Author: Erin Hockings

lizawithazed:

hexmaniacmareen:

confexionery:

lieutenantriza:

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies
Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds
Immovable by strong winds from eight sides
Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

(here’s a chinese source for the skeptics)

can you imagine having your brutal murder described in detail to future generations

this is my new favourite story from history

queenklu:

I deeply love the duchess. 

Last night the local cinema showed Sound of Music and I saw it again for the first time in a LONG time–holy shit, the way this actress portrays a character who is arguably the sole antagonist of the film besides the Nazis…

It’s stated that the Captain has been spending months of his time away from home and his children running from his problems WOOING the everloving crap out of this lady who is both TITLED and WEALTHY AS SIN, and they genuinely seem to care about each other! They’re alike in ages and life experiences, they’ve both known the hardship of a lost spouse, they should be a fine match and they ARE.

And in swans Julie Andrews, the governess aka the nanny, and the duchess sees the sparks flying between the man she loves and this random nobody. She goes to confront Maria fully expecting to play coy and underhanded, pointing out their chemistry and that the Captain might “think himself in love just because a woman loves him first” (SPEAKING FROM EXPERIENCE EH DUCHESS? THAT’S DEFINITELY NOT YOU AND THE CAPTAIN, RIGHT?) only to have Maria go “SHIT that’s what my feelings are??? ABORT ABORT ABORT.” 

Maria: I’m going to pack all my things and leave I M M E D I A T E L Y

Duchess: Oh….kay???? 

She genuinely thought there was going to be back and forth, and sneering jibes, and ‘oh did you want him? too bad’s, and instead Maria is as pure as the driven edelweiss. 

Later the Duchess starts realizing she doesn’t know what to do with kids, she’s never spent time with them before and suddenly there are seven, WHICH AGAIN WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH THE CAPTAIN before he met Maria and remembered he actually liked his family. This dude was already fucking off for months at a time and never hugged his children and didn’t let them play–he wouldn’t have thought twice about packing them off to boarding school once he married the Duchess. Before Maria. 

The scene from this gifset though is just. Ugh, pure gold. The duchess finds the captain watching Maria from the balcony. By this time they’re engaged, bc Maria left and with her went every ounce of the Captain’s emotional awareness. The duchess starts lamenting that the captain is a hard man to buy a wedding gift for–she’s babbling, laughing, pointing out that she knows him very well but that he already has everything he needs, and she can only give him frivolous things like a yacht or a summer home, and–

The captain interrupts her. They’re smart adults who’ve seen the world. This is not their first romance. And he knows that she knows they can’t go on as they have been, and he apologizes. “It’s no use, you and l.

I’m being dishonest to both of us… and utterly unfair to you.”

She could fight him. She could scream and rage and she’d have every right to do so. She loves him. At the very least it seems she’ll have to listen to him break it off with her. 

And she doesn’t let him do it. “Don’t say another word, please,” she tells him, and then dumps him on her own terms. “Fond as I am of you, I really don’t think you’re the right man for me. You’re much too independent.

And I need someone who needs me desperately…

…or at least needs my money desperately.” 

It’s honest, and funny, and kinder than he deserves. But she deserves better, and I don’t know that I’ve seen another movie that lets the rival in love realize that on their own. 

She’s a woman, and not a villain–but by the end of the movie they are no longer the match for each other that they wanted to be. 

sapphicrevan:

sapphicrevan:

aight so european leaders got together to make decisions about the refugee situation and the bottom line is 1) refugees are gonna be detained outside of europe, 2) the detainment centers are actually named “kontrollierte zentren” in german which is not ominous or in incredibly bad taste at all, 3) private rescuers are gonna be charged for rescuing drowning refugees, 4) we pay countrues such as turkey or libya a lot of money to keep refugees out of europe, 5) outer european borders will be strengthened and frontex (border control) will receive more funding

so in short uhhh europe decided on killing and locking up more refugees; fun!

(source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/eu-summit-migration-deal-key-points)

Please don’t ignore this.

