ships having appreciation weeks. There’s The Flash with Westallen week, Once Upon a Time with Swan Queen week, Supernatural with Destiel week and so forth.

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I still think Moana deserved an Oscar for this part

To me, the moral of Moana is that only women can help other women heal from male violence. 

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed. 

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

Moana is only able to restore the heart because Te Kā reveals her vulnerability and allows Moana to touch her there. Maui and his male violence could only ever have resulted in more ruin.

@i-want-cheese

This is a touching anaylisis but it’s extremely racist as not only have you completely ignored the whole point of Maui’s character, but have managed to incriminate a man of color on a tumblr wide scale.

First of all, Maui’s character does not represent male violence—it represent human greed. Maui did not take the heart because he is a man, and Te-Fiti is a woman. He took it because the humans asked him to. The humans asked Maui to do everything for them, not caring how greedy or selfish their requests were and in the end it was Maui who suffered for it. Maui is supposed to show the flaw of humanity.

This has nothing to do with sexism, it has everything to do with the fact that Maui gave and gave to the humans who could never stop being greedy. Moana giving the heart back wasn’t supposed to be her “making up” for the male violence that Maui represents. It was her making up for the greed she and her people represent. It was touching however because yes it was an important moment between two women, but you missed the point and you’ve come off racist and very disrespectful to a culture at that.

Yes, Moana is an empowering movie for women, especially women of color. But the last thing this is about is Maui being an abuser/rapist or whatever. That is not the point of Maui’s character.

And to assume so is racist. You are a white woman completely dehumanizing a man of color and ruining his image because of how you see him. And other white girls here on tumblr have happily picked up that image and interpretation and rolled with it. Maui’s character is now seen as an abuser or as someone who is violently because of white girls here on tumblr—which it doesn’t surprise me. (an in a historical context this is even MORE racist because white women would always make Maui’s people out to be savages and abusers etc., simply because of the color of their skin and their culture so yea, this is bad).

You can see the morality of the movie however you want, but do not be disrespectful toward a character and in this case a culture.

@i-want-cheese Please don’t write this off as another “butthurt comment” or “male guilt”, because this is really messed up. I see how you’re brushing off some other people’s comments and I honestly hope that you don’t see mine the same way because this is an issue I think you need to face/realize. You are being racist and brushing it off isn’t going to change that. the 

@visibilityofcolor THANK YOU FOR THIS. As a Polynesian woman, reading that post and other replies painting Maui and even Tui as aggressive and violent men had me feeling some type of way, especially since White people have always regarded Polynesian men in such a manner.

I’ve thought about replying because I’m tired of seeing these kind of “Moana is a feminist movie” posts collect hundreds of notes despite the fact that these posts always conveniently fail to mention Pasifika people, but it always stressed me out, so thank you.

As an aside, Maui taking Te Fiti’s heart and Moana restoring it was symbolic of environmental preservation. Because the people who inspired Moana–Pasifika people, not just Polynesian–are always affected first when the environment is threatened. Our way of life is greatly influenced by the ocean and we believe that if you take care of the ocean, she will take care of you.

You’re very welcome.

This is insight for me as well (as I wasn’t aware that the movie also came fro the culture of the Pasifika people), and does give a very important perspective. I do agree with you, this movie is about environmental restoration, not some white fem bullshit.

I tried over and over again to explain to I-want-cheese about how she was being racist, but she responded by blocking me and other poc who called her out (even other polynesian people). People to this day are still trying to explain that she is being racist and culturally insensitive but she ignores us.

I’ve made a few posts about this, hoping that people realize how problematic it is to agree with i-want-cheese.  Explaining to her racist white ass that this was problematic was like explaining to a bird. She wouldn’t listen and neither would have of her racist friends.

Sorry you’ve had to see this on your dash every so often, but I’m glad my portion of the post is starting to get around. (reblogged to the wrong blog at first lols)

dang reblogging this as a correction for the very first reblog. this why feminist analysis always needs to be intersectional

My heart just cried

the portrayal of Maui is super important here, the disney crew put a LOT of effort into getting him right because he IS a crucial figure to an entire culture- basically a cross between a central religious figure and superman so handling him poorly would be catastrophically disrespectful there are basically only two parts of Mauis legend that they flub- they only tell half of the story of when he was abandoned as a baby, and they skip over that stealing the heart of Te-Fiti so he could give it to humanity was the legend in which he dies yes, canonically Maui dies in his quest to give gifts to humanity, its an important element of why Maui is such a profound character, not just ‘man who hurt someone’ strawman it gets worse when you discover the OTHER legend they fudged, the story of his birth, reinforces this. Mauis mother had several (Hawaiians only say three, new zealand says five) sons, all named Maui, so when she had ANOTHER son she named him Maui as well, but then cast him into the sea for there was no way she could support another son. the gods did not save Maui, as Moana says, instead they return him to his mother and say she must give him a chance. to which his mother states that for her to take care of him this infant must remove the roof from her house by throwing spears at it. that is the story of Maui the skillful, abandoned as an infant and then immediately told that he must PROVE his worth, after which all he ever does is prove his worth

his brothers mocked him for being a poor fisherman, he crafts a fishook from a jawbone and proceeds to raise new islands from the sea the sky is so low the trees bend, maui raises it for everyone, then fills the new sky with wind

the sun flies so quickly there is not enough time in the day to do the labors for everyone, maui has to lay traps for each of the suns many feet, chase after it as it was slowed, and then threaten to chop its legs off if it would not slow down

he then due to the complaints of the now longer dark night creates the moon and is upset his creation will not please humanity for it does not make sufficient light, then shows it to the sun so that it may learn how to be bright maui was credited with having invented as gifts for humanity the outrigger canoe, stone tools, and seaworthy boats that had no mast or sails. he was credited with inventing tattoos as a gift to dogs, however humanity is still not content so maui descends to the land of the dead to ask the secret of creating fire from the grandmother, who kept it hidden in her fingernails. he dropped the fingernail in the water as he tried to return to the land of the living, came back for another, dropped it as well, and went through all ten fingers and toenails untill he had to then interrogate birds the grandmother had shared the secret with to tell him how

a monstrous eel tried to put the moves on his wife, and again maui had to prove his worth to reclaim her by breaking the monster eel’s spine, shoving him into the ground to create the first coconut tree, the single most useful thing for polynesian life, as a gift to humanity yet again Maui, as a mythological figure, did nothing but give from the day he was born. he gave humans tools, land, fire, boats, light, the wind, everything except life itself and he even tried to give them that- and it killed him, he was bitten in two a crucial part of Maui as a legend is that he failed, its literally part of the point, also that he was driven to prove himself endlessly to the (during his life) ungrateful. do not try and drag Maui, its disrespectful on a level i cant express thank the man, you asshole Moana succeeded where he failed, for she saw that she did not have to prove herself. the whole movie up untill then she was trying to put on a brave face (there was literally a cut song ‘warrior face’ where maui teaches her Haka), shout her courage, announce to the world at large that she WILL do the thing and fix the world and be the hero, just like Maui

its easy to miss, she stopped trying to prove who she was to anyone, there was nobody she needed to prove herself TO she just WAS herself, and that brought her peace

Oh man…this is why it’s so important to hear the perspectives of the peoples actually represented. When I was reading through this, the first part seemed to make a lot of sense on the surface, but I could *never* have imagined how racist that perspective was. It makes so much more sense now. Thank you to the folks in this thread who were willing to take the time to share their perspective so that oblivious folks like me could do a little more to chip away at our own internalized racism. 

(Also the story of Maui is heckin’ sad, gosh :( )

when a woman designs an outfit for women VS when men are allowed to do it

Stop letting men do things 2k18

Calvin and Hobbes still relevant 25 years later.

do teens still go to malls in cosplay?? i haven’t seen any 14 year olds gallivanting around dressed like anime characters in a while. i miss them. come back. i need to know that at least SOMEONE is still having fun

The kids can't afford cosplay anymore in this economy

the bi-strut™

people out here really thinking that every badass woman is bisexual

….umm

3 out of the 4 are canon bisexuals. the wasp is the only one that’s fanon and she has this working towards her in favour of being bi…

canadian actresses can’t play straight characters it’s a scientific fact sorry

Of course they’re bi. Their male writers wanted an excuse to draw girl-on-girl action AND have them flirt with any male they needed them to. 🙄

….umm

wonder woman was created by william marston, a man who was in a commited polyamorous relationship with his wife, elizabeth, and their partner, olive. he had experienced the love that the two bisexual women in his life had towards himself and eachother. he wanted wonder woman to share this quality, but unfortunately because it was the 1940s he couldn’t even show “girl-on-girl action” let alone a healthy loving relationship between two women.

harley quinn’s bisexuality was confirmed with a kiss between her and poison ivy in the series ‘bombshells’ (2015-2017) which was created by marguerite bennett, who is a queer woman, then was later confirmed via twitter by amanda conner, the artist and co-writer of harley’s (2013-2016) solo series, yet another not-man, that harley and poison ivy were indeed girlfriends.

valkyrie’s bisexuality was revealed in ‘fearless defenders’ by cullen bunn. they definitely took full advantage of drawing valkyrie with an unnamed character that had nothing to do with the plot just to put them into a hot sexy lezzy situation, see…

oh wait, nevermind. that’s her with annabelle riggs, a developed character in the series, and that was her and valkyrie’s only physically romantic interaction before riggs sacrifices herself to save the team.

also, in the mcu, tessa thompson who is a queer woman, pushed to show valkyrie’s bisexuality in ‘thor: ragnarok’ but was shut down by the straight men at the studios.

…it’s almost like most women-loving-women representation is actually spearheaded by women and/or queer individuals, and even when it’s not, it’s still not always sexualised. don’t belittle bi female representation on false claims of sexism.

