This is fair warning guys - by this weekend this blog will cease to exist. If you guys want to keep track of me I occasionally do fandom/personal posts on my RP blog but otherwise? Nope. This blog will be deleted.
*hugs* Luff you guys, it’s just become painfully clear that I can not do blog upkeep if I have more than one.
i thought it was gonna be i believe i can fly and i was ready for laughter
i was gravely mistaken
wow these are real tears
WHY WOULD YOU EVEN POST THIS
Oh, it’s just music-
…
Oh, it’s just music. Very fantasy. I quite li-
*suddenly trying not to sob because it’s late and other people are asleep*
(Source: kippling)
Okay dear, let me preface this by explaining this teacher. I will have this teacher for the rest of my high school career. Right now I’m in his Human World Geography class, which is exactly what it sounds like - bullshit.
He will make us teach the class because he doesn’t seem to know anything about the countries we’re studying. He will continually pulls things out of his ass for us to do (if something happens to be in the news about the country we’re studying it’s likely we’ll be writing an essay on it). We spent a month on China alone, and then he seemed to realize that, oh shit! The rest of Asia exists as well!
This is also the man who will bring up religion in class all the time even when it doesn’t seem to be relevant. He is also the teacher I am most terrified to talk about gay rights in his class. (We had to look up articles for Africa on subjects we were passionate about. I chose one on women’s rights and another on gay rights. I should not have felt afraid he would give me a lower grade because of my subject matter.)
There’s more, but that about sums things up.
He is voting for Santorum because of his “strong political and economic views” or some such. I also think he might share some of Santorum’s social views, which makes me even more scared to step into his classroom.
And… discuss!
Sounds like he may be voting for Santorum for the same reason most people seem to vote for idiots: they want change but they don’t bother researching a candidate. They choose the one they’re hearing the most about. Fucking idiots. Do you WANT this country to fucking explode?
Anyway, I think for this one you should try your hardest to put aside personal prejudices and give him the finer details of what Santorum has been proposing. Explain why these things are ludicrous. Don’t try to convert him outright, don’t make it personal, just show him what a poor fucking decision Santorum would be.
You see, there are three problems with me explaining, calmly and rationally, why I don’t believe Santorum is a good choice for president.
And there’s the fact that every time I discuss Santorum’s ignorance it makes me want to break down.
(via angelaprongs)
Okay dear, let me preface this by explaining this teacher. I will have this teacher for the rest of my high school career. Right now I’m in his Human World Geography class, which is exactly what it sounds like - bullshit.
He will make us teach the class because he doesn’t seem to know anything about the countries we’re studying. He will continually pulls things out of his ass for us to do (if something happens to be in the news about the country we’re studying it’s likely we’ll be writing an essay on it). We spent a month on China alone, and then he seemed to realize that, oh shit! The rest of Asia exists as well!
This is also the man who will bring up religion in class all the time even when it doesn’t seem to be relevant. He is also the teacher I am most terrified to talk about gay rights in his class. (We had to look up articles for Africa on subjects we were passionate about. I chose one on women’s rights and another on gay rights. I should not have felt afraid he would give me a lower grade because of my subject matter.)
There’s more, but that about sums things up.
He is voting for Santorum because of his “strong political and economic views” or some such. I also think he might share some of Santorum’s social views, which makes me even more scared to step into his classroom.
And… discuss!
It has come to my attention that even though we are a tiny and loving fandom, many of us do not know each other. This is entirely unacceptable.So! In ONE WEEK, I will be making a masterpost of Cabin Crew/Cabin Pressure blogs. To get on this list, all you have to do is REBLOG this post no later than MIDNIGHT PACIFIC TIME, MARCH 27. Any reblogs of this post after that time will not be counted. Don’t worry if you miss this date, if there is a lot of interest I will do a second round of reblogs for people to get on the list.
Basically, we are all fantastic and we all should know each other. Reblog away my darlings! Please try to keep it to one reblog per person to save my dashboard and my sanity though.
BRILLIANT!
(Source: mirabilelectu, via facadeenverre)
BEST ENJOYED WITH HEADPHONES
LEFT EAR: Mandarin version.
RIGHT EAR: English version.
:D
(Source: dmann-rjm, via facadeenverre)
From the Rick Santorm archives, new foolishness emerges. As unearthed by the good people at Mother Jones, in 1994 when Santorum was running for Senate in Pennsylvania he boldly asserted that single moms were the downfall of the United States. At a town hall in Clairton, Pennsylvania, Santorum said:
“Most people agree a continuation of the current [welfare] system will be the ruination of this country. We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it’s falling apart because of single moms.”
Santorum made this point in the context of government spending and moralizing about women’s life choices, but he went further to make a ridiculous assertion about single motherhood and crime, telling the Philadelphia Inquirer that same year that
“What we have is moms raising children in single-parent households simply breeding more criminals… We will never solve the crime problem unless we solve the welfare problem. They are deeply intertwined.”
Santorum has repeatedly asserted that he was a major player in the welfare reform legislation in 1996. And as demonstrated by his record, he has repeatedly targeted single mothers throughout his tenure in the Senate. He introduced legislation that would have required single mothers who had been on welfare for more than two years to work at least 35 hours a week in order to receive benefits. They would also be denied benefits if they could not identify their child’s father. And teen moms? Forget it. Under his plan, which mercifully did not pass Congress, unwed teen mothers would not be eligible for welfare at all. Disgustingly, it didn’t end there. According to Mother Jones:
It wasn’t just single moms that came under assault from Santorum. He told his audience in Clairton that the welfare program’s ballooning costs were also due to “aliens,” “drug addicts,” and children “who have learning disabilities” as well. Santorum went on to suggest that cases of attention deficit disorder were being faked to bilk the government. “[Y]ou have a lot of testimony indicating that parents are coaching their children to stay in that situation in order to receive benefits,” he said.
This is tried-and-true conservative blather. Blame crime on poor people. Blame it on single mothers, and gesticulate towards without saying it outright, that you’re talking about poor women of color.
This kind of language, which is far from obsolete, is coded racial rhetoric about young mothers of color and their children. Rick Santorum has perfected this kind of rhetoric to an art. In fact, the relationship between poverty and crime is complicated, and there are host of brilliant studiesthat discuss welfare and the factors that relate poverty and crime — none of which support the sloppy argumentation of conservative politicians like Santorum that are taking cheap shots against poor women for political gain.
Oh yeah Santorum, I am a total criminal because I was raised by a single mom *eyeroll*
Apparently my brothers and I are criminals without even knowing because my mother, while not a single mom, may as well have been because our dad was serving in the military.
Huh. Fancy that.
Sherlotter & Hedgejohn
Oh, now I want children’s book with these fuzzy critters :3
I saw their handcuffed paws and the sound I made…
Sherlock’s hair and the little handcuffed paws - I’m simultaneously melting and laughing
Adding this to children’s stories my young cousins/children will hear.
(via merry-its-frodo-baggins)
I’m torn between laughing my ass off and hosting a funeral for several of my brain cells.
And one of my teachers is voting for this man.
You, my good sir, have just lost any respect you may have had from me.
I’m sorry guys. T-T I just… RL has been busy and I kinda just forgot about this blog.
So… Hello? I’ll try to pay more attention over here.
Also, I got Sea Wall! I’m watching it for the fourth time and I just… I keep noticing all these little things that make it just that much harder to watch. The emotional trauma it causes does’t lessen with time.
Still better than watching Silent Things though.
(Source: two-harts, via idratherbereading)
I'm Shannon the, you know, person who runs this blog. I'm also known as Ally, AK, and Check here online.
Umm... there's not a lot I can say about myself. I'm in love with Sherlock, Doctor Who, actors and actresses over twice my age, and various books and TV shows.
I suppose I could say I'm fourteen and in high school. I live in America. I tend to rant and/or ramble about things going on in my head... That should be everything "important". I'm always open for questions too, by the by.
Oh, and you can find my other blog here: worldsinthesewords.tumblr.com
