rioki89

Hi. This is rioki89. I'm 25 years old. I'm now starting tarot readings on this blog! It's not going to be my main focus (I'm still reblogging cats, hot men, and cute things,) but you can submit any and all questions. If you want a reading, simply inbox...

[sanjiseo]

Finding home to live together

[askcosplaysenpai]

Roses are red, violets are blue

[rioki89]

me: *sees stuffed animal laying in an awkward position*

me:.,.. ok.,.. that can't be comfy

me: *quickly adjusts it into a better, healthier position*

[cpt-sunstark]

Han and Leia.

[thewanderinghobbit]

Cuteness overload

[weloveshortvideos]

Roosters Be Like…

[hatchet-ears]

unmute this shit. Now.

[ruinedchildhood]

DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE

[bob-belcher]

Someone hire this man.

[epic-games-official]

WHAT KIND OF SCIENTIST

WEARS GOGGLES AND A LAB COAT

BUT LEAVES THE LAB COAT OPEN IN THE FRONT AND  DOES NOT WEAR A SHIRT UNDER IT

THIS IS NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE OF LAB SAFETY

[beeslybee]

BeeslyBees’ Giveaway

After a while of saving and thinking, I’ve finally come up with my next giveaway! But before I show the giveaways contents, and explain the rules, I just wanted to thank all my followers for what they do. You’re all so supportive and sweet, and I couldn’t ask for a better following. I do these giveaways to show my love and support back to you guys. I know I’m not always best at replying to messages or asks, but I still appreciate all of you. So thank you again, and I wish you all the best with the giveaway!

*Side Note* : The following contents of this giveaway are all things I enjoy, and things I think others would as well. I know since there is no main theme for this giveaway, and there might be things some people may not enjoy; when the winner is picked they may pick and choose what they want. So that way they don’t have to receive anything they don’t like. (The can of course have everything if they like it all!!)

So without further ado; The Giveaway!

1.  Sakura 6-Piece Pigma Micron Ink Pen Set- Black   

2. A 15-Piece Wood Handle Brush Set

3. Pure Body Naturals Dead Sea Mud Mask (250g/8.8 fl oz)

4.  Golden Rose Velvet Matte Lipstick -Set of 6

5.  12 Pcs Makeup Cosmetics Brushes Set Kit- In pink or Black

6.  Studio Ghibli movie collection  

(Disc 1. Laputa, Grave of the Fireflies, Whisper of the Heart/ Disc 2. Princess Mononoke, My neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa/ Disc 3. Kiki’s Delivery Service, Porco Rosso/ Disc 4. The Cat Returns, Howl’s Moving Castle, Tales From Earthsea/Disc 5. Spirited Away, Ponyo, My Neighbors the Yamadas/ Disc 6. Pom Poko)

7.  Tea Forte Classic Single Steeps Loose Leaf Tea Sampler (three pouches of each: Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Green Mango Peach, Chamomile Citron and Ginger Lemongrass)

8.  Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Cats

9.  Cute Cat Sticker Post-it Bookmark Marker

10.  Soapstone Incense Stick Holder

11.  The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall- Paperback

12.  “ Sock It To Me” Constellations and Bee’s Knee High Socks- One Size

13.  Mars NY Women’s Alien Crew neck Sweatshirt- Size small-2XL

14. Planetary Glass Set

15. $10 Itunes or GooglePlay gift card

16. $25 Lush Giftcard

17. $50 Barnes and Nobles Gift Card

Concluded with a handwritten note from me, including a small bag of candy.

Rules/More Info:

1. You must be following me; since this is a giveaway for my followers

an extra entry if you want to follow me on my new instagram

2. Only reblogs count; but you may like as well.

3. You may reblog as much as you’d like; but be considerate of your followers please

4. The giveaway ends July 1st, 2016

5. The giveaway is international so all feel free to join!

6. All these products are bought by me/not sponsored

Thank you again everyone, and I wish you all the best!

