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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:26:07 -0500

abandonedography: Thonis-Heracleion (the Egyptian and Greek...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:50:46 -0500

Thonis-Heracleion (the Egyptian and Greek names of the city) is a city lost between legend and reality. Before the foundation of Alexandria in 331 BC, the city knew glorious times as the obligatory port of entry to Egypt for all ships coming from the Greek world. It had also a religious importance because of the temple of Amun, which played an important role in rites associated with dynasty continuity. The city was founded probably around the 8th century BC, underwent diverse natural catastrophes, and finally sunk entirely into the depths of the Mediterranean in the 8th century AD. (via)

cheftier: metallikato: nuggles: when you find a shirt you really like and wear it a couple times...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:31:06 -0500

cheftier:

metallikato:

nuggles:

when you find a shirt you really like and wear it a couple times and it starts doing

the thing

These are called pills. You can remove them with a shaving razor. Be gentle with delicate fabrics!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS A++ INFORMATION TUMBLR USER METALLIKATO

They also have battery operated pill removers. They’re a bit less likely to damage clothes. Also use non-pilling detergent (like Woolite), wash certain fabrics or clothing (coughcough JEANS) in separate loads so they don’t damage the rest, use delicate cycle for delicates, hand wash hand washables (or use hand wash cycle/laundry bags), always obey the temperature and drying instructions, and flip clothes with designs/zippers/buttons or that are simply prone to pilling inside out.

Coming from a person whose mom did EVERYTHING on hot/warm and medium press, with powdered detergent. Everything shrunk or stretched, and nothing kept its color long.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:18:53 -0500

territorialcreep: watson-i-am-your-turtle: aliencupcake: azzan...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:18:33 -0500

territorialcreep:

watson-i-am-your-turtle:

aliencupcake:

azzandra:

fuckyeahsexpositivity:

sexartandpolitics:

Study: Free birth control leads to way fewer abortions - CBS News

Way fewer.

NO. WAY.

—BB

Weird. It’s almost like people who do not get pregnant don’t even need abortions.

IN OTHER NEWS WATER IS WET

IN RELATED NEWS: SCIENTISTS HAVE PROVEN THAT THE EARTH REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN.

NOW OVER TO JIM WITH THE SPORTS REPORT

“WELL BOB IT APPEARS BASKETBALL IS INDEED PLAYED WITH A BASKET. AND A BALL.”

magicalgirlfanproblems: Submitted by: chanty-chuu Nobody...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:17:27 -0500

magicalgirlfanproblems:

Submitted by: chanty-chuu

Nobody mentioning Rayearth Magic Knights

lesbiaaans: let’s play homophobia bingo, featuring june’s mom!*it’s because you grew up without any...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:14:24 -0500

lesbiaaans:

let’s play homophobia bingo, featuring june’s mom!
*it’s because you grew up without any men in the house

*did your friend who just started college and is perpetually swamped with work actually just grow apart from you because she found out?

*did you come out during boot camp? is that why you got kicked out of your course?

*nobody even knows how lesbians have sex

*do you really think it’s hot to grope boobs and shove fingers up vaginas. don’t you want REAL penetration (and then gets disgusted when i answer even though she brought it up)

*how can you even know if you’ve never had sex with anyone

*if you admit to having low libido how do you know you’re attracted to females

*when you go away to college you’re going to room with other lesbians aren’t you

*but you said that one pizza guy was handsome once

*are you ‘manly’ or ‘womanly’

*is the reason you always put your hair in a ponytail because you’re a lesbian? do lesbians not want to show their hair?

*if you find an agreeable guy you should have sex with him, you shouldn’t just rule out half the world’s population

*why did you tell all the people around you? if you meet new people don’t introduce yourself as a lesbian right away

*you just want to feel ‘trendy’ and ‘cool’

*what reaction did you expect me to have? do you think there’s any mother who wishes for a gay child? at least i didn’t throw you out

WOW GOOD JOB I’M PRETTY SURE THAT’S LIKE 5 FUCKING COMPLETE BOARDS!! you win everything, mom. good job

"Heteronormativity isn’t just about the presumption that everyone is heterosexual. The expectation..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:07:26 -0500

“Heteronormativity isn’t just about the presumption that everyone is heterosexual. The expectation that boys woo girls feeds into your mind the expectation that relationships are necessary for fulfilment, and you are less than if you are not having particular kinds of sex with a particular, and a particular kind of, person at particular intervals. It’s about what Lauren Berlant calls the love plot, in which love is produced as a generic text enabling society to interpret your life as following certain conventions. It’s not about what you want, it’s about what you’re supposed to want. You’re not encouraged to think about what you want in relationships, if anything, so much as you are encouraged to fit a script. Heteronormativity messes things up for everyone, straight people included.”

