20 years old. Raging feminist. Boston area.
I have a fat kitty and a cute boyfriend who is the smartest person on the planet.
Fandoms: Harry Potter, Lost, The Hunger Games, Doctor Who, X-Men, and Henry Rollins. Because he's totally a fandom.
Interests I can talk about like a normal person: Brains (like cognitive science!), brains (like zombies!), knitting, yoga, doing smart shit with your money.
Interesting tags: GPOY, FM Friday
I'm also on the: twitter, Goodreads.
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I scored really well on my English placement test for college, so they suggested I try to CLEP out of my writing test. Finding study materials was a pain, so I’m slapping mine on the internet! I’m not expecting my results for another week, so I may have totally bombed the test and wasted my time and $100. No promises on this stuff, okay?
I’ve posted Regina before, but she has a new album out this month! Number six, apparently. Normally people lose my attention span around the third one.
If this is any indication, it’s gonna be super badass.
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NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
Totally agree with this. Meyer doesn’t actually depict the sex scene itself, and can you imagine if she had? “Edward’s hands on my throat almost choked out my breath,” “his grip on my wrists almost made me cry as I looked up into his beautiful, perfect face,” etc….Lots of readers would be really alarmed at this being Bella’s first sexual encounter, and with good reason.
It’s one thing to have a bruise or two afterwards when you’re experienced in sex—maybe because you indicated to your partner that you like it rough—and another thing to look really beaten up after losing your virginity on your wedding night.
By eliding over the actual sex, ostensibly to be more “appropriate,” Meyer effectively normalizes abuse in a way that’s really inappropriate.
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If my laptop had a “THIS” key, it would have fallen off the keyboard from this post alone.
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Worth putting this up here again. PROFOUNDLY IRRESPONSIBLE is just such a good way to put it. Sometimes when something doesn’t quite cross the line into ‘directly abusive’, those are the words we have to assign to it. When you put something out into the world intended for the consumption of an audience whose prefrontal cortex is not developed, an audience whose judgement is still a work in progress, asking yourself certain questions should be a part of the editing process (if not the creative). Dismissing it as ‘the parents’ job’ or ‘the schools’ job’ or what-have-you is weak. When every adult in this network of responsibility says that something is not their problem, that someone else will and should take care of it, the network falls apart. Adolescents and children just plummet, and nobody even tries to catch them.
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That’s what I’ve been doing in my spare time this week.
So, I already felt like I’m attending the cheapest college in the state..and then I saw this. Come on, Bunker Hill. You’re supposed to teach me something at some point.
A weekly, themed tumblr post? What am I doing? Maybe I can stick to it, because it’s a pretty good idea. Some time in 2009 I realized that most of the musicians I liked were male. That’s fine. What isn’t fine is how much of a pain in the ass it was to start trying to find ladies to listen to.
Pandora helped. I found a lot of my favorite singers there. I follow some feminist tumblrs that awesome women show up on. It’s amazing (and sad) at how quickly the quality of your music collection rises when you stop listening to the radio…
Week One is Fuckin’ Kimbra!
This is my current favorite video. She’s gorgeous. Her voice is gorgeous. There’s fancy dancing, and the money at the beginning turns into a ring. THE MONEY TURNS INTO A RING. And there’s other symbolism I only halfway understand! (I think fancydancer cheats on white!Kimbra with a prostitute. Taylor Swift isn’t there to tell me what a whore the other girl is, so it’s kind of hard to figure out.)
While you’re listening to her, hear the first song that I heard.
I love this because my family talked about me ‘settling down’ at my 18th birthday party..’cause a lot of my cousins were married at that age. Ouch.
Oh, and she was in this Gotye song that I’m tired of.
Sorry if you were expecting a coherent biography and not just me fangirling. This is tumblr, not Wikipedia.
I officially hate OWS. I’ve ranted about ‘them’ many times, but no longer. They’ve lost me 100%. I now support law enforcement action to end this crap. ‘They’ will never be taken seriously now. They refuse to make a cohesive argument. Refuse to work with lawmakers. Refuse to dialog about their flaws. Refuse to tack towards solutions. Refuse to self-reflect.
