Hey y'all, you can call me Sparrow unless you already know my real name. Mid 20s, in the stage of life where you have no idea what is happening anymore. Somehow or another I've decided I'm riding this tumblr roller coaster until it finally crashes and burns
one time i told a group of lesbian and bi women that i have never watched wicked and they were shocked, gagged, gooped, “but you’re queer. you like pussy. how have you not seen wicked?” yeah. well. i like pussy, not musicals?
i’m this exact post. all this just to fuck women.
“are you going to the lucy dacus concert?” no. i listen to gucci mane.
the proliferation of the michael myers head tilt across slasher movies (& occasionally other horror subgenres) is kind of wild. like, the scene of michael tilting his head while looking at a fresh corpse in the original halloween is generally interpreted (quite famously! there was that whole jordan peele interview about this!) as signifying a sort of naive confusion/interest, like as if michael is intrigued by death & trying to investigate it through killing. & of course it makes sense when ghostface does it since ghostface’s whole schtick is enacting Movie Moments. but the result is that like, “tilting one’s head” has now entered like, the visual lexicon of “"Intrinsically”“ Scary Actions. like it’s become a shorthand signifier for Thing That A ScaryGuy Does. so now we occasionally get slasher movies where the killer will literally just stand in place tilting their head back & forth repeatedly & looking ridiculous. Because This Is A Scary Action,
the colonial image of labor, skill, industry and trades and even daily subsistence the u.s. exports is ceaselessly crazy (ik i’m not saying or observing anything new here) but i was just hanging around the docks chatting with some fishermen from spain about our respective fisheries careers and they were like “women fish in alaska??” i was like mind you i only just got there but yeah dude for like 10,000+ years
its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking “author A obviously ripped off author B” discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.
Folks really need to reacquaint themselves with this concept
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.