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Homophobic Mom.. Turned Supportive?
OH MY GOD Y’ALL
okay backstory: for those of you who don’t know, my parents are super religious and homophobic. They have told me I’m going to Hell and threatened me… bad stuff. It has been truly an awful experience. now YESTERDAY: my mom just starts pouring her heart out to me about how she wants me to be happy and trust her. She said she wants me to be around when she’s old and not to push me away. My mom has never really cared about me. This was all weird. Then she hits me with the: I don’t care if you’re gay, straight, bi… whatever you are. (Because she knew I was gay but thought I “fixed” it.) It took me a lot of talking to her to believe she changed. But I came out to her. And she accepts me. It gets better. I promise. If you’re struggling with your parents not accepting you, remember there is hope. I know. You don’t think there is. I thought she’d never accept my sexuality. She literally wanted to send me to military school because I’m gay. But she changed. Never give up.
Please help (urgent)
My boyfriend can’t make rent money for December. Obviously the 1st of the month (rent due) is tomorrow. He’s gonna be upset at me for making this, but I’m extremely worried about him.
He does everything for everyone. He’s beyond giving. He would give up his entire world just because someone asked for it. On top of that, he’s sick (cancer), so he can’t have a job job. BUT, he tutors people in college. This tutoring job doesn’t make him constant money, though. Not only that, but the people don’t pay him what he deserves.
He works his butt off everyday and it breaks my heart to hear him so hurt and sad.
If you can give anything, please please do. Literally if everyone donated a dollar, he can make rent. It’s very urgent. Please please help.
His paypal is: elliotsimmons0@gmail.com
We Just Measured All The Starlight In The Universe, And It Spells Doom For Our Future
“An enormous part of our cosmic history has just been revealed for the very first time. We can bypass the foregrounds of our own Solar System, thanks to these gamma-ray signals and how they interact with the extragalactic background of starlight, to understand and measure how star-formation has occurred over all of cosmic time in our Universe, and to infer the total amount of starlight ever produced.
In the future, scientists may be able to go back even farther, and probe how stars formed and emitted light back before the Fermi-LAT team’s instrumentation is capable of reaching. Star formation is what turns the primordial elements from the Big Bang into the elements capable of giving rise to rocky planets, organic molecules, and life in the Universe. Perhaps, one day, we’ll find a way to reach all the way back to the earliest moments of our Universe, uncovering the truths behind the greatest cosmic mysteries of all. Until then, enjoy each and every step — like this one — that we take along the journey!”
For the first time ever, we’ve measured the total amount of starlight ever produced throughout the history of the Universe. We know how many photons, created by stars, now permeate all of space. We know when star-formation peaked, and we know how it’s fallen over time, and how it continues to fall.
Thanks to a new result from the Fermi-LAT collaboration, we understand how star-formation worked, and is dying, across all of space and time. Get the full story today!
“What it’s Like to be” Masterlist
What it’s Like to be Abrosexual
What it’s Like to be Agender
What it’s Like to be Aroflux
What it’s Like to be Aromantic
What it’s Like to be Asexual
What it’s Like to be Bigender
What it’s Like to be Biromantic
What it’s Like to be Bisexual
What it’s Like to be Demigirl
What it’s Like to be Demiromantic
What it’s Like to be Demisexual
What it’s Like to be Gay
What it’s Like to be Genderfluid
What it’s Like to be Genderflux
What it’s Like to be Genderqueer
What it’s Like to be Gendervoid
What it’s Like to be Lesbian
What it’s Like to be Lithromantic
What it’s Like to be Maverique
What it’s Like to be Nebularomantic
What it’s Like to be Neutrois
What it’s Like to be Nonbinary
What it’s Like to be Panromantic
What it’s Like to be Pansexual
What it’s Like to be Polysexual
What it’s Like to be Queer
What it’s Like to be Quoigender
What it’s LIke to be Quoiromantic
What it’s Like to be Transmasculine
Photos and final product for Mq. & Mrs.’s amazing lgbtq coloring book for kids.
