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opalescentlesbian:

As an Unrepentant Traitor to my fellow Loki fans, I do not in fact want there to be a shirtless scene at any point. Because I know that if there is, my entire dash will be shirtless Loki for no less time than 3-6 celestial years, and my asexual lesbian ass will never recover.

#I have trouble with placing mcu Loki in any sexual context anyway#due to his trauma as trust issues#so I generally stay away#Oh the tags I would have to block

//Okay but honestly? Though I am not ace spectrum, I agree with and appreciate this. I only write Loki as naked with his most trusted lovers and spouses of various verses; the implied vantage point, therefore, is only those trusted individuals.  Not a whole audience in a dark anonymous theater. I do not want to afford the fandom the chance to sexually objectify this person who is likely covered in scars and cannot place himself in any form of physical, sexual, mental, or emotional intimacy without deciding if it’s safe enough to do so.  

I write Loki as someone who is confident about his sexual prowess, and enjoys sexual activities. He’s pansexual in my verses.  This doesn’t mean I want him to turn into eye candy for strangers who ogle him like some painting on the wall of the Met.  So many visual culture essays have been writtn about the VIOLENCE of the Gaze, and I don’t want to subject someon who has been robbed of agency his entire life to this particular kind of fetishizing scopophilia.  

Maybe I’m too protective of him. I don’t care. 

opalescentnanomachines:

meganphntmgrl:

I saw Chris Evans in a Starbucks once, and I can tell you that his whole body visibly froze up and went on guard when he realized I recognized him. I kind of panicked in response (guess who also has severe anxiety, sigh) and made a bunch of frantic “no it’s cool it’s cool I won’t make a scene just go get your coffee it’s fine!” gestures, and went into a pretty bad spiral of “oh no, I really upset him” afterward.

In any case, though, his discomfort with just one person recognizing him at a Starbucks in New York City was that freaking palpable, so everybody going to SLCC better realize he’s making a freaking sacrifice of emotional safety and likely of spoons to come there at all, so do everyone a favor and please try to not be godawful. Please .

themountainxwillmove:

Don’t ever begin a rebuttal to an argument by telling your opponent to “calm down.” You are implicitly attempting to remove their agency by invalidating their argument as “merely emotional.”  Not only is it a fallacy perpetuated by those in positions of institutionalized advantage that having emotional investment in an argument somehow makes it inaccurate, it is also, by the rules of rhetoric, really dirty pool.

Don’t. Do it. 

wakor:

racismschool:

No, people aren’t “More sensitive” now. People aren’t too “Politically Correct” now. Nor are people “Just looking for a reason to be offended” now.

We, as a people, know better now. Therefore we, as a people, are trying to do better now.

Also, minorities have a much stronger platform (Social media) and y’all are mad because you now HAVE to listen to them.

guiltyhipster:

Friendly reminder that you’re allowed to like a thing without knowing every single fact about the thing

You’re allowed to like a movie without having to know every crew member’s name

You’re allowed to like a book without having to memorize every page

You’re allowed to like a video game without having to know all the Easter eggs and cheat codes

You’re allowed to like things and not be an expert on things

Liking things isn’t supposed to be stressful

afro-caribbeansistah:

bapgeek2geekbap:

kyssthis16:

archatlas:

The Colbert Report 11.19.14

You see how she explained how race is a social construct (it is) while ALSO SAYING THAT RACISM EXISTS AND IS FUCKED UP? You see how she did that? Don’t mistake this for colorblindness because it clearly isn’t.

I’ve seen so many folks of all races (mostly White people) on FB saying this is an validation of colorblindness and I’m just like DID YOU JUST STOP LISTENING AFTER THE FIRST SENTENCE OR WHAT?! 

Yes, yes they did stop listening.

We should see color. We should see religion. We should see homosexuality. We should see gender identity. We should see all the things that make people and the world different and not pretend that we are colorblind or that one story is enough to represent a whole group of people.

But we should also remember that most people have the same kinds of feelings and wants. Everyone wants to be the hero sometimes.

Author Sara Farizan, “Everyone Wants To Be the Hero Sometimes” (CBC Diversity)

micdotcom:

Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.

Let us not forget their voices