This dog again

[micdotcom]

Samantha Bee offers an empowering message for all the “nasty women” out there after Trump’s win

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Wait. A. Minute.

The Cones of Duneshire Winds of Whatever…is designed by the Architect

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THe Architect in Parks is Ben...TREVOR IN THE BAD PLACE

We should have seen this coming.

[hisstericallypawesomesleepurr]

#Blackish just did That™

[freerangetropicalbirds]

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, trans, non-binary, intersex, bi, pan, aro, ace, generally queer, or are REALLY obsessed with tea.

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33. “I missed something didn’t I?” :)

“Aren’t you a vegan too? John asked his older sister with a puzzled expression, noticing the bow and arrow in her hands. Zoey laughed and nodded to one edge of their backyard, where a wooden target had been set up from Ivy the day after returning home from a winter break from college.

“I don’t shoot animals, Johnny,” she said, lifting her bow and aiming the arrow, which hit the target near the center.

“But it’s violent,” he said, trying hard not to be impressed, then in the same breath, “Can I try?” Zoey nodded and handed him the bow.

“And then you pull it back, a little farther than that,” Zoey instructed, noticing John had intently followed his sister’s stance.

That was always the way it was with his older sisters. He had always idolized them and whatever path they went on, he had followed, from copying Zoey’s vegan diet to Ivy’s yoga practice until they became his own. They had always seemed so cool and wise to him his entire life, he wanted them to think the same about him.

“Wow,” was all Zoey could muster after John’s first shot. He’d been so nervous he hadn’t even opened his eyes.

“I missed something, didn’t I?” John said, opening his eyes finally. Zoey shook her head and pointed to the arrow, dead in the center of the target.

“You really are half warrior princess, just like Ivy and me, Johnny.” Zoey said admiringly, mentioning the running game between her and sister.

“Half warrior prince,” John corrected, “Although if Stephen were around he’d say that’s heteronormative or whatever. I don’t know. Also I think he’s in love with me.”

“That kid is so weird.”

“He’s the weirdest.”

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We need Parks and Rec now more than ever. Leslie Knope would be furiously fighting for National Parks under Trump. help me obi juan whoever the fuck you are... you're my only ho

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Reboot Parks next

[ladyknope]

a short thing I wrote today, post season 6 :)

Keep reading

[abrieftasteoflove]

“Fine, I guess I’ll just Soul Train outta here, losers.”

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8. “Why are you so jealous?”

“I’m not jealous,” Leslie said defensively, crossing her arms and glaring at her husband, currently sitting down on the couch, a sleeping two year old Westley snoring on his chest. As irritated as she was, Leslie grabbed her phone to grab a quick picture before she sat down next to them

“He just think it’s silly,” Ben said, keeping his voice quiet.

“He said “I love you, daddy” to you and then when I said “I love you Wes,” he said “ok,” Leslie also said in a whisper, recapping the incident from twenty minutes earlier prior to Westley falling asleep.

“He obviously loves you, Leslie.”

“I know,” Leslie said, gently playing with her smallest son’s hair. So small.

“That’s what I was trying to get him to say,” Ben said.

“What?”

“Nothing.”

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Do not watch this right after the most recent CXG

[ships4you]

- prompt list -

Prompt List #1 ♛ Imagines

“We’re not just friends and you fucking know it.”

“Please don’t cry. I can’t stand to see you cry”

“Stay with me”

“Walk out that door and we’re through”

“Well. Yell, scream, say something. Anything”

“I can’t breathe”

“I hate how much I love you”

“Why are you so jealous?”

“Where do you think you’re going”

“Just leave me alone”

“I need some time”

“Despite what you think, I am completely capable of taking care of myself”

“You can’t keep pretending it didn’t happen, cause guess what? It did!”

“Just please be my best friend right now, not the guy I just confessed my love to.”

“Stop pretending you’re okay, cause I know you’re not.”

“Just talk to me”

“Bite me”

“If you insist”

“I think I’m in love with you, and that scares the crap out of me”

“I think you’re just afraid to be happy”

“Why are you so nice to me”

“Choose me”

“We’ll get through this, I promise”

“You’re so fucking hot when you’re mad”

“You’re mine. I don’t share”

“Just shut up and kiss me.”

“If we get caught I’m blaming you”

“Make me”

“Do you want to kiss as bad as I do right now”

“I think I forgot how to breath”

“Stop biting that fucking lip!”

“You’re blushing”

“I missed something didn’t I?”

“You come to my room and wake me up at 4am, to cuddle?”

“Well this is awkward”

“Is that my shirt?”

“You look like you need a hug”

“I can’t believe you don’t like Disney movies”

“Please come home, I miss you”

“You’re so fucking adorable”

“How can you still look so attractive while crying.”

“I’m pregnant”

“You’re lucky you’re cute”

“Cuddle me.”

“Sometimes I really don’t like you”

“What if I told you I’ve been in love with you since we were kids.”

“You’re seriously like a man-child.”

“You’re getting crumbs all over my bed”

“Im too sober for this”

“Oh god, I need a drink”

[sakurablossomstorm-blog]

These look fun! My ask box is always open for prompts :D 

[just-shower-thoughts]

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

[blogtitletaken]

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

[castiel--for--king]

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

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question

why am I seeing like 1000% more pictures of weed than i usually see on tumble

[maurellis-deactivated20190709]

[roane72]

The thing about Tumblr that probably makes me saddest is the underlying assumption that women past a certain age (which seems to be about 25?) stop having any sort of outside interests beyond family/career/kids. Like, y’all are always so shocked that grown women have lives and can fangirl as hard as we did as teenagers.

It makes me sad not because it makes me feel old (although it does), but because these younger women are constricting their own lives–they fully expect that this will happen to them someday. Y’all deserve better. Y’all deserve to EXPECT better.

[esterbrook]

And worse than that, the idea that there’s something WRONG with a grown woman who has other interests.

[roane72]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[goatatemynametag]

One of the biggest things I realized growing up? 

It doesn’t happen.

You expect somehow you will change when you are finally An Adult™. You’ll stop enjoying the things you enjoy now for something more “adult” or “mature.” You’ll FEEL like an adult and not like a child anymore. You’ll feel comfortable and secure and not scared and unsure and confused. You expect you will feel like you have your shit together.

But I can tell you that it doesn’t happen. You’ll still feel like the “you” you were at 15 or 17 or 19. 

You just have these…things to deal with. Like rent. And insurance. 

You have a job either because a) you like it or b) it keeps the lights and internet on. 

You’ll look up from fangirling one day and realize “Shit. I am twenty eight years old. That’s almost 30!” Or maybe it will be that you look down at the small child clasped around your legs and realize “That is my child. I have a child. A human being child.” Or maybe it will be that you have to negotiate your budget around con tickets AND a mortgage payment. 

Growing up isn’t a thing that happens. 

It’s a realization that it doesn’t happen. 

[roane72]

Holy shit, y’all. There are some AMAZING responses to this post. Yes, everything alwayshometomarvel says. All that.

[eclecticmuses]

Feeling like I wasn’t ‘adult’ enough fucked me up for years. I would cry at night and feel like a total piece of shit because I was married with a kid, and yet I still did ‘not adult’ things–I played MMOs, I cosplayed and went to conventions, I drew fan art and wrote fan fic. I kept waiting for the day that I would wake up and realize that what I really needed to be doing was the laundry, cleaning the house, making dinner every night, etc. Basically, be the ‘perfect’ wife and mother.

And somewhere between then and now, I somehow managed to tell myself…fuck it. I AM an adult. I go to work every day and pay the bills and help raise my son and take care of the house. I do legit adult things. AND I play MMOs, go to conventions, and participate in fandom. And THAT’S OKAY. I’m 32 years old now and finally at peace with that part of myself. (Having a supportive husband and kid doesn’t hurt either!)

[tariqk]

@malaysianfeminist

[madamethursday]

All of this is such truth. Believing these things about growing up, and especially about being over 25? Really made it hard for me when I turned 30.

I was literally suicidal on my 30th birthday. I spent the whole day in tears. I felt like I had died and my life was now worthless and small and never going to be hopeful or full of promise or fun again. I felt like killing myself on my birthday because I bought into this lie that somewhere after your mid-twenties, you diminish as a woman because the only thing that made you alive and shiny was your youth.

