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firefly464

couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name

when I was a little kid at some point I got upset with my parents because I didn't have a crucifix in my bedroom and they did- I was like why do YOU get to be safe from vampires??? you're okay with me getting my blood sucked???? so we took a little trip to the catholic store but the one closest to us was run by a group of nuns that had been moved here from romania. I got a little baby pink cross and this sweet old nun was like 'aww, is this a baptism gift?' and I was like no. I need to be protected from vampires. and she immediately got SO serious and was like 'this is the best one we've got, you'll definitely be safe' and since she was literally from vampire land I was convinced she was like, van helsing. like the whole time my parents had been laughing about how cute my fear was but she literally Knew dracula and was taking my concerns seriously I held this over my parents for so long lmfao

wlwaluigi

listen she may have just been humoring you but even my limited experience with Romanian nuns has taught me that there is one thing they are absolutely dead serious about and it is their multi-generational fear of vampires

A two-part meme with the jovial face of Gus from Breaking Bad, and next to him the caption "What a pretty pink crucifix! Is this for a baptism?" and a second image with the same person having dropped all affect of humor or lightheartedness when the reply reads "No, I need to keep safe from Dracula." Eyes sunken, brow set, and gaze focused on the distance to the memory of Wallachia's demon plague - all joy having left his visage and replaced with cold stone seriousness.

firefly464

theswisscheeserag

“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement

“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point

quarktrinity

lizardsister

can Not stop randomly saying "den i throw da bones at james" to myself

quarktrinity

thesituation

yaoi break

sjweminem

house MD

glorbulus

[ID: a digital fanart of king candy from the disney movie wreck-it-ralph on a square grey canvas. 4 drawings of him in total spanning in different parts across the piece. the first is of him in his cybug form, drawn in the top left corner as if crawling downwards, with bright neon greens, purples, and pinks highlighting the half of his body. the other three are of king candy himself. a fullbody drawing in the top right corner of him leaning forward inquisitively with his arms behind his back. a goofy smile on his face as he leans to the left of the canvas. a small pink tongue peeking out of his mouth as a cartoon question mark pops up beside him. the next is another fullbody drawing towards the center of the canvas. king candy turned instead towards the viewer as he holds his hands up to his face theatrically. as if presenting himself. his frame tilting to the right of the canvas as he looks to the top right corner with a giddy smirk on his face. the third and last drawing of king candy is a drawing of him in his racing helmet. a simple head drawing as he's pointed to the left of the canvas and holding his racing goggles up to his forehead with a hand. two cartoon question marks beside his head as he looks to the lower right corner of the canvas, his mouth partly open as if shocked or dumbfounded at something. with a single doodle of my sona, a small green alien named burger, in the bottom right corner spraying a poorly drawn canister of bug spray into the air before it. end ID]

This Freak ate my son

harley-the-pancake

marspumpkin

btw the katy perry/bezos' girlfriend/other four irrelevant billionaires 10 minute space stunt was not the first all female expedition no matter how much they try to market it as such. the first all female mission was in 1963 with soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova, Irina Solovyova and Valentina Ponomaryova - all three of which were working class and had to pass incredibly hard exams to be chosen from 400 potential candidates. just in case we started falling for the propaganda machine again

optimistic-violinist

This, but also Amanda Nguyen was one of the women on the recent flight and not only is she a scientist who performed (albeit a small) experiments while on the flight, she interned at NASA and went to school at Harvard, researching exoplanets while she was there. She was on track to become an astronaut, but that plan was derailed when she was sexually assaulted. She spent years following that becoming an advocate for other sexual assault victims and drafting the Sexual Assault Survivors' Right Act which unanimously passed Congress in 2016.

Imagine all that, and then you get offered the chance to go to space. Even if it was only for 10 minutes. She took a letter she wrote to herself when she decided to become an astronaut and her hospital bracelet from after she was raped as her gravity indicators on that flight.

100% we should be calling out bullcrap, propaganda, privilege, etc. but multiple truths can exist at once, and sometimes there can be something cool and good in something bad and ridiculous.