The Sketchblog of RadioRae

Welcome!

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends!

It’s Meg here for TUTOR TUESDAY! Today is part one of drawing trees. I’ll do a tutorial on painting trees next time! This was a recommended tutorial, and if you have any tutorials you’d like to see just send em in here or at my personal! Have fun, keep practicing, and I’ll see you next week!

[pumpkinspicepoet]

Every time I hate my body I remember that there are millions of old rich white men who benefit from my self hatred and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s old rich white men so I snap out of that shit instantly cos I ain’t EVER giving them the satisfaction.

[y0ulittleshit]

Oh my fucKING GOD

[looktothe-mountains-and-sky-dea]

Wait stop this is a game changer.

[someofthisrumham]

i have reblogged this 4 times; i have thought about this every fucking day

[theropegeek-deactivated20170722]

Reminder!

[sexeducationforprudes]

“If every woman in the world woke up tomorrow and decided that she loved herself and loved her body just the way it is, how many industries would go out of business?”

[wannabeanimator]

Lilo & Stitch (2002) | Style Guide (x)

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[radiorae]

Just finished the Raven Cycle. The biggest plot twist was finding out I apparently drive past Glendower's tomb everyday on my way to and from work. Whadaya know. 

[braatphomet]

depression symptoms that need to be brought to attention, supported and not demonized:

not showering/bathing for days or even weeks. (this has nothing to do with laziness - a main symptom of depression is being unable to be motivated)

not engaging in any social actvities

staying up and sleeping in till late 

not being able to eat

neglecting self care as a whole 

spending entire weeks at home, in the same pajamas, in the same bed

disregarding help/support (nothing against you. we’re just really fucking down.)

don’t shame us. we’re having a hard time managing being depressed in general.

[suicidal-elegance]

Reblogging this again because it’s so damn important.

[nowitallbegins]

When they pan out to reveal all the shells and that her parents have been putting shells out everyday for years tho’

[slytherinnpride]

Gryffindor: Do what is right. Hufflepuff: Do what is kind. Ravenclaw: Do what is wise. Slytherin: PUT A FUCKING BASILISK IN THE CASTLE!!!

(via slytherinnpride)

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the janitor.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the waitress.

[infinitelovelike-blog]

Always be kind to the person at the call center.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to the cashier.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind to receptionist.

[blackandmildwithgod]

Always be kind, When it’s possible.

[gifsboom]

[radiorae]

Omg omg omg

[stevethompson-art]

Courage.

[carcharhinic]

Blacktip shark pups

(Photo credit: © Getty Images / Paul & Paveena Mckenzie)

[profeminist]

Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM

““The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent,” Hope Jahren writes in a recent essay in the New York Times.

“Indeed, despite programs designed to interest girls in STEM, GoldieBlox, and supermodels celebrating the virtues of coding, the fields are still overwhelmingly male and seem virtually resistant to change. Jahren, a geochemist and geobiologist, argues that the problem is hardly one of enthusiasm, but rather widespread sexual harassment in the fields that, unsurprisingly, goes unpunished.

The kind of sexual harassment Jahren describes is hardly that of a Mad Men episode: groping and outright dickishness are easier to label and condemn as sexual harassment (and it’s worth noting that STEM has a problem with that too).

Rather, it’s the kind that prioritizes men’s feelings, and their expression of them, over the simple act of treating a woman as a professional colleague. Jahren persuasively argues that the persistence of this kind of behavior—the constant demand from both male colleagues and academic advisors that their feelings be acknowledged and legitimized—is one of the reasons women leave STEM fields.

An email forwarded to Jahren by a former student asking her advice typifies the problem:

[The student] forwarded an email she had received from a senior colleague that opened, “Can I share something deeply personal with you?” Within the email, he detonates what he described as a “truth bomb”: “All I know is that from the first day I talked to you, there hadn’t been a single day or hour when you weren’t on my mind.” He tells her she is “incredibly attractive” and “adorably dorky.” He reminds her, in detail, of how he has helped her professionally: “I couldn’t believe the things I was compelled to do for you.” He describes being near her as “exhilarating and frustrating at the same time” and himself as “utterly unable to get a grip” as a result. He closes by assuring her, “That’s just the way things are and you’re gonna have to deal with me until one of us leaves.”

It’s hard to imagine that the sender of the email thought that it would earn him the romantic admiration of his female colleague, coupled as it is with a vague threat likely meant to convey the authentic intensity of his attraction. And yet, as Jahren writes, this behavior has “been encountered by every single woman I know.”

Read the full piece here

[radiorae]

Important.

[cilly-murphy]

[radiorae]

My twenties.

[nmariegarcia]

When will my life begin?~

[arexcho]

“Life’s a little messy. We all make mistakes. No matter what type of animal you are, change starts with you.”  —Lt. Judy Hopps

Zootopia was amazing! Please go watch it! The themes are so important and who doesn’t love a good “who done it” film? ;)

[upworthy]

A soup kitchen disguised as a restaurant is making a big difference in Kansas City.

The restaurant-style Kansas City Community Kitchen is a completely new way to feed those in need.

Say goodbye to trays, buffets, and waiting in lines to eat at a regular old soup kitchen.

When you step inside the Kansas City Community Kitchen today, a greeter shows you to a table. Volunteer waitstaff takes your order after you’ve had time to look at the menu and see what the culinary team has been cookin’ up. The options are healthier and quite creative, like an episode of Food Network’s “Chopped,” but with the ingredients available to the kitchen that day.

Diners are encouraged to leave reviews of their service and requests for what they’d like to see on the menu. Have health, dietary, or religious-observance needs? No sweat.

“We are trying to flip the photo of what a soup kitchen looks like,” Mandy Caruso-Yahne, director of community engagement at Episcopal Community Services (ECS), told Upworthy. 

But feeding those in need isn’t the only way the kitchen is helping. They’re training others too.

Through the program, students work their way up to cooking in the kitchen and providing suggestions for the menu and dishes they prepare. They develop knowledge and confidence in a variety of ways that help them continue down a path in the food industry once they’re finished with the program.

As one diner named Brian put it, 

“They’re treating me good, like they don’t know I’m homeless.”

And that’s exactly the point.

[biculturalist-deactivated201612]

I appreciate that Americans who are anti-Trump threaten to leave the country and set their eyes north to Canada, like the world is their oyster and they can move wherever they want. But when another group of people are actually escaping real turmoil and want to move to the U.S. then it becomes a sensitive issue. Such entitlement even in jest.

[fancy0ctopus]

The people threatening to leave if Trump is elected generally aren’t the ones trying to kick out immigrants