severus-snape-is-a-butt-trumpet:

is there a word for “i was instantly good at a lot of things as a quote-unquote gifted child, and, as a result, i was able to skate by without ever being taught how to actually learn a new skill, and now that i’m an adult trying to learn new things that i can’t be good at instantaneously, i don’t have the patience or knowledge to improve on them, because skills that don’t come naturally to me just make me angry because i lived off instant gratification my whole childhood due to not ever being challenged intellectually or taught basic learning skills?” asking for a friend

heroofthreefaces:

hiddenlacuna:

sci-fantasy:

I occasionally think that I should just collect a masterpost of overtly political things that have happened in the Star Trek franchise and be prepared to throw it at the next person who tries to argue that Discovery or whatever shouldn’t be political.

And then I realize that I’d probably be on the hook for massive copyright infringement because (say it with me)

Star Trek

was

explicitly

and overtly

political

from the very beginning

and has never stopped.

It wasn’t always good–it was frequently hamhanded, corny, schmaltzy, and a whole grocery store of other food-related (and not food-related) adjectives–but it is far easier to remove quality from Star Trek than politics.

Everything I Learned About About Lawful Good Activism I Learned From Captain Jean-Luc Picard

“star trek wasn’t progressive before discovery!”

sure chad
whatever you say chad
how was your weekend in charlottesville chad

I need to compare these face shots

winchester-reload:

samhyland:

awed-frog:

deansmanlyfeels:

winchester-reload:

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This is what I see:

The top gif is full of duty. Dean’s face is set strong, he’s not going to fall apart because he knows Sam couldn’t handle it. He’s being the parent, putting on a show. His arm stretches across Sam’s shoulders protectively and he kind of vice grips him.

But, in the second gif, Dean’s face is soft and full of regret.

He’s easier with Cas. More open and vulnerable in this shot.

There are things unsaid there, a million thoughts and nothing he can do about it, because he’s all out of time. He doesn’t vice grip Cas. His hand is dead center on his back, pushing their chests together. It’s a warm, intimate hand placement, and he just kind of holds him.

Really, his face has love in both gifs, but I think it’s two different examples of love. Familial versus romantic.

This idea is followed through later when Dean asks Cas to look out for Sam when he’s gone. Dean views himself as Sam’s parent, and asking Cas to fill in for him in his absence is like asking a significant other to step up. It’s very, very much a “look out for our son” kind of moment (without Sam actually being their son).

Of course, this is just my musings on it. If anyone has anything they’d like to add, I’m all ears!

All of this. The ‘look out for Sammy’ bit was like a married couple discussing their kid’s future after the other one is gone…

(And, since we haven’t cried enough about this – when hugging Sam, Dean is mostly sad for Sam – because he knows Sam will be alone now, and Dean hates to see his baby brother upset and in pain – but when hugging Cas, he’s also sad for himself – for all those feelings we know he wants to experience differently, maybe even for the first time and that will now come to nothing – Dean is sad for Cas, but is also sad for himself, because he’ll never know what sharing a life with Cas would have been like.)

You know he’s probably thinking “there are so many things I’d like to say, to do, but I can’t because we’re finally, for the last time, out of time.”

The angst of this post continues to haunt me to this day. Look at how it’s become relevant again.

Dean with his feelings starting to bubble out when he’s all out of time. Feelings that are easy to ignore and push down when you’re the one going off to sacrifice, and not the one who has to live with the void and ache of continuing on.

Only this time, Dean isn’t that person. This time, Cas is the one lost, and Dean’s gotta face the cold truth.

And look how well he’s starting. 

This is the face of someone who is wholly unprepared to deal with the mountain of shit he’s been cramming down for nearly a decade. ESPECIALLY after he’d finally just started becoming more emotionally open and honest with himself (and the people around him) by taking a step back from his toxic tendencies and refocusing.

And ESPECIALLY when he’d been so visibly prepping and beginning to deal with those unsaid feelings in a more constructive way.

So what we’ve got now is a Dean with no walls, and the rug getting ripped out. I think it goes without saying that Season 13 is gonna hurt…

thebibliosphere:

cell113:

bri-ecrit:

moonbian:

moonbian:

hey if u can’t drive/are a slow learner due to a disability or mental illness, just picture historical figures like pirates or the founding fathers trying to operate a car.

it’s only “easy” bc we’ve normalized it.

it would be great for neurotypicals to reblog this

I didn’t get my license until I was 26 because of my mental health struggles. Just sayin’.

