you know what? women shouldn’t be expected to shave anywhere and that’s the tea

guyfarris:

BEAR HOUSE– ONE OF THE GUEST HOUSES AT THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST ESTATE “WYNTOON” IN MCCLOUD, CALIFORNIA. DESIGNED BY FAMED ARCHITECT JULIA MORGAN. MURALS BY ARTIST WILLY POGANY.

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Rat Tonic

Maynard and Autumn, the best cats in the world. ❤

airyairyquitecontrary:

How to build a cold-weather shelter for outdoor/feral cats from two storage bins and styrofoam insulation. There are detailed instructions at the link. This site specifically recommends using Rubbermaid bins because they won’t crack in freezing cold temperatures, but there may be other brands with that property, I don’t know.

sean-rodriguez:

This morning, an active shooter at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill murdered at least seven people, possibly more. Two responding officers have been wounded as well. The killer has not yet been apprehended and police are asking anyone in the immediate area to stay indoors.

Please keep Pittsburgh’s Jewish population in your thoughts, and continue to demand stronger action to keep weapons out of the hands of those who would commit hate crimes.

If you are local, the Central Blood Bank has experienced shortages recently and will surely benefit from your help. If you are able to donate, especially if you are a rare blood type, please go in and do so asap.

threehoursfromtroy:

rottenbrainstuff:

therealsmokingleather:

thecringeandwincefactory:

tranarchist:

Deported to where?

Hey folks, just a reminder that this is a *fascist* government

last year: There is literally an old Trump tweet for every awful thing he does!

this year: There is literally a direct nazi parallel for every awful thing he does!

people I still want to stab over a decade later:

thebibliosphere:

morgynleri:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.