#spacecadettes

[nickandros]

my interest in rugby outside the all blacks is basically me: i don't care about super rugby tj perenara: *exists* me: i care about one super rugby

this is IT this is the BEST TAKE. i show up to canes games for tj and jordie and that is IT!!

[madroxed]

oh my god your pets' names are so cute! are they all cats?

they are!

martha jones is a beautiful, aloof, tortoiseshell and very much My Cat. yuki moon (a bastardisation of names from the cat returns) is white with black patches and the most talkative princess in the world. percy jackson is my daft big black cat who’s the soppiest boy in the universe and loves getting wet just so you’ll towel dry him. and mr mistoffelees (misty) is black with white patches who came to us as a stray after seven years missing and who was apparently originally named o'malley which is an equally as amazing name, and who goes on walks with you like a dog and loves my dad more than anything.

i am Very Fond of my babies.

[lierdumoa]

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#i like how that person's like ''lawns are evil get rid of them!'' #like where the fuck are your kids/pets gonna play?? #you got time to take them to the park for a few hours everyday??

So you grew up in suburbia, and it’s easy to assume that’s normal, and how everyone grows up. You played on a lawn as a kid and you assume that’s how all kids play. 

Actually, 47% of US Americans don’t live in suburbs. That’s about half. Half of Americans don’t have that tv sitcom childhood you think is the norm.

I grew up in a more rural area. Rural families don’t generally grow lawns. My family had some money, so my dad could keep a lawn on part of his property, but not all of it. But actually I spent very little time playing on the lawn because grass is boring. In the winter this small section of our back lot would flood and turn into a pond with frogs and toads. We didn’t bring in frogs and toads. We didn’t bring in water. Just every winter, nature found a way.

That’s rural living. Kids play in the dirt, and whatever naturally grows in the dirt when you don’t deliberately plant turf grass that requires environmentally unfriendly and resouce draining volumes of water to maintain. Instead you have wild grasses, and weeds, and burrs, and dandelions, and wildflowers. 

That’s how humans spent hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and civilization before the relatively modern invention of the suburban lawn. Kids played outside on the farm in the dirt with the weeds and they had fun and they were just fine.

Urban children do go to parks. It’s easy. They have child discounts on bus passes. Urban pet owners go to dog parks if there’s one within walking distance, or often they just walk their dog on the sidewalk. They live in apartment complexes, or condo complexes, so they don’t have yards, let alone yards with lawns. Millions of urban lower class and lower middle class families do not live in suburbia and do not have lawns and they still have kids, and those kids still play. 

Amazing, right? Who’d have thought. Half the US population. Somehow surviving without daily contact with environmentally wasteful turf grass.

[lauramclark]

The rocket launch was a success! Great job @gstroop46319 #werocket #spacecadettes #girlscouts @gscolo @girlscouts

[verlake]

spacecadettes replied to your post “20 & 21?”

ooh i haven't read any of these! thanks!

my absolute pleasure! i made a terrible mistake and didn’t add something to the winter reads. i really really need to recommend the gentlemen bastards sequence. it’s really important to me, so give that a go too! 

[verlake]

20 & 21?

20: Best summer read?

what you need in summer is a bit of tory frivolity. i’m talking juice cleanses recommended by gay cousin cedric, a secret society and a secret cupboard to meet in, an absent mother, stuffy old singers played on the family victrola. you need nancy mitford’s the pursuit of love and love in a cold climate. 

and treasure island. 

21: Bestwinter read?

winter is for high fantasy. books as hefty as the world-building, minimum two maps in the opening pages, inhabiting animal bodies, political scheming, any kind of theft from pickpocketing to an intricate long con, pantheism and assassination.  you  need anything by jennifer fallon, the farseer trillogy and the nightrunner series. 

then try a song of ice and throne games, perhaps.

[lauramclark]

Loading the payload! At 9:30am we launch! @gstroop46319 @gscolo #girlscouts @girlscouts #stem #rockets #rockettroop #werocket #spacecadettes

[lierdumoa]

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#me: should i read this book about meeting an angel in a churchyard or this one about the english civil war?#brother: are either of them gay?#me: both#brother: /throws up his hands/#if it's not queer i don't care

Okay what is the name if this gay angel in a churchyard book I need it.