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wilwheaton:archiemcphee:Don’t Meep. Meep and you’re dead....

wilwheaton:

archiemcphee:

Don’t Meep. Meep and you’re dead. They’re fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t meep.
Good Luck.

One of our favorite pop culture mashups (previously featured here) has been brought to life in glorious cosplay form. Behold, the Meeping Angel.

If you know who created this super awesome costume, please contact us so we can post proper credit.

[via /r/doctorwho]

omfg

neproxrezi:you can actually see him go through all five stages...

neproxrezi:

you can actually see him go through all five stages of grief 

utahime5:markv5:Когда твой друг идиот

utahime5:

markv5:

Когда твой друг идиот

jboud:i want to be given verbal encouragement by a dog who...

jboud:

i want to be given verbal encouragement by a dog who speaks in a deep otherworldly voice 

goths7:name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american...

goths7:

name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not 

ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think 

needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work 

How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler

How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler:

cricketcat9:

nevernewyear:

kmnml:

annetdonahue:

youngblackfeminist:

valeria2067:

glorious-spoon:

giandujakiss:

So the Smithsonian posted this an hour ago.  Just because.

The Smithsonian is pulling no punches.

“But the main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a joke. He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” His “countenance is a caricature.” He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan.

When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post.

Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.”

We are literally. Repeating history.

WE ARE ACTUALLY REPEATING HISTORY. The parallels are terrifying and they are very, very real. 

Read “In the Garden of Beasts” by Erik Larson. It’s a good 101-course in this complete and total clusterfuck.

Sigh.

Our entire lives we have normalized Nazi ideals and leadership, turning them into a joke and relic of the past. Now that we are seeing these parallels, so many people choose to ignore them, and see this movement just as ridiculous and comical as we have portrayed them in the media for the past 70 or so years. So many people say never forget the holocaust, but so many others have never stopped to think about what that means.

Nothing to add here.

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"Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, ambitious, kind people into zombies who can’t..."

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Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, ambitious, kind people into zombies who can’t accomplish a simple task. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. 

You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk losing your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it; you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. 

If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars. As there is those who need to take a pill or have a drink just so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life. It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families – it ruins families.  

You cannot fathom what it takes to feign normalcy, to get up every morning, to go on about your day, run simple tasks, or even do small talk; when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never experienced it does not make it nonexistent or irrelevant. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression.

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- (via bonvivantx)

thetrippytrip:framing this

thetrippytrip:

framing this

spooky-holtz:growlandpounce:scullymosshart:lady-fett:ete...

spooky-holtz:

growlandpounce:

scullymosshart:

lady-fett:

eternal-nova:

joshpeck:

this changed me as a person

I’m in tears!

I just want to know how the writers of snl knew about my very specific sexual fantasy

my soul: saved 

One of my favourites

the shot of a pizza roll dragging across bare skin fucking kills me