Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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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
Feminists say that if they walk around naked and get raped, it’s not their fault. Let me ask you this, if you owned a bank and left the doors wide open with no security and you got robbed in the middle of the night, is it the robbers fault or yours?
Literally the robber’s fault??? They walked in and took something that wasn’t theirs??? They knew pretty well that they shouldn’t steal things??? What is your argument even trying to prove???
“I’m not vaccinating my kids because they’ll build up immunity naturally anyway”
HEY, THIS IS IMPORTANT. I WILL TRY TO BE CLEAR AND CONCISE.
Whooping cough (pertussis) is making a comeback, largely because people tend to be unaware of the fact that the vaccine OR natural immunity only last for seven years. Now, if you’re relatively healthy, have no pre-existing respiratory conditions (including asthma, folks), and are between sixteen and, oh, forty-five, then whooping cough is probably just going to be a pain in the ass–you’ll cough for a while, it’ll be uncomfortable, but you’ll probably be fine, because your immune system will eventually crush it.
IF YOU DO NOT FIT ALL THREE OF THOSE CONDITIONS, WHOOPING COUGH WILL PROBABLY FUCK YOU UP REALLY BAD. LIKE, POTENTIALLY LETHAL BAD. Remember, folks, whooping cough used to be a major killer. I do not fuck around with this sort of thing.
Story time: once upon a time, Moran was a sickly little baby who lived with a bunch of other people in a commune (forgive my parents their trusting youth, they are now appropriately cynical of everyone and everything). Naturally, these alternative hippie people didn’t like getting their asses vaccinated. Moran, being an infant, had a limit on what vaccinations she could get. So when one of the people in the commune got a persistent cough, Moran ended up with whooping cough at ten months old.
Now, let me be clear, I had a serious proclivity to being extremely sick. It wasn’t genetic or even inherent to my body (my immune system is actually superior to most people’s, probably because I was sick so much), it was a result of the environment, but obviously my pediatrician was more interested in keeping me alive in the short term than exposing me to possibly hazardous or weakening bacteria, even in the form of vaccinations. So even if I’d been old enough, I probably wouldn’t have been vaccinated, because my immune system was so crippled that it would have been very problematic. I got whooping cough anyway, and the thing about whooping cough is, well, the treatments can be rough, and in my situation I couldn’t have withstood them. And they don’t always work.
Let me hit you with a few numbers. Thirty percent. Three-zero. Losing thirty percent of your body weight (assuming that you’re not obese) is lethal. Whooping cough is a massive drain on your body’s resources, and on top of that it’s hard to eat through the coughing fits.
L'il Baby Moran dropped twenty-five percent of her body weight in four weeks. An infant who had no genetic disorders or exceptional health problems that wouldn’t have been resolved by a move into a better constructed non-commune almost died of this very preventable disease. Less than twenty years ago. Currently, I am very healthy, although I still tend to get respiratory issues more than anything else, but it took not weeks, not months, but years to regain that weight loss because it was so extreme. I am also highly allergic to the new TDaP (tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis) vaccine; it causes me to spike a massive fever and hallucinate vividly horrifying images for forty-eight hours. Yes, I did find that out by testing it, and for a while we thought I would be at risk for all three permanently, because I couldn’t handle the newest shot. I still get vaccinated for those diseases (with an earlier form of the shot, so there’s no major reaction) to protect myself and others.
So let’s just be clear here: you might think that your kids will get natural immunity to this sort of thing and be fine. But you might also risk their death. Herd immunity aside (although for fuck’s sake, get vaccinated even if all three of those conditions I mentioned earlier are true for you, because you’ll be protecting other people who can’t get the shot, and those three conditions are no guarantee that you’ll be fine), you will actually literally risk your child’s life. Their life, not their comfort or their mood. Their life.
That makes you a bad parent by any definition.
Protect yourself, protect your friends, protect your children. Get vaccinated.
can we just not treat irl people like fictional characters? like can we not ship them with their friends and have headcannons for them and make art of them having sex with random people? like can we treat them like real people with actual feelings please? thanks
Jesus Christ, I never thought of it like this.
reblog if u have an erection
how much do you want to bet that 90% of those notes are from sarcastic girls
sugarquillsandfizzingwhizbees:
My mum didn’t know it was a TV show and she freaked out when she saw me googling ‘How To Get Away With Murder’
Long story short, she called the whole family round and gave us the standard ‘murder will not be tolerated in this family’ lecture
I WILL REBLOG THIS UNTIL I DIE
the standard ‘murder will not be tolerated in this family’ lecture
THERE IS SUCH A FUCKING PROBLEM WITH THE EDUCATION SYSTEM WHEN STUDENTS ARE IN TEARS EVERY SINGLE NIGHT AND WAKE UP EVERY SINGLE MORNING WANTING TO THROW UP AT THE THOUGHT OF GETTING OUT OF BED WHILE THINKING THAT THEY’D RATHER BE DEAD THAN GO TO SCHOOL
eleven thousand people can relate to this post. that’s not okay.
