Someone Pour Me More Wine

22. Texas. Liberal. Feminist. I like good friends, great food, and an open bottle of wine. "Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what i think is right." - Hillary Clinton

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I don’t think people love me. They love versions of me I have spun for them, versions of me they have construed in their minds. The easy versions of me, the easy parts of me to love. Who’s going to love the girl that can’t stop crying? The girl that hurts herself? The girl that is losing control? The girl that is so sad she can’t get out of bed? The girl that keeps pushing everyone away? Who’s going to love the monster in me, who’s going to love me now?

(via bl-ossomed)

[another-angry-feminist]

Good morning, Manhattan ☕️#picoftheday #instadaily #travel #girlswithtattoos #skyline #stpatrickscathedral #newyork #legs (at Lotte New York Palace)

[another-angry-feminist]

Oh Paris, I've missed you ✈️ #paris #france #travel #ootd #style #picoftheday #instadaily #love (at Arc De Triomphe, Champs Elysées, Paris)

[another-angry-feminist]

New England, it's been fun ✌🏻️ #rhodeisland #cliffwalk #ootd #style #loveloft #newengland #travel #newport #picoftheday #instadaily (at Cliff Walk)

[another-angry-feminist]

Miami, you're beautiful ❤️☀️ #miami #florida #travel #ocean #ootd #blonde #picoftheday #beautiful #me (at Pérez Art Museum Miami)

[another-angry-feminist]

The wind is killing my beach picture dreams. 🌴#miami #miamibeach #girlswithtattoos #beach #beachbody #blonde #bikini #picoftheday #me (at Miami Beach, Florida)

[another-angry-feminist]

Today. Today was the best of days

[another-angry-feminist]

Can we just do this every day? #atx #austin #texas #picoftheday #puggle #dogsofinstagram #ootd #loveloft #love #christmas #style

[fullpraxisnow]

#AfterSeptember11 trended on Twitter today. So real. White supremacy manifests in so many sinister ways. These tweets paint a vivid picture.

[spirit3d4w4y]

Things You Need to Know About the Outgoing Introvert

1. When we see you after a long day, we might be all irritable and not want to talk

It has nothing to do with you. Outgoing introverts, though still introverts at their core, often need to recharge after a large use of social energy. After a long day of dealing with people, our social batteries are drained and we need to unwind and recover, usually alone.

2. We’re charming creatures and can be the life of the party, but…

You’ll be surprised how much we actually live in our heads. People often confuse us for extroverts, but we’re too introspective and over-think too much to be one.

3. If we like you, we really like you.

We don’t waste our time with people we’re not completely crazy about. If we agreed to go on a date with you, we like you. Take it as a huge compliment.

4. We have times when we’re weird with our phones.

Some days we can talk for hours, but sometimes we’re not so good at replying and talking on the phone. Don’t take it personally - we screen our phone calls, even from our closest friends. Outgoing introverts sometimes hate the phone because it’s all, like, intrusive and tears our minds away from whatever we’re deeply focusing on (and we are always deeply focusing on something). Our mind doesn’t change direction easily. Listening to one thing and seeing something else is a lot of sensory input piled on top of everything that’s already going on in our heads.

5. But don’t worry, in person we’ll listen to you for hours.

We have spectrums of introversion, so we’re good listeners. We’ll always be naturally in tune with how you’re feeling, so we’ll be able to see through any front you put up and make you jump into the deep end.

6. We need to dip our foot in the pool first.

We need time to warm up, so, like, chill. We tend not to outwardly express our feelings and spill our whole life story in the first hour of meeting you. Or the first year.

7. Our energy level depends on our environment.

Yes, we can get annoyed easily. If we vibe with the crowd, we can get our energy from human interactions. But if we don’t, we’ll start to get really introspective and reflective, and tend to withdraw into ourselves. It’s kinda like a hit or miss. We’re very selectively social. But it’s not because we dislike people - it’s actually the opposite. We dislike the barriers like small talk (which often comes with going out) creates between people, and try to avoid it at all costs.

8. You’ll think we are flirty with everyone.

Okay here’s the thing, when we inevitably have to interact with people, we make it seem like there’s nothing in the world we’d rather be doing. It’s ‘cause we’re, like, overly sensitive and so we go out of our way to make other people feel comfortable and happy. We’re intuitive and outgoing at the same time.

Research has found that introverts pay more attention to detail and exhibit increased brain activity when processing visual information. A study shows that the brain of an introvert weighs internal cues more strongly than external motivational and reward cues.

