Books and Things

A blog dedicated to the things I love and/or find interesting in our world. Mainly humorous stuff, some fangirling, some deep emotional stuff, a bit of everything really. Lots of rebloggs, just to let you know.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

“Kids go to foster care or whatever”

Mainstream media tends to ignore or not highlight these stories if the victims are POC, minorities or poor.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

“Foster care”

[cracked]

11 Self-Defense Techniques (That Even A Child Could Use)

[xxxkyrareaperxxx-deactivated201]

These are great! These are all really useful methods of defending yourself and I actually learned most of these in my Krav Maga classes. 

I would have to go up against people (usually guys) twice my size and could easily overpower me, but these tricks DO work and they don’t require a lot of strength.

[weird-biscuits]

Reblog to save a life

[rizmontana-deactivated20180124]

#Reblog

[tinas-belcher]

me: oh yeah 2007, three years ago? someone: …10 years ago my brain

[bob-belcher]

[onlytwitterpics]

[nevaehtyler]

this is iconic

[teealwayschillin-deactivated201]

This shit is so hilarious

[destinyrush]

Dude: Do you wanna get married? Girl: Yes. Dude: …..I gotta…..

[septemberssweetheart-deactivate]

😭😭

[accras]

“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]

[startrekrenegades]

[Dad: How’m I doing on your hair? Child: Good! Dad: Let’s see, do I need more grease? Child: Yes. You need more grease on there. Dad: More grease? And then what? Child: And then you gonna need to brush it, and then you put a band on there. Dad: A band on it? Child: Yeah! Dad: Aww.. Child: You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job! Dad: Aww, thank you, sweetheart, so much! Daddy’s trying, doing the best I can. Thank you so much. Child: You’re welcome! Dad: I’m almost done! Child: You been doing great! Dad: Aw baby, thank you so much, you’re so encouraging to Dad. Thank you. Child: You’re welcome. Dad: I really appreciate you so much. You’re so awesome. Daddy getting your ponytails ready for school.]

[gardnerhill]

Interrupting all the political ugliness to make you melt with cute.

[sangrexderramada]

Me as a father

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

this is so pure

[valerie1972]

Kids that age are parrots of tone and phrasing. So the whole bit with “You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job!” means that there is at least one adult, if not more, in her life that regularly talks to her that way.

Everything about this video makes me happy.

[grimmnir-deactivated20160215]

Public Service Announcement:  If you are not a virgin do not presume to wear a white wedding dress.  It is an honor that is earned from chastity and virtue.  Not a tradition for you to soil if you lacked the same.

[davidfosterflawless-deactivated]

what about anal? does it count

[thesnadger]

The idea that the white wedding dress is “an honor that is earned from chastity and virtue” is historically bullshit. 

In the west the white wedding dress has it’s origins in the Victorian era, specifically in the white dress Queen Victoria wore in her marriage to Prince Albert. At the time, red was the most popular color for upper-class women to wear at their wedding, and her wedding dress was sort of the contemporary version of Lady Gaga wearing some outlandish outfit to a red carpet event. (She also eschewed the ermine and crown traditional for a queen to wear, which was quite startling to many people.)

After that, a pure white dress became a fashionable way for wealthy, upper-class women to show off their money. Because a pure white dress would quickly yellow and could be ruined by a single spill or a little dirt in an era before 20th century laundering techniques, a white wedding dress was a way of saying “that’s right bitches, I’m so rich I can afford to have this beautiful, elaborate gown made for me and I’m only going to wear it once. Plus odds are good I’ll never work a day in my life or come into contact with anything that might soil it so yeah, great to be me, right?”

Connotations of spiritual purity and eventually virginity only came years later, when the idea of a “white wedding” began to appear in etiquette and housekeeping guidebooks. Even then, it was more because these qualities were associated with upper-class women rather than because the white dress was an honor earned through keeping hands off one’s genitals. Even then, most women just wore their best church dress to their wedding for quite a while. It was the image of thew white wedding dress in post WWII Hollywood movies that finally cemented it as a standard and iconic part of the culture.

Nowadays of course, the American wedding is an orgy of conspicuous consumption, and every woman regardless of her financial situation is expected to get married in a dress she’ll never wear again.

tl;dr, that tradition you’re so keen on protecting has less to do with virginity than is does with showing off big wads of cash.

[catwinchester-deactivated201901]

Poor people would traditionally wear their Sunday best to get married in. They were usually black, brown or other dark colours, because Sunday Best outfits had to last for years and be appropriate for all occasions, including funerals. 

[twotone]

Reblogged for historical debunking

[trixter]

I’m always in favor of historical debunking that also gives the middle finger to Magical Virginity.

[micdotcom]

Van Jones tells CNN and the nation exactly what a Trump presidency means

[dopeybeauty]

disney’s mean girls

[yuzuganache]

Shout out to Carlos Benavides, the coffee guy for the animators of Disney’s Frozen

[yuzuganache]

You go, Carlos.

[cattart]

fan base for carlos

[deepr]

Carlos rocks

[hechizoh]

die hard Carlos fan right here

[spacebisexuals]

Carlos Benavides is a long time caffeinator for Disney! He provided caffeination for

Meet The Robinsons

Tangled

Whinnie the Pooh

Frozen

[queenelxa]

OMG GUYS. IT’S HIM!!!!!!

[assemblethebig6]

HIS LEGACY CONTINUITIES IN BIG HERO 6

[movie]

Freedom Writers (2007)

[caramelanin]

This movie was so important

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

This is one of the only “white savior” movies that matter because they didnt silence the stories of the kids of color. They kept it real and in doing so kept it realatable.

[rob-walks-deactivated20210614]

this movie is superb

[tastefullyoffensive]

[blaackversace]

@communistbakery

[purplespacecats]

y’all

y’all

y’all

this fucking election

??????????

[mutual-we-discussed-it]

this is your daily reminder to take a chonce

[riemth-deactivated20181126]

What the fuck is a chonce

[virgoboy]

pretty funny how people keep living their life as if their actions don’t have consequences even after justin timberlake introduced us to the concept of karma in what goes around comes around

[ameliastardust]

[ameliastardust]

ameliastardust:

allteenrelate:

ultramanicprincess:

ameliastardust:

I decided at 4am that it would be great to try and reteach myself photoshop and this is what ended up happening

This is fantastic

okay but like is there some way i can get this on a shirt???

yeah it’s actually up for sale here and you can get it as a sticker too :)