Here’s to you, boys and girls. And remember: even while we congratulate Tamika for winning your loyalty, with her sophisticated comprehension and extremes of berserker violence, that the real victory won today has been for literacy!
28 - Summer Reading Program
(via slipstreamborne)
Anyone who says Disney has never made a movie with as much depth as Pixar clearly has never seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In just ONE SONG (Hellfire) the topics of lust, rape, murder, and religion are all brought up, and…I don’t remember anything resembling chemistry between the heroine and the blonde guy (though it has been like two years since I last saw it so). And let’s not pretend like the Disney studios are particularly preoccupied with healthy romantic relationships. I think that taken on its own the romantic resolution is fine, but it’s definitely fucked up how the only Disney film where the male and female protagonist don’t end up together is the one where the hero has a hunchback and one eye that’s twice as big as the other.
it’s been a while since i’ve seen it too buttttttt there’s more there than the friendship than she feels for quasi so like????
i don’t know i feel like so many people get up in arms about how WHY DIDN’T HE GET THE GIRL THAT’S SO MESSED UP when that kinda means they’re missing another message about friendship bonds?
people keep comparing disney movies like all together and i always thought that was dumb it’s like how people compare all their movies that ‘have poc main characters!!! and they all turn into animals what does THAT say!!!!”
i dunno i have no idea what i’m talking about i should probably like watch the movie again or something
I mean, you can’t really justify it by saying that there’s “more” between her and Captain Blondeguy because they aren’t real people– the writers PUT more between those two characters because that romance is prettier and more socially acceptable. Or something. As far as I can remember, Blondeguy doesn’t really add a lot to the story plot-wise, he’s pretty much just there to serve as a love interest for Cool Rebel Heroine (And as far as I’m concerned, she doesn’t need one– but if there’s gonna be romance, why not with Quasimodo?).
And as for the lesson about friendship, great! Lots of Disney movies have wonderful messages about friendship, and if that’s what you want to take away from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, fine. But the message I’ve taken away every time I’ve watched it is:
“Good news, kids! If you’re ugly or disabled (or, god forbid, both) not everyone will hate you forever! You might make a friend or two, or even enjoy a moment in the spotlight. But no one will ever have romantic feelings for you, because, like, ew.”
(via witchydarling)
watamote is a disgusting anime and i wish japan wouldn’t romanticize that kind of behavior
Except that it’s not romanticizing it– it’s the exact opposite. It’s not one of those animes where the rude, antisocial heroine miraculously obtains friends/love interests becuase she’s “special.” Kiriko is truly pathetic, but she’s also kind of a shitty person who’s always negative and thinking awful things about the people around her. She’s not adorably shy, she’s really shy but also pretty mean and just generally not a very sympathetic character, and it’s not surprising that over the course of the show she makes exactly zero steps towards achieving popularity.
Which isn’t to say Kiriko is totally unrelatable– the reason I watch the show is that parts of it remind me of myself in middle school, which is funny but really uncomfortable. That’s what makes Watamote so great– it romanticizes nothing and pretty much just exists to make viewers squirm with secondhand embarrassment.
(via saety)
Anyone who says Disney has never made a movie with as much depth as Pixar clearly has never seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
In just ONE SONG (Hellfire) the topics of lust, rape, murder, and religion are all brought up, and…
I don’t remember anything resembling chemistry between the heroine and the blonde guy (though it has been like two years since I last saw it so). And let’s not pretend like the Disney studios are particularly preoccupied with healthy romantic relationships. I think that taken on its own the romantic resolution is fine, but it’s definitely fucked up how the only Disney film where the male and female protagonist don’t end up together is the one where the hero has a hunchback and one eye that’s twice as big as the other.
(via witchydarling)
When a woman walked into a state-funded “crisis pregnancy center” in Manassas, Va., this summer and told the counselor she might be pregnant, she was told that condoms don’t actually prevent STDs and that birth control frequently causes hair loss, memory loss, headaches, weight gain, fatal blood clots and breast cancer. “The first three ingredients in the birth control pill are carcinogens,” the CPC counselor said, adding that she always tries to talk women out of taking it.NARAL found that 71% of the CPCs in Virginia are telling women flat-out LIES about abortion, about birth control, about sex, about everything.
CPCs in Virginia are STATE-FUNDED (thanks to everyone’s favorite gubernatorial candidate, Ken Cuccinelli).
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of comprehensive, medically-accurate sex education, is NOT.
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS.
(If you would like to listen to the audio from NARAL’s year-long investigation in full, you can do so here: http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/elections/elections-press-releases/2013/undercover-audio-from.html)
(via iwilleatyourenglish)

Pendleton Ward (the creator of “Adventure Time”) and Polly Lou Livingston (the voice of Tree Trunks).
She’s so amazing.
(via saety)
Well… fuck.
oh shit son
Can we get a sequel where Penny is a higher up villain and he meets her again and it’s a giant bag of angst and plot twists???
THEY ACTUALLY ARE MAKING A SEQUEL and now im even more excited
its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager
it doesn’t though
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(via witchydarling)
It’s more likely than you think:
There are tons of Doctor Who references in Homestuck. Hell, the first track on “Alterniabound” has Tennant’s “wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey” speech from Blink.
OK so there’s at least one? I don’t see how the…
ok the person who i reblogged that from seems to thiink the soundtrack was influenced, not me. homestuck references all kinds of dumb things ok
but the karat-john cross-timeline thing is p exactly similar to a thing in doctor who
plus dirk’s head-severing box
plus the LORD OF TIME wearing suspenders and a bow tie
and a couple other things i can’t exactly recall
it doesn’t matter ok geez molly LET ME HAVE FUN AND BE CORRECT
ahhhhh the suspenders + bowtie is p valid i’ll give you that one
you can have as much fun as you want
(via blessphemy)
Dante Basco is the best!!!
Totally mentionedd Homestuck on the news too.
i know… i totally sneak in homestuck when i can… it’s like our little tumblr secret… either you’re cool and know about or not.
thanks for posting, i didn’t get to see this…



































































