For a Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic

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My SO saw one of my old selfies today and said “Ooof. Eyebrows." 

DON’T DISS MY BROWS, MAN. THIS IS HOW PEOPLE LOSE KNEECAPS.

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Still hurts, man.

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I would like these please. I had Barbies growing up. I had a princess Barbie with a singing bird and a giant blue dress covered in flowers. That dress was ditched pretty quickly. I used to cut and dye my Barbie’s hair, and sew my own clothes for her. I never liked being told she was supposed to look a certain way, or I was supposed to play with her a certain way.  Barbie tried to teach me that beauty was being tall, skinny and blonde. Well...I just about get the blonde bit right...but that’s when my hair isn’t blue. Or pink. Or purple, red, green etc etc etc. 

I took those beauty standards and I coloured all over them. I turned Barbie into a punk. A hippy. She tried everything. I made a role model out of her because I didn’t appreciate the role model I was given. I know that Barbie had a million careers too, but she turned everything into a fashion show. My Barbie didn’t care that she was in hand stitched clothes, and I dyed her hair with coloured pencil shavings mixed with water. She didn’t care that she was as androgynous as a Barbie could get. She was still successful in every career I had her play out.

Little me would have loved to have role model Barbies. Dolls of amazing women representing different beauty standards, and more importantly, different standards of success. Intelligent women, talented women, athletic women, beautiful women, artists, pioneers, game-changers, bosses. 

This is the kind of representation I wanted. These are the kind of dolls I want my future daughter to have to remind her every day that she can be whatever she wants to be.  I want my future son to have these dolls too. I want him to have strong female role models in exactly the way he has strong male role models. I want him to grow up knowing that beauty comes from passion, from ambition, from focus, from confidence, from understanding, from kindness. Beauty is so much more than a waistline that can only be achieved with four removed ribs, and a neck that wouldn’t be able to support the weight of a woman’s head.

Now Mattel....where are our inspirational male Ken dolls? 

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I am still learning how to apologise.

Me: "I am sorry you felt criticised."

*pause*

"No. Wait. That was a crap apology. Lemme try that one again. I am sorry I made you feel criticised, or belittled. That wasn't my intention, but it was my fault. I am also sorry for taking the easy way out with that apology, and putting the blame on you like that."

Person I was talking to: *long pause* Thank you. I appreciate you saying that, apology accepted."

*Good feeling all round*

Sometimes a proper apology goes a long way to changing everything about the atmosphere in a situation.

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My manager just said to me...

"You aren't being paid to stay late and mess up your mental health. Do what you can do, leave at home time. Your team work so hard, it is not good for your mental health to do EXTRA work when you should be taking the chance to breathe. Go home."

I am reminded on a daily basis how lucky I am to have this job.

[xueyangapologist]

a nsa agent in a suit looking through my laptop camera: she’s on her phone…….. our data shows that she’s got tumblr open on her laptop but she has tumblr open on her phone………. double check her browser?

some nerd hired straight out of college: *types rapidly* she’s definitely got tumblr open on her laptop

the nsa agent, softly: so why is she looking at it on her phone…..

[hollyjpaulsen-deactivated202204]

My husband and myself have served in the military. When we call home from overseas, our lines are monitored and on a short delay so no sensitive information is revealed. The line will just go dead if you say something you’re not supposed to.

Now, these calls are monitored by a department in the military called Signal corps. When we’d talk on my husband’s last deployment, we had a running joke that we said hi to “Signal Guy Fred.”

So this continued for his entire 12 month deployment, and we made sure we said hi or bye to “Signal Guy Fred” every phone call. On his final phone call before returning home we made sure to thank “Signal Guy Fred” for his time and wish him farewell.

So, before I disconnect the call, I wish “Fred” the best and thank him for his service. My phone was on speaker mode (I was cooking dinner) and my finger was hovering over the end call button when I hear the softest little, “My name’s Jason.”

[torchlake]

[greatfay]

Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children.

(found in the forward to The Hobbit Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1987)

‘Damn the boy’

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

#have you ever been so annoying you caused the reinvention of an entire literary genre

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Okay I’m fed up of the bed being empty now. G gets back tomorrow and I’m very ready for that.

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My other half is going on holiday with his friends today and I AM SAD BECAUSE I AM GOING TO MISS HIM. That's what I have told him.

But like...tbh I am totally actually sad because I love centreparcs and I am super jealous that he gets to go on the rapids slide.

[sinnerbird]

im going to start a thread of pokemon drawn to the sizes of the things theyre based on

here, i’ll start 

[sinnerbird]

also this thread is open to anyone

[sinnerbird]

[very-salty-popcorn]

A very small boi enters

[5radchan]

@alpha-bread

[alpha-bread]

!!!!! This is Zangoose she’s pointy and I love her

[pettyartist]

I chose the littlest ones cause the BIG ones were always tadpoles and the little ones were always poliwogs.

[kuro--sawa]

A pocket sized boy

[charlesoberonn]

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2017-09-22T22:30:44

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Fact: Today (September 23rd) is bisexuality awareness day. Be aware of bisexuals. They are dangerous.

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We are less than a week away!!

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If you haven’t already, recharge your mana and make sure all your weapons are intact. This is especially important as on the 23rd you won’t have your usual invisibility powers.

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My SO saw one of my old selfies today and said "Ooof. Eyebrows." 

DON'T DISS MY BROWS, MAN. THIS IS HOW PEOPLE LOSE KNEECAPS.

[kosherrobot]

For only $20 you too can fuck Satan

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS CREAM. TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK. 

MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.

This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.

Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.

Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.

The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online. 

I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.

I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me. 

The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.

Reblog to save a vagina.

[usobukii-deactivated20170126]

Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina

AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT

But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.

FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain

[sushinfood]

AMEN.

[newwavefeminism]

It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.

[bluegrasskitty]

Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑

[angrybooklady]

I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.

[reighost]

Reblogging to save a vag.

[poetry-protest-pornography]

It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.

[monasoffspring-deactivated20240]

Damn y'all #saveavag

[wilwheaton]

always reblog.

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Gay Pride and The Maze

So apparently The Crystal Maze live experience produced a bunch of special edition pink crystals for gay pride...and guess who just managed to get her hands on one :D

[thriveworks]

Dog Thoughts (see 10 more)

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...is your dog William Shatner?

[gamechangershow]

Click here for more comics from Julia LePetit!

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Aphantasia feelings analogy

A great description of how I have felt the last few days.

Imagine if there were suddenly headlines everywhere saying "Scientists discover that there is a man without a tail!!!"

And you are like...wait...humans have tails?! But I don't have a tail! Since when have humans had tails?!

It doesn't affect my life all that much, I am still the same person, I don't have any new issues as a result...I just don't have a tail.

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Aphantasia

So yesterday I discovered I have aphantasia...it is being blind in your minds eye. I can't 'see' the things I imagine, I merely describe them to myself...

I didn't realise this wasn't normal until today.

I am in good company though, apparently Penn of Penn and Teller has the same thing.

I am told a good way to imagine this if you have a normal mind's eye is picturing yourself on a beach. Then imagine putting a blindfold on so that everything goes dark. You know you are on a beach, but you can't see any of it. That is how I picture a beach. I would have to verbally describe it to myself.