The European Union is killing refugees through neglect, and planning to put them in prison camps in Turkey, Libya, Morocco etc. If you wanna help, you can donate for example to: Mission Lifeline sea rescue, HelpRefugees, RefugeeSupport, the UN Refugee Agency, Solidarity Now in Greece, Open Migration in Italy, BetterPlace in Germany, Care4Calais in France and Belgium, RefugeeAction in the UK.

SupportRefugees lists ways to become active as a volunteer across Europe.

Support FRONTEXIT to let European leaders know we do not condone their border politics!

Keep informed and keep vigilant, for example on Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. Please spread this and add any good links you have. Thank you!

queertilly:

andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

andhumanslovedstories:

upon learning Shuri is 16 in Black Panther, I quietly revise all my original shipping plans from “adults” to “Shuri is a hopeless baby lesbian with a crush on every single Dora Milaje and soon a big useless enormous crush on MJ, who is like a semi competent but mostly just grungy bisexual with a super popular twitter account that Shuri is obsessed with and MJ is s t o k e d about everything about Wakanda and tweets that she’s doing her senior research project on Wakandan tech and T’Challa, who follows his baby sister’s online crush’s twitter so he can forward Shuri the most embarrassing tweets that will make her furious (“YES BROTHER I DID SEE THAT SELFIE AND I DON’T NEED YOU TO REMIND ME OFF IT”), is like “this is the moment I was born for. This is why I became king” and tweets MJ like “we’re doing youth outreach, come to Wakanda, my very talented and smart and accomplished sister will give you a personal tour :)”  and MJ and Shuri simultaneously die” 

the Dora Milaje prepping for MJ’s visit by giving Shuri different and conflicting romantic advice until Okoye tells them it is against their sacred duty to torment the princess into a crush-induced panic attack because she cannot decide between her top twelve outfits and cool confident quips for making a good first impression

MJ meanwhile with Peter is repeatedly punching him in the arm because he just told her that he met T’Challa and she’s furious this hasn’t come up before, and also he’s Spider-man, but that’s not nearly as important as KING T’CHALLA WHAT, DID HE TALK ABOUT HIS SISTER AT ALL, MJ’S BEEN FOLLOWING ARTICLES ABOUT HER FOR YEARS AND SHE SEEMS DOPE AND CUTE AS HELL

THIS IS THE MOMENT I WAS BORN FOR THIS IS WHY I BECAME KING WE’RE DOING YOUTH OUTREACH i feel like i want all of mj’s freaking out to be locked down tight behind the grungy bisexual facade until she really just CAN’T anymore and she steps off the plane and shuri’s there in person shuri is an overflowing fountain of eager delight and crush mj has got this cool locked down until shuri asks how she is and she says ‘your plane was very good’and then does 500000 internal facepalms (@takiki16)

Shuri, so excited and nervous that 10 percent of her attention is freaking out about how she can smell MJ oh no she smells so good, and 70 percent is on trying not to jitter so hard she thrums into a new plane of existence (and then the remaining 20 percent for figuring out cold fusion, nbd): HELOO M-UH-MMM- MICHELLE. DO YOU PREFER TO BE CALLED MICHELLE AND WELCOME TO MY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OF WAKANDA. WOULD YOU LIKE TO PHOTO WITH IT FOR YOUR INTERNET FRIENDS. I AM SHURI. YOU MUST KNOW THAT ALREADY. HAHA MY BROTHER TOLD YOU ABOUT ME. I WILL MURDER HIM. 

MJ, who has spent the last ten minutes hiding in the bathroom applying deodorant to basically every non-face part of her body because she can’t stop sweating oh my god stop sweating you’re sweating on a three hundred year old chair in a sitting room in a palace in fuckin WAKANDA, and who is so stressed that she’s transcended the human for and is now astral projecting somewhere behind her own body, distantly pitying this new york punk gremlin who thought Formal Plaid was a good idea talk to a real ass honest to god genuine princess with a beautiful smile holding a small cat robot that she hand designed this afternoon on a whim: dope. I love murder. call me MJ

#nearby dora milaje on protection detail: our girl said complete sentences#t’challa on the other end of the advanced super cool walkie talkie: i’m so proud of her. make them take a walk in the gardens together

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