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chromaticdebutante:

maevele:

maevele:

ktempest:

maevele:

ktempest:

chromaticdebutante:

ktempest:

maevele:

to submit the thingie if you want to throw a party on 6 at wiscon. There has been shit talking about a jem/pony/vodka-gummybear/AWESOME party. Do we actually want to make that, like, happen? or should it be more of a clandestine room party thing?

ooooh Tempest, I…

I’ll be there this year (bought my membership!). Let me know how I can help.

All right then! Here’s what we need:

Episodes of cartoons, preferably 80s/90s, that are all about girl power. I have Jem DVDs and a Netflix account, so I can do She-Ra. I have some (new) MLP episodes, anyone have them all? Also suggestions for other cartoons?

Need to find out if the TVs in the party rooms have HDMI or RCA input and if that is accessible for guests. If not, we may need to request A/V.

Volunteers to bring candy. Really terrible candy from our childhood like the sticks and flavored sugar!

Someone who will have a car who can take us to a local place to buy soda and other necessities.

Someone in Madison who can buy gummy bears and a couple of different liquors. Soaking the gummys takes a week (if done properly) so it’s best if someone there does it. (I can pay for or split the cost for the supplies, mostly just need a local person for the labor.)

Need to be reminded what other delicious treats we said we’d try. I remember the gummy bears, but wasn’t there something else?

I have all the eps of ponies on my dvr, I just need to figure out how to transfer them to a different format other than just popping them all onto VHS. I will NOT have car access this year, so I can’t do the store run during the con, but I can prep the vodka bears and do other pre-con prep and errands.

There was totally some other candy/booze combo or something that was gonna be perfect for this, but I don’t remember it either. I wish they made a booze version of the little wax bottles of sugar juice. OH. IT WAS THE SKITTLES VODKA! I AM ON THAT SHIT.

RIGHT! SKITTLES VODKA. we need this at our party for sure.

When we’re about a month out let me know how much supplies will cost and I’ll send the money.

Will do. I’ll scout around for other ridiculous debauched boozy candy ideas, in the meanwhile. Cotton Candy rum punch? I can’t figure out how to incorporate fun dip and liquor, but there’s potential there.

I’m trying to think what other cartoons will fit the theme here too, and more importantly, which ones are available in modern formats.

So you’re setting up getting a party room then?

THE PUNKY BREWSTER CARTOON, HOLY FUCK.

So let me get this straight, we are going to be high on alcohol gummy bears and Pixie Stix and then we’re going to be unleashed on the rest of the con…

Good god.

I know, right? ahaha.

Thought of one other thing we’ll need:

people to work in shifts covering the table with the liquor-infused candies. There will be kids about and mostly the party will be safe for them, but I want someone making sure no kid accidentally gets a hold of some gummy bears filled to the brim with rum.

I hope to set up the room so that table is closer to the TV so you have to work to get at it but the person sitting there can still participate fully in the goings on.

Feb 14, 201217 notes

Feb 14, 20121,088 notes

maevele:

ktempest:

chromaticdebutante:

ktempest:

maevele:

to submit the thingie if you want to throw a party on 6 at wiscon. There has been shit talking about a jem/pony/vodka-gummybear/AWESOME party. Do we actually want to make that, like, happen? or should it be more of a clandestine room party thing?

ooooh Tempest, I…

I’ll be there this year (bought my membership!). Let me know how I can help.

All right then! Here’s what we need:

Episodes of cartoons, preferably 80s/90s, that are all about girl power. I have Jem DVDs and a Netflix account, so I can do She-Ra. I have some (new) MLP episodes, anyone have them all? Also suggestions for other cartoons?

Need to find out if the TVs in the party rooms have HDMI or RCA input and if that is accessible for guests. If not, we may need to request A/V.

Volunteers to bring candy. Really terrible candy from our childhood like the sticks and flavored sugar!

Someone who will have a car who can take us to a local place to buy soda and other necessities.

Someone in Madison who can buy gummy bears and a couple of different liquors. Soaking the gummys takes a week (if done properly) so it’s best if someone there does it. (I can pay for or split the cost for the supplies, mostly just need a local person for the labor.)

Need to be reminded what other delicious treats we said we’d try. I remember the gummy bears, but wasn’t there something else?

I have all the eps of ponies on my dvr, I just need to figure out how to transfer them to a different format other than just popping them all onto VHS. I will NOT have car access this year, so I can’t do the store run during the con, but I can prep the vodka bears and do other pre-con prep and errands.

There was totally some other candy/booze combo or something that was gonna be perfect for this, but I don’t remember it either. I wish they made a booze version of the little wax bottles of sugar juice. OH. IT WAS THE SKITTLES VODKA! I AM ON THAT SHIT.

RIGHT! SKITTLES VODKA. we need this at our party for sure.

When we’re about a month out let me know how much supplies will cost and I’ll send the money.

