Accidental Genius

Nina | 18 | London | ENFP-T | Insta: nina.irl

[mechanical-she-wolf]

Tommee Tippee - Parent On from Nina Athill on Vimeo.

Director: Marcus Storm DP: Markus Ljungberg

[i-wrotethisforme]

I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in meeting someone for the first time and knowing they’re going to change your life.

[toniins]

hey not to be all angry and feminist but the way society ignores women’s pain as a whole is crazy damaging. i took my first painkiller last week. last week. i am 18 years old and have been enduring period cramps since i was 12 and last week was the first time i ever tried to manage them because i thought that what i was experiencing was just a normal amount of pain that all women deal with. to give you an idea of how bad my cramps can get, i once walked into a physics exam half-blind because i was in so much pain i couldn’t get my eyes to focus enough for me to be able to read. i’ve recovered from minor surgery without pain management. there are scars on my toes from where my high heels have cut clean into my feet at formal events. society tells women that their pain is minor or ‘all in their head’ and the end result is that we let it get this bad. we let ourselves lose basic faculty, or we let ourselves scar, or we just let ourselves miss out on living happy, comfortable lives, because we’ve been taught that our suffering is normal. it’s bullshit and it needs to change. i don’t want my niece to feel like she has to endure what i’ve been letting myself endure.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Bacelona, 1977.

Rally demanding the legalization of divorce and against the laws that criminalize women’s choices, organized by the Associació Catalana de la Dona (Catalan Association of Woman).

This rally was held right after the death of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco who had ruled Spain since his coup d’état in 1936 (ruled all the territory of Spain after defeating the resistance in 1939) until he died peacefully of old age in 1975. Obviously, the fascist national-catholic dictatorship had forbidden divorce and held, both through laws and religion, a very tight control on women’s choices and lives, which had to be dedicated to serving their husband, taking care of children and devotion to the Catholic church.

In 1977, the government was still controlled by the facists and the so-called “transition to democracy” wasn’t established until 1978-79. But after Franco’s death, there was hope, and people starting demanding their rights in many fronts: rights for women, for the indigenous cultures and languages that had been greatly repressed and persecuted (Catalan, Basque, Galicia, Asturian…), for atheists and people who weren’t Catholic, for the legalization of leftist organizations and political parties, among others. Around the time this rally was held, the Guardia Civil (the facist regime’s police, who are still Spain’s miliary police nowadays) were massively beating, arresting and torturing all those protesters. But, despite fear, the fall of fascism was (and is) seen as worth fighting for, as shown by the brave women who got organized like the ones in the images above.

Photos by Manel Armengol.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (Laida Lertxundi, 2014)

[rarelytheresorry]

You gonna get that job, get that car, house/apartment, and then you gon find you a lil boo who gon listen and y’all gon be happy.

Reblog it into existence

[lyricsloveandkisses]

🗣🗣🗣

[victorious]

[realdoobz]

vines are literally better than 77% of hollywood movies

[zohbugg]

Cinematic magic

[lubricate-me-lucifer]

you have no idea how fast i pressed that reblog button

[sleek-siren]

THE SLIPPER

[theunmarkedjournal]

La Chancla *war flashbacks*

[orleos]

The music even sounds like, “Noooo he didn’t.”

[plant-folk]

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

[motherslockupyoursons]

W. O. W.

[trapcard]

This feels invasive 

[squided]

so that’s how the back of the moon looks like

[inahiddenplace]

how we act alone when we don’t feel like we have witnesses.. that is the genuine self.. me walking around my room punching the air talking to myself in a bad southern accent, that’s ME baby. you’re never going to know me like i know me. haha.

[nihilistwife]

and once again as i always say:

donald trump way too fuckin rich to be lookin tore up as he is

[nihilistwife]

every rich person who does not use their money to flex is a dumb motherfucker and i hate them. why the hell you got money n u not lookin good w it? dumbass

[karpad]

here’s the thing: he thinks he is flexin. He’s utterly without aesthetic knowledge or the wisdom to recognize value, so if you just tell him something is expensive, he instantly thinks it’s good and he’s better than you for having it. So he does stupid shit like buy expensive italian suits without getting them taken in, or getting fake tans and hair plugs without thinking about how they look because they cost him a lot, so it must look good. So he looks like an unusually large toddler in his sunday suit from the husky boys section of Men’s Warehouse who got into mommy’s makeup kit, and it cost him 10 large to look like that.

