Glitter In Her Veins

Belly Dance ideas and inspiration, random geekery, and whatever else I find amusing.

[daevite]

me: god i love paranormal shit and urban legends

me, after indulging in aforementioned content:

[glitterdammerung]

Me: Ugh, baths are just hot skin soup.

Me, actually in the bath: ohhhh my god I am made of jelly I never want to leave

[star-anise]

it has been a long week and i am very tired

pls show me your cats

[ishuzu]

this is Buster, showing us her very dirty feet.

[1000heartbeats]

This is Dany. He has anxiety, but he’s full of love.

[errantpixxi]

This is Tally, a 10 yo 18 pound Maine Coon, who will let you use her tummy for a pillow when you’re sad, and will just purr & groom you until you feel better 💕

[madamehardy]

This is Jareth, a rescue who advises you to consider the benefits of a good long nap

[nonelvis]

This is Miss Noir. Her hobbies include being besties with the food bag, running away from things in fear, and stairstep lurking.

This is Miss Nicole. Her hobbies include being an immense asshole.

[secondhand-glory]

This is Uno. He thinks things are gonna be okay. I intend to believe him.

[punmasterkentparson]

This is Kit. He likes chasing bugs, digging in his litter box, and being aggressively cuddly.

[boundtoanandroid]

this is crookshanks she’s orange

[jame7t]

this is Keyes he’s my lead strategist

[lemoneychicken]

this is toast, hes a cool dude

[crazybarks42]

This is Rosie. She’s loud because she’s full of bees

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

This is Sweety he is very large

[dog-dyke]

This is Khensu he belongs to my neighbors he’s half Maine coon I hang out with him when he gets lonely

[cumaeansibyl]

This is little cat, she loves headbutts and standing on people

[sashayed]

this is Elly she’s very soft and a butthole

[glitterdammerung]

This is Trilby, she has no tail, she likes to sneak up behind me and sink her claws into my butt.

[angelicghaval]

This is Bonny Anne. She's a tiny little cuddle monster. Here she is getting ready for Halloween.

[cali-cocaine]

this is good

[embyrr922]

I’d just like to add, see how they behave when they’re angry/frustrated/exhausted, and if you see something that concerns you, wait until they’re calm, and then talk to them about it.

My husband used to yell when he got frustrated, but after I explained to him that I found it upsetting, he stopped yelling and started consciously working on asking for help before he got to that level of frustration.

When I’m upset over something, or just in a bad mood, I tend to withdraw. My husband explained to me that it makes him feel like I’m mad at him, so now when I need some space, I’ll tell him what I’m upset about, or that I’m in a bad mood for no particular reason, and I need to be alone for a little while.

See your friends and partners at their worst, but don’t assume that their worst is immutable. If someone loves and cares about you, they’ll try to accommodate you to the best of their ability.

[ladylike-foxes]

^^^^ This is the best advice I’ve ever seen on this site, and it is so important. Communication is everything, and is 80% of the reason my husband and I have such a healthy, strong, and supportive relationship.

[angelicghaval]

I'd like to add that before you get married, you should experience a presidential election (in the US. Insert whichever higher government event that applies to you). I've had a few friends that got married before this election and it seems that they learned some surprising things about their spouses.

[cruciatus-animus]

This is why I don’t tell 99% people im bisexual

[nudeparrot-deactivated20161109]

I love how gay people do it too. Just… really? You’re literally saying the same shit to bisexuals that straight people say to you, and you don’t see the hypocrisy? 

[asking-ask-deactivated20171227]

If youre biphobic or hate bisexuals, fucking unfollow me, for serious.

[cutestwarlord]

^^^

[sciencemyfiction]

If youre biphobic or hate bisexuals, fucking unfollow me, for serious.

[drudragonrose]

Why is this a thing like really? Homosextual people of ALL beings should understand that you like what you like and if the answer multiple choice then that’s just more love to go around non?

[simlyliving-deactivated20170518]

BY REBLOGGING THIS YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOUR BLOG IS COMPLETELY ACCEPTING OF BI FOLKS!!! BISEXUAL PEOPLE ARE PART OF THE LGBT+ COMMUNITY AND IF YOU DISAGREE, PLEASE UNFOLLOW ME

[sneezehq]

ALL bi people are welcome here! No exceptions.

