27 going on 7

Photo 1152Notes

Best Xmas card!!

Link 5778Notes

Reasons to say 'fuck you' to the Salvation Army.

respirrave:

apiphile:

kiriamaya:

strawberryfaerie:

“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and “go straight”, Muslim families who refuse to attend “Christian Bible classes”, kids who can’t prove their immigration status, and more.”

Admittedly, i only skimmed the article, but this quote alone should give you a pretty good idea of how awful they are.

EDIT: I also just learned of this:

Of course, the bigotry of the Salvation Army proved to be deadly towards a transgender woman in Austin, Texas just before Christmas in 2008.

Two years ago today trans woman Jennifer Gale was found dead sleeping on an Austin sidewalk outside a homeless shelter run by the Salvation Army.

because they refused to take her in.

…

Wow.

I want everybody to understand what happened here. They refused to take in a trans woman, and she died as a result. They killed a trans woman. Killed. Because they “disagreed with her lifestyle”.

You wanna know why I can’t just be all “oh well, it’s their opinion, they’re entitled to it” when it comes to bigotry? This. This is fucking why.

Tried to tell a friend about this a couple of years ago and she got genuinely angry with me for “spoiling everything nice”. I haven’t spoiled anything, goddamnit, they’re the ones killing trans women! It would still have happened if you didn’t know about it!

What.

I wish more people knew about this shit.

Via Time-Machine? Yeah!

Video 55419Notes

mysticeyes2987:

sketchbender:

beeftony:

galiko:

schim:

thetalesofbasingse:

Toph’s Pointing Out That She Is Blind Photoset | Requested by puzzlegirlsandpoprocks

Toph is the best.

asjdfl;kasjdfs

Toph’s blindness was one of the most excellently handled aspects of AtLA because it wasn’t treated like a disability. So often in shows (and especially children’s animation) disabled characters are limited to apperances in “very special episodes” where the main characters have to learn a lesson that these people are capable “in spite of” their handicaps, like that episode of Kim Possible wherein Kim constantly stumbles over herself around Felix. This approach is often just as insulting as making them the butt of jokes, because it’s patronizing and it limits the amount of roles disabled characters are allowed to have.

Avatar challenged that stereotype with Teo, and then sent a giant middle finger its way by introducing Toph. She’s turned what would otherwise be a disability into an advantage, and she’s not afraid to crack jokes about it. She functions well enough that the other characters often forget that she is blind, but at the same time it’s an integral part of her bending and allows her to be the greatest earthbender ever. It sends a powerful message that having a physical disability does not make you less of a person, and often affords you a unique perspective that the so-called “normal” people never get to experience.

One of the many reasons I love this show.

ATLA: Challenging all your preconceived notions since 2005

Via Time-Machine? Yeah!

