Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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How many altos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None, they can’t get that high.How many sopranos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One, she holds it up and waits for the world to revolve around her.
How many singers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two. An alto to actually do it and a soprano to stand by and ask “isn’t that a little high for you?”
u wanna fucking go
here for this fight
In case you still don’t understand how badly women have had it, when anaesthetic was first invented doctors weren’t allowed to give it to women who were giving birth because the church said that the pain of childbirth was God punishing women for not being men
My jaw just fucking dropped
For those wondering how to respectfully mourn Mr. Nimoy in his own traditions, rather than using the Christian iconography that is so prevalent in our culture, and yet so incredibly inappropriate, this is how.
Jewish families “sit shiva” in respect for…
february 30th and 31st do not exist, and there is no february 29th this year
if you have something due march 2nd:
that is this coming monday
get off of tumblr and get on your assignments, guys
Reblog to save a life.
no you know what sucks about this? you know what makes this hurt? Leonard Nimoy was so unproblematic. Leonard Nimoy was a month away from his next birthday. Leonard Nimoy quit smoking over thirty years ago. Leonard Nimoy showed generation upon generation how human and emotional any life form can be. Leonard Nimoy loved every project he did and appreciated his fans no matter where they came from.
I must remind myself—
they can’t tell that I didn’t write this bit immediately after that one
the six months where I ignored the manuscript are not visible to the naked eye
the bit where I put my head in my hands and muttered “I have no idea what I’m doing” takes place in the single space between the period and the next capital letter.
As soon as I shove that character in, she has always been there
and someone will probably say that she’s the emotional center
and the book couldn’t have been written without her
and nobody will know that I thought of her three thousand words from the end and scrolled up and shoehorned in a couple of paragraphs near the beginning because, for whatever reason, the story needed an elderly nun
she was almost the cook
and for about ten minutes she was the earnest young village priest
and now she has been there since you started reading.
I am sanding down the places where my editor found splinters
kicking up a fine dust of adjectives and dropped phrases
(Wear a breath mask. Work in a well-ventilated area. Have you seen what excess commas can do to your lungs?)
and eventually it will all be polished to a high shine
and hopefully when someone looks into it
they’ll see their own face reflected back
instead of mine.
”—(via fuckyeahursulavernon)
Sounds familiar. First drafts can be rough or smooth, it’s the polishing that breaks a sweat.
(via dduane)
stress
Things he tastes like:
- you (only sweeter)
Things you were:
- my picket fence
Things I’ll be:
- your number one with a bullet
Things my songs know:
- what you did in the dark
Things I’ve got:
- troubled thoughts
- the self esteem to match
There are two important things I need to know when meeting people.
1. What Hogwarts house are you from?
2. What Bending Nation do you hail from?
if u ever reblog a bunch of stuff from my blog and worry about whether ive noticed all the notifications yes. i have. i have committed your url to memory. i will never forget your icon. you will be permanently assembled into my ever-growing list of “super cute and lovely people to invite to my birthday party”. welcome to your fate.
So we’ve been getting stolen from a lot lately, and the loss prevention manager has been coming in and YELLING AT US because CUSTOMERS ARE STEALING. It’s apparently all our fault that shoplifters have no lives.
So now everything is going to be locked up and security tagged….
You better not be on tumblr if you haven’t completed your FAFSA
FAFSA is due March 2nd and this year February only has 28 days so please.. complete it today or tomorrow ASAP.
FUCK THANK YOU SO MUCH.
some interesting facts about leonard nimoy outside of star trek:
-was Jewish and raised by immigrants. He based the vulcan salute off of the kohanic blessing. He made a television movie called “Never Forget” about a Holocaust survivor who sues a group of neo-nazis. He did a…
J.K. Rowling on Slytherin (via seriousaboutsirius)
reblogging from the source so no one feels singled out, but ok seriously… every single comment I’ve seen on this post has been like “well fuck you jk rowling you should have made this abundantly clear in at least 50 different ways” and it’s like, HOW many times guys?
REPEAT AFTER ME: JK ROWLING HEAVILY EMPLOYS UNRELIABLE NARRATION AS A MEANS OF PROMPTING READERS TO QUESTION EVEN THE GOOD GUYS’ PREJUDICES. INSTEAD OF GOING “HEY! HEY YOU THERE SIT STILL WHILE I SPOON-FEED YOU THIS IMPORTANT SCENARIO!” SHE LETS HARRY BE A LITTLE PISSCOUCH CRAPWEASEL SOMETIMES EVEN THOUGH HE’S A REALLY GOOD PERSON SO AS TO DEMONSTRATE HOW EASY IT IS TO INTERNALIZE BADBADTOXIC SHIT IF YOU’RE NOT ETERNALLY QUESTIONING YOURSELF.
I know it’s easy to ignore but I have had it about up to merlin’s scrotum with this shit
(via everambling)
May you wake up to cancelled classes.
and may you never reach the school before you hear that they are cancelled
I like wearing oversized sweaters. Not because they’re extremely comfy and cuddly, but because whenever the sleeves are really big, I get to flop them around and smack people.
I love sleeve smacking people
like flippity flop you need to stopwhippity whap dont talk crap
I’m anti-feminist for many of the same reasons I’m an atheist.
So you don’t believe women exist?
Its okay. I’m an atheist because I don’t believe in something I can’t see or touch. I suppose women are much like that for you.
Somebody get him some ice.
okay, but a dude has to do it, cause he’s gonna freak the fuck out if he sees some floating ice coming over to him.
10/10
a 90’s kid? don’t you mean sad adult?