Not when you are laying around the house, not when you go to the grocery store, not when you sit in a classroom, not when you go to the gym. You are never obligated to get dressed up just so you are pretty for others.
Pretty is not the rent you pay to exist in the world as a woman.
That last line. Wow.
i really appreciate this.
uptown funk is one of those songs that you hear for the first time and you’re like nice but then before you know it you’re screaming it in your car and dancing to it in the shower and incorporating its lyrics into your day to day conversations. don’t believe me? just watch.
Seriously guys my parents think I’m absolute trash because I have pink tips on my hair what the helllllll
I had blue hair, then purple hair now bright cherry red hair, so if that makes me trash so be it
I’ve had all colors except for green, yellow, and orange.
I plan to go from warm mahogany to cherry red for a special anniversary in March and I solemnly couldn’t care less what anyone thinks.
Anyone who wants to say shit about my hair can kindly fuck right off.
I mean
have you READ THEM
aren’t they adorable
i want to go to hogwarts
FRICKLE FRACKLE MUGGLEBORNS ARE ADORABLE
This is me in my usual bra, note the 34D/32DD boobs.
And here is the binder, almost completely flat.
This thing is awesome. It is remarkably comfortable, too. Feels a bit like wearing a sports bra. I got it from Love Boat, this one(http://www.lesloveboat.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=122&osCsid=57cc209b6d95c6c3efa2d87a2325b6c2)
WOAH.
Reblogging again for my trans* and genderfluid buddies and also all female cosplay friends.
“Bisexuals always end up picking a side”
Yaa all those fake bisexuals meeting the love of their life and staying together forever and getting married and being happy with only one person those assholespeople are so damn determined we’re unfaithful, greedy, cheaters that when we prove the stereotypes wrong, they have to call our sexuality into question instead of their own prejudices and misconceptions
i didn’t pick a side, i picked a life partner
Sirius Black, speaking about Barty Crouch Jr
(but probably also from experience holy shit
because Sirius doesn’t have any sympathy for death eaters nor should he but hell he knows all about sons thrown to the dogs for the sake of family reputation and then left to rot in azkaban while their rich and powerful relatives didn’t lift a finger oh my god
he says “Crouch’s fatherly affection stretched just far enough to give his son a trial“ guys this arrest happened right after Sirius’s
Walburga was still alive and Sirius sure as hell didn’t get a damn trial
blasted off the family tree in-fucking-deed)
Nonbinary characters should be like a regular thing because so much prophecy is so gendered.
“No man or woman can ever defeat me.”
“Lucky me then!”This post is making cis people mad keep reblogging it.
That’d make a really cool adventure story actually, great for a kids book!
#i actually understand less“you’ll understand when you’re older”
i am older and i understand absolutely nothing
Hi I’m auditioning for the role of my GPA and I’ll be singing Sugar, We’re Goin Down by Fall Out Boy
imagine a sleepover with all of your favorite characters. like. all of them. each and every one
I’m pretty sure that would result in at least two murders, a trip to the emergency room, and several accounts of arson.
notallbees:“• I can’t tell whether this is a date because you asked to see a movie but I’m still not sure you’re queer, and I’m toeing the line because maybe you’re just trying to make friends • One…
“Can we stop calling [children’s cartoon show] a show for kids now?”
Can you stop being so fucking embarrassed about watching a children’s cartoon? Can you accept the fact that you fall outside the show’s marketed demographic and that’s perfectly okay? Can you realize that mature themes exist in children’s cartoons too and doesn’t automatically make them for adults only?
one girl scrolled past this and woke up without boobs
Forever reblog cuz I don’t wanna wake up without boobs.
The fucking notesJust read the notes
I’m not gonna risk anything
I have boobs and it is glorious.
Do u ever wonder if, in a few decades, memes will be featured in history textbooks? As a part of history and internet culture?
Bc if my descendents even have to so much as read the words “skeleton” and “war” together I’m coming out of my grave to fuck shit upBut wouldn’t that actually start the skeleton war?
Fulfill The Prophecy
the other day my boyfriend wouldn’t cook me breakfast so i went to the lounge, changed our wifi password and refused to give it to him until he had made me something to eat
But if guy did that…
sorry to break it to you but i am a guy
A+ on liiiiife.
y’all keep saying that 2012 being the end of the world was a hoax but has any year since then actually felt real???
