Oh, Susquehanna!

chasingpictures:

They should invent this thing, that’s like a vhs player, that hooks up to your computer through a usb or something, so that if you don’t have a vhs player, you can watch your movies on your computer without buying them on dvd… and I have a feeling some variation of this probably exists or something…

Kate. It’s called a VHS player. You can probably find an old VHS player at a thrift store with component outputs and then get a component to USB adapter.

thelittlestdrunk:

iggyjack:

dagseoul:

You won’t like this, but too bad.

For centuries white people have developed a sense of modernity with an ideal that looks like an educated, modest, upwardly mobile, Christian, white male. That’s a fact.

For centuries, non-white, not-male bodies have been the mark of illiteracy, poor health, immorality, sin, pain, loss, uncleanliness, ignorance, stupidity, hate, fear, chaos, anarchy, poverty, criminality, and other general instabilities.

In order to change this liberal social order in capitalist culture, white people are going to have to learn that they, not others, are the sole symbol for centuries of oppression. To deny this is to refuse to betray the inherited white privilege that comes without insistence as a result of white supremacy in capitalist culture, in liberal western culture.

People are going to hate what you represent. Too fucking bad. Accept the pain of privilege, betray it, and work with everyone to cultivate a new paradigm for culture. Or, choose to pretend that being a westerner is being an individual, continue to insist that you can only be responsible for yourself and that you are just like everyone else. Insist that white myth about everyday life is real, and you’ll continue to meet people who call you a privilege denying shit.

I need this photocopied and handed out at my college. And one for me to read at my bedside for constant conviction destruction.

why is everyone in the world trying to make me feel bad

I feel like dismissing the idea of someone hating someone else because they’re white and what that apparently represents as “too fucking bad” is probably very racist.

butitlookslikefun:

ohsusquehanna:

Oh, Susquehanna!: butitlookslikefun: ohsusquehanna: himynameiscarl: sports are scary…

mrdavidgordon:

butitlookslikefun:

ohsusquehanna:

himynameiscarl:

sports are scary because like what if the ball hits you in the face? that’s a really big concern of mine. getting hit in the face.

And sports equipment really only exists to make things hurt less. Anyone who’s blocked a…

I had a basketball clock me in the face and used it as my excuse to never play basketball in gym ever again.

I feel better about myself now.

a basketball jammed my pinky and ripped off most of my fingernail in the process once. i didn’t use it as an excuse to not play, though. 

Gordon, you’re a wuss. She had her fingernail ripped off. Gross.

butitlookslikefun:

ohsusquehanna:

himynameiscarl:

sports are scary because like what if the ball hits you in the face? that’s a really big concern of mine. getting hit in the face.

And sports equipment really only exists to make things hurt less. Anyone who’s blocked a really hard slap shot with their body during a game of hockey can attest to that.

once my sister got hit in the face with a soccer ball and her retina got itself a little detached. she had to have eye surgery and everything. it was gross.

One time I got hit in the stomach by a soccer ball and I wanted to sit out the rest of the game. Now I feel like eight year old me was a total wuss.

himynameiscarl:

sports are scary because like what if the ball hits you in the face? that’s a really big concern of mine. getting hit in the face.

And sports equipment really only exists to make things hurt less. Anyone who’s blocked a really hard slap shot with their body during a game of hockey can attest to that.