I’m 31 now and I’m done with that shit. I’m over it. I don’t care if you think I’m too old for something. If I’m an old lady in Tumblr terms, then I’m past the legal age where I’m obligated to care what you think. 

So, I’m telling you girls out there right now who are in your teens and twenties, get rid of this idea of what older women are “supposed” to look like. Get rid of this idea that “soccer moms” don’t play video games or that all women over 25 should be married and contemplating kids. Get rid of the idea that fanfic and fandom and fun things are for “kids.”

Mostly, get rid of this notion that the only thing really valuable about you is your youth. Youth is part of life, but it’s not the most valuable or beautiful or exciting time of your life. I like my life at 30 about 1000% than I did at 15, 18, 20, even 25. 

[robotmango]

on her deathbed, my grandmother pulled my mom close to her and said, “i don’t feel old. i don’t know how i’m supposed to feel. but inside, i still feel seventeen.” when I was a teenager, I used to think that story was sad; sad and strange somehow, like she’d been frozen in time. but now that i am a woman in my thirties, I understand. I understand her. I am a grown woman in the ways that matter. I listen to myself more, trust my experience more. but inside? I still feel the joy and rage and mess; I am still changing. we’re not frozen in time. we are just still growing.

the more we acknowledge that modern “adulthood” is largely a concept designed to sell vacuums and sedans, and not an arbitrary total overhaul of self at age 35, the more we can admit our ongoing capacity– no, our ongoing NEED for play and playfulness and exploration. those are childish things we should never have to put away.

[lauraannegilman]

I’m heading into the last year of my 40′s.  I own a home (ok, I own a very small apartment) and I’ve held down a job in the same industry for 25+ years, in varying forms.  I do laundry and wash dishes when they need doing, and pay my bills on time (except the times I don’t, ooops).   I am, dog help us all, the more adulting adult people are always looking for.

And I wallow in fanfic and fandom, I go to concerts and dance my ass off and eat Chinese food after midnight, I have Funko Pop! figures staring down at me from the top of my fridge, I color my hair (or not) depending on whim, not expectation, and some of my closest friends and mischief-partners are in their 30′s (and some are in their 60′s).

Claim it all.  This is your birthright.

[obsessionisaperfume]

I’ll be 60 next year. I’ll also be going to SPN cons and writing meta and buying merch and flailing about Show and Destiel.

When my kids were little, I wrote fanfic and published fanzines and went to fan-run cons because I needed something that was ~mine~, that wasn’t about being a mom or a wife–something that was about being ME. It’s easy to lose sight of that uniqueness when you have to worry about diapers and soccer practice and getting kids on the bus every morning, but y'all, it’s so important. SO IMPORTANT to hold onto YOU.

[absedarian]

Amen to all of this. Adult(ing)™ is what you do, not what you are.

No matter your age.

[holdbeast]

Burn down the presumption that being into fandom as an adult is somehow juvenile. 

You know who doesn’t have to deal with this shit?  Male sports fans, who are apparently entitled not to let go of the things they loved as children, while us fangirls have to suck it up.  How nice for them!!

Please, stop hating your future self.  Stop thinking that fun and frivolousness and pleasure and possibility are not for her.  Stop thinking you’re trapped.  Just stop. 

[chronically-ill-dandy]

30. I’ve reached no ‘adult’ milestones at all &, honestly, I’ve realized that for some people being an adult just means surviving. It’s ok to just survive… and enjoy cartoons & video games while doing so.

[allofthefeelings]

One of the things I feel luckiest about with fandom is that when I was a teenage fan, I spent a lot of time talking to fans in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. I never felt like fandom was something I’d grow out of, it would just be something I’d be able to devote more money and less shame to.

I’m sad that perspective is going away, because it was affirming in a way I don’t even think I understood when I experienced it.

[tzikeh]

MODERN MEDIA FANDOM WAS INVENTED BY MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN AND DON’T YOU FUCKING FORGET IT

[brendaonao3]

Trust me, all being an adult means if you’re the one that has to take responsibility for your own shit. Which ALSO means your happiness. So own your happiness and the things that make you happy just as much as you own paying your bills on time.  Life is so short - don’t waste it by trying to age yourself out of the things that bring you joy. 

[neierathima]

You are also never to old to get into/try something new. There’s not a time limit on exploring the world

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WTF B99?