Jennifer D Begg

This is where I do my tumblering. Pretty much a mix of various fandoms, feminism, activism and nerdery.

[arwencuar]

You may be cool but you’ll never be Aragorn entering Helm’s Deep cool.

[historicaltimes]

“Crazy Dion” Diamond at one of his sit-ins as a teenager in Arlington, VA. June 10, 1960

via reddit

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

All of those people around him are demons

[chemicallywrit]

hey guys! here’s some fun things i learned from this article about Dion Diamond:

he did these sit-ins by himself. like idk about you, but i always thought of sit-ins as organized by groups, what kind of bravery does it take, man

he didn’t tell anyone about it, like he was no glory-seeker about this. his parents didn’t even know until reporters started calling them up like “hey, did you know your son is in jail?

when someone called the cops he’d skedaddle out the back door although he was sent to prison multiple times

the last time he got arrested was in Baton Rouge, and the cops were so sick of him that they told inmates they’d put in a good word for anyone who gave Diamond a hard time. (the inmates didn’t take the bait.)

he’s still alive!

hark, a hero of our times!

[antinwo]

http://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/524662-real-estate-agent-shares-family-secret-to-keeping-burglars-at-bay/?author=kbn&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=life&utm_term=ijamerica

[insideguppysworld]

Save a life

[newmodelminority]

Totes good data.

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

The part of this I don’t like is “they will most likely move on to an easier target.” Like I’m supposed to feel fine about someone else with a less sturdy door getting ripped off?

[aubreyplazaofficialblog]

Change your neighbor’s screws too

[gojinero]

Channel your inner dad

Chage everyone’s screws

[tygermama]

Mythbusters did this but not exactly on purpose, they put together a door to test how to kick it down and didn’t have the right sized screws so they used the longer ones and even Jamie running at speed had trouble breaking the door with the longer screws

[meggory84]

Not only will longer screws keep you safer, they also prevent your door from sagging over time, which leads to scraping or your door not closing properly.

[thatsyawholethanghuh-deactivate]

✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽

[fullpraxisnow]

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

[bae-in-maine]

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

[taraljc]

what $$$ does is buy TIME. Which poor women know, and rich men barely understand.

[eurydicesviper]

Omg all the love Ariana is getting from other celebs n actors from the movies she featured in thank u next is so cute

[albinwonderland]

I really try to challenge Canadian stereotypes at every opportunity but today I was walking down Young St. in Toronto and a firetruck honked very loudly and I clutched my chest and said “MY WORD” and as it drove past, a fireman leaned out of the window and apologized to me  so I just don’t know

[snommelp]

[kickassfemaleathletes]

Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War. 

[voidscreamingformillenials]

Look at her. 

I know open water swimming isn’t really glamorous, but Lynne Cox is arguably one of the greatest overlooked athletes of the 20th century. 

And quite possibly a mutant. 

She can withstand water temperatures that you or I would die from because of her training and her body’s unique reaction to cold (you know how the blood will leave your fingers and toes when it’s cold, to preserve heat? her whole body does that, pooling her blood in her core and insuring her body temperature stays toasty where it counts).

She funded the Bering Strait swim herself, clearing out her bank account when she couldn’t get corporate sponsors. After she succeeded (to almost everyone’s surprise: if you get in the Bering Sea without serious gear you generally just die) Gorbachev mentioned her during treaty talks with Nixon: “Last summer it took one brave American by the name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and friendly the meeting was between our people and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.“

She wasn’t just the first woman to swim the Strait of Magellan. She was the first person to make it across. 

On top of setting multiple world records, she swam a mile+ to the coast of Antarctica, in just a bathing suit, and did not die. 

She’s swum over 50,000 miles. 

And look at her. This is a photo from when she was young, at the peak of her career and setting records all over the world. She is a great athlete. She is a human who can do things most humans would die trying. I’m sitting here at 1 AM getting all teary eyed because this is the first time I’ve looked up a photo of her and I am so surprised, so gratified, so overwhelmed to find out that this world record setter, this literal superhuman, has nearly the same body type as me. 

[aqueerkettleofish]

Since they wouldn’t let her be a fantasy creature in a video game, she just did it in real life, I guess.

[jenniferrpovey]

Anyone who thinks there is just one athletic body type isn’t paying attention during the Olympics opening ceremonies.

Her body type is optimized for her sport. The shape of her body and the presence of fat both provide insulation to keep her core warm while she swims.

A lot of open water swimmers aren’t this chunky, but that’s because most of them are actually triathletes, and their body type is a compromise between the ideals for the different sports.

There really is no one way to be fit and athletic. For some reason, we tend to get ourselves hung up on the body type of track and field athletes, especially that of marathon runners (who tend to carry almost no extra fat) as the ideal.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Dude HOLY FUCK she’s a badass.

