brooklyn nine nine hiatus creations: week two

film makers are already fighting over who gets the rights to make a movie about that soccer team that got trapped in a cave i swear to god they’re like vultures

news report: 500 babies dangling precariously from the edge of a volcano

random film director who REALLY wants an oscar:

Oh but PS the movie will be “loosely based” on the events and everyone in it will be white. 

and it’ll absolutely focus on any western/white ppl involved in the operation and like throw a Hetero Love Story(tm) in there somewhere like between a fem journo (wearing like blahniks in the jungle) and a masc diver with permastubble who’s Just Trying to Get the Job Done but these Stupid Locals Don’t Get It Man!!1111

the actual catastrophe and its fucking staggeringly awesome resolution will be the dramatic matte backdrop~~~

fuck fuck fuck

[ID: two tweets from Danni Askini @danniaskini on 29 Jun 2018:

Today I was denied a renewal of my US Passport and told I would need to get a judge to unseal child welfare records from Foster care in order to “prove” my US Citizenship. Despite having had all “Female” ID since 1999, they are now demanding “Proof of Transition” for the 1st time

Other important notes: 1. I have already showed them a birth certificate with my current legal name (which it has been since 1999) and my legal gender as “Female”. They claim this is not the “original” because I had previous names. The “original” documents no longer exist.

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Check her longer thread here (x) – she is a human rights defender fleeing imminent, documented threats of violence in Seattle, and says she’s likely been targeted specifically because of her political work and being high-profile in the local area. This is dangerous bullshit, it’s important and a possibility for any trans person to face, but it’s also a specific political situation that won’t automatically be the case for every trans person.

This is the government targeting and endangering a Human Rights Defender, unlawfully interfering with her safety, travel, and privacy – not necessarily a broader policy change. Yet.

(fair warning later in the thread there’s a number of transphobes, and a lot of people offering advice she’s clearly already tried, already knows, or WROTE HERSELF. it is twitter.)

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018)

- The Finnish commentator

you all need to think about how you interact with trans men online, like really think

recently one of my posts about being a trans man and casually interacting with another trans man got about 90,000 notes and the tags and comments are full of ‘too pure for this earth’, ‘i’m a dirty sinner i don’t deserve to read this post’, ‘adorable cute sweet precious boys’ despite the fact that it’s mentioned that i am in college and not a child in the post and you all need to think about how some trans men do not want to be referred to that way and being okay with being referred to that way is pretty much exclusively a young teenager tumblr thing that makes a lot of guys uncomfortable. i’m just a man. none of this is necessary and it’s very performative, but…

along with this infantilizing, with this obsession with the proposed purity of another man and myself just for existing, there’s also dehumanization that comes with it, for example:

somewhere along the post, someone decided it would be a good idea to add, ‘all i can imagine is two eldritch horrors trying to get their voices as horrifying and fucked up as possible’ (not exact quote but that’s the gist of it)…

and someone decided that it would be a good idea to take my experience, wildly change the context and make a FANFIC, on MY OWN POST, of two eldritch MONSTERS upset because their voices didn’t sound ‘as horrific’ as the ‘monsters’ around them, and bonding over it together. nowhere in this fanfiction was being trans mentioned.

this is, quite possibly, the most horrifying thing someone has added to one of my posts and going beyond dehumanizing my experiences as a trans man enjoying my voice getting deeper, but also writing a fanfiction onto the post that changed the context of ‘two trans men finding validation between one another and our voices’ into ‘two monsters are sad they’re not scary enough and bond over trying to be scary together’. i shouldn’t have to explain how horrible that is for me to read, and how horrible it is to see that added on my own post & circulated through hundreds with no criticism.

quite frankly, it’s devastating to see how people talk about and interact with trans men. we are either children who must be protected and are weak and vulnerable and ‘too pure’, or we are fuel for your fanfics that completely strip us of our humanity. i consent to neither and if you think that any of these things are okay to do to a complete stranger, all you’re doing is patting yourself on the back for your performative ally points while making trans men uncomfortable with sharing their experiences and talking about their lives and trying to be happy with themselves. stop it. 

With people found dead in supermarket car parks, church graveyards and crowded hostels, the number of deaths has risen year on year, from 31 in 2013 to 70 in 2017. At least 230 people have died over that period.

