ThePrettiestOne

miss-gallifrey:

heliotrooper:

AND HERE WE HAVE MY BIGGEST FUCKING PET PEEVE

Alternatively: “well now I feel bad because you said that”

missharleenfquinzel:

helladonkaphant:

just-shower-thoughts:

Eventually they’ll need to reinvent Superman’s alter-ego because nobody reads newspapers anymore

clark kent the buzzfeed editor.

10 People Who are Definitely Not Superman  

hedwig-dordt:

soyeahso:

mooncaps:

liamgalgey:

notawhatbutawho:

ryvenchan:

dragoon811:

gallifreyan-hallows:

harrypotterconfessions:

I really don’t believe Molly was capable of killing Bellatrix. Bella is a Dark Lord trained Death Eater who frequently is using dark spells. Molly has been a house-wife for most of her life. Surely in reality she wouldn’t know those spells, let alone have ever used them before. Bella knows more and has been practising her skills (even through Azkaban), and yet Molly wins? I cant believe it.

(Taiga’s note: never, ever estimate the power of a mother protecting her children.)

I can’t wait until some of you idiots have children. See what you’re capable of when your child is in danger. She wasn’t just a house wife, she was a mother. Y’all moms should slap the ignorance out of you.

Molly was part of the Order in the first war. She lost her brothers to Death Eaters. She just lost her son, who was named in honour of one of those brothers. Her daughter, her only daughter, is threatened. You can damn well believe that her conviction was strong and she meant every spell she cast in defense of her family. Of course she knows those spells. Of course she wins.

^^^^ This.

Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, ‘Well, you know, she’s just a mother.’ And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wanted to show that just because a woman has made a choice, a free choice to say, ‘Well, I’m going to raise my family and that’s going to be my choice. I may go back to a career, I may have a career part time, but that’s my choice.’ Doesn’t mean that that’s all she can do. And as we proved there in that little battle, Molly Weasley comes out and proves herself the equal of any warrior on that battlefield.

- J. K. Rowling (x)

Molly was a warrior before she was a mother.  Male soldiers become fathers all the time, I really don’t see how this is a problem.

I haven’t read the book in ages, but wasn’t it demonstrated fairly often that Molly was a powerful witch? Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?

“Did this person miss that because of the fact she used her powers in a domestic fashion?“

In a word: yes.

annalisekeatting:

Things I need more of: Ms. Marvel and Wolverine interacting

“Wait–so what was the most upvoted story?”

“Umm… Cyclops and Emma Frost’s romantic vacation in Paris?”

“This is the worst day of my life”

reggy-firescales:

Pinterset DIYs be like-

ayellowbirds:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

dothemortalcoilshuffle:

There is nothing about this that I don’t like.

Kate Bishop: AW YASS

WAIT NO WHAT DID I JUST DO

Truly a worthy heir to the name Hawkeye.

sourcedumal:

siddharthasmama:

goddamazon-of-sol:

jessehimself:

point of clarity

So miss me with that “I feel threatened” horseshit.

In other words every 17/20 murders of white folks are done by other white folks.

Let’s talk about that white on white crime, please….

Dumbledore: Ah, yes, I see Harry Potter's eleventh birthday is coming up. Since his relatives are Muggles, should we do the customary house visit a week before his birthday?
Minerva: No, Albus, I think I'm just going to fuck that Vernon Dursley up with 500000000 owl letters. *puts on shades and ollies out*
Dumbledore: I'm so glad I hired that woman.

As seen on the Dismantle Misogyny Facebook page

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Donald Trump professes he can't quite figure out why white supremacists, neo-Confederates and others in America's rich tapestry of overt and non-overt racist bastards are flocking to Donald Trump. He just happens to be saying the things modern Republicans want to hear.

“I like Jeb,” Trump told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”

That's right, kids, Jeb spoke a teeny bit of Spanish in a Miami school, and we here in Republican-land don't cotton to folks who speak more than half of their own language, much less can speak a second. English Only, Jeb, or Trump supporters might get the idea you're one of them-thar immigrant types.

Remember back when Republicans released contemplative reports and slideshows hemming and hawing over how maybe, if they were going to save themselves from a painful ride into the dustbin of history, the party could stand to be just a wee touch less racist? Less overtly hostile to minorities, maybe?

How's that been going, Reince?

geekygothgirl:

micdotcom:

Watch: This video is so important — and could even save trans teen lives.

Oh that tiny child wishing for their father to be supportive just breaks my heart. No child should ever have to wish for parental love and support. 

ginandjack:

lukexvx:

dagwolf:

preeoz:

ON GOVERNMENT LOANS: 

Things have changed.

When you call your loan servicer, they  won’t treat you like shit anymore. They won’t threaten you or harass you or insist you pay half your paycheck to get out of default. Here is what I’ve experienced while dealing with defaulted government loans. 

1.  Find out who owns all your debts right now. It may be early enough that your most recent loan servicer could still be the owner. If it’s been over a few months, or years, it will be a collections agency or several agencies. Check your snail mail. Their policies usually dictate that they send paper mail. Once you find the collections agency, ask for “proof of debt.” By law, they must provide you proof that they own your debts so they can’t scam you.

2. Once you establish that this agency owns your debt, tell them that you can’t afford much but would like to “rehabilitate your loans.” This means you will make a payment for 9 consecutive months. The agency, by law, must use a government formula to figure out how much you pay each month. If you make around 40K, you will be asked to pay somewhere around $100-150/month. If you are unemployed, you can rehab for as little as $5 a month. Ask them to autodebit so you don’t accidentally miss a payment. If you miss one, your 9 months starts over. 

3. Once you finish your 9 months, call the collections agency to make sure they won’t autodebit anymore. They will hand your debt back over to the loan servicer you worked with before they got the loan. Most likely, you have Great Lakes, Nelnet, Navient (formerly known as Sallie Mae), or one of these loan servicers. Then go to this studentloans.gov website and make an FSA ID and PW. 

4. Begin a consolidation through the student loans website. The consolidation form will ask you to write in every loan. It might be on the website already, but check this NSLDS.gov site to be sure. This website has an up-to-date account of all your outstanding loans. Consolidating is a tedious and boring process. Make sure you have a few hours free to do this. 

5. When you consolidate, the form requires you to fill out a payment plan. You want an IBR plan, or Income Based Repayment Plan. This plan will allow you to make minimal payments according to your income for 20-25 years. Then, the government will forgive your loan. Consider it 25-year mortgage for your college education. Also, the IBR will re-evaluate your income every year in order to adjust the monthly payment. If you lose your job, your monthly payment will reduce dramatically, and if you find a better paying job, you may have to pay a bit more. 

6. Also while consolidating, you must choose which loan servicers you’d like to work with. I work with Nelnet. Nelnet was difficult to work with for years, like not allowing you to email in documents–only mail or fax. You can email scanned documents to them now. Remember, you can download free scanning apps to use with your smartphone camera. Remember to keep a log of every time you call, whom you talked to, and what you talked about. This is an important lesson I learned while calling companies for my immigrant parents. Anyway, because of government regulation, they are actually nice to you and available 24/7.They can’t pull their bullshit anymore because they use government calculations. I’m sure it’s the same with all the other loan servicers. As I said before, I work with Nelnet, but it really doesn’t matter which one you choose. 

7. When you finish with consolidation, wait a few days and call your loan servicer. Ask them if they’ve received the request for consolidation. Then, check in with them every week for the next six weeks to hear the status of the consolidation. They are not good about emailing you updates, i.e. never. I did my consolidation wrong the first time, and they just rejected it and never notified me. I found out when I made my weekly Monday night call. Had to fill out the damn form all over again. It’s finally been accepted. 

8. They will then set up you up with an IBR plan. Your payments will most likely be the same as what you payed the collection agency because they’re using the same government calculator. Autodebit those payments. 

This is all I know so far. This is far better than defaulting and having the government garnish your wages. And once you begin the IBR plan, there is an end in sight!

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ON PRIVATE LOANS: 

I don’t know much about these, but I know private is much harder to deal with. 

1. It’s not great to default with these loans either. Defaulting and declaring bankruptcy does NOT absolve you from the loan. Your wages can still be garnished if the collections agency sues you and wins. 

2. If you make regular payments, the loan servicer will not settle your debt with you. Because they’d rather have your interest payments. If you default in order to settle with the collections agency who buys your debt, you’d better have enough cash to pay them off in one lump sum. They will bargain with you to get you to pay between 50-60% of your loan. If you own 100K, do you have 60K in disposable income? If so, you shouldn’t ruin your credit!  

3. You can now refinance your loans! Due to new legislation (I think it’s Elizabeth Warren’s doing), you are allowed to consolidate all your private loans under one bank and get a lower, fixed interest rate. I’m willing to bet your interest rates are at 8% or higher. You can consolidate all these to under 5%, or even as low as 2%–the better your credit, the better your rate. I would consider perhaps working with the credit unions instead of a bank.

