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EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND READ THIS BECAUSE HOLY SHIT MY WHOLE LIFE JUST CHANGED FOR THE BETTER.
So apparently in addition to running Archive of Our Own and providing legal advocacy to fans who run up against plagiarism accusations, the Organization for Transformative Works also publishes a peer-reviewed academic journal called Transformative Works and Cultures that is dedicated to promoting scholarship about fanworks and practices. This journal is 100% free to access and has been publishing 2-3 volumes (each containing 15-18 articles, essays, interviews, and book reviews) per year since 2008.
Why is this so fucking exciting? For one thing, academia has a terrible habit of being increeeedibly sloooow to discuss new ideas — partly due to the very long turnaround time necessary to get articles published. By contrast, Transformative Works and Cultures is super up-to-date and teaming with topics that are actually relevant to modern fandom.
Want to read an academic article about female fans being “fridged” in comic book culture? Done. Interested in learning about the societal implications of mpreg within fanfiction/fanart? Here you go. Want to learn more about race and ethnicity in fandom? Well, would you look at that. Feel a mighty need to read a specially-conducted interview with Orlando Jones about producer/fan interactions in “Sleepy Hollow”? Holy butts the show only came out in 2013 and they already have this what the hell.
And all of this — all of the knowledge, all of the analysis, all of the academic credibility being added to fannish ideas — is 100% free to access.
Transformative Works and Cultures is doing fandom an incredible service: by giving a voice to people within fandom, by preserving the discussions and ideas that were important to fannish culture at certain points in time, by emphasizing our significance as a subculture — and all the while doing it on our own terms.
These are fans working hard to give legitimacy to other fans, and if you don’t think that’s rad as hell then I don’t even know what to tell you.
if you were previously homophobic but realize you were wrong: that’s ok, u are learning if you are struggling with internalized misogyny: that’s ok too, keep fighting to overcome the sexism that society perpetuates if you were accidentally trans phobic but are fixing it: great, we need everyone on our side if at any point u were wrong and are trying to fix it: we accept you and we were all there. keep working to be a good person
I feel this is really under-appreciated.
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they outlawed this move just because she was the only woman who could do it.
Surya Bonaly was infamous for (among other things) doing aone blade backflip in the 1998 Olympics, and is the ONLY figure skater who’s ever pulled that off. Not just the only woman, the only figure skater PERIOD. There’s like all ofthree Olympic-class male skaters who did backflips in their routines, and NONE of them could do it one blade.
But wait, there’s more.
Backflips were banned from the 1976 Olympics onward on the official justification that skating jumps are supposed to be landed on one blade, whereas backflips are landed on both blades. The unofficial justification was it was too dangerous, both to the athlete and to the rink — if you didn’t land it perfectly, you could not only break your ankle, but also punch THROUGH the ice surface.
Surya Bonaly was openly contemptuous of the figure skating judges, because they were a bunch of openly racist white men who always screwed her over by giving her lower scores than she deserved. That one-blade backflip was her ultimate FUCK YOU! to the Olympics judges, because she took an “illegal” backflip and made it legal by landing it on one blade. Pretty much DARING them to mark her down for being epic awesome and pulling a move that their precious coddled white girls didn’t have the guts to even think about.
They did, of course. White racism knows no bounds. But she utterly owned them with that move.
not only did she do a fucking backflip and land, she landed then went right into a triple loop. like holy fuck
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There is this website called Thrift Books and I just got $66.90 worth of books for $19.93 (five books). Shipping was free. You’re welcome.
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I just got four books worth $92.94 (two are hardcovers) for $16.42 SHIPPING IS FREE. THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE THING.
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Could you explain the whole "i don’t really have depression, i’m actually just a lazy piece of shit" = you've got depression, thing? It rang a bell for me and I'd like to know what you meant. Thanks :)
one of the most insidious things about depression is it doesn’t ‘feel’ like depression. even when you have it, you know you have it, you’ve been diagnosed—you still find yourself thinking, no, nope, this isn’t it, can’t be. it’s like the mental illness equivalent of that knight in monty python that keeps going ‘it’s a flesh wound! i’m fine, really! this is just a scratch, i’ll be up in a moment!’ even after all his limbs have been hacked off and he’s lying there helpless.
one of the most common narratives around it is that no one realizes they have depression until they start checking off what they consider to be normal aspects of their lives—and personal character flaws— against the checklist for depression symptoms. really key symptoms include:
lack of motivation
constant tiredness, even exhaustion
finding no pleasure or satisfaction in activities they used to like, or that they know should feel good
not seeing the point of doing anything
increased and even unmanageable anxiety and fearfulness
any one of these symptoms drains away your ability to do work, cope with setbacks, overcome difficulties, or stop procrastinating. multiple symptoms create a pretty perfect storm of intertia and anxious self-loathing. you stop doing anything because it’s hard to get going, unpleasant while you’re at it, and afterwards there’s no reward. why bother, right? and when you’re always tired you get conservative of what little energy you can manage, and when you only feel emotions on the ‘empty to miserable’ spectrum you get really aversive to making mistakes. the whole mess very quickly and very insidiously loads every single thing in your life with toxic emotional baggage.
and then someone says to you— or you say to yourself, ‘stop being lazy’. and that haunts you forever. because you’re lazy! the work is so easy. everyone else does it. everyone but you, you lazy asshole, lying around all day not doing this totally easy thing that you should be able to but aren’t. you don’t have depression! of course not. mental illness is for victims, is for blameless innocent people who can’t be blamed for being so understandably sick. but you can be blamed. you have a character flaw, and it’s getting worse by the minute.
and that is how people who have been diagnosed, who have been medicated, who have been through therapy, can still spend all day hiding in bed and chewing themselves up over their failure to just somehow magically be a good, healthy, useful person, instead of treating themselves to a sick day and saying ‘yup! it’s depression. i need to be kind to myself.’
Fuck this is so important and relevant
Nope reblogging twice in a row because u want to scream this from the roof and plaster it over the walls and never shut up about it
THIS THIS THIS THIS
Debunking the myth of the “mean girl,” new research from the University of Georgia has found that boys use relational aggression — malicious rumors, social exclusion and rejection — to harm or manipulate others more often than girls.
The longitudinal study, published online in the journal Aggressive Behavior, followed a cohort of students from middle to high school and found that, at every grade level, boys engaged in relationally aggressive behavior more often than girls.
A team led by UGA professor Pamela Orpinas analyzed data collected from 620 students randomly selected from six northeast Georgia school districts. Students who participated in the study completed yearly surveys, which allowed the UGA researchers to identify and group them in distinct trajectories for relational aggression and victimization as they progressed from grade six to 12.
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Female pilots edited out of the Star Wars movies.
I saw the tweets about this today, and I was like oh yeah, I remember hearing about that.
And then I saw the pictures and just— wow. What it would have meant to have these women in the movie, all this time. I can’t properly articulate it but it’s hitting me unexpectedly hard.
Wow thats a shame, even a nice old lady too. These Space Valkyries should have been left in.
They really should have.
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WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
I lived, ate, and breathed Star Wars from age 2 until 2005 when RotS finally beat the enthusiasm out of me, and I have NEVER, EVER in all my reading on behind-the-scenes and makings-of heard of these shots. It’s a shame there was no relaunched edit of the original trilogy they could have slipped these in OH FUCKING WAIT THERE’S BEEN LIKE 3 OF THOSE NOW.
Fuck. FUCK. Whoever decided to edit out and bury these needs to french kiss an angle grinder.
I want to see the old lady in the A-Wing. Seriously, it’s like, she’s somebody’s grandma. Some kid in the Outer Rim Territories got greased by the Empire for seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, and her grandma, the bush pilot, decided “Fuck this, I’m gonna strap on an fighter and make the Empire fucking PAY for the moment it decided to fuck with MY FAMILY.”
DON’T. MESS. WITH. GRANDMA.
These are quickly being put into the “always reblog” category.
Whenever there is a war, there are women who are warriors. Then they get erased from history. Happens in real wars and fictional ones alike.
As someone who only had the movies to go by for the star wars universe as a child, seeing no women in the rules of pilots, I quietly assumed they weren’t allowed in. Tacticians, maybe, but never fighters.
SO WHO THE FUCK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR REMOVING THESE
HUH
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Escaping from North Korea in search of freedom: Yeonmi Park tells her story of life in North Korea and calls for action against such human rights violators.
Yeonmi was speaking at the One Young World Summit 2014 in Dublin.
I have to do this because this is not just I am speaking… This is for the people who want to tell the world what they want to say.