[taylortut]

Everyone is safe here with me <3

[shanceshklance]

As a bi person, I get this a lot so any other bi people: I love you all. 💙💙

[minekitkate]

not bi myself, but bi’s are chill

[babyanimalgifs]

CUTEST BLACK CAT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[angelicghaval]

It looks like my Bonny Anne!!!

[sweetoothgirl]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bottomed Salted Rum Caramel Tart with Toasted Marshmallow

[dan-1blogger]

HOLY. MOTHER. OF. FUCK. 😵

[sweetoothgirl]

^basically ;)

[justinejoli]

O.M.F.G.

[wilwheaton]

holy christ

[angelicghaval]

Oh Lissa...

[quickweaves]

I’m v passionate about public transportation and honestly idk why any major us city doesn’t have a light rail system

[quickweaves]

*azealia banks megaphone gif* PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS A HUGE EQUALIZER THAT GIVES DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLE ACESS TO GREATER RESOURCES CREATES LASTING STABLE JOBS AND PRODUCES CAPITAL FOR METRO GOVERNMENTS TO INVEST IN PROJECTS THAT IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE

[beyonslayed]

because *republican voice* that’s socialism

[severalowls]

Because they did have light rail systems, extensive ones. And then it started hurting car sales and the automotive companies got mad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

So, with pressure from those guys it was effectively replaced by the Interstate system even within cities, and from then on urban planning was done specifically with every family owning a car in mind, which resulted in the vast urban sprawl of the suburbs built from the 1940s onwards, and why it’s now impossible to get anywhere without a car in most of the US. Which is basically unheard of elsewhere in the world unless you’re in the middle of nowhere.

Of course the cost of owning a vehicle has gone way the hell up since 70 years ago, resulting in a horrible situation for anybody living on minimum/near-minimum wage!

[grandpaahab]

Remember in Who Framed Roger Rabbit when they dismantle the red car to make way for a big fat freeway with personal automobiles? Yeah, that was a lot more historical retelling than just a jokey cartoon movie thing.

[ruiniscrazy]

Which, ironically, is usually the point of jokey cartoon movie things.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

As someone who worked in light rail for 18 months (with emphasis on streetcars), I can tell you the following reasons it is a fucking pain in the ass to get light rail built anywhere it doesn’t already exist:

First, you have to get people to VOTE for a light rail.

Then, you have to bid out the light rail, and this can take–at minimum–18 months to two years.

Then, after choosing the proper bidding, you have to ARRANGE to even get materials where you need it.

While you are also getting materials, you have to be certain the people supplying you the trains are worth a good goddamn in terms of delivering reliable trains. There are a number of companies whom are COMPLETELY reliable, but if you are selling your trains as USA manufacturing, it’s a goddamn crapshoot. I’m pretty sure, with the demolition of my former employer, no one makes trains in the US anymore.

I wanna be clear on this: The US was not making fucking stellar trains that everyone should want. We legit bought plans from a company that’s been making trains for DECADES and pretended like we knew what we were doing. WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING.

For every two years it takes to prove you can pull off the thing, you’re going up against new elections, either from the state/federal level or from the local level, and it is hard as shit to keep up the momentum for light rail when you can’t even get a goddamn track laid before there’s a new election and someone halts construction.

[madmaudlingoes]

Also there are people who are against transit SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE it helps poor people. The piss-poor excuse for a rail line in St. Louis can’t expand into St. Charles County, even though that would give people in the exurbs a much easier way to get to the airport/downtown, because–and I quote–“it might draw a bad element” out to the fortress of White Suburbia. It goes beyond NIMBYism to outright hatred of the (racialized) poor.

[david-bowies-butt-deactivated20]

Adding on to the St. Louis rail line: I know there was a lot of controversy about expanding it into Clayton and Ladue (which are the very richy richy white districts if you couldn’t already tell by the names) because *gasp* that would mean poor people could access the area.  Hell, Ladue didn’t even want sidewalks that connected to any neighboring neighbors because they’re exclusionary as fuck.

[bigtittydgemini]

^^^^^

[cubyrop]

Mercer Island is suing Sound Transit here in Seattle to try to block ST3, our massive light rail expansion which voters overwhelmingly supported in last November’s election, because What About the Cars???

[angelicghaval]

Arlington, Texas is the home of the Cowboys Stadium, the Texas Rangers Ballpark, and the original Six Flags over Texas. The voted time after time against public transportation because they don't want the wrong kind of people coming in. Which is ridiculous since it would be great for tourism.

