sprinkledsalt:

They’ll spend the rest of their lives lying about what was at stake in 2016 and reality itself because everyone knows they loudly bragged that they didn’t care about the consequences of a far right Supreme Court.

disasterasexual:

Mass Effect 1: Shepherd is the most badass human we have ever produced

MEA: Ryder is participating in the worst bring your child to work day ever

mildlyalice:

wereyoufullyawareofthisgaming:

duckscrymoo:

Let’s take this 

and put it in 

yes??? Nintendo, are you taking notes?

Real life. The concept you’re thinking of is going outside.

yeah ok buddy I’m just gonna step outside and go talk to my neighbour the talking cat. the fuck kind of real life are you living?

dduane:

fans4wga:

kingsonne-zedecks:

Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It’s disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.

The writers’ strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we’re on 50+ days of striking and it’s not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don’t be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.

The biggest recent news is that the Directors’ Guild of America (DGA) voted to ratify their new agreement with the studios (article from June 23), and it appears likely that the actors’ guild (SAG-AFTRA) will also take a deal instead of striking (article from June 24). Although this is disappointing news, it’s completely expected. During previous strikes, the WGA held its own without other unions going on strike. Which is to say—don’t be disheartened by the news that there won’t be a triple strike. The WGA is strong enough!

Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There’s a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.

The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!

It’s sad to see the DGA go the way they went. SAG-AFTRA are still, I think, waving in the wind.

But for the WGA, this strike is (borrowing a metaphor) Helm’s Deep. We have to take the stand that will allow us to—in a month or two, or three (argh), when shit starts to get serious at the AMPTP’s end)— roll up in front of Minas Tirith and let the other side hear the horns in the morning.

They think they’re going to successfully wait us out. They are now slowly (however slowly) beginning to realize that we’re waiting them out. Writers are USED to one form or another of the Great Hiatus. They’re not. Their stockholders are going to get restive.

We can wait, though it hurts. It’s what writers do.

nyxelestia:

tenoko1:

2am-theswifthour:

adultprivilege:

disgusting-enby:

itssammray:

spacemonkeyg78:

thecaboodale:

anxious-barnacle:

queen-of-the-merry-men:

freifraufischer:

inkgut:

missymalice:

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.

And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.  

Teenage girls are amazing.

Sometimes they’re not even teenagers

Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored

Who they are:

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

Ahed Tamimi

This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.

Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.

Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.

7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital. 

Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.

We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.

There are many reasons why women’s history is so often elided or erased in our education.

But one of those reasons is that so MANY of the women who made history, did so for reasons that challenged existing structures of power…and usually in accessible, related ways that modern day institutions feared students learning from.

prokopetz:

mephorash:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

“Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic.”

Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it’s surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.

“One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine.”

Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–

“The missing CEO’s name is Stockton Rush.”

Oh, bullshit. That’s not a real person – that’s the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That’s the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking “Stockton Rush”. Unbelievable.

At this point I’m half-expecting the next article I read is going to reveal one of the other passengers is a self-styled “explorer” who has strong opinions about the continued geopolitical relevance of the British Empire OH WAIT

For the benefit of those who receive their news exclusively via Tumblr shitposts, the Titan submersible has been confirmed destroyed, and its wreckage has been located on the ocean floor. The current theory is that the loss of communication was caused by the catastrophic implosion of the vessel’s pressure chamber during the initial descent; all aboard have likely been dead since the 18th, and there was never any hope of rescue.

(source)

uchihakosmos:

I hope that some day the naruto fandom would realize that the characters who were ACTUALLY doomed because of the narrative were the one’s who wanted to challenge the shinobi system and it’s prejudice, while displaying the willingness to change it…. i.e Pein, Obito, Madara, and Sasuke…..

Yes they chose to do it in an admittedly violent manner but it’s not like you meet up with murderers of you’re loved ones with some tea and biscuits to chit-chat and resolve you’re issues in a diplomatic way

pasta-is-magnificent:

animentality:

theriversdaughter:

nicelytousled:

god gives his coolest girlfriends to his most loser reddit bros

Yeah, yeah, he’s an asshole, but the important question here is WHERE THE HELL DID SHE GET THE ANGLERFISH NIGHT LIGHT?!?