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ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE CREATIVE WORKS: CHILD’S PLAY
Hi, I’m Chucky! Wanna play?
ENDLESS LIST OF MY FAVORITE CREATIVE WORKS: CHILD’S PLAY
Hi, I’m Chucky! Wanna play?
Nov. 12th, 2016
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theroseandthebeast:
hxpesandreams:
Welcome to the Unknown, boys. You’re more lost than you realize.
theroseandthebeast:
hxpesandreams:
Welcome to the Unknown, boys. You’re more lost than you realize.
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styro:
naamahdarling:
The SPLC has released a wonderful guide to speaking up about bigotry.
The responses are direct, gentle, and very good. It has sections for family, friends, coworkers, and self.
Please read it, please spread the link, please keep this link around as reference. Everyone needs to see this. It is very important that we arm ourselves that we may be better able to address the casual hateful speech many of us are likely to encounter.
One of the most effective tools at our disposal is protecting the area around us, and making sure that things like this said within earshot of us will not go unchallenged.
Do what you can, but also stay safe.
I read another article today that suggests active inquiry as a solution as well: “What do you mean when you say that? What makes you feel that way? Can you tell me why you think that is the case? How does it make you feel? How do you think other people might feel about that comment? Do you see any resolution between how you feel about this and how others might feel?” Etc.
Asking non-judgmental questions geared towards reflective critical thinking can help someone else examine their thought processes, and may lead them to some self-discovery. I.E: upon analysis of their own thoughts and beliefs, they may come to question their own biases.
Please note: Making statements will slow this process considerably, and will impede your ability to make progress. So the only way it works is to continue down a path of asking questions so that we can unpack our preconceived notions about our belief systems. This will require you to question your own beliefs as well. Follow this path. It can be transformational.
styro:
naamahdarling:
The SPLC has released a wonderful guide to speaking up about bigotry.
The responses are direct, gentle, and very good. It has sections for family, friends, coworkers, and self.
Please read it, please spread the link, please keep this link around as reference. Everyone needs to see this. It is very important that we arm ourselves that we may be better able to address the casual hateful speech many of us are likely to encounter.
One of the most effective tools at our disposal is protecting the area around us, and making sure that things like this said within earshot of us will not go unchallenged.
Do what you can, but also stay safe.
I read another article today that suggests active inquiry as a solution as well: “What do you mean when you say that? What makes you feel that way? Can you tell me why you think that is the case? How does it make you feel? How do you think other people might feel about that comment? Do you see any resolution between how you feel about this and how others might feel?” Etc.
Asking non-judgmental questions geared towards reflective critical thinking can help someone else examine their thought processes, and may lead them to some self-discovery. I.E: upon analysis of their own thoughts and beliefs, they may come to question their own biases.
Please note: Making statements will slow this process considerably, and will impede your ability to make progress. So the only way it works is to continue down a path of asking questions so that we can unpack our preconceived notions about our belief systems. This will require you to question your own beliefs as well. Follow this path. It can be transformational.
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“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
- Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (via echymosis)
“There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
- Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968 (via echymosis)
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rootqueen:
shocktease:
my-name-is-long:
kaayytiee:
my-name-is-long:
this is why the electoral college fucking sucks.
Without the electoral college, the determining factor of the elections would be California, Chicago and New York just because they have more people concentrated in one area. Our system is the best of the best and the people spoke. I’m hurt as well as most of America but the best thing we can do is keep an open mind, accept, and move on.
So what? Why does it matter if the majority of votes come from one area? If most of the people in the country want one person to be president, then that person should be president. Why should it matter where they’re from?
And that’s not even the reason the college was made in the first place. It was made for 2 reasons.
1. The founding fathers didn’t trust the citizens. They thought the citizens were too uneducated to make a good choice.
And 2. It’s easier to count the votes of a small group of people all in one place rather than millions across the country when there’s no cars or internet.
In today’s age, neither of those reasons are valid anymore. There is no good reason for the electoral college to exist. If the majority of people want someone as president, that person should be president.
Here is why the electoral college sucks:
Without the electoral college, every single vote would count exactly the same. No vote anywhere in the country would be worth more than any other vote. Now you may ask, but Raymond, isn’t it like this already?
NO. IT FUCKING IS NOT.
Take Wyoming for example. Wyoming has a population of 584,000 people. They also have 3 electoral college votes. This means that each 194,667 votes is worth one electoral college vote in Wyoming. Now let’s look at California. California has a population of 38.8 million people and 55 electoral college votes. This means that it takes 705,455 votes for each electoral college vote.
A VOTE IN WYOMING IS WORTH 3.5X MORE THAN A VOTE IN CALIFORNIA.