[whospilledthebongwater]

This

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Thank you

[salon]

Watch Elizabeth Warren utterly destroy the Senate GOP

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okay jesus fuck this conversation has gone far enough so:

hey, so you like bernie sanders! i like bernie sanders too! i agree with his politics! he is doing better than people expected in the democratic primaries, which is cool!

what are you going to do if he loses?

because given the tone of the conversations i hear on this website right now– given the sheer hatred of hillary that’s emerging, given the overwhelming feeling that bernie sanders is amazing and the messiah and the only candidate that’s worth voting for in america– here’s what i see happening in mid-2016:

bernie sanders, who despite his better-than-expected performance still has an unbelievably low chance of winning the primaries, loses the primaries to hillary clinton

the leftist wing of the democratic party (that’s us– tumblr, yeah, but also the whole occupy-black lives matter-third wave feminist-young educated millennials crowd), having spent the past 10 months campaigning against hillary clinton, is overwhelmingly disappointed

while a few people are willing to bite the bullet and campaign for hillary, energy is low, disillusionment is high, and many leftist americans don’t campaign, don’t donate, and don’t vote (or vote for third-party candidates, like the green party or the peace and freedom party)

the republican party wins the presidential election.

(i literally shivered as i typed that last bullet point, btw– i know there are people voting in 2016 who were ten years old when obama was elected, and y’all may not remember much of the bush years. i was only 13 when bush left, but jesus christ– remember when hurricane katrina was overwhelmingly badly handled? remember when the patriot act passed? remember when the housing bubble collapsed? remember when the president said god told him to invade iraq? y’all wanna do that again?)

so what are you going to do if bernie sanders loses?

i need you to think about that now. i need you to not be surprised when it happens. i need you to not put all your hopes in one basket.

you think the gop won’t be pouring all their resources into this election? you think the superpacs and the koch brothers and the oil lobbyists won’t be throwing their money at ballot boxes until they spit out the result they want? you think the rich and powerful and conservative won’t be bringing their best game? 

they will, and if we don’t work twice as hard as they do– no matter who the democratic nominee is– we are fucked.

i need you to be okay with the idea of hillary clinton being president of the united states, and i need you to make peace with that before she wins the primaries, so that you’re prepared and ready to campaign for her with all your might if she’s the democratic nominee.

because i honest-to-god believe this country will not survive another four, eight, twelve years of a republican administration.

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#remember ralph nader? #I FUCKING WELL REMEMBER RALPH NADER #WE’RE NOT DOING THAT AGAIN. (via swanjolras)

my hand to god i have seen so many posts on my dash that have been both heartbreakingly optimistic and absolutely mind-bogglingly uninformed (and naive, but that comes with time; information comes with googling the way the government of your own country works. fun fact: not all primaries are open primaries! i know! this is inconsistent! it is also the world that we live in and i don’t think we’re going to get around to redesigning the electoral system before november 2016. just saying) and, like every election year, i have sat down and thought, albeit briefly, about this possibility:

the republican party wins the presidential election.

that is not a possibility that i can or will accept. i know we like to mythologize our figures here and put them on can-do-no-wrong pedestals, but, for god’s sake, to paraphrase: can we live in the real fucking world here, please? by all means, know that we can do better. by all means, know that we should. but here are some facts:

the us electoral system is not going to change by november 2016.

the notes on your tumblr post about bernie sanders’ ideology are not going to translate to votes.

those votes are not as big a percentage of the voting population as you think they are.

even if they were, bernie sanders is not going to be able to wave a magic wand and:

turn those ideas into policies

get those policies signed into law

get those laws implemented

they aren’t going to be perfect anyway.

can you imagine the reactionary voting in the election immediately following that anyway.

this is not how politics works. you don’t vote a politician into office and then stand back and watch the world fix itself! you don’t get to do that. it takes work and it takes time and it takes, sometimes, the willingness to accept and keep pushing through lowered expectations. i’m happy for your optimism and i’m happy for your energy. we need those! don’t lose them. do, however, remember that there is context to this, because we live, again, in the real fucking world.

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Thank god Tumblr has some sense to it today.

[pugcrumbs]

This is really important, guys.

[swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv]

okay jesus fuck this conversation has gone far enough so:

hey, so you like bernie sanders! i like bernie sanders too! i agree with his politics! he is doing better than people expected in the democratic primaries, which is cool!

what are you going to do if he loses?

because given the tone of the conversations i hear on this website right now– given the sheer hatred of hillary that’s emerging, given the overwhelming feeling that bernie sanders is amazing and the messiah and the only candidate that’s worth voting for in america– here’s what i see happening in mid-2016:

bernie sanders, who despite his better-than-expected performance still has an unbelievably low chance of winning the primaries, loses the primaries to hillary clinton

the leftist wing of the democratic party (that’s us– tumblr, yeah, but also the whole occupy-black lives matter-third wave feminist-young educated millennials crowd), having spent the past 10 months campaigning against hillary clinton, is overwhelmingly disappointed

while a few people are willing to bite the bullet and campaign for hillary, energy is low, disillusionment is high, and many leftist americans don’t campaign, don’t donate, and don’t vote (or vote for third-party candidates, like the green party or the peace and freedom party)

the republican party wins the presidential election.

