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But House Mormont remembers. The North remembers. We know no king but the King in the North whose name is Stark. I don’t care if he’s a bastard. Ned Stark’s blood runs through his veins. He’s my king from this day until his last day.
Pretty sure my tumblr is going to just become a Lyanna Mormont fan site now k bai
So somehow I’m PMSing but not looking like a bloated whale? My clothes are actually fitting me looser. That never happens. Is reverse PMS a thing? What is happening with my body
I tried to take a nap after lunch. At which point the people working on the house next door decide to commence drilling concrete which felt like it was vibrating through my skull. Interspersed with that was what sounds like a jackhammer. They’re still at it. I’m grinding my teeth here.
when I see a gifset of am interesting looking movie or tv show that I don’t know and there’s nothing in the tags to tell me what the fuck it is I get a little stabby
I’ve been up since 5:15 on three hours of sleep and I’ve been running around all morning getting shit done. I can feel myself powering down. I need to take a nap. But I’m also hungry. I can’t decide which to do first. If I sit here long enough one will take care of the other.
It’s really weird how all these people who get fillers and Botox end up looking the same. These artificial pouts and artificial cheekbones and whatever else just looks so alien and unnatural. I’ve never seen an after picture that I thought looked better than a before pic. It’s creepy and plastic and I don’t know how anyone can find that attractive.
I have dreams of a breast reduction too. The back pains are real, man.
I used to think it was just my scoliosis but when I was thinner and has a smaller cup size I didn’t have this kind of pain so I realised it has to be mostly that.
However lots of the stuff I post on instagram never make it to my online stores because I only make small quantities. If you see something you like feel free to message me!
Gold filled bangles in #turquoise #agate #druzy #jasper. Available this Sunday at UpMarket. #goldfilled #handmade #trinidad #caribbean #jewelry #bangles
I fell asleep to rain last night and woke up to it this morning. I love grey days and hearing rain pattering on the roof. It puts me in the best mood. The constant blazing Caribbean sunshine gets on my nerves. Must be the vampire in me.
UpMarket is this weekend. I thought it was the week after. I have to abandon what I was working on this week and get my stuff ready. I need to make some new earrings too.
Last night I had a sale on Amazon. I haven’t had any in months. They bought this ring:
I’m so glad it’s finally found a home. I loved that ring. I think I’ll make some others.
I feel ridiculously happy lately for no reason. I know it will pass. This things come and go like the tide. So I just enjoy it when it’s there.
I might be coming into some money. The first thing I’m going to spend it on is a breast reduction. I want to feel comfortable in my body and stop living with constant pain. It amazes me how when I mention this, men always mention my partner and how he might feel about it. It’s so beyond insensitive. My body hurts. I feel uncomfortable in my skin. And all you can think is that I might deny my husband the enjoyment of big breasts? Thanks for the empathy and sensitivity.
My dad watched this speech and asked me if I had seen it because it was so great. My dad. I’m pretty proud of him because he went through a nut-job-y conservative phase about a decade ago. ew.
Reading this made every pore raise on my body. It is so incredibly magnificent.
The women who I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways, on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.
It is also deeply frustrating to hear these proclamations of “Independence Day” and “freedom” as if the past centuries of British imperialism never happened. What do the current British colonies think about this idea of “Independence”? How about the many millions of people whose lives continue to be shaped by the ongoing effects of British colonialism? How about the millions upon millions of people whose ‘migration’ was the result of British schemes of enslavement and indenture? How about all of us who will never get an “Independence Day” in certain terms because the tide of history has flowed in a way that has shifted the banks of the river? If only the clownish proclamation of an “Independence Day” for the UK had a way of magically reversing the centuries-long processes of devastation and loss: if only the UK had to reckon with the effects of the mess it has made in New Zealand and Australia (and Fiji, and elsewhere in the Pacific, and Canada, and the Middle East, and Africa, and…). Where on earth do people in the UK think the immigrants are coming from? Do they think there is no connection between the UK and the places from which people are migrating? Are they aware just how many migrants and refugees have seen the British flag long before they arrived at the white cliffs of Dover? The English rugby team is touring Australia at the moment, and the media made a big deal before their first game about how the current English coach used to play for Australia. When he was asked about his sense of loyalty while singing ‘God Save the Queen’ with the team at the beginning of the game, he replied ‘I grew up here in Australia singing that song.’
