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frumpkingoesfurrst

We’ll never die

valtsv

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

icantwritegood

character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*

me:

ladylike-foxes

character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*

me:

g3ncyho3

character in fight scene: *pins down the opponent and leans in close to whisper in their ear*

me:

breyito

character in fight scene: *restrains the opponent by twisting their arm/s behind their back and pinning them to the wall chest first with their own chest pressing against the opponents back*

me:

abandoned-as-mustard

Character: *distracts their otherwise equally good/better opponent by flirting*

Me:

bmarvels

Character in fighting scene: *restrains opponents arms in a lock hold with their own, entangling their arms together forcing their bodies to be pressed together and faces in close proximity*

lime-on-my-side

character in fight scene: *holds opponent by the collar, lifts them and brings them close to their face*

me:

miqojak

Every time this crosses my dash it gets better.

awesomefitnessrecipes

Easily Paleo-ified with some tweaks to the stir-fry sauce.

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microcroft

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

microcroft

heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live

enyafan

Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius

kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201

YOU KNOW WHY YOU K N O W W H Y

sovietshopaholic

Real life tony stark is a gay trans woman

cuetheviolins

Her name is Martine Rothblatt. She also founded United Therapeutics, which is a company that works to find cures for “””small””” diseases that don’t necessarily affect a lot of people.

oh, yes–and she’s Jewish.

Here is a picture of Martine and her wife, Bina Aspen:

diaryofandnwoman

ijustlaughalot

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Christmas Playlist

Trans Siberian Orchestra | Carol Of The Bells

thenarddog

createdd

I will never understand why this Christmas song goes so hard.

ink-pedia

Your next tattoo could let you know if you’re sick

A team of Harvard Medical School and MIT researchers teamed up to create a color changing tattoo ink which tracks changes inside your body.

Source.

catchymemes

Terrible maps

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takealookatyourlife

Athena blessed her with the ability to protect herself and men beheaded her for it.

takealookatyourlife

bloodasredlipstick-deactivated2

That’s actually a really intetesting intpretation of it I hadn’t thought of. Most people seem to think Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon as punishment for defiling her temple, but thinking that she did so to protect her from being abused again is interesting and I like it!

gabyluvsxena

Athena’s hands were tied. Yes, she was a powerful Goddess, but she was very much a woman in a “boys club”, and the true offending party (don’t think for a moment that Athena blamed Medusa for being raped in the temple, Athena knows better) held all the cards. There was nothing that Athena could do to punish the true criminal, and she was expected to punish Medusa by everyone else. What’s a Goddess to do when she cannot punish those who need to be punished and is expected to punish not only the truly innocent party, but her most beloved follower? Use that incredible brain power she had to protect Medusa at all costs, and of course the men would see it as punishment, to be have her beauty stripped from her and sent to live in the shadows. Medusa should have been KILLED for supposedly defiling the temple, whether she truly did or not, but she was given the gift of life, and the ability to protect herself and her daughters (who she bore thanks to Poseidon). This is why Medusa’s image was used to signify woman’s shelters and safe houses.

Medusa means “guardian; protectress”, and she was.