(i literally shivered as i typed that last bullet point, btw– i know there are people voting in 2016 who were ten years old when obama was elected, and y’all may not remember much of the bush years. i was only 13 when bush left, but jesus christ– remember when hurricane katrina was overwhelmingly badly handled? remember when the patriot act passed? remember when the housing bubble collapsed? remember when the president said god told him to invade iraq? y’all wanna do that again?)

so what are you going to do if bernie sanders loses?

i need you to think about that now. i need you to not be surprised when it happens. i need you to not put all your hopes in one basket.

you think the gop won’t be pouring all their resources into this election? you think the superpacs and the koch brothers and the oil lobbyists won’t be throwing their money at ballot boxes until they spit out the result they want? you think the rich and powerful and conservative won’t be bringing their best game? 

they will, and if we don’t work twice as hard as they do– no matter who the democratic nominee is– we are fucked.

i need you to be okay with the idea of hillary clinton being president of the united states, and i need you to make peace with that before she wins the primaries, so that you’re prepared and ready to campaign for her with all your might if she’s the democratic nominee.

because i honest-to-god believe this country will not survive another four, eight, twelve years of a republican administration.

[another-angry-feminist]

Post- mimosa brunch

[another-angry-feminist]

Wouldn't be the 4th of July without sparklers, tacky patriotic bikinis and the strongest of margaritas 🇺🇸🎉 #atx #austin #texas #usa #july4th #girlswithtattoos #blonde #bikinibody #fitspo #tattoos

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2015: Man-on-man marriage 2017: Man-on-child marriage 2019: Man-on-dog marriage 2021: Man-on-car marriage 2023: Hopefully the world had ended by then tbh

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yes gracie because letting PEOPLE marry other fucking PEOPLE makes it in anyway possible to marry a fucking dog

go fuck yourself

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Can we just acknowledge that plenty of religious people have justified man on child marriage?????

That’s your gross contribution to society, not ours.

[gracielovessjesus-deactivated20]

You’re wrong. Christians don’t rape children.

[spacebuck]

oh, i’m sorry, can you please repeat that?

that’s the thing isn’t it? all i had to do was google ‘priest rape cases’ and i got hundreds of hits. That’s only from the clergy, the people who are supposed to be leading other people into ‘God’s light’. And that’s just the ones who have been caught.

If the clergy would do this, what makes you think everyman Religious mcChristian isn’t going to? Of course, this is still a small fraction of practicing Christian people, but even so, it still exists. Anyone can be a bad person, religions notwithstanding. so get off your fucking high horse and stop thinking that calling yourself Christian suddenly elevates you above the rest of us, into a place of ‘Cannot Do Wrong’.

while i’m here, i’ll also point you to these passages in the bible:

“When the girls of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, then rush from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife” (“Judges 21:10-24…”)

“…and you will take many prisoners. One of these prisoners may be a beautiful woman, and you may marry her. But first, you must bring her into your home, and make her shave her head, cut her nails, get rid of her foreign clothes, and wear Isralite clothes” (Deuteronomy 21:10-13)

those were the only two i could be bothered to find, but both of them reference rape and forced marriage. None of these, or any other, mention a minimum age for this. There is no limit on how young these ‘men of God’ could go for. Nothing.

While I’m here, I’m just going to add this: Everything from here is from the Old Testament. you may think that this means ‘oh we don’t do that anymore’, but guess what else you’re still doing from the old testament? taking and twisting words to make them support your homophobic ideas! Who’d have thought!

but guess what? Even if the Bible had condoned any of this in the old testament, guess who died to free mankind from the laws that governed the Isralites in this part of the Bible? You got it! Jesus! so by adhering to these pathetic rules and traditions (of which you are only picking and choosing from to support your bigoted ideals) you’re saying that what He did doesn’t count for shit, what He did was nothing, that He achieved nothing with his sacrifice.

tl;dr: Christianity doesn’t prevent you from being a bad person! The Bible promotes child marriage, rape, and abduction of women! your clergy have been charged hundreds of times for raping children! you’re a fucking bigot! 

[spacepunkstevie]

Three more things real quick:

1. The slippery slope argument is a logical fallacy. It just is. Don’t be an idiot.

2.The Christian argument against marriage equality is also a logical fallacy, for all the reasons cptnbrns mentioned above and others:

This is basically the point of Galatians, in which Paul explains that Christians do not need to follow the laws set out in Leviticus etcetera. “…man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ”, “Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?”, and my personal favourite; “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law”. It’s not hard to find. Don’t be an idiot.

Even if Christianity were against marriage equality, it would count for fuck all. That “freedom of religion” argument about how queer people’s existence is somehow a religious burden on Christians? Yeah, the First Amendment cuts both ways. In case you’ve forgotten, gracielovesjesus, religious freedom means that the government cannot outlaw anything based on the beliefs of one religion, even if that religion is a majority.

Pretty sure there are queer Christians. You can’t really ignore that. Don’t be an idiot.

3. Straight people do not get to determine what unalienable rights (remember the Declaration of Independence?) that we are entitled to. There should never have been a situation in which we are denied these fundamental rights for so long that straight people get to discuss whether or not we deserve them and then act like they are doing us a favour by granting us something that they had been responsible for arbitrarily denying us. It doesn’t effect you in any way, but you insist on comparing a loving, consenting marriage to paedophilia, bestiality, and whatever the fuck that car thing is. You then wish for the end of the world, because clearly the death of seven billion people is the best solution to a legal ruling you personally disagree with. This is worse than just being an idiot. You’re an asshole.

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