Inside the mind of a movie addict

afro-elf: “No writer who regards blacks as people, human beings, with the usual variety of human...

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:40:07 +0200

“No writer who regards blacks as people, human beings, with the usual variety of human concerns, flaws, skills, hopes, etc., would have trouble creating interesting backgrounds and goals for black characters.”

— Octavia Butler (via eshusplayground)

jetaimeray: How to intermission a photoshoot. Vibing to Janelle...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:56:46 +0200

jetaimeray:

How to intermission a photoshoot. Vibing to Janelle Monae

sbrown82: Jasmine Guy in Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992)

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:47:24 +0200

sbrown82:

Jasmine Guy in Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992)

weavemama: ddestr0yedd: weavemama: anyway black women are...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:55:47 +0200

weavemama:

ddestr0yedd:

weavemama:

anyway black women are having miscarriages in Flint and there has yet to be an outrage from the “pro-life” community

can we call this a genocide yet?

keep in mind this is a MAN-MADE health crisis. they changed the water of a lower-income black community for a reason. 12 people have died so far because of the water and now the women are suffering from miscarriages. this story needs as much attention as possible. a black community is still being poisoned and pro-lifers don’t seem to give a shit

yarrahs-life: bitteroreo: 2damnfeisty: bitteroreo: 2damnfeist...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:51:27 +0200

yarrahs-life:

bitteroreo:

2damnfeisty:

bitteroreo:

2damnfeisty:

bitteroreo:

2damnfeisty:

bitteroreo:

hathawayfans:

Anne Hathaway with The Princess Diaries producer Whitney Houston

WHAT?!

Please tell me you knew she was a producer in this movie.

………………..

Girl yes, this and the Cheetah Girls.

Didn’t know either of that.

Whitney cared about uplifting young women and mentoring them. Her doing these movies was just an example of how much she cared.

It bothers me how this isn’t promoted, like everything else the world knows about whitney.

^^^^ there you go… Smh.

xanadus-kira: I love that Laura is ready for a live action...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 03:14:18 +0200

xanadus-kira:

I love that Laura is ready for a live action Corpse Bride with Adam.

gahdamnpunk: I’m ALL EARS

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:36:09 +0200

gahdamnpunk:

I’m ALL EARS

welcometonegrotown: This is true.

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:35:31 +0200

welcometonegrotown:

This is true.

moonflower91: cisnowflake: hugboxchainsaw: the-darkest-of-souls: trilllizard666: senatorfinn: wi...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:34:30 +0200

moonflower91:

cisnowflake:

hugboxchainsaw:

the-darkest-of-souls:

trilllizard666:

senatorfinn:

willesqueleto:

artofagoddess:

baelor:

obigays:

Rian Johnson: heres my idea, the best fight scene in star wars. Because it has

Guards twirling to nowhere.

#this scene looks way sloppier now than i remember it being #why is kylo stabbing the floor????

i’m actually laughing so hard at all of this

Two guards literally fought each other?

what is happening

Lmao. This is a mess.

the move of him stabbing the floor is literally a european sword style block cause that guard’s about to swipe in but jesus christ, people are really defending this along with the entire movie where a beloved monk character is depicted as wanting to murder a minor for a vague prophecy

I so want the last Jedi to just not exist

I would’ve taken a rehashing of the OG trilogy with a new skin over the last Jedi

I would take the prequels over this mess

Every time this post ends up on my dash the ‘fight’ just looks worse and worse.

This does look really really bad.

TLJ was a major disappointment

creaturesofnight: by Hayden Williams

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:32:48 +0200

creaturesofnight:

by Hayden Williams

gutsrighteye:stop rebooting shit and hire actually talented screenwriters, directors, photographers,...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:46:28 +0200

gutsrighteye:

stop rebooting shit and hire actually talented screenwriters, directors, photographers, and artists for original ideas. no one wants to see the same shit recycled over and over again. enough romanticizing the past, fuck nostalgia. pay people to make new and interesting shit, damn. what are these people afraid of? actually entertaining people?

thefingerfuckingfemalefury: gahdamnpunk: Tbh we should get rid...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:33:19 +0200

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

gahdamnpunk:

Tbh we should get rid of the electoral college

VOTE AGAINST THIS MEASURE

Do not let the worthless Republican filth try and pull this shit as a way to try and keep their CANCER of a political party in office

w0wls: colordogluckynumber: shamethepainaway: uppityfemale: ...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:02:02 +0200

w0wls:

colordogluckynumber:

shamethepainaway:

uppityfemale:

Not truthiness, just truth.

