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facadecake: dudewithabow: after you’ve been through like a string of fandoms and you’ve decided...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:52:56 -0700

dudewithabow:

after you’ve been through like a string of fandoms and you’ve decided your favourite character/s for each one, there will come a day when you will list all your faves from each fandom side by side and look at them carefully and realise

you have a type

Reblog with your type in the tags

olarsenhorita:pride and prejudice on set

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:11:38 -0700

olarsenhorita:

pride and prejudice on set

theglowpt2: i’m a failure to the community because my idea of wlw media is “movies and shows that...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:09:44 -0700

theglowpt2:

i’m a failure to the community because my idea of wlw media is “movies and shows that have interesting female characters/women i think are hot in them” sorry i don’t have the energy to watch cable tv shows where the two blandest women in the universe kiss occasionally

nonbinarysollux: nonbinarysollux: pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:09:23 -0700

nonbinarysollux:

nonbinarysollux:

pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things

no seriously please reblog this ive seen so many posts saying to support trans boys and trans men who like traditionally feminine things and those posts are good!! i love them!!

but i have never in my life seen a post saying to support masculine trans girls and trans women or trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things and its really important to understand that showing support for trans women in any form is just as important as showing support for trans men so please, please reblog this.

support trans women and trans girls. support trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things. trans women and trans girls who like traditionally masculine things are not any less valid than trans women and trans girls who don’t!!

angstsplatter: Suuuuuuuper random headcanon that literally just popped into my head all of a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:09:11 -0700

angstsplatter:

Suuuuuuuper random headcanon that literally just popped into my head all of a sudden…

Molly and Arthur were both married to other people with kids before they found each other and married. Bill and Percy were Arthur’s kids from his previous marriage, Charlie was Molly’s. They had Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny after they got married to each other. Molly and Arthur had fooled around a bit and dated a little in Hogwarts before going their separate ways. When they ran into each other by chance, they just clicked very well and this time the relationship lasted.

I imagine Arthur’s first wife died suddenly (either in childbirth or shortly after Percy was born), leaving them all shocked and feeling lost. Whereas Molly married rather young and her and her husband never really talked about some things they should have. Molly always wanted a large family, and she was so excited when she got pregnant. Turns out her husband didn’t want kids at all, leading to a nasty divorce. He signed away his parental rights, which at least made it easier - when Molly and Arthur married later, they adopted each other’s kids.

Also, Arthur is probably white (his family has probably been in Britain forever), while Molly has Romani ancestry (probably mixed with Italian - but she’s not considered Romani herself because somewhere a few generations back, her ancestor married out of the community). Arthur’s first wife was Pakistani and Molly’s husband white (maybe French - and maybe this plays into why she’s got such a strong bias against Fleur when she and Bill begin dating - some unresolved feelings about her past). So you’ve got this mix of kids with all these different looks but who are all related and do have some strong resemblances to each other. Bill, Charlie, and Ginny are all slightly darker than their siblings. Bill, Percy, and Ron are still the tall, lanky ones, while everyone else leans towards the shorter and stockier side. Percy takes after his mother in many ways, and he struggles with never really having gotten to know her; those two things combine and make his relationship with Molly strained all the way until after the War, though she’s always accepted and loved him just as her own (even though Bill was older, he had an easier time accepting Molly as another mum and referring to her as such, but it took lil Percy longer, and Molly legit cried when he did so, and she didn’t bother trying to hide that joy).

The kids are still on the younger side when Molly and Arthur blend their families (Bill 8, Charlie 6, Percy 2 or thereabouts, anyway), and it helps that Bill and Charlie just immediately click together and become best friends, plus Charlie’s been asking for a little sibling. And Molly gets pregnant so fast, and they’re all just excited for the new family member(s!).

They all know they’re a blended family, but it’s not something that’s typically focused on or at the forefront of their minds or anything. But once a year on the anniversary of Bill and Percy’s mom’s death, they and Arthur go and visit her grave and spend the day with each other, reminiscing and telling Percy stories. Until they’re ready to share their grief one year, and they start telling the other’s about how great and kind she was, and then all of them are going to visit her grave and pay their respects. Special time is still given for Arthur and Bill and Charlie, but they all begin to feel like they knew her and over the years, they all just naturally check in with the site and make sure there’s flowers there and it’s looking nice.

