Grace MacDonna Says Hello

Grace starts life over at 22, queer as heck and feminist as fuck.

[snoozingcat]

sometime I just think about how easy it would be to market superheroes toward little girls and I am filled with rage

like do these people not realize how fucking easy this shit would be

there’s the dazzler she’s like a popstar and a superhero do you know how many 4-12 year old girls would dig that shit

there’s the wasp and her superpowers are seriously like zapping jerks, flying, and being cuter than everybody else. also she’s a famous fashion designer. and she’s better than you. (like she shrinks and stuff too but mainly her power is being better than you)

she-hulk is like this nerdy chick with the power to get bigger and greener and be spontaneously tougher than everybody in the vicinity like I don’t even know a little girl who wouldn’t slit someone’s throat for the ability to be stronger than all the boys when they pissed her off

little girl likes magic? scarlet witch

little girl likes science? invisible woman

little girl likes spies? black widow

little girl likes aliens? karolina dean

little girl likes bionic arms? misty knight

little girl likes flying horses? wow. guess who has one of those? valkyrie. valkyrie does.

My point is that’s it’s so fucking easy so chop-chop, Marvel, get on it. Seriously, I went ten years of my life thinking superheroes were boys. That’s ten years of you not profiting off of my inability to refrain from buying even the crappiest merchandise you offer if it has a character I love on it. Little girls are an enormous market; they will buy all your shit if you just suggest to them that maybe they’d like to.

or you could just keep on not profiting when you could be making money selling literally any object that has enough space to plaster a female superhero’s face on it. that’s cool too.

[kateordie]

TOO TRUE

[somebogwitch]

Moving Away Blog Giveaway

So I’m moving away! To celebrate I’m giving away things I’m not taking with me! 

Three nerdy t-shirts (size small) set

The black and white jewellery set

The mermaid set

The vintage silver set

To enter:

- follow orlajonotdead 

- reblog this post

- comment under this YouTube video with which set you want

A random winner will be selected for each set and one more random person will get the chance to have me knit them a Hogwarts house scarf of their choosing! 

[unrefinedtales]

As promised, unfortunately, here is chapter one of the sure to be nightmarishly immature: iPotter series

[somebogwitch]

Design I’ve been playing around with best on the line “Who Killed the World” from Mad Max; Fury Road and the Celtic Tree of Life. 

[scidotnews]

NASA: Pluto sent a love note back to Earth. This is the last image taken before today’s Pluto flyby

[mymompickedthisurlss-deactivate]

All New Captain America Special #1

[somebogwitch]

I’m not much of an artist but I made these today for the Irish referendum on Same Sex Marriage next week (22 May 2015) because I felt that sometimes people overlook how emotionally draining it can be to have messages that devalue you all over the streets everyday. So ‪#‎YesEquality‬ and all that but all look out for each other until we get through this.

[gracedonnapressure-blog]

My friend EJ is really sick and can’t come online anymore but I can’t afford to go visit her so now I’m just stressed and guilty and awful.

[chemistrydinosaur-deactivated20]

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. ‘Is there any tea on this spaceship?’ he asked.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (via curiously-chamomile-queer)

[gracedonnapressure-blog]

EJ  was feeling pretty active today so she showed me around Londonand I totally forgot to take any pictures I was having such a good time. I never want to go home. 

[somebogwitch]

Battleground (International Women’s Day Poem)

This was about reproductive rights when I first starting writing it, but i hadn’t even finished before I could feel parallels with transgender recognition issues and even sexuality. It’s a poem about bodily autonomy first and foremost but self-determination and oppression in the media as well. Basically if you see yourself in this then it’s for you. I wrote this a while ago and performed it last week for the first time but today seemed like a good time to upload it.

[non-dairyqueen]

i bet you wouldn't be depressed if youre diet wasn't deficient in nutrients

Yeah, I’m sure my five year long battle with depression was caused by my year long commitment to veganism. You’re right anon. Ty for enlightening me. 

[wildbeewitch]

Wow. I tell myself to stop being amazed at how callous and ignorant people can be online but nope. Like “ha I’m going to turn your mental illness into a vegan joke!” go fuck yourself. 

[humans-of-pdx]

"This is my first cabbage! You know, a lot of times they’re kind of soft, but this one is solid! It’s going to be good eatin’!"  "What are you going to make with it?" "Well, this one I’m giving to my parents. You have to give the first one away or you just spoil the whole spirit of gardening."

[wildbeewitch]

Irish Kitchen Witch New Blog Giveaway

To celebrate having finally started this blog after talking about it for so long I am giving away two of my witch/pagan books.

A Year of Ritual by Sandra Kynes is a brilliantly structured set of rituals for every Sabbat and Esbat. 

The Study of Witchcraft by Deborah Lipp takes a very academic approach to learning about witchcraft with looks of further reading recommendations for specialist areas. 

For a chance to win both those books you just have to:

1. Follow irishkitchenwitch

2. Reblog this post. 

Good luck and blessed be.

[travelmaster-blog]

Komodo Island Lombok

[delphina2k]

The Crocodile Hunter style of writing involves chasing after cool-looking ideas that wander by and tackling them into submission.

I don’t recommend it for the long-term because it’s exhausting, but if there isn’t at least a LITTLE bit of Crocodile Hunter in your writing, I’m probably not going to read it.

[leupagus]

yeah

[tkingfisher]

I don’t know if this is true, but I’d like it to be.

[dargonpoop]

Teddy Lupin casting a patronus and everyone starts freaking out bc hOLY SHIT IS THAT A WEREWOLF

but the only thing Teddy feels is the comfort of knowing that his father is still there, protecting him