I love the huge cultural differences in Space Marvel™… Asgardians like speak in iambic pentameter and use beatiful, eloquent words and then the guardians are like “y’all’d’nt’ve’f’i’dn’ve!”
Loki: our cruel and terrible sister, Hela, Goddess of Death, emerged from the unknown and brought upon our land a storm of suffering and chaos, the likes of which have never been previously known to civil creatures
Rocket: anyway this dickhead Taserface threw me in his pirate-ship prison cell lmao it was nasty
Valkyrie, Lady Sif: we are classically trained, elite, and highly effective warriors, who are equal parts dignified, celebrated, and feared
Nebula: lmao what if I cut off my own hand – oh my god I’m gonna do it, watch this
Thor: welcome to Asgard, the most beautiful and prosperous of all the nine realms!
Peter: here’s our ship, it’s tiny and disgusting but it’s all we have, we love it
with 4/20 coming up here’s a reminder that if y’all support the legalization of marijuana you need to also be supporting decriminalization + the release of everyone in prison right now for marijuana-related charges (some of whom are serving as much as 20+ years) just as hard, if not harder.
if your pro-marijuana activism only supports white people starting weed shops and getting rich off of it while there are people of color and other marginalized people in jail whose lives have been ruined for doing the same thing and people still getting arrested every day for it and you just…don’t give a shit about that, that’s not cool.
That is the best description of Steve I have ever seen
I was always so confused about if Joss Whedon had seen The First Avenger. Because Steve swears in the movie. Not like hard, its a PG-13 family movie, but he does swear.
I think Joss Whedon falls into the same trap as bad fic writer, where he thinks Steve is a farmer from 1950s Kansas instead of Irish Catholic kid from 1920s Brooklyn.
Steve Rogers is 400 pounds of righteous kickass in a 100 pound body and by using the serum the army found room for only most of it.
he thinks Steve is a farmer from 1950s Kansas instead of Irish Catholic kid from 1920s Brooklyn.
this is it. this is the description for how steve is so often mischaracterized.
“Only most of it”
this made me think of that other farmer from 1950s kansas who stands for truth justice and the american way, and i considered how a fight between cap and superman would go for all of 3 seconds before i realized that the “fight” would consist entirely of a screaming match in a starbucks that’s scary because they’re both fucking huge, but if you listen long enough one of them is going to cross himself as he yells “CHRIST IN HEAVEN, I KNOW YOU DIDN’T JUST QUOTE FUCKING KANT AT ME AS A REASON ASSASSINATING HITLER WOULD HAVE BEEN A BAD THING! KANT WAS A PATHETIC SHIT WHO THOUGHT HE COULD DEFINE GOD ON HIS OWN TERMS AND HAD THE LUDICROUS IDEA THAT SAYING “this is bad for society so you shouldn’t do it” WOULD ACTUALLY STOP THEM FROM DOING IT! IN FACT, IF YOU WANT TO DRAG KANT’S MUSTY ASS INTO THIS AT ALL, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT PUTTING A STOP TO GENOCIDE AT ALL COSTS IS, IN FACT, A CATEGORICAL FUCKING IMPERATIVE!”
i love how people are saying “that’s homophobic” to every small inconvenience now. we had to hear The Straights say “that’s gay” to everything they hated for so long, it’s our turn now babes. a new, gayer age. 20gayteen, coming through
I love being in college because there are no actual adults around so everyone is just going around bullshitting their way through basic tasks. Like I can be like “I think I got better from my cold because I ate an orange yesterday” and everyone is like “Yeah makes sense” and somebody could just be like “I’m gonna put my pillow in the washing machine to clean it” and everyone’s like “Sounds like a great idea John”
Sex worker friends here are some things you can do to reduce your risks of arrest, maintain your online presence to connect with clients and each other, and facilitate collective safety and support:
1. review your current technology safety practices and implement accessible and appropriate protocols.
-Stop using gmail, hotmail, wordpress to host your work email. Create a protonmail account which is offshore and secure and wont get shut down.
-Burner phones are best practice for work phones, if you can afford it.
-Encrypted file sharing can be done by downloading TOR and using OnionShare.
-SpiderOak is a secure alternative to Google Docs. (Download all your Google docs and delete it online if you haven’t already.)
-*****Download signal! **** Create a group thread with VETTED and TRUSTED sex workers you know. Start with some basic security rules. For example: everyone needs to password protect their phone to participate, be vouched for, don’t allow notifications on the home screen to include the actual messages, delete the app when doing international travel, and the thread needs to be killed and a new one created if someone’s phone is compromised (like if someone loses their phone or the phone is seized by law enforcement.)
-Get offshore and secure hosting and domain registries. I use OrangeWebsite.com for everything.
-Use formsite.com instead of Google forms if you need to collect info or do surveys, they’ve got security options.
-Banks are required by federal law to report cash deposits of $5,000 or more just fyi.
2. Plan for worse case scenarios, no matter how unlikely or remote the risk, for yourselves and each other:
-create bail funds and/or relief funds. (Ex: get 10 people together and make a vow to each put $20 into it each month just in case shit hits the fan for one of you and you can’t cover it on your own.)
-brush up on your legal rights when interacting with law enforcement.
3. Don’t do the work of our oppressors!
I’m seeing a lot of sex workers preemptively closing sex work related Facebook groups, folks are talking about taking down bad date lists, etc. We’ve got to keep these safety tools alive as much as we can, though of course keeping risks in mind. In the event that SESTA gets enacted and Facebook does change its terms of service to get rid of sex work related content the highly likely outcome will include: Facebook removing the content or closing the groups, maybe suspending individuals accounts. Its extremelllllllly unlikely that sex workers participating in those groups will face any legal risk (again, LE isn’t going to spend resources going after every sex worker.)
These federal agencies are banking on sex workers and businesses that facilitate sex work reacting out of fear to end sex work just as much as they are on doing that repression themselves.
-download any and all bad date lists that exist and put it on your computer
-make sure that you have alternatives means of communication with folks you know via the internet (like signal), especially with folks who work in isolation. Don’t let anyone get left behind.