Model : Alicia Michele
cute witch
hi omg i saw your pjo art and i loved it so much!!! theyre so dynamic in your style (also you're the one who drew that lineup of rupphire+garnet in their wedding outfits i loved it!!) but anyway idk if you take requests but if you do i'd love it if you could draw nico and reyna!
im sure you wanted something cool and edgy
here’s some sibling antics instead
Friendly Reminders
Nico had a life before the Lotus Hotel
Hazel was 13 when she died
Clarisse’s weapon has been dubbed “Lamer” by literally everyone at Camp Half-blood
Sally was trapped in the Underworld for over ten days
Leo ran away from multiple foster homes
Piper had to steal a car to get her father’s attention
Thalia has lost Jason twice, but this time he’s not coming back
Nico sometimes accidentally refers to Hazel as Bianca
Athena told Annabeth that she meant nothing to her
Tyson was attacked by a sphinx
Percy loves blue food because his mom was trying to prove a point to his abusive stepfather, not because it’s his favorite color
Percy had to sneak food from Gabe or else he wouldn’t eat
Calypso was trapped on and island for thousands of years, with no one except for the people who would become stranded there, who would also eventually leave her alone again
Every time Apollo looks at a Laurel wreath or a hyacinth he is reminded of someone that he loved who he couldn’t save
Hades is trying to make up for the way he treated Nico in PJO
Frank’s mother and grandmother are dead
Nico almost starved in an airtight jar full of poisonous gas with only pomegranate seeds to keep him going
Will became a counselor at the age of thirteen
Rachel has a life other than being the oracle
Rachel has done incredible things, she’s not a bad character for kissing Percy
Octavian launched himself into his own death
Nico felt like Octavian’s death was his fault
Reyna’s father was abusive toward her and Hylla
Hecate was afraid of Hazel’s powers
Nico probably has an Italian accent
Luke’s mother is baking cookies for a son that is never coming home
Hermes thought Luke died believing no one loved him
Chiron has had to witness hundreds, if not thousands of demigods die at Camp Half-Blood
Thirteen unnamed demigods died in The Last Olympian
Ethan Nakamura literally fell from heaven
Nico convinced Hades, Persephone, and Demeter to fight on the side of the gods
Nico probably hates Zeus for what happened to his mother
Percy is afraid of drowning
Thalia is afraid of heights
Nico is afraid of fading into the dark
When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:
“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”
Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either.
“…I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person. One might concede that the other person is alive and feels and thinks like oneself, but there will always be an element of difference, a perceptible discrepancy, that one cannot quite put one’s finger on. There are figures from times past, fantasy-images in books that seem more real to us than these specimens of indifference-made-flesh who speak to us across the counters of bars, or catch our eye in trams, or brush past us in the empty randomness of the streets. The others are just part of the landscape for us, usually the invisible landscape of the familiar.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
People helping people. That’s all this world should be about cuz all we got is each other. Love seeing this kindness from big companies. Needs to happen more often in corporate America.
My town is gone.
If you’ve been watching the noise and paying attention to California, you’ve heard about the Camp Fire.
In a matter of hours, the fire jumped to 20,000 acres. This morning it reached 70,000. My town of Paradise, where I’ve lived my entire life, was consumed entirely. Very little containment has been reached and the situation is absolute hell.
My house was one of the first to go.
My mom and my sisters and I barely got out, in separate cars, and we got separated for 10 hours. My mom and little sister were stuck in Paradise with all my pets in the flames until my stepdad was able to get gas to them so they could get out. My cat was lost, and I personally was only able to grab an extremely small amount of my own belongings because I was helping my mom to grab important documents and photos and to get the pets situated.
We are now homeless, with no clue where to go from here, and desperately in need of help to get food, clothes, supplies, anything. My mom has been disabled for 3 years and we survive on a single income from my stepdad, who is a firefighter. His friends have been hurt trying to fight this. We have a dog with us, and two guinea pigs, and a bearded dragon.
My mom set up a fundraiser, even though we are not at all the type to ask for so much help.
☝️ That’s the last image of our house that I took this morning. It is now ashes and rubble.
If you can donate, it would mean the world to us, to help us get back on our feet. If you can’t, please share. Anything helps no matter how small.
Cinderella was too weak to fight for herself...AND THAT’S OKAY!
I cannot believe we’re still tearing Cinderella down! 2018 only has a few months left and we’re still doing this, we’re still painting her as the weakest Disney princess and we’re still painting her weakness as a bad thing?
Why?
Why are people so caught up on bashing this princess?
“The movie is so simplistic—”
In what way is it possibly simplistic?!
“She didn’t work hard—”
YES, SHE DID!
“Well, okay, but the fairy godmother still had to come in—”
Yep, I remember the movie too, and the countless stories on which it’s based.
“So the fairy godmother was the one who caused the happily ever after.”
She sure was, now, what’s your point?
No, really, what’s your point? Is the point that Cinderella is somehow weak because she wasn’t 100% in control of her own life? Seems like a pretty disgusting opinion to have when the whole movie is about an abuse victim finding a way out of her horrible situation. So Cinderella wasn’t the one who got herself out. So what? Instead of looking the movie at its bare surface, maybe try analyzing it with a bit more thought and tact. You might see something a little different. A magical transformation, if you will.