I remember the first time I went to London. I walked around the streets after an overnight flight from New York, and was bitterly disappointed. It wasn’t any more flashy or substantively different than any city I’d been to by then. I didn’t know what I’d expected, but it hadn’t been this. I remember walking and thinking ‘they have taken so much for centuries from so many people and places, and this is all they could do with it?’ At least if the streets were paved with gold I could look at it and say ‘this! This is where it all came!’ That first time, for me, Britain already felt slightly ruined.
In so many ways, the UK is a too-big dog which has run through a house and wagged its too-big tail next to a sidetable. And we – who used to be intact and distinctive and stable – are the smithereens and dust, scattered on the carpet. But the UK will never reckon with those things – with my shorter life expectancy, with third-world diseases in first-world countries, with third-world diseases in third-world countries for that matter, with language loss, with ongoing genocide, with political coups and dictatorships, with alarming rates of suicide, with overrepresentation in prisons and hospitals, with the miseries of cultural dislocation and its particular effects in relation to gender and sexuality, with the ongoing uphill journey that most countries in the world continue to deal with and will be dealing with for generations to come – because it can’t see them. And when it does reckon with them, it thinks of its engagement as an interested bystander rather than as the recidivist offender. Apparently it has no idea what it has done.
This is super important. The only reason the UK has any national wealth is because it was stripped from other countries and consolidated in a random little island off the coast of Europe. There is no reason to me why someone who lives in Liverpool has any more right to that wealth (in the form of a national health service, social housing, subsidized education etc etc) than someone in Lahore. The “sun never set” on the British Empire, so whether it is people who want to move to the UK or who want to stay where they are, the UK Government has a deep responsibility to all of those who live where the maps were coloured red.
This is what makes me so angry about the abuse people are now getting all over Britain, especially people from former colonies. They clearly do not see the connection with Britain’s past actions and the need for these immigrants to find better opportunities on their shores. Britain has a responsibility to help these people. It can never balance the scales of the damage its done. They still refuse to even entertain the conversation about reparations for slavery. It enrages me. You do not get to decimate half the world and build your wealth on our shoulders and then shrug and turn away when you no longer have any use for us.
I got 63/100. The gender ones really brought it down, if I was a guy it would’ve been way higher
I got 31/100. It was brought down by all the gender/sexual orientation question, and the questions about depression/suicide, ect.
62/100
The poverty stuff brought it down a little.
31/100- This thing told me I’m not a person of privilege. I’m calling bullshit. I may be a bisexual female living in poverty struggling with depression, suicidal ideation and addiction but don’t let that fool you, I am still a person of privilege by virtue of being white. You can still struggle and benefit from privilege. You give my same circumstance to a black person in this country and their outcome would be very different than my own.
24. Wow.
I got 67 but being a fifty something straight white male I’m surprised it wasn’t higher.
I got a 22 , I was surprised by my score I guess it was my mental health , sexuality and gender
I got 60/100 … Quite privileged.
I am not surprised. It would have been higher if it weren’t for my sexuality, but because I present hetero normative, I still carry most of the privlege that comes with heterosexuality.
62. Seems about right.
57. Race and gender brought it down but still quite high
Went to this Indian restaurant tonight. It was absolutely fantastic. And relatively inexpensive. My belly is full of three different kinds of curry and real plenty garlic naan. Allyuh go
Petty, delicate #amethyst point #ring. This beauty is heading off to the US. #jewelry #handmade #goldfilled #artisanal #trinidad #caribbean
Those who claim that pornography is simply “fantasy” with no bearing on reality will have a hard time explaining the prevalence of pubic hair removal among young women in Western cultures; the dramatic increase in the demand for labiaplasty; or the fact that anal sex has increasingly become part of the heterosexual repertoire, despite both young men and women expecting it to be painful and unpleasant for the woman. It is singularly unconvincing to argue that pornography is not influencing current sexual norms, and that those sexual norms do not primarily involve the objectification and violation of women’s bodies.
