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Current sexuality: Long-haired, rain-soaked Colin Morgan, astride a horse, wearing a long duster coat.

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“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
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Gustave Flaubert
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

—Ira Glass

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nabokovsshadows:

vegan-xicano:

No parent should have an “if I get deported” conversation with their child.

Moved legally to countries. Problem solved. I have lived all over the world not once did I just roll up illegally.

@vegan-xicano  You’re right.  The parents shouldn’t be in the country illegally you dumbass.

Lol I live in a part of the United States that the US stole from Mexico when it didn’t keep up it’s end of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. If the United States would mind it’s own fucking business and not have such a negative impact in foreign countries, this wouldn’t be an issue. This goes for the violence they have caused trying to overthrow governments they disliked and exploiting foreign workers for by moving companies across borders that leads to poverty and the need for immigration in order meet living needs. 

Or maybe the fucking pilgrims should have stayed in their goddamn land if you wanna go that route.

 @texasgunnersmate

and @nabokovsshadows the immigration process isn’t so simple for everybody. People have tried and waited years for the process to go through. Have you felt the immediate need to leave a country for safety or well-being? some people don’t have the time to wait.

Pinches gringos pendejos.
But did the fucking pilgrims go through a legal process to migrate here? Did they fucking ask the natives of this land permission to thrive of their land and labor?!?!

White people literally have zero humanity

White people colonized land that wasn’t theirs. They have no right speaking on this manner.

Hit em up style.

Okay so this hits really close to home for me. I’m so tired of people giving undocumented immigrants shit, so tired of all this hate from people who have the privilege of being born in the US, or come from situations where immigrating legally is an attainable goal. 

Do you know how hard it is to immigrate to the US? We have some of the strictest and hardest immigration processes out there. I feel like the people who just say “Well immigrate legally. Problem solved,” have this notion that immigrating legally to the US is like standing in line at the DPS to get your driver’s license (an inconvenience but fully attainable), when it’s absolutely not. It takes YEARS and possibly thousands of dollars in visa fees, immigration fees, attorney fees, and the health exams and background checks you have to get, let alone travel expenses. And that is not attainable for people living in god awful, life threatening desperate situations, where they maybe make $60 a month.

Let me give you a quick rundown of our immigration process for you rude ass people who think undocumented immigrants are just lazy criminals coming to steal your jobs:

-You have to apply for an immigrant visa. You can choose from a few categories: employment visa (you have to be a highly skilled worker with a job lined up from an employer willing to hire an immigrant over a US citizen), student visa (so you have to be able to afford to go to school in the US), if you have immediate family in the US already they can file a petition for a visa for you, and if you don’t qualify for one of these MAYBE you can get lucky for the Visa Lottery (and only if less than 50,000 people from your country have immigrated to the US that year you apply for the lottery.)

-So say you don’t have a job lined up and you can’t afford school but you have immediate family here. (Being a spouse, parents, children, or siblings) Your family can petition for you to immigrate here. Some relations may have a higher chance of your petition being approved (like parents petitioning for their children), but it still takes a long time and may or may not happen. (For example, my uncle has been petitioning for his wife and kids to immigrate from the Philippines for almost a DECADE, still hasn’t happened.)

-So your family petitions you and it’s approved or you get hella lucky and win the visa lottery, you still have to submit required paperwork and documentation to immigrate (including a passport so lol if you’re hella poor good luck with affording that)

-Most people also suggest you hire a lawyer to help with the process (once again a barrier for the poor)

-You have to get a thorough medical exam and vaccinations (oh no that means health insurance or high medical bills without)

-Okay so you get all this done, you’re squared away, paid exorbitant fees and all your paperwork is good to go, medical exam and background check is good, you still have to interview with a consular officer. (Which means meeting at the US consulate in your country so be prepared to travel if it’s not in your city)

Immigrating to the US is not easy. Especially if you are poor, in an unstable country, and in life threatening situations where the longer you stay in this country can cost you and your family their lives. It costs an arm and a leg to immigrate and go through a process that can take YEARS. Many people don’t have years to wait. 

All US citizens who have had the privilege to be born in the US don’t understand what this means to an immigrant looking to escape their situation and have a better life. It is simply not accessible to some people to immigrate legally. “Immigrate legally, problem solved.” No. It’s not like waiting in a line for an hour at DPS, it’s not even close to that simple. Some people don’t have the means or time to get here legally and safely. Immigrants (Mexican and Central American immigrants in particular) cross deserts by foot and risk their lives to get here. Do you think if it was as easy as standing in a line at a government office (like many of you think the process is) they wouldn’t do that? 