Because Cinderella did work hard.
And guess what we learned from that?
You can work
and work
and work
And there will still be people out there who will try to tear you apart:
Literally.
And that sucks. It’s a horrible lesson to learn but it is something we will all face in our lifetimes. There will always be people who will try to tear us down, there will always be people who will try to rip us apart, until we’re in a low place:
Until it seems like there’s no hope…
Until it seems like you’re too weak to get out on your own…
And maybe you are.
Maybe you are too weak to get out on your own. Maybe you’re not the strongest woman in the world. Maybe you’re not capable of screaming at the top of your lungs or brandishing a weapon or throwing a punch. Maybe you’re not able to get out of something on your own. Maybe you hit a low point and maybe you have no way out of it. Not alone. But that’s just it.
You’re not alone.
Even at your lowest point, someone will come help you.
You don’t have to do it all alone.
It’s okay to have a little help when you have nowhere else to turn.
Cinderella is the story about an abuse victim who is unable to get out of her toxic situation by herself and just when she begins to lose all hope, is able to get help from an unlikely source. It’s the story about a girl who needs help getting to her happily ever after and that’s okay.
Give us advocates:
They deserve their happily ever afters!
Give us warriors:
They deserve their happily ever afters!
Give us fighters:
They deserve their happily ever afters!
Give us girls who are not advocates, girls who are not warriors, girls who are not fighters, girls who still deserves their happily ever afters:
Everything wrong with society
Society raises robots
Boys are taught that they can’t cry nor show emotion, taught that they can’t be human.
Girls are taught to hide their emotions, lest they be asked “are you on your period”, taught that it’s shows that you are weak.
Society is huge on double standards
‘Boys must be over 6ft, and have muscles"
‘Why are girls so self conscious?’
If you hate yourself, you must be fishing for compliments.
If you love yourself, you must be narcissistic.
Society has an obsession with victim blaming and ignoring the true problem
‘Boys can’t be the victim of rape because they always want sex’
'All men are trash’
'She was obviously asking for it’
'Well what were you wearing?’
As if you could blame an entire gender on the actions of a few
As if the amount of skin you show determines your ability to consent and say NO
We are supposed to be able to think, we are not savages and should be able to understand that an absent of a YES means NO.
What was the point of this mini rant?
To call society out on it’s bullshit! and to rant because of frustrations
The point is we are not robots and have the right to emotions, we have the right to love ourselves because a bit of body positivity never hurt nobody, and IT IS NEVER THE VICTIMS FAULT why is it so hard to understand that?
EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS!!!!!!!!! REBLOG…IT CAN SAVE A LIFE OR TWO!!! WARNING: Some knew about the red light on cars, but not Dialing 112. An UNMARKED police car pulled up behind her and put his lights on. Lauren’s parents have always told her to never pull over for an unmarked car on the side of the road, but rather to wait until they get to a gas station, etc. Lauren had actually listened to her parents advice, and promptly called, 112 on her cell phone to tell the police dispatcher that she would not pull over right away. She proceeded to tell the dispatcher that there was an unmarked police car with a flashing red light on his rooftop behind her. The dispatcher checked to see if there were police cars where she was and there weren’t, and he told her to keep driving, remain calm and that he had back up already on the way. Ten minutes later 4 cop cars surrounded her and the unmarked car behind her. One policeman went to her side and the others surrounded the car behind. They pulled the guy from the car and tackled him to the ground. The man was a convicted rapist and wanted for other crimes. I never knew about the 112 Cell Phone feature. I tried it on my AT&T phone & it said, “Dialing Emergency Number.” Especially for a woman alone in a car, you should not pull over for an unmarked car. Apparently police have to respect your right to keep going on to a safe place. *Speaking to a service representative at Bell Mobility confirmed that 112 was a direct link to State trooper info. So, now it’s your turn to let your friends know about “Dialing, 112” You may want to send this to every Man, Woman & Youngster you know; it may well save a life. This applies to ALL 50 states PLEASE PASS ALONG TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY, IT CAN SAVE A LIFE….
Help me move!
Hey everyone, if you follow me you’ll know I’ve been homeless for over a year now. I’ve just recently been reached out to by some extended family in North Carolina who found out about my situation and have offered to take me in. The only problem is I’m broke and my parents can’t help. My grandparents should be able to help but I don’t know how much. The trip is about $200 and ideally I want to go this weekend.
My PayPal is PayPal.me/gwynrose
Please donate if you can and reblog. Anything helps!
Thank you <3
EDIT: made the link clickable!
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“I’m finding that lost things can come back to us in time, when we are ready for them.”
- Jessica Wattay