My half sister Susan was born and raised in Ireland and had no contact with our side of the family until she was in her 30′s.
My father’s first cousin is a nun, Sister Rosario, and she was also a teacher. She went to Ireland to teach back in the 70′s I’m guessing. And guess where she ended up?
She ended up teaching at Susan’s school.
Now she had no idea Susan even existed (my father kept it a secret from the family). And Susan didn’t know she was family because she carries my grandmother’s maiden name.
But Susan remembers her.
What are odds that someone from her own family should have ended up at her school?
I don’t know if I believe in coincidences but this feels like more than that.
I’m just glad to be living in my little corner of the world right now where I’m not a minority. But it makes me feel scared for my family abroad. I feel like they all have targets on their backs.
So this guy last night asks me if me and Chris have children together and I say no. And Chris explains that he has children. And then the guy goes on to say that I do have children and says he has a stepdaughter that he considers his daughter. And I’m like, but I was answering the question. Chris and I don’t have kids together. I’m not gonna claim his kids are mine to be all warm and fuzzy about it. We don’t have kids together. End of story.
I’ve been watching BBC news today. The amount of Leave voters who are shocked by the Brexit vote and want back in is astonishing. There’s already been a petition with over a million votes that hopefully may trigger a second referendum vote.
But if it could happen there it could happen in the US. People who vote for stupid reasons, who don’t understand that their vote actually counts, who don’t bother to inform themselves on the issues until it’s too late, who vote only on self interest and fail to see the bigger picture, people who get carried away on a wave of nationalism, racism and fear, people who don’t understand that the good old days will never come back, that the world is a different place now.
I’m afraid of stupid people.
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Double exposure photography is not a new thing (see here and here) but what about double exposure tattoos? Wroclaw-based Polish tattoo artist Andrey Lukovnikov is doing just that!
What in the name of all that is Holy and good is a spiralizer? Sounds like a super-villain’s death ray from a Saturday morning cartoon show that turns everything into spiral shapes… Or a Star Trek gadget that Scotty uses in the Enterprise’s engine room to fix the Warp Drive ��
It’s the first one.
No just kidding. It takes fruits and vegetables and makes them into long strings. You can cook veggies as you would pasta and use them as a replacement, good for people who are gluten free, low carb or just on trying to lose weight.
Or it’s a super-villain death ray. That sweet potato used to be Batman
I had to post this whole thread because this is the definition of a wholesome post. 😭😂💕🔑
This makes me happy.
“It’s still fuck mineral water tho.” 😂😂😂😂
Every time I see this post I get pissed off. Because it demonstrates that this guy was raised with no fucking life skills, no idea how to take care of himself, take care of a home, be an organised, responsible, functioning adult. Women aren’t genetically encoded with this shit, we have to learn it too. But the societies we live in make sure we learn these things and expect that we’ll take care of men so they don’t ever have to fucking learn how to fold a fitted sheet or use an iron. I understand that the post is about appreciating the things she brings to his life but for the love of god can we raise boys into men who can do basic housekeeping for themselves? And for that matter can we teach our girls how to change the oil in a car?
A lot of people have no clue why Europe is currently in a state of uproar and the only word people seem to be saying is “Brexit” so here’s a not-so-quick and easy-breezy explanation on the past 24 hours of CHAOS that has ensued:
The European Union (EU): an organisation of European countries that follows similar laws, allows for freedom of movement/labour, easy travelling (@people who planned on doing Eurotrips, not sure if you can count the UK in that anymore!) and trade with each other. The EU is important because before it was formed, the European continent was ravaged by 2 world wars, and a division because of the Cold War. This organisation has provided all the stability we’ve seen in the past 40-odd years.
So what the heck is a “Brexit”? Basically, the UK has just voted to leave the EU. 52/48 majority. Now this doesn’t seem like a TERRIBLE thing, but there are some serious political and economic consequences.
Economic implications:
– The British pound crashed from 1.5 to 1.3 in 6 hours, the lowest value in 30 years, which in turn affected the US dollar which affects all other global currencies. I wish I was joking but I’m not: South Africa, Poland, Norway, Mexico. Hungary, Australia, Switzerland all saw their currencies plummet. Countries that don’t rely on exports as their means of production cannot have a devalued currency. IT’s not good. The Japanese Yen which has been strengthening reached an all-time high which is terrible because Japan is trying to reverse its deflationary state. The Bank of Japan is now out of options and Japan literally STOPPED TRADING IN BRITISH STOCKS/INVESTMENTS.
– A devalued GBP means that the Bank of England is going to have to hike interest rates to prevent inflation (domestic prices going up even further) whicH WILL CAUSE A RECESSION. SOUND FAMILIAR ANYONE? YEAH. FINANCIAL CRISES.
– The UK leaving the EU means its market has gone down a LOT in size making them a less attractive destination for trade partners/investors. They’re going to have to draw up new trade agreements with basically the whole world since all their trade was previously tied to the EU. This will be tricky because countries liked having a market with a population of ~500 million compared to the UK’s size of ~50 million.
– GDP will go down. Retirement income will go down. The British economy is in a state of panic. The global economy is basically, fucked. For now at least.
The thing is, given the precarious nature of the economy right now with markets out of control and stagnant growth practically everywhere, it was a really really bad time to have this referendum – a lot of countries have been banking on a “Bremain” before making their next move when it comes to monetary/fiscal policy. The IMF has predicted that 2016/2017 will see the worst years for growth, but we might see upward growth trends from 2018 onwards.
So how does it still get worse?
– Scotland showed an overwhelming majority of votes to remain in the EU. It’s likely that they’re going to call for a referendum (again) to leave the UK.
– Northern Ireland also wanted to stay in the EU.
– Wales voted Leave but with a slim majority.
– David Cameron has just announced that he will be resigning in 3 months which means that extreme conservatives who managed to sway the vote in favour of Leave could come to power. That’s right. We’ll be stuck to suffer with the likes of Farage and Johnson.
– Brexit triggered a lot of nationalist/extreme right-wing movements in the rest of Europe. Some leaders already calling for “Frexit” (France), “Itexit” (Italy) and..”Dexit” (Netherlands)? We may see more in the next few days.. A disintegration of Europe is risky business because Europe has not been able to remain stable until the EU was formed. This could give way for an aggressive Russia too, who would want to take advantage of weak/vulnerable European states. An aggressive Russia will trigger US skepticism and we all know how that goes.
SO HOW DID THE GOVERNMENT LET THIS HAPPEN?
Basically David Cameron came up with the idea for the referendum because he was desperate to gain support from anti-EU parties like UKIP during the general elections last year. Except now he’s resigning. So.
During the campaign, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson (conservatives) and Nigel Farage (UKIP) stressed on immigration laws if the UK leaves the EU because immigration/refugees have been a big problem for the UK as its reducing jobs being given to UK locals/residents and they think the UK is becoming “overcrowded” so the Leave campaign was like WE WILL TIGHTEN OUR BORDERS! YEAH! Except now they’ve displaced millions of UK citizens living/working in the rest of the EU. Let’s see how they figure that one out.
Additionally, they talked about the economic benefits because if the UK were to leave, they would be able to allot the money that goes to the EU to other things like the NHS (national healthcare) etc. The Leave campaign went on about how the UK spends 350 million pounds a week on the EU but actually it spends less than half of that, so really, their campaign was built on scaremongering and lies. EDIT: Farage has announced the 350mil will NOT be spent on the NHS.
EDIT: People have mentioned the fact that unstable EU economies were relying on capital inflow the “Big 3″ (UK, France, Germany). This is true and this was being used as an argument – however, leaving is a Pyrrhic Victory! the UK will most likely have to spend MORE rebuilding its independent economy. However, once markets stabilise, we will see.
