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Ash Reiter - heatwave

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:09:18 -0700

Ash Reiter - heatwave

ready, ready go! no. ready, go! fuck. my life.

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:12:43 -0700

ready, ready

go! no.

ready, go!

fuck.

my life.

my tattoos will be in this style.

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:48:19 -0700

my tattoos will be in this style.

camhappy4life: honorized: joosboks: msanimanga: itstrivial: ...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:24:15 -0700

camhappy4life:

honorized:

joosboks:

msanimanga:

itstrivial:

#CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEEEEEEA

HAVE YOU EVER STIRRED THE CREAM IN WITH A LONE TEASPOON

OR ASKED THE STEAMING KETTLE WHY HE STEAMS

CAN YOU DRINK WITH ALL POSHNESS OF THE BRITISH

CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEA

CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEEEEEAAAAAAAAA

YOU THINK THE ONLY TEA CUPS WHO ARE TEA CUPS

ARE THE TEA CUPS WHO HOLD A DEEP DARK BREW

BUT IF YOU DRINK LIGHT ORANGE TEA OF STRANGERS

YOU’LL TASTE THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEVER KNEW

HOW DARK CAN THE ORANGE PEKOE GROW

IF YOU POUR IT NOW, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW

AND YOU’LL NEVER STIR THE CREAM IN WITH A LONE TEASPOON

FOR WHETHER WE LIKE BLACK, OR HERBAL GREEN

WE MUST DRINK WITH ALL THE POSHNESS OF THE BRITISH

WE MUST PAINT WITH ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TEA

YOU CAN OWN THE LEAVES AND STILL

ALL YOU’LL OWN IS LEAVES UNTIL

YOU CAN PAINT WITH ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TEA

I have just witness the most glorifying post in the history of tumblr.

^^^
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE THIS

robnapierdesign: Infographics that display when fruit &...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:36:44 -0700

robnapierdesign:

Infographics that display when fruit & vegetables are in season.

By http://russellvankraayenburg.com/

i hope my garden will be better next year

natazilla: princess peach sweet tats

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:12:49 -0700

natazilla:

princess peach

sweet tats

schmittastisch: pbh3: Punctuation marks the internet sorely...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:48:27 -0700

schmittastisch:

pbh3:

Punctuation marks the internet sorely needs.

I love the Hemi-Demi-Semi Colon

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:24:20 -0700

Photo

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:12:06 -0700

i would play kid pix for hoouuuurrrrsss. just editing the little...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:38:52 -0700

i would play kid pix for hoouuuurrrrsss.

just editing the little face pictures pixel by pixel.

hollyxbirch: i-say-no-to-status-quo: datkarkatass: jicheshire:...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:00:24 -0700

hollyxbirch:

i-say-no-to-status-quo:

datkarkatass:

jicheshire:

bookworm-ninja:

betachan:

filthytricksyhobbitses:

ladyintheattic:

peppermintwinds:

senbo-sencho:

emimichelle:

lidlesseye:

freakingpotter:

H O W ?!

Holy shit

I keep trying to think of a good comment for this but I’m speechless, really.

My god.

there are no words

wow dang dangle

how

how

HOW

the second part is what got me

ITS BACK

WOW I JUST OMG

YET ANOTHER CASE OF MAGIC IN PLAIN SIGHT

“just keep your head above water.” yeah? for how long? the world record for treading...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:41:13 -0700

“just keep your head above water.”

yeah?

for how long?

the world record for treading water is only 85 hours.

yes, take care of my baby PLEASE! =/ That is an email i received...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:51:00 -0700

yes, take care of my baby PLEASE!

That is an email i received from a licensed childcare provider. Anyone that is a business, with personal information posted all over the internet should really maintain a professional attitude when dealing with customers.

groteleur: Best cosplay here! I will eventually do my nell...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:12:41 -0700

groteleur:

Best cosplay here!

I will eventually do my nell cosplay with sadie as my tiny nell. i will!

kathwren: thisisfullon: Calcifer My heart just melted...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:48:23 -0700

kathwren:

thisisfullon:

Calcifer

My heart just melted aldsfjsdkfj

My husband turned 30 yesterday. We went to Denny’s for his...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:37:23 -0700

My husband turned 30 yesterday. We went to Denny’s for his free grand slam.

First Sadie just keep trying to snag his pancake with her fork from next to him. But then she went all in and climbed on his lap, took HIS fork away and dug in.

I don’t have to tell you that Steubenville is all over the...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:28:00 -0700

I don’t have to tell you that Steubenville is all over the news.

I don’t have to tell you that the fact that Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, the two teenagers convicted of raping a sixteen year old girl, were only sentenced to a combined three years in juvenile prison, is a fucking joke. Each will serve a year for the rape itself; Mays will serve an additional year for “illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.”

I probably don’t even have to tell you that the media treatment of this trial has been a perfect, if utterly sickening, example of rape culture, with its focus on how difficult and painful this event has been for the rapists who raped a sixteen year old girl then bragged about it on social media.

And I almost certainly don’t have to tell you that the world is full of seemingly nice, normal people who want to go to bat for the convicted rapists. I’m quite sure that you already know about the victim-blaming that’s been happening since this case first came to light. You know about the fact that people have actually come out and said that the real lesson to be learned here is that we need to be more careful with social media (i.e. go ahead and rape but make sure you don’t get caught). You already know that people seem to think that being a sports star and having a good academic record should somehow make up for the fact that you are a rapist.

I don’t have to tell you any of that because it’s all par for the course.

What I do want to tell you is that you need to stop using the “wives, sisters, daughters” argument when you are talking to people defending the Steubenville rapists. Or any rapists. Or anyone who commits any kind of crime, violent or otherwise, against a woman.

In case you’re unfamiliar with this line of rhetoric, it’s the one that goes like this:

You should stop defending the rapists and start caring about the victim. Imagine if she was your sister, or your daughter, or your wife. Imagine how badly you would feel if this happened to a woman that you cared about.

Framing the issue this way for rape apologists can seem useful. I totally get that. It feels like you’re humanizing the victim and making the event more relatable, more sympathetic to the person you’re arguing with.

You know what, though? Saying these things is not helpful; in fact, it’s not even helping to humanize the victim. What you are actually doing is perpetuating rape culture by advancing the idea that a woman is only valuable in so much as she is loved or valued by a man.

The Steubenville rape victim was certainly someone’s daughter. She may have been someone’s sister. Someday she might even be someone’s wife. But these are not the reasons why raping her was wrong. This rape, and any rape, was wrong because women are people. Women are people, rape is wrong, and no one should ever be raped. End of story.

The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time. President Obama even used it in his State of the Union address this year, saying,

“We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence.”

This device, which Obama has used on more than one occasion, is reductive as hell. It defines women by their relationships to other people, rather than as people themselves. It says that women are only important when they are married to, have given birth to, or have been fathered by other people. It says that women are only important because of who they belong to.

Women are not possessions.

Women are people.

I seriously cannot believe that I have to say this in 2013.

On top of all of this, I want you to think of a few other implications this rhetorical device has. For one thing, what does it say about the women who aren’t anyone’s wife, mother or daughter? What does it say about the kids who are stuck in the foster system, the kids who are shuffled from one set of foster parents to another or else living in a group home? What does it say about the little girls whose mothers surrender them, willingly or not, to the state? What does it say about the people who turn their back on their biological families for one reason or another?

That they deserve to be raped? That they are not worthy of protection? That they are not deserving of sympathy, empathy or love?

And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?

We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men in their lives.

The truth is that I am someone’s wife. I am also someone’s mother. I am someone’s daughter, and someone’s sister. But those are not the things that define me, or make me valuable in this world. Those are not the reasons that I should be able to live a life free from rape, sexual assault or any kind of violent crime.

I have value because I am a person. Full stop. End of argument. This isn’t even a discussion that we should be having.

So please, let’s start teaching that fact to the young women in our lives. Teach them that you love, honour and value them because they are human beings. Teach them that they should expect to be treated with integrity because it’s a basic human right. Teach them that they do not deserve to be raped because no one ever, ever, ever deserves to be raped.

Above all, teach them that they are people, too.

(via I Am Not Your Wife, Sister or Daughter. I Am A Person. | The Belle Jar)

(via dusty rose crochet shrug organic cotton short sleeve by...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:28:15 -0700

(via dusty rose crochet shrug organic cotton short sleeve by Joik)

so, i was having a nap and dreaming. my friends were over at my house playing board games and we...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:53:28 -0700

so, i was having a nap and dreaming.

my friends were over at my house playing board games and we were listening to the radio. a 90’s cover of “ironic” sung by a guy came on and i was singing along.

I woke up to my husband coming home trying to get the tail end of the “greatest man of your life” song to play on his phone. he didn’t get it turned up in time and the next song started.

ironic by alanis morissette

This is basically the story my mom use to tell me. she would...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:38:34 -0700

This is basically the story my mom use to tell me.

she would draw something very similar to this image as well.