August 2011
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“The hardware store for women.”
– A billboard in my town advertising a jewelry store. As a woman who prefers power tools to jewelry, this makes me feel like an outsider - like I don’t count. It seems to insinuate that men are productive and women are decorative. (via microaggressions)
July 2011
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If you haven't received your email yet don't panic
loveisalazerquest:
“If you did register for early access today, then congratulations! You should receive your validation email shortly. Don’t forget to click the link in your validation email within 48 hours; this will secure your early access place.”
(source)
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On libraries: They are magical
queryquagmire:
Every time I hear someone say something along the lines of, “I have so many books I want to read, but no money with which to buy them!” I want to (politely, but not without a little condescension) ask them, “Sweetie, why don’t you have a fucking library card?”
The library is this fabulous invention that lets you get books… for free! No kidding! They let you walk in, pick any old...
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thedailywhat:
Say What Now of the Day: Fox News anchor Jon Scott asks Bill Nye if volcanoes on the moon disprove human-influenced climate change.
Fox News: If you can’t beat ‘em, confuse the hell out of ‘em.
[mediamatters.]
OH MY GOD BILL NYE.
The look on his face HOLY SHIT. I love him.
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Brussels sprouts are straight-up repulsive....
librariansoul:
Cucumbers are nasty. I’ll choke them down if they’re covered in salad dressing or something, but I can’t stand them. Unless they are in dill pickle form. Then they’re delicious.
Green peas and green limas? Barf. Split peas and dry limas? Yum.
Green bell peppers. That shit needs to ripen a while longer, yo.
Cooked carrots and parsnips? Sweet and cloying and weird. Raw carrots...
Thoughts on menstruation supplies
lesbo-a-gogo:
bubonickitten:
I refuse to call them ~*feminine hygiene*~ supplies.
Anyway… why are the boxes all dainty and soft? It’s all pastel pink, pastel blue, flowers, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I like pastels and soft colours, but I think there’s a lot of untapped potential here.
Think about it. I bleed for days on end. Without dying. That’s pretty fucking metal.
So why can’t boxes for...
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Right, apparently people... →
cydne-the-trekupine:
If I choose to make porn (which I am choosing to do, incidentally), or if I choose to be an escort (which I did, once upon a time), I am not ‘selling myself’. I am not for sale. My body, my mind, my personality… these things are not for sale. What is for sale, is the…
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Watchallaboutvangogh:
Excerpt from the episode “Vincent and the Doctor” (S05E10) – Doctor Who.
The Doctor: In a hundred words, where do you think van Gogh rates in the history of art?
Dr. Black: Big question, but… to me, van Gogh is the finest painter of them all; certainly the most popular great painter of all time; the most beloved; his command of colour the most magnificent. He transformed the...
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Note to self:
whatfreshhellisthis:
IT IS OK
To not always be happy, life is so much more than happy; you do not owe people happy
It is ok
To not have the energy to even reply to their ‘I love yous’; they did not send those words for them
It is ok
To be sad and scared, angry, confused and broken-down; you are not a bad person
You are worthy of love and attention No matter what or how you feel about...
DC Comics SDCC panels: uncomfortable questions...
dcwomenkickingass:
The DC Comics panels at SDCC have been filled with what I being told are uncomfortable and awkward moments around the issues of female creators and characters.
Much of this is being driven by a woman attending the DC panels with her young daughter. From people I’ve spoken to the daughter is a tweener — under 14. The woman is dressed at Batgirl; her daughter as Spoiler....
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Pride
So, my roommate has this cat, but my roommate had to go home to Chicago for a while, and so I’m watching the cat. And I couldn’t get the cat to stop scratching the couch, no matter what I did, so I went to the pet shop and looked at the scratching posts.
I couldn’t even pretend to be able to afford a scratching post, except for maybe the small $20-30 ones (lol, not even then,...
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“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Quirrell was on the back of...”
– Voldemort (via ohmygodsomeweirdo)
“[Trigger Warning for discussion of rape]
Eight percent of college men have...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
“In the safest, most boring country, the worst lone gunman shooting happens. The...”
– Ola via youmightfindyourself. (via nom-chompsky)
I. Am. Crying.
(via librariansoul)
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silvermoon424:
~~~From episode 125
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Help.
Yesterday I had a complete breakdown when my mother sent me the kindest, nicest email asking a really simple question:
What’s your plan? If you don’t find a job soon, what are you going to do?
I am fortunate enough that my parents are just barely monied enough that, aside from a relatively small collection of loans, I was able to go through school mostly on their support. And we had...
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hellyeahavpm:
GUYS… GUYS.
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WatchThis is stuck in my head right now.
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WatchThis is kind of gorgeous.
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dumplingheadcanon:
That’s the feeling of your hair being used as a jump rope by invisible children in the dark, Usagi.
Every. Single. Time.
Watchlifeunfolding:
karnythia:
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lamocosa:
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champagnexwishes:
Two young black men, dressed like most young men (of every color) dress are followed around Publix by a white worker who seems to think they’re going to steal something. They purposely allow him to know he’s being recorded in hopes that it will stop, but he continues to follow them anyway all the way to...
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Thing I don't get
Why is it that to be a Snape fan it seems you have to want him to have ended up with Lily and totally hate James. I adore Snape. I think his story is tragic and heartbreaking. I think he genuinely loved Lily, and was never given the tools to deal with that, or anything else in his life, and he spent the second half of his life paying for the mistakes of the first half of his life. His death scene...
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Time is Circular.
dumplingheadcanon:
Queen Serenity, the original user of the Silver Crystal and once a Sailor Soldier, was the survivor of a great and powerful war; she was not strong enough to defeat the enemy Chaos entirely, and instead fled, taking refuge on the moon of a distant planet; Earth, quickly taking ownership of it, swearing never to transform again, and providing a eutopia for those who had...
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Fuck yeah, feminists!: Fuck you, Netflix :( →
fuckyeahfeminists:
Just got this
We are separating unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming into two separate plans to better reflect the costs of each. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a DVD only plan, or both. Your current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and…
I dealt with this earlier today, finally making the decision to just...
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panasonicyouth:
hummingbrdheart:
...
“Sure we have to go back home for the summer, but imagine how totally awesome...”
– Harry Potter, A Very Potter Sequel (time to bring back the relevance of this quote)
IT’S REAL FOR US. *sob*
(via talesoftherin)
