“Persephone climbed into her husband’s lap as if it were her throne, as if she never sat anywhere else. Hades, stiff and frightening to eyes of others, let the flower goddess run her fingers through his hair like any love drunk young man tasting the nectar of a woman’s love for the first time. To the world he was an unyielding and merciless king, but for her he was vulnerable and tender.”
Giethoorn in Netherlands has no roads or any modern transportation at all, only canals. Well, and 176 bridges too. Tourists have to leave their cars outside of the village and travel here by foot or boat by. So you can probably imagine how peaceful it is here.
not to #resist fun but an app like snapchat which digitally “enhances” the photos you take of yourself inevitably leads to greater dissatisfaction w your actual face in the same way that photoshopped images in media increase body dissatisfaction, but actually worse than that bc it’s an unrealistically enhanced version of you and therefore harder to dismiss or ignore
A lot of plastic surgeons are saying that more and more people are walking in with Snapchat filter photos of themselves as reference to how they want to look. We really need to be aware of how much harm these filters do to our self image.
AND LETS TALK ABOUT THE WHITEWASHING TOO: lightening of the skin, changing the eye color to blue, contouring the face/nose. it’s not just wrong because of beauty standards, it’s also really fucking racist 🙃
I did not like the way they turned her into a
half-witted bit of eye candy in Revenge of the Sith.
Half-witted?
She was a
senator.
She orchestrated
the political movement that would later become the rebel alliance.
When told of
her own death she reacted with her intellect and not her emotions.
She faced
Darth Vader alone.
She challenged Palpatine’s power.
She was pregnant,
kept a full-time job, always looked like a fashion icon and was working on a
political alliance to remove Palpatine from power on her free time.
She was the
first one to realize that Republic had become the evil they were fighting to
destroy.
and she had one of the most iconic lines in the Star Wars franchise:
