ThePrettiestOne

I love their friendship so much

babies-come-with-hats:

Just to be clear, Hillary Clinton could straight up die and relay her orders to the oval office every morning via a fuckin ouija board and she’d STILL be a better president than Trump

It may seem harmless to snap a few pics of your toddler struggling with the new concept of depositing their waste into a specific container. It may seem equally inconsequential to upload them to Facebook for your friends, who have also lost all sense of human decency, to coo about. It’s not. Time turns toddlers into teens. Angry, angry teens.

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Mexican boy stands up to 11,000 anti-LGBT protesters in solidarity with gay uncle

“A photograph has gone viral of a 12-year-old boy standing up to a protest march by thousands of anti-LGBT protesters.

The boy made his stand in the middle of the empty street in front of the 11,000 people marching on Saturday in Celaya in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

The protesters were voicing their opposition to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan to legalise same-sex marriage across the country.

Journalist Manuel Rodriguez, who took the image, later spoke to the boy to find out why he took such bold action.

According to Regeneracion, the boy said: “I have an uncle that is gay, and I don’t like people hating him.”

Despite the protests led by the likes of Frente Nacional por la Familia (National Front for the Family), President Nieto has continued to back same-sex marriage.”

Read the full piece here

THANK YOU FOR STANDING UP AND SHOWING US ALL HOW IT’S DONE!!!

MAY YOUR BRAVERY INSPIRE US ALL TO BE THAT MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS IN STANDING UP FOR THE OPPRESSED

Merriam-Webster's twitter account has been offering good usage advice, for example

It's fine to use mad to mean "angry"—even if doing so makes some people mad. https://t.co/Z5ClzvAnaZ

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) September 7, 2016

This particular tweet led to an exchange that went viral.

First, a series of complaints about M-W failing in its parental duties:

And then M-W's response:

The responses to the response are almost all pro-M-W, and of course include a wide selection of mic drop, shade-throwing, and sick burn memes. One example among many:

@_teitokuma @MerriamWebster @gabrielroth Usually it's people that burn books not the other way around. Paper cut to the heart right there

— Cherem (@Weeabastard) September 7, 2016

Buzzfeed has it: "People Can’t Get Over The Dictionary’s — Yes, The Dictionary’s — Savage Clapback (“This needs to go down in the dictionary as an example of ownership.”) Buzzfeed's URL puns on another recent meme:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/dictionaries-out-for-harambe

Other reaction:

Luis Gomez, "PSA: Don't troll Merriram-Webster's Twitter account", San Diego Union-Tribune 9/7/2016
Sammy Nichols, "Don't pick a fight with Merriam-Webster on Twitter. You will lose.", Esquire 9/7/2016
Hope Schreiber, "The Dictionary Clapped Back At This Hater’s Twitter Rant And It Was Epic", Elite News 9/7/2016

Update — Gabriel Roth responds: "No One Cares How I Feel, According to Merriam-Webster", Slate 9/8/2016.

Last year, espnW did something special for their second annual IMPACT25 list–a group of 25 female athletes and influencers that broke boundaries and inspired–they combined forces with Marvel Comics and had the entire group drawn up like the superheroes they are. The results are every bit as stunning as you would expect them to be, starting with the unmatchable Serena Williams as a hero named Super Galactic Slam by Elizabeth Torque.

More of these gorgeous covers below!

Many of these protraits are even more exciting in the wake of the 2016 Olympics, such as Kevin Wada’s rendering of Simone Biles:

Simone Biles by Kevin Wada

Or Simone Manuel by Laura Braga:

Simone Manuel by Laura Braga

X Games’s youngest gold medalist ever, Chloe Kim (RB Silva, Walden Wong, and Rachelle Rosenberg):

Chloe Kim by RB Silva (pencils); Walden Wong (inks); Rachelle Rosenberg (color)

Special Olympics Gold medal winner at the 100 meters–who put off chemotherapy to compete with stage-4 breast cancer–Olivia Quigley (Alti Firmansyah and Jessica Kholinne):

Olivia Quigley by Alti Firmansyah (pencils & inks); Jessica Kholinne (color)

And of course, Annie Wu’s stunning depiction of Misty Copeland, the first African-American woman to bear the title of principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre:

Misty Copeland by Annie Wu

There are 20 more of these heroic illustrations, so head over and take a peek!

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dontpokethevalkyrie:

beautytruthandstrangeness:

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rasen-shuriken:

I did not know that in 7 states in America, you can carry out an abortion the day before you give birth (allows abortion at any time). That’s so fucking disgusting. And other states allow abortion up to 28 weeks. That’s not a ball of cells no more, that’s a damn baby. It’s good that abortion is legal but not the fucking late into the pregnancy 😷😷 nasty

You do know the reason abortion is carried out that late in a pregnancy is because of fetal abnormalities, right? There’s no woman that stays pregnant for 8 months and then decides “Meh, I’m just gonna have an abortion instead.”

These women are not nasty, they are not evil, they are women who were so excited to welcome their little one into this world. They are women who had a nursery set up and baby clothes bought. They are women who excitedly waited for their due date, took belly photos and updated the world on how their pregnancy was coming along. They are the women who woke up one day and felt that their baby wasn’t moving anymore. They are the women that felt in their gut that something was terribly wrong, just to have their worst fears confirmed.

They are the women who went to a regular checkup to find out that their baby is severely deformed and won’t live outside the womb, or will but only for a few days and suffer terribly the whole time. They are the women who have to make a decision to not let their baby suffer.

Women having abortions that late are not women who just decided to get an abortion 8 months into pregnancy. While that is there right to do so, know that isn’t what happens. Know that that isn’t the reality.

This is really upsetting to read but it is the truth, more people need to know this.

Something like 90% of abortions are first trimester, which is so early that the medical terminology vacillates between “zygote” and “fetus”, and whatever the name, the thing’s the size of a pencil eraser and has 0% ability to survive outside of the womb.

The remainder are performed in the 2nd trimester, generally as a result of fetal abnormality or a severe congenital defect.

The vanishingly rare 3rd trimester abortions are generally for one of two reasons:

1) the life of the mother is in serious danger
2) the fetus is either dead or dying

So no. Women aren’t just bouncing on coat-hangers at 37 weeks for a giggle, they’re undertaking a serious medical procedure for a heartbreaking reason.

But nice try, jerk.

And even first trimester abortions are unpleasant enough that nobody just thinks, “Ehhh, you know what? I’ll just get pregnant and abort it.” 

They have to dilate your cervix. While they numb you, because otherwise the next part would be awful, dilating your cervix affects your vagus nerve. It’s an EXTRAORDINARILY UNPLEASANT SENSATION. It makes a lot of people fainty for half an hour or an hour afterwards. 

And then you have the cramps to deal with too. So even the most minor of early abortions is something that people avoid when they can. 

They make mistakes, like not noticing that their Nuvaring fell out, or such. Or they’re raped (and yes, I consider pressuring a woman not to use birth control, or saying you’ll use birth control and then not using it to be a form of rape, because it’s an attack on her bodily autonomy through her sexuality, so what else would you call it??) Or they have birth control failures. 

Big stack of all kinds of truth here.

thingstolovefor:

Demanding Black people to pledge allegiance to the flag or “honor” the national anthem is a demand to show gratitude for being here. And behind all of the “patriotic” rhetoric is the seething statement “You ought to be grateful that we let you live here”.

If the athletes are Black, there is a requirement that they show deference and gratitude for being able to play for an American team. Usually athletes are supposed to entertain. Black athletes are only valued for their ability to win awards and trophies for America. #Hate it!

kimyugwon:

*male writer voice* i don’t remember her name. it’s not important. i met her at a record store and she went home with me because i offered to buy her cigarettes. she had amazing perky breasts. we drank cheap whiskey and had sex three times that night and then she told me she wanted to be a dragonfly because they were free. i slept with her many times after that. but one day she stopped returning my calls and i don’t know why. that was seven years ago. on monday she got hit by a bus and died. i saw it in the newspaper so i went to her funeral and it made me sad. i don’t know why. i hate my mother even though she pays my rent while i write poetry about masturbating in the shower

sushinfood:

republicangarbage:

acciolunas:

the-vaudevillain:

itsdeepforhappypeople:

laughterkey:

jenawithonen:

Men are fucking disgusting, part 2485726364784483762367472636474

What the ACTUAL fuck?

do…men understand that you cant just….buy birth control…in the store………….like condoms?????? you…cant really shop around…for birth control?????

Also you don’t like??? Take MORE??? Because you’re having a ton of sex??? Like you always take the same amount wtf

men are so fucking oblivious we need better sex ed

“Don’t know how to shop” I’m physically repelled omg

“a party favor” someone kick this man in the head

deducecanoe:

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elysean:

riveralwaysknew:

They said you might come.

#This scene makes me so sad#because above all else#above UNIT and Torchwood#and even the Doctor#SHE was a doctor#Martha Jones helped people - her passion was to heal#and save lives#and now she might be the only one who can save the universe#but at the cost of the entire planet#she’ll kill them all#and it’s the last thing that she wants to do#but it’s the only option now#so when this woman pulls the gun on her and threatens to kill her#Martha sadly nods her head and tells her to do it#because then she wouldn’t have to make this choice#and it kills me

(via riveralwaysknew)

oh my god martha nearly did to the earth what the doctor did to gallifrey

oh my god

This is the exact reason why I maintain my position that Martha was not, under any circumstances, the companion.

She was the doctor.

Now I know that he’s always the same man at the core after regenerations  so on and so forth, but when it really boils down, the doctor isn’t a timelord, the doctor is an idea. At least in the RTD era, every companion at one point or another, has had to make the choice to become the doctor.

Rose Became the Doctor when she accepted her fate as the bad wolf.

Mickey became the doctor when he stayed in the parallel universe.

Donna became the doctor during the meta-crisis.

Jack became the doctor when he ‘died’  for the first time trying to save everyone before Rose destroyed the Daleks.

But Martha? Martha was different, Martha was special. Martha never chose to become the doctor, because that was who she always was in her heart; and substantially she was the only companion of the RTD era who didn’t need to be saved by either the timelord doctor or TARDIS intervention (in the case of Jack, seeing as it was the badwolf, who brought him back).

^^^^^^

THAT COMMENTARY IS GORGEOUS.

MARTHA FUCKING JONES

people who don’t like martha are wrong.

New comic!

Someone isn’t pulling their weight around here.

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william-snekspeare:

the second panel was originally going to have words but I decided it was better without them

thetwelfthbunny:

Leverage Rewatch: The Roshomon Job

Sophie’s accent according Eliot, Hardison, and Parker

morebadbookcovers:

bookavid:

do you ever just read a book and think to yourself “yup, this was written by a dude”

Jesus yes.

ikazon:

ironicallyxspiders:

when people defend the “Cis white guy is default” thing like “He’s meant to be an everyman we can all relate to and project on!” kindly remind them the largest ethnic group in the WORLD is Han Chinese and the highest gender percentage fluctuates so if you want an ACTUAL  “default” you want a 40 year old chinese person whose gender changes from year to year.  

#give us the middle-aged gender fluid Chinese protagonist that we can all relate to and project on (via @mr-and-mr-pavus)

your-ghost-surrounds-these-hills:

refinery29:

This Muslim teen has the perfect response to everybody who told her she couldn’t be a ballerina

While the talented Stephanie Kurlow, now 14, continued to perform in films, musicals, and talent competitions, she was shocked to find that there were “no full-time ballet studios that readily accepted me wearing hijab.” So she did something about it.

Gifs: Bjorn Borg

Respect 👏👏👏

micdotcom:

Hungry teens are taking alarming measures to eat

According to a new report from Washington, D.C.-based think-tank the Urban Institute and nonprofit Feeding America, teens from food-insecure families are risking everything to eat. In every community where the study’s focus groups met, teens described going “outside of the legal economy” in order to get the food they need:

• Shoplifting food
• Stealing items to resell for a profit
• Purposefully failing school to maintain access to free food programs
  
• many teens skip meals so they’re able to provide for their younger siblings.
  
• And in 13 out of 20 of the study’s focus groups, teen participants mentioned trading sex for money or meals.
  

And no they can’t “just get jobs” — they’re caught in the same employment paradox as many young people.

elodieunderglass:

mumblytron:

“but sex is what makes us human!”

 

in 1916 a French officer in his twenties writes his

doctoral dissertation under

heavy mortar fire.

he sends it by mail, a page

at a time, to his wife.

a week before he’s to step up to the podium and

defend his work rather than hiscountry

he is killed in action.

even as the bullets rip

through him he still wishes he could have become a professor

in French literature and

the university awards him a posthumous Ph.D.

sex is

 

a woman breaks down in tears on the phone because

a week is not enough time to

get over a breakup.

her sister drives an hour across town,

comes up the front steps with

a gallon of ice cream and somebeer

and together they eat moose tracks and marathon

every

single

Godzilla movie

ever made.

