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Godzilla The Art exhibit in the Animate Shinjuku store (Marui) [x] 8-17-9/8 2024

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Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

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wassup

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Okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and make what is apparently a radical ethical statement.

If someone's response to hearing of the October 7th mass murder of Israelis was to celebrate or applaud or otherwise express joy, they're an antisemite. Period.

If someone's response to 10,000 dead Gazans was to celebrate or applaud or otherwise express joy, they're an Islamaphobe. Period.

In general, if you hear about thousands of people dying for being in the wrong place at the wrong time or being born to the 'wrong' group, and your reaction is "HUZZAH!", you are a horrible person.

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Amethyst earrings shaped like grapes. FRANCE 1840 - 1851

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WAKE UP BABE NEW DASHCON JUST DROPPED

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Glass pumpkin 🎃

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UPDATE: The girls are NOT fighting. But they're also not having sex. In fact I'm not sure what they're doing but it seems to involve a blowtorch.

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sometimes i watch golden girls and i just tear up remembering everything each cast member did for the queer community

estelle getty lost her nephew to AIDS and moved in with him during the last months of his life to take care of him. she started a foundation that cares for people affected by AIDS that's still there to this day. she saw one of the writers on her show was queer, walked right up to him and said "you're one of us!" and promised to protect him. she put her career on the line to become an outspoken ally of AIDS patients at a time when it would've been career suicide

bea arthur was a staunch gay and trans ally who donated a lot of her time and money to helping homeless lgbt youth. when she died, she left them thousands of dollars to stay afloat after she was gone. she was incredibly socially active in the queer community!

rue mcclanahan was a staunch advocate of marriage rights for gay couples and openly devoted her time and money for the fight for equality. she also openly participated in queer spaces and loved the community with her entire heart. she was intimately aware of gay mens' particular love for her character blanche and she fully embraced it

everybody knows by now about betty white's activism, but i'll say it anyway. not only did she join the fight for marriage equality, but she was a great mother to her lesbian stepdaughter. she participated in anti-bullying campaigns specifically against lgbt youth. she accompanied liberace to events because it wasn't safe for him to be out. she loved us and she fought for us just like the others

all four of them did SO MANY amazing things for us, and it makes me happy that we had people like them -- that we still do in people like dolly parton! we didn't deserve them. i wish i could've met all of them and told them how grateful i am!

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The Muppets visiting Dagobah

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found this INCREDIBLY powerful pic of miss piggy from her 1983 calendar

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I’ve been thinking about these (and many similar) posts. while I do believe a lot of the people playing at outrage right now are doing that primarily out of the toxic sludge of disinformation, conspiracies, and hatred that they’ve been stewing in for the past eleven months, there’s a component of ignorance here too: many people (I’d wager probably a majority of people in the US) have no clue what’s been happening in Israel. the tens to hundreds of thousands internally displaced and the severity of the northern fires have gotten next to no press here, the rocket attacks receive passing mention but aren’t covered as frequently as the attacks actually happen. the Israelis who have been killed by Hezbollah, like Noa and Nir Baranes, never make the news beyond Israeli sources. the coverage of the Druze children was atrocious (remember how WaPo made it seem like Israel killed them and had to apologize, the apology of course receiving barely any traction in comparison to the misleading headline).

I keep thinking of the multiple “on the street” style videos that have been made where Jews/Israelis stop and ask people if they know what happened on 10/7. you get the aggressive responses, sure, the people who refuse to listen or start trying to defend Hamas, but in every one of those videos there are people who somehow have no idea what happened and are horrified when they’re informed. there’s been a pervasive narrative of downplaying the massacre and justifying it, but there are misinformed people out there who think Israel woke up and decided to start a war out of nowhere. when many people see what happened that day, they do find themselves expressing sympathy and wanting to learn more. this is why things like, for example, the Nova exhibit and hostage testimony are crucial.

the response from politicians who definitely are informed (like AOC), or from people enmeshed in pro-terror, pro-Nazi circles, can be dismissed as driven by an agenda or bigotry, but for the people who aren’t fully informed, it’s important to keep sharing the realities of what has been happening and what Hezbollah has done for over forty years. most people have never heard of the AMIA bombing. most people don’t know about the Beirut barracks bombing. most people don’t realize that Hezbollah has murdered scores of Syrian children.

the response from privileged sanctimonious westerners vs. actual middle easterners who understand the violence and suffering Hezbollah has exacted is stark - and not listening to the people actually affected is selective outrage and racism/orientalism in action.

we’ve got western politicians using the word “genocide” for the strikes on Hezbollah (“Netanyahu and his henchmen” are horrible, this is not a defense of them, it’s criticism of saying that pagers exploding is worse than the “crimes of WWII” which encompasses everything from the Holocaust to the atom bombs):

meanwhile:

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Hezbollah launching thousands of rockets indiscriminately at civilians for eleven months isn’t enough to cause the terminally online to see them as aggressors, but then it goes a step further and even what they’ve done in Syria and Iraq and Lebanon itself is ignored somehow?

as usual, I do not know how we grapple with this ideological subversion. no matter how you feel about this particular operation and its precision, and of course any civilian death is a tragedy, it remains imperative to share the concrete information about what they’ve done to innocent people across the region and the world. some people will listen.

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Part of what makes Tumblr so deliciously insane is that consistently, every Tumblr community is structured like this:

At the top, you have the S-tier posters. Like, two or three savant-level PHD freaks people who are genuine experts in their field.

At the bottom, you have the rabble. The people who are interested in reading posts about their hobby or current interest.

But in between, you have a gaggle of two-dozen people who have like 20% of a clue, but they're very opinionated, and they've learned how to mimic the S-Tier posters tone of voice and vocabulary.

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Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman