Heartbreaking scene from the film
Schindler’s List (1993)
OK LEMME TELL YOU STRAIGHT UP ABOUT OSKAR SCHINDLER.
Everyone knows the story, right? His protected workers? How none of his ammo worked? The full story is a lot more complex and a hell of a lot more breathtaking.
He wasn’t a saint. in fact, he was a bit of a douche, all things considered. Whored around on his wife, worked for the Abwehr, he was a member of the nazi party – not a particularly devout follower, but because he was a big fat remora fish who realised this particular shark could give him business opportunities, and if he wined and dined the upper crust that scored him even better ones. He realised very quickly he could make an absolute killing on the black market and dove in headfirst with the profiteering. Hell, he initially hired Jews in his factory because nazi strictures made them much much cheaper labour than hiring normal Polish labourers.
But the thing is, once you start surrounding yourself with a particular, persecuted demographic, you begin to notice things. You hear things, things you aren’t insulated from. You begin to realise something.
And Oskar Schindler began to dimly grasp what was happening and he realised that it was not something he could countenance. And his whole gameplay changed.
He no longer wined and dined for business opportunities, but to protect his workers. He went flat out fucking balls to the wall to rescue a group of his workers from the jaws of Auschwitz, and built them a “camp” that offered at least the barest of human comforts, right under SS supervision. He moved his entire fucking factory to save his workers, he realised an SS-provided list of names was left with blank spaces and just started filling in more. He blew everything he had made profiteering and scheming to protect 1200 people because he found that there was a fucking line and it had to be drawn. He arranged for three thousand Jewish women to be moved to textile factories in the Sudetenland to give them a chance of surviving the war. He blew all his money, resources and time on feeding, caring for and trying to protect as many Jews as he could.
After the war he failed every business venture he tried. He became a raging alcoholic, surviving on donations sent by Schindlerjuden. According to some, he traded the ring gifted to him by his workers for Schnapps. He died in relative obscurity, almost penniless.
He wasn’t a great man, or a saint. He was an average schmuck, and spent most of his time fucking around until he abruptly found himself in a situation where he couldn’t. He almost stumbled into his decency. But once he had, he absolutely took hold of it, and directly because of him 8,500 people are alive today.
Never, ever doubt the ability of a single human to RISE.
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all boring dudes will always reply “fair enough” when u say some weird funny shit
Translation:
Panel 1: You reclined slowly against the bed and curved the edges of your lips into a delicate smile–
Panel 2: I died that very moment.
Panel 3: As I attempted to weave a garland of kisses as a gift for this god, I withered like a flower onto his chest.
Panel 4: The concept of “two” melted under the heat of our breathing,
Panel 5: and in our love we no longer knew where I ended and you began.
Panel 6: I learned this upon the mattress, not the mosque*:
Panel 7: This sinless enjoyment, this moment that drips and oozes with the very beauty of the Divine Itself
Panel 8: is dubbed by others as “Hellfire”; in that case, it is only their desire for Paradise that is superficial.
This is chapter 29! Also it’s a poem written by ~yours truly~ because I’m a horribly cheesy person who writes love poetry on a regular basis…It’s an Embarrassing Akshay FactTM.
*The Tamil words for “bed” (paLLi) and “mosque” (paLLivaasal) are both derived from the same root as “school” (paLLIkkoodam) and are all shortened as the same word (paLLi).
prediction: none of the Disney live action remakes are gonna be good, most of them will be aggravating in some way, they won’t be visually stunning enough to be memorable beyond the initial hype, and I’m going to be forced to see four dozen over saturated gifsets of each one anyway
like. okay. they’re each absolutely gonna contain a boring ass flavor of the month white celeb lead who brings nothing to the film but a warm body, and I can already tell each ones gonna have a token “social justice thing” that’s gonna be handled super poorly but still be crowed about enough that Christian moms will get mad it’s there and 21 year old theater kids will make posts like “DISNEY HAS SAID ONE OF THE SEVEN DWARVES IS ASEXUAL AND BASICALLY DISNEY IS GIVING ZERO FUCKS RIGHT NOW!”
I animated myself to celebrate International Trans Day of Visibility:
EXPRESS YOURSELF JUST THE WAY YA WANT! 🌞✨
You can use this GIF & the blank version on any GIPHY platform by typing in ‘International Transgender Day of Visibility’ or searching for Larry Yang 🌝
you can’t deny the existence of rape culture when our judicial system is ran by these gross ass men who justify it
Every rapist and rape enabler needs to die.
Do you know how many times in the last couple of days people have reblogged me to say that women have more rights than men? Do you?
Burn it to the ground.
Just want to make the point that some people claim that restricting abortion has nothing to do with misogyny, but this clearly indicates otherwise.
Progress
What
Imma just let this sit here
MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE
sources:
They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.
Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS
“Youth is the largest population bloc in Iran. Over 60 percent of Iran’s 73 million people are under 30 years old. Iranian youth are among the most politically active in the 57 nations of the Islamic world. As the most restive segment of Iranian society, the young also represent one of the greatest long-term threats to the current form of theocratic rule.”
“After the 2009 presidential election, youth was the biggest bloc involved in the region’s first sustained “people power” movement for democratic change, creating a new political dynamic in the Middle East. The Islamic Republic forcibly regained control over the most rebellious sector of society through detentions, expulsions from universities, and expanding the powers of its own young paramilitary forces. But youth demands have not changed, and anger simmers beneath the surface.”
Children of the Revolution, David Tesinsky
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The concept of ‘passing’ as a whole is gross, but please don’t judge a trans person for wanting/needing to ‘pass’.
Men can wear dresses, yes. But don’t be rude if a trans man refuses to wear anything even vaguely ‘feminine’.
No, women don’t need to wear skirts every day. But don’t be rude if a trans woman wears nothing but dresses and skirts and heavy, heavy make up.
It’s a dangerous, sick world, and it’s a pity that the societal concept of ‘passing’ is so ingrained in us, but it is. It is deeply ingrained in us. It’s terrible and life threatening, so don’t judge a trans person for adhering to strict gender roles.
This is so important. A trans man dressing very masculine and presenting very masculine is not him adhering to ‘toxic masculinity’ – it’s him trying to survive.
A trans woman wearing dresses, mastering her make-up and shaving her legs is not her ‘perpetuating gender roles’ – it’s her trying to survive.
Or maybe it’s just because they like to present like that! That’s also fine. Or at least, it should be, but society says no.
Cis people get to choose how they want to present – trans people don’t. We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t. We’re either ‘not really trans’ for not presenting a certain way, or we’re ‘upholding toxic gender roles!’ If we do. We’re trapped in a weird eternal transphobic ‘gotcha!’
Honestly, the McElboys are so refreshing in times like these.
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