One Distracted Female

I'm Kate. I'm old enough to know better and I dream of being a librarian. I'm a serious second language acquisition and linguistics nerd, and this is my blog. The real world can do without me for 5 minutes.

[whatelsecanwedonow]

All hands to escape pods, prepare to abandon ship!

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS S01E10 | No Small Parts

[sibylline]

THAT 70’S SHOW → s04e05

[kuningaslilja]

[areyouvulcankiddingme]

This is a gif that should be in every Trekkie’s blog 

That right there is my idol! She went in for a double ass slap and did is flawlessly

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, and it just keeps getting better the longer I watch it.

I love how DeForest smiles afterwards, too.

Reblogging it again! Because how could you not??

[luseals]

a librarian’s hoard

[ID: Digital illustration of a red dragon surrounded by their colorful hoard of books. A worn, blue scarf wraps around their neck, and a pair of gold glasses sits on their snout, held in place by a gold chain. The dragon’s lair resembles a huge, airy library with multiple levels of bookcases, tall mountains of books, and floor-to-ceiling windows revealing open sky. Decorative gold chains drape across the space. The dragon smiles as it holds a small book in its mouth, stretching to offer it to a distant human standing atop a book tower. End ID.]

[goldsungold]

Autumn vibes 🍂

[anneemay]

I love this song

[bricklebeary]

South Korean beauty standards take shit to the next. Fucking. Level. Women are evaluated in totality based on every minor physical detail and whether it matches the ideal to the point where their decision to go under the knife for procedures the likes of blepharoplasty (surgery on their eyelids) is a main determinant of whether they get a job. For them, shit like this is an expectation. Fuck that garbage, burn it up ladies.

[yourkpopidolsucks]

In Korea you are literally REQUIRED to have a headshot with your application. Your physical appearance is a major vetting point in the interview. Applicants have literally been told to bleach their skin for jobs. Seoul is the plastic surgery capital of the world.

This is HUGE for them. Support them. Even if you love makeup, their beauty culture is TOXIC. Support this movement

[ruffboi-mags]

GO GIRLS GO

[systlin]

BURN IT DOWN, LADIES

[modernetheophanu]

[enigmaticpink]

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

🌌

[windycarnage]

when u have so many things u want to draw that it becomes overwhelming so u just do nothing

[astrodael]

Ok so last week I was hanging out with a friend and he told me that, when he was a child, he used to have a vhs tape with some random tv shows on it. And he says, “you know that sheep gif? that show was on the vhs, but I can’t remember how it was called, and google isn’t helping.” so we spent the weekend trying to find it, and we did! anyways the video was made by a cult

[fuchinobe]

This post sent me down an insane rabbit hole last night, the cult that made this has a thing for fantasizing about having sex with Jesus:

Cool tips for hot sex!

[pigeonbusiness]

I have never encountered a post that legit made me feel like I’ve been punched in the chest before.

[hungry-skeleton]

This started as a relatable artist meme but quickly turned into a horny cultist-driven train wreck

[vivaciousarcanist]

[brainbubblegum]

Oh hey, look, it’s the cult that brainwashed the guitarist from Fleetwood Mac

[skodasforge]

This is also the same cult that Rose McGowan and Joaquin and River Phoenix grew up in

[skodasforge]

[ownerofidaho]

this post just gets worse every time i see it.

[la-femme-beansidhe-is-cancelled]

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by quietly remembering that Native Americans sent more aid to Ireland during the famine than Britain or the US.

[sympolite]

specifically, it was the Choctaw nation that sent aid to the Irish during the famine

[swimmiesofdoom]

1.  “more aid to ireland during the famine than britain” okay let’s clear this up, again– there was no famine, it was a genocide, commited specifically by the british.  ireland was literally packed with food.  the only crop that failed was the potato crop.  the british had no problem with ships FULL OF FOOD leaving british ports on british ships from ireland to other places to make money.  IT.  WAS.  NOT.  A.  FAMINE.  IT.  WAS.  A.  GENOCIDE.   and that probably explains why britain didn’t “send aid”.  britain was literally using the “famine” they manufactured to clear the land of indigenous irish people.

2.  which lends poignancy and power to the attempt by the choctaw nation to send food to starving irish people. 

3.  there was much fanfair about this in the british press at the time, because of course the british government was lying to its own people about what they were doing.  it’s convenient to blame natural disasters like “famine” when in fact it is mass murder– kinda like what’s going on in yemen right now.  but to conclude, what didn’t receive a lot of fanfair in the british press is the fact that much of the corn and other food the choctaw nation attempted to send did not go to starving irish people, it was essentially hijacked and went to feed british pigs and livestock.

4.  which is why every saint patrick’s day we remember the genocide (one of many the british attempted in ireland) of black ‘47.  and we always remember the native americans who responded in such good will and with such generosity to starving people an ocean away from them.

[knit-soup]

And - all through primary school (until age 12) it was taught as a famine; only in secondary school did we learn that the British caused it deliberately. There’s a fair amount of Irish YA novels about the Famine (can’t remember titles off the top of my head), and they’re all pretty brutal with the facts of what happened. Not to mention most people’s great-grandparents probably lived through it - it’s not that far back.

Also there’s a monument to the Choctaw nation somewhere up the country for the help.

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Here’s a link to an article about the monument

http://m.newsok.com/article/5440927

[a-spoon-is-born]

The Irish Prime Minister (Leo Varadkar) visited the Choctaw Nation on March 13th (2018) to thank them officially and meet with Chief Gary Batton:

“Your act of kinship and generosity almost two centuries ago is memorialized in our history books and is commemorated on many occasions,” Varadkar told the Choctaws. “Your act of kindness never has been and never will be forgotten in Ireland.”

The prime minister announced the creation of a new college scholarship fund by the Irish government for Choctaw students who seek to study in Ireland, calling it “an opportunity for us to learn from you and your culture, and you from ours, in a sharing of knowledge that will enrich both our peoples.”

“Our ancestors were joined together in a time of tragedy and their descendants are now united in the spirit of learning and of hope,” he said.

[everythingfox]

[visual-infinity]

[ullathynell]

[nessa007]

#introverts be like

[josiecarioca]

 Snape (to Umbridge) : “You have tortured these children, made them live in fear…I can respect that.

But you have gone too far. You´ve humiliated every single professor in this school, you´ve made our work even more dreadful that it ´s always been, you tried to break our spirit, and ruin Hogwarts.

All that I could forgive. But Dolores…”

Umbridge: “What?”

Snape: