brighteyedbadwolf:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Do you ever read a piece of writing advice so awful you’re not entirely sure if it’s satire or not.

If your character is an evil assassin, you might want to refer to his fingernails as daggers or stabbers.

Stabbers. Stabbers. Yep.

A jealous ex-girlfriend might have witch hooks or tentacles. Sugar- or flour-coated hands could be clues that a protagonist is a baker. Or a serial killer with a fetish.

Well this has taken an odd turn.

Use ‘hands’ too often, and the word will annoy readers. English offers a multitude of options.

Oh no.

Analyze what the hands are doing and assign a noun that suits them. In addition to the following, check the Movement section for verbs you could convert into nouns. For example, ‘boo-boo soothers’.

Get the fuck out of here.

prestidigitators

No.

shadow puppeteers

???

stranglers

WHY DOES IT KEEP COMING BACK TO MURDER

See also 300+ Words to Describe Human Skin.

I was looking for something else in my blog and found this post and absolutely lost my shit all over again lmao

If your jealous ex has tentacles you might have other problems.

wild-love-hood-thoughts:

obscuretuba:

I want everybody to watch North Carolina.

I want everybody to see how quickly help, food, water, and electricity is restored to the outer banks and the beach and the Raleigh area. I want yall to see the sympathy people get for staying in flood zones, for the understanding many will get for not evacuating. I want everybody to see how it will only take a week or two for everyone to be back to their regularly scheduled lives.

And then.

And then I want everybody to look at Puerto Rico. I want y’all to look a back at people calling Boris idiots for staying on the island. At the debate posts on whether America should’ve helped or not. At the food packages full of candy bars and no actual food in sight. At the months of no electricity in communities, hospitals, nursing homes. At every school that shut down in the last year. I want everybody to see the loss life, the devistation, and the hundreds of homeless people in PR after Maria. I want everybody to look.

And then tell me to my face that Americans have ever given a shit about anybody but themselves.

Just a heads up, I’m pretty sure we’re not going to get much. 10 million was taken from FEMA and put towards ICE at the beginning of this year by Trump. I’m not sure how much help we’ll get. But this post, everything that OP has said above, at the same time, I co-sign this as someone who lives in North Carolina. It won’t be as bad as Puerto Rico here. But it ain’t gonna be good either. Also, another thing: Akon literally could of fixed everything in Puerto Rico in 30 days and the U.S. government said no. Because what everyone seems to forget here is Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory. There was no matter of wether the U.S. should of got involved. A U.S. territory is under control of the U.S. goverment. What’s happening in Puerto Rico is nothing short of goverment sanctioned genocide.

Thousands of water bottles meant for hurricane survivors left to rot in Puerto Rico

dr-archeville:

At least a thousand pallets of water bottles, meant for Hurricane Maria survivors, were left to rot under the Puerto Rican sun. 

That is what Angelo Cruz Ramos, the mayor of Ceiba, told ABC News about
what happened to thousands and thousands of water bottles that are
sitting on the tarmac at the former naval base, Roosevelt Roads.

Cruz Ramos did not know the water was there and only found out when the
images, posted to Facebook on Sept. 11, went viral, he said.  The area is
a restricted zone, so he is not been able to approach it.

Because the bottled water has been under the sun for months, all the
water is contaminated and is not suitable for consumption, Cruz Ramos
said.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed to ABC News that the
water was purchased by the federal agency and was determined to be a
part of a surplus of supplies in April.  The excess supply was
transferred to the island’s General Services Administration, FEMA said.

Puerto Rico’s
General Services Administration said back in May that the agency
received around 20,000 pallets of water through a federal government
program to distribute excess supplies, the agency said in a statement to
ABC News.  After delivering more than 700 pallets, they received
complaints about the smell and taste of the water from a municipality,
the GSA said.

The GSA are working with FEMA and the island’s department of health to
perform water tests on what they got from the federal government, the
GSA said.  They added that they will be returning the water to the
federal government.

Ramos is not sure who is at fault. Because there were supply planes
arriving at airport in Ceiba hundreds of times after the storm – off
loading food and water, he wouldn’t know when this water actually
arrived on that tarmac, he said.

“The government of Puerto Rico did not receive the water to distribute
during the emergency, it was under FEMA’s custody and it wasn’t until
April 2018 that the surplus inventory was available upon request,”
Hector Pesquera, Puerto Rico’s secretary of public safety, announced at a
press conference in San Juan on Wednesday.

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Thousands of water bottles meant for hurricane survivors left to rot in Puerto Rico

So I usually don’t post stuff like this but…

aegipan-omnicorn:

caristars:

dwarf-scum:

asexualdoctorwho:

i-write-your-imagines:

Right so today in class my math teacher, a human who is taller than our door and probably more awkward than it, casually mentioned how he isn’t married and how he never really felt attraction to any gender.
So a pan girl in my class puts up her hand and asks if he was Asexual.
One confused state and three queer people explanations later…
HE WAS BEYOND EXCITED TO FIND OUT THAT HE WAS VALID AND SEEN AS AN ACTAUL HUMAN TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY.
I shit you not.
My way too tall and way too smart and way too dorky and way too awkward maths teacher lived his entire life thinking that he was strange and abnormal for not feeling any attraction to anyone.
And a class of insane grade elevens changed that.

Awhile back I was explaining asexuality to my therapist and at some point she just like froze and was like ‘wait… maybe i’m asexual’ and got really excited and said she was gonna do more research on it herself. Which was not at all what I was expecting to happen when I told my therapist I was ace, but it was def a happy surprise.

EDIT: 

i just realized i had originally meant to reblog this to my main, whoops! but i guess it goes okay here too lol

Reblog to help an ace figure themselves out.

When I came out to my mom as ace, she tried to convince me that that’s just how everyone felt, and no one really felt sexual attraction like they always suggest in media or movies, and it took a while of explaining but eventually she started understanding that sex wasn’t some compulsory thing humans had to do and other people did experience attraction. Turns out she thought she was broken for her entire life until she found out what being asexual was, and she’s so much happier now.

[Image description: Text art with abstract graphic illustration on
a light grey field. The text reads: “Being Ace can mean growing up
Assuming you’re Straight and Never Understanding why you don’t fit in
with everyone Else.” End Quote. The words are in varying sizes of the
Franklin Gothic Medium font.

The text is arranged on
either side of a vertical line, stretching from the top edge to nearly
the bottom edge, and colored in a gradient from black through grey, to
white, and purple (the colors of the Asexual Pride flag). This line
starts out straight, but curves, in a serpentine fashion, around the words: “you,
don’t, fit, in, with,” and returns to straight as it passes between the words
“everyone” and “Else”.

Many straight, black, vertical,
lines of varying widths fill the bottom of the image, contrasting with
the purple end of the central line. Description ends]

Some Ace-based art I made for Pride Month, 2018.

Hint: Aces ain’t straight, even though they may look like it at first glance.

aegipan-omnicorn:

anexperimentallife:

scyphoza:

Just unquietly.

The largest storm ‘since records began’ is currently building in south east Asia/ the Pacific – its looks like it’ll be skirting the Phillipines and hitting the area around Hong Kong and Macau around Monday the 17th.

This is Typhoon Mangkhut

Those little green lines are islands and countries.

It is LARGER/STRONGER THAN FLORENCE

It’s currently typhoon 10. The highest cataorgoy and equivalent to a category 5 for American hurricanes.

Jfc, pray for South East Asia

This is the storm that’s heading our way right now. We’re in the mountains, so we probably won’t get it as bad as Manila, but people gere in Baguio are definitely gearing up.

People who spread doubt about the reality of Human-caused global warming are evil.

eliciaforever:

sirikenobi167:

camillabech:

gahdamnpunk:

Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af

How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club

Anyone know any of the names of these individual’s groups? I love metal music and I’m always looking for new bands to listen to.

Wrust is my fave. Overthrust, Gunsmoke, and Demon are also good. 

PS in Botswana metal heads are called Marok, and lady metalheads call themselves Queens and give themselves badass nicknames like Phoenix Death Serpent.

5 of the best metal bands from Botswana

The hell bangers of Botswana’s underground metal scene

meet the gender-defying women of botswana’s heavy metal scene

mindthelspace:

naamahdarling:

12yearsaking:

merkkultra:

do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression

Yes, Black men in majority white spaces do. If I don’t smile every single second of the day my coworkers become in intimidated and start asking me what’s wrong, telling me to smile, make jokes about how I’m trying to be a thug/act hard, why am I angry, etc. And it’s not just white men at my job God FORBID I my large Black ass makes a white girl feel threaten because I’m sitting down with a neutral expression.

I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.

That’s why “angry Black women” is a thing. They have to put on a smile for everyone (yes even feminist white women) or we all get uncomfortable.

This is such an amazing response.

Third example; disabled people with legitimate grievances being snipped at for “having a chip on their shoulder”, or being considered rude and ungrateful for objecting to somebody else’s really invasive behaviour.