(1983)
2016
Author: michellegruppetta8387
I’m crying
My ideal life situation
#Harry Potter and the Representation I Didn’t Actually Bother to Write But Still Want Credit For
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I both love and hate that we’re growing more and more aware of just how problematic JK Rowling really is
The year is 2018. Your bills are on autopay. You just got paid and you still have $1200 from the last check. When you want something, you buy it without moving money around. Your credit cards are paid off. You and your friends have 2 international trips planned and paid for this year. Your parents are in great health and you’re able to help if they need anything. You love your job. Your desired creative career is falling into place and you get to take your little cousins to Six Flags and Universal Studios over the Summer. Your relationships are healthy and supportive. All of the toxic energy from the past 6 years is gone. You going to concerts, eating good across the states and your crib has art and warmth throughout. 2018 is going to be so good to you.
reblogging this for that 2018 good luck
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At the 2004 Super bow!, Janet Jackson
performed with Justin Timberlake. At the end
of the performance, Justin sang “Gonna have
you naked by the end of this song,” reached
across and pulled away a part of Janet’s
costume – too much came loose. Her breast
was “exposed” for half a second in a wide shot.
Watch the clip – it’s barely noticeableAfter the incident, Janet made (and later
retracted) an apology – it was an accident, and
she felt to apologise suggested wrongdoing.
Justin, however, bowed to every whim and
issued grovelling apologies that, to be frank,
threw Janet under the bus.She was subsequently blacklisted from all
radio, and music channels wouldn’t carry her
videos, right at the start of her ‘Damita Jo’
album release. She was uninvited from the 04
Grammys, where she was supposed to
introduce a tribute to Luther Vandross. Justin,
meanwhile, was invited and given two awards.Two subsequent Janet albums were given little
to no promotion, while Justin’s star continued
to rise.Now, for context and perspective – at the time,
the US was at war with Iraq under highly
questionable circumstances. Television
broadcasts (including commercials during that
very Super Bow!) aired sexualised content,
glamourising alcohol, etc. And yet a brief,
accidental exposure of a woman’s breast
became headline news, and caused then-First
Lady to say it was evidence of a loss of “moral
values” in the USA.Janet was one of the highest paid and most
influential artists of her generation, and
inspired the biggest names we know and love –
Beyonce, Rihanna, Kendrick, Drake, Ciara,
Tinashe, the list is endless. She used her
platform to combat topics like racism, domestic
violence, social inequality, sexual freedom,
drug abuse, children’s rights, female
empowerment, LGBT rights, et al. And yet her
history isn’t even afforded a footnote.She refused to apologise for an accident, really
for having breasts, and was subsequently
dragged through the mud and accused of
single-handedly ripping America’s morality to
shreds.She remains the only artist to be blacklisted
from the Super Bowl. The other person on that
stage, who pulled the costume apart and left
her high and dry, is being welcomed with
plaudits and fanfare.Oh, and one final thing – YouTube exists
because the founder was frustrated he didn’t
have a place to watch the clip the next day. It’s
still on there. Go take a look and decide for
yourself whether 14 years is quite long enough
to pay penance for her “crime”.Daniel J. Layton
For anyone wondering why Justin Timberlakebeing invited to perform at the Super Bowl is
an insult to Janet Jackson’s legacy – an essay…
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We all know that Fenris invites the guys of the DA2 crew (even Anders, improbably enough) over for card games. But we also know that Fenris’s mansion isn’t exactly the most hospitable place to hang out in the game. It’s rather gloomy and messy and corpse-filled, even in Act 3. We could reason around this by saying that Fenris did clean up and the game was just too lazy to render it, or that the card games took place elsewhere, but in the spirit of humor, consider this:
Varric just assumes one day he’s going to clean this all up and make the place more hospitable. He doesn’t. Donnic and Sebastian are too nice to mention it, but Varric isn’t. So one day he points out that the mansion could use a bit of tidying up, like sure Varric isn’t the neatest person himself but this is a bit much.
Fenris just grunts in a way that says “Noted, and disregarded.”
Please, Varric begs, let me at least send someone up to clean!! I’ll pay for it!!
Once again, it is noted and disregarded. This is Danarius’s mansion after all, why should anyone put money into fixing it up? Fenris refuses.
So Varric decides to get petty.
One day, he invites Fenris to an extra card game. Fenris goes to the Hanged Man, but is surprised to have Varric lead him elsewhere. Where are they going to have this card game?? In Darktown.
