Freyja Valkyria

omgthatdress:

Just a friendly reminder that even with its wonderful Queen, England is as fucked up and disgusting as the rest of the world.  It’s not all the land of tea and crumpets and impeccable manners that everyone seems to think it is.

This has been a message from my British bb who is tired of American girls assuming that he’s just like Benedict Cumberbatch.

When you ask God for a British boyfriend, be specific.

moniquill: golden-zephyr: There are no words for this. You wonder why we’re angry; why we won’t stand for your bullshit. Look at this. LOOK AT THIS. A white woman attacking a Rroma mother AND HER BABY. I’m literally crying right now, here in my chair, in the office at work. It’s something I’ve dealt with in my life more than once and something I fear every day. I don’t even “look” particularly Rroma now. I just don’t know how you can sit there, in your privilege and comfort and deny this happens. LOOK. Vo!  Gaadži dukhavel pe do čhajorjake dake!!! [Photo Source: Anthony Cronin/Flickr] Details:”I was walking down Moore Street Dublin on a Sunday when I was passed by a family of Romany Gypsies and then I heard behind me a bunch of Irish teenage girls shouting abuse at them and thinking they were very funny. They then picked up old fruit from the stalls and were throwing this at the Romany Gypsies, this escalated as the Gypsies responded verbally. Then further as one teenage girl found old stallholders chair and ran after the Gypsies hitting the woman pictured from behind. The woman tries to protect her baby wrapped in her arm in blankets” Would it be insulting or out of line to tag this ‘Gypsy’ specifically because the white kids who use that term and track that tag DESPERATELY NEED TO SEE THIS?

moniquill:

golden-zephyr:

There are no words for this. You wonder why we’re angry; why we won’t stand for your bullshit. Look at this. LOOK AT THIS. A white woman attacking a Rroma mother AND HER BABY. I’m literally crying right now, here in my chair, in the office at work. It’s something I’ve dealt with in my life more than once and something I fear every day. I don’t even “look” particularly Rroma now. I just don’t know how you can sit there, in your privilege and comfort and deny this happens. LOOK. Vo!  Gaadži dukhavel pe do čhajorjake dake!!!

[Photo Source: Anthony Cronin/Flickr] Details:”I was walking down Moore Street Dublin on a Sunday when I was passed by a family of Romany Gypsies and then I heard behind me a bunch of Irish teenage girls shouting abuse at them and thinking they were very funny. They then picked up old fruit from the stalls and were throwing this at the Romany Gypsies, this escalated as the Gypsies responded verbally. Then further as one teenage girl found old stallholders chair and ran after the Gypsies hitting the woman pictured from behind. The woman tries to protect her baby wrapped in her arm in blankets”

Would it be insulting or out of line to tag this ‘Gypsy’ specifically because the white kids who use that term and track that tag DESPERATELY NEED TO SEE THIS?

simply-divoon:

Jayne Mansfield playing the violin [x] & piano [x] on The Ed Sullivan Show (1957)

Before playing the piano, Jayne joked about others’ preconceived notions of her saying, “My playing the violin and now the piano may remind you a famous story about Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once when he saw a little puppy walking on its hind legs, he said ‘It’s not that you expect him to do it perfectly, it’s just that you’re surprised the puppy does it at all,’ which just goes to show that I not only play the violin and the piano, but I also know who Dr. Samuel Johnson is.”

“She played the violin, she read Shakespeare. She was not the village idiot. As a matter of fact, she made village idiots out of those who supposed such.” –Ray Strait on Jayne Mansfield

(via mudwerks)

vintagegal: Diving and Underwater, action sequence of Hilda by Duane Byers c. 1950’s

vintagegal:

Diving and Underwater, action sequence of Hilda by Duane Byers c. 1950’s