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unsuccessfulmetalbenders: bbqutie: SHE DID THAT SHIT BITCH...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:04:48 +1000

unsuccessfulmetalbenders:

bbqutie:

SHE DID THAT SHIT

BITCH SLAY

moriarty: if you think shrek 3 sucks think again

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:01:15 +1000

moriarty:

if you think shrek 3 sucks think again

michigansmanofmayhem: No you guys really I need this shirt for...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:56:22 +1000

michigansmanofmayhem:

No you guys really I need this shirt for my girls

agnesnutter: treesong: kyohu: SO MY FRIEND WAS TELLING ME...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:51:22 +1000

agnesnutter:

treesong:

kyohu:

SO MY FRIEND WAS TELLING ME ABOUT THIS NEW GAME SHE SAW AT E3 AND SHE SAID IT WAS WHERE YOU PLAY AS AN OCTOPUS AND TRY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE AND THIS IS IT

THIS IS FUCKING IT IM CRYING MY EYES OUT

I HAVE QUESTIONS.

#HOW DOES THAT LADY NOT SUSPECT A THING THOUGH #octodad sure is doing his thing right js

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:44:43 +1000

men get into something not aimed at their gender: get special titles like "brony." recognition by creators. heralded for defying gender appeal. get documentary.

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:22:05 +1000

men get into something not aimed at their gender: get special titles like "brony." recognition by creators. heralded for defying gender appeal. get documentary.
women get into something not aimed at their gender: not real fans. probably secret friend zone warriors deadset on erasing men from the human race. get insulting demeaning memes and sexual harassment.

yasboogie: Cucamelons: They’re grape-sized watermelons that...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:21:19 +1000

yasboogie:

Cucamelons: They’re grape-sized watermelons that taste like cucumbers with a tinge of lime

They’re native to Mexico and Central America. They also go by the following names: mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, Mexican miniature watermelon and Mexican sour cucumber. [homegrown-revolution.co.uk]

You can buy the seeds here: $2.50 for 25-35 seeds. [rareseeds.com] Read more.

[@buzzfeeddiy h/t @HaywoodZhablome]

godfreygaobipls: THE NOISE I LET OUT UPON READING THAT TAMMY PIERCE BASED BEKA ON JODIE FOSTER FROM...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:15:29 +1000

godfreygaobipls:

THE NOISE I LET OUT UPON READING THAT TAMMY PIERCE BASED BEKA ON JODIE FOSTER FROM SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

OMG

AFKLSDJLKFJKLSDFJLKJK

I CAN’T

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS

thanks fyeahtortall

ahorsecalledhonour: Wonderful

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:14:46 +1000

ahorsecalledhonour:

Wonderful

wilowisp: Hello friends! I’m going to Disneyland in 2 days (yay!) If you reblog this I will write...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:10:05 +1000

wilowisp:

Hello friends! I’m going to Disneyland in 2 days (yay!) If you reblog this I will write all of your urls on a piece of paper, and have Peter Pan sign it *likes do not count* I will write it on here ↑

ember-light: unicornamber: elenaflutterby: Tangled...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:09:16 +1000

ember-light:

unicornamber:

elenaflutterby:

Tangled comparisons - concept art to the final film.

why the fuck is the concept art so much better

Actually they were going to do crazy cool animation that would make the film a “living oil painting” but it just proved to be too expensive to mass produce

julialost: wannabeanimator: 20th Century Fox has upped the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:03:38 +1000

julialost:

wannabeanimator:

20th Century Fox has upped the ante in the animated feature film game, announcing Monday plans to release five animated movies a year in 2017 and 2018.

With both Blue Sky Studios and DreamWorks Animation allied with the studio, that means the burden will be split between those two houses.

July 17, 2013 — Turbo (DWA)

March 7, 2014 — Mr. Peabody & Sherman (DWA)

April 11, 2013 — Rio 2 (Blue Sky)

June 20, 2014 — How to Train Your Dragon 2 (DWA)

Nov. 26, 2014 — Happy Smekday! (DWA)

March 27, 2015 — The Penguins of Madagascar (DWA)

June 5, 2015 — B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations (DWA)

Nov. 6, 2015 — Peanuts (Blue Sky)

Dec. 23, 2015 — Kung Fu Panda 3

March 18, 2016 — Mumbai Musical

June 18, 2016 — How to Train Your Dragon 3 (DWA)

July 15, 2016 — Anubis (Blue Sky)

Nov. 4, 2016 — Trolls (DWA)

April 7, 2017 — Ferdinand (Blue Sky)

(The rest are currently untitled.)

OMG I knew about HTTYD 2, but not HTTYD 3 ! :O

but, but … this means… No ‘Rise of The Guardians 2’ or …or something along the lines ?

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:55:04 +1000

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’:

stalinwasabasicbitch:

thegoddamazon:

saandusti:

canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

Fun fact, it doesn’t stop there. After King Leopold II relinquished his personal control of the Congo Free State in 1908 it became the Belgian Congo under Belgian control, and they allowed scientists to use the Congolese population as forced test subjects for a (failed) Polio vaccine that may have contributed to the introduction of a mutated strain of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) into the African population in the mid-20th Century. This was because the Polio virus was cultured in the livers of apes, and when they produced it in Africa they used local chimps, where SIV had been present for thousands of years.

My aunt told me about this. She’s from Congo. They learn about him in their schools there…but only skirted over not in detail.

Aside from being more or less an acknowledged monster in his own lifetime for what he did to the Congo (which was later as above detailed mostly forgotten in the West, horribly), he was also a HUMONGOUS dick in his personal life and went out of his way to ruin his daughter’s lives. Some people are just full on shit, Leopold was def one of them.

(Also, not excusing the Beligans for anything- watch “Lumumba” to see just how bad they, the Brits, and the US fucked over the Congo once it finally got it’s freedom- but the OPV-AIDS hypothesis is widely rejected by the medical community and discussing it as though it’s legitimate in any meaningful way is disingenuous. Leopold’s legacy is terrible enough on it’s own.)

can we just take a moment to appreciate everything about this...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:27:56 +1000

can we just take a moment to appreciate everything about this show

Something shiny, something blue...: kunaigirl: toni-tan: girlwithg0ldeyes: 221btimelord: kill-whitepeople:...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:27:18 +1000

Something shiny, something blue...: kunaigirl: toni-tan: girlwithg0ldeyes: 221btimelord: kill-whitepeople:...:

kunaigirl:

toni-tan:

girlwithg0ldeyes:

221btimelord:

kill-whitepeople:

assachusetts:

Can we talk about how Maxim has an article from 2003 on “curing a feminist” and “turning her into a real girl”????????

someone was paid to write this

2003

In…

justnevilledup: Happy Father’s Day

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:26:01 +1000

justnevilledup:

Happy Father’s Day

mishjerry: every times this comes around I laugh harder than...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:25:01 +1000

mishjerry:

every times this comes around I laugh harder than the time before

meme-spot: This guy still needs to be remembered

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:22:48 +1000

meme-spot:

This guy still needs to be remembered

girljanitor: all-four-cheekbones: thedoctors-steampowered-hunte...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:22:09 +1000

girljanitor:

all-four-cheekbones:

thedoctors-steampowered-hunter:

fernacular:

demonsee:

Rule 63 Captain America, cosplayed by dangerousladies, photographed by Josh Barrett

this is so gorgeous and awesome in every way.

I nearly jumped for joy that she wasn’t sexualized, that it was his uniform just with a female under the clothes, god i love this fucking cosplay

Also some kind of arcane witchcraft has gone into that hair.

setting lotion is definitely witchcraft

concerningmishas: I’M SORRY BUT THIS REALLY PISSED ME OFF AND I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:19:58 +1000

concerningmishas:

I’M SORRY BUT THIS REALLY PISSED ME OFF AND I NEEDED TO VENT.

So I liked this page last year for the shits and gigs, as you do. I found it funny, and let slide the few sexist posts.

Only recently- and after I got a tumblr- did I really start to notice the abundance of rape, sexist and racist jokes appearing on my news feed. And it pissed me off.

I said nothing, however, because what could I do? Send in a message to the page and get labelled a whore and a slut by the Admins as I’ve seen so many people do?

Then this motherfucking gem popped up.

I usually don’t get involved in these sorts of things; if I do my comment gets lost more often than not and goes unnoticed. But I had to comment, I really had to.

I thought my argument was valid and whole, and I was actually rather happy when he admin directly replied to my comment.

I narrowed down my five favourite games ever and posted them.

Of course, I got beaten and labeled down once again.

When I asked for a rational clarification of his definitions of “casual” and “core” he did not reply. It was only when I directly insinuated the bias of his claim did I get a response.

“A feminist I see. No arguments need to be made. Good luck with getting them eggs fertilized”

Note the use of “feminist” as an insult.

I have had my fair share of gender specific hate regarding gaming. I get told I am a fake and a bitch if I get a high score; I get told to “suck a dick because you are better at that, bitch” if I get a low score; I get told to “get back in the kitchen, slut” without any prompt at all, simply because I have a vagina.

I am beyond sick of this. I hate the fact that if a male who hypothetically plays a few hours of CoD can be easily called a gamer by the wider community but I if were to say that I was a level 34 on Skyrim I would immediately be called a fake geek girl, a casual gamer and a liar.

I hate the fact that, even though 45% of gaming consumers are female, developers and publishers still believe that there is not a large enough demographic for female protagonists.

I hate the fact that most women in video games are no more than sexulised objects in skimpy clothing.

I hate the fact that I cannot enjoy a game without being labeled and branded because of the fact that I posses a vagina and not a penis.

~sorry about the long post clogging up your dash. I needed to vent~