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alex - 26, she/her | just a hodgepodge of my favourite things

[adeles]

We’ve got to go through a whole ocean of bad.

[glutko]

[bobbyfischerskingsidebishop-dea]

2016 is the worst year of all time

[teenagedream]

[swarnpert]

write ‘nothing is set in stone’ on my grave as both a witty joke and a subtle warning that i will be back

[miyku]

me after 3 hours sleep 

mother : are you all right? me :  

[ashleybuttons]

So I just had the shit creeped out of me.

I’m not someone who believes in ghosts, but I was sitting in my room, alone and in the dark, and I heard the strings of my violin being softly plucked. 

My violin is hanging on the wall several feet away. 

So I gathered my courage, grabbed my phone, and used the camera light to investigate. 

And found this.

A goddamn spider was playing my violin. Not even joking. The little shit.

[rae-rose]

I think I’d have preferred a ghost….

[blankiejacket]

If Marvel movies were written by women

-Peggy Carter’s funeral would have been more than 3 minutes long.

-Tony Stark would have given a eulogy to Peggy, having grown up admiring her, his dad’s colleague of many years, a tremendously strong female role model (the woman who approved Pepper’s hire, of course).

-Steve Rogers would not have put the moves on Peggy’s niece within a day of burying Peggy.

-Black Widow would have gotten her own movie by now.

-A big part of Bucky’s backstory/flashbacks would have been told through Natasha’s viewpoint, her memories of either working with or against The Winter Soldier in Russia and the East. 

-Pepper Potts would have been in Civil War, speaking for herself.

-Wanda’s grief over her brother would still be very present.  Her feelings of loss and mourning would be front-and-center for her character.

-Black Panther’s woman bodyguard would have had more than one line. 

-Natasha would have told Steve that she was at Peggy’s funeral in part because she didn’t want him to be alone, but also in part to pay respects to the great Peggy Carter.

-There would be way more women in these movies.  There would be women of many ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and nationalities in these movies.  There would be many scenes of women talking to women.  There would be many more scenes of women talking.  And doing.  And feeling.  And being. 

[thedairyqueer-deactivated201709]

Exam before you jam. #lesmis #lesmiserables #relatable

[thedairyqueer-deactivated201709]

Boy (red Spider-Man shirt, popping from a doorway): Hello? Boy (peering down a staircase): Anybody home? Boy (closing a window shutter, victoriously): Yes! Shot of iPod speakers as Les Mis Prologue booms pans to boy screeching along to instrumental.

[angleofthelard-blog]

This is so fucking relatable Im crying

[multiegg]

@thisiswhatmylifeamountsto you

[flowrbreaths-moved]

the thing that makes me really appreciate the whole “i love you” / “i know” exchange in the empire strikes back is that, this whole time, han has been urging leia for some sign of affection, of validation, in terms of his feelings for her. han has made it clear that he likes her, but leia has been hiding or denying her affection towards him almost entirely. i think the reason han is so forward about it is that he hopes this will get her to admit it, not because he’s vain but because he needs his own feelings to be validated. after they kiss, he’s very outwardly affectionate, taking and holding her hand often, kissing her on the forehead, as if he’s purposely being somewhat obvious to make sure she notices, to test the waters, to see if she wants him to be as affectionate as he does. but even through all of his demonstrative behavior, leia is still pretty distant.

so in this crucial moment, she realizes that she’s never fully admitted how she feels, and that he needs to know. it’s not so much a “this could be my last chance to say it” moment, but a “this could be your last chance to hear it” moment. it’s true and she knows it, but she says it for him. she says it because she sees that he has to finally hear it. so his “i know” response isn’t cocky, it’s reassuring. it’s telling her not to be worried, because even though she’s never told him, han has always known.

[ekjohnston]

I also think it’s interesting that she says “I love you” and he says “I know” when she can’t save him. When she can, it’s the other way around.

[crushedlittlelesbian]

nice

[thisisthinprivilege]

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

[thecrazygeek-rant]

This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.

(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)

[sinthiasweet]

My mom had me dieting with her when I was eleven. She had me eating less than 600 calories a day because she was worried I was going to “get huge.” She even grounded me once because she found out my friends were bringing me lunches! I ended up passing out, going to the ER, and getting two IVs at once BC I was so goddamn dehydrated. Soooooo surprised they didn’t call child services… And looking back, this was the root of my anorexia. I’m nearly 22 and still fighting it. Please don’t starve your fucking children.

[the-bluespirit]

[kardashy]

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO SAD BUT LAUGHED SO HARD IN MY LIFE

[brewrxsti]

Panchino

[officialunitedstates]

FACT OF THE DAY:  the reason why you can’t dig a hole through the earth and come up on the other side is because your shovel would melt. that’s it.  that’s the only reason.

[basicallybeesus]

what if you bring a second shovel that you put in the fridge beforehand to make it cold

[officialunitedstates]

yeah that’ll work

[kylesbogusjourney]

I have this really bad habit of sending two unrelated texts back to back but bridging them with an “also”

So it’ll be like “hey have you seen this funny tweet” quickly followed by “also the news said polio is back”

[bryzzo]

[mckaylamoors]

You know, Say Yes to the Dress may be one of my guiltiest guilty pleasures but I have literally never seen a more body-positive, sex-positive, race-positive, all-inclusive show in my fucking life. 

[fndungeonmom]

also I love it when the consultants passively aggressively rip the family members a new one when they try to tell the bride what to wear

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

they’re so wonderfully indulgent, you wanna be an angel unicorn goth metal princess? we can do that! You like this style but it’s out of your price range? we got a similar one with fewer sequins that we can do you a deal on.

It’s just the best

[thisisfromawhileago]

“You like the top of this dress, and the bottom of that one, THATS OK WE’LL JUST CUT IT IN TWO AND MAKE A COMPLETELY NEW DRESS!”