[thepositivecattitude]

Mother cat with kittens came to meet an old friend.

[star-anise]

I can’t believe we’ve already found the best animal video of 2016.

[glenn-griffon]

That is too adorable. You can tell the mother cat actually does trust the dog just by her body language. Typically a mother will watch her kittens closely and be very protective of them, here she completely trusts the dog to play gentle with them. This is just too damn cute.

[glyndarling]

When he bops the kitten and looks up at Mom to make sure he didn’t overstep!

[thesweetpianowritingdownmylife]

The dog is trying to make himself as non-threatening as possible!!

[anoctopus]

“This is your Uncle Dog. He is a good boy.”

[fierceawakening]

It got better

[angel-kiyoss]

[jehovahhthickness]

[geekinglikeaboss]

The BIGGEST dick energy.

[sandrasandiaa]

GO OFF GIRLLL 

[ouhmamae-deactivated20230416]

Girls and gays going into 2019 like

[iamnotswarley]

I mean how can you not love Mads Mikkelsen. He

met his wife while playing a drag queen

spent the whole “Clash of the Titans” clusterfuck trolling Sam Worthington

gives zero fucks about society’s expectation of what famous actors should behave like

can wear the shit out of a suit, but prefers sportswear

knows he is made of cheekbones. accepts it. uses it to his advantage

went into dancing to score with dancers, stayed with it, went into acting after; two zero-guarantee careers right here and he made them work

is always, always nice to fans. 

ships hannigram harder than Bryan Fuller.

is so fucking talented. seriously. SO fucking talented. he’s a fucking national treasure in Denmark.

threw serious shade at Lars Von Trier, and it was amazing.

[iamnotswarley]

also, he

has never seen a Star Wars movie and didn’t even realize how big being in one would be.

also probably had no idea how big a Marvel movie would be.

still went with doing both because he got really well paid got to do air kung-fu and shit.

joined one of the most highly anticipated video games ever without understanding anything about the plot and/or video games. 

went salsa dancing with his Hannibal co-stars, director, and showrunner, despite saying he doesn’t dance in public anymore.

did a Con and got drunk with a bunch of furries.

also got onstage with a screamo band (during the same Con?) and shot toilet paper at the pit.

wears every flower crown he’s ever been given. it’s like a thing. sometimes wears two at the same time.

once wore a pink “rosé over bitches” sweatshirt while completely smashed and it was great.

[helly-watermelonsmellinfellon]

proudly played the ‘Bitch’ in Rihanna’s Bitch Better Have My Money video and didn’t get why it was such a big deal.

avoided major injury in a crash where he was sent flying from his motorcycle but managed to flip in midair and land perfectly on his feet.

[skodasforge]

Mads Mikkelsen is a centuries old immortal that doesn’t quite grasp the modern concept of celebrity, in this essay I will

[la-plus-heureuse]

say what you want, but this shit was better than the scene in legally blonde when elle wins her case

[raincityruckus]

elle and jake wouldn’t make it a competition, they’d want us to appreciate the other for doing a darn good job.

[djmixedtape]

This scene had me whooping like a white suburban dad at their son’s football game

[bewareofthecar1966]

a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age

[bewareofthecar1966]

this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any

[aquarianconstellations]

the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’

[bewareofthecar1966]

THE VITAMIN C DEBATE

[elidyce]

My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable. 

I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.

I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it. 

[ariadne83]

some guys i used to know went on a boys only road trip. they decided they were only going to eat things they could cook on the engine block of the car.

two of them got scurvy. one of them drank so much jagermeister + red bull that he temporarily lost the ability to see in colour.

[dexvoan]

im sorry he what now

[marzipanandminutiae]

the thing about millennials who don’t want kids is I feel like a lot of them are deeply On Board for their friends’ kids

like I’m among the minority of my friends in definitely for sure wanting kids someday

but each of my parenthood-eschewing friends has claimed a different role in my future offspring’s life and they seem very excited to play it

so we as a generation may have fewer children

but I feel like they’ll be the most supported and loved children imaginable

[pfdiva]

As a millennial who doesn’t want children, I am seconding this, because it’s not like we don’t want children to exist in the world!  We do!  Children can be lovely and amazing and they are literally our future!  It’s just So Very Difficult to raise children in our nuclear-family society, especially as a millennial, and you want to do the job RIGHT.

Well, if you can’t do the job right yourself, the least you can do is help a friend raise THEIR child right, help take the burden off their shoulders, and give that kid all the love and attention they can stand.

I’d be damned excited to do that, too.

[thelongestpuzzle]

this generation is so excited and ready to be weird uncle/aunt so-and-so

[micaxiii]

I hope this generation makes communal families a thing again and this time it won’t be treated like a “taboo hippie thing”

[tallteal]

Takes a village to raise a kid