busket:

busket:

busket:

god i hope the stranger things kids have great loving and protecting parents that keep their kids safe and responsible and away from hollywood creeps and drugs and everything else that ruined the childhood stars that i grew up with. i hope that even tho they’re child actors they grow up safe and healthy and well adjusted and know better than to get immersed in that toxic showbiz life

because if i see millie bobby brown on a grocery isle tabloid being written about like shes another lindsay lohan i’ll burst in to tears right there

a year after making this post i hear about drake texting and obviously grooming mbb

reenuka:

jehovahhthickness:

My most recent ex roommate is smack dab in the middle.

lysa-antibullshit:

Ladies

Stop planting shit in your boyfriends bed just to start a fight and falsely accuse him of cheating because you are bored. That’s abusive and pathetic.

Stop trying to be the “crazy girlfriend” because I don’t know why girls think that’s cute because it’s not and we all know you aren’t really crazy and you really ain’t gonna do shit that’s crazy.

Stop freaking out every time he doesn’t text you fast. Get a life outside of your boyfriend. I know this is a crazy thought but here me out. Maybe he’s just busy. Or sleeping. Or in the shower. It doesn’t automatically mean he’s cheating on you.

Stop hitting him because you know he can’t or won’t hit you back. One that’s a pussy move. And two that’s abusive. And I think you slapping and punching up on him he has the right to defend himself. So men fucking body slam a bitch if she hitting you. Fucking RKO like Randy Orton if you have too, because you have a right to defend yourself.

Stop verbally abusing him. Calling him names and degrading him. Especially in public. Do you know how humiliating that is for him. But God forbid he calls you something bad.

Do you know how much it hurts to have your significant other call you names and belittle you, especially in public. If you hurts you women, then what makes you think it don’t hurt men?

Stop guilt tripping them into doing something they don’t want to do by crying and saying “you don’t love me” or “if you love me you’ll do it” Stop with the manipulation tatics. It’s pathetic. Grow up.

Stop forcing him to choose between his friends and you. Let him go hang out with his friends. If he wants to go chill at his friends house, have some beers and play video games then what’s the problem. Go hang out with your friends. Unless you don’t have any then go hang out with your mom. Men need their bros.

Stop getting jealous because he glances in another women’s general direction. And then do that sob story of “I’m not pretty enough” “I’m not skinny enough” God that shit is annoying and pathetic. Obviously he doesnt think that shit if he’s with you doofus.

There is so much more I could write but don’t feel like it. When a man is being abused or in a toxic relationship people laugh. If a guy did these things it’s abuse, but since a women does it, it’s okay and funny. Men get out if you have a girlfriend like this. If no one else will listen to you, I will.

And feel free to add more annoying stuff girls do to their boyfriend that’s abusive and get away with or is just annoying in general that I missed. Especially men since you have to deal with it first hand. I could never be a lesbian and date a girl.

I’m tired of this male abuse is funny and men can’t be abused mentality.

ihavealotoffeelings:

petymology:

In the town I live in, there’s only one place to get the state-required voter ID. It’s way out beyond the end of the bus line, and its hours are inconvenient and unpredictable. Also, the IDs cost like $30; the people who passed the voter ID law obviously didn’t think that was a budget-breaker for anyone who MATTERED.

If you have difficulty getting a voter ID, here are some thoughts:

– Contact a church. (I wish I could say contact ANY church, but to be honest, if you look unconventional, and you don’t know which churches in your town are the progressive ones, look for a Unitarian church. I suspect most synagogues would be more helpful than most evangelical churches, but I don’t know that from personal experience.)

When I was a church secretary, if someone had called and said, “I want to register to vote, but I don’t have a car and I don’t have $30 for an ID,” I’m pretty sure our entire governing board would have been lining up to help you out.

In this part of the country, nuns are a good bet, too.

– Contact the local Democratic Party office.

– Contact a YMCA or a YWCA. Did you know that fighting racism is actually part of the Y’s charter? Pretty sure somebody in that office will be able to help you get the ID you need to register.

– Go to your town’s website and look for a pro-diversity organization – a Multicultural Awareness Center, something like that. Give them a call.

– Call your library reference desk and ask if they know of anyone who could help.

I don’t actually think this would help, but it would be interesting: Call the local office of your senators and your representative, and ask if they can help you get a voter ID. At least it might be entertaining to hear them sputter.

Public librarian seconding the “ask your library” recommendation here. My library has multiple nonprofits tabling in the lobby to register voters in September and October, we have packets of legal information at the circ desk, we have every local government contact number and email there is, and we want to help you vote.

one-time-i-dreamt:

tilthat:

TIL Daisy from The Great Gatsby is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s girlfriend, Ginevra King. She broke up with him saying “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls”. The last time they met she asked if someone in Gatsby was based on her. Fitzgerald replied “Which bitch do you think you are?”

via reddit.com

The quote, “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls,” was said by Ginevra King’s wealthy businessman father to FSF, not by her. He didn’t approve of their relationship (King and Fitzgerald were teenagers when they met in 1915 – she was 16 and he was 19 – and most of their exchange happened through letters they sent to each other, while they only met less than 10 times in person) and she ended up marrying the son of her father’s business associate in September of 1918. 

She was Fitzgerald’s first love and he probably thought of her as “the one that got away”, but then he met his wife Zelda in July of 1918 and started pursuing her almost immediately, becoming infatuated with her. They eventually married in 1920. Although Ginevra informed him of her engagement via a letter, their romance had already ended by then due to different factors such as attractions they felt for other people and realizing that they had little in common to begin with. The “bitch” quote is supposedly true, but was said to have been said in a joking manner. 

Ginevra King married twice, raised three children and spent a good portion of her life doing charity work, she founded the Ladies Guild of the American Cancer Society. 

Not a dream, by the way. Just thought it was a shame to show her in such a negative light over something untrue again. His early biographers gave her a bad reputation, but most of the claims against her were proven not to be true after her passing, once her letters to him from that time were published by her family. 

Fitzgerald asked her to destroy all of the letters he sent to her, which she did, but then he not only ignored her polite request to do the same with her letters, but had them typed up so he could read them without emotional attachment and write cliche, fictional exaggerated versions of her. After his death, the letters were sent back to her and she kept them ever since and never felt the need to publish and sensationalize them to clear her own name out of respect for his memory, but they prove their split was amicable. 

More intriguing than her flirting, though, is her ongoing longing for something deeper, a more meaningful life than the one permitted a young woman of her era and social class. “Sometimes I feel oh so tired of dances and flirtations and silly talk and do long to have a long and really serious talk with somebody.” King strikes this note regularly, but never at any length, leaving one to wonder just how eager she really was to have such a conversation.

Fascinating as it is to hear Daisy Buchanan’s original voice, the letters are even more important for letting us make a judgment about the fictional use Fitzgerald made of her. King was, after all, a member of the highest reaches of society, a world from which Fitzgerald himself felt excluded. She was the most glamorous of Chicago’s Big Four debutantes and came from money so old and extensive no one today seems quite sure where it came from. Much as he was intoxicated by this world, Fitzgerald seems early on to have understood its power to corrupt and deaden. In “Winter Dreams,” published in 1920, Judy Jones, the beautiful, icy golfer based on King, seems to be a victim as much as a manipulator.“

I don’t know that Fitzgerald ever captured the real Ginevra in his fiction,” says West, “but then he wasn’t really trying to. Rather, he was creating a character – by beginning with the young girl he had known but amplifying her personality, giving it flaws, and letting his imagination play over the possibilities for the woman she might become.”In most every way, the real Ginevra seems “better” – smarter, more open-minded, less grasping – than her fictional offspring. “She was an open, direct young woman,” says West. “I like her very much.”

As early as the spring of 1915, King was starting to show annoyance at having to fend off Fitzgerald’s insinuations about her thoughts and love life. “Never say again that I’m going to marry Deering!” she scolded in November of 1915. She responded to Fitzgerald’s complaint that she permitted him to idealize her by saying, quite sensibly, whose fault is that? “She got the feeling that Fitzgerald was more interested in her as a character than as a human being,” says West. 

source: http://www.princeton.edu/paw/archive_new/PAW03-04/04-1105/feature1.html

karnalesbian:

karnalesbian:

frankly speaking i think kids doing the fortnite dances at any given opportunity in public is genuinely hilarious and im glad they’re having a good time anyone who complains because someone is enjoying themself in a completely harmless way like that and not inconveniencing anyone just hates fun

or kids, or kids having fun