A good Umbrella is always Nice

Tiny dooooooooor

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:50:10 -0400

Tiny dooooooooor

warmbubbly: sushinfood: blackness-by-your-side: LMAO i’m so...

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:00:49 -0500

warmbubbly:

sushinfood:

blackness-by-your-side:

LMAO

i’m so happy for her

I’m happy she’s back

frankiezaltar: simonalkenmayer: aconitvms: orikomi: queensimi...

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:19:06 -0400

frankiezaltar:

simonalkenmayer:

aconitvms:

orikomi:

queensimia:

rewritethis-story:

santagivemeapony:

queenofsabah:

askragtatter:

discoverynews:

micdotcom:

Do this four times repeatedly and you’ll be out. But how does it work? There’s some real brain science behind it.

We’re trying this tonight!

It’s about time someone got around to uncovering all the cheat codes for this “human being” software. It’s only been out for like 10,000 years.

?????????????

I’ve used this technique for about a year, and I can safely say that it has efficiently transformed my sleeping habits from several hours of struggle to fall asleep, to passing out in a matter of minutes.

It’s a form of Alexander Technique. It’s a technique that was designed for actors to keep their body in ready working condition and give it the best way to perform. This is the method used to calm, and center the body. Once the body is at that point it can perform anything you want it to.

Reblogging for later reference after I tried it earlier today to try to calm down. It actually does help a lot, not just for sleep but if you have problems with anxiety.

My default mental setting is “vibrating intensely in the background.” After doing this, I felt noticeably calm and relaxed - I wasn’t as fixated on my breathing, I wasn’t tense, my movements weren’t jerky and I didn’t feel like I had to be as tense as possible to be under control. 10/10 would recommend.

me gonna try it

dont wanna reblog but insomnia is a bitch for some ppl so heres for my mutuals having trouble sleeping.

@fraternitatem-vigilantibus-nocte

Needed this

Charlottesville Information

Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:15:10 -0400

rj-abacura:

rj-abacura:

I’m seeing a lot of posts taking events in Charlottesville out of context on both sides, so if you want to know what’s actually going on, look at the City of Charlottesville’s official twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/CvilleCityHall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Other reputable local news sources are The Daily Progress (http://www.dailyprogress.com/) and NBC29 local news (http://www.nbc29.com/)

We know that several have been injured, one person is dead, and that people have been arrested. No, we do not know who has been arrested yet.

Posts claiming Richard Spencer has been arrested are unverified so far (though fingers crossed). Posts claiming “City of Charlottesville police stood by” while counterprotesters got beaten on campus last night are misleading. It was University amd City police who responded and broke up the white nationalist protestors who were attacking counterprotesters, arrested one white nationalist, and one university cop was injured. http://www.nbc29.com/story/36121424/charlottesville-mayor-uva-president-respond-to-torch-lit-gathering.

No, we dont know if any of the arrests so far have been the man who plowed into the counterprotesters.

Stop making us who stand against racism and hate look bad by spreading false information about what’s going on in my backyard, because doing that only hurts us. It’s bad enough that Nazis have made my town ground fucking zero.

I’ll update as I know more, but source your posts and dont give Nazis any more ammunition.

Please reblog.

Updates (with apologies for the poor formatting. I’m on mobile)
There have been several arrests announced so far. The man who mowed down counterprotesters has been arrested and charged with 2nd degree murder, amongst other crimes.
https://twitter.com/CvilleCityHall/status/896547588144599040
http://www.nbc29.com/story/36122716/albemarle-county-man-faces-second-degree-murder-charge-following-afton-shooting
At least 3 other arrests have been made. Unfortunately it looks like none of them are Nazi McPunchMyFace.
https://twitter.com/CvilleCityHall/status/896547588144599040
It looks like the woman who was killed is named Heather Hayer. This is the link to the gofundme to support her family.
https://www.gofundme.com/our-sisters-keeper-heatherheyer
There is a lot of confusion about police behavior over the weekend. NBC29 is reporting that people on both sides felt police didn’t intervene to keep the peace quickly enough.
http://www.nbc29.com/clip/13587688/violence-erupts-at-unite-the-right-rally-in-charlottesville-police-respond
Videos I watched yesterday of police trying to break up the morning riot have disappeared, and in a lot of the new videos coming out, the police are nowhere to be seen.
Our Vice Mayor Dr. Wes Bellamy said that the police did the best they could, and I trust that man implicitly. But he also acknowledges that Charlottesville has a sketchy history when it comes to the police.
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/12/543096680/white-supremacist-rally-in-virginia-turns-violent
So in my opinion it sounds like a mixed bag. Some police got involved and tried to keep the peace, some stood by. We need to wait until the dust settles to know more.
These are the videos taken by the Daily Progress of the rally before shit got really bad. Watch these if you want to know what the rally was actually like.
https://m.facebook.com/pg/dailyprogress/videos/
Trigger warnings for Nazis amd strong language. It’s a lot of unedited, on the ground footage taken by a trusted local news source.
Stay woke and keep Charlottesville in your hearts, y'all. We need it now more than ever.

