About the blogger: Megan, 20 (how the hell am I an adult), hella gay. For Feminisim, sex-positivity, and pro-equality in pretty much every way. My fandoms (including, but not limited to): Orphan Black, sense8, Supergirl (multishipping trash), Wynonna Earp, Harry Potter, Carmilla, Agents of SHIELD, The 100, OITNB and Pitch Perfect(bechloe is my otp). Orphan Black is a religion and I've accepted Tatiana Maslany as my Lord and Savior. Music taste is varied and vast.
This is your local Scandinavian telling y’all that Norse mythology has a goddess called Lofn who is a goddess of love and bringing together those ‘for whom marriage was forbidden or banned’, and I’m not saying she said gay rights, but she totally said gay rights.
john krasinski did a far better job for his first feature film as actor-turned-director, than bradley cooper did for a star is born. without question. john deserves the award season hype; he created something original, unique and terrifying with his wife and made audiences shut the fuck up and listen, he demanded people sit and pay attention and gave a platform to a deaf actress which made the film even more important. not to mention that he set the stage for emily, whose character kicked-ass, went through hell and kept on going
“Jim Cooper, a former LAPD officer turned sociologist, has observed that the overwhelming majority of those who end up getting beaten or otherwise brutalized by police turn out to be innocent of any crime. ‘Cops don’t beat up burglars,’ he writes. The reason, he explained, is simple: the one thing most guaranteed to provoke a violent reaction from the police is a challenge to their right to, as he puts it, ‘define the situation.’ That is, to say ‘no, this isn’t a possible crime situation, this is a citizen-who-pays-your-salary-walking-his-dog situation, so shove off,’ let alone the invariably disastrous, ‘wait, why are you handcuffing that guy? He didn’t do anything!’ It’s ‘talking back’ above all that inspires beat-downs, and that means challenging whatever administrative rubric has been applied by the officer’s discretionary judgment. The police truncheon is precisely the point where the state’s bureaucratic imperative for imposing simple administrative schema and its monopoly on coercive force come together.”
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. (via locusimperium)
One of the most common reasons ever given for arrest is “resisting arrest,” in other words people who weren’t found to have committed any other crime but are jailed and tried for arguing that very thing.
