Ghost Adventures | 16x03: Kitty Kitty.

So... I wasn't going write this post, but it was making me mad, so here we are. Skip this long thing if you want, share it, I don't really care, but here's a lesson. On my "on this day" memories thing on Facebook, I discovered it's 3 years ago today that I was given a phone number at a restaurant-- the first phone number I was ever given-- and it was a joke. I don't know how many people I've actually told it was a joke, but I know there were plenty of people who knew about my stunned excitement before it came to fruition.

This post is not about me, but some background: I've never had a boyfriend. I've never dated. I'd love to, but I've never been asked. I struggle with my weight, and I have always lived in a very small town, rural area, so trying to enter the dating world was never easy, and to be honest, for a good part of my adult life I haven’t even wanted to because I know this is not where I want to be, so I’m waiting until I’m there. Regardless of that, to be slid a napkin with a phone number on it and a smile and a nod, I was floored. To discover I was the butt of a joke-- I was livid, but I was so SAD about it all. I didn't talk about it, because I knew I was better than this person, I was better than the hurt they wanted to cause me, and I did deal with it and move on in most ways, but still I would catch myself second guessing how much I was eating out in public months later, what the meal was, how fast or messily I was eating, how "fat" I looked eating it. How "fat" I looked doing anything, in a restaurant or not. I use the word in quotation marks because it’s not an insult to me, not anymore, but it did, and to so many people out there, it’s hard not to think of it that way. It hurts and they think the same things I did. And that makes me even more angry now.

I am angry because again, this post is not about *me.* This is about every person, regardless of gender, who's been the butt of a joke. Every person whose self-esteem has been put on someone else's chopping block. Every person who wonders alone at night what they did wrong, what's wrong with them, how ugly they must be, when it's NOT. THEM. It is not their fault. It sure as hell wasn't mine. If you have been this person, crying by yourself at night when you should be sleeping, IT WAS NOT, IS NOT, WILL NEVER BE YOUR FAULT. 

If you have been the person putting someone into that situation, FUCK. YOU. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. No matter what kind of shaming it was, it is NOT okay. It WAS NOT okay. It’s not okay that you did this to someone else. You went out of your way to hurt somebody, possibly a total stranger like I was. Because you could. Because it was funny to you. Well it’s not funny. It’s sick. I hope you have realized by now or will realize in the future exactly why this is so wrong, and it’s not just someone telling you it is; that you realize that for yourself on your terms and believe it. I hope you can be better. Fuck you for that moment, but still, I hope. Because I for one was raised to try and lift people up, not deliberately hurt.

If you’ve been hurt, I hope you rise above it if you have not already. You can do it. I believe in you.

Princess Aurora is arguably the least popular Disney Princess in the official franchise, with many people criticizing her for being romantic, obedient, and too “traditional”. While many people see her as a weak character I, by stark contrast, think she’s one of the strongest characters I’ve ever seen. While it’s important to have characters as headstrong as Belle and Jasmine, it’s equally important to have a character who chooses duty over personal desire, which is precisely what Princess Aurora manifests once she finds out she isn’t, in fact, Briar Rose and her entire life has been a lie. She doesn’t blame anyone, throw a fit, or try to run away; she returns to the castle to meet the parents she just found out existed mere minutes ago, leaves the boy she loves behind (yet she’s somehow dependent on a man?), and accepted a duty she was neither prepared for or asked for. [insp]

perrinjames1 Floating through this iridescent dream

Do I get recognized? I guess it depends on if I’m wearing a hat or not. The hairdo is a dead giveaway. There’s nothing I can do. It’s just the way my hair grows. It’s my parents’ fault, really, because they have such big hair too.

Joe Keery photographed by Aaron Feaver for GQ

thor : *flies into battle while shooting lightning from his body while Immigrant Song is playing*

me: 

>be me

>about 13 years old

>basically naivete incarnate still

>just discovered the world of fanfiction.net

>have an account and a few stories posted so far

>currently working on a fanfic of Spirited Away

>get a comment one day

>commenter asks if I can put lemons in my story

>I think it’s an odd request but will do anything to please a fan

>write the next chapter acknowledging the lemon request and say that the chapter WILL CONTAIN LEMONS

>about halfway through the chapter I wrote a giant duck running past the protagonist with an armful of lemons

>duck says “MY lemons” then runs off

>feel pleased with myself at having granted my fan’s request

>years later I find out there’s another meaning for lemon in the fanfic world

>lemons are sex scenes

>my commenter was asking me to put a sex scene in my story

>at 13 years old I unintentionally trolled the shit out of some random person

>whoops

Sacajawea: If Not For Her, We Could Be Saluting the British Flag

Few women in U.S. history have had more influence on the nation’s history than the young Lemhi Shoshone woman, Sacajawea. It’s very likely that Lewis and Clark would never have reached the Pacific Ocean had it not been for her help. White settlement would have been different. Indian wars throughout the western half of the country would have been altered. We might even be saluting the British flag rather than the American flag. Sacajawea’s role was gigantic.

Thor deleted scene

sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs

get to know me meme: [1/10] favorite animated female characters → sleeping beauty // briar rose // princess aurora “She is just a romantic teenager…yet to consider her so seems not quite to capture the mystery, the strange elegance of Aurora, who is the central figure holding the choreography together, the key in which the music is composed. The film is drawn in terms of Aurora, her angular/arabesque linearity, not the soft roundness of the fairies or the caricature of the kings. She gives the movie its enchanted, modernist atmosphere; for Aurora is not just beautiful, she is otherworldly…I think Prince Phillip was on the right track when speculating that Aurora was ‘some mysterious being’ like a wood sprite. Aurora is gifted from birth by four fairies; her beauty and singing voice are literally supernatural. She grows up ‘in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her,’ raised by immortals, far from any humans, strolling barefoot as an elf through magnificent primeval forests with a coterie of animal companions. In her long vertical aristocratic glamour she is more like Maleficent than like any human. Aurora is a demi-fairy, touched by the spirits, half outside this world. Don’t think of Sleeping Beauty as a ballet, if you please; think of it as a ritual. Think of her name, think of her sleep; she dies and is reborn, the sun returned in glorious dawn, dancing among the clouds. Think of her enchanted dress in its endless cycle between the pink of morning and blue of evening…she is an aspect of nature, the circles of the sun, the flow of the seasons; she is the Persephone of the Disneyland.” x

What if Jesse’s Girl IS Stacy’s Mom?

Spookies

The ultimate spookies playlist

60 songs 3hrs and 52 minutes of content

8tracks-youtube

Tbh I never understood why the term “thunder thighs” is supposed to be derogatory, it sounds like I am a terrifying weather goddess

A Guide to Making Up Diseases (as Explained by a Biologist)

So listen up y’all, nothing drives me crazier as both a writer and a scientist than seeing alien diseases that make no fuckin’ sense in a human body. 

If you’re talking about alien diseases in a non-human character, you can ignore all this.

But as far as alien diseases in humans go, please remember:

DISEASE SYMPTOMS ARE AN IMMUNE RESPONSE.

Fever? A response to help your immune cells function faster and more efficiently to destroy invaders.

Sore/scratchy throat? An immune response. Diseases that latch onto the epithelium of the throat (the common cold, the flu) replicate there, and your body is like “uh no fuckin’ thanks” and starts to slough off those cells in order to stop the replication of new virus in its tracks. So when it feels like your throat is dying? guess what it literally is. And the white spots you see with more severe bacterial infections are pus accumulation, which is basically dead white blood cells, and the pus is a nice and disgusting way of getting that shit outta here.

(No one really knows why soreness and malaise happens, but some scientists guess that it’s a byproduct of immune response, and others suspect that it’s your body’s way of telling you to take it easy)

headache? usually sinus pressure (or dehydration, which isn’t an immune response but causes headaches by reducing blood volume and causing a general ruckus in your body, can be an unfortunate side effect of a fever) caused by mucous which is an immune response to flush that nasty viral shit outta your face.

Rashes? an inflammatory response. Your lymphocytes see a thing they don’t like and they’re like “hEY NOW” and release a bunch of chemicals that tell the cells that are supposed to kill it to come do that. Those chemicals cause inflammation, which causes redness, heat, and swelling. They itch because histamine is a bitch.

fatigue? your body is doing a lot–give it a break!

here is a fact:

during the Spanish 1918 Plague, a very strange age group succumbed to the illness. The very young and very old were fine, but people who were seemingly healthy and in the prime of life (young adults) did not survive. This is because that virus triggered an immune response called a cytokine storm, which basically killed everything in sight and caused horrific symptoms like tissue death, vasodilation and bleeding–basically a MASSIVE inflammatory response that lead to organ damage and death. Those with the strongest immune systems took the worst beating by their own immune responses, while those with weaker immune systems were fine.

So when you’re thinking of an alien disease, think through the immune response.

Where does this virus attack? Look up viruses that also attack there and understand what the immune system would do about it. 

Understand symptoms that usually travel together–joint pain and fever, for example.

So please, please: no purple and green spotted diseases. No diseases that cause glamorous fainting spells and nothing else. No mystical eye-color/hair-color changing diseases. If you want these things to happen, use magic or some shit or alien physiology, but when it’s humans, it doesn’t make any fuckin’ sense. 

This has been a rant and I apologize for that.