California Dreamin'

Beater, Keeper, Gryffindor, California hippie at heart

[quidsecrets]

“I worry a lot that because I have to work so hard to get people to come to practices and do all of the administrative work on the team, that it might just disintegrate without me. Which makes me feel like the whole team is just a vanity project for me, and not something that other people on the team really need in their lives the way I feel like I do. I don’t hope that other people feel like this, but it would selfishly make me feel better if they did.“

[calidork]

Sometimes I worry about this because I’m the most committed, but seeing how many people make happy memories at practices or tournaments makes it all worth it.

[calidork]

Birthday yogurtland is the best yogurtland

[latinarebels]

basically.

[loblawdogblog]

[calidork]

Brunch with bae (at Sea Link Cafe)

[happygoluckynerd]

I Wish J-Lo Were More Radical

With Beyoncé’s Lemonade coming out and the rush of recognition and education that came from it, some people have rightly pointed out that, despite the recognition and enjoyment that some of us may have gotten from it, Lemonade was not the narrative of non-Afro-Latinas. Especially after reading Maria Rodriguez-Morales HuffPo article, I was left wondering: who is our Latina Beyoncé? 

After digging back through a list 90s Latina pop singers that I both idolized and didn’t listen to much back then, I am currently of the mind that Jennifer Lopez would be a perfect candidate. She certainly is famous enough and has her hand in music, TV, a couple of movies, and fashion. I am already impressed by her involvement as Executive Producer of The Fosters, which has taken on the tackling of a cornucopia of social issues in the context of an interracial lesbian couple raising a house full of teenagers. She also released a single earlier this year, I Ain’t Yo Mamma, complete with feminist fantasy video full of women throwing off the shackles of husbands and employers who don’t appreciate them enough. At first I was worried that the message would be a tired old neoliberal feminist working women = liberation (which J-Lo should know more than anyone is a very narrow struggle mostly focused on middle-class housewives in 2 parent households that were privileged enough to even afford to have women be full-time mothers), but the video itself shows women being treated like caretakers in the workplace and running into literal glass ceilings (or doors).  This July, J-Lo tried joining the host of celebrities supporting Black Lives Matter by dropping Love Make the World Go Round alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda, a song in support of the Orlando Pulse shooting victims. Now this effort would have overjoyed me as a great step from someone so influential to Latina culture, someone who I grew up seeing on screen as Selena and setting trends for us in the 90s and early 2000s.  It would have overjoyed me if the news of the song weren’t tainted with the accompanying #allLivesMatter tweet which she deleted without much comment or apology.  The song bordering on universal humanism and possible tone-policing aside, I am pretty disappointed that J-Lo not only didn’t show a good initial understanding of the movement she was supporting, but that she did not make an effort to educate herself when she was called out and instead tried to sweep it under the rug. This is especially unacceptable considering she is trying to position herself as part of the solution and in fact profiting from the buzz created by #blackLivesMatter.  And we still await our fabulous woke Latina pop superstar to bring us healing and a good dose of booty shaking.

[hogwartshousehabits]

*this may sound a bit strange* Can y'all sum up each house by only using ONE gif from The Princess Bride?

Gryffindor: 

Hufflepuff:

Ravenclaw: 

Slytherin:

[thegentlemangamer-deactivated20]

YES. ABSOLUTELY. WELL DONE.

[calidork]

at Facebook Seattle

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

Trump quotes with Zapp backgrounds.

[sannehtahaua]

Amazing. Just…amazing

[nonelvis]

The only thing better than these macros is Billy West recording the quotes as Zapp Brannigan.

[lizawithazed]

this is so very one of those “I want to laugh but I also want to cry” things

[factualfeminist]

@randibonandi @alas-p00r-yorick

[micdotcom]

drag him (x)

[tessacrowley]

Elizabeth of House Warren, the Stormbringer, the Mother of Shade ☕

[hidinganomalies-deactivated2017]

“Soppy” - Illustrtation by Philippa Rice

[neektay]

this is everything

[quidsecrets]

“All the drama is what happens when you have a sport run by 20-something year olds.”

[calidork]

You're so right! That's why football, soccer, basketball, weightlifting, baseball and literally every sport ever except quidditch are totally free of scandals, corruption, intrigue, drama, bureaucracy, and plain cheating. It's definitely the 20somethings at fault.

[calidork]

#fatforquidditch (at Sweet Stop)

[calidork]

Butterbeer cupcakes #FacebookFifteen #fatforquidditch (at Facebook HQ)

[calidork]

Dogs being silly

[calidork]

Movies on Hacker Square: Inside Out (at Facebook HQ)

[calidork]

How have I worked here this long without realizing there's boba on campus?? (at Facebook HQ)