[nihilistwife]

Oh thats scarier to think than that hes not trying. Dont say that

[nonomella-deactivated20171016]

Coraline is a masterfully made film, an amazing piece of art that i would never ever ever show to a child oh my god are you kidding me

[cthullhu-deactivated20170910]

Nothing wrong with a good dose of sheer terror at a young age

[whatthecurtains]

“It was a story, I learned when people began to read it, that children experienced as an adventure, but which gave adults nightmares. It’s the strangest book I’ve written”

-Neil Gaiman on Coraline

[greenbryn]

@nightlovechild

[lierdumoa]

This is a legit psychology phenomenon tho like there’s a stop motion version of Alice and Wonderland that adults find viscerally horrifying, but children think is nbd. It’s like in that ‘toy story’ period of development kids are all kind of high key convinced that their stuffed animals lead secret lives when they’re not looking and that they’re sleeping on top of a child-eating monster every night so they see a movie like Coraline and are just like “Ah, yes. A validation of my normal everyday worldview. Same thing happened to me last Tuesday night. I told mommy and she just smiled and nodded.”

[wahbegan]

Stephen King had this whole spiel i found really interesting about this phenomenon about how kids have like their own culture and their own literally a different way of viewing and interpreting the world with its own rules that’s like secret and removed from adult culture and that you just kinda forget ever existed as you grow up it’s apparently why he writes about kids so much

[12drakon]

An open-ended puzzle often gives parents math anxiety while their kids just happily play with it, explore, and learn. I’ve seen it so many times in math circles. We warn folks about it.

[gokuma]

Neil Gaiman also said that the difference in reactions stems from the fact in “Coraline” adults see a child in danger - while children see themselves facing danger and winning

[sometimesrosy]

i never saw so much push back from adults towards YA literature as when middle aged women started reading The Hunger Games. They were horrified that kids would be given such harsh stories, and I kept trying to point out the NECESSITY of confronting these hard issues in a safe fictional environment.

[jewishdragon]

Also, in an interview, he said that Coraline was partially based on a story his not yet 6 year old daughter would tell him 

SAGAL: No. I mean, for example, your incredibly successful young adult novel “Coraline” is about a young girl in house in which there’s a hole in the wall that leads to a very mysterious and very evil world. So when you were a kid, is that what you imagined?

GAIMAN: When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn’t be a brick wall. So I’d sidle over to the door and I’d pull it open.

(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: And it was always a brick wall.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: But it was one of those things that as I grew older, I carried it with me and I thought, I want to send somebody through that door. And when I came to write a story for my daughter Holly, at the time she was a 4 or 5-year-old girl. She’d come home from nursery. She’d seen me writing all day. So she’d come and climb on my lap and dictate stories to me. And it’d always be about small girls named Holly.

SAGAL: Right.

GAIMAN: Who would come home to normally find their mother had been kidnapped by a witch and replaced by evil people who wanted to kill her and she’d have to go off and escape. And I thought, great, what a fun kid.

[wetwareproblem]

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.” - G. K. Chesterton

[brawltogethernow]

Being a child is fucking horrifying: 2/10 would not do again.

[unabashedlybi-deactivated201911]

[acommunistraptor]

[crinosg]

Alfred Hitchcock was not even in the neighborhood of fucking aroudn.

[elencaorange]

Twitter

[unicornempire]

This is some truth laid down right here boy.

[quasi-normalcy]

Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so

[iansoulfox-deactivated20201026]

damn does this sting.

[dxgzz-deactivated20181105]

This applies nicely to me. Honestly, just here for a laugh at this point.

[shipwreckedsamuel]

Wow I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. This is too true

[mechanical-she-wolf]

Ya gal made a video, go n check it out!

[mioxenoblade]

There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.

[silvamonet]