Grad Life

Grad Student. 25. Queer. Using Tumblr to help procrastinate making life decisions. I enjoy channeling my overabundance of rage into ranting about problematic elements of everything. I also enjoy cute animals and attractive people.

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I have a popular tweet

[vacantvisionary]

@maliceous is this you

[funereal-disease]

I feel like the “makeup is oppressive” crowd and the “makeup is empowering” crowd are referring to two completely different concepts, and it would be helpful to tease them out.

I think those who claim the former are thinking of the “no-makeup makeup” that a lot of women are pressured into wearing just to look presentable. Foundation, concealer, etc. And if we’re talking about that, then I actually agree! There is nothing wrong with wearing it if you want to, but it’s fucked that anyone should be expected to change the way their skin looks just to be considered a respectable member of society. This kind of makeup is also more about adhering to a certain baseline than about expressing yourself creatively, which I imagine must be exhausting: who wants to spend half an hour in front of the mirror only to look like you haven’t done anything at all? 

On the other hand, those who claim the latter are thinking of very obvious makeup. Of plummy lips and winged liner and dramatic contouring. If we’re talking about that? Then no, I don’t agree that that’s oppressive. No one spends hours bluing sparkles to their fingernails because they want to fit in with the status quo. That kind of makeup is a very deliberate artistic statement, and it’s demeaning to elide the differences between it and the baseline makeup people wear just to fit in. 

[fierceawakening]

I like this post

[1763-blog1]

everyone thinks of the founding fathers as these almighty gods but one time john adams was off in france and he sent back his notes from his meetings but accidentally attached some pages from his diary so all of congress stopped what they were doing to read john adams’ diary and laugh at him 

[deanplease]

Buy a shirt; help old dogs have a home

Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary provides a home for senior dogs that cannot find people to adopt them—a real home, with beds

 and couches for them 

and love and vet care and a large property to roam on with custom-made boardwalks with ramps to make it easy for the dogs that have trouble with stairs. They also provide temporary and permanent foster homes for many more, with a unique thing called Forever Fostering, where people within 100 miles of the Sanctuary can foster a dog forever, with all veterinary care and medication paid for. 

They have around 20 dogs living in the Sanctuary, including blind pug Bugsy, who had to have his eyes removed.

three bonded pairs, such as Harley and Smily, surrended to a shelter when their lifetime owner had to move into an assisted living facility, which the Sanctuary took in together so they would not be separated

and new bffs

And they’re having a t-shirt sale to raise funds to keep taking care of these old dogs that have been abandoned or are too old to be considered “adoptable.” And you should give them your money. 

Buy a nice shirt. Help a nice dog.

Signal boost this, and I will buy a shirt for someone randomly chosen from the list of people who reblog this post.

https://www.bonfirefunds.com/life-is-good-at-ofsds

[lemonpixycat]

I just bought a tshirt and amde a 10 dollar donation :)

[nanner]

Their facebook page is my self-care go-to.

HELP THESE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OUT!

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[ultravioletnights]

i’m sorry but there is no way you could have stopped me from standing on my chair and screeching like a banshee if i saw this live…

[alexbelvocal]

What

[books-and-cookies]

how

[prettybxybastard]

HOW

[nonbinannytranny]

“ballet isn’t a sport”

[bubblegumjetpack]

The thing about this is, you can barely see their muscles straining from effort. The effort to keep each other and themselves balanced, definitely, but that guy’s hand is barely shaking. The amount of training and strength and balance to go into this is fucking insane.

[pianoaround]

8 Hands, 1 Piano! Watch more!

[littleglitterbab]

how in the fuck??? so amaze

[micdotcom]

Watch: How Rodney’s island home and his father’s career inspired him to give back.

[igxbaddies]

[herdreadsrock-deactivated202401]

Kids be so damn cute and innocent like how

[thefandomdropout]

Awwww

[scumbag-vanguard]

This story was different actually??? And even better??? The girl, Brooklyn Andracke, used to wave at the truck every thursday and the trashman waved her back. It was a very important to her to do it every week.  It was HER birthday, and she decided that she wanted to share her birthday cake with the trashman. She also wanted to meet her hero, whose name is Delvar Dopson.

The girl’s mother thanked Delvar for his work and explained to him how important it is for Brooklyn to wave at him every thursday. He was pretty surprised but he admitted that every time he drove near the house he hoped that the girl would wave at him.  That’s not the end of the story though. Next week Delvar had a surprise for the little girl.

He brought her a bunch of amazing birthday gifts!

They both got quite popular, and Delvar is getting a lot of thank you messages from trashmen from all over the world for representing them in such a good way.

[kandyie]

The real story is even cuter 😩💕

[theslaybymic]

Watch: Kristen Bell opens up about the mental health double standard and how she manages her own struggle.

Follow @this-is-life-actually

[culturenlifestyle]

Real Leaves And Flowers Used As Stencils To Create Delicate And Realistic Tattoos

Ukrainian artist Rita “Rit Kit” Zolotukhina creates unique “botanical fingerprint” tattoos that recreate the delicate natural silhouette of flowers and leaves. The minimalist tattoos invoke an experimental tattoo technique mastered by the artist.

Keep reading

[micdotcom]

Watch: “In case you need more convincing there are many fundamental things Bernie and Hillary agree on”

[elloellenoh]

So important!! Please vote blue!

[siawrites]

Considering [T]Rump will be the most likely Republican nominee?

Vote Blue.  For the love of god, vote Democrat.

[dreaming-shark]

I just had this conversation with a friend of mine on facebook. I love Bernie Sanders and want him to be our nominee, but it’s important to remember: When they were in the senate together, Clinton and Sanders voted the same way 93% of the time. That 7% does make a difference, but not so big a difference that I’d risk a Trump presidency.

[crinosg]

Never not reblog this.

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[auressea]

This hits ALL my buttons.

[rat-cyng]

let’s be honest though, millennial hate is totally a thing rich folks started because they’re pissed that we have really unpredictable consumer habits and it isn’t as easy to get us to buy into stuff, so they’re mad we aren’t just money giving/traditional economy supporting machines like they expected us to be

like look at how much millennial hate articles are things like “millennials aren’t eating cereal and it’s hurting the cereal industry” or “millennials aren’t buying houses and that’s bad” or “millennials #1 utmost priority isn’t trying to make as much money as possible” and rich folks are mad about it, so just posturing our unpredictability/nontraditional values as “laziness” gets everyone else on board the hate train in some weird attempt to collectively subdue us

[jadelyn]

“You are Doing Capitalism Wrong and it scares me” - bitter Boomers to Millennials who are not buying into their shit (or buying their shit)

[jesperfahey]

Zac Posen’s gown for Claire Danes for the Met Gala

[mividalocafam]

Claire Danes dress slayed my life!