Stop Dreaming.

Why can’t I remember this clip?

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:50:04 -0400

Why can’t I remember this clip?

hellajeffs: criss-llama-colfer: the biggest plot twist of your...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:46:25 -0400

criss-llama-colfer:

the biggest plot twist of your childhood.

No aspect of Cronk could have forseen it

The evil and good in him are equally distraught

Where is his God now

I’m not sure that I want to stay alive. It’s so expensive, but you could die.

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:27:47 -0400

I’m not sure that I want to stay alive. It’s so expensive, but you could die.

I’m about to have a nervous breakdownMy head really...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:21:48 -0400

I’m about to have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
If I don’t find a way out of here
I’m gonna go berserk cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
It’s going… Berserk!
I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don’t do me that today
Yeah if you know what’s good for you, you’ll get out of my way
Cause, I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going… Berserk!
I won’t apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can cause
I’m crazy and I’m hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going… Berserk!
Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!
I don’t care what you fuckin’ do!
I don’t care what you fuckin’ say!
I’m so sick of everything
I just want to… Die!

Fix Me - Rise Against

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:16:36 -0400

Fix Me - Rise Against

fancy-pants-tim: 30 Day Music Challenge- Day 4 What song makes...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:31 -0400

fancy-pants-tim:

30 Day Music Challenge- Day 4

What song makes you sad?

This Is Letting Go by Rise Against

She asked, “Why?” I said, “I don’t know why, I just know. I just know.”

Go on alone because I won’t follow.

This isn’t giving up, no this is letting go.

I’ve made the most of all this sorrow

I’ve tried to brave this discontent,but now I’m through.

I’m letting go of you.

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:07:39 -0400

It’s all falling apart! I’m erasing you, and I’m happy! You did...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:36 -0400

It’s all falling apart!
I’m erasing you, and I’m happy!
You did it to me first!
I can’t believe you did this to me.

brofiling: white privilege radically changes the appearance of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:03:23 -0400

brofiling:

white privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros

This is how brofiling actually works in real life. The Week Magazine ran with this image as their cover sketch.

Just so it is said, clearly and unambiguously: the Tsarnaev brothers are white guys. They are white. The FBI’s own wanted poster for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lists his race as “white”, but you would never know it from the cover image on The Week.

Hold up the cover to someone else, and ask them how many white people they can see on the cover. Chances are they will identify Gabby Giffords on the top left and the image of the Boston policemen (all white men) on the top right, but how about those two guys in the center? Nope, not a chance that anyone would say these caricatures look white.

Why? Because in addition to being white they are also “Muslim”, which is the current dehumanizing “Other” that whiteness has constructed as a sanctioned target for violence in US popular culture.

This is how white privilege works in media representations and everyday life: when the criminal suspects are demonstrably white men, seize upon any aspect of difference and magnify it such that they become Othered, non-white, and menacing. If it is too hard to do so, simply dismiss them as aberrations and isolated cases of insanity. This is also how white culture, specifically the process of whiteness in conjunction with white privilege, portrays several non-white identities, including those that are now considered white but at one time were decidedly not so. For example, see here for how the Irish were depicted as violent apes or lazy drunks in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

Addendum, posted 4.29.13:

As Tim Wise said on April 18, there are consequences for these kinds of things. Here are a few reasons why this is important:

Making white criminals who are Muslim appear to be more ‘brown’ than ‘white’ has serious consequences for brown people. Indeed, as we saw right after the Boston bombings, people that simply “looked” brown and Muslim were profiled and assaulted. Two men were escorted off a plane in Boston simply for speaking Arabic and thereby somehow making passengers “uncomfortable”. A Bangladeshi man in NYC was beaten up because he looked ‘Arab’. And this affects women too: a Muslim woman doctor in Boston who wears a headscarf was attacked by a man while she was out walking with her baby. And the white Muslim wife of the older brother has been demonized for simply being a Muslim American woman, especially after Ann Coulter called for women who wear hijabs to be arrested.