Yeah well perhaps they should have figured out what a border is first. Because their parents broke the law by Crossing ours and better than spend the time in these facilities than a prison with grown adults who made the human traffickers not even their parents

Actually, let me enlighten you.

These people in detention have not committed a crime.
- I don’t mean that in a moral or a figurative sense. I mean literally. It is NOT a crime to ask for asylum.
- These people didn’t jump a fence, they didn’t sneak into the backyard. They are knocking on the front door and saying “People are trying to kill me in my home country, will you let me in?”
- Now, I didn’t fall off the turnip truck. Some of these people are lying. That’s why you have a hearing. And because they might wander off, these people are held in detention until the hearing.
- This hearing is NOT in a criminal court. It’s in an immigration court. Because these people have not committed a crime.
- Immigration court is not like criminal court. You don’t have a right to an attorney.
- So these people are waiting around, separated from their children, with no attorney, until they get a hearing.
- In 2015, the median wait for an immigration hearing was 404 days.
- Here’s where it gets even more twisted. If people plead guilty to asylum fraud, they get their kids back and get deported.
- So these people knock on the front door, which is perfectly legal, and we take their kids, and tell them the quickest way to get the kids back is to confess to fraud.
- If someone committed a crime (ie. shoplifting, armed robbery, murder) and you took their kids away to make them confess, that confession would be thrown out.
- But these confessions are lawful, because this isn’t criminal court.
- Because these people haven’t committed a crime.
- Now some people think that if we make it so unpleasant for these people, they will stop trying to cross the border.
- But the message this sends isn’t “Go Home.” The message it sends is “Sneak in.”
- If they go home, they think they will be murdered. If they request asylum, they are separated from their children.
- If they sneak in successfully, they’re safe. If they sneak in and get caught, they are no worse off than if they sought asylum legally.
- And remember, these people haven’t committed a crime.

If we go by the whole borders thing. This is the equivalent of a neighbor coming up to your door and asking for help with something and instead you lock them in your shed claiming they were trespassing

Photo

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:54:34 +0200

theeverydayfatgirl:Summer Vibes @MissDivaKurves (Instagram)

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 23:16:54 +0200

theeverydayfatgirl:

Summer Vibes
@MissDivaKurves (Instagram)

stupidwhiskeydreams: affectin: i am not the same person at 8am and 8pm i am not a person at 8am

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:38:02 +0200

stupidwhiskeydreams:

affectin:

i am not the same person at 8am and 8pm

i am not a person at 8am

ruffaled: mishasminions: THANOS OUT HERE STEALING HEARTS, BEING...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:12:47 +0200

ruffaled:

mishasminions:

THANOS OUT HERE STEALING HEARTS, BEING A TRUE VILLAIN

Someone take away his Instagram. Please.

dreadedloreenkid: stripedwoolenjumper: liz-squids: sixth-light: theauspolchronicles: nerdtastica...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:15:52 +0200

dreadedloreenkid:

stripedwoolenjumper:

liz-squids:

sixth-light:

theauspolchronicles:

nerdtasticami:

theauspolchronicles:

Oh boy if you’re mad about the US separating children from their parents, putting people in camps, and having a zero tolerance policy towards asylum seekers that has led to deliberate extensive cruelty as a futile deterrent wait until you hear about Australia.

…what’s going on in Australia?

Buddy! Strap in because there are two parts to this:

The past 100+ years of ripping kids from their families, racism, and attempted genocide

The past 20+ years of racism, but now island torture prisons! LEVEL UP!

Australia has had a long history of separating children from their parents. The government decided that mixed raced children of Indigenous Australians were not OK so literally kidnapped them and raised them to assimilate into white society and “breed the colour out.” This started about 1905 and ended about 1970. We call them the Stolen Generations. This has had long lasting negative effects on Indigenous Australians as it was a decades long attempt to absolutely destroy their culture and commit genocide. “But that was the past?” Surprise! By “ended in 1970″ I mean “the reasons in which we en masse tear children away from their families now has a different reason” and Indigenous children are now being taken away at even higher rates than during the stolen generations. Australia saw its Indigenous population, thought “how do we destroy their culture?” and when we were done thought “gee, how do we blame them for having all these issues in their communities?”

BUT THAT’S JUST THE BEGINNING!

Fast forward to now: Trump is using kids as political leverage to stop people from coming to the US right? Buddy he’s ripping Australia off. Scott Morrison, Minister for Immigration at the time once did that.