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

[coolpepcat-deactivated20190924]

what the fuck

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[thefuuuucomics]

holy shit

[andhumanslovedstories]

An adaptation of Hamlet that’s filmed like it’s an episode of like Keeping up with the Kardashians, and every soliloquy is just a character doing a talking head interview 

[imperatorkhaleesi]

This is actually so brilliant that when I do a filmed Hamlet adaptation I will do this, pay you for the creative direction, and give you the concept byline.

[andhumanslovedstories]

I’ll be real, this post was like 5% joke, 95% realization that the purest preservation of the soliloquy in modern culture is the reality show talking head, a confessional both private and performative and essential to understanding the emotional underpinnings of the actions being played, all in a format of direct address that we accept.

The reality show as the modern melodrama

[angelicghaval]

So, by all means, make sure people see it.

[angelicghaval]

A fellow dancer who often posts videos of herself received creepy messages from this guy. He told her how beautiful she was and asked if she thought he was attractive. When she didn’t give him the response that he wanted he harassed her and started calling her names. Now he’s embarrassed. He doesn’t want anyone sharing this. Hmmmm…. what to do, what to do.

[angelicghaval]

When it comes to my kids I have no fucking chill at all. None. I don't care who you are... you do NOT mistreat or snub them. I will tear you a new one.

[thatsthat24]

The Question We Always Ask Ourselves 💭 (Feat. Jim Cummings)

[freeselfdefense]

Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

[kny111]

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

[blog-archive-111189]

Worth watching

[heylookitseli-archives]

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this. 

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head. 

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away. 

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out. 

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot 

[sosuperawesome]

Book pins by janemount on Etsy

[mshenchy-deactivated20170309]

You guys, Jane Mount is awesome. She and her husband lived in Berlin at the same time we did and we found each other through a mutual friend although never got to hang out because I left sooner than expected.

ANYWAYS. She does these adorable pins, but will also do custom prints of your ideal bookshelf. I am planning on having her paint one for me with all the books I read while in Berlin.

[therealduckandpenguin-deactivat]

attn jennywilbury your whole rereading list is here!!! ;)

[well-learned-politesse-deactiva]

Oh my goodness.

[angelicghaval]

I want Alice and Hitchhikers Guide. These are so cool!

[meowoofau]

purina tidy cats lightweight litter causes health problems

Purina tidy cats lightweight litter has caused serious health issues in cats. They include wheezing, bloody nose, bloody urine and respiratory problems. If you are currently using this product, please keep a close eye on your feline’s health. Please consider avoiding purchasing this product if possible as it is not worth the risk.

This isn’t the first time a Purina product has been reported to adversely affect pets, we posted earlier this year that Beneful is facing a class action lawsuit for the death of 4,000 dogs.

As parents of furchildren, we need to be more aware of the food and products we give our babies and not be blinded by big budget campaigns and advertisements from giant pet brands. They may claim to have our pets’ best interests at heart but that is not always the case.

[wildlife-rehabilitator]

Every single one of you, please please reblog this to help inform others.

[shofie-ffxiv]

Actually gonna reblog this to my main blog because this should get more exposure

[afniel]

Be careful, pet owners, this is not a hoax. Some of the Amazon reviews are painful and sickening to read, this stuff is so damaging to pets. Don’t buy it, don’t let others buy it.

[seajaee]

I literally just bought this at the store today. I will promptly return it.

[onemuseleft]

Fair warning, this product is, in my experience, really, really terrible for people who have asthma or any kind of respiratory problems as well.

[swingsetindecember]

from the MSDS (material safety data sheet), purina tidy cats lightweight litter shouldn’t even be around humans for long periods. 

it contains perlite which is an industrial insulator. also silica and bentonite, which if fine enough are respiratory hazards. 

From the MSDS sheet: 

Dust may be irritating to skin, eyes and nasal passages. 

Maintaining occupation exposures to dust to levels less than the occupational exposure levels are recommended to minimize the potential for silicosis, respiratory tract, eyes and skin irritation. 

Health Hazard – Carcinogenicity 

Inhalation: Short Term: Dust may irritate the nasal passages. Long Term: Breathing small particles can be hazardous to lungs. This product contains crystalline silica in extremely small amounts. Crystalline silica in high concentrations can cause lung disease.

Even the MSDS sheet says you need to be in a well ventilated area and minimize exposure if using. That alone is a red flag. 

[glitterdammerung]

Nestle owns Purina, by the way. I am here to be your continual source for Reason Nestle Effing Sucks.