People have pointed out to me that The Week Magazine’s cover images are regularly caricatures/sketches of the main events of that week’s news. I know this—I read their print edition every week, and all their previous cover images are available online. But there are two main problems with this argument: (a) why caricature them in a way that makes them so explicitly ‘darker’ and ‘Arabized’ in their appearance? Contrast the way they look on that page with the other white faces on that same page—would anyone say that these men look ‘white’? So why is the caricature done in such a ‘racializing’ way (as if ‘white’ bodies have no race, but that’s point #3 below)? How is this any different from the more overt media racism that was used by Time Magazine (h/t @sarahkendzior), for example, to make OJ Simpson appear way more menacing? And (b) if The Week is simply trying to put a caricature of criminals who committed mass violence on their cover, then here are the covers for the weeks when Newtown happened, when Aurora happened, and when Tucson happened — where were their ‘racialized’ caricatures of Adam Lanza, James Holmes, and Jared Loughner? How come the ideologies and ethnicities and religions of those particular mass criminals were not profiled?

And so here is the more subtle consequence: when white criminals are treated as if they are just aberrations, and when white criminals who are Muslim are portrayed as more brown than white not just by The Week but by mainstream propaganda outlets like Fox News, then the problems of white supremacist violence and extremism become hidden, unaddressed. Indeed, as reports have shown, of the terror attacks/plots since 1995 in America, 56% of them were by right-wing extremists and only 12% by Islamist/jihadist groups — and yet the DHS was told to back off reporting on that or on analyzing right-wing violence for fears of backlash from conservative political groups.

So, my main point is that such a willful blindness hurts all people.

floralsouls: The Debtor Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson not...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:50:54 -0400

floralsouls:

The Debtor

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

not sure that i wanna stay alive
it’s so expensive, but you can die
i’m not sure that i wanna stay alive
oh no noo

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:36:45 -0400

cutieringtail: falmyrion: queerpong: “YOUR GAY” they shouted. “DUDE YOUR GAY!!!” i ignored them....

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:26:18 -0400

cutieringtail:

falmyrion:

queerpong:

“YOUR GAY” they shouted. “DUDE YOUR GAY!!!” i ignored them. it wasnt until i got home that i realized my gay had escaped. they tried to tell me.

You’re*

Alt + Ctlr + reblog sign(double click) = boom!

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:24:54 -0400

moves-like1d:

theshadowwalkingnobody:

natsu-salamander-dragneel:

I love it when Tumblr folk find new ways to explore this wonderful site lol.

wtf did I just do?

Holy fuck that’s amazing!! O.O

i don’t… i don’t know what happened.

I’ll kick it in the head when I’m 25.

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:59:51 -0400

I’ll kick it in the head when I’m 25.

"Why are you doing this?” She spoke as if not expecting a response Her voice penetrated the still air..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:11:00 -0400

““Why are you doing this?”
She spoke as if not expecting a response
Her voice penetrated the still air of our speechless drive
So suddenly that my heart had jumped
“I’m not doing anything,” I said
But I didn’t even believe that myself
“This is what’s best,
For me,
For you,
For us,” or maybe just for me I thought,
As a tear formed in the pit of her eye
The music poured through the speakers
And we were losing ourselves in the cadence
She looked down momentarily
And closed her eyes for a bit longer than a standard blink
Then she was crying
Then she was shouting
Then I was shouting
Now pouring confessions
Having no answers
Or solutions
We barely even knew the questions.”

- Rise Against | The Approaching Curve (via skyforme-shaymin)

"As we were; so perfect, so happy. They’ll remember only our smiles, ‘cause that’s all they’ve..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:11:00 -0400

“As we were; so perfect, so happy.
They’ll remember only our smiles, ‘cause that’s all they’ve seen.
Long since dried when we are found are the tears in which we had drowned.
As we were; so perfect, so happy.”

- “The Approaching Curve” -Rise Against (via myrandomstory)

Audio

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:10:37 -0400

midnight-coven: tyleroakley: buzzfeed: George Takei responds...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:09:08 -0400

midnight-coven:

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

George Takei is flawfree.

George Takei will rip you a new asshole.

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:04:01 -0400

Save Walter White

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:03:43 -0400

Save Walter White:

unmatto:

Geniale.