Something About The Scene Always Makes Me Smile. So Cute.

I am sick and tired of the society in which rape culture is promoted. 

PEAKY BLINDERS Season 1 | Episode 4

Hey what the fuck happened to all the net neutrality coverage

This shit is still happening people, and all of the sudden its disappeared from my dash almost entirely over night

You are Connor Roy, and you are the only child of one of the most powerful men in the country. Your father eclipses everything in your life, and you are rarely denied anything. Anything that is, but his time. There are nannies for that after all. You are raised to believe that the business he is building before your very eyes is your birthright. You're a little fidgety, true - a little bit soft. Your mother will sometimes rest her forehead on yours and call you a dreamer. You think she means it as a good thing, so you aren't sure why she says it so sadly.

You are Connor Roy and when you're 10 years old, your mother decides that she's had enough of everything you've ever known. She takes you with her to find "something different, something real." She calls it the adventure of a lifetime, but the faraway look in her eyes when she grasps your shoulders like a lifeline makes your stomach turn. So what does your old man do to get you back? What does he do with all that power his friends are always reminding you of? Absolutely nothing. With every day you spend without him, the reality of who your father is seeps into your bones and you feel real fear for the first time in your life. The reality is that being soft will not be tolerated and that family is only what Logan Roy says it is. The reality is that you are weak, and your father would never fight for a weak boy.

You are Connor Roy and when you're 13 your mother is carted away to a place upstate. No one asks if you'd like to visit her, but your father scoops you up and tries to sit you on his knee the way he did when you were younger. You're much too big for that now though, awkwardly sliding off and sitting next to him instead. She's a psycho he says. She put you in danger he says. Part of you is furious. Part of you is seething at him for saying that, for abandoning you, but mostly you feel relief. For the first time in three years you have more than enough food to eat and are not constantly worried that the alimony check will be spent on booze and pills. Your father, for all his faults, is sturdy and secure. He's your old man and he came back and this time he'll be all the strength you need.

You are a twenty year-old Connor Roy and you are peering into the eyes of your replacement. They're dark, not like yours, but the tufts of hair peaking out from the blanket that swaddles him remind you of your own. You hold him in your arms and he peers up at you, a soulful gaze that sucks you in until you're completely lost. Spellbound, you pull him a little tighter and sink into the nearest chair. You should hate him, you know, but the idea of hating someone so small makes you sick. In those eyes you can see the same promise your father probably sees; This one doesn't have a crazy mother in the middle of nowhere, this one is a clean slate, this one can be strong when all you can be is weak. Holding that newborn in your arms you resolve not to fight as your birthright is snatched by a tiny thief - to instead cling to this new, better family your father is building and to build them up in return. After all, family is what Logan Roy says it is.

You are Connor Roy and you do what you can. You stay present, stick around when you could be off making something of yourself. You give yourself to them in little ways, in ways you wish Logan had given himself to you. You take your little brothers on fishing trips, you let your baby sister climb on top of your back and dig her heels into your kidneys as you crawl on the hardwood. But part of you will always want to be as far from your father and his overbearing presence as you can. The houses you have built are always rural, always quiet and lonely, everything that Logan Roy isn't. You don't want to think about why that is. When you aren't there you know he pits them against each other, you know that they're starting to claw the weakness out of each other. The love you offer them is met with derisive snorts and rolled eyes - they become more like your father than you could ever dream to be. You're left behind, abandoned again, deluded and desperate in thinking that someone - anyone - could love you the way you need.

Jeremy was so great in this scene, just his body language as such a vulnerable Kendall in rehab after shivs wedding.

Succession 2.01 “The Summer Palace”

due to budget restrictions, season 5 of succession will be produced in my basement. starring barbie dolls, some legos, and a dream

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the presidential sash for the first time ever was handed over by the people of brazil

the fascist ex-president bolsonaro ran away from brazil and refused to participate in the ceremony, breaking one of brazil’s democracy’s staple traditions that is to hand the presidential sash to the successor. lula received the presidential sash from individuals representing the brazilian peoples.

this going to be a long post, but it’s really important for us.

francisco, 10 years old, swimmer of corinthians, a brazilian sports club. he lives in a outskirts of são paulo. after watching a movie about lula, he saw that he could be a president too.

aline sousa, 33 years old, garbage collector since she was 14 and the 3rd generation of collector in the family. aline is a mother of 6 boys and 1 girl, in 2012 she was elected director secretary of the CENTCOOP-DF (a central of work cooperatives of collectors in distrito federal, brasília) and 3 years later the first president of the entity.

chief raoni metuktire, 90 years old, dedicated his life to the defense of the amazon and the peoples of the forest. he is recognized by indigenous and riverside communities as one of the main representatives of the struggle to preserve the forest and the amazonian peoples.

weslley viesba rodrigues rocha, 36 years old, metallurgist from ABC region since he was 18 years old. married and father of two boys, cauã, 18 years old, and apolo, 2 months old. he graduated in Physical Education with the help of fies (a program of the ministry of education for funding the higher education of the undergraduate students). weslley is also a DJ in the rap group ‘falange’. 

murilo de quadros jesus, 28 years old, teacher, graduated in portuguese and english languages (UTFPR) and lives in curitiba.

jucimara fausto dos santos, cook born in palotina. she dedicated her life to cooking and it was in a cooking contest at vigília lula livre (a civil movement supported by several brazilian social movements and union entities to help free lula from the prision) that jucimara was called to make bread. today she cooks for the employees’ association of the state university of maringá.

ivan baron, 24 years old, he’s from rio grande do norte and at the age of 3 had viral meningitis, a disease that caused his cerebral palsy. ivan is a reference in the anti-capacitist struggle and considered one of the ambassadors of inclusion in an exclusionary society and he’s also part of the lgbtqia+ community

flávio pereira, 50 years old, from pinhalão - paraná. he is an artisan and was at the vigília lula livre for 580 days helping with daily activities.

aline sousa passing the sash.

this was honestly one of the most beautiful moments in brazil’s history.