[lesbianhaircut]

the military begins recruiting ‘soldiers’ before they grow out of their booster seat

four year olds have toy guns and green army men

by grade school you’ve memorized the star spangled banner and the pledge of allegiance

in middle school you’re old enough to play first person shooters set in war times. you and your friends brag about how many kills you have, what guns are your favorite

in high school, rotc comes to visit. you get letters in the mail detailing scholarship and housing opportunities you could have

and if you’re poor or unsure of your future or in love with the idea of ‘protecting your country’ like the men in call of duty

every branch of the military has a sponsored blog on here because they want everyone 13 and up to know that soldiers are heroes and they should join them

[blogtitletaken]

To those of you who were wondering, this is a very US-specific post. What gets done to you guys is terrifying, and it’s really unfair.

[svvearwolves]

Ah yes I remember how the different military branches visited my high school at multiple times throughout the year and set up their little pull up bars and had little competitions and the strong little ones got lanyards so the recruiters could pick them out

[malethotjob-deactivated20210402]

I dont even know if you’re joking or not

[perfectionistdia-deactivated202]

We’re not

[thestarfly]

We’re really not. What’s super terrifying, that I learned in my kinetic imaging major, is that our military actually hires game designers to design video games promoting our military, and markets them to kids as young as ten or twelve. Our government made friggin reality TV shows out of taking high schoolers and teaching them about the “awesome shit” that they could do for the military. We watched one of the episodes in my Critical Media class, and it made me so physically ill that I actually had to leave the classroom and heave over the toilet while sobbing my eyes out.

[volaee]

This level of propaganda can and does lead to violence even amongst said children. Ask any Puerto Rican child that’s ever refused to say the “pledge of allegiance” (that’s the real name for what most kids are asked to recite every day before school starts) what happens to them exclusively via the other children who consider this blasphemy.

[soggywarmpockets]

I took the ASVAB (an intelligence test that the military uses to see which branch you would do best in) as a joke in 10th grade to see who would score higher, myself or my boyfriend. He scored a 91, I scored a 93. The next thing I knew, I had recruiters calling my house and visiting my school. I was pulled out of class to talk to recruiters who came to my school specifically to see me. One recruiter from the Marines showed up at my house after school. When I told him that my mother wasn’t home and I wouldn’t allow him inside he tried to push open the door and said “That’s okay, she doesn’t have to be here for us to talk.” I had to tell him numerous times that I would not talk to anyone without my mother present. Then he sat in his car and waited for her to come home. Keep in mind that I am an overweight female and these recruiters were still trying to get me to sign. They were talking about special diets and training programs that would get me in shape in time for my 18th birthday so I could join. It was ridiculous. My mom said that she had never seen anything like it, and she had scored a 92 during college when she had taken it. (Then again, she had joined the Air Force almost immediately after taking the test, because that was her dream.) Shit is scary.

[threepointonefourmakesxai]

Oh god yes this brings back memories. I took the ASVAB on a lark to skip classes. I scored a 92 and my GOD the effort they put in to try and recruit me… This was pre 9/11 when I did it, but afterwards (post 9/11) they got WORSE. They told me whatever I wanted to do for a career they could help me but they were so PUSHY they freaked me out. I hid whenever I saw the recruiting staff on campus

[deersjunk]

I started getting a recruiter contacting me when I was 26 goddamn years old, while married to a PTSD’d out twice deployed vet.  Eventually I responded to an email with “I’m fat, asthmatic and married to a human y’all ruined so leave me the fuck alone” and he did.  At the same time he started sending my then husband letters about how they were going to call him back to service if he didn’t re-up in the National Guard (who also get deployed to the Middle East), which is actually a lie. nevertheless, my ex was terrified he’d get brought back in and burned all the letters so there’d be no record of him receiving them. 

Turns out that recruiter won a bunch of awards in the state for his recruitment statistics. Interesting ways he went about it, huh?

[fungushoney]

the marines kept calling my house and mailing things to me and my little sister (who is 12) trying to get us to sign up and my mom finally had to talk on the phone to the dude and tell him that i was a chronically ill trans kid and i would not nor would i ever be joining the us military and they finally quit calling

ive also been singled out and yelled at by multiple teachers in school for refusing to stand and say the pledge of allegiance over the years, told things like i was disrespectful and was a traitor to my country and whatnot. its especially bad and military-centric in the south (i currently live in NC). If you dont live in the us, look up the words to the pledge of allegiance. its vaguely reminiscent of Nazi propaganda, and they start children saying it every day from age 5. how many 5 year olds know what they are saying and agreeing to? none of them, thats how many.  

[thisuneasymist]

My high school required us to take the asvab. For two years afterwards I received near daily calls from the air force.

[multiphandom]

jeez. i went to school in ny and had a really liberal teacher in 5th grade who would drop little comments about discrimination against illegal immigrants, maybe we shouldn’t say “God” in the pledge, etc. and if he hadn’t made those comments i wouldn’t have thought twice about these things even though i wasn’t religious and was reciting a pledge involving “God” every day. by hs, everyone just stood and listened to the pledge without reciting it, and we never had crazy military recruitment. did get the west point letters in the mail though

[prof-grace-aspen]

I went to school in NY too and that’s where I took the ASVAB my senior year of high school and got letters from all the branches because I did so well. Specifically, the Air Force Academy wanted me real bad lol. You get the stuff about the military all the time in school. But I was an Army brat so I got it double you know? 

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

At both New York Comic Cons I’ve been to, the Armed Forces have a big booth set up with a bunch of video games that Con-goers can try out - and a recruiter conveniently sitting right there in case anyone wants to sign up.

In my after-school class, one of my students is now an official recruit and has already missed class twice to attend his army events. 

[deergravity]

I got several calls from the Marines when I was in High School. It was like they were boys trying to ask me put on a date, just chatting with me about myself and what I was interested in. Thankfully I still had my deathly fear of intimacy with men so I eventually emphasized my asthma to get them to leave me alone. But now in the cold light of 10 years later, that was some grooming shit. Making me feel like a special kid. Preying on a 16 year old girl. Fuck that.

[fozmeadows]

This is fucking terrifying. No wonder conservative American governments are so furiously opposed to free/affordable college, housing and healthcare - if poor kids had access to all that stuff as a matter of routine, then what the fuck would the army have left to bribe them with?

[eat-my-dragon-deactivated201611]

I scored really high on the ASVAB tests to! They were REQUIRED in my school as a graduation standard! Without taking them, you weren’t allowed to get your diploma!

I ended up almost going into the Marine’s because I was in a really abusive home place, and the only reason I didn’t is because my birth defect showed up during a physical!

It’s really terrifying!

[catsnuggler]

For much of my childhood, I was pretty into the military. Watched a lot of Military Channel (it’s now called “American Heroes Channel”) shows about, well, all sorts of things; a spec ops guy would go on fake missions and, say, try to take recon on some intel that a bunch of “militants” have possession of; WWII In Colour; shows about how people in the military train to, say, survive in the wild; all sorts of shows like those. I thought the military was a just force, and being a very depressed kid with low self-worth, I found myself dreaming at times that maybe, just maybe, I could make myself strong enough to become a Marine and die a hero, so I’d actually have worth. 

Ha, as if, now. I realized how majorly flawed and twisted that was a few years ago; thankfully, I’ve only turned 18 quite recently (May 2016), and the only times that I’ve (regrettably) ever had to talk with military people has been when they called me, asking if I was interested in joining, and I politely said no; politely so, of course, there wouldn’t be getting in my hair. Still, my father has shared with me recently that he’s been toying for a year now with the idea of having my brother, who is autistic and probably wouldn’t do well in a rigid military environment, and myself, an anti-imperial socialist, into the military for economic reasons. He isn’t making us, but it’s another reason I want to move out ASAP. 