Article 50, aka the means of exiting will be triggered in 3 months when the new Prime Minister is announced (most likely one of the extreme conservatives/Farage who are riding high on their “Independence Day” fuckery which is even more proof of xenophobic, colonialist bullshit) after which the UK will have 2 years to complete its official withdrawal so hopefully that will provide short-term stability.
But the world is in a dark place right now and everything is terrible.
I KNOW ITS LONG BUT PLEASE READ THIS IS IMPORTANT THIS IS GOING TO GO IN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS
just goes to show that even when they’re just a shitty tiny island britain still manages to find ways to fulfill their historical legacy of Fucking Over The Entire World
Y’all need to take a good look at Britain. Nobody thought it would happen. You know what that means? That means Trump can happen. People need to get out there and vote.
Just finished OITNB. Honestly I feel insulted by this fucking season. They could end this show right here and I’d be good because this was bullshit. I cannot begin to count the ways they got it wrong.
So in lore, vampires have this trait that I’ve almost never seen used, and that’s the fact that vampires are OBSESSED with counting things. Like, the Count on Sesame Street was almost certainly created specifically as a vampire because of this piece of lore.
Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.
If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.
Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.
Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.
Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.
Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.
MATH NERD VAMPIRES
If anyone would like the term for this, it’s arithmomania.
This was in Dracula 2: Ascension, and it turned out he could just count supernaturally fast.
Sesame Street just got 100% more clever.
It was often suggested that you keep rice or sand in your pocket to throw behind you because the vampire would have to stop and count every single grain.
I cannot believe Pocket Sand is a viable defense against vampire attacks
These past few weeks I’ve been working on a new direction for my jewellery line so I’ve been doing a lot of sketching and haven’t been in the studio at all.
I have been loving it so much. When I was a child, I wanted to be an illustrator. I didn’t know the technical term for it, but that’s what I wanted to do. I was so inspired by all the beautiful illustrations in my books that I wanted to grow up and do that.
Drawing was always my first love. All through school and even college I could always be found drawing. Constantly, non-stop and on everything. I can’t remember when I stopped but over time I think life and work just got in the way and I stopped feeling the need to decorate everything.
Recently I’ve recovered that feeling of peace and beauty that comes over me when I draw. I can paint and make stained glass pieces and do batiks and make jewellery and they all bring me joy. But nothing gives me that peaceful feeling that drawing does. And my work displays a confidence that wasn’t there before. I trust myself more. My vision is clearer, my execution more elegant. It has been a pleasant surprise to see my pieces come together so beautifully.
I am taking into consideration some of your suggestions to turn these drawings into a colouring book. I have no idea how to go about doing so but I’m sure I’ll be able to figure it out once I get going. For now I’m just busy with that task at hand. It has been a welcome journey.
As a woman I’m terrified. If I piss a man off, he might threaten, assault, rape, beat, batter, or murder me; then my life will be ruined. I’ll be labeled a “slut” who “wanted it” and have my character dragged through the mud, either by law officers, my friends and/or family, or the court of public opinion, because of rape culture. Violence against women is happening more and more because of men like you. We are literally being killed, tortured, and abused by male entitlement.
Trust me, sweetheart. your fear is completely unfounded. Men do not need activists for their rights. Men need to wake the fuck up to the privilege and rights they already have and stop acting like scared children every time the faintest whisper of a glimmer of what it must be like to be a woman threatens to become even the faintest part of their reality.
Reblogging because this is a fantastic round up of stats, and I thoroughly appreciate the work that went into finding all of these sources.
3. list your fandoms and one character from each that you identify with.
Mm. I’m not really a fandom person. I don’t get overly attached to shows or books in fact I don’t even really understand the concept except that I know it when I see other people participating in it. If it helps I’m a Gryffindor. I’d most identify with Harry.
would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else?
Well of those three definitely Hogwarts. I loved the Narnia series as a child but I really fell in love with the Potter world. It reminded me in some ways of the lovely fantasy worlds In the Enid Blyton books I grew up reading. I especially loved the Magic Faraway tree. I’d live to visit there to.
how would you describe your gender/sexuality?
Cisgender heterosexual woman. I hope I got that right
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