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The reason whitewashing is so hurtful because the message of the act itself is “The thing/person is good but it would be BETTER if it was white”.When a celebrity’s skin is made lighter and features are made to look european in movies/shows with makeup or by photoshop in magazines, it implies that they are amazing but they would be perfect if their skin was lighter and their features were more european and to be on the movie/show/magazine cover, their appearance has to be changed .

When a book/show/movie having non white characters is adapted into another movie/show by western media and white actors are chosen to play the non white characters it basically implies that “The book/show/movie was amazing but it would be MORE amazing if it had white characters”.

And shit like that hurts people of color in real life because we are given the message that we’d never be as good as white/european people without altering our appearances and that white/european people will always be the “better” version of POC and. THIS.ISNT.OKAY.

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i mean u can say looks don’t matter all you want but as a certified Ugly Person i can pretty much safely say that the way i look has impacted literally every part of my life and dictated my whole existence 

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i really REALLY wish the body positive movement had been “you don’t have to look good or be beautiful or pretty to be worth something and to make things happen for yourself and to be happy” rather than “everyone is beautiful!! don’t worry you’re still hot even if you’re not ‘conventionally attractive!!” bc that still puts this superficial idea of ‘hotness’ and ‘beauty’ on a pedestal when really it shouldn’t matter at all it’s literally just our outer meat sack it means nothing it’s going to rot anyway

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Freya Was Jacked

So there’s this story in Norse mythology, Þrymskviða. Compressed down, it goes like this: A Jotun steal Thor’s hammer Mjolnir and says he’ll only give it back if he’s given Freyja to marry, as she is the most beautiful goddess in all of existence. The gods argue over what to do for a while before Heimdall suggests they stick a bridal veil on Thor, says he’s Freyja, and pretend they’re giving Freyja (Thor) to the Jotun to marry so Thor can get close enough to the Jotun to steal Mjolnir back. 

Now typically when people talk about this story, it’s with an element of disbelieving comedy. “Oh my god, who would believe Thor was a woman, let alone Freyja, the most beautiful goddess in the world?” 

But I propose a different way to look at the story. 

See, different cultures have different beauty standards. Modern western beauty standards may be a delicate hourglass supermodel, but that’s not always been the case. Greece, for instance, depicted Aphrodite like this: 

Yeah. A Greek sculptor was told “sculpt the goddess of beauty” and they thought “alright, fat rolls, that’s where beauty is at, let’s do this”. And everybody else apparently agreed with them, because up went the statue. Beauty is a malleable concept is what I’m getting at. 

Now this is where it becomes relevant that Freyja is not just the goddess of love, sex, and beauty. She’s also the goddess of war. And the righteous dead. Goddess of war in the same Viking warrior culture that gave us shield maidens, women who wielded seven fucking kilogram (15 lbs) shields in combat. 

Sooooo … when the Norse storytellers said, “This is Freyja, goddess of war and the righteous dead, who rode giant murder cats into battle, she is the most beautiful goddess in the world”, I’m guessing they weren’t thinking of her as some willowy waif. No, I’m guessing they probably thought more along the lines of:

190 cm (6′3″), broad shoulders, built like a brick shithouse, with a jawline like whoa, and fully capable of murdering everything in her path.

Put in that context, the story of Thor dressing up as Freyja sounds less like a punchline about “how could anyone ever mistake Thor in a veil for Freyja?” and becomes more a case of “ohhhhhhhhhhh, no wonder all the gods thought this plan would work”. 

It did, by the way. The plan totally worked. 

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look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

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lockscreen for Luna Lovegood lover out thereee

#luna lovegood #harry potter #lockscreen #cute #lockscreens #draco malfoy #ravenclaw #order of the phoenix

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“I am a complicated person with a simple life.”

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Charlotte Eriksson

(via thoughtkick)

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“Don’t fool yourself by the illusion of truly knowing people. You’d be surprised with the secrets they hide from you.”

— Andressa Moro (via thoughtkick)

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“Speak only when you feel that your words are better than your silence.”

— Unknown (via meineluft)

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why do i feel attacked

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I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being, and you can be grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in your life forever. I’m glad I knew you, too.

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