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Yosl Bergner (Israeli, 1920-2017), Curious Utensils, 1971. Oil on canvas, 45.72 x 54.93 cm.

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Alphonse Mucha

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If Vance isn't even a little concerned that he might have killed the pope then you know without a doubt that he's a performative fake catholic

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we cant be calling childless women MILFs just because they're in their 40s. it's unfeminist. it implies that 'motherhood' is a natural state that women age into or become adjacent to regardless of any mothering they've done. open your eyes people a 40 year old woman doesn't need to be a milf to be hot, that's just a regular hot woman. a milf has gotta have kids. it's a hill i'll die on. an i demand all of you die on it with me

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so what do we think

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*holding onto ur heart thru ur ribcage* so what are we

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So on my posts about racism or transmisogyny, I often see tags that basically say “I don’t understand this but I’m going to reblog it anyway.” If you see a “social justice” type post that you want to reblog but don’t understand?

Don’t.

I know this goes against everything you’re used to hearing on this website, but listen. Reblogging posts you don’t understand is basically the equivalent of blindly repeating whatever you’re told. Even if you’re right, if you don’t understand why you’re right, you could be spouting utter bullshit and you wouldn’t even know it.

When I see “I don’t know what this means but I’m gonna reblog it anyway” it sends a lot of messages. It says that you care more about seeming right than being right. It says that you want good ally credit without any of the work of being a good ally. It says you’re on my side because I can make a post sound good, not because you actually agree with me on anything beyond the surface level.

So instead of just reblogging that post, save it for later. Like it, draft it, bookmark it, whatever. Go to the op’s blog and skim through a couple of pages, see if you can find some context. If the post is old, you could try asking for context in a non-condescending way. “Is this post referring to something specific?” is a lot better than, say, “Does this even happen? I’ve never heard of this.”

If that doesn’t help, do some more research. Google, search tumblr tags for recent posts on a subject, ask people who have EXPLICITLY stated they are willing to educate. Maybe in the process you’ll find more posts with a similar message to the original, but in easier to understand language. Maybe someone else already added a reply that adds useful information onto the op.

And maybe all of that takes a long time. Maybe, by the time you finally understand what the post was talking about, it’s months old and no longer relevant. Maybe you don’t even want to reblog it anymore. Who cares, fuck that post. You learned and grew as a person. That’s more important than looking good on a blog.

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this always makes me laugh 😭

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I really liked Francis, for the most part. A man of integrity - seriously concerned with the well-being of the marginalized, though his blind spots were well-known and enormous - stubbornly refusing (despite the caricatures of his opponents) to fall into the trap of valuing partisan identity or symbolic politics over the difficult yet essential work of what Catholics esoterically call pastoralism, synodalism, discernment. Just about the best Pope you could possibly ask for, and better than I would have personally thought to ask. Far more saintly than a ghoul like JP2, and for that reason proportionally less likely to receive the title.

I'm saying this not to honor him (he doesn't need it anyway, he's the Pope) but to point and say look - that's seriously the best they can do. The fact that it doesn't get much better than Francis - that whoever comes next will, almost by definition, be worse - should be cause to reflect on just what a profoundly evil and retrograde institution the Catholic Church is, how impervious its workings are to well-meaning people. It does not have redeeming qualities.

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REPOSTING THIS BECAUSE TUMBLR HATES ME?? WHAT MATURE CONTENT BRO

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neil gaiman is seeking $500,000 from the person accusing him of rape because she broke an NDA. i hope that man dies in excruciating agony.

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Intricate sapphic art of flirting by complimenting each other's fashion

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Giffing the winning outfit of @ talas-first-lady Zari Tarazi Fashion Tournament!

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Genuinely still will be forever devastated they cancelled Legends of Tomorrow like that, absolutely no one could ever match their freak again or whatever the kids are saying, and I actually truly believe they only managed to get away with so much of their weird beautiful "fuck it, we ball" chaotic energy because the studio thought they already cancelled them and simply forgot they were still on air the last 4 seasons until the budget report showed up on their desk listing something like a cast moulding of John Cena's arms for Nate's evil robot clone and they were like hey wait wtf 😔

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I was gonna make one with comic John too, but you can take this for now

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it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

and it lives only in our memory

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not to be a Finale Hater on main but I still find it sooooo funny that Izzy tried to reassure Ed with his dying breaths that the crew were his family, which was not backed up in the SLIGHTEST by canon - and which was, in fact, followed VERY SWIFTLY by the crew getting the fuck OUT of there so they never had to see Ed or Stede again 💙 which considering the incredibly shitty way they were treated was well within their rights💙

I am PRO mutiny and unionisation, tbh. The crew of The Revenge deserved soooo much better. Long live Captain Frenchie!!!

and Izzy (who now shares the first mate title with Jim and Olu, and is 900% less stressed), who faked his death and was smuggled away to sea with his fucking family to live happily ever after :3

Just -

Izzy: they're your family, Ed 🥺 The crew: like hell we are. Bye!!!!