 

sex is

she’s late for work but her car isn’t

starting and even through her coat and hat she’s cold.

she knows she can’t be late again because she’s missed

one time too many already because her

father’s nurse was sick with the flu and someone

needed to help him bathe.

the clock ticks past fifteen after and she hits

the wheel like it’s a heavy bag as though that will help

steps on the gas like the car will go

and wonders how she will pay rent

and how she will feed her father.

sex is

 

it takes three people to hold the predator down because

even with the cover over his head

a bleeding eye and shattered wing

he is trying to hurt them.

none of them have seen this bird before in their lives but

they bandage his wing and head and give him a painkiller and

put him in a warm place to sleep and heal because

it is right.

at first he is paralyzed and cannot

fly but soon he is taking steps

and then fluttering, and then soaring, and

six months later he is whole and healed and hunting.

once he is gone they never see him again

which means they’ve done their jobs right.

sex is

 

in 1969 a girl watches grey-and-white footage on her parents’ tiny television and

can’t quite believe that what she is seeing is not a movie set but

another planet.

the men on the screen look a little like

aliens with bulbous heads and no faces and fat

marshmallow arms

but they are still men.

her mother puffs on a cigarette behind her and declares that

this is progress

even if it was just a small step.

the girl grows up to be not an astronaut but a secretary

and her boss calls her ‘sweetheart’.

but sex is

 

a boy is taught that real men don’t cry so

he doesn’t.

when his best friend dies from a self-inflicted

gunshot wound, he locks himself

in the shower every day and sobs under scalding

water until it runs cold

so nobody will see him grieving

so nobody will see that tears are just love that

has no place left to go.

he learns to dull love rather than suppress its expression and

soon the owner of the liquor store knows him by name.

three DUIs, two evictions, and twelve steps later,

he is feeding people at a homeless shelter,

and telling them it’s all right to cry.

Sex is

 

the broken man tells the comedian

that he didn’t mean to step in front of the car but the rain

made it hard to see.

he seems okay but his leg

does not.

the comedian clutches a grubby receipt with the driver’s

plate number scrawled on the back

in pink pen, stands out in the rain so the broken man

can have his umbrella,

and gives him the comedy routine that ruined his career

so the man doesn’t think about the pain in his leg.

once he’s out of the hospital, the fixed man sends him a thank-you card

with kittens on it.

what makes us human

 

yawning is contagious,

and there is a species of bird whose young we call “pufflings”.

melodic collections of sound, spaced by silence,

can move us to tears.

the tallest building in the world is

two-thousand seven-hundred and seventeen feet tall.

in less than eighty years we went from our first powered flight

to touching the moon,

and in one-hundred from the first phone call

to instantaneous connection between thinking machines of our own creation.

we make pies out of tree organs

and let cow’s milk ferment until it hardens and then

we put them together, because apple pie with cheddar cheese is delicious.

what makes us human is

the earliest fossils of anatomically modern humans are

two-hundred thousand years old .

we have had pet dogs

for sixteen-thousand of those years, longer

than corn

or the wheel.

the steps we take are part of

one of the most energy-efficient gaits the

animal kingdom has ever seen.

we invented the concepts of love

and hate

and justice, and mercy

and we invented the language to convey them.

we sharpened rocks, then metal, to convince other people

who don’t hold the same idea of those things as we do

because we think

it’s right.

we are two hundred millennia of love and disappointment and

sorrow and innovation and

mercy and kindness and dreams

and failure

and recovery.

but sex is what makes us human.

I’ve reblogged this before but I like a different verse best every time.

Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, and Reese Witherspoon may be the more recognizable names but they aren’t the stars of A Wrinkle in Time. That honor goes to actress Storm Reid.

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“OMG guys look a bird!” -dog. [video]

When you can’t tell if someone is just being friendly or that they genuinely want to be your friend

jadelyn:

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micdotcom:

Oxford Dictionary accused of sexist word examples

Oxford Dictionary is under fire after Michael Oman-Reagan, an anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate, pointed out these instances of sexist example sentences accompanying words like “rabid” and “shrill.” At first, Oxford Dictionaries responded with the above flippant tweet — but later apologized and vowed to change at least one of the words.

WOW this is so not okay

This is what we mean when we talk about invisible sexism. Each of these makes perfect sense to most people, fits perfectly with our social context and our cultural worldview. Only when they’re put together do you see the pattern all at once and go “oh…yeah that’s actually kinda fucked up, isn’t it?” Because tiny, invisible things create a cultural context which builds into an overall attitude of mocking, minimizing, and dismissiveness towards a full half of the population.