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got a family of 4 in my house :)X

 my husband died, just me n the kids :(X

 ”we’re not calling him dad.”

i am legitimately interested in this story

every other weekend, he has his kid, from a previous marriage, over.

we got a couple of dalmatians

goddammit cruella not this shit again

its back

I tried to not reblog this.

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V-I-C-K-Y

THE SOUND OF HER NAME MAKES THE LITTLE KIDS CRY.

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How to break out of a zip-tie- potentially life-saving information

You guys, please share it. You never know when someone is going to need this information.

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whOP: once-lier: thneedsoup: oswald-ears: The movie really confuses...

once-lier:

thneedsoup:

oswald-ears:

The movie really confuses me

like

it starts with the Lorax telling the story. So HE’S telling the story of the Once-ler telling the story.

THAT IS TWO TIMES THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW IF ANY OF IT HAPPENED?????

the…

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Who’s Jack Frost?

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Important Episodes of Star Trek - 5/? - Far Beyond the Stars - DS9 - 6x13

Douglas:  Here, write me a novella based on this picture.  I’ll print it in next month’s issue.  You do a good job,  you might even get the cover.
Benny: What about my story?
Douglas: Look.  The way I see it, you can either burn it, or stick it in a drawer for the next 50 years, or however long it takes the human race to become color-blind.
Benny: I want people to read it now!
Douglas: Fine!  You want me to print it?  Make the captain white!
Benny: That’s not what I wrote!
Douglas: It’s your call.

Of all of the episodes of Star Trek that have addressed issues of social justice, no episode of any incarnation did so more directly than “Far Beyond the Stars.”  It tackles, head-on, in specific terms, the American history of racism and representation in media, particularly sci-fi.  It addresses the lives of various black people in the 1950s, from laborers to hustlers to athletes to professionals, effectively tearing down the idea that anyone, even those who are professional successes, can fully escape the crushing weight of societal, institutional racism.  It explores the importance of placing people of color front and center in media, as leaders, as heroes, and how truly damaging the idea of whitewashing a character or excluding stories which feature a person of color as the central character can be.  And in an amazing, meta sort of way, the episode stands as a defense of Star Trek as a cultural institution that takes bold steps to move forward in media.  At the end, when Sisko says that maybe he isn’t real, that maybe his vision-sequence alter ego Benny Russell is the real one, and that he and everyone on Deep Space Nine is the actual dream, it’s a moment that almost breaks the fourth wall, because at the end, the lives of viewers fit more into Benny Russell’s world than Benjamin Sisko’s.

Summary:  I won’t get into details here.  The details aren’t important.  Long story short: Sisko gets a detailed vision from the Prophets, in which he is Benny Russell, American science fiction writer in the 1950s, who comes up with an amazing story about a space station called Deep Space Nine, with Captain Benjamin Sisko, a black man.  His coworkers at the sci-fi monthly magazine where he works love the story, but unfortunately, his boss does not.  He rejects the story, telling Benny that he won’t print it unless he makes Sisko white, claiming that readers won’t believe a black man in charge.  Benny refuses, and instead of writing something else as his boss wants, he writes sequels to the “unprintable” story.  A workplace debate after he writes the sequels breaks out, and a compromise is agreed upon: Benny can keep his black captain, as long as the story is revealed to be just a “dream,” not a reality, and the plot twist at the end is that it’s all a fantasy of someone longing for a more hopeful future.  Benny’s boss agrees, but sadly, his boss’s boss does not, and the story is rejected outright, which triggers a breakdown for Benny, who has been struggling recently because of being beaten senseless by the police, and is taken away on a stretcher.  As soon as he gets into the ambulance, the vision ends, and Sisko is left to ponder the meaning of it all.

Throughout the narrative are vivid depictions of the lives of Benny and others in his community, and the constant, persistent racism that hampers their existence.  All of the characters in Benny’s vision are characters from DS9, out of make-up and given similar alter egos.  

From Memory-Alpha:

• Of the period in which this episode is set, director Avery Brooks comments “The people we saw in that office each had a very specific identity. I wanted to see who those people were, in order to investigate one of the most oppressive times of the twentieth century. They were living with McCarthyism and the atomic bomb and the Red Scare. I mean, that was a very interesting period.” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
• In terms of why Brooks was chosen to direct this episode, Steve Oster explains, “Ira Steven Behr and I discussed the possibility of Avery directing, knowing that he was going to be in every frame of film. We don’t like that combination, because it’s very hard to direct yourself. However, this was a story about racism and prejudice and we felt very strongly that it would be wrong if it came from a bunch of people who didn’t necessarily know about that experience. We knew that it was imperative to the story and imperative to the integrity of television for it to be done right.” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
• Of the inherent theme of racism in the episode, Brooks comments, “If we had changed the people’s clothes, this story could be about right now. What’s insidious about racism is that it is unconscious. Even among these very bright and enlightened characters – a group that includes a woman writer who has to use a man’s name to get her work published, and who is married to a brown man with a British accent in 1953 – it’s perfectly reasonable to coexist with someone like Pabst. It’s in the culture, it’s the way people think. So that was the approach we took. I never talked about racism. I just showed how these intelligent people think, and it all came out of them.” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
• Armin Shimerman makes a similar comment about the dual existence of racism in the period of the episode and in society of today; “Star Trek at its best, deals with social issues, and though you could say, ‘Well, that was prejudice in the fifties,’ the truth of the matter is, here we are in the twenty-first century, and it’s still there, and that’s what we have to be reminded by, and that’s what that episode does terrifically well.” (Mission Inquiry: Far Beyond the Stars, DS9 Season 6 DVD special features)
• This episode is Avery Brooks’ personal favorite, and was his episode of choice for the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Captain’s Log collection. Brooks has also stated, “I’d have to say, it was the most important moment for me in the entire seven years.” (Mission Inquiry: Far Beyond the Stars, DS9 Season 6 DVD special features)
• Ronald D. Moore said, “In my humble opinion, I think it’s one of the best episodes in the entire franchise. (And I wish I was the one who wrote it!) Ira & Hans have written a true classic and when this show is long gone, I hope that people will still remember this one.”

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The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

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For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!” 

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning.  How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement

YES. This is why I’m so big on consent for kids and not doing things against their consent!

this is everything.

chilling.

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