All the Little Pieces
In which Bri talks about a great deal of things.
~Topics: Art, feminism, body-positivity, traveling, LGBTQ, humor, etc.
~Fandoms: HP, Sherlock, A:tLA, A:LoK Avengers, Disney, GOT, Dr. Who, TSG
~Why "Even Picasso": http://evenpicasso.tumblr.com/post/11378956492/even-picasso
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Photoset reblogged from gummy Jade Harley
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Photoset reblogged from land of flora and subways
remember kids, spadeshipping is never cute in the least
reblogging for reference this weekendit’s going to be EVEN BETTER
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Look out for cosplay pictures soon. I’m going with Ryn, and we’re doing our TSG Gamzee/Terezi getups again…only better this time. Tights! I need tights.
Anyway, if you’re not interested, I’ll be tagging cosplay photos #Animazement and probably some other distinctive thing if you want to block the pics (but we’re going to be adorable so really it’d be your loss).
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Photoset reblogged from Tastefully Offensive on Tumblr
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Photo reblogged from If You'll Be My Star
Sex Worker: Still not asking for it by dyke-recovery
I’m a feminist and a sex worker and i am so very, very sick of the “is it rape or theft if you fuck a hooker?” or the i use to get “You work in a strip club you shouldn’t get pissed off when someone tries to touch you, you’re the one working there”. Sorry but this is a service, not the selling of ones’ body or body parts. We own us, we decide how much we do, NOT the client or patron. We have the same rights as every other woman; to feel safe not only in our personal lives but in our work lives. It is not okay to do more than what is agreed to when paying for a service from a sex worker. If you are told no, you are told NO.
If a banker gets robbed did he deserve it because he is a banker? No.
If a soldier is shot during war, did he deserve to be shot purely for being a soldier? No.
Does a psychologist deserve to be verbally attacked because they’re paid to listen to other people’s thoughts? No.
So does a sex worker deserve to have their services abused purely because they are working in the sex industry? No.
Um I’m pretty sure a “sex worker” is just a fancy term for prostitution so I think that deems your argument invalid
Um actually a sex worker is a prostitute, a stripper, a cam worker, a porn star a porn model, a sugar baby so no my fucking argument is not invalid and if a prostitute says “hey man i don’t do x service” THAT DOES NOT GIVE THE CLIENT THE RIGHT TO DO X SERVICE JUST BECAUSE CLIENT HAS PAID FOR A SERVICE AND IF A SEX WORKER OF ANY KIND INCLUDING A PROSTITUTE SAYS NO THE ANSWER IS NO. “NO” DOES NOT BECOME INVALID JUST BECAUSE THE PERSON SAYING NO IS A PROSTITUTE.
What do you expect as a prostitute? In our society prostitutes aren’t respected and while that sucks and it shouldn’t be like that, it is. I think everyone kind of knows that.
So just because society doesn’t respect prostitutes, they saying ‘no’ doesn’t matter? So you think it’s okay for a prostitute to get raped EVEN THOUGH she said ‘no’ just because she gets paid for it and because her job isn’t ‘respected by society’? Because that’s what you’re saying.
No I’m saying that why should someone respect your ‘no’ if you can’t respect society’s ‘no’ to prostitution being wrong. It takes respect to get respect.
This is why I can’t stand feminist.
Whoooooaa dude I am about to get really pissed, and it’s not because I’m a feminist, it’s because I’m a human being who happens to be a woman, and your attitude is a subtle but equally terrifying reminder of how much danger I’m in just for being in my body. I’m not even remotely involved in sex work, but there is no room for this uncertainty.Plenty of things are ambiguous. Politics, war, and laws. But there is at very least one moral *absolute* that holds true in literally EVERY case, and that is that RAPE IS WRONG. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME. It’s in the very definition! My body, my rules. Period. Everyone is born with the natural human right to autonomy over one’s body. I am, you are, kids are, adults are, and yes, even prostitutes are. That is a universal law, and the haziness you seem to be experiencing on the universality of the rule that “no means no” is a threat to women everywhere.And what’s more, I hope and expect that you would never say to a racial minority “Well if you can’t respect society’s ‘no’ to racial integration (which was also law and somewhat agreed upon at one time!!) then you can’t expect someone to respect your ‘no’ to violently attacking you in a whites-only restaurant.” Segregation was wrong but legal. Society is wrong sometimes. *I* think they’re wrong about saying that a person doesn’t have a right to market sex like any other skill set, especially while simultaneously saying that sex is so much a part of a woman’s role in and value to society that this is even a debate we can be having, as though rape were ambiguous. But in any case an individual is never wrong in saying no to sex, because the right to determine what is right and wrong for themselves is ALSO theirs, and their individual safety and boundaries morally trump all laws, all political ambiguity, and all circumstantial nuance.Also, dude. If you worked at mcdonald’s and I came in and told you to fry me up some onion rings, and you said no (first of all you don’t need a reason; you can quit your job whenever you want. No one gets to force you to work. But also, mcdonalds doesn’t make onion rings. Onion-ring-making is ****not a service open to negotiation under our contract of food-for-money exchange cough cough see the parallels cough cough****)— but if you said no, I have NO RIGHT ANY WAY YOU SWING IT to jump over the counter, put an onion in your hand and force you to put the damn thing in the fryer. EVEN IF I FUCKING GIVE YOU MONEY TO MAKE ME SOME DELICIOUS ONION RINGS. Doesn’t justify it. Doesn’t justify my forceful behavior, my putting you in physical danger with the hot oil, or my fundamental violation of your dignity as a human being, with your right to decide what you will or will not do with your body. Same goes for prostitution and any other form of sex work. So sit the fuck down. -
It’s one of the most misogynist things out there.
dictating how a woman chooses to express herself sexually is misogynistic
it’s also misogynistic to assume that all women undertake a sub position
it’s also heterosexist to assume that all bdsm is heterosexual
please place a sterile bandage on that BURN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States
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Photoset reblogged from gummy Jade Harley
Johnny Depp giving CPR to his jack Sparrow wig.
His stunt double is having the best day
(Source: piratesofthecaribbean)
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Quote reblogged from SoyLoQueSoyYou get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.Azar Nafisi (via je-suis-une-reveuse)
(Source: paradoxicalsentiments)
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Post reblogged from I panicked, but then I handled it.
how many times is it appropriate to say ‘what’ before you nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said
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Photo reblogged from The Best of Humor & Entertainment
kiss cam breakup
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The interesting thing about a lot of older “women’s history” is that I think a lot of it seems to be mislabeled as such. You see a lot of stories about “women” supposedly crossdressing, and it’s sort of set as this great example of women fighting the patriarchy—and sometimes that’s the intention—but a lot of times it’s actually transgender men who were misgendered as women at the time because of, you know, cissexism and all. And then they went down in history books as “troublemaking women.” Which is sad, because it both obscures the sheer amount of transgender people in history, a group that doesn’t get enough attention in history as it is, and it also fills women’s history books with this notion that the best way to make a difference in women’s history is to be a man. Which sort of defeats the purpose when you think about it.
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Photo reblogged from it's a british thing
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Photoset reblogged from Historical Matters
Decker, Samuel H., Pvt. Co. I, 9th U.S. Artillery(Bottom left in second picture)
Samuel Decker was a Civil War veteran who built his own prosthetics after losing his arms in combat.
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