Remember to Smile

I share beautiful pictures, shows I'm obsessing over, soothing GIFs, things that make me laugh, and anything else I find interesting. The only theme is whatever is on my mind at any given moment.  

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! 🌈💕🌼✨

[fravery]

The Narrows

by jef bourgeau

[winter-wise]

Me: gosh I sure am having a nice day with all my blood inside my body

The villainous vampire:

[auxphono]

Needed a clean graphic for a project, and figured while I was vectoring I would put sex and magic back in.

Happy Pride Month

[auxphono]

Reblogging this yearly for anyone who needs a very clean version <3 Happy Pride.

[drosophilamania]

Reblog to put the sex and magic back into pride

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[feather-bone]

Mayfly! Best known for their ephemeral adult lifespans, which can last as little as five minutes! Eggs are laid over water, and the immature nymphs may live for a couple years as aquatic detritivores. They have an extra life stage when compared to most insects, and spend around a few hours as a winged terrestrial subadult before emerging again as a sexually mature mayfly. Their subadult and adult forms have no mouthparts, and they die after reproducing.

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[rubiatinctorum]

Maybe Hallmark imports all of their dirt-loving farm-tending small town men from the port haven time travel pond after chucking them into 1814 so they can keep producing these fellas for marketing girlbosses in from the big city to visit family. Maybe it’s not just Jacob Landry and they actually have a whole industry catalogue of these old timey dirt and farm lovers and that’s why hallmark men are like that

[thewayhomehallmark]

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[halfdeadwaffles]

^^^^ this last addition is EVERYTHING

[stars-bean]

Elementary ➤ 2.02 - "Solve for X"

[stellaseveride]

ELEMENTARY | 2.19 The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville

[wanghedi]

One of the effect of elementary watson being a woman on sherlock is that hes always making caveats about murder suspects like a man caved his skull in. Or a woman. women can also cave skulls in 👍 he set the building on fire. Or she. I would never imply women cant set building on fire

[pascalcampion]

Sunday morning sketching

[seven-oh-four]

if you see an ad for a game and the ad is low production value it's riddled with ads and you're being scammed. however if the ad has high production value then it's gambling and you're being scammed.

[halfabouros]

It's funny how we get the best advertisements from people going "YO THIS IS SICK" rather than scam ads.

Nobody's gonna go up to you in public and suggest you play like.. genshin impact or league of legends.

[bunjywunjy]

oh ominous six-point buck of the field who won't stop staring at me, what is your wisdom?

[bunjywunjy]

his wisdom was "get the hell out of my field"

[grabbyfr]

“ here we go again. “