Charlottesville Information

Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:29:40 -0400

rj-abacura:

I’m seeing a lot of posts taking events in Charlottesville out of context on both sides, so if you want to know what’s actually going on, look at the City of Charlottesville’s official twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/CvilleCityHall?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Other reputable local news sources are The Daily Progress (http://www.dailyprogress.com/) and NBC29 local news (http://www.nbc29.com/)

We know that several have been injured, one person is dead, and that people have been arrested. No, we do not know who has been arrested yet.

Posts claiming Richard Spencer has been arrested are unverified so far (though fingers crossed). Posts claiming “City of Charlottesville police stood by” while counterprotesters got beaten on campus last night are misleading. It was University amd City police who responded and broke up the white nationalist protestors who were attacking counterprotesters, arrested one white nationalist, and one university cop was injured. http://www.nbc29.com/story/36121424/charlottesville-mayor-uva-president-respond-to-torch-lit-gathering.

No, we dont know if any of the arrests so far have been the man who plowed into the counterprotesters.

Stop making us who stand against racism and hate look bad by spreading false information about what’s going on in my backyard, because doing that only hurts us. It’s bad enough that Nazis have made my town ground fucking zero.

I’ll update as I know more, but source your posts and dont give Nazis any more ammunition.

Please reblog.

elionking: kendrawriter: thisgirlspeaks: chrissongzzz: I...

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:36:03 -0400

elionking:

kendrawriter:

thisgirlspeaks:

chrissongzzz:

I don’t know this boy but he is #BlackExellence ✊🏿

Can we get him to 1 million Subcribers Please . Reblog and Subscribe to this Channel.

Link- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTrLNNVvY5aTH51Vajoxuxw/videos

Bless this sweet baby. Please leave him positive and supportive comments😩🖤

oh lord. man i love this so so much.

bruh i’m watching this like “how they get here from Asia?”

thelilnan: If you can’t read my horrible handwriting: I’m having...

Fri, 26 May 2017 17:33:04 -0400

thelilnan:

If you can’t read my horrible handwriting: I’m having top surgery in November! But it’s like… really fucking expensive and insurance won’t cover it!! Fuck!!

I need a ton of help. Follow the links to donate or commission me, whatever grabs you. And even if you can’t spare the cash right now, that’s okay! Maybe just give this post a reblog or two?? Love you.

GoFundMe: [link]

Etsy: [link]

Commissions: [link]

servicerevolver: Some awesome non-Sherlockian cosplays at 221B...

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:56:37 -0400

servicerevolver:

Some awesome non-Sherlockian cosplays at 221B Con!

Name: ElisabethPronouns: She/HerAge: 25Located: FloridaHow long are you staying?: Thursday through...

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 19:41:38 -0400

Name: Elisabeth

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 25

Located: Florida

How long are you staying?: Thursday through Monday

Roomies: @thekoontzy

Cosplays: Eggsy, Percival, Yakov, and potentially Moran

Ships: Mystrade, Merhartwin, Percilot and several more

Where to find me: Wandering aimlessly, potentially at panels. Mostly following friends around or in a hangout space probably.

Hugs: Always. All hugs are welcome.

Drinks: Yes. Lots of drinks.

How to Get a Hold of Me: On here. I will answer messages most of the time.

the-movemnt: Celebrate the facts. Happy Black History...

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:44:39 -0500

the-movemnt:

Celebrate the facts. Happy Black History Month!

follow @the-movemnt

consultingsmartarse: opals-official-twitter-account: writing-pro...

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 09:46:15 -0500

consultingsmartarse:

opals-official-twitter-account:

writing-prompt-s:

ello-bby:

achromatiq:

csidesuicide:

arse-thetic:

#justiceformuslims

I love every single person who reblogged this

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

Have a great day x

Go unfollow this blog all you want, I am reblogging this.

I am aware this does not follow this blog’s style, however, I find it necessary to reblog this

This doesn’t fit my blog’s style either, but what’s going on in the world is bigger and more important than sticking to an aesthetic. NO BAN. NO WALL. NO BIGOTRY.

enigmaticpenguinofdeath: “Where would you suggest?”

Sun, 15 Jan 2017 21:41:26 -0500

enigmaticpenguinofdeath:

“Where would you suggest?”

theargentumlupine: tresbellemichelle: blametheleather: everybody has that one kink that they will...

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 20:48:31 -0500

theargentumlupine:

tresbellemichelle:

blametheleather:

everybody has that one kink that they will never ever admit to liking and will secretly read every fic ever written about it but will vehemently deny it if you ever mention it

#keep your friends close and your secret and socially unaccepted kinks closer

#there are 4 tiers of kinks #tier 1: things u can admit to irl friends #tier 2: things u can admit to on ur public blog #tier 3: kinks u can talk about on skype in private w ur friends #tier 4: you open the fics in incognito at 2am before going to bed and nobody can ever know <– @ssealdog telling it like it is

crazyworkswell: destielsolangelotrash: queefinchicken: obnoxiously-phan: annoyedvertigo: mimi-sh...

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 14:28:44 -0500

crazyworkswell:

destielsolangelotrash:

queefinchicken:

obnoxiously-phan:

annoyedvertigo:

mimi-shake-draws:

catchaglimpseofalleble:

clloudy:

flustered-custard:

silentshivers:

every single person who reblogs this

every

single

person.

ALL OF YOU.

no limit, no one skipped. EVERY PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS.

DON’T ASK WHY, IT’LL MAKE SENSE LATER

WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN

Just wait…it’ll all make sense.

I REBLOG THIS BECAUSE I AM CURIOUS. I AM WAITING

I REBLOGGED AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER

I reblogged as a joke and i swear that it happened five minutes later omg

ME TOO

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?

I don’t know whether to be afraid of this post but it won’t get off my mind

allerasphinx: the majority of white women voted for trump because bigotry was more important to...

Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:37:20 -0500

allerasphinx:

the majority of white women voted for trump because bigotry was more important to them

let that marinate and really sink in

this is what we mean when we say that your feminism must be intersectional

this is what we mean when we say that racism, transmisogyny, ableism, must be as important to the feminist movement as the wage gap

this is what we mean when we say that white exclusionary feminism is dangerous and destructive

A letter to America from Leslie Knope, regarding Donald Trump

Thu, 10 Nov 2016 22:31:26 -0500

A letter to America from Leslie Knope, regarding Donald Trump:

annie-pie:

Dear America,

Amidst the confusion, and despair, and disbelief, it was suggested to me by a very close friend of mine (I won’t say her name to protect her identity) (Ann. It was Ann) that perhaps a few people would enjoy hearing my thoughts on this election. So I sat down at my computer, cleared my head, and opened a document.

Then I started crying. So I had some hot chocolate, and my close friend (Ann) rubbed my back for a while, and I got myself together, and sat down. And started crying. Then more Ann comforting me, and more hot chocolate, and back and forth like that for about six hours or so, the chain of hot-chocolate-and-back-rubs only interrupted briefly when I had to run to the store for more hot chocolate packets (“Just give me all of them, all the boxes,” I remember saying, through tears, to a very scared stockroom boy) and now I am ready to go.

When I was in fourth grade, my teacher Mrs. Kolphner taught us a social studies lesson. The 17 students in our class were introduced to two fictional candidates: a smart if slightly bookish-looking cartoon tortoise named Greenie, and a cool-looking jaguar named Speedy. Rick Dissellio read a speech from Speedy, in which he promised that if elected he would end school early, have extra recess, and provide endless lunches of chocolate pizzandy. (A local Pawnee delicacy at the time: deep fried pizza where the crust was candy bars.) Then I read a speech from Greenie, who promised to go slow and steady, think about the problems of our school, and try her best to solve them in a way that would benefit the most people. Then Mrs. Kolphner had us vote on who should be class president.

I think you know where this is going.

Except you don’t, because before we voted, Greg Laresque asked if he could nominate a third candidate, and Mrs. Kolphner said “Sure! The essence of democracy is that everyone—“ and Greg cut her off and said, “I nominate a T. rex named Dr. Farts who wears sunglasses and plays the saxophone, and his plan is to fart as much as possible and eat all the teachers,” and everyone laughed, and before Mrs. Kolphner could blink, Dr. Farts the T. rex had been elected president of Pawnee Elementary School in a 1984 Reagan-esque landslide, with my one vote for Greenie the Tortoise playing the role of “Minnesota.”

After class I was inconsolable. Once the other kids left, Mrs. Kolphner came over and put her arm around me. She told me I had done a great job advocating for Greenie the Tortoise. Through tears I remember saying, “How good, exactly?” and she said “Very, very good,” and I said, “Good enough to —?” and she sighed and went to her desk to get one of the silver stars she gave out to kids who did a good job on something. And as I tearfully added it to my Silver Star Diary, she asked me what upset me the most.

“Greenie was the better candidate,” I said. “Greenie should have won.”

She nodded.

“I suppose that was the point of the lesson,” I said.

“Oh no,” she said. “The point of the lesson is: People are unpredictable, and democracy is insane.”

Winston Churchill once said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried.” That is perhaps a pithier and better way to get my point across than that long anecdote about Mrs. Kolphner. Should I just erase all of that and start with this? Whatever. I’m pot-committed now, and is there extra caffeine in that hot chocolate? Because my head feels like a spaceship.