But all in all, they’re really the same Weasley’s we know from the books.

emptymanuscript: gracebeereblogs: mythcreantsblog: Unreliable narrators need to add something to...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:34:14 -0700

emptymanuscript:

gracebeereblogs:

mythcreantsblog:

Unreliable narrators need to add something to the story. They aren’t an excuse for poor storytelling and inconsistencies.

If you have an unreliable narrator, you should be doing twice as much work in your plotting! At every turn of the story, you need to know both what’s actually happening AND what your narrator thinks is happening.

When you’re right, you’re right. And you’re right.

Not only does the author need to know what’s happening on both layers of story, they need to actually write in clues for the reader to telegraph the lower, “true,” layer of the story so the reader is capable of figuring it out if they choose to read closely. Without that double work, an unreliable narrator cannot perform its literary function.

It is the evidence of the truth, not the lie the narrator tells, that makes a narrator unreliable. Otherwise they are just a liar which the audience is incapable of catching due to the hobbling imposed by the medium. Which means the lie may as well be the truth, making it serve no function as a lie.

russdom: forestwildflower: thenatsdorf: Keanu Thieves (via...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:49:26 -0700

russdom:

forestwildflower:

thenatsdorf:

Keanu Thieves (via mushroombirdornaments)

The people running after him makes it funnier

HE LOOKS SO HAPPY

southernbellerva: mesmerosis: unrepentantwarriorpriest: mrsunre...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:09:13 -0700

southernbellerva:

mesmerosis:

unrepentantwarriorpriest:

mrsunrepentantwarriorpriest:

mando-gunslinger:

*flashback to me trying to play with the bear outside the house

All I could think of was this

Priceless.

“individual utilized the racoon to blow into the interlock system successfully…” might be the greatest sentence ive ever read

@pineland-express

fowllanguagecomics:Because normal is boring.Bonus PanelGet a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:08:11 -0700

fowllanguagecomics:

Because normal is boring.
Bonus Panel
Get a signed print for your weird family.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:07:58 -0700

postmodernmulticoloredcloak: gutterballgt: darkslayer092: They’...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:07:52 -0700

postmodernmulticoloredcloak:

gutterballgt:

darkslayer092:

They’ve come so far.

Give them their hair back??

Freshman year vs senior year

welcometonegrotown: And people will see this and still be like...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:05:54 -0700

welcometonegrotown:

And people will see this and still be like ‘nah, could never happen here.’

It’s already fucking happening!

bigbeefyladies: writing-prompt-s: Sloths aren’t lazy; they’re just saving their energy. Today,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:03:15 -0700

bigbeefyladies:

writing-prompt-s:

Sloths aren’t lazy; they’re just saving their energy. Today, that energy is released.

this is singlehandedly the scariest fucking post on this hellsite what the fuck

audreyii-fic:because everyone should see this

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:23:10 -0700

audreyii-fic:

because everyone should see this

news-queue: People have added some great suggestions to this...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:07:34 -0700

news-queue:

People have added some great suggestions to this post as to what else we can do to ensure more free and fair elections (and I can assure you, that although Tim may not have brought them up, he supports all of them). So I thought I’d summarize some of those suggestions, as well as add some of my own:

Rank choice voting

Automatic voter registration

Get rid of superdelegates

Abolish the Electoral College

Make voting day a national holiday (i.e. give everyone the day off)

Early voting (like at least a couple weeks would be great)

Mail-in Ballots

Eliminate caucuses and have only OPEN primaries

Restore voting rights for felons

No gerrymandering

Publicly funded elections

Actually investigate and prosecute instances of election fraud (BOTH parties are complicit in doing things like purging voters off rolls; this is election fraud and it should be illegal)

Automatic recounts if the election is really close (for example, less than a percentage point between first and second place)

I know certain political parties/factions like to pretend they care about democracy, but unless you support all these measures, you really don’t. It’s not enough to say, “I care about democracy, but only to the extent I think it will not harm my candidate.” Either you want to empower voters, or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways.

