ChiLuv

Girl/woman with eclectic tastes,British, 5’5, medium built mostly (working on this I promise), loud and opinionated. (Pics not mine unless stated )

[royalreads]

a classic a month: 1984 by george orwell

“perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

[ithelpstodream]

[thaxted]

When your racism conflicts with your misogyny.

[peachisty]

friendly advice to not revolve your life around one person, one feeling, one place, one memory, one problem. the complexity of life and the diversity of the world is beautiful and you have the right to explore it. do not settle for less. you deserve better.

[1st-1]

NASA: we used to have 9 planets but we now only have 8 Pluto: Stop telling everyone I’m not a planet! NASA: Sometimes we can still hear its voice

[dracogotgame]

Look, I’m not saying that demoting a planet named after the Roman god of Death stoked his rage and brought down on us his vengeful fury and retribution but…

*gestures at everything*

[l0vegl0wsinthedark]

Finally, an explanation.

[mxcbth]

“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

— Daphne du Maurier (b. 13 May 1907)

[jenndoesnotcare]

I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.

I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.

This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.

Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.

A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?

While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!

NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO.

Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.

[fozmeadows]

The fact that so many adults think a six year old girl is more capable of learning and performing basic domestic tasks than a grown-ass man says it all, really. 

[trashcanbees-deactivated2019120]

You should never have children with someone you cannot comfortably, and without a second thought, leave in charge of your kids. People are wild.

[apersnicketylemon]

Hey American followers!

I know you don’t tend to reblog any politics of countries other than your own… but the Canadian Federal Election is going to be this year in October!

In Canada we don’t replace 1/3 of the government every couple of years, we replace every single seat. EVERYONE has to run for a seat all at the same time, through the whole nation. Party that gets the most votes? Their leader usually becomes the Prime Minister.

We need your help (And you can help by reblogging this too!)

Not enough information on Canadian politics and issues is circulated on tumblr. Despite there being a lot of Canadians, somehow most of us can go a whole year without seeing a post about Canada, even when we make a point about following Canadians.

The US election will be ramping up in the early primaries when Canada’s entire election happens (We don’t campaign very long and we have a LOT of rules about campaigning too).

Trudeau has failed us. Entirely. He is doing nothing about climate change, he’s chummy with Trump, he violates land treaties, he pushes pipelines through unceeded territory, he’s having our native peoples arrested for protesting this, he has not investigated the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, he’s been a HUGE fan of The Glass Cliff while calling himself a feminist, he has repeatedly broken promises including electoral reform (our system is actually not great! Maybe not as rigged as yours, but it badly favours the Liberal and Conservative parties!), and been over-all pretty bad for us. It’s especially infuriating that we see all of this and also you guys reblogging photo-op pieces of him going on about how great he is for going to pride and being cute (That’s actually not an indicator here when only one party leader hasn’t gone in like, 20 years).

We need the NDP or the Greens this year. We need them to have a loud voice at the very least. We need your help to do this. We need you to blog this time, for once, about an election that isn’t american. Our politics affect you too. We affect you as much as you affect us, we are neighbours and unless y’all invade us again some time soon, it’s not likely to change. Help us get someone better into office. Please, reblog posts about the Canadian Election when they start appearing in September/October.

Americans Can And Should Reblog This Post Please.

[thatfloatingcat]

This is super important. The kind of nasty, bigoted populism that’s come to rise in the USA has leeched up here too and they’re only getting bolder. I’ve never been a fan of the Conservative party but they’ve become particularly embedded with these kind of alt-right populist scumbags and they’re heavily relying both on the general lack of coverage of Canadian politics and masquerading as the old-style Conservatives to get elected. People will vote for them because most people (especially the older, more reliable voting base) only see the Liberals and Conservatives as viable parties so they will only vote for one of them, and people are pissed at Trudeau.  It really, really doesn’t bode well if Scheer gets elected in the Fall. Not for immigrants, or other marginalized communities, or the climate. And I’m no fan of Trudeau but as far as things to with relations to Trump, I can only imagine that Scheer would be infinitely worse. Those two controlling all of North America would be scary. This is honestly a terrifying time to be having an election the way that politics is going and we have few good options and are struggling with our own populist movement and a rise in hate and politically-motivated disinformation.  DON’T IGNORE THIS.

[elftwink]

Also if any of you (Canadian or not) are looking to see more about Canadian politics on your dash, I highly recommend starting by following @allthecanadianpolitics (they’re left-wing but if you agree with this post I don’t think that’ll be an issue for you). There are blogs out there that do post about Canadian politics, they just tend to require a lot more searching to track down because tumblr is very saturated with American topics.

[tehjai]

VOTING CONSERVATIVE WILL MAKE IT WORSE

CANADA IS NOT A TWO PARTY SYSTEM. 

THERE ARE OPTIONS.

[abpoli]

Canadian politics/news/info blogs: @allthecanadianpolitics @nspoli @onpoli @abpoli (me!) @mapleleafmemes @yegactivist

Feel free to add any I missed!

[chiluv]

#Repost from @shaunking 😂😂😂 #10yearchallenge https://www.instagram.com/p/BsxGFfpA-Nw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=155mr1ep3pmbe

[chiluv]

You on Netflix...Paco why??? #seasonsgreetings https://www.instagram.com/p/Br7rLtrgOoc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jav28ye301j5

[chiluv]

Boom! Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. Michelle Obama https://www.instagram.com/p/BqtyV3SAsmC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bxajdci32qj6

[chiluv]

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. - Audre Lorde #Repost from @jadapinkettsmith with @regram.app https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp80kOuAUJk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qc1g0knoiyvo

[htgawmsource]

My God, you are even more lovely in person than on the news.

[gahdamnpunk]

Love all of these too!

[black-women-beauty]

[ahhthelegend]

She knows

[warmwintersindecember]

The contrast is fucking insane. 😍

[bxbs]

Wow

[micdotcom]

The above video titled “The Unequal Opportunity Race” was screened as part of a schoolwide Black History Month program at Glen Allen High School in Glen Allen, Virginia. Some parents apparently weren’t thrilled about that. One local grandparent had two words for what this video was pushing on white kids.

[drankinwatahmelin]

White people don’t like it when you put their privilege on display. This makes it hard for them to pretend there’s no such thing.

[theambassadorposts]

truth as it is

[humorhour]

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