[caroldanversenthusiast]

an icon, literally an icon

[teenagecriminalmastermind]

yas

[scientific-women]

How I embraced my first academic rejection

Katherine Bassil discusses the importance of learning to recognize failure as a door to success.

[catchymemes]

That’s some nice calligraphy you got there…

[catscenter]

[aphroditeslips]

mama pasta looks so kind

[kickassfemaleathletes]

Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War. 

[voidscreamingformillenials]

Look at her. 

I know open water swimming isn’t really glamorous, but Lynne Cox is arguably one of the greatest overlooked athletes of the 20th century. 

And quite possibly a mutant. 

She can withstand water temperatures that you or I would die from because of her training and her body’s unique reaction to cold (you know how the blood will leave your fingers and toes when it’s cold, to preserve heat? her whole body does that, pooling her blood in her core and insuring her body temperature stays toasty where it counts).

She funded the Bering Strait swim herself, clearing out her bank account when she couldn’t get corporate sponsors. After she succeeded (to almost everyone’s surprise: if you get in the Bering Sea without serious gear you generally just die) Gorbachev mentioned her during treaty talks with Nixon: “Last summer it took one brave American by the name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and friendly the meeting was between our people and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.“

She wasn’t just the first woman to swim the Strait of Magellan. She was the first person to make it across. 

On top of setting multiple world records, she swam a mile+ to the coast of Antarctica, in just a bathing suit, and did not die. 

She’s swum over 50,000 miles. 

And look at her. This is a photo from when she was young, at the peak of her career and setting records all over the world. She is a great athlete. She is a human who can do things most humans would die trying. I’m sitting here at 1 AM getting all teary eyed because this is the first time I’ve looked up a photo of her and I am so surprised, so gratified, so overwhelmed to find out that this world record setter, this literal superhuman, has nearly the same body type as me. 

[aqueerkettleofish]

Since they wouldn’t let her be a fantasy creature in a video game, she just did it in real life, I guess.

[jenniferrpovey]

Anyone who thinks there is just one athletic body type isn’t paying attention during the Olympics opening ceremonies.

Her body type is optimized for her sport. The shape of her body and the presence of fat both provide insulation to keep her core warm while she swims.

A lot of open water swimmers aren’t this chunky, but that’s because most of them are actually triathletes, and their body type is a compromise between the ideals for the different sports.

There really is no one way to be fit and athletic. For some reason, we tend to get ourselves hung up on the body type of track and field athletes, especially that of marathon runners (who tend to carry almost no extra fat) as the ideal.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Dude HOLY FUCK she’s a badass.

[vmohlere]

I’ve read two of her books - Swimming to Antarctica and Grayson - and found them charming and enjoyable. Grayson is pretty sad, tho.

[bipirate]

not to be harry potter on main but i honestly think the fantastic beasts series would have been so much more interesting if it was just about the beasts. i don’t give a fuck about grindelwald, just give me a movie about an eccentric wizard travelling the world looking for magical animals and teaching us the power of friendship

[neenarchive]

newt’s character should have been like the crocodile hunter but in a wizard hat send tweet

[marsapartment]

[4withback-deactivated20180812]

[catchymemes]

[rcktpwr]

a boy of dust..

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

if they keep shaking him he’ll crumble completely

[abluestitchintime]

I saw the best thing on twitter today and no one else is freaking? Ok Can I just pretend this is canon?? Because YES to this headcanon.

Source/art - https://twitter.com/_paul_briggs_

Director at Disney Animation ｡.:*•* ｡. *•*:*｡.:*•* Story Supervisor of Frozen & Big Hero 6* ｡.:*•

Retweet/ https://twitter.com/_paul_briggs_/status/1054825535400898560

[shadedevlin]

@faberryacheleluver !!!

[micdotcom]

Judge Wolf is making headlines again for all the right reasons (x)

[shadesandregrets]

Isn’t this the same woman who refused to prosecute someone because the jail guards had refused to give her a full set of clothes?

[micdotcom]

It sure is!

[jungwildeandfree]

Justice Wolf.

[deflectionsinthemirror]

If only we could get her on the Supreme Court 

[babyanimalgifs]

Aw, this is cute.

[ask-ickle-mod]

Honestly I can’t believe that I’m watching this right now. This is This is the sweetest most gentle and loving and pure thing I’ve ever beheld and I feel so blessed to have seen this

[his-shining-tears]

“Sshh don’t cry, my baby.”

[hart-of-the-grove-deactivated20]

MY FUCKING HEART 😭

[ororomunroedontpullout]

“My baby is big and soft and doesn’t look like me but he is my son and I love him.”

[biomedicool]

[kitty]

[jack-kerouwhack]

how is he so luxurious 

[aquilarium]

This is definitely a cat/fox hybrid, very rarely caught on camera

[fallontonight]

[ahhthelegend]

DING DING DING

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

TBC since tumblr’s posting methods changed

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Linked article URLs, in order of appearance:

1. Exploiting harassment claims

2. Bob Livingston admits claim is true

3. Truth about false allegations

4. Coming forward is traumatic

5. Accusational statistics

6. Assault victims’ memory reliability

7. Truck stop killer

8. Not worth the book deal

9. Percentage of women who have experienced sexual harassment.

[catchymemes]

“My autistic son hates his photo taken, so I let him wear a t-rex suit for family photos.”

by RoamingMagnolias

[showerthoughtsofficial]

Boys will STAY boys if we do not teach them to be accountable men.