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I hope this helps you. If you have any questions, please send me a message and I’ll do my best to help you figure it out.

thanks, Praise. 

We’re most of us working people with little to no extra income. Purposefully defaulting on your loans only works if you can settle. Don’t listen to bourgeois debtors praising purposeful default as some sort of useful and progressive direct action. You will end up with garnished wages. The stories Praise and I hear are always the same. 

It doesn’t make you less radical or something to fill out this shit paperwork and receive a long term IBR plan. The payments for us are low. We’ll never pay off the majority of our loans before they’re forgiven. I don’t do it because of some ridiculous principle. I do it because it’s better than having my wages garnished.

If you need further help, I know Praise will answer your asks. She’s kind of become an expert on this process. Send her a message. She’s super cool.

Timely

Also of note, once you’re on an IBRplan, you will need to re-file that paperwork every year to stay on that plan or start paying your loans back in full, so keep up with filing your taxes and doing your paperwork!

hamburgerboogie:

huffingtonpost:

The Way This Dad Reacted When His Son Chose A Doll For A Gift Is Priceless

Mikki Willis, who hails from Ojai, California, says he’s been sharing videos of himself with his son, Azai, on social media for the past three years.

Watch the full video to really see this dad’s excitement, love and support of his sons. 

I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING

A new survey from the Centers of Disease Control shows the least number of people in 15 years reporting they didn't get medical treatment because of the cost.

During the first three months of 2015, 4.4 percent of Americans surveyed said they went without health care at some point in the past 12 months because they couldn't afford it, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research released on Tuesday.  

That's the lowest percentage of Americans forgoing health care since 1999, when 4.3 percent of respondents said they abstained from medical care because they couldn't afford it. It's also the first time since 2002 that the number dropped below 5 percent.

In addition, the uninsured rate dropped in the first quarter of 2015 to 9.2 percent, down from a high of 16 percent five years ago, when Obamacare was first passed but not yet implemented. According to their survey results, 15.8 million fewer people were uninsured by April of this year than in 2013, before the law's insurance benefit provisions kicked in.

That's very good news. However, it's not to say that high costs still aren't a barrier to health care. In fact, more than 60 percent of the still uninsured say they are still uninsured because they can't afford it, including many who fall in the Medicaid gap. Among the newly insured, about 40 percent "report feeling vulnerable to high medical bills and say they have encountered problems with health care costs."

It's gotten tremendously better with Obamacare, but there's still work to be done to make sure that health care really is affordable for everyone.

legolasvoldecauststarringloki:

i’ve seen so many text posts about Minerva McGonagall retiring over James Sirius Potter and I just

this woman weathered the Marauders, the Weasley Twins, and all the shit Harry and Co. got into

James Sirius will walk into Hogwarts planning to unsettle McGonagall

she’ll just stare at him until James Sirius is the one swearing he’s going to quit school and live with Grandma Molly

lynne-monstr:

Leverage Character Appreciation Week | The Ladies
↳ Peggy

I have this crack headcanon that Peggy is actually a government agent of some sort in deep suburban cover.

Let’s take a look at all the evidence here:

• the second Parker tells her one of her waiters is a fake, she knows who it is. The kitchen staff is numerous but it’s no problem for Peggy
• then she dodges a knife attack from behind. FROM A REFLECTION IN A KITCHEN PAN. I can barely avoid tripping over my own feet and she ducked out of the way of a knife in motion
• she disarms the guy and then gets pissed about the damage to the knife, just like any good professional
• and proceeds to go on the offensive and back skinny jeans into a corner
• while performing an interrogation
• (okay, so the interrogation was on the subject of cats and nice men but she was probably easing into it to keep her cover…)
• oh, and I almost forgot, before she confronts the fake waiter she CLEARS THE ROOM OF ALL THE CIVILIANS
  

There you have it, Peggy is undercover. Her op got crossed with Parker’s and she managed to help save the day AND keep her identity intact.

The most glaring hypocrisy of most of the people in the anti-choice movement is how the whole "culture of life" philosophy stops at the moment of delivery. That's glaringly apparent in the latest attacks on Planned Parenthood for "selling baby parts," or in actuality facilitating the donation of fetal tissue from abortions, when the patient requests it, for medical research. That medical research is increasingly jeopardized as Planned Parenthood and other groups curtail their role in donations.

One month ago, six Planned Parenthood clinics allowed women to donate aborted fetus tissue for medical research. Now, there are just two that do—a sign that the future of the programs could be in serious jeopardy. […]

The fallout from the videos was detailed for the first time last Friday in an 11-page letter sent to congressional leadership by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.