I am so lucky that I was born here and my parents were able to immigrate to the US legally because the regulations weren’t as strict. IF YOU WERE BORN HERE DON’T YOU EVER SHIT ON IMMIGRANTS AND SPEW YOUR HATE IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW THAT PROCESS WORKS. And don’t give me the “well my family immigrated here legally why can’t they” excuse. Okay Becky who’s 1/8 German 1/8 Polish 1/16 Native American white mystery airhead flavor “my family has been here for generations”, all your family had to do was hop on a ship to Ellis Island and answer some questions and bam welcome to the US. They most likely would not have been able to immigrate based on the procedure now. I don’t want to hear it. 

-Rant over, signed angry Asian girl who just got back from visiting family in the Philippines. 

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Free Speech Zones, which were a real thing and not a plot element in a particularly ham-handed dystopian novel.

The phrase “hidey hole.”

Watching a budget surplus become a massive deficit that was bigger than it even looked because the White House was just like, “Okay, we’ll just not put the wars on the books and just ask for more money for those every few months.”

The sheer number of times Alberto Gonzalez said, “I don’t recall,” to Congress regarding war crimes and human rights violations.

“…now watch this drive.”

Mission Accomplished.

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence,” “yellowcake uranium,” Condoleeza’s “mushroom clouds” fearmongering, and all the other bullshit we were fed to get into Iraq.

The President of the United States said so many stupid things that there were one-a-day calendars consisting of an individual quote for each day of the year. They didn’t all have the exact same quotes.

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

And then we went to war.

“Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; creating or implanting embryos for experiments; creating human-animal hybrids; and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.” - George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union

Okay, that’s the best one.

Bush watched that Batman Beyond splicing episode and had nightmares for a week

was it hidey-hole? i thought it was spider-hole.

Yeah, it was spider-hole

I think my favorite was how we un-ironically referred to a whole set of countries as the “Axis of Evil” as if that phrase gives us some kind of meaningful understanding of their geopolitical role and isn’t borrowed straight out of a mediocre made-for-TV superhero movie.

And then there was:

We literally got a terrorism forecast on the news every morning like it was pollen. So many of the things that happened, if they were in a dystopian novel, people would be like, “That’s way too goofy and ridiculous to actually happen in real life,” and yet they did.

THE LAST ONE’S REAL?

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Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.

Also, “Free Speech Zones” looked something like this:

It was literally a cage.

I genuinely forget that people, even within my own age group, has forgotten the Bush era since they were teenagers and below the voting age at the time, and so forgot how fucking horrifying it was.

I always reblog this reminder

The terror levels were often raised before elections, with “reports” of “terror plans discovered and destroyed.” Fear is the best tool to control the populace. Make us afraid of the other and compelling us to vote for “safety” and the status quo.

Freedom fries, people. 

I remember as a kid right after 9/11 we were all told the terrorists were gonna blow up all the schools so no one was allowed to wear things on their head. No hats or bandanas or headbands even. I know now it was Islamophobia but me being a long haired child and having my fucking headband taken away from me because of stupid terrorism rules used to infuriate me.

Remember that time the White House sent people to the Attorney General’s intensive care ward to pressure him into reauthorizing the domestic surveillance program? And the only reason they didn’t get away with it was the acting Attorney General found out about it and literally raced to the hospital to get there before them and stop them?

Yeah. Good times that.

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This is why when people say ‘oh, Trump wouldn’t be able to do that much.’I about lose my shit because that happened.

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Two men dancing, Harlem, 1920s.

According to George Chauncey’s eponymous Gay New York, the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s provided an opportunity for gay men to create their own social and cultural spaces within the burgeoning nightlife in the neighborhood. 

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i don’t understand why atlantis isn’t more popular of a movie

i mean

amazing and unique art style 

spot-on humor

strong, badass female and/or POC characters

awkward but incredibly intelligent lead that isn’t conventionally attractive

COOKIE

history jokes that you won’t catch as a kid

MOTHER

FUCKING

WILHELMINA BERTHA PACKARD

did i mention

BADASS AF FEMALE CHARACTERS

AND MULTIPLE POC CHARACTERS

WHO BREAK STEREOTYPES LEFT AND RIGHT

i just have a lot of feelings about atlantis and i think it needs more love than it gets

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6) Tolkien’s hero was average, and needed help, and failed.

This is the place where most fantasy authors, who love to simultaneously call themselves Tolkien’s heirs and blame him for a lot of what’s wrong with modern fantasy, err the worst. It’s hard to look at Frodo and see him as someone extra-special. The hints in the books that a higher power did choose him are so quiet as to be unnoticeable. And he wouldn’t have made it as far as he did without his companions. And he doesn’t keep from falling into temptation.

