HAHAHAHA
MY DEADLINE IS IN LESS THAN FOUR HOURS AND I’M LIKE 1% DONE
I SHALL PROCEED TO BOLDLY STARE AT THE DEADLINE AND DO NOTHING BUT WEEP
if anyone asks, my lord and savior Voldemort has summoned me
June 2013
“So three Black women in maybe two thousand pages of women’s magazines and all of them biracial or racially ambiguous, so they could be Indian or Puerto Rican or something. Not one of them is dark. Not one of them looks like me, so I can’t get clues for makeup from these magazines. Look, this article tells you to pinch your cheeks for color because all their readers are supposed to have cheeks you can pinch for color. This tells you about different hair products for everyone—and everyone means blondes, brunettes, and redheads. I am none of those. And this tells you about the best conditioners—for straight, wavy and curly. No kinky. See what they mean by curly? My hair could never do that. This tells you about matching your eye color and eye shadow—blue, green, and hazel eyes. But my eyes are black so I can’t know what shadow works for me. This says that this pink lipstick is universal, but they mean universal if you are white because I would look like a golliwog if I tried that shade of pink. Oh look, here is some progress. An advertisement for foundation. There are seven different shades for white skin and one generic chocolate shade, but that is progress. Now let’s talk about what is racially skewed. Do you see why a magazine like Essence exists?”
—An excerpt from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013)
HI! Just wanted to pop in to say thank you for being such an amazing person and writer! Loved your update (sorry, I know it's a bit late)! I know that on your tumblr you sometimes have more sensitive topics, so I wanted to ask you about your opinion on fat people (haha I know its weird, but this is actually for a school project :P). What do you think of people being proud of being fat? And when I mean fat I mean not just chubby like actual unhealthy obese? And what do you think of fat shaming?
Hi darling! Thank you, I’m glad you liked <33
I’m against fat shaming, just as much as I’m against skinny shaming too. Or any kind of shaming, really. People already battle all kinds of insecurities that may or may not relate to how they look, and no matter how “confident” a person may seem, someone bitching about their body type/size is likely to be very hurtful.
I do not think that a person can make fun of someone else’s body type, and still go around calling themselves a good person. Because no good person would deliberately go out of their way to be hurtful towards someone else. Makes me think “do you really feel that bad about yourself, that the only way you would feel better is by making someone else feel worse?” And is that something a good person does, really?
Plenty of people are proud of being fat, and personally I say: good, be proud. No matter your body type/size, you should always be proud of what you look like, because plenty of people will use the smallest opportunity to tell you: “don’t be proud of yourself.” After all the only message that seems to be indiscriminately aimed to everyone, through countless sources, is “you have to change”. I think it’s a life worth living if you can proudly look back and say “yeah I don’t want to change. I’m happy the way I am”. What matters is: do you love your body?
People will harp about health issues, but fact remains that it’s none of their business. I don’t believe in concern that comes from strangers, people criticizing someone else for being too fat/too skinny/too something or other doesn’t come across as kindness to me, just as an attempt to make someone feel bad about themselves by telling them that they’re living a wrong kind of life. Person A is obese, and person A is happy, and even if person A died of that infamous heart attack, at least they lived their life happily. Because fucking hell I’ve known both misery and happiness, personally I’d rather live 10 happy years than 50 miserable ones.
There’s a constant focus on how someone “should” look, masked as concern. Photoshopped pictures are admired more than untouched ones, regardless of how beautiful the person is IRL. I’m going a bit off topic here, but it really seems like regardless of how we look, there will always be people telling us that we’re not “enough”. No wonder anxiety levels are off the charts if no matter what people look like/do/achieve, there will always be someone looking down at them and saying “yeah do more”.
Like, there are thousands of reasons to why you should could hate someone. The way they look/their place of origin/their religion/sexual identity etc etc are not relevant factors at all. I think people should focus more on what they want to BE like, rather than what they want to LOOK like. Maybe then we’d accept that human bodies are different, acne doesn’t define you, bad hair days happen to everyone, and sandblasted jeans aren’t cool when you think of how many people die of silicosis.
(It’s great to be alive, and as long as we don’t hurt anyone, I don’t think anyone has the right to tell us that we’re living our lives wrong.)
Daniel Sharman is 27.
Sinqua Walls is 28.
Crystal Reed is 28.Tyler Hoechlin is 25.
The guy playing an adult in Teen Wolf is actually younger than some of his cast-mates playing high-schoolers. Let that sink in.
now i am just picturing them all around a table going ‘alright whoever can grow the most facial hair gets to be the adult’
I was innocently reading an spn fic where Sam was having sex with someone, and then, suddenly, in the middle of that scene the author describes him as:
the giant moose of a man
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For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.
Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.
In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.
Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.
” —Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style” (via kpop-confessions)
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
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i think i met happiness in person today
neglecting your paperwork for the sake of fiddling around with fics isn’t advisable, yo.
who knew
“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via seabois)
“Richard Speight Jr. has confirmed that the writers have told him that Gabriel IS NOT dead.”
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#GABRIELLIVES
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Hi! Bit of a random question, but in ITTR chapter 8, Arcturus invites Harry over for dinner. Did that dinner ever occur? I'm curious about what happened during it. Also, you're a awesome writer, and I really enjoy reading your work!
Hi darling!
Nope, that dinner hasn’t happened yet, and Harry has pretty much forgotten about it.
Arcturus, on the other hand, most certainly hasn’t. The dinner date will happen soon ;D
Thank you <33
Random fact of the day
“Blood is thicker than water”, when used in the context of family over friends, is in fact a wildly incorrect bastardisation.
The true, full quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” and refers to relationships forged by choice holding deeper meaning than those of mere biology.
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