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My name is Amanda. 28. California. I don't talk much, but I'm always open to meeting new people :) 

[pacificnorthwesterngothic]

“Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly”

— Sara Teasdale, There Will Come Soft Rains (via celestialreckoning)

[teuer]

[thebestoftumbling]

[bigfootismyonlyfriend]

Getting pretty fucking annoyed at all the ableist reporting on Stephen Hawking’s death so like hey uh just a nice little summary of the core of literally every article about Stephen Hawking’s death and the reason why they fucking suck

Stephen Hawking didn’t achieve the things he did ‘despite’ his disability. He didn’t ‘overcome’ them in order to achieve what he did. He had a physical disability. He did physics. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Heck, as the fucking ableist mess of an article Buzzfeed posted said, he himself said "My disabilities have not been a significant handicap in my field, which is theoretical physics. Indeed, they have helped me in a way by shielding me from lecturing and administrative work that I would otherwise have been involved in.” 

They also included a quote from another physicist that says “He thinks about the universe differently, due to his physical disability. That enabled him to make discoveries that no one else could make. And he has. They have shaken the foundations of physics.”

Stephen Hawking and his scientific discoveries weren’t made in spite of his disabilities. His scientific discoveries and the achievements he made happened with his disabilities, and possibly were informed by them, and his disabilities shouldn’t be shunned or seen as something that held him back while his achievements - that he’s literally said weren’t held back by his disability - are celebrated

[calderonbeta]

Nothing about us without us.  Image description: [pale purple and yellow background with dark text] This April, don’t support an organization that harms autistic people. [crossed out logo for Autism Speaks] Support one built by autistic people, for autistic people. [logos for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network]

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Reblogging to spread the word, cause evidence shows that Autism $peaks are classic horror movie villains.

[therothwoman]

Reblogging because I’ve always wondered who to support instead of AS.

[1863-project]

To every friend of mine who reblogs this, thank you. It means I can trust you. <3

[househunting]

$409,000/3 br/2400 sq ft

Galveston, TX

[cedarandhazel]

I knew this was Galveston when I saw the 1st photo

[nihilist-anarchism]

cursed liberal images

[garbage-empress]

democrat mood board

[psxgfx-deactivated20180706]

liberals be like we need more nonbinary people in death squads 

[hex-360a1b]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[liberalsarecool]

[brainstatic]

Can I give completely unsolicited advice to fantasy writers that I wish someone had given me when I was into fantasy writing? The cliche “write what you know” is bad advice if taken literally, it’s how we get books about depressed middle-aged creative writing professors who contemplate having an affair. But generally speaking it can be helpful. Tolkien wrote a medieval fantasy because he was the world’s foremost expert on medieval English literature. His book about Beowulf is still considered academically significant. He gave every race detailed languages because he was also a linguist. He wrote about giant battles because he was traumatized by his time in World War I and wrote during World War II. You don’t have to do any of this because that isn’t you. You are allowed to write a whole fantasy epic without a single battle (or you can make battle scenes modern urban melees because clashes of great armies aren’t a thing anymore.) If, say, you’re really into fashion, feel free to describe in painstaking detail every outfit that elves wear for all possible occasions. I promise you it’s no weirder than describing the dialects of tree people. What I’m saying is, you’re not Tolkien and that’s a very good thing because your voice is needed more. Let your freak flag fly and make the world that comes from you specifically.

[officialunitedstates]

i DO NOT CONSENT to daylight savings

[hellobeatrice]

[danismm]

Carlos Diniz, Monarch Bay Homes, Entry from Street, 1961

[dinkywinks]

i want to see a lesbian version of queer eye for the straight guy except instead of giving straight people a makeover & making their house look nice, the lesbians get you a lot of comfortable clothes with deep pockets, make you dump your shitty boyfriend, and find you a robust & supportive social circle

[jonklassen2]

[gentlemanbones]

[dreadpiratecherry-deactivated20]

[was-fleur-prince-deactivated201]

I have no idea what’s going on

[pewterkat]

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

[braaaaain]

this hurts my bones

[omechanicum-deactivated20180524]

Ha

[pardonmewhileipanic]

Those were the days

[proletarian--princess]

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (via jaded-mandarin)