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It is I. I is me. I'm a Peace Corps Volunteer. Which, if you've ever met one of us, or if you've ever met me, I suppose, means I am more then happy to blather on about it. But unless you ask, there will be little here. This here is for my short attention span and random moments.
Know this. I am incapable of going past Jethro or Weeping Angels and not reblogging them. There will also be Firefly, Buffy, other Dr. Who stuff, Supernatural, Harry Potter, Dorothy Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, Star Kid, and a lot of other various things that I like.
Don't diss Vincent Price and we'll get along fine.
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Androcentrism: It’s Okay to Be a Boy, but Being a Girl… » Sociological Images
I think the ‘women are required to do femininity and simultaneously punished for it’ bit sums up 90% of sexism in one sentence.
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Can I just say, travelling with you… I love it.
(Source: blliepiper, via dean-winsexter)
Adulthood doesn’t mean you stop drinking juice pouches and eating fruit snacks. It means buying your own.
(Source: masakispreciousface, via igotstarsinmyeyes)
Whattttt? how did I not know about this?
Quick note: the lines don’t have to point upwards and straight next to each other, you can point them in any direction you want.
Another quick note: The smaller circles don’t have to be on the inside of the bigger circles, they can be anywhere near/attached to the letter you’re writing, and you can either change the sizes or make them all the same. Also attaching vowels to consonants isn’t mandatory, and neither are the complimentary half-circles added to the overall sentence (they’re actually just there for aesthetic reasons).
(via minidahla)
Stop telling women that we should find ourselves beautiful and that we should love ourselves when you are standing right there, judging us on how our knees look in short skirts and how prominent our boobs are in a sweater and how much makeup we are or are not wearing.
Instead of us working harder on “love your body” and “find your inner beauty”, the rest of the world should be working harder on “stop telling women their bodies are a shameful place to live but that if they’re strong enough, they will learn to embrace that shame.”
This is my body. It’s not “beautiful”. I don’t “love it”. I don’t have to. I don’t have to have any strong feelings about my body. And whatever feelings I do have are not somehow invalid if they’re not glowing reviews.
"from Attitudes and Self-Images of Male and Female Bisexuals by Carol D. Bronn
“both worlds are closets” Ouch. That one hit home (via loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)
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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
This is the greatest thing in all of classic Doctor Who
You either love The Princess Bride or you’re wrong.
(via alltruthwaitsinallthings)
Strange Insects
- Devil’s Flower Mantis - one of the largest types of praying mantis, they can measure up to 13 centimeters in length and have a range of coloring that allows them to mimic the Devil’s Flower, a type of orchid.
- Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar - before transforming into a beautiful fluorescent blue butterfly, its an armored, blood-red caterpillar with tinted visor shades for eyes and a quadruple row of blunt horns running across its body.
- Scorpionfly (Mecoptera) - neither scorpion or fly, what looks like a scorpion’s stinger on the insect is actually its genitals.
- Calleta Silkmoth Caterpillar - with a massive color range and dangerous looking barbs, this caterpillar is something most predators avoid.
- Giant Prickly Stick Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) - as the largest known stick insect, it reaches lengths of 20 centimeters. It is covered with large thorny spikes which double as camouflage and defensive armor.
- Goliath Beetle - can grow more than 4 inches in length and weigh about 100 grams in their larval stage. It is alleged to be mostly vegetarian.
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If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists."