70,000 people have reblogged this but no one is trying to defend themselves
THAT MOMENT WHEN YOURE READING FANFICTION AND A CHARACTER SAYS SOMETHING REALLY CUTE OR ANGSTY BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SAY AND YOU JUST KINDA LEAVE THE COMPUTER AND WALK AIMLESSLY AROUND THE HOUSE TO CALM YOUR RAGING FEELS
i never realize how much i swear until i’m in a situation where i can’t
true story: i tried avoiding saying ‘bitch’ in front of a kid so my mouth said ‘cunt’ instead.
Nailed it.
Just a reminder of the cruel irony that everyone remembered Steve Rogers except for the two people he loved the most.
the sex positivity movement should never forget asexuals, abstinent & celibate people
being comfortable with not being interested in sex is just as important as being comfortable with having sex
hey what if someone invented a machine that allowed women to transfer their pregnancies to men and then the government passed a law that if a woman didn’t want to have a baby the biological father was required to carry it how fast do you think birth control would stop being an issue
BEST NIGHTBLOG POST EVER
“IT’S UNETHICAL TO FORCE PEOPLE TO CARRY A BABY!!!!” MEN SHOUT
“NO FUCKING SHIT!!!!” WOMEN REPLY
I wouldn’t date a tall female bruh we gon get in a argument and she gon put my phone on the top of the fridge
why am I laughing so hard???!!!
as a 6’1 female i can confirm that i love doing this to short people i’m angry with
As a 5'1 female I can confirm that this is my great fear of dating a tall person.
things that will make me immediately lose respect for you:
- yelling at/hitting animals
- treating your significant others badly
- using slurs
- purposely misgendering someone
- embarrassing people for fun
- Being a racist asshole
- Being a homophobe
- Infringing on other peoples’ rights
also, yelling at/being incredibly rude to someone in the service industry (waitress/waiter/bartender/fast-food worker/etc)
BEING PRESSURED INTO SAYING YES IS NOT CONSENT AND YOUR FEELINGS OF BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ARE STILL VALID AND IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT
I REPEAT
BEING PRESSURED INTO SAYING YES IS NOT CONSENT
AND YOUR FEELINGS OF BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ARE STILL VALID
AND IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT
When [an abusive man] tells me that he became abusive because he lost control of himself, I ask him why he didn’t do something even worse. For example, I might say, “You called her a fucking whore, you grabbed the phone out of her hand and whipped it across the room, and then you gave her a shove and she fell down. There she was at your feet where it would have been easy to kick her in the head. Now, you have just finished telling me that you were ‘totally out of control’ at that time, but you didn’t kick her. What stopped you?” And the client can always give me a reason. Here are some common explanations:
“I wouldn’t want to cause her a serious injury.”
“I realized one of the children was watching.”
“I was afraid someone would call the police.”
“I could kill her if I did that.”
“The fight was getting loud, and I was afraid the neighbors would hear.”
And the most frequent response of all:
“Jesus, I wouldn’t do that. I would never do something like that to her.”
The response that I almost never heard — I remember hearing it twice in the fifteen years — was: “I don’t know.”
These ready answers strip the cover off of my clients’ loss of control excuse. While a man is on an abusive rampage, verbally or physically, his mind maintains awareness of a number of questions: “Am I doing something that other people could find out about, so it could make me look bad? Am I doing anything that could get me in legal trouble? Could I get hurt myself? Am I doing anything that I myself consider too cruel, gross, or violent?”
A critical insight seeped into me from working with my first few dozen clients: An abuser almost never does anything that he himself considers morally unacceptable. He may hide what he does because he thinks other people would disagree with it, but he feels justified inside. I can’t remember a client ever having said to me: “There’s no way I can defend what I did. It was just totally wrong.” He invariably has a reason that he considers good enough. In short, an abuser’s core problem is that he has a distorted sense of right and wrong.
I sometimes ask my clients the following question: “How many of you have ever felt angry enough at youer mother to get the urge to call her a bitch?” Typically half or more of the group members raise their hands. Then I ask, “How many of you have ever acted on that urge?” All the hands fly down, and the men cast appalled gazes on me, as if I had just asked whether they sell drugs outside elementary schools. So then I ask, “Well, why haven’t you?” The same answer shoots out from the men each time I do this exercise: “But you can’t treat your mother like that, no matter how angry you are! You just don’t do that!”
The unspoken remainder of this statement, which we can fill in for my clients, is: “But you can treat your wife or girlfriend like that, as long as you have a good enough reason. That’s different.” In other words, the abuser’s problem lies above all in his belief that controlling or abusing his female partner is justifiable….
”—Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (via seebster)
THIS BOOK SAVED MY LIFE AND I CANNOT RECOMMEND IT ENOUGH
EVERYONE ON EARTH SHOULD READ THIS *except abusers
(via theinconstantones)
Reblog if you would be comfortable living in a dormitory with an openly transgender or intersex individual. We’re working on a campaign for gender neutral housing and we could use your support.
According to Vulcan mourning traditions, a death is mourned only if the life was wasted. Leonard Nimoy lived an incredible life and leaves behind a wonderful legacy - one of compassion, creativity, and kindness. Let’s honor his life and celebrate his legacy by making an effort to uplift and encourage our fellow travelers on this little blue planet. #LLAP
Also! A Vulcan mourning tradition that survived from the ancient times before the teachings of Surak is the distinction between mourning and grieving. A life wasted was mourned, the death of someone held close was grieved. The traditional statement given, in recognition of a problem for which there is no foreseeable logical solution, is “I grieve with thee.” LLAP
@ people who use they/them pronouns: I am so sorry you have to deal with know-it-alls who think they & them are only used for multiple people and I’m also sorry you have to deal with people who try to get you to use he/him or she/her pronouns you keep doing you ok
REALLY THOUGH. (I am so sorry that people are terrible, sweeties, and if I ever fuck up because I fuck up at everything please tell me because I want you to be comfortable and I am sorry that I fuck up at everything.)