Feb 14, 201217 notes

grrrlvirus:

grrrlvirus:

“Brown was driving a vehicle with Robyn F. as the front passenger on an unknown street in Los Angeles. Robyn F. picked up Brown’s cellular phone and observed a three-page text message from a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with.

“A verbal argument ensued and…

READ THIS.

THEN READ IT AGAIN.

READ THIS UNTIL IT HURTS.

READ THIS AND CONSIDER WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED HAD SOME MAN DONE THIS TO, SAY, TAYLOR SWIFT.

READ THIS AND CONSIDER WHAT WOULD’VE HAPPENED HAD A BLACK MAN DONE THIS TO TAYLOR SWIFT.

THINK ABOUT THAT.

READ IT AGAIN.

READ THIS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE WITH RAPE CULTURE.

READ THIS UNTIL YOU CAN FEEL WHAT THAT MEANS.

READ THIS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS THAT ONE IN FOUR AMERICAN WOMEN EXPERIENCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

READ THIS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS THAT 3.3 MILLION AMERICAN CHILDREN WITNESS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THEIR HOMES EACH YEAR.

READ THIS UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS THAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN AGES 15-44.

READ IT AGAIN.

READ THIS AND TELL ME IT DOESN’T PISS YOU OFF.

READ THIS AND TELL ME IT DOESN’T MAKE YOU SICK TO YOUR STOMACH.

READ THIS AND TELL ME, I DARE YOU, TELL ME IT DOESN’T CONVINCE YOU THAT WE DESERVE BETTER.

(reblogging for commentary)
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Feb 14, 2012757 notes

chromaticdebutante:

ktempest:

maevele:

to submit the thingie if you want to throw a party on 6 at wiscon. There has been shit talking about a jem/pony/vodka-gummybear/AWESOME party. Do we actually want to make that, like, happen? or should it be more of a clandestine room party thing?

ooooh Tempest, I…

I’ll be there this year (bought my membership!). Let me know how I can help.

All right then! Here’s what we need:

Episodes of cartoons, preferably 80s/90s, that are all about girl power. I have Jem DVDs and a Netflix account, so I can do She-Ra. I have some (new) MLP episodes, anyone have them all? Also suggestions for other cartoons?

Need to find out if the TVs in the party rooms have HDMI or RCA input and if that is accessible for guests. If not, we may need to request A/V.

Volunteers to bring candy. Really terrible candy from our childhood like the sticks and flavored sugar!

Someone who will have a car who can take us to a local place to buy soda and other necessities.

Someone in Madison who can buy gummy bears and a couple of different liquors. Soaking the gummys takes a week (if done properly) so it’s best if someone there does it. (I can pay for or split the cost for the supplies, mostly just need a local person for the labor.)

Need to be reminded what other delicious treats we said we’d try. I remember the gummy bears, but wasn’t there something else?

Feb 14, 201217 notes

Feb 14, 20125,469 notes

“We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there were lots of complaints about that. Nobody complained that I was shot in the head four times, there were burning people in ovens, that I was stabbed by a mob of 50 people hundreds of times, and I was hanging dripping my blood in a pit. So that’s what confuses me, because you’re not complaining about gay sex, you’re complaining about two men kissing. And it’s 2011. And people say, ‘Well why should we have that on television?’ Because the BBC have to represent the greater public - and there are gay people out there who pay their television license. For people to complain, that’s your prerogative — but you know what, none of them turned it off! They were just embarrassed because it put them in a position where they had to explain things to their kids or their family which probably should have been explained a long time ago.” —

John Barrowman on ‘Torchwood’ (via roseandthebeast: cocknbull)

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Feb 13, 20123,341 notes

s'time

maevele:

to submit the thingie if you want to throw a party on 6 at wiscon. There has been shit talking about a jem/pony/vodka-gummybear/AWESOME party. Do we actually want to make that, like, happen? or should it be more of a clandestine room party thing?

ooooh Tempest, I am talking to you.

NO CLANDESTINENESS. we take that shit mainstream. Who’s in? If I can get a cabal to help me prep and buy candy and bring videos I’m down for this. Let’s do it!

Feb 13, 201217 notes

How interesting...

…that ReasonableBro deleted all his posts from Tumblr about me and about the post on DTWPS about the sexual harassment.

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“

Now to “Reverse Racism.” It’s crucial to maintain the distinction between the above three terms, because otherwise white people tend to redefine “Discrimination” as “Racism”. Their main argument is that because both blacks and white can discriminate against each other, that “Reverse Racism” is possible. But the truth of the matter is that black people: 1) have far less opportunity to discriminate against whites than whites have to discriminate against blacks, overall; and 2) black people lack a system of institutionalized support that protect them when they discriminate against whites.

It took black and white people working together for one hundred years to get programs like Affirmative Action installed in the U.S., but it took one white man (Alan Bakke) only a single Supreme Court case to get those programs dismantled because he felt he didn’t gain entry into medical school based on his white race.