No fucking way, Fenris thinks as they approach Anders’ clinic. Absolutely not.
But he ends up entering anyway, reluctantly. Anders, Donnic, and Sebastian are already there, sitting at a table Anders has set up.
“Wow!” Varric says. “I love what you’ve done with the place! Like, I love how you’ve swept the floor and picked the clutter off the ground.”
Anders just has the most angelic (read: PTA mom level bitchy) smile. “Yes,” he says, sparing a significant glance at Fenris, “It’s not the nicest place to live, but at least it’s clean.”
Fenris: >:/
Varric, sitting down: “Wow, and no blood splatters or broken furniture!”
Anders: “That’s right! And if someone dies here every now and then, I remove the body. You know, like a civilized person.”
Fenris: >:/
Sebastian, who is socially adept enough to know what’s going on: “…I do like you leave the windows uncovered. A bit of light is nice.”
His eyebrow raise at Fenris is tactful and quick, but Fenris is still stunned, absolutely floored at this betrayal. Et tu, Sebastian??
Donnic, not quite sure what’s going on and just trying to be nice: “Yes, you’ve managed to organize this place pretty well actually, Anders, all things considered.”
Fenris: >:/
The message is clear: if even Anders, the smelly sewer apostate, can clean up better than you then you need to really rethink your life choices, Fenris.
…This probably backfires spectacularly and causes Fenris’s mansion look even worse the next time Varric and crew show up, purely out of spite.
I know this probably isn’t the platform where I’ll reach the most parents, but I think that if we viewed a child’s ‘failures’ as failures on other people’s part to help, kids would be so much better off.
I saw a mother brag about how she took her twelve year old’s phone away for four months until their grades came up… but got angry when people asked what OTHER methods she used to help the child.
Was she sitting down and helping the child with their homework? Was she asking if there was something going on in the child’s school life that was making things harder? Trying to help her study? Actually teaching the child to self-regulate and prioritize tasks? Helping the child keep up with due dates and taking them to study groups?
No, nothing. Just punishing the kid for not doing well, without anything else. Of course the mom was real defensive, even though no one was even judging her—it was other parents interested and seeing if the mom had tips and tricks to make it work! And then it came out that the child had been being bullied in school, leading to their grades slipping. Nothing to do with the phone to begin with.
But the mother saw the child’s grades as simply a reflection of some character flaw, instead of approaching it from a perspective of ‘what can I do to help this child do better?’
Uma Thurman Was Dehumanized ‘to the Point of Death’ While Filming Kill Bill
In the same New York Times interview that alleged Harvery Weinstein had a history of assaulting her, Uma Thurman also spoke out against the dehumanizing experience of shooting the Kill Bill films. Specifically, Thurman claims she was pressured by director Quentin Tarantino into shooting the popular convertible scene — or, the moment when she starts driving to kill Bill — by herself and with no stunt driver, despite Thurman expressing multiple times that she wasn’t comfortable operating the vehicle in its shoddy condition. “Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director,” she said. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road. Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.”
The subsequent moments confirmed Thurman’s worst fears: While wrestling with the car, it veered off the road and hit a tree at a high speed. (The video can be watched here.) She was badly injured, and needed time to recover. “The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she recalled. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again. When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”
Three reasons why Quentin Tarantino is an asshole:
1. Women told him that Harvey Weinstein sexually attacked and harassed them and he did nothing (Uma Thurman and Darryl Hannah).
2. He insisted Uma Thurman do a dangerous stunt that she repeatedly asked not to do which left her with a concussion, permanent neck injuries and knee pain. Then he hid the footage for 15 years so that Uma couldn’t sue Miramax for injury.
3. During shooting, Tarantino took over the roles off camera of the men who abuse Uma so he could choke her with a chain and repeatedly spit in her face. Her director/boss made sure he was the one abusing her.
he also choked Diane Kruger in Inglorious Basterds
jfc wtf it’s true
this is not a surprise. stop acting surprised when men who repeatedly integrate sexual abuse and assault, racism, and violence in their films are outed as actually being like that. People deny over and over that fiction has anything to do with reality then pretend to be shocked when abusers’ and bad people’s content, words, and actions, surprise, reflect their beliefs and values
Uma Thurman Was Dehumanized ‘to the Point of Death’ While Filming Kill Bill
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