It literally takes 3.5 times more votes to get 1 electoral vote in California than it does in Wyoming. How tf is that fair?
Don’t come in here and tell me how it’s the best system and without it the only determining factor would be certain cities. How does that even make sense? Without it, a vote in New York City is worth the exact same amount as a vote in any other city, or town, regardless of population. I personally would like my vote to count for exactly the same as anyone else. My vote shouldn’t count as less because I live in a more densely populated city.
What a good explanation! ^
rootqueen:
shocktease:
my-name-is-long:
kaayytiee:
my-name-is-long:
this is why the electoral college fucking sucks.
Without the electoral college, the determining factor of the elections would be California, Chicago and New York just because they have more people concentrated in one area. Our system is the best of the best and the people spoke. I’m hurt as well as most of America but the best thing we can do is keep an open mind, accept, and move on.
So what? Why does it matter if the majority of votes come from one area? If most of the people in the country want one person to be president, then that person should be president. Why should it matter where they’re from?
And that’s not even the reason the college was made in the first place. It was made for 2 reasons.
1. The founding fathers didn’t trust the citizens. They thought the citizens were too uneducated to make a good choice.
And 2. It’s easier to count the votes of a small group of people all in one place rather than millions across the country when there’s no cars or internet.
In today’s age, neither of those reasons are valid anymore. There is no good reason for the electoral college to exist. If the majority of people want someone as president, that person should be president.
Here is why the electoral college sucks:
Without the electoral college, every single vote would count exactly the same. No vote anywhere in the country would be worth more than any other vote. Now you may ask, but Raymond, isn’t it like this already?
NO. IT FUCKING IS NOT.
Take Wyoming for example. Wyoming has a population of 584,000 people. They also have 3 electoral college votes. This means that each 194,667 votes is worth one electoral college vote in Wyoming. Now let’s look at California. California has a population of 38.8 million people and 55 electoral college votes. This means that it takes 705,455 votes for each electoral college vote.
A VOTE IN WYOMING IS WORTH 3.5X MORE THAN A VOTE IN CALIFORNIA.
It literally takes 3.5 times more votes to get 1 electoral vote in California than it does in Wyoming. How tf is that fair?
Don’t come in here and tell me how it’s the best system and without it the only determining factor would be certain cities. How does that even make sense? Without it, a vote in New York City is worth the exact same amount as a vote in any other city, or town, regardless of population. I personally would like my vote to count for exactly the same as anyone else. My vote shouldn’t count as less because I live in a more densely populated city.
What a good explanation! ^
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ofpaperandponies:
Homesickness
Neither the lion nor the man with folded wings have any business being on this bridge. They embody the melancholy of those who know that real life is always something else, something that does not exist.
— Magritte, 1940
ofpaperandponies:
Homesickness
Neither the lion nor the man with folded wings have any business being on this bridge. They embody the melancholy of those who know that real life is always something else, something that does not exist.
— Magritte, 1940
lamenart: Inspired by King Reign ~
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lamenart:
Inspired by King Reign ~ @itsthegameilike
I have been reading this for the last couple of days. Today I was finally able to read their wedding. It made me really emotional. It’s incredibly beautiful. And because I really love the story, I have decided to turn my very first Captive Prince art into King Reign art.
@itsthegameilike I hope you will like it. Thank you so much for the absolutely enchanting story.
lamenart:
Inspired by King Reign ~ @itsthegameilike
I have been reading this for the last couple of days. Today I was finally able to read their wedding. It made me really emotional. It’s incredibly beautiful. And because I really love the story, I have decided to turn my very first Captive Prince art into King Reign art.
@itsthegameilike I hope you will like it. Thank you so much for the absolutely enchanting story.
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miikaela:
Top 30 romantic ships (as voted by my followers) → #26 Caleb and Spencer ∙ Pretty Little Liars
↳ “I like everything about you. Okay, you’re smart, and you’re driven. You’re sexy as hell”
miikaela:
Top 30 romantic ships (as voted by my followers) → #26 Caleb and Spencer ∙ Pretty Little Liars
↳ “I like everything about you. Okay, you’re smart, and you’re driven. You’re sexy as hell”
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“I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity — not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously — not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second.”
- Hilary Clinton, New York Times (via yesdarlingido)
“I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity — not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously — not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second.”
- Hilary Clinton, New York Times (via yesdarlingido)
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weavemama:
Here are some tips on how to further use your voices about the election results and hopefully make a change.
weavemama:
Here are some tips on how to further use your voices about the election results and hopefully make a change.
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i-am-weis:
the hierophant
my piece from the raven arcana zine
digital copies available for a limited time here
i-am-weis:
the hierophant
my piece from the raven arcana zine
digital copies available for a limited time here