brown-lesbian: Last year, my grandma asked me if I had a...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:03:47 -0700

brown-lesbian:

Last year, my grandma asked me if I had a boyfriend. And I realized, in that moment, that I’d quite forgotten to come out to Grandma.

evensandpodder: my child co-founded an informal harry potter club at school last week. this week,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:02:50 -0700

evensandpodder:

my child co-founded an informal harry potter club at school last week. this week, all clubs were officially disbanded by the teacher. in an ironic twist, my child (who hasn’t read ootp yet) said today, ‘but that doesn’t mean a group of friends can’t get together and talk about harry potter. we just can’t say that we’re a club’

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:01:51 -0700

A quick guide to Australian politics:

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:00:58 -0700

theauspolchronicles:

Malcolm Turnbull is our Prime Minister! He doesn’t get elected the way a president does (getting less votes than his opponent), instead he gets chosen to lead the party by the party (Liberals - the conservatives. It’s confusing to Americans I know but just remember that this is the land down under where things are topsy turvy) and then must get elected in his own electorate in his own right. He does this by making sure to never tackle housing affordability because his electorate is full of rich fucks.

He might just be the first Prime Minister to serve a full term since 2007 but fingers crossed.

He rose to power off the back of Tony Abbott, which was made easier by the good firm grip he had on the knife he placed there.

His kinks are:

Taking public transport to give off the illusion of not being disconnected from the ordinary Australian despite being the richest currently elected politician in Australia

Being vocally critical of his party until he got in charge of it so he can backflip on everything he’s ever pretended to care about

Building shitty infrastructure projects that blow out of budget by billions and are headed by CEOs who don’t understand the product their providing (*cough* NBN *cough*)

This is The Devil. He is in charge of ensuring refugees are tortured and detained indefinitely in island prisons where we paid foreign governments to store them. You’d think that is an exaggeration, or that the following photo is photoshopped. It is not. He is true evil. His entire department is growing increasing power to deport whoever he wants, increase police powers, and campaigning to stoke the flames of racism.

His kinks are:

Not understanding empathy

Human rights abuses

Curvy potatoes

This is Tony Abbott. He used to be the Prime Minister of Australia before he became so incredibly unpopular his own party thought “fuck. This guy is a wreck. Look, he’s superglued his hand to his face for the fifth day in a row.” They ceremoniously kicked him out of the position of PM, replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull, then narrowly avoided defeat in the next election by 1 seat. Yeah. We can do that. We can remove leaders in power with ease and 0 bloodshed. Bet America is real jealous of that thing huh?

He used to be a boxer, wanted to be a priest, but then something went horribly wrong and he went into politics and Australia has suffered ever since.

He decided to go back to being an MP and stay in government, a fact he’s made everyone painfully aware of by interjecting every now and then to go “well, actually, uh, if I were still Prime Minister….”

His kinks are:

Budgie smugglers

Hating the LGBTQIA+ community

Destroying any hope our country has of combating climate change

This is Barnaby Joyce. He used to be the Deputy PM and leader of the Nationals, which are a conservative country-focused party that is most commonly seen latching onto the Liberals to form the Coalition because neither of them have been popular enough to form government outright except about 2 or 3 times in Australian history. Joyce, pictured below trying to call up whatever is left of his integrity and getting a “number not found” signal, had to resign as leader because he cheated on his wife and had a baby with a staff member.

He’s been replaced by Michael McCormack.

His kinks are:

Lecturing others about the “sanctity of marriage” and “traditional family values” then ignoring these values entirely

Sexy beetroots

Tricking farmers into voting for him then doing nothing to stop climate change destroying their crops

Getting paid to talk about his infidelity

This is Michael McCormack. He’s the current Deputy PM of Australia and advocates for caning children and the death penalty.

His kinks are:

Wait - what??

REALLY? WHAT THE FUCK DUDE?

