Swinging Through Golden Hour!

Swinging through golden hour!

[Image ID: Miles Morales swings on his web through the city as warm afternoon light turns the buildings orange and pink]

This is just a general reminder that real, actual, human people do not exist in order to be good representation.

Real people are messy. Complicated. The products of their time and their culture. Influenced by their society and their class, their race and sex and gender. The amalgam of their childhood experiences. Prone to bias and mistake and inexplicable human oddness. And people live private lives with private thoughts and unknowable details that even the most ardent biographer will not be able to document.

And as soon as you try to take a real human person and turn them into "representation"- you have to sand off the edges and the bumps, you have to simplify and generalize their story to make it fit on an inspirational poster for whatever X history/heritage month you are trying to make.

Please be careful. History is not full of heroes and villains. It is full of people. People who lived full, complicated, and largely unknown lives. Their life doesn't have a theme or embody an ideology or stand as a model for others- it was just their life. All we can do is seek to understand them as best we can.

Actually what happened to Percy is normal for a bisexual in his early 20s. Full scale demonic possession caused by a burning desire for revenge is actually a one of the most common symptoms of bisexual early 20somethings disease. That’s why college campuses are like that. 

babes you seen a contact lens? yeah i need it my third eye is a little nearsighted

hi hi! love your work, if you’re up to it would you mind doing a scorpio sun, cancer moon, gemini rising, sagittarius mercury, sagittarius venus and pisces mars? i’m kind of new to all of this so would love to see what you come up with! 💖

scorpio sun, cancer moon, gemini rising, sagittarius mercury, sagittarius venus and pisces mars

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Carmen - Lana Del Rey

Valley of the dolls - Marina

Lovefool - The cardigans

Want you in my room - Carly Rae Jepsen

Dancing on my own - Robyn

Breezeblocks - Alt-j

I wanna be yours - Arctic moneys

Mr. Brightside - The killers

Epiphany - Taylor Swift

Roman holiday - Halsey

Girls just wanna have fun - Cindy Lauper