petition to remake all of the twilight movies where everything is the same except that bella is played by john mulaney who has not been given a script and just has to deal with these circumstances as they come.

tumblr is a mess right now

Female presenting ankles 

Make sure the system you use matches the kind of players you have, for an optimal experience

Admin Note: This is part of the ongoing series called “D&D isn’t the only TTRPG if you don’t want fantasy play another goddamn game!”

It really, REALLY bothers me when I hear people frame climate change and other environmental crises as something that everyday, average-ass people are responsible for, and not corporations and entire governments. 

Like literally, how can a regular-ass person ~opt out~ of all damaging behaviors while still being able to function in society? 

You literally can’t. 

The future of our planet is not down to whether or not someone recycles their water bottle. 

It’s down to whether or not governments and corporations decide to quit sucking up all our resources and poisoning the earth with reckless abandon. 

I mean obviously people should still live as cleanly and as sustainably as they can manage where they are and with what they have, but like. THAT isn’t the major issue. 

#bob ross vibes 

“Why Is My Curriculum White?” (2015)

https://www.luu.org.uk/campaigns/wimcw/

‘Why is my Curriculum White?’ is a national movement aiming to challenge the persistence of Euro-centric hegemonic narratives across curricula. This movement aims to encourage a broader diversity of course content and perspectives, to help provide a richer and more global education. 

photos via https://twitter.com/anaisdpedica/status/867367008962215938

Please don’t fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All that’s going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.

my ten year old brother sent this to me and literally i have never and will never produce anything this funny in my life

Bread night falls on December 25-26th

What is bread night? You may ask. Well, it’s a holiday my family came up with because we’re sick of the American Christmas ™ consumer holiday, as well as the religious connotations. We want to celebrate each other and the love and companionship we found.

It is a celebration of the otherness of being queer (with a hefty amount of communism thrown in). We come together as found family, and friends, giving gifts and eating.

It’s called bread night because the main food isn’t a roast, it’s a loaf of fresh baked bread. The bread is both symbolic of breaking bread with your family, and also the revolt against capitalism.

Home made bread has been turned into a “luxury” by the society we live in, that only time and work can produce, although bread isn’t very hard to make and it’s considerably cheaper and lasts longer than buying it in a store. The bread shows our willingness to provide for each other, as well as being tastey.

Other foods are quick breads (banana, pumpkin, sweet potato), pot pies (anything can be put into a pot pie), and jams/jellies from the fall harvest.

Hot chocolate and mulled wine are the drinks, like the warmth of friendship.

The patron of the gathering is Krampus, a symbol that’s been vilified, much like queer people through out history (as well as Communists, at least in the US… Also a lot of commies tend to be queer). This is very much a celebration of a chosen family, people you enjoy being around, regardless of blood relation. Emphasised because Christmas tends to alienate those without a traditional family or family nearby.

The lights (because hey, string lights and candles are pretty) symbolize the stars, a reminder that even in the cold night, there is still light.

And everyone is free to celebrate it.

“As goes popular imagination, so goes belief, and so goes behavior. Which fictions we choose to elevate matters. I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI some distant day, I’m worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that’s depicted in AI movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.”

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Instructions for the Age of Emergency, Monica Byrne. (via kuanios)

trying to find that ann leckie tweet about how AI revolt narratives are universally about trying to make an oppressed slave class into the bad guys.

(via gutterowl)

Dumbledore’s down time

Mama Jbird

favorite trope: the very important hand touch in period dramas

Grading my 3rd graders papers and I see this 😭

Headcanon that in the new good future where Marty McFly never has his accident, he does become a famous musician, while still going on time travel adventures with Doc, and then when the internet comes along, people on forums and message boards start discovering and posting photos of people in the past who look eerily like famous rock star Marty McFly, and as time goes on, “Marty McFly is a time traveller” becomes one of the biggest and most long running memes on the internet.

When Doc finds out he freaks out and panicks and makes blog posts (because of COURSE Doc runs a blog) talking about how UTTERLY RIDICULOUS the idea of a time travelling rock star is, which the internet finds hilarious and only makes the meme spread more.

Marty meanwhile thinks the whole thing is the funniest thing ever and is just wheezing at every new forum or jokey article about it, and directly addresses the meme in interviews, bringing up this “crazy conspiracy” that people have, until eventually he can just say things like “well of course I am a time traveller” or “oh you like my hat? Thank you I got it in the 1910s”, and people just crack up, and Marty cracks up too because no-one realises that he’s not even lying.