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julian2006: ghostguest: julian2006: why do so many men speak to you like they’re giving a ted...

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:22:04 -0400

julian2006:

ghostguest:

julian2006:

why do so many men speak to you like they’re giving a ted talk

I need a frame of reference here

go and find the nearest man who’s read one book and talk to him

cb-strike: On the point of relinquishing her hand, he gave it a...

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:18:20 -0500

cb-strike:

On the point of relinquishing her hand, he gave it a quick twist. He had kissed the back of it before she knew what had happened.

Cormoran Loves Robin • 3 / ∞

I feel some Kaz Brekker vibes here.

Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:21:57 -0500

I feel some Kaz Brekker vibes here.

sean-zevran: The Way He Looks (2014), dir. Daniel Ribeiro Leo,...

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:58:24 -0500

sean-zevran:

The Way He Looks (2014), dir. Daniel Ribeiro

Leo, if you had ever stolen a kiss from someone, how would you give it back?

xerostra: octobones: drmanhattan: lesbianahsoka: lesbianahsoka: a waitress could slit my throat...

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 07:45:05 -0500

xerostra:

octobones:

drmanhattan:

lesbianahsoka:

lesbianahsoka:

a waitress could slit my throat and I’d still tip 15% i dont know how her day’s been yknow?

i hear your responses and i just wanna say obviously i usually tip at least 20 like im not an animal! but to be completely fair she did kill me

*but murdered or not i would still tip in cash

#reblog #tbh 20% is my starting tip point #if u cant afford to tip dont eat out

I’m so DONE with this BS, esp cause it’s such a brain-washed reasoning?!?!?!
Yes service employees absolutely deserve a pay high enough to live on, but can we take a sec to look at:
1) if you get pissed cause your only ‘pay’ e.g. in a restaurant is the tips and your reaction is to be angry about low tips then newsflash: you’re angry at the wrong people?!?!?!
you know there’s something called an ‘employer’ and (in most countries) there are regulations about minimum-wage!!!! (the definition of a ‘tip’ never was meant to be ‘the pay’)
and when your reality is that you practically deliver food to tables for free: then be angry at your supposed ‘employer’ …

2) it’s nice to know that capitalism and classicism is so well, that people don’t even bat an eye at the ‘if u can’t afford to tip don’t eat out’ wannabe-argument.
We try to educate people about the struggles with (systematic) poverty, but then go this route in the next post:
practically poor waiters going for poor customers’ throats, instead of going for the business owners that don’t pay them enough, like that’s the angle we’re going for?????
So as someone working in customer service myself I have to say: fuck this ridic reasoning!!
YES the reality is we need tips to survive in this work-field atm, but if the anger/demand for change & better work-standards isn’t directed at businesses and government regulations - instead of that ‘evil’ customer - then what even are we doing???

Finally someone said that.

I have this bittersweet feeling after finishing Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia, because...

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:30:22 -0500

I have this bittersweet feeling after finishing Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia, because overall it was a good book, with a decent plot and interesting characters who developed through the book, but WALLACE!!!
I hate him so much for his reaction after the big reveal. I mean, I get that he had every right to be angry at Eliza for not telling him about her secret even after he shared with her really sensitive personal stuff, but he had NO RIGHT to demand from her finishing the comic because he had hoped to get a gain from it. And he kept pushing and pushing, even though she repeatedly told him she can’t finish it right now. He offered her no comfort, no support just a lot of guilt. It pisses me off so much, because how can he hold her responsible for his life? How dare he to pressure her into finishing her work when her whole world coming apart? The audacity of that boy! If you want to be as famous as her or well off like her, create your own work instead of riding on her coattails.
But all he had to say is sorry and she forgave him and they run off into the sunset. Ugh.

Okay, I feel like this girl explained my feelings about Wallace much better than me (6:44).

learninglinguist: Link to the original tweet

Sun, 24 Dec 2017 20:09:06 -0500

learninglinguist:

Link to the original tweet

"You may be a delicate flower but, hey, so is Belladonna and it can still kill people."

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 14:38:58 -0500

“You may be a delicate flower but, hey, so is Belladonna and it can still kill people.”

- My boss, in what is probably the most inspiring thing I’ve ever heard. (via heloisedevillefort)

lesbian-isthenewblack: heylookitsliz: elizabeth-antoinette: ik...

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 15:10:49 -0500

lesbian-isthenewblack:

heylookitsliz:

elizabeth-antoinette:

ikenbot:

freeselfdefense:

Rape Escape

Easy and very effective

Requires nothing but your body

Includes attack

Very useful to know, pass and share please.

Worth watching

I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyone who follows me reblog this.

I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head.

Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away.

So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out.

I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot

and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.

enigmaticagentalice: People talk a lot about how Harry Potter taught them about friendship and...

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 06:30:05 -0400

enigmaticagentalice:

People talk a lot about how Harry Potter taught them about friendship and bravery and love overcoming evil etc and of course I think that’s very important but like…

Harry Potter also taught an entire generation of kids that the news media can’t always be trusted to tell the truth, that the government can often be corrupt or incompetent, that the legal system isn’t always right, that the people in power don’t always have your best interests at heart. That bad things sometimes happen to good people, that your heroes aren’t always as perfect as you think they are, that even those with the best intentions can be wrong, that everyone can make mistakes and that often in order to make things right it takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice.

…and I think in a way that’s every bit as important as the more positive messages.

imheretoexpseyall: niqabisinparis: god-send-conspirator: niqabisinparis: i noticed this thing...

