i know everyones freaking out about yahoo buying tumblr but maybe just maybe its the beggining of something
“I know things are stressful right now, but trust me, by the end of the month you won’t even remember that scruffy hipster’s name,” Yahoo promised Tumblr, noting all the unnecessary reblog-as-links, the flawed tag system, the general chaos. This poor girl needed a doctor. She didn’t even know she was being mistreated. Kissing her forehead on a whim, she felt the girl warm up under her hands.
Tears welled up in Tumblr’s eyes, though she was obviously doing her best to fight them. “Can you promise me?” she asked, voice thick. “Please promise me that you won’t try to change me?”
“You won’t change. I just want to help, you, T. You have to trust me.”
She gripped Yahoo’s sleeves, a sudden fierceness masking her anxiety. “Promise me,” she said. No— she demanded.
Even though right now all she wanted was to hold T tight, she knew she had to tread delicately here. Change was frightening, even for less volatile sites. She could only imagine how T felt, being traded off like a common toy. “I promise,” Yahoo said, cradling T’s face between her palms so that their eyes met. She hoped her sincerity could somehow be transmitted through their locked gaze, that T could see how much she valued her, how much she wanted to protect her. “I swear on my life.”
She could tell T didn’t believe her. As crushing as that was, though, she would just have to prove to her through actions, not words, that their union would be for the best.
I bought a sandwich cutter from China and I think the translation on the package is a bit off
It got real dark real fast
dear lord.
ah yes I’ve just thought the perfect sassy answer to that horrible thing someone told to me 4 years ago
What exactly does “normal” to dark skin mean? So dark skin isn’t normal? Dove is fucked up.
What the hell
yeah my friend showed me this and what can i do
2013, every body.
Ok. I’m convinced that bottles of DOVE LOTION and it’s distributors are racist fucks.
plus dove sells skin-lightening products in a lot of countries
Dove are also owned the same company who owns lynx
(google ‘the lynx effect’ for your daily dose of misogyny) Dove are evil fucksbut guuuuuuuys ~*~real beauty campaign~*~!!!!!!!
I say this all the time when some white feminist talks about dove’s ‘real beauty’ campaign. They’ve been peddling skin lightening cream to desis for years
^real talk
sO my friend’s dog died and she lives in new york city and so she had to take it to the vet by the subway and she put the dead dog in the suitcase on the subway and it was a pretty big dog and some dude saw that she was struggling with the suitcase so he asked if she needed help with it and he said do you mind me asking what’s in it and she didnt want to say a dead dog so shE SAID IT WAS A BUNCH OF LAPTOPS SO HE TOOK THE SUITCASE AND RAN AND I JUST
"In My High Heels, I will Punish You": The Cultural Importance of Gender Presentation in Sailor Moon
The Cultural Importance of Gender Representation in Sailor MoonHere’s the Wordpress version of my Sailor Moon thesis! IT INCLUDES THE ENDNOTES so if you want to see those go to this version. No idea why it’s blue and some formatting weirdness but otherwise cool.
Here’s my updated annotated bibliography.
This thesis is painstakingly researched, for real. It basically covers three major things: gender presentation in Sailor Moon, queer presentation and dub censorship. It compares the anime and manga and goes into the history of the magical girl genre, quotes from Ikuhara and Naoko, tons of academic sources, all that. There are several sections, labeled with titles like “Jumping around in a Short Skirt”: Power in the Feminine” and “Girls and Cousins Too”: Queer Censorship in the Dub” so it’s easy to tell I’m a giant dork. There’s also pictures and all. In reality it averages to about 35-36 pages double spaced (w/o pictures). So it is long.
dontblinktheangelshavecamelot:
Look! There was a fan fiction article in today’s Washington Express (a free daily I newspaper put out by the Washington Post in Washington DC)
Article credit, Beth Marlowe (Express)
Art credit, Patrick Leger (For Express)
“DAMMIT JIM”