Chat 89Notes

What I always imagine happened just before the beginning of Goblet of Fire

Voldemort: Thank you for putting me in this creepy reptile infant body, Wormtail.
Wormtail: It was an honor, my lord.
Voldemort: We are ready to proceed with the next step of the plan.
Wormtail: My lord?
Voldemort: We need blood from someone who opposed me.
Wormtail: Oh! Piece of piss! That'll be super easy. I'll just pop out.
Voldemort: No! It has to be Potter's blood!
Wormtail: ...why?
Voldemort: Complicated love-in-the-blood magic.
Wormtail: All right. Well that can be arranged. Should I just grab him at King's Cross and apparate away, then?
Voldemort: No!
Wormtail: The train, then?
Voldemort: No!
Wormtail: Hogsmeade?
Voldemort: No.
Wormtail: Well you can't apparate on Hogwarts grounds, my lord.
Voldemort: We will use a portkey!
Wormtail: Oh. Okay. So I'll just steal one of his things and turn it into a portkey, then.
Voldemort: You won't be the one doing it. It'll be Mad-eye Moody!
Wormtail: The infamous auror?
Voldemort: He'll be a teacher!
Wormtail: And he'll work with us because...
Voldemort: We're going to kidnap him!
Wormtail: We're going to start our plan to kidnap a fourteen year-old boy by FIRST kidnapping one of the most skilled and famously paranoid hunters of dark wizards in the world.
Voldemort: Yessss!
Wormtail: Um, certainly my lord, makes perfect sense. And then he, and not me, even though I can turn into a rat, will sneak into the school and make a portkey. Because...
Voldemort: It won't be him! We need him to make polyjuice potion!
Wormtail: Oh! So I'll take the polyjuice potion- I think turning into a rat would work just as well, but-
Voldemort: No! Not you! Barty Crouch Jr.!
Wormtail: He's... not dead?
Voldemort: No! He's invisible and imprisoned by his notoriously strict high-level Ministry-employed father!
Wormtail: Naturally.
Voldemort: We're going to help him escape.
Wormtail: So, so far, in order to kidnap a 14-year-old boy, we're first going to kidnap a violent adult wizard who hunts dark wizards like it's sport and help a famous criminal escape from under the nose of a high ranking ministry official in charge of putting dark wizards in prison without any mercy even for his own son.
Voldemort: Yes!
Wormtail: Certainly. Of course, my lord. And then Barty Jr., disguised as Moody, will go into the school and turn Potter's toothbrush or something into a portkey. Flawle-
Voldemort: No! Don't be absurd!
Wormtail: No?
Voldemort: He's going to enter him into a sporting competition!
Wormtail: I... what?
Voldemort: A long-dead sporting competition! Being resurrected! Barty-as-Moody will enter Potter!
Wormtail: Oh. Excellent my lord. I definitely see a connection.
Voldemort: Of course, there's an age restriction, and it'll take enchanting an incredibly powerful magic object in order to get Potter past that.
Wormtail: Won't that be a bit... conspicuous? I mean, that'll get people really suspicious right off the bat.
Voldemort: Are you questioning my judgment?!?
Wormtail: Never, my lord! It's a wonderful plan. So Potter's name gets entered in the tournament, and then we kill him and take his blood and make it look like an accident! Very clever, my lord.
Voldemort: Are you stupid, Wormtail? We're going to help him win!
Wormtail: .....Right. Won't he be at a disadvantage, being younger than all of the other players?
Voldemort: That's why we'll help! We'll help him to survive the first two tasks subtly so as not to be noticed, because if people notice us being helpful they will clearly infer that we're evil.
Wormtail: Clearly.
Voldemort: And then in the last task we'll try to give him as many advantages as possible in a race to a cup, and that cup will be a portkey!
Wormtail: But... other people will be racing with him?
Voldemort: Yes.
Wormtail: All for the same cup?
Voldemort: Yes!
Wormtail: My lord, what if one of the others get there first?
Voldemort: It'll be very unlikely.
Wormtail: Will it, though? I mean, he'll be younger and smaller and less experienced than all of his competitors, who-- this is the Triwizard thing right? Won't all of his opponents have been specifically chosen for being the best wizards and witches of their entire peer group? I mean, that is some pretty stiff competition. What if they get there first?
Voldemort: We'll kill them!
Wormtail: And how will we get Potter then? And won't conspicuously killing a child while all the eyes of several countries are watching an international competition provide some evidence of your return and draw unwanted attention while we're trying to be secretive?
Voldemort: STOP QUESTIONING MY GENIUS PLANS, WORMTAIL.
Wormtail: Of course. All right, so our plan is to kidnap a vicious auror, help a convict escape from under the nose of his meticulous Ministry father, sneak that man into a well guarded school by using a near-constant dosing of polyjuice potion, have him use incredibly advanced magic to publicly enter Potter into a sporting competition, quietly help Harry win that sporting competition and just hope that Harry will grab the bizarrely uncontrolled and communal object we've decided to make into the portkey before anyone else can.
Voldemort: Yes! It's brilliant isn't it? One of my most loyal servants helped me with it!
Wormtail: Let me guess-
Voldemort: RUBE GOLDBERG IS MORE LOYAL THAN YOU'VE EVER BEEN.