If OWSers really want to be effective, then OWS needs to train people on: how to go to city council meetings; how to read and change local budgets; submit legislation (what, you didn’t know that you could draft a bill and submit it to your representatives??); run for office; comment on regulations and laws in process.., E.g., train people on how to actually partake in the process of making and changing law. That’s what democracy looks like, not this garbage above.
The photos coming out of Seattle’s May Day rallies are pretty unreal.
Photo: Protesters smash shop windows during May Day protests in Seattle. Credit: Joshua Trujillo / Seattlepi.com
Via the excellent LATimes
Look, guys, I’m not a fan of American Apparel either, but smashing the windows is just going to fuck over the day of another 99%er who is working for bullshit hourly wage and now gets to be traumatized and sweep up broken glass. Way to fucking go.
Is my reading comprehension shit, or does the source never say this was Occupy?
the human statue in boston. it amazes me how he can just stand so still like that all day, i tried to talk to him but he wouldnt answer :)
Pretty sure that’s a lady. :/
1. My boyfriend still confuses Doctor Who and Doctor Doolittle, even though he knows he likes one and not the other.
2. We put the cat on a kitty diet and have been trying to leash train him. Only one of these things has shown any results.
3. I’ve been working an absolute shit ton. I like my job, and hopefully the fact that I’m working less hours next week means things are settling down and not that they’re going to fire me. Having been laid off this summer makes me suspicious any time I actually have a weekend. I get a weekend this week. It makes me nervous.
4. HOLY SHIT I’M A COLLEGE STUDENT. I registered for fall, but there are two summer classes I’m trying to get into. One is Math 097 because rocks can do Algebra better than me, but the other actually gives me credit. I’m trying to take the English Composition CLEP exam next week for some credit. I think I’ll test out of English 111 no problem, but I’d really like to knock out English 112, too. In a perfect world I’ll be starting my fall semester with six English credits, a required elective, and a spot open for a college level math course.
5. I got an instagram (my username is ‘speculation’ because I’m a fucking hipster.) and I don’t know what to do with it.
6. I got a library card because a girl’s gotta study and I’m not paying for the college board guides. I can walk to the library and request stuff online! Oh, Massachusetts. You’re awesome.
7. My boyfriend’s grandma doesn’t sound like she wants me to die anymore. She asked to see our apartment! She asked how I was doing without saying something like “Oh, is that girl still around?”! He told her we have a kitty and she didn’t combust!
I’m going to go study now.
- Me: Can we start Doctor Who today?
- Boyfriend: *noncommittal answer*
- Me: Pleaseeee?
- Boyfriend: What's it about?
- Me: I'm not ruining anything for you.
- Boyfriend: Does he talk to animals?
- Me: .... That's Dr. Doolittle.
- Boyfriend: Oh, I thought they were the same thing. That's why we haven't started it yet.
Kony 2012 spray painted on a 1889 memorial for the victims of the Boston Massacre
i won’t leave a suicide note behind i’ll just leave this picture
I’m….I’m just………this makes me sad.
I went to work yesterday and saw at least four Kony posters/scribbles…It’s not a long trip. :( I hope it’s all one person and they fall down and twist their ankle really bad so they stop going around putting bullshit in my life.
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lol fucking kitty cats
GPOMC
oh my god i am dying
ALL OF THIS IS RELEVANT LMFOAMFOMAOMFOAMFAO
I still want one. XD
Nothing has ever been more true than this.
top right is like my kitty’s JOB
#reasons why cats are super badasses
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Because Slytherins like opening boxes with animals in them, want to be liked, and would rather walk on the beach.
Yeah. I’m not playing anymore.
Hey! So I bought a DivaCup months ago but was brave enough to try it my last cycle. Everything went well, except I found the “tail” or whatever on the bottom was too short and had trouble getting it back out… I think I’ll try making a hole in it (in the tail part not the cup part) and tie a cable tie to it to I have something to pull it out by next time? lol idk
Menstrual cups don’t really work like tampons. Yanking on a cable isn’t going to easily break the seal you create. I normally take mine out by kind of pinching the bottom of the actual cup. I don’t think a cable is going to help, you’re probably just not grabbing enough of the cup when you try to remove it.