Three affiliates in California have stopped accepting fetal tissue donations because of controversy surrounding the videos, including one provider that received "security threats," Richards said. Another affiliate has postponed its program while undergoing renovations, she said. […]

Separately, at least one institution — Colorado State University — has suspended its program until the video controversy is fully investigated. Faculty are now asked to “seek alternatives” for their research, the university’s president, Tony Frank, wrote in response to a letter to Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.).

So all the non-fetus people out there who are sufferers and potential sufferers of the numerous diseases researchers are using fetal tissue to combat—Parkinsons, macular degeneration, various cancers, spinal cord injuries, and AIDS and Ebola. Your life and your health doesn't count. Not any more than the life of the woman whose body is nothing more than a vessel for sacred fetuses. Same goes for the millions of people who didn't get hepatitis A, German measles, chicken pox, and rabies because they got vaccinated—vaccines developed with fetal tissue.

This isn't really news. The worst of these extremists are more than happy to take the lives of actual, living people to see a fetus preserved. So it's nothing to them to take away health care from the women who would be carrying those fetuses, or the medical research that might end up saving those fetuses' actual lives some time in the future. Getting them born is all that matters. After that they can suffer and die.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of the current Republican go-to names among party leaders who correctly worry that all of the presidential candidates preferred by actual Republican voters are, well, nuts, has some choice words for the administration that granted Alaska's request to revert the name of their tallest mountain to its original name. President McKinley, you see, was from Ohio. That should count for more than what all those snobbish Alaskans want.

You know, I haven’t checked out the Constitution when it comes to naming mountain tops, but if I become president, I’m going to name it back to Mt. McKinley. This is not something we appreciate or agree with in Ohio.

And did I mention again I am a big cheese in Ohio? I'm going to be bringing that up a lot, because I realize most of you have no idea who I am.

The reason the mountain was named that way my understanding is a guy was out there climbing, he saw this big peak, and he wanted to celebrate the achievements of President McKinley, so he named it Mt. McKinley.

Hmm ... we'll give that partial credit. "A guy" didn't name it that to celebrate McKinley specifically, he did it in a spat with fellow locals over the gold standard. It'd be like some guy deciding to rename Chesapeake Bay "Ron Paul" in honor of Paul's stance on shiny silver dimes, and then everyone else going along with it because what the hell, it was pretty damn funny.

As to the actual achievements of President McKinley, let's just say they were spotty at best.

If I win, we’re just going to have to them on notice that we’re just going to have to change all the signs back. Maybe they shouldn’t take the signs down, and they should leave them up, because when I get in, I’m going to move it back.

Hey, every other government institution has become paralyzed by Republican legislative whiplash, might as well take it down to the roadside sign level.

All right, so it's John Kasich. He's from the state McKinley was from, so it's only natural that he decree Ohio's will should trump Alaska's will even in Alaska, or at least has to say so when someone asks. Unlike all the other Republicans feigning shuddering bouts of outrage over this, it's entirely possible that Kasich was aware there was an ex-president named McKinley before rising to McKinley's geographic defense.

insertusernameici:

And that’s when I fell for Maggie.

Whites Quit Working With Black Mississippi Judge, Then He Got Sacked:

yosoynickelz:

showmethebeautiful:

Do with this as you will be this is racism at it’s finest.

Summary: This black judge in Mississippi was charged with misconduct because he refused to send drug users to prison - instead he would send them to local rehab centers, which statistically, has kept drug users from usage again. Moreover, he was so popular with the vote in his county, holding 55% of the vote, Sheriffs and deputies stopped sending criminals to his court. Even one bailiff refused to open his court by saying the “all rise.” He is the first black judge in this county for over 149 years and he is currently suing the government for his forced removal. 

I just think this is an interesting piece because here we are being told “if you want to see the change, be the change”. Here is a brotha who put in the work to be that change and still white supremacy works to dismantle our efforts.

cracked:

Vitamin supplements can fuck you up. In 1999, researchers noticed that people who ate lots of beta-carotene (vitamin A) were less likely to develop lung cancer. They tested the theory by feeding 15,000 smokers the equivalent dose of six carrots a day, only to find that their doses were too large, and they were actually giving their test subjects cancer. In 2015, Norway’s equivalent of the FDA verified that overdoing it with vitamin A may increase lung cancer risk for anyone with any kind of lung problems at all – not only smokers.