Sun, 28 May 2017 14:10:19 -0400

imheretoexpseyall:

niqabisinparis:

god-send-conspirator:

niqabisinparis:

i noticed this thing with a lot of men. they tend to be really generous and kind only to women they’re attracted to. duh, obvious statement to most of you but it’s jarring when you see it first hand and it’s so prevalent and insidious to the point that it feels uncomfortable accepting help from a strange without thinking of the possibility of him having ulterior motives. and it’s disheartening knowing that if you’re in a position needing a man’s help, a lot of times it will depend entirely on whether or not he’s attracted to you. and the problem is that they think this goes both ways. i can show a simple gesture of kindness and a man will take it as me coming on to him. me letting you go in front of me on the checkout line because you have one item, me offering change because you don’t have any, or anything other well-intentioned act of kindness results in a man trying to eventually make a move thinking that it’s mutual. how sad it must be to think that there’s no kindness for the sake of kindness. that all good done in this world is based on sexual impulses instead of the desire to help another human being just how you like to be helped.

Isn’t that exactly what you’re doing though?
Saying men are only nice when they’re attracted to someone?
Like you’re literally doing what you complain men do. Assume that you’re attracted to them because they’re nice.

You’re assuming they’re attracted to you because they’re being nice or showing kindness.
I have been in penthouse of situations where I was being kind and I wasn’t attracted to the person.
Hell I’ve shown kindness and they’ve had a go at me for it.

No? Because they immediately follow up by trying to make a move or they eagerly await some “compensation.” It’s not all the time but too many nonetheless. And someone else also added how many men genuinely are repulsed when a woman they’re not attracted tries talking to them or is nice. Like they view it as a transaction and it’s gross.

I think this post might shed some light on this

When I was 25, I too was into running and lifting weights and my body was spectacular and I had six-pack abs and a naturally large chest (36F). Everywhere I went, men of all ages stared at me. It was really annoying that most didn’t even try to hide it. The ones that were the worst were the creepy middle aged men who would hit on me, thinking that they could somehow fool me into going out with them.

No matter how grounded you are, you get a skewed perspective of the world. I truly believed that men were genuinely nice to women as a matter of course. I believed that most people were nice and accommodating and liked people. This was because most of my friends were hot as well, and guys were falling all over themselves to help us, so this is all I knew. I simply didn’t realize that some men are deeply hostile and only nice to women they want to have sex with. I did not realize the weird code in a society which equated beauty with importance. Such a thought never occurred to me that the world might be a different place than I had experienced.

I can tell you that men now are neither hostile or overly helpful. In fact, I feel pretty much invisible. And that, by itself, is okay. I can tell you I am equally ignored by females as well. It could be the age, or it could be a combination of old and not attractive. Who knows, except that I am no longer hawt.

There were a lot of privileges you don’t realize as well, like making great money, getting preferential treatment, or being dealt with respectfully. It blew my mind to realize that everyone is not entitled to this as a matter of course, but it is reserved for those who are physically desirable.

I think the biggest shock to me was realizing that my entire worldview had been wrong FOR DECADES. That was the most shocking. That the awful treatment other people whined about was indeed true, and that just because I didn’t experience it firsthand did not mean it wasn’t a reality. I would think to myself, “Well, if they would just project a more positive attitude, people would respond with positive attention.” I was very naive about the depth of the beauty privilege until I experienced both sides. All those things I believed simply weren’t true. No matter how well put together I was, how well groomed, how charming and funny I tried to be, I could not overcome it.

It wasn’t losing my attractiveness that was the biggest mindblower, being ignored or even being treated badly. It was the idea that I really didn’t understand how the world worked for so long. It was the idea that I believed you could overcome this enormous force around you everywhere you went – all day, every day – by simply being more cheerful and charming.

mindblowingfactz: Children get more satisfaction from...

Tue, 23 May 2017 10:20:21 -0400

mindblowingfactz:

Children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with siblings. source

image via pixabay

It passed mostly unnoticed but Belarusian contestants were...

Sat, 13 May 2017 19:39:47 -0400

It passed mostly unnoticed but Belarusian contestants were singing in Belarusian - almost extinct and very beautiful language.

"In a night of flashing lights and dancing gorillas, people responded to a very gentle ballad"

Sat, 13 May 2017 19:07:15 -0400

“In a night of flashing lights and dancing gorillas, people responded to a very gentle ballad”

- graham norton esc 2017 (via eurovisionn)

jumpingjacktrash: actuallyclintbarton: cantgetanygayerthanthat: ...

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:24:50 -0500

jumpingjacktrash:

actuallyclintbarton:

cantgetanygayerthanthat:

becksndot5:

A little video we all should take a moment to watch and think about.

Instead of thinking about what divides us we should think about what we have in common…

I’ve reblogged this on every account I have.

This is simplistic and intended to tug on heartstrings and all that shit but guys I really needed to see something about people not being dicks so if you needed that too please watch this.

Thanks for this, Denmark.

i think maybe we could all use a little simple heartstring-tugging right about now. <3

alterlovevak:What watching Skam be like

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:56:08 -0500

alterlovevak:

What watching Skam be like

Look what I’ve got for my friend for the New Year.;)

Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:25:48 -0500

Look what I’ve got for my friend for the New Year.;)

lriswcst: That night on the balcony you were screaming ‘I see...

Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:49:08 -0500

lriswcst:

That night on the balcony you were screaming ‘I see you’. So, just what do you see? [x]

“I feel like I’m suffocating in the middle of the street and no one can see me dying.”
Beyond the Lights (2014) dir. by Gina Prince-Bythewood

srsfunny:This Is Parenting Done Right

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 08:24:39 -0500

srsfunny:

This Is Parenting Done Right

jttbcmfandoms: Harry Potter series: Spells are very specific, with very specific pronunciations,...

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:13:34 -0500

jttbcmfandoms:

Harry Potter series: Spells are very specific, with very specific pronunciations, enunciations, and wand movements.

Fantastic Beasts: Point and shoot. Just point and shoot, man.