Finding peace in wartime

Living my life one day at a time, recognizing the small miracles and the important people

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This makes me unexplainably happy

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dog schnoz

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Obligatory Halloween reblog.

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Tolkien: This character is Feanor, which in my language means Spirit of Fire, which gets at his personality, creative spirit, and destructive tendencies. 

Also Tolkien: This character is Treebeard because he’s a tree with a beard.

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Tolkien: Here’s an entire language I created for a race of people, full of history and lore

Also Tolkien: Mount Doom

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BETTY SHELBY IS A MURDERER WITH A PAST HISTORY OF DRUGS, ASSAULT AND THUGGERY

Even before they killed him, the police were already composing their alibi with statements like, “That looks like a bad dude.” And, “It looks like he’s on something.”

Those statements aren’t just deeply racist stereotypes, they’re also prefabricated character assassination, meant to poison the well against Terence Crutcher, an unarmed man who’s only crime was having a broken down car and being black.

Even though he had his hands raised above his head and was complying with their commands when they shot him, the police are now trying to justify their actions by claiming they could see (from a helicopter) that Crutcher was high on drugs. If being high on drugs was an offense punishable by death, how many white people would have been executed by the police before even graduating high school?

Inflammatory statements like the those made by the police are intentionally spoken & recorded into their “official” police records to smear the victim’s name; to influence how mass media frames the story; and to pre-bias any possible grand jurors by reinforcing their (unconscious?) racial stereotypes of “Big scary black guy on drugs.”

Instead of “serving and protecting” a stranded motorist, Betty Shelby murdered Terence Crutcher in cold blood and denied him of his Civil Liberties. She needs to be arrested and prosecuted immediately. (source)

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so apparently if you’re a young girl and a strange man grabs you and lifts you up on the street you’re rude for reacting :/

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Lupita Nyong’o photographed by Mario Testino for Vogue Magazine, October 2016

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Modern technology is making us anti-social!

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It’s almost like people would rather not talk to every random stranger they see in public.

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in fort myers, florida, a teenage girl is stripped of her national honor society title for wearing spaghetti straps during her speech. correction: in fort myers, florida, a teenage girl is voted on by fellow students to uphold a national honor society title and is restricted because she dressed appropriately for floridan heat. in dayton, idaho, a teenage girl is sent home within hours of leaving high school for good for a loose dress that hit just above her knee. when she protested, she was suspended and her diploma was threatened. correction: a teenage girl is hours away from completing four years of high school and is suspended for refusing to change out of an outfit that was appropriate for the late may heat. in murrieta, california, dozens of girls are sent home during the last week of school for dress code violations including tops that expose the shoulders, back, or any amount of cleavage and shorts that are shorter than four inches above the knee. correction: dozens of girls are sent home for wearing outfits that would prevent them from overheating on a sweltering day. in woodford county, kentucky, a teenage girl wears jeans and a cardigan over a tank top, and is sent home for exposing her clavicle because the admin were worried about her distracting male students with the exposed bones. correction: a teenage girl wears an outfit that complies with any attire guideline one might find and is still sent home because the boys just couldn’t handle her bones. in clay county, florida, a teenage girl is forced into a shame suit because she wore a dress that hit just above her knee. correction: a teenage girl is embarrassed by grown adults in front of her peers for dressing in a way that made her feel comfortable. in hernando county, florida, a teenage girl is sent home for a sleeveless top underneath a long sleeve jacket. correction: a teenage girl is sent home for no reason. in houston, texas, a teenage girl is called into the office because one person out of a student body of seven hundred complained that her boobs made them uncomfortable. correction: a teenage girl’s body is sexualized by another teenager and she’s the one who gets in trouble for it. in houston, texas, a teenage girl is told by an adult to put on a jacket to cover her half-exposed back in the middle of a 90 degree may day. correction: a teenage girl’s skin is just too much for a professional adult. in houston, texas, a teenage girl is reprimanded by her superiors for wearing a top that, when she lifts her arms, exposes half an inch of midriff. correction: a teenage girl is not allowed to have a body. in america, girls are told that our bodies are not our own before we are old enough to understand what that means. we are told to cover up or suffer the consequences. we are told that our collarbones, our shoulder blades, our thighs, our stomachs, our boobs are distracting. unprofessional. we are told that a young girl needs to learn how to respect herself, and the only way to do that is to dress modestly. stop teaching girls to cover up and start teaching boys self control.

stop fucking sexualizing the bodies of young girls // g.l. (via ferlinghettis)

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WHOOMP THERE IT IS

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this is the best thing I’ve seen today

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Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured an estimated 2 million photos over 8 years while Obama was in office… Here’s a selection of some of his favourite shots.

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5 minutes of racist, homophobic, transphobic anti-feminist Ann Coulter getting dragged on Comedy Central’s Roast of Rob Lowe

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bless

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OH MY GOS AHAHHAHAH

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My pitbull Piglet in her little yellow raincoat.

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YASSSSSSS

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“I absolutely had to sacrifice my personal vanity. I’m thrilled I did that. You realise quickly that vanity can be quite worthless. When I was younger, I wasn’t sure I wanted to act because I was told it would be so hard for me, and possibly not an option at all, because of the way I looked. I leapt at the opportunity to play a character that was so outside the realms of convention. I love the part because it defies gender stereotypes and it defies aspects of femininity that always told me ‘no’.” - Gwendoline Christie for Bazaar UK (December 2014)

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