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sleepygyal:

I really can’t fuck with people who don’t see nothing wrong in their actions, it’s 2018 bitch learn how to self reflect damn

aaudny:

Girls aren’t playing hard to get…they don’t want you.

third-nature:

queeranarchism:

nokiabae:

The best thing coming out of Black Panther is the renewed calls for the release of jailed Black Panther members who’ve been incarcerated for decades. The FBI’s terrorism unit had labeled them “black identity extremists”, claiming that activists fighting police brutality posed a violent threat. 

An incomplete list of
Black Liberation political prisoners

(Black Panthers and other groups) still inside:

• Joe Joe Bowen, born 1946, in prison since 1971
• Veronza Bowers, born 1946, in prison since 1973
• Sundiata Acoli, born 1937, in prison since 1969
• Chip Fitzgerald, born 1949, in prison since 1970, denied parole 17 times.
• Fred Burton, born 1946, in prison since 1970
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, born 1954, in prison since 1982
• Ruchell Magee, born 1939, in prison since 1963,
• Ronald Reed, born 1950, in prison since 1970,
• Jamil
  Al-Amin, born 1943, in and out of prison from the 1970s to the 1990s on
  a series of suspicious charges, currently incarcerated
• Rev. Joy Powell, born 1962, in prison since 2006, eligible for parole in 2045
• Freddie Hilton, born 1953, in prison since 2002
• Robert Hayes, born 1948, in prison since 1973
• Russell Maroon Shoates, born 1943, in prison since 1972, held in solitary confinement for 22 years
  

these people are literally heroes. they organized a breakfast program for poor kids, hosted rent strikes, applied pressure to landlords to do their jobs cleaning up apartments. there’s even one story where two of these guys drove out to a person’s house and brought their baby to the hospital to get a cockroach removed from her ear.

these are heroes who demanded freedom for oppressed peoples and actively worked toward creating a more free world.

and so they were accused of crimes they didn’t commit, thrown in jail, and left to rot where they’d be sure never to feed a hungry kid or refill an abandoned community pool ever again.

theactualcluegirl:

just-watch-me-hachiko:

Nazis weren’t just the soldiers with guns at the entrances to death camps. They weren’t just the guys who ushered people into the gas chambers. They weren’t just the politicians signing the orders to invade other countries, or the generals ordering their troops to execute civilians.

Nazis were also the people who joined the party because it was the social thing to do. They were the people who looked the other way when their Jewish neighbors were hauled off. They were the actors who put their careers above the lives of others in order to take roles in propaganda films. They were the civilians who asked “But what do we do about the Jewish problem???” and expected a legitimate answer. They were the people who registered, and put their names on a list so they could have a little bit of social fortune while it was still popular to do so.

Those people were Nazis too.

So when I say you’re acting like a Nazi, I’m not saying you’re the one throwing the switch on the gas chambers or pulling the trigger on a gun. I’m saying you are legitimizing and supporting a political ideology which harms other people, and history will prove you wrong.

Legit.

I go through a lot more fiction than I post about regularly. I was huuuuuuge into Silent Hill and Shadow Hearts when they were new (Silent Hill meaning 2-4). If I made a list of all the stuff I’ve enjoyed, mostly video games, it would be a massive list.

And yet, for almost all of it, I stop at the original work. The game download or disc, the show box set, etc. I have to be wowwed on a very deep level for my interest to reach a point where I buy related products.

These are the only cases in my life where that has happened.

• Final Fantasy (up to and including FF10)
• Final Fantasy IV
• Polaris from X-Men

Those are the only things that I cared about deeply enough to get extra stuff.

For Final Fantasy as a whole, I got a couple plushes, a Griever chain, and the Celtic Moon soundtrack.

For Final Fantasy IV, I imported merch from Japan when the 3DS remake came out. I own the original soundtrack, which came with high-quality video of the CG opening (I was actually the first to screencap and post tons of pics from it, at least that I know of). I own the Tsukino Akari single disc, which includes the music video. I bought a box of 9 of the trading arts minis, which if I remember right, cost $40 to import. And I got the FF4 World Master Guide, which I can’t read, but enjoy anyway.

And now here’s Polaris.

• Women of Marvel calendar
• Super Hero Squad figurine
• Marvel Legends figurine
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes (because she’s playable in it)
• damaged copy of X-Men #50

That list seems small, but here’s the thing: I can only buy what Marvel puts out.

If it doesn’t exist, I can’t buy it. I was able to buy so much for FF4 because Squeenix put it out there.

Most of the money I would have spent on Polaris merch if it existed has gone toward commissions. Already this year, I’ve spent over $200 on commissioned art for her (one in progress) because it’s her 50th anniversary, and I’m not done yet.

I’m writing this just for the sake of personal posting and for perspective on where I am. I care about this character enough that I take the rare path of buying side merch of her, and I’m willing to spend more money on her than any of my past faves for the special and momentous occasion of her 50th anniversary.

And this is something only Polaris managed to do with me. Nothing else Marvel has ever offered brought me anywhere close to this kind of interest and spending.

jennifepierce:

the cw IS trash, but that didn’t and hasn’t refrained you guys from watching and supporting the vampire diaries, the 100, riverdale, arrow, supergirl yet when it comes to black lightning theres an issue? qwhite interesting