OK so for context: when people try to come to Australia via boat seeking asylum because they’re fleeing war/persecution we do either 2 things: turn them back and let them just… die elsewhere… Or we lock them up in detention centres on Manus/Nauru Island. That’s where we keep them indefinitely in bad conditions, give them dodgy medical care, smear them in the press, and react indifferently when they die from suicide/negligence/assault… and cover up sexual assaults from guards and the incredibly high rate of self harm and depression even in children. The entire idea is to be as cruel as possible so other people hear about it and go “geez, let’s not go to Australia. They’ll literally torture us before they give us a protective visa.” And when I say indefinitely I mean indefinitely. Some refugees have spent 5 years wasting away in these prisons. Some children have spent their entire life in these prisons. And the government openly admits that they’re genuine refugees. They’ve been rigorously vetted and known to be safe people with no intention of harming us but it’s the zero tolerance principle. You tried to come here via boat? You go jail but we call it “detention.”

Well Scott Morrison decided once to tell the Senate that he could release a few kids from detention centres but only if they voted for a bill that increased his powers to send refugees back to where they would suffer persecution and basically told them if they don’t vote for it the kids will continue to suffer. He held children as ransom for his own political power. Our Human Rights Commissioner slammed it as terrible to use kids as bargaining chips. You know what the government did? Personally attack her and ask her to resign over his bias. Our Prime Minister at the time complained that Australia was “sick of being lectured” by the UN over how we keep torturing refugees.

The main line of attack against refugees: “they’re just coming here to take advantage of our welfare.” Oh no! It’ll cost the taxpayer money to subsidise a refugee to live in a safe country! So instead of having them “rip off” the taxpayer with a couple hundred a fortnight we’ll just lock them up on an island where it costs $1 million per person on average over the past 4 years and operational costs have wasted $5 billion in 4 years. Why help someone for barely enough money to survive when you can torture them and keep them imprisoned for several times more!

Scott Morrison, or Sco-Mo as we kids call them, loved the US’s Muslim Ban idea by the way. He said it was proof that the rest of the world was “catching up to Australia.” Yeah. Geez guys. What took you so long to be as bad as Australia?

Mandatory detention has had bipartisan support from the two major parties since its creation by the Keating government in 1992. We have been keeping people in prison for seeking asylum for 26 years.

Oh and the government super doesn’t them to come here. The Abbott government spent $4.1 million on a propaganda movie to be shown overseas to deter refugees.

We also don’t want to get rid of them. There was a deal under the Obama administration to take some of these refugees but this process has carried on into the Trump administration. He was livid the idea that he should uphold this deal because 1) OooOBaMaaaa!! 2) REFUGEES?? In America??? So that’s currently going nowhere. Meanwhile New Zealand, our good ally and close neighbour, has said “I’ll take some of them” and the current PM (Turnbull) has said no. His excuse? We have a deal with the US. We should see where that goes. It’s going nowhere. So he conveniently can just pretend his hands are tied and let refugees continue to be tortured and die under his care.

(And he hasn’t said it but I bet he’ll never let refugees settle in New Zealand because if they become NZ citizens they’ll have travel rights to come to Australia without the same visa restrictions as other countries AND THEN THE REFUGEES WOULD WIN).

Papa New Guinea (Manus Island isn’t Australian, we just have a deal to pay another government to let us keep a torture prison on their land… hmm I feel like there’s a US equivalent somewhere too…) decided a while back “hang on, this is unconstitutional and horrible. You need to close down the detention centre on Manus.” So we “did.” And then made a new building on the same island to keep them in and forced them to go into it despite it not being finished. This was after guards physically beat the refugees to make them go to this new prison.

I could go on but you get the idea.

So let’s top this all off with the icing on the cake: a phone call between Trump and Turnbull when Trump was getting acquainted with all the world leaders last year. Turnbull explained our zero tolerance refugee policy and the cruelty as a deterrent that is employed and Trump said “That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

“That is a good idea. We should do that too. You are worse than I am.”

Let that sink in.

And that’s where we’re up to now in modern history. See everyone likes to go to the obvious big example we have of the Nazis and their camps but the truth is… this never stopped. There are similar examples of this abhorrent behaviour happening right now and have been for decades. Governments have been putting people in camps and trying to destroy cultures, or ethnicities, or deny people safe havens from wars, and be utterly heartless and deliberately cruel since forever. This is the ongoing drive of conservatism: keep people out, keep people a certain way, and the current example in the US is just that bubbling over the horribly inescapable surface. We are deluded to think that this cruelty took a 70 year respite when WW2 ended and it’s taken this long to get this strong.

