Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
(via fireandshellamari)
IT’S OKAY TO ASK FOR HELP SOMETIMES. IT DOESNT MAKE YOU WEAK, IT JUST MAKES YOU HUMAN.
EVERYONE NEEDS HELP SOMETIMES, BBY. YOU’RE STILL TOTALLY MAJESTIC.
(Source: tragedyseries)
I’ve really been wanting to do some sculpture lately because I’ve been feeling kind of cagey doing nothing but drawing all day every day and painting stresses me out. My biggest barrier to entry was just not knowing where to start. Sculpey seems like the obvious choice, but it can be kind of stiff and feel clumsy to work with if you’re out of practise. Water-based clays are messy and need to be fired, and plasticine is goopy and melts at summer day room temperature. So I talked to some folks at the show and a lot of people recommended this stuff.
So hopefully eventually I’ll have some cool creatures to show off.
I like how a bust of Abraham Lincoln adorns a package of MONSTER CLAY.
obviously they know something about honest Abe we don’t.
I see a lot of misconceptions about this so I just wanted to make this point clear. Even if you don’t personally want to ever go through an abortion you’re still pro choice if you think that it should be a personal choice.
(Source: standupfordownthere)
I, for one, appreciate a healthy moustache, like this one inching along over New Zealand.
I want to live in a world where little girls are not pinkified, but where little girls who like pink are not punished for it, either. We can certainly talk about the social pressures surrounding gender roles, and the concerns that people have when they see girls and young women who appear to be forced into performances of femininity by the society around them, but let’s stop acting like they have no agency and free will. Let’s stop acting like women who choose to be feminine are somehow colluders, betraying the movement, bamboozled into thinking that they want to be feminine. Let’s stop denying women their own autonomy by telling them that their expressions of femininity are bad and wrong.
Antifemininity is misogynist. What you are saying when you engage in this type of rhetoric is that you think things traditionally associated with women are wrong. Which is misogynist. By telling feminine women that they don’t belong in the feminist movement, you are reinforcing the idea that to be feminine and a woman is wrong, that women who want to be taken seriously need to be more masculine, because most people view gender presentation in binary ways. This rewards the ‘one of the boys’ type rhetoric I encounter all over the place from self-avowed feminists who seem to think that bashing on women is a good way to prove how serious they are when it comes to caring about women and bringing men into the feminist movement.
Get Your Anti-Femininity Out Of My Feminism by s.e. smith (via nerdiestofbears)
(Source: thechocolatebrigade, via shannonhale)
A fairy ring is a naturally occurring ring of mushrooms. They are also known as pixie’s rings, faerie circles, or elf circles. The English believed that fairy rings were where fairies came to dance and celebrate, the mushrooms of the rings were used as stools for the fairies to recuperate during the evenings festivities.
When I was young I spent a lot of time in Ireland because my parents would always want to go back to their homes often. My mum used to tell me about faerie circles and she said that if you disturbed the ring by touching it, all the magic creatures would come and get you. I actually saw one of these rings for myself and was terrified the elves would come for me.
HANK HAS TO SCIENCE ON THIS
When the spore of some kinds of mushroom hits the ground to begin its life cycle, it will radiate out from the point of genesis with tiny little threads called mycelium which are actually the physical body of the fungus. The mycelium stretches throughout the soil, feeding by decomposing matter and, if there’s good food and consistent soil structure in every direction, it will radiate out in a nearly perfect circle. Eventually, when the center of the ring runs out of nutrients, the fungus goes into it’s spore production phase, and sends up “mushrooms” or the fruiting bodies of the fungus. These are all produced at the same time around the edge of the mycelium, taking all of the nutrients from the mycelium to produce these reproductive spore factories.
So each mushroom is not an individual organism, but rather the fruit of a sort of sub-surface fungal tree.
To me, this is even cooler than elves and fairies.
well let’s just keep them faerie circles because I’d like children to keep their fantasies and childhood memories
Agree to disagree…I would rather children revel in the excitement, beauty, wonder, and power of the real.
There is nothing preventing the fairies from using the naturally occurring mushroom rings as a venue for their parties.
Oh, John.
Seriously, though. I was basically Fabio through the entire airport.
Oh. Right. This is tumblr, so none of you know who Fabio is. This guy.
I’m sorry to break it to you, but you don’t have the hair to be Fabio.