This blows my mind

Americans be like: My grandpa 😠😠😠 served in the Korean War 😠😠😠 and killed 9 people 😠😠😠 to fund his college degree in clownery 😠😠😠 Respect him or leave the country 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem😁then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off

How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country

??? HE WENT TO A WAR BECAUSE AMERICA TOLD HIM TO AND HE DIED IN THE PROCESS!!!! So none of the WWII vets are heroes!? People who die every day in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t deserve Purple Hearts!? I’m not saying get out of America, but respect your military who’s deployed, they go through a lot of shit.

If only you had respect for the civilians who are forced to watch their entire country be completely obliterated by the US. For them, war isn’t a choice, it’s their everyday life, because America wants resources and regional control. Anyone who is in the US military did so 100% voluntarily. People who die in Iraq and Afghanistan shouldn’t be there in the first place, but fuck em, they’re there destroying someone else’s country and maintaining control for the US.

If every US soldier who is deployed right now died I wouldn’t shed a tear. If every US soldier who left the military still supporting the US died, the world would improve.

Also nobody has any obligation to respect them, their decision, or whatever their thought process is, because them joining the military has a much larger effect than just them personally benefitting.

Joining the military isn’t so much a choice for every. Yes, they volunteer, but they do so because they don’t have any other option to go to college or find a career. The military offers so much more than bodies in combat zones. They give free training, housing, and money to buy the things you need. Not everyone did this voluntarily, back in WWII they were drafted, they were told to go and die for their country.

You’re right, they shouldn’t be in Afghanistan and Iraq, but guess what, they were told to go there, nobody enlists with the intent to take another human life. Trump tells them, Obama’s told them to, they tell them to do everything and anything that they do.

I will never respect a civilian who doesn’t respect military or police, because the second something goes wrong, you all go running them after slandering their name.

Go to a military base and live in their world, you’ll appreciate what they go through a little more you ungrateful brats.

thank u for repeating the same thing every single person ever has said in response to this argument. Don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t been able to see it for the 79th time.

The economic mobility of people in the first world should not come at the expense of the third world. Dead bodies in Asia are not a stepping stone so whitey can get his degree in game design.

The US military is an evil organization, it forces the will of the United States on countries all around the world, you cannot act as though soldiers are complacent and innocent in that. They are literally the foot soldiers, the ones that use force to express that will.

Why even bring up WWII it’s not relevant to the conversation at hand.

“nobody enlists with the intent to take another human’s life.” Well I can tell you that’s just straight up not true. Also, you’re kind of in the wrong business if you don’t want to kill someone. Like, literally there are so many jobs where possibly killing someone isn’t one of the criteria.

I don’t care about ur opinion of me, at all, I don’t even know who you are.

Go live in a house that’s hit by a US drone and you’ll appreciate what people who are victims of US imperialism go through.

>sees post making fun of military bootlickers

>proceeds to be a perfectly stereotypical military bootlicker

DEAD BODIES IN ASIA ARE NOT A STEPPING STONE SO WHITEY CAN GET HIS DEGREE IN GAME DESIGN!

This is so fucking true, I dying 😂

Like omg it’s a p.o.c. not saying the n word because they aren’t black Look how simple

To that anon

Y’all really know how to make something out of nothing…..

You really know how to ignore what’s right in front of you. He’s clearly groping her. She’s clearly uncomfortable. But fuckboys like you continue to make excuses for creeps like him.

let him know ma @lavitabella87

You have to watch out for the ones who make excuses for abusers. They’re probably one step away from abusing someone themselves.

like terry crews said: “abusers protect abusers”

So… Anyone remember when the Hobby Lobby people were busted for smuggling artifacts, and we were all shocked and confused and then forgot about it?

Well, the artifacts they were actually busted for are Mesopotamian clay tablets. But… those aren’t the only artifacts they’ve been dealing in.

I just found out that they have thousands - thousands! - of Torah scrolls, which they then donate to other Evangelicals for financial reasons and political leverage. (In one case, they donated a 16th-century scroll to Liberty University. It was completely unfurled and directly handled in an auditorium. By untrained students.) Almost two thousand of them are sitting in an explicitly Evangelical museum full of supercessionist bullshit, and the text of the largest display talks about how they were “saved” from burial or the genizah.

Saved.

From proper Jewish ritual handling.

By Evangelical Xians.

Who then donate these things to other Evangelicals who mishandle them.

For money.

I… I think I’m going to cry.

I was just about to post this! I even got a little shout-out in the article. :)

The notion of “build[ing] a Christian museum on the backs of Jewish items” is, as I’ve come to understand in my research of the history of Judaica collecting, goes back several centuries to the origins of the modern museum itself. But it is particularly disturbing to see how this classically-supersessionist and fossilizing language (“God gave those people [Jews] a job, and they did that job well,” Steven Green explains, referring to the “job” of preserving the Torah text in identical copies so that evangelical Christians could prove the Bible’s unerring nature) is intertwined with corporate capitalism and greedy tax evasion. If only there was something in all those Torah scrolls on the subject…

Dean saw Finn and went “so you’re the bitch that’s been stealing my men.”

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