I might be afraid, but it's my turn to be brave.

"Emulate, don't mimic. There is already an Idina Menzel - we need to celebrate what makes you special."

[rissa-posts]

[thebootydiaries]

me: i'd love to be in a relationship

*is shown any kind of affection*

me: yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yik

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[theholleywoodsigns]

Explains why I’m so fucking stupid

[wolfwars]

no, not like ‘stupid’ brain damage. your emotions become so stressful your brain starts getting a little numb to them. you start experiencing higher rates of apathy. you can also have further trouble with memory and problem-solving.

[muffintop-malachite-deactivated]

That Explains Why I’m So Fucking Stupid

[square-enix]

is anyone else just going through life like “yeah i just gotta get past this last difficult week and then it’s smooth sailing from there!” but like… every week

[pdlcomics]

Should’ve

[sixpenceee]

This is a baby bison.

[humansofnewyork]

“Every month in prison they had something called Inmate Council, where you get to meet with the prison administration and make suggestions.  I volunteered to be the representative for my housing unit.  And toward the end of the meeting, the warden asked if anyone had questions or concerns.  The NBA finals were going on at the time.  So I raised my hand and asked: ‘If the Cavs force a game seven, can we keep the TV on past lock up time?’  And she agreed.  She agreed in front of everyone.  So when game seven came around, all of us were excited.  We gathered around the TV in the dayroom to watch the game.  But right as the second quarter was starting, the television clicked off.  The CO came down and tried to kick everybody out.  I told her the warden gave us permission, but she said it didn’t matter. And that’s when things began to go downhill.  We refused to leave.  The CO went behind a protected gate and pulled the silent alarm.  We grabbed all the tables and chairs and stacked them up against the door.  We covered the floor in shampoo and water.  The security team came back with riot gear and huge cans of pepper spray, but we kept the door closed for over two hours.  When they finally got inside, they were slipping all over the place.  We just laid down on the floor and put our hands behind our back.  I was given thirty days in solitary confinement.  But I had to do the right thing.  Women are allowed to vote because some woman wanted to vote.  The Civil Rights Movement started because Rosa Parks didn’t want to get out of her seat. And next time there’s a game seven of the NBA Finals, I bet they’re going to leave the TV on in Building Six at Rikers Island.”

[lizclimo]

[daredussy]

sir that’s my emotional support cowboy 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

We were raised in, and exist in, a racist society.

Under these conditions: racism isn’t something you simply abstain from. Racism is something you must actively unlearn. 

[ghost-cassette]

And continually self-check for

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

And continually self-check for

[safelyendangered]

[unclefather]

[buzzfeed]

don’t forget to drink some water, y’all.

[unpretty]

the older i get the weirder it is that not a single p.e. teacher in my entire school career was able to recognize the difference between “a child who doesn’t get enough exercise” and “a child with serious health problems impeding their ability to exercise in this particular way”

[unpretty]

you know what else is weird? we had to do that fitness test every year but like… we never actually… learned how to do the things they tested us on…

like, now that i am an adult i have learned how to build up my strength so i can do pushups, but that seems like something they could have taught us? in school? in the class where they tested our ability to pushups? they never taught us how to work our way up to actually doing a chin-up, or whatever. even if i had just been “out-of-shape” (as a CHILD), nothing they did would have solved that problem. i did not learn how to exercise in a functional way until i was out of school and teaching myself, so i’m not sure what those p.e. classes were even intended to accomplish, really.

[unpretty]

people are adding a lot of horror stories to this post that are really similar to mine (exercise-induced asthma, running the mile every friday, coughing nonstop for hours afterward and never actually getting any faster or building up any endurance, fainting at least once and not even getting sent to the nurse) but

to add something to the “really obvious shit any idiot could have told me” list

they taught us that the average walking speed should be 3mph, and i consistently tried on treadmills to walk at 3mph, and that always seemed really fucking fast to me and i never understood why

i’m 5′2″

i was in my twenties before i realized that i cannot go that fast because i have short fucking legs

why did grown-ass adults with eyes try to teach my short ass that i should be able to walk an easy mile in 20 minutes

[maaarine]

MBTI & Celebs (x)

Mandy Patinkin: ENFP

[counting-dollars-counting-stars]

I fucking love Mandy with all my heart

[tzikeh]

Mandy Patinkin is a fucking treasure and a model ally. He walked away from the extremely lucrative lead role on Criminal Minds after three seasons (Joe Mantegna took over the position) because, and I’m paraphrasing, “every week it was another script with a raped woman, or a murdered woman, or a raped and murdered woman, and I wanted no part of making that into entertainment.”

[futurist]

Why can’t you accept that she may be living a good, honest life? That she’s an attentive mother and good mom?

[fortheland]

theater challenge → [4/8] songs → love will come and find me again (bandstand)

“letting go of what might have been and letting something else in, only then; love will come and find me again.”