The depression bit is pretty anecdotal, and I haven’t experienced anything like the commenters above described, but I feel I might as well share my two cents.

[luniasm]

I lucked out and missed school on the day they did they ASVAB, and at the time I was annoyed because it was just another easy test that I wouldn’t be able to compare scores with my friends. I was so naive. My sister scored high but she’s planning on going into the military anyway because she wants to be a firefighter and military service is worth bonus points for their entrance exams.

[rioki89]

My high school made it a graduation requirement to take the ASVAB. Not wanting to get called, I left my phone number off the form. I scored a 93, mainly because I know what the hell a closed circuit looks like. They starting calling me anyway.

The guy who kept calling was very personal-- charming and nice. I could tell he had been doing this a while. I said no multiple times, but he kept calling. It was only when I told him I was a type 2 diabetic and therefore unfit for strenuous physical activity that the dude finally stopped.

But the fact that my high school made it a requirement just to get out of that place was frightening enough.

[verysharpteeth]

T’Challa: Then why did you run?

Bucky: I don’t know man, one day you’re minding your own business getting some organic plums, and the next thing you know an elderly soldier breaks into your crash pad and digs through your diaries, a SWAT team flash mobs in your stairwell, and a guy in a cat suit shows up and starts whispering sinisterly about how he won’t let me live until extradition. YOU TELL ME.

[kelsium]

Since the 1970s, the number of first-time mothers over the age of 35 has risen fivefold. This trend toward delayed childbearing means more would-be-mothers are struggling with infertility and miscarriage. While this doesn’t surprise me, what does is how readily this has been blamed on the rise of feminism. The thinking here is that modern women are so busy leaning into their feminism-forged careers that they don’t want to start trying for kids until their mid-to-late 30s. They made the mistake of “wanting it all.” Yet, among the women I know in this age group who have fertility issues, or simply missed the window to have children, none of them have what such critics consider “real” careers. Almost all of them were either dumped in their early 30s, or couldn’t find the right guy, or were toiling in the sorts of overeducated, debt-burdened underemployment that put their household income way below the threshold where they could responsibly raise a child. In other words, they weren’t waiting to “have it all” – they were waiting to have enough. The rise of precarious employment, the evisceration of unions, degree inflation, and an inflamed housing market have all limited my generation’s access to the milestones of regular adulthood. It’s economics, not feminism, that has most altered our patterns of courtship and family-building, consigning us to the extended adolescence of baby-boomer legend.

I think about this all the time. I imagine a lot of us do. (via kelsium)

“In other words, they weren’t waiting to “have it all” – they were waiting to have enough.”

(via girlwithalessonplan)

YES YES YES YES YES.

I’m 43 and I still don’t have enough. I still am not financially secure.

(via drst)

[root-beer-riku]

Anyone who says you can’t give flowers to boys clearly hasn’t tried it. Seriously, give a boy some roses, they get adorably flustered and go all red. It’s the most precious thing.

Give more boys flowers. 🌹🌼🌻🌸🌷🌺💐

[deadxsushi-deactivated20161125]

crush stereotypes now 

[somateo]

we love flowers. give us flowers.

[dollypopup]

I once gave my professor a bouquet of flowers and he legit couldn’t stop grinning and when I asked why he looked so surprised, he was like “I’m a guy. I never get flowers. I love flowers but I never get flowers.” tl;dr: give dudes flowers, they will be so happy

[boys-say-go]

when u scratch a cat’s chin and they lift their head up reblog if u agree

[avatarsymbolism]

Zuko going into an angst coma because he made the right decision.

[elledix]

That moment when you make so many bad decisions in life that your body thinks it’s a virus when you finally do the right thing.

[magiccatprincess]

I fucking snorted too loud

[iwantamimosa]

I hate it when I see an unflattering pic of me and my friends are all like what no you look fine!!! you look normal! it’s like……damn……so I’m that ugly all the time