Collecting bound volumes of the British newspaper The Times for some fucking reason

This is Bill Shorten. He’s the leader of the opposition which means he leads the Labor Party, the centre-ish (depending on the mood) party. This means every now and then it’ll go “GAYS? WE LIKE THOSE! WE WANT TO GIVE YOU RIGHTS!” followed by “REFUGEES? BACK TO SEA THEY GO! CAN’T GIVE THE COALITION A MONOPOLY ON RACIST VOTERS!” Here he is pictured below feeling unease and suspicion that somewhere nearby a member of his party is secretly advocating for decency and compassion towards a refugee.

His kinks are:

Opposing bills for a while, then giving up

Stifling internal debate in his party about “hey, what if refugees are people?”

Talking about “the working family” lots

This is Richard Di Natale. He’s the leader of The Greens, the left wing party your grandparents warned you about. You know those SCAAARRRYYY immigrants the other people don’t like? He likes them. You know what he’d like as well? For people to be allowed to smoke some goddamn weed.

There was a massive scandal recently where a ton of politicians were found to be ineligible to serve because they’re dual citizens (you can be born overseas and still be a politician you just need to renounce foreign citizenship) and unfortunately this meant 2 of his Senators resigned (though the other parties got hit way harder). This scandal also revealed that Richard’s middle name is “Mario.” Yeah. That’s it.

Unlike in the US, voting for another party besides the main two can actually get people elected. The Greens won’t form government but they sure can block some legislation every now and then.

His kinks:

Hugging trees

Making the trees feel like they’re supported and cared for, like they could really trust him for once even though they’ve been hurt before

Actually caring about human rights

This is a Haunted Trash Bag. She leads the party One Nation (AKA: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation), a far-right extremist political group whose main goal is to flip back and forth between racism and screeching. She was elected briefly in the 90s and then spent about 20 years unsuccessfully trying to get re-elected until recently the country’s hatred of Muslims reached critical mass and she cruised right back in. As her personal motto goes: “if it ain’t white, it ain’t right, and I don’t like it! I just don’t like it! I DON’T LIKE IT!”

Her party attracts the most delusional far-right assholes ever including a guy who mowed a swastika onto his lawn then took a photo of him doing a Nazi salute, a guy who tried to use a hoax study about penises to prove climate change isn’t real, a guy who advocated for killing journalists, a guy who said that welfare is destroying evolution’s ability to weed out the weak, and a woman claiming that marriage equality is the result of a nazi-inspired mind control program. There’s more. There’s waaaayyy more. Holy shit is One Nation the worst.

My favourite part of her political career was when he went to jail. My least favourite part was when she got released.

Her kinks are:

Trying to make you afraid that your Easter eggs are funding Islamic terrorism

Blaming immigrants for problems they have nothing to do with

Saying “I’m not racist, but…” followed by some serious fucking racism

Getting pissed off at her party members the moment they disagree with her and demanding they resign

We have elections approximately every 3 years and we’re due for one sometime in 2019 (there aren’t set dates) so in a year’s time some of these faces could be gone! I certainly hope so.

owldork1998: sheabutterbitch: evil-faery: sheabutterbitch: A long time ago I took a course on...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:36:59 -0700

owldork1998:

sheabutterbitch:

evil-faery:

sheabutterbitch:

A long time ago I took a course on the sociology of marriage and my professor said “With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome.” Ever since, I never prioritize compromise in a relationship, only collaboration.

this seems like a great concept and all but. what does it actually mean?

Compromise is typically thought of as a 50/50 split amongst partner’s needs. They’re both left partially unsatisfied, but this dissatisfaction is deemed acceptable because it is ‘equal.’ However, with additional effort, many problems may be solved through collaboration; keywords: additional effort.

In collaborating, one may try to make the conflict more complex in order to expand the possible positive outcomes. This requires trust in both parties, empathy, and consideration for one another’s needs.

The objective should shift from getting what you want and ‘keeping things quiet’ to making sure your partner feels heard and considered (as they should do with you). Essentially, you must trust that your partner has your happiness in mind, and you must have theirs, instead of fighting for your own best interest.

For further explanation, Google “compromise vs collaboration.”

And with this I have learned what i always thought of as compromise was in fact collaboration