North Korea is an unnatural country. There is only one channel on TV and there is no internet. We aren’t free to sing, say, wear or think what we want.
North Korea is the only country in the world that executes people for making unauthorized international phone calls.
North Koreans are being terrorized today.
When I was growing up in North Korea, I never saw anything about love stories between man and woman, no books, no songs, no press, no movies about love stories. There is no Romeo and Juliet, every stories were propagandized to brainwash about the Kim dictators.
I was born in 1993 and I was abducted at birth even before I knew the words ‘freedom’ or ‘human rights’. North Koreans are desperately seeking and dying for freedom at this moment…
When I was 9 years old, I saw my friend’s mother publicly executed. Her crime? Watching a Hollywood movie!
Expressing doubt about the regime can get 3 generations of whole family imprisoned or executed.
When I was 4 years old, I was warned by my mother, not to even whisper, the birds and mice could hear me. I admitted it. I thought the North Korean dictator could read my mind. My father died in China after we escaped North Korea. And I have to bury him at 3 am in secret. I was only 14 years old. I couldn’t even cry, I was afraid to be sent back to North Korea.
The day I escaped North Korea, I saw my mother raped. The rapist was a Chinese broker. He had targeted me. I was only 13 years old. There is a saying in North Korea, “Women are weak, but mothers are strong”. My mother allowed herself to be raped in order to protect me.
North Korean refugees, about 300,000 are roaming over in China. 70 percent of North Korean women and teenage girls are being victimized and sometimes sold for as a little as 200 dollars. We walked across the Gobi desert following a compass and when it stopped working, we followed the stars to freedom. I felt only the stars are with us. Mongolia was our freedom moment.
Death or dignity; I was with the knife, we were prepared to kill ourselves if we are going to be send back to North Korea. We wanted to live as humans…
People often ask me, “How can we help North Koreans?”. There are many ways but I would like to mention 3 for now.
One, as you care yourself, you can raise awareness about human crisis in North Korea.
Two, help and support North Korean refugees who are trying to escape for freedom.
Three, petition China to stop repatriation.
We have to shed the light in the darkest place in the world. It is not just North Korean human rights, it is our rights!
The North Korean dictators have violated for 7 decades. We need governments all around the world to put more pressure on China to stop repatriation. In particular, Chinese delegates of ‘One Young World’ can play a part by speaking up. North Korea is indescribable… No human deserves to be oppressed just because of their birthplace. We need to focus less on the regime and more on the people who are being forgotten.