Took me until 24 to beat back my anxiety enough to be able to drive, and I still sometimes have almost panic attacks on the road.

30 and still haven’t learned because of anxiety. You’re doing just fine.

31 and I thankfully have the luxury of choosing not to drive, mostly because driving gives me anxiety and always has, though I do have a license and I can do it, and we have decent public transit in my city.

It also doesn’t help that I have moderately terrible peripheral vision, due to genetics and being born prematurely.

Personally, I’ll be over the moon when self-driving cars become available to the general public.

latinxstan:

maeamian:

paladin-protector:

dynastylnoire:

maeamian:

maeamian:

maeamian:

BTW, the high five was invented in 1977 which means your parents probably didn’t grow up with it.

For real though Glenn Burke, inventor of the high five was a gay black player in the 70s, and the Dodgers tried to get him to marry a beard and their manager got mad when he befriended the manager’s gay son before being traded to the Athletics, probably for being gay. In Oakland, the rumors of homosexuality followed him and manager Billy Martin started using homophobic slurs in the clubhouse and homophobic behavior from other players lead to an early retirement for the promising young star at 27.  After retiring from baseball he introduced the high five to the Castro district of San Franscio where the high five became a symbol of gay pride and identification. ESPN wrote a long form piece about it which I recommend reading, it’s got some homophobic slurs in it although not presented positively.

A few appendices:

Although he was unceremoniously drummed out of Major League Baseball, Burke became the star shortstop for the local Gay Softball League, and even dominated in the Gay Softball World Series, as well as medaling in the 100 and 200 meter sprints in the inaugural 1982 Gay Games. Unfortunately, Burke also picked up a cocaine habit and had his leg and foot crushed in an accident. He spent much of his final years homeless in the Castro, and died from AIDS complications in 1995, but he was in the first class of inductees to the Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, and his High School retired his jersey number.

The Dodgers Manager in question was Tony Lasorda, whose son “Spunky” died of AIDS complications in 1992 although Lasorda maintains that it was cancer. Likewise, despite the High Five becoming a symbol of the 1980 Dodgers team, Lasorda maintained and continues to this day to maintain to not know its origin. It’s possible that this isn’t a deliberate slight to Burke, but given his homophobia in other matters that’s a hard benefit of the doubt to give.

The Athletics have, in the years since, attempted to make up for some of the wrongs they committed in this story. When Glenn revealed publicly that he was living with AIDS, the As moved in and helped him financially. Burke was honored publicly at Pride Night at the park in 2015 and his brother was invited to throw the first pitch.

Burke was happy to see the high five catch on, spilling out of sports and into the small joys of every day life. He died believing that the high five was his legacy. Next time you high five your friend, remember that the high five came from Glenn Burke.

Npr has a dope story on it

What? Cool! Maybe I can find some of his baseball cards?

You can! Not super expensively even!

I’m so glad high fives are gay culture

americanninjax:

cecaeliawitch:

krismichelle429:

officialclinicescort:

thelonelyconservativememe:

All of you out there supporting planned parenthood should really remember what the woman who founded them said…. just saying. Do not stand with PP

Oh wow, you guys are still trying desperately trying to paint Sanger as a racist huh? Okay, if you’re gonna flat out lie like this you can at least try not to be lazy about it.

You’ve given no context to this quote and conveniently left of the first half of it. The sentence in it’s entirety is “
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

I know you manipulated it that way because you wanted to make Sanger seem as evil as possible, and also because literally the only thing pro lifers know how to do is lie, but admittedly the full sentence by itself looks damning enough. I think you know this, which is why you provided no context. If you had, your entire argument would have fallen apart. Here are Sangers words with context;

“It seems to me from my experience where I have been in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored
Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to
their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which
means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this
with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic
he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I
believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His
work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the
nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors.
His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.

The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained,
perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to
reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the
Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that
idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

The article I linked goes into better detail about Sanger, the so called “Negro project”, and the lies spread about her by the pro life movement. I encourage you to read it the next time you feel like spreading lazy, manipulative propaganda bullshit like this.

TL;DR: The full quote states that Planned Parenthood wanted to hire Black doctors in order to make their Black patients feel safer and respected. It also states that Planned Parenthood wanted to work with Black ministers, and encourage the ministers to tell others that Planned Parenthood was a safe clinic for Black patients.

In other words, she didn’t want this exact lie to start circulating

Reblogging not just to spread this out there but so that I have it on hand the next time someone tries to feed me this crap, I can provide them the facts.