The world has always been racist. Trump just doesn’t bother to filter it. And Australia just wants to keep it on an island so no one can see it.

Also, that Australia/New Zealand immigration deal? Australia has slowly been taking away the rights of New Zealanders resident in Australia - including children born in Australia to Kiwi parents - and making it nigh-impossible for them to actually get Australian citizenship, basically all because of paranoia that brown people will move from NZ to Australia. They’re aggressively deporting Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders, even those who may have come as small children and have no memory of New Zealand, both for things like being convicted of any crime and for things like “being of bad character”. Or, rather, they don’t deport them. They put them in offshore prison camps and tell them they can’t leave until they agree to leave Australia. (It’s not that these things don’t affect Pākehā NZers, it’s that we’re not the real targets.)

During our election campaign last year, the Deputy PM of Australia openly said that if Labour were elected to government it would be bad for Australia because they would encourage refugees to try and get to Australia hoping to be taken by New Zealand. They have an island fortress mentality Trump hasn’t even started to achieve.

And the thing about Australia – there isn’t the coverage that America has. Not even in our own country. It’s hard to find out what’s happening – visas for journalists to visit Nauru are prohibitively expensive – and … no one really cares. It’s so entrenched that it’s the status quo, and when I called my MP and senators to go, WTF guys? the response was like, “…oh yeah, thanks for your feelings, cool, bye”.

I honestly tune out a lot of the coverage because, at this point, I don’t know what to do. Both major parties support these policies, so I vote for the Greens. I contacted my representatives. I walked in protest marches. I donate to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and other charities.

So I guess, if I have advice for Americans, it’s to not let this become the status quo. Because you’ll wake up one day and it will have always been like this.

Holy shit, I knew it was bad here but I didn’t know it was that bad. Why don’t we hear about the depth of these things in Australia, how can they keep us so in the dark?

@stripedwoolenjumper

Part of the reason is because the government keeps passing legislation to silence whistleblowers and journalists (they currently have a bill to make possession of any information that might “damage Australia’s reputation” illegal), and the other part is that most of the media won’t or can’t report on it.

What you can do to help the Human Rights crisis in Australia:

If you are Australian:

Keep up to date and informed. The only major media outlets that routinely reports on this issue is The Guardian Australia. They are free online but consider donating if you can to keep it free access.

The Saturday Paper is another independent online news source that reports on this.

Follow or sign up to GetUp!. GetUp! is Australia’s largest progressive grassroots activist group and has lots of campaigns and information about this issue and many others, such as climate change, economic justice, and democratic and civil rights. Donate if you can, sign their peritions, follow their campaigns.

CONTACT YOUR MPs AND SENATORS. This is really important, especially if they are supporters of the policy. Keep public pressure on then, make them feel it. Letter templates are good, but personally written letters/emails are better. Call them if you can. And respond to them with your displeasure if they send you a cookie cutter response of their party’s policy on “stopping the boats”.

SHOW UP TO PROTESTS. Another really important one. Even if you just show up and march, your physical presence counts. They’re not as scary as it might seem.

DONATE. I really cannot stress this enough, if you can afford it, donate.

WHO SHOULD I DONATE TO?

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) provides financial and legal support, as well as counseling and community services, to refugees already in Australia.

Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) are a group of state-based advocacy groups that support refugees in Australia and advocate for those trapped in Australia’s offshore detention regime (link is for the Sydney group but contains links to other states).

GetUp! is one of the best to donate to for political action. They have options to donate to the organisation as a whole, or to specific campaigns.

If you are a member of the Australian Labor Party, please do what you can to bring up this issue and pressure the party leadership to change its policy.

If you are NOT Australian

Do what you can to contact your government and representatives to bring up this issue and pressure Australia to change their policy.

SPREAD THIS POST AND OTHERS LIKE IT. Australians do not have the numbers and influence on his site that Americans and British have. Please spread this information and resources so that other Australians might see it and feel like they have some power to change it or even know about it.

If you are a New Zealander: please continue to keep the pressure on your government to call out Australia and offer to take refugees.

#CloseTheCamps #BringThemHere

localstarboy: when you link up with your cousins

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:14:34 +0200

localstarboy:

when you link up with your cousins

greelin: greelin: this was an attack on me, as a bisexual. i...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:32:33 +0200

greelin:

greelin:

this was an attack on me, as a bisexual. i was targeted

i was THREATENED.