The point is: People making their own decisions is, on balance, better than an autocrat making decisions for them. It’s just that sometimes those decisions are bad, or self-defeating, or maddening, and a day where you get dressed up in your best victory pantsuit and spend an ungodly amount of money decorating your house with American flags and custom-made cardboard-cutouts of suffragettes in anticipation of a glass-ceiling-shattering historical milestone ends with you getting (metaphorically) eaten by a giant farting T. rex.

Like most people, I deal with tragedy by processing the five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. My denial over the election results was intense. My anger was (in Ron’s words) “significant.” My bargaining was short, but creative — I offered my soul and the souls of all of my friends in exchange for 60,000 more votes in Milwaukee, to any demon who cared to accept. (Tom told me it was a terrible deal, but in that moment I didn’t care.) My depression I have already mentioned. Which brings us to acceptance. And here’s what I stand on that:

No. I do not accept it.

I acknowledge that Donald Trump is the president. I understand, intellectually, that he won the election. But I do not accept that our country has descended into the hatred-swirled slop pile that he lives in. I reject out of hand the notion that we have thrown up our hands and succumbed to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and crypto-fascism. I do not accept that. I reject that. I fight that. Today, and tomorrow, and every day until the next election, I reject and fight that story.

I work hard and I form ideas and I meet and talk to other people who feel like me, and we sit down and drink hot chocolate (I have plenty) and we plan. We plan like mofos. We figure out how to fight back, and do good in this infuriating world that constantly wants to bend toward the bad. And we will be kind to each other, and supportive of each other’s ideas, and we will do literally anything but accept this as our fate.

And let me say something to the young girls who are reading this. Hi, girls. On behalf of the grown-ups of America who care about you and your futures, I am awfully sorry about how miserably we screwed this up. We elected a giant farting T. rex who does not like you, or care about you, or think about you, unless he is scanning your bodies with his creepy T. rex eyes, or trying to physically grab you like a toy his daddy got him (or would have, if his daddy had loved him). (Sorry, that was a low blow.) (Actually, not sorry, I’m pissed, and I’m on a roll, so zip it, super-ego!)

Our president-Elect is everything you should abhor and fear in a male role model. He has spent his life telling you, and girls and women like you, that your lives are valueless except as sexual objects. He has demeaned you, and belittled you, and put you in a little box to be looked at and not heard. It is your job, and the job of girls and women like you, to bust out.

You are going to run this country, and this world, very soon. So you will not listen to this man, or the 75-year-old, doughy-faced, gray-haired nightmare men like him, when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies, or what you should or should not think with your own minds. You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble. You won’t have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you. And when the time comes, you will effortlessly flick away his miserable, petty, misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad.

He is the present, sadly, but he is not the future. You are the future. Your strength is a million times his. Your power is a billion times his. We will acknowledge this result, but we will not accept it. We will overcome it, and we will defeat it.

Now find your team, and get to work.

Love,

Leslie

—written by a member of the Parks and Recreation writing staff

Leslie Knope works for the US Department of the Interior, Midwest Branch, in her hometown of Pawnee, Indiana. And she believes that optimism defeats pessimism. She asks that, if you have the means, you kindly make a donation to the ACLU, the International Rescue Committee, or the charity of your choice, to help the country and those most in need.

BLACK LIVES WILL ALWAYS MATTER.

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:39:17 -0500

buzzfeed: [x]

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:50:12 -0500

buzzfeed:

[x]

stubborn-string-bones: ofhouseadama: you can throw all the blame on thirty party voters, or you...

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:49:06 -0500

stubborn-string-bones:

ofhouseadama:

you can throw all the blame on thirty party voters, or you can also factor in that this is the first election in FIFTY YEARS without the voting rights act protections making sure people of color and other marginalized groups can get to the polls

ok i didn’t know anything about this so

Left to their own devices by the Supreme Court, some states and counties appear to be testing how far they can go with voter suppression. North Carolina is a case in point. Following the court’s decision in Shelby County, the Republican-led Legislature passed a law stuffed with voting restrictions, including voter ID requirements and reductions in early voting. Last summer, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down most of the law, finding that it targeted Democratic African-American voters “with almost surgical precision.” Justifying a plan to end Sunday voting, the state said that counties allowing it in 2014 were “disproportionately black” and “disproportionately Democratic.” The appeals court judges correctly called this “as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times.” The Republicans running the state wanted to change a voting practice out of concern that “African-Americans, who had overwhelmingly voted for Democrats, had too much access to the franchise.”

and

Overall, [the Supreme Court] decision [gutting the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder] means more than 860 fewer polling stations in places with a history of disenfranchisement. State governments in Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina are ignoring federal court orders to provide proper voting facilities.

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Sat, 24 Sep 2016 19:57:39 -0400