- Tossing the script of desire | Zero at the Bone (via brute-reason)

Have I already reblogged this? Don’t know don’t care.

(via queercore)

"Children should remain silent, and they are ‘good’ when they’re quiet, but ‘bad’ when they are not,..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:06:56 -0500

“

Children should remain silent, and they are ‘good’ when they’re quiet, but ‘bad’ when they are not, because they are disturbing the adults and causing trouble. This attitude runs through the way people interact with children on every level, and yet, they seem surprised when it turns out that children have been struggling with serious medical problems, or they’ve been assaulted or abused.

The most common response is ‘well why didn’t the child say something?’ or ‘why didn’t the child talk to an adult?’ Adults constantly assure themselves that children know to go to a grownup when they are in trouble, and they even repeat that sentiment to children; you can always come to us, adults tell children, when you need help. Find a trusted adult, a teacher or a doctor or a police officer or a firefighter, and tell that adult what’s going on, and you’ll be helped, and everything will be all right.

The thing is that children do that, and the adults don’t listen. Every time a child tells an adult about something and nothing happens, that child learns that adults are liars, and that they don’t provide the promised help. Children hold up their end of the deal by reporting, sometimes at great personal risk, and they get no concrete action in return. Sometimes, the very adult people tell a child to ‘trust’ is the least reliable person; the teacher is friends with the priest who is molesting a student, the firefighter plays pool with the father who is beating a child, they don’t want to cause a scene.

Or children are accused of lying for attention because they accused the wrong person. They’re told they must be mistaken about what happened, unclear on the specifics, because there’s no way what they’re saying could be true, so and so isn’t that kind of person. A mother would never do that. He’s a respected member of the community! In their haste to close their ears to the child’s voice, adults make sure the child’s experience is utterly denied and debunked. Couldn’t be, can’t be, won’t be. The child knows not to say such things in the future, because no one is listening, because people will actively tell the child to be quiet.

Children are also told that they aren’t experiencing what they’re actually experiencing, or they’re being fussy about nothing. A child reports a pain in her leg after gym class, and she’s told to quit whining. Four months later, everyone is shocked when her metastatic bone cancer becomes unavoidably apparent. Had someone listened to her in the first place when she reported the original bone pain and said it felt different that usual, she would have been evaluated sooner. A child tells a teacher he has trouble seeing the blackboard, and the teacher dismisses it, so the child is never referred for glasses; the child struggles with math until high school, when someone finally acknowledges there’s a problem.

This attitude, that children shouldn’t be believed, puts the burden of proof on children, rather than assuming that there might be something to their statements. Some people seem to think that actually listening to children would result in a generation of hopelessly spoiled brats who know they can say anything for attention, but would that actually be the case? That assumption is rooted in the idea that children are not trustworthy, and cannot be respected. I’m having trouble understanding why adults should be viewed as inherently trustworthy and respectable, especially in light of the way we treat children.

”

- Children Talk But No One Listens – this ain’t livin’ (via unsungtale)

This hits a lot closer to home for me than I would prefer. Everyone please read this - it’s very important.

(via peridexis)

lesbiaaans: ~DID U KNO~ in hebrew, the word for wife is the same as woman. the word for husband is...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:59:17 -0500

lesbiaaans:

~DID U KNO~

in hebrew, the word for wife is the same as woman. the word for husband is the same as owner.

:”) yay casual sexism in language!!!

utena-tfln: [Photoset - First image is Utena with Anthy’s hand...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:34:55 -0500

utena-tfln:

[Photoset - First image is Utena with Anthy’s hand in front of her. Second image is Utena in her dueling outfit, surrounded by glitter.]

[Text - (415): Fuck yeah GAYNESS (415): *explodes into glitter*]

getsby: koolkidseatgreens: Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:50:23 -0500

getsby:

koolkidseatgreens:

Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because you’re an auto tuned peice of shit who shouldn’t be famous, you have no Buisness being in the music industry, it’s not even your music you fuck, someone else wrote it for you to record and them to auto tune yourself. And it’s not at all good . It’s not positive either. So complain some more.

I don’t know if you know this, tumblr user koolkidseatgreens, but Ke$ha is a certified genius. She has an IQ over 140 and an SAT score of 1500. When she was younger she would go to the library and do research for fun. Ke$ha is a both feminist and an advocate for equal marriage/rights for people of any sexuality, being a queer woman herself.

Ke$ha is a smart, professional woman, and just because she sings songs about wanting to let loose and have fun every once in a while doesn’t make her a piece of shit.

