Day: July 7, 2017

dinahshore:

If life gets too scary, think of the beautiful things in life. There is always something beautiful that life has to offer. Don’t hold life to hard, for it will break. Hold life gently and it will hold you. Beauty comes from all around, in every different kind of form. You just have to see the beauty that life has to offer. — Lillian Gish

Source: dinahshore

mszombi:

imagineham:

plume:

OMG everyone I know the ACTUAL story behind the gif this time!

Yes, it’s in Australia– that’s a big angry goanna that wandered into a popular restaurant. All the Australians in the vicinity went OH FUCK NO and cleared off, because goannas are mean.

The waitress you see there is a French exchange student, who was quoted as saying something to the effect of “I thought it was a weird ugly dog” and had no idea it was a reptile that wanted to rip her arms off. She’s been hailed as a hero who saved diners.

Australia is a fucking weird place

What the fuck typa dogs they got in France?

Source: katswenski

holistic-ly:

blindzman:

thaebae:

fousheezy:

shenko:

garbage-senpai:

conallcd117:

moredepth:

Coexist

this what i picture world peace looks like

This is where I want to be

Tiny woman in pink coat is literally me in 50 years

this is such a pure video I want to watch it every time I give up on humanity

i love

fucking hell isn’t this brighton??
@holistic-ly confirm????

THIS IS BRIGHTON IVE MET THIS DUDE AND HE IS SO AMAZINGLY NICE he goes by The Disco Bunny and brightens brighton’s days

whitmerule:

nubbsgalore:

photos by gerry ellis from the david sheldrick wildlife trust, a nursery and orphanage for elephants in kenya’s tsavo east national park. here, fifty five keepers are charged with being around the clock parents to an elephant. the elephants, however, are the ones who chose their caretakers; it is the keepers who must ingratiate themselves to the elephants and earn their trust.

when elephants first arrive at the orphanage they are often traumatized from having witnessed the slaughter of their mothers and family by poachers. grieving can last several months, and they often lose the will to live. but as dame daphne sheldrick, founder of the orphanage, explains, a caretaker is charged with “persuading an elephant to live when it wants to die.”

approximately 35,000 elephants are killed by humans every year. with an estimated 350,000 elephants left in the whole continent of africa, they will be gone in the wild within ten years.

cbc’s the nature of things did a program on the elephants and their caretakers. you can foster an elephant with the david sheldrick wildlife trust online here. for more on the emotional lives of elephants, as well as the david sheldrick wildlife trust and other human efforts to save the animals, check out these posts

real life angels

Source: nubbsgalore

raptorific:

dukeofankh:

raptorific:

when guys are like “girls over [relatively low weight] shouldn’t wear [revealing article of clothing]” a lot of the time they are trying to get women above that weight to say “OH REALLY?” and post a picture of themselves looking good in that article of clothing. It’s a creepy power play designed to prey on both women’s confidence and their insecurities and trick them into posting revealing pictures of themselves for the sexual gratification of men who they otherwise wouldn’t have given the time of day. It’s a sleazy pick-up artist tactic. It’s negging. When you see an all-too-common post that’s like “bigger girls shouldn’t wear bikinis” and the response is him getting “owned” because a woman replied with pictures of herself looking beautiful, he’s not getting owned at all, he’s getting exactly the result he was hoping for. They’re basically saying “You sure showed me by sending me, a huge sexist creep, a picture of yourself in a bikini! PLEASE don’t send me nudes, I don’t know if I could take the humiliation!”

I dunno man. I think that “men are building a complicated emotional Rube Goldberg machine in order to convince curvy women to send him semi-nudes, the sexual attractiveness of which he already agrees is valid” in its own way is giving men a lot more credit than the truth. Which is that these men are literally so poisoned by the medias depictions of beauty that they do actually think women that aren’t rail thin are gross. Beauty is subjective, which is why it’s so important that unrealistic standards of attractiveness are challenged. Because the alternative is a bunch of random dumb schmucks who think that they “deserve” women who look a certain way and that women who don’t fit that look should hide themselves in order to prop up that illusion.

How is it giving them too much credit to say “these men are trying to trick women into sending them sexy pictures” when they’ll literally admit that’s what they’re doing on their forums and subreddits? In what way is basic reverse psychology a “complicated emotional Rube Goldberg machine?” You have to understand, this isn’t some speculative theory I’m putting forth. I’ve read the forums, I’ve read the subreddits, and I’ve listened to other men in person describe this as a thing they do for this exact reason. This isn’t a theory as to what they’re PROBABLY doing, it’s a warning about what they are doing, full-stop