‘One Young World’, we are the ones who will make them visible. Please join me as we make this a global movement to free North Koreans. When I was crossing the Gobi desert, scared of dying, I thought nobody in this world cared. It seemed that only the stars were with me…
But you have listened to my story. You have cared…Thank you very much.
저는 이 연설을 해야 합니다. 이 연설은 자신들의 처지를 호소하고자 하는 사람들을 위한 것입니다. 북한은 비정상적인 국가입니다. TV에는 오직 하나의 채널만 있고 인터넷은 아예 없습니다. 저희는 원하는 대로 자유롭게 노래하지도, 말하지도, 옷 입지도, 생각하지도 못합니다. 북한은 허가하지 않은 국제전화를 했다는 이유로 처형이 이뤄지는 전세계 유일한 국가입니다. 북한 주민들은 현재 공포에 떨고 있습니다. 제가 북한에서 자랄 때 책, 노래, 언론, 영화에서 남자와 여자 사이의 사랑이야기에 관해서 전혀 접하지를 못했습니다. 북한에 로미오와 줄리엣은 없습니다. 모든 이야기들은 김일성-김정일-김정은 독재자들은 찬양하도록 세뇌하는 선전물로 변질됩니다. 저는 자유 혹은 인권이라 단어를 알기도 전인 1993년, 태어나자마자 유괴를 당했습니다. 북한 주민들은 지금 이순간에도 자유를 처절하게 갈망하고 있습니다. 제가 9살일 때 일입니다. 저는 제 친구의 어머니가 공개처형 당하는 것을 목격했습니다. 그녀의 죄명이요? 할리우드 영화를 봤다는 것이었습니다! 북한에서는 북한 정권에 대한 불신을 표현하는 것만으로 3대 가족 전체가 수감되거나 처형당하게 됩니다. 제가 4살 때 어머니에게 경고를 들은 적이 있습니다. 속삭이지도 말라고… 낮말은 새가 듣고 밤말은 쥐가 듣는다고… 저는 인정했습니다. 저는 북한의 독재자가 제 마음을 읽을 수 있는 줄 알았습니다. 제 아버지는 북한을 탈출한 후 중국에서 돌아가셨습니다. 14살 밖에 안되었던 저는 새벽 3시에 몰래 아버지를 묻어 드려야 했습니다. 저는 북한에 송환되는 것이 두려워 울 수도 없었습니다. 북한을 탈출한 첫 날, 저희 어머니는 강간을 당하셨습니다. 강간범은 중국인 브로커였습니다. 그는 처음에는 13살인 저를 범하려 했습니다. 북한에는 이런 말이 있습니다. “여자는 약하지만 어머니는 강하다” 제 어머니는 저를 보호하기 위해 기꺼이 자신이 강간당하도록 하였습니다. 중국에는 30만명에 달하는 탈북자들이 떠돌고 있습니다. 여기서 여성들과 10대 소녀들 중에 70퍼센트는 범죄의 대상이 되거나 고작 200달러에 팔려가고 있습니다. 저희 가족들이 고비사막을 횡단할 때 나침반을 따라갔었습니다. 나침반이 고장나자 저희는 별을, 바로 ‘자유로 향하는 별’을 따라갔습니다. 오직 별들만이 저희와 함께한다고 느껴졌습니다. 죽느냐 존엄성을 지키느냐… 저는 칼을 한 자루 가지고 다녔습니다. 만약 북한으로 송환되는 상황이 닥치면 저희는 스스로 목숨을 끊을 준비가 되어있었습니다. 저희는 사람답게 살고 싶었습니다… 사람들은 종종 저에게 묻습니다. “어떻게 하면 북한 주민들을 도울 수 있나요?” 여기에는 많은 방법들이 있는데 오늘은 3가지만 말씀 드리고 싶습니다. 첫째, 여러분이 자신을 돌보듯이 북한에서의 인권 유린에 대한 관심을 더욱 가져주세요. 둘째, 자유를 향해 탈출을 시도하는 탈북자들을 돕고, 지원을 해주세요. 셋째, 중국당국으로 하여금 송환을 멈추도록 청원을 넣어주세요. 우리는 세계에서 가장 어두운 곳에 빛을 비춰 주어야 합니다. 이는 북한 주민들의 인권만을 위한 것이 아니라 우리 모두의 인권을 위한 일입니다! 북한의 독재 정권은 70년 동안이나 잔혹한 통치를 해왔습니다. 중국으로 하여금 탈북자 송환을 멈추도록 전세계의 정부들이 더욱 압력을 가해야 합니다. 그리고 특히, 오늘 제가 참여하고 있는 ‘One Young World(세계 젊은 지도자 회의)’의 중국 대표들이 이에 대해 목소리를 높임으로서 하나의 역할을 할 수 있습니다. 현재의 북한은 형언할 수 조차 없을 정도로 참혹합니다… 어떠한 사람도 자신의 출생지 때문에 억압을 받아서는 안됩니다. 우리는 북한 정권에 대한 관심을 줄이고 잊혀지고 있는 사람들에 대해 더욱 관심을 가져야 합니다. ‘One Young World(세계 젊은 지도자 회의)’의 우리들, 우리들이 이러한 것을 실현 가능하게 만들 수 있습니다. 북한 주민들을 자유롭게 하는 이 전세계적인 움직임에 저와 함께 해주세요. 제가 죽을까 두려워하며 고비 사막을 건널 때, 세상 아무도 저를 신경쓰지 않는다고 생각했습니다. 오직 별들만이 저와 함께인 것 같았습니다… 하지만 여러분들은 제 이야기를 들어주셨습니다… 정말 감사합니다.
Why is this the first post that contains her entire speech? This is not just a recounting of all the horrible things that happened to her, this is an explanation of the regime she lived under and a call to the rest of the world for action. If you don’t reblog the beginning and end you’re completely missing the point.
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For The First Time Ever, All Four Eyewitness Accounts of The Murder of Michael Brown Put In Chronological Order: The most detailed side-by-side telling of each eyewitness account of the Mike Brown murder in chronological order #JusticeForMichaelBrown [@ShaunKing]
Reblog the fuck out of this
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