“Reverse Racism” would only describe a society in which all the rules and roles were turned upside down. That has not happened in the U.S., however much white right wing ideologues want to complain that they’re being victimized by the few points of equality that minorities and women have managed to claim. White people who complain about “Reverse Racism” are actually complaining about being denied their privileges, rather than being denied their rights. They feel entitled to be hired and not to be discriminated against, even though the norm is white people discriminating against blacks. If, in a rare instance, a black employer discriminates against a white job applicant, that’s not “reverse” anything — it’s simple discrimination. It’s to be condemned on principle, but it’s not evidence of some systematic program by which whites are being deprived of their rights.

The right wing popularized the term “Reverse Racism” because they were really angry at having their white privileges challenged. Anyone who uses that phrase, whether they are right wing or not, furthers the right wing’s cause. This is what I tell Democrats and progressives who I hear using the term — not only are they being inaccurate, but they’re helping out their opponents.

The above arguments can be applied to any institutionalized structure of oppression, affecting any race, ethnic or religious group, and can be used to to oppose claims of “Reverse Sexism” too.

I hope that clarifies things a bit.

” —Daily Kos: Why there’s no such thing as “Reverse Racism” (via loveyourchaos)

Feb 12, 20121,065 notes

and can we just talk about what she meant...

milkeemountainmama:

to all those little girls of color who needed some pop princess that looked like them in their lives? I never wanted to be a pop princess—I loved her fucking songs and i loved her so much—but I wanted to be punk and head banger and skater chick—so I never needed that.

but i knew so many girls of color who wanted the bright colors and puffy hair and super cute 80s clothes—and Whitney gave that to them. back then, there was NO pop princess of color but whitney. if you wanted a woman of color in the pop world role model sort of thing, you had to go back to diana ross who was amazing (and still actively singing and all) in the 80s—and I think aretha made that pink cadillac, which was crap, oh, and tina turner of course, with her what’s love got to do with it—but they were *OLD*. they weren’t fresh and young and could keep up with madonna (and debbie gibson and that red head, remember her? what was her name?) with trend setting and style. whitney had it all. and back then…that *meant* something to little girls who saw *nobody* like them on vh1 or mtv…or fuck, just on regular old television…(I think the cosby show was the *only* show w/people of color on the mainstream networks…can’t remember cuz we didn’t have t.v. for big parts of my childhood)…

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reasonablebro:

[The preceding conversation has been deleted for brevity, but if you click the link above or any of the links in my very long response below you will see all of the context.]

I’m just curious as to why everyone who disagrees with dumbthingswhitepeoplesay are racist. This is never really explained. We have all been saying basically the same thing, which is that the blog does nothing but make PoC angry at white people for no reason, rather than actually fighting racism by targeting actual racists. If you wouldn’t mind, can you go through all I’ve said about the blog and tell me what part of it is racism? Because so far the only reason I see is that I’m a white person talking about racial equality. I dunno if you noticed but me and everyone else opposed to the blog believe we are fighting racial inequality, which to me seems perfectly reasonable, as the blog is called dumbthingswhitepeoplesay and not dumbthingsracistssay, and does little more than tell white people what they’re not allowed to say and do. Honestly it’s hard to take it seriously when the three leading incidents of “white people bullshit” is talking about race whatsoever, having dreadlocks, and making movies with not enough minorities in them (not to mention she self-identifies as a black supremacist and claims to actively go out of her way to make white people uncomfortable and dejected in her daily life, which she does enough on her blog anyway). I’ve been in support of racial equality and LGBT rights since I was old enough to know what they mean, and apparently to her that means I’m a racist in denial and probably a rapist. Please, enlighten me as to what part of my thinking is racist.

It’s taken me a few days to get to this because of work. But your repeated reblogging in my direction has not allowed me to forget that I promised you answer to the question of why I and others have called you a racist. The answer is long. If you choose not to read it all the way through I can’t force you. But I suggest that you do.

To begin, I’m quoting you from here.

That isn’t a racism thing, it’s a sexism thing.

Most of the beginning of your rant is a further expanding on this thesis, but I don’t need to quote any more of it in order to say: you’re wrong.

Feb 12, 201231 notes

“I keep seeing people rattle off names of people who they think should sing for Whitney Houston’s tribute tomorrow night. Two of the most common names being mentioned are people who have known her since she was born. I’m going to need y’all to take a moment & understand that famous divas have feelings and need room to mourn the loss of a child that they expected to outlive them. If they choose to sing for her at any point that is amazing & certainly a worthy tribute, but…but I am trying to imagine breathing after finding out that a child I rocked to sleep is gone & I cannot picture that, much less getting on stage and singing. They have her mother to comfort, her child to hold, & her ex to pray through this tragedy on their plate right now. Singing at the Grammys is probably at the bottom of their list of things to do.” —

Esoterica:

Karnythia is right. My knee jerk is Aretha and Patti but yes. They must be devastated on a personal level. —thestoutorialist

(via thestoutorialist)

This. Exactly this.

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