Sometimes I’m Like “I Wish I Was Pretty Like That” But I’m Pretty Like Me So Who Cares

things got analytical in the discord channel

My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.

What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"

"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.

The word “bumble” in bumblebee is so on brand describing them.

Bumble- move or act in an awkward or confused manner.

If you’ve ever seen a bumblebee go about their day you would know they do everything in an awkward or confused manner. Slow, fuzzy silly bees with no idea what’s going on or where they’re supposed to be!

A bumblebee once bumped into my brother while he was walking to class and the little guy just smacked into his face, backed up and flew around him like a businessman late for work with no time to apologize.

Maybe you are the punishment

for all the hearts I have broken

Maybe you are just a realization

of the love that I don’t deserve

Maybe you are just an empty sadness

that will be the end of my story

Maybe you yourself are a story

that starts from where I end.

mirror

Twilight AU where Bella is rightly Creeped the Fuck Out by Edward rather than intrigued by him and, hoping to defuse the situation before it becomes a Thing, decides to talk to his “sister” about his behavior

What Bella knows about the fallout: Rosalie is out of school for a couple of days, and upon returning gives Bella a thumbs up from across the lunch room but offers no further explanation. Edward is absent from school for a couple of weeks, even when the rest of the Cullens are all there, and then carefully gives her space from then on out.

What Bella does not know about the fallout: Rosalie “Rapist Eater” Hale tore her surrogate brother’s arm off at the shoulder and beat him around the head with it while yelling “Don’t Stalk Girls” until Emmet and Jasper pulled her off of him and made her give the arm back.

Cultures that endorse modesty and cultures that endorse hypersexualization are the *same* thing. Both define female sexuality by how it relates to the male gaze. In both cases the female body exists as an ornament either to be kept carefully hidden or put on display. Neither is an empowering feminist achievement. 

“This is the type of flashing the world needs”

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You gotta walk in rooms like God sent you

If you were only allowed to eat salad for the rest of your life... (for arbitrary reasons) what five things would you try to convince people is salad! Go!

In no particular order:

1. Potato salad should count. It’s got salad in the name.

2. Salsa is a tomato based fruit salad, and tortilla chips are but an especially flat crouton.

3. If salsa counts, then so should chunky guacamole.

4. Smoothies are effectively deconstructed fruit salad.

5. Chicken salad, for the same reason as potato salad.

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