Ke$ha’s songs are meant to point out the sexism in our media. She treats men the same way many men in the music industry treat women, and she is hated on for it. Relentlessly. She sings on multiple occasions about taking charge in a sexual relationship, of how she only uses men for their body parts. She sexualizes men to make them uncomfortable. She sexualizes men for a reaction, so that people can both see why women are so uncomfortable with their sexualization and also to point out the inequality between the sexes both in the media and in the world at large.

She is judged so harshly for singing about things that make many men famous.

If you listen to Ke$ha’s deconstructed album you will see that she actually has some talent, which may be hard to hear because she does in fact use a fair amount of autotune. This is because of her genre and because of the kind of music she chooses to create as an artist. Ke$ha may not write her songs, but this doesn’t meant she isn’t a good artist or a good person. This doesn’t mean she deserves your harsh words. Some singers are good at writing, but that’s hardly a requirement. Last time I checked whether or not you can sing has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a poet.

You should not be calling anyone a piece of shit, my friend, especially someone you’ve never sat down and had a conversation (or even taken the time to wonder about her feelings!), but if anyone deserves that kind of language it’s not Ke$ha.

You may think that by shaming women for expressing their sexuality and having fun every once in a while, that you are somehow abolishing sexism. That in weeding out the less ‘deserving’ women you are gaining our sex more respect. This is not the case, and the fact that you and many others feel such a strong need to shame this woman who has done nothing wrong, especially not to you, shows that we still have a very far away to go.

Actually, she does write or co-write her own songs, and she sings great even without auto-tune.

riotingfeminist: ungyo: (x) Saw the video floating around so I...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:08:51 -0500

riotingfeminist:

ungyo:

(x)

Saw the video floating around so I gif’d it for anyone who doesn’t wanna actually watch it haha.

the last one though. so accurate.

utena-tfln: [Photoset - First image is Anthy, from the series,...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:04:10 -0500

utena-tfln:

[Photoset - First image is Anthy, from the series, leaving Ohtori in search of Utena. Second image is Anthy and Utena, from the movie, gazing lovingly at each other.]

[Text - (315): I’d like to believe that in some alternate universe we are living this wonderful lesbian life together..]

laughterkey: brandnewechelon: I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:03:33 -0500

laughterkey:

brandnewechelon:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS GIFSET

Who is this stunning piece of work?

diversityinya: YA Books About Transgender Characters There...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:03:20 -0500

diversityinya:

YA Books About Transgender Characters

There haven’t been a lot of young adult books published about transgender characters. This list is not meant to be a “best of” list — it is simply a list of the titles that we are aware of, and we are sure there are more we aren’t aware of. This list is limited to titles published specifically for a young adult audience, which means titles published for adults that teens might still enjoy aren’t included.

I am J by Cris Beam (Little, Brown)

One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills (Flux)

Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis (Knopf)

f2m: the boy within by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy (Ford Street Publishing, Australia)

Being Emily by Rachel Gold (Bella Books)

Jumpstart the World by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Knopf)

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher (Delacorte)

Luna by Julie Anne Peters (Little, Brown)

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger (Simon & Schuster)

Do you have a favorite YA book about a transgender character? Please tell us why you loved it!

malindalo: handful-ofdust: moogboard: Photographs of Virginia...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:56:57 -0500

By Brenda Stumpf

with Casanova

with Casanova

malindalo:

handful-ofdust:

moogboard:

Photographs of Virginia Hankins, actress, stuntwoman and jouster.

It’s my day for hot ass-kicking ladies, it seems. IN PRACTICAL ARMOR.

Look! She is perfect as Essylt in my story “One True Love”! (You can read it in Foretold and soon in Heiresses of Russ 2013.)

"Some have accused the youth rights movement of trying to destroy childhood, and making all kids into..."

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:33:14 -0500

“Some have accused the youth rights movement of trying to destroy childhood, and making all kids into adults. Indeed it is quite the opposite. Our current age apartheid system is destroying childhood and kills our youth into a bitter adulthood. We don’t wish to destroy childhood, we wish to destroy adulthood, and in so doing save both youth and adults.”

- Alex Koroknay-Palicz, “The Indignities of Being Young” (via isupportyouthrights)

malindalo: (Above: “Another Winter” by Grivetart) More...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:59:43 -0500

malindalo:

(Above: “Another Winter” by Grivetart)

More fantastic illustrations collected at my website: The underground city of the future in my story “Good Girl,” from the anthology Diverse Energies

askthethreelights: …the outfit that even the ‘80’s didn’t want.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:59:00 -0500

askthethreelights:

…the outfit that even the ‘80’s didn’t want.