The figures compiled by the Guardian, which include an average of more than one death a week in 2017, are likely to be a substantial underestimate, as no part of the UK government records homeless death statistics at a national level, and local authorities are not required to count rough sleeper deaths.

According to the Guardian’s figures, the average age of a rough sleeper at death was 43, nearly half the UK life expectancy. Around 90% of those who died in the last five years were men, when the gender was provided.

Experts have put the rise down to a rapidly increasing homeless population, rising rents, welfare cuts and lack of social housing, and have called for the government to take urgent action to address the root causes of poverty.

At least 23 people have died so far this year.

i declare that unless you either speak or you’re learning a scandinavian language you’re banned from using the letters æ,ø,å,ö,ä like, i’m sorry but if i have to see one more person using our letters instead of a, o and e i’m gonna commit murder

I’m sorry but some of those letters don’t only occur in Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish).  Æ appears also in Icelandic, Faroese, and French (Latin and Greek borrowings) Ø appears also in Faroese, Southern Sami, and in the orthographies of several languages of Africa, such as Lendu and Koonzime Å appears also in Finnish, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, Greenlandic, North Frisian, Walloon, and Chamorro Ö appears also in Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Karelian, Veps, Votic, Southern Sami, Icelandic, and German Ä appears also in Finnish, Estonian, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, German, Saterlandic, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Tatar, Gagauz, Turkmen, and some Romani alphabets So please, don’t commit murder if you see speakers/learners of other languages use those letters

But

if you use these for exotifying decoration in a feeble attempt to hide your blatant english monolingualism, prepare to be assaulted.

This is really tragic.

Ok this makes me so mad … wtf uk?? You fucking idiot… i will Shit on your Cars! Brexit out of this planet next Time !! Fucking Shit heads

☝🏾I rocks with this person

Three years into the water crisis

And nobody gives a sh*t

i only heard about this 2 months ago. its been 3 years????

Remember this started because Snyder switched Flint from a freshwater mountain lake to the polluted Flint River simply to allow his wife’s company to use the lake for bottling instead. This is a manufactured crisis of corruption and capitalism.

Also remember that the pipes corroded because they refused to pay for the chemical used to make the water less acidic.

Remember that when the first E. coli outbreak from the water popped up, the city hall was given water coolers by the state, free of charge, all while denying that the water could be unsafe to drink.

Remember that, despite having a huge budget surplus and a “rainy day fund,” set aside that could easily cover the cost of relocating the residents by buying their houses/paying their debt, or could cover a large chunk of the cost of replacing the pipes, the state has decided to continue to only put in the minimal amount of effort.

Remember that flint is majority POC, majority impoverished, and is still being faced with crippling water bills from the Detroit water supply company, where they are often charged $50 a month just to use the service, on top of the cost of their water bill.

Remember that there will now be an entire generation of children who will now be damaged by lead poisoning and damage from the multitude of neurotoxins.

Remember that this is what privatized natural resources looks like. Remember that these people are being punished for having the audacity to dare to be poor in an economy that won’t let them be anything but.

At every level, this has not been a mistake.

The State and City are most upset that people know its happening and are resisting nation-wide.

But if we lose focus they lose even the small amount of aid they’ve managed to get.

This is how they do it. It’s a siege on the public empathy. Eventually we become numb to the problem and despair. Or something bigger happens.

Then its business as usual again.

Don’t forget Flint

Wow…all this suffering for what?

Okay I know we always go on about Marvel’s uncanny casting ability. 

But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:

Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth

They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn

Can I just add a few things?

Reblogging to add that Viggo wasn’t their first choice. They were already into filming when they realized whoever they had cast was not the right choice. How lucky did they get that Viggo was available on no notice?

The original actor they cast as Aragorn was Stuart Townsend, and a day before shooting began, they realized he was too young for the role.

When Peter Jackson called up Viggo Mortensen to ask, Viggo didn’t answer at first and said he’d call the next day to give his answer. When he asked his son Henry about it, Henry told him to take the job as Henry was a big fan of the series.

Henry went on to cameo as an orc in the Pelenor battle.

I didn’t think I could love this man anymore, but here I go

I’m Autistic and Sick of Feeling Excluded from Queer Spaces | Chrysanthe Tan for Them (via gaywrites)

things i like about Steve Roger’s character development in the MCU