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Naming the female razor brand Venus is so personally offensive to me....you think Venus the goddess of love and sex and beauty was shaving her PUSSY? Go kill yourself

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MEEEEEE

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in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

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I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

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She did not really prefer the garden to several other spots in the world;

she would rather, for instance, have been alone in her room with the door locked, or sitting on the grass by a brook at midnight, or, given an absolutely free choice, standing motionless against a pillar in a Greek temple, or on a tumbril in Paris or on a great lonely rock over the sea,

but the garden was the closest

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

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Defeated for all time.

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On Fandoms, Age, and Gender: The Politics of “ Putting Away Childish Things”

Weighing in on yet another round of “fan spaces are youth spaces” (aka “go home and knit, old lady” or “You’re old enough to be my/someone’s mom! gross!” )

Consider these thoughts:

There’s a whole set of interests and behaviors that you might become interested in as you grow from child to adolescent to young adult and take greater interest in the wider world.

You might like horses, or dolls.  Or building models.  You might play soccer, or follow baseball every summer and learn about  box scores.   You might follow the college football draft, or love a pop band.  You might deeply admire a rock band and learn to play the guitar.  You might love superheroes and see all their movies.  You might love space opera and collect paperback books.  Maybe you collect trading cards of your favorite team players – or movie moments.  You probably get t-shirts and posters of teams, or media outlets.  You might get deeply into a social or political cause.

Those are all expressions of interest in the world, all with associated social aspects, many with associated creative actions. 

And then you get older.  And here’s the thing about that list.  The things on that list that are “for boys?”   Are also “for men.”   But the things on that list that are “for girls” or “for nerds?” Are only “for children.”  

Adult men wear brightly colored team clothing and paint their faces without shame.   They join fantasy football leagues and hang out online.   They follow Phish (or continuously talk about how they did when that was a thing).  They spend vast sums on tickets to bowl games.   They get excited all over the internet about Geddy Lee’s greatest hits.  They spend long afternoons on the golf course, playing very bad golf.

No one tells them to grow up 

An adult woman who turns a childhood dollhouse into a beautiful scale model of a real Victorian home is “eccentric.”  An adult man who builds a vast HO train layout in his basement is a “train enthusiast.”   An adult woman who displays her favorite Bryer horses is “odd,” an adult man with a shelf of signed baseballs is “a collector” or even “an investor.” 

Adult women making fanart of attractive movie stars is “creepy,’ while adult men decorating their garages with calendar art of scantily-clad very-young women is “just what guys do.”

Interests and hobbies that were feminine and are taken up by men become acceptable.   When The Beatles were greeted with mobs of fainting teen girls, they were a “boy band.”  When young men discovered them, they became Serious Musicians.  

Over and over, across fields of interest, things that girls like are “toys and games and childish” and should be left behind by adults, while things that boys like are “hobbies and sports” that are lifetime pastimes.  And acceptable “hobbies” for adult women?   Most are things that could be coded as household chores, but generations of women have worked to turn into enjoyable pastimes:  knitting, sewing, quilting.  Home decor.  Baking.   Many adult women (myself included) enjoy doing those things in their free time and have elevated them to art forms.  But that doesn’t change the fact that they’re rooted in utility, while “men’s hobbies” are, by and large, rooted in leisure.

Look around you and follow the pattern.  And then, before you ask “Why are adult women in fan spaces,” maybe ask “why do I feel like adult women don’t get to have fun?” 

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Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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Optical Calcite 😍

IG: mamadivaaa

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Freaky Friday Masterpost

After an terrible potion mix-up, Remus is going to have to survive a few days walking around in Sirius Black’s body… 

Alright… he can handle this. 

What he can’t handle is the fact that Sirius is now in his body… and embarrassing Remus seems to be his top priority. 

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Mirror, Mirror (Extra):

Part 1: Remus

Part 2: Sirius

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Chapters: 9 Rating: Explicit Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Summary:

Remus Lupin is the new professor at Diagon High. Young, charming, witty, and in spite of his thrift store clothes and patched elbows, there is no denying that Professor Lupin has an odd sort of appeal.

Sirius Black is the unanimously proclaimed heartthrob of the senior class, and it’s not hard to see why. He’s as intelligent as he is pretty, and it’s apparent that Remus has quickly become his favorite professor.

As it turns out, being the favorite may cause some unforeseen complications for Remus Lupin… especially after he receives an unexpected email half-way through the school year.

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Fever Dream Masterpost

Tonks is madly in love with Remus Lupin, but she can’t help but feel like she’s living in the shadow of her cousin, and there’s a nagging fear in the back of her mind… perhaps Remus will never love her as much as he loved Sirius Black.

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What do you think might have changed if the werewolf incident had been a wake up call for James in regards to his bullying and how he treated others? I wonder how a James who might have been willing to draw the line at attempted murder might have effected Snape's life and the path he would choose.

It’s an interesting question - we often talk about the timeline in HP, and how it would’ve read a little differently had the lake incident happened before the werewolf incident, but I think your stance is more interesting again: that the werewolf incident occurs, but the lake incident doesn’t.

The pivotal aspect, for me, has to be the Marauders disbanding - which really looks like a James vs Sirius falling out, perhaps bolstered by Remus siding with James (in a world where Sirius is called out for his behaviour).  James’ behaviour then changes because he’s no longer being encouraged by Sirius, or looking for Sirius’ approval - and importantly, the Marauders no longer hunting in a group means that Severus might get some respite from them.

For those readers who perceive HP as a vying between James and Severus for Lily’s affection, this would lend itself to a more interesting scenario, in my opinion.  In canon, Lily has no credible choice - Severus behaves in a way which means that Lily has to cut him off, so there’s only James left standing.  

In this scenario, Lily could find herself torn between her childhood friend who is growing in confidence as he’s no longer being bullied mercilessly and her heroic housemate who has demonstrated that he’s matured - and it gives Lily more agency within the ‘love triangle’, as it presents both men as credible options.  

With his own friendships in tatters, does James gravitate more towards Lily’s friends?  With Severus no longer being bullied, is he still seduced by the idea of the power offered by the Death Eaters?  

James certainly sides with a political regime which is palatable to Lily, and it’s difficult to envisage anything else occurring.  For Severus, it’s less clear - five years into Hogwarts, he is likely already on a pathway.  In canon, Lily delivers him what transpires to be an ultimatum, only he doesn’t hear it.  It would be interesting in an AU if James ceasing to persecute him meant that he truly understood what she was saying and managed to turn back from the temptation of darkness.  

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