Other vitamin supplements don’t fare much better. A study of 2256 women over 70 found that people who took mega-doses of vitamin D had 15 percent more fractures than those who took a placebo, because it turns out that our bodies consider high amounts of D toxic and start to break it all down, including the D already in our bones. Vitamin E doesn’t fare much better: Several extensive trials have reached the conclusion that it seems to “increase mortality,” and not because it gives you so much energy that you’re out all day jumping motorcycles over bridges.

5 ‘Common Sense’ Solutions That Make Everything Worse

jmindigo:

letloosethekraken:

ultrafacts:

Whittier, Alaska, is a town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in a 14-story former Army barracks built in 1956. The building, called Begich Towers, holds a police station, a health clinic, a church, and a laundromat. Its hallways resemble those of a school . One can often find residents shuffling around in slippers and pajamas.

Because the winters are so ferocious, the town’s only playground is indoors.

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This is some dystopian young adult novel bull.

To be fair pretty much all of Alaska is some dystopian young adult novel bull in one way or another. 

allofthefeelings:

queenvsbarton:

allofthefeelings:

Gay Sam is important and bi Sam is important but asexual Sam Wilson is also important, because representation but also because just imagine him saying “Yeah, I’m a flying ace” and then cracking up at his own joke and no one laughs and he’s like “The birds think I’m funny.”

ok but. asexual/aromantic sam and asexual/aromantic clint being the aero aro ace and the arrow aro ace bird bros.

This is such a valuable and important addition to my post ty for your contribution

This birb lives at the bus terminal and knows the timing on the automatic doors of the shelter structure, so she sneaks in to beg food off the patrons. A security guard who works there told me “she’s the smartest pigeon we got here” as he foot-blocked her from getting in. I would like to point out, in defense of her considerable powers, that while he was distracted she thwarted him, slipped inside the structure, and had to be chased out by a patron. 

She Manage these station.  Under Covers bosse!

They do and it is FAINTLY TERRIFYING.  Especially since I have hardwood floors and they have floof-covered paws.

When Alice spins out, things fall off shelves.

donna-remembers:

tramtheram:

It’s amazing how often Donna is needed to tell the Doctor to stop. It makes me wonder what would have happened had she seen eleven during some episodes.

The Doctor doesn’t need a gaggle of women who basically step aside and let him do whatever beacause they have a fucking crush on him.

He needs someone to yell out “oi! Spaceman you stop it right now or i’ll slap you so hard you won’t need a tardis to see tomorrow!”

Or the quiet voice of reason that says “that’s enough, you can stop now.”

Reblogging for the comment ^

BEST COMPANION.

In the United States, the perception of truth often means more than truth itself. While the conservative media lies to blame the Black Lives Matter movement for the tragic shooting deaths of police officers, the mainstream media is rushing to cover what appears to be a dramatic increase in gun violence against police officers.

Except, this isn't true. Our country is on pace to have fewer officers shot and killed while on duty this year than last year (and almost any year on record for that matter).

Often, people who are sympathetic to police will quote that 83 police have died in the line of duty in 2015. And that is true, but what they aren't telling you is that 13 of those officers had heart attacks or that 19 died in car accidents or that three died because of 9/11-related illnesses.

A total of 26 police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty this year. Each of those is tragic and a reflection of the violence in our country. This, though, is not some race-based dramatic uptick in police shooting deaths. Forty-seven officers were shot and killed in 2014 and we are on pace to have fewer than that this year. Comparatively, 662 people have been shot and killed by police in America as of September 1 and a total of 792 people have been killed by police altogether this year.

Not only that, but as the media attempts to blame black activists for these deaths, the truth they aren't telling you is that half of all police who've been shot and killed this year were actually African Americans. That, though, is inconvenient for their narrative.

We should be able to have the emotional maturity and intellectual honesty to discuss these issues without misstating or skewing the facts (or outright lying about them). It only makes matters worse.

Not only that, but far more police are dying by suicide than they are at the hands of others.

Police officers are many times more likely to commit suicide than to be killed by a criminal; nine NYC policemen attempted to take their own lives in 2012, alone. Eight succeeded. In 2013, eight NYPD officers attempted suicide, while six succeeded. If police want to protect themselves, a wise move might be to invest in psychiatric counseling, rather than increased firepower.

Again, though, we don't hear these stories because they don't give the conservative media a chance to blame activists and leaders for anything.

samwilson:

nyoom

mydnd:

avdol:

orlyman:

MY FAVORITE DND GREENTEXT OF ALL TIME AGAIN

THIS IS WHY 3.5 IS THE FUCKING BEST.

never gets old