Author: marcythewerewolf

homestasis:

Dec 22 – Aleppo is officially evacuated, its people displaced, and the mass demographic change has already begun

although the people of Aleppo were more or less evacuated willingly, this was essentially a forced displacement – they were always the intended victims of the violent attacks/massacre, and this was purposely the outcome all along

please please keep them in your thoughts, talk about it still, this doesn’t mark an end to the regime’s oppression & ultimate genocide

one of the lessons i learned from captain america:

adeterminedloser:

jumpingjacktrash:

sometimes you fight, not because you think you can win, but because you need to be able to look back later and say, “i fought.”

“In King Lear (III:vii) there is a man who is such a minor
character that Shakespeare has not given him even a name: he is merely
“First Servant.” All the characters around him – Regan, Cornwall, and
Edmund – have fine long-term plans. They think they know how the story
is going to end, and they are quite wrong. The servant has no such
delusions. He has no notion of how the play is going to go. But he
understands the present scene. He sees an abomination (the blinding of
old Gloucester) taking place. He will not stand it.

His sword is out and pointed at his master’s breast in a
moment: then Regan stabs him dead from behind. That is his whole part:
eight lines all told. But if it were real life and not a play, that is
the part it would be best to have acted.”

– C.S. Lewis, “The World’s Last Night”

quietpinetrees:

“On the 12th day of Christmas the pine trees gave to me,
12 ancient dances lost because our coddled souls can’t follow their native rhythms

11 silver deserts, reflecting and magnifying the minds of wanderers so the stars can see the unfamiliar emotions that come from being lost

10 blue-green stones that appear over and over again, following me and disrupting my life because it’s been too long since I visited the sea

9 black-market meals, free of the custom pharmaceuticals and radioactive tracers that alert the establishment whenever we’ve been reading

8 night sky horses, wormhole hearts pumping plasma from an alien sun, dark matter hooves breaking flecks of gravity from the cobblestones

7 colors of an infrared spectrum, the palette of moonless nights and endless caves, invitation to an inner world that cowards leave behind

6 loyal lakes, awaiting orders to swallow my old life like Usher ruins, wash me of civilization’s electric dust, and build my castle of fog

5 GOLD RINGS

4 minutes, sealed in acrylic, to be released in defiance of time itself when a perfect moment, one worth fighting to keep, threatens to end

3 new names, the true names by which I am called in dreams, so my heart can defend itself from the lonely horrors of that unwaking world

2 comet hearts, the spark of cosmic wildness still burning within, ready to escort myself and a guest in a hasty escape from the planet

And a chance to join their fabled ranks, to glimpse the mirror in Plato’s cave, and deny the truth no more loudly than the quiet pine trees”
-QuietPineTrees

rejectedprincesses:

Mary-Claire King: Geneticist, Human Rights Advocate, Single Mom

Geneticist Mary Claire-King has had an astounding career: she discovered the breast cancer gene; she definitively linked humans and chimpanzees; she’s used gene testing to identify the descendants of kidnapped children – and she’s done it all as a single mother.

This short 2015 New York Times article lays out her career with a great Q&A.

(thanks to Devon for sending this in!)

phoenix-ace:

himteckerjam:

trans-sailor-saturn:

yuleagin-nova:

thingstolovefor:

“Race is real, Race matters. Race is the foundation of identity.” 

An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds the Swastikas

You need all this to know! Nazis are real & not the tooth fairy or Santa Claus. You need to see Nazis raising their Nazis kids to know they’re here? 

This is White Privilege on full display.. #Blacklivesmatter gets demonized and blamed for everything people are even trying to frame BLM and actually get compared with the KKK (not even close) but now you have these white supremacist Nazi sympathizers who changed their name to ‘alt-right’ to try to soften their image and now they’re trying to make it seem like they’re not really about white supremacy. 

“The political establishment has made an entire generation of young white men and women into fascists, and that’s a beautiful thing!” ~ Matthew Heimbach, Traditionalist Worker Party leader

This is the craziness that we live in as long as black people have on this continent. And the media is culpable is implicit in helping shape these narratives… #Hate it!

This is the leader of the guys who stabbed our AntiFA in Sacramento.

Kill Trads, Nazis, and Fash of all kinds.

This is Communismkills’ ex boyfriend btw.

So yeah. This is happening.

Like, are we all aware this is happening?

Really happening?

Meanwhile BLM gets absolutely demonized just for saying “Please stop killing us.  Black lives matter too”.  You will never see them humanize any marginalized people as much as they will humanize the scum of the earth. 

I can’t believe we’re down to humanizing white supremacists.  But lord forbid you call these people what they really are, because liberals have already decided their views aren’t “that bad” as long as they’re “normal”. 

its okay if they’re members of actual terrorist organizations and hate groups, as long as they dress nice and have nuclear families!