A lot of modern fantasy heroes are completely opposite from this. They start out extraordinary, and they stay that way. Other characters are there to train them, or be shallow antagonists and love interests and worshippers, not actually help them. And they don’t fail. (Damn it, I want to see more corrupted fantasy heroes.) It’s not fair to blame Tolkien for the disease that fantasy writers have inflicted on themselves. […]

Fantasy could use more ordinary people who are afraid and don’t know what the hell they’re doing, but volunteer for the Quest anyway.

It’s misinterpretation of Tolkien that’s the problem, not Tolkien himself.

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“Tolkien Cliches,” Limyaael

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The whole point of The Lord Of The Rings… like, the WHOLE POINT… is that it is ultimately the hobbits who save the world. The small, vulnerable, ordinary people who aren’t great warriors or heroes.

Specifically, Sam. Sam saves the world. All of it. The ultimate success of the great quest is 100% due to a fat little gardener who likes to cook and never wanted to go on an adventure but who did it because he wasn’t going to let his beloved Frodo go off alone. Frodo is the only one truly able to handle the ring long enough to get it into Mordor - and it nearly kills him and permanently emotionally damages him - but Sam is the one who takes care of Frodo that whole time. Who makes him eat. Who finds him water. Who watches over him while he sleeps.

Sam is the one who fights off Shelob.

Sam is the one who takes the Ring when he thinks Frodo is dead.

Sam is the one who strolls into Orc Central and saves Frodo by sheer determination and killing any orc who crosses him. (SAM THE GARDENER GOES AND KILLS AN ACTUAL ORC TO GET FRODO SOME CLOTHES LET’S JUST THINK ABOUT THAT). And then Sam just takes off the Ring and gives it back which is supposed to be freaking impossible and he barely even hesitates.

Sam literally carries Frodo on the last leg of the journey. On his back. He’s half-starved, dying slowly of dehydration, but he carries Frodo up the goddamn mountain and Gollum may get credit for accidentally destroying the ring but Sam was the one who got them all there.

Sam saved the world.

And let’s not forget Pippin and Merry, who get damselled out of the story (the orcs have carried them off! We must make a Heroic Run To Save Them!) and then rescue themselves, recruit the Terrifying Ancient Powers through being genuinely nice and sincere, and overthrow Saruman before the ‘real’ heroes even get there.

Let’s not forget Pippin single-handedly saving what’s left of Gondor - and Faramir - by understanding that there is a time for obeying orders and a time for realizing that the boss is bugfuck nuts and we need to get help right now.

Let’s not forget Merry sticking his sword into the terrifying, profoundly evil horror that has chased him all over his world because his friend is fighting it and he’s gonna help, dammit and that’s how the most powerful Ringwraith goes down to a suicidally depressed woman and a scared little hobbit.

Everything the others do, the kings and princes and great heroes and all? They buy time.  They distract the bad guys. They keep the armies occupied. That is what kings and great leaders are for - they do the big picture stuff.

But it is ultimately the hobbits who bring down every villain. Every one. And I believe that that is 100% on purpose. Tolkien was a soldier in WWI. His son fought in WWII. (And a lot of The Lord Of The Rings was written in letters to him while he did it.)

And hey, look, The Lord Of The Rings is about ordinary people - farmers, scholars, and so on - who get pulled into a war not of their making but who have to fight not only because their own home is in danger but so is everyone’s. And they’re small and scared but they do the best they can for as long as they can and that is what actually saves the world. Not great heroes and pre-destined kings. Ordinary people, doing extraordinary things because they want the world to be safe for ordinary people, the ones they know and the ones they don’t.

Ordinary people matter. They can save the world without being great heroes or kings or whatever. And that is really important and I get so upset when people miss that because Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli and Gandalf and all the others are great characters and all but they are ultimately a hobbit delivery system.

It is ordinary people doing their best who really change the world, and continue doing so after the war is over because they have to go home and rebuild and they do.

If nothing else, I have to reblog this for the phrase “hobbit delivery system.” So accurate it hurts.

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What I love too is how even the foretold king and the assorted great heroes themselves all come to recognize that their main (and by the end, only) role is to distract Sauron. To the point that by the end they’re all gathered up before the black gates of Mordor in order to keep his attention focused on them, with only the hope - not the certainty - that they can buy Frodo whatever remaining time he needs, if he’s even still alive.

One thing the movies left out but has always been such a key part of the books for me was how when the hobbits returned home, they found that home had been changed too. The war touched everywhere. Even with all they did in far-off lands to protect the Shire, the Shire had still been damaged, both property and lives destroyed, and it wasn’t an easy or simplistically happy homecoming. They had to fight yet another battle (granted a much smaller one) to save their neighbours, and then spent years in rebuilding.

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In many ways, the entire POINT is that homecoming.
A quest, an adventure, is defined by the return home, and the realization that not only have YOU changed, so has your home.

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And also sometimes you break. And sometimes there isn’t any healing. Or not enough.

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