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waitinforthebus: what a great nap, i feel totally disoriented and i’m frothing with hate

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:29:47 -0400

what a great nap, i feel totally disoriented and i’m frothing with hate

"I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:27:48 -0400

“I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.”

- Talib Kweli (via budddha)

thatfunnyblog: omg

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:08:04 -0400

thatfunnyblog:

omg

thatfunnyblog: Funny Stuff you like?

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:48:37 -0400

thatfunnyblog:

Funny Stuff you like?

Artist Augusto Esquivel realistically duplicates objects by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:44:27 -0400

Artist Augusto Esquivel realistically duplicates objects by suspending thousands of sewing buttons on mere strings. Each strand of his incredible sculptural pieces work with their adjacent string of buttons to create colourful replicas of everything, from a basic geometric cube to a stone fountain covered in flowers and spouting water,

Previously [Here] :: [Via Mymodernmet]

the-hunger-festivities: magicalorphanboy: bronzebasilisk: ryun...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:42:22 -0400

the-hunger-festivities:

magicalorphanboy:

bronzebasilisk:

ryunwoofie:

sonneillonv:

autumn-and-eve:

erinsmomma:

How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.

Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirst

Hi, OP! As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there! You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants! There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me! I was SOOO lucky! But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color. Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society! Neat huh?!

Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt. Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive. Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa??? And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL. Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time? Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!

Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home. But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters! This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE! Isn’t that wonderful?

And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby! I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him! But I also nearly died giving birth to him. You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world. My blood pressure was 180 over 130! At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah! How funny is that? And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son. Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic! And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST! It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes. You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again. Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT. :( My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now. I used to be tough). These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix! And many people go through worse! I know, right? Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny. Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues. Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!

I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous. I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking. I’m not trying to be mean! :( But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst. That’s just a clump of cells. Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL! Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that! They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids! Isn’t that so caring of them? I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me! And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split! Isn’t that wild?! Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses. But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?

Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption. And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying. Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs! Isn’t technology AMAZING?

And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming? Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted. But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me. And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her. As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own. Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them. For some, that’s poverty. For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability. For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.

May your birth control never fail!

Pro.

Sonneillonv deserves a mother fucking standing ovation here.

Slow clap.

this is my favorite post because i think it’s the strongest argument for how abortion isn’t wrong and adoption is not always a solution so people should start researching and not just believing what ever is being shoved down their throats at church. This is not a slow clap this is thunderous boom of people all over the world saying thank you

lexuswillow: This is an old family picture. My family does not...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:28:52 -0400

lexuswillow:

This is an old family picture.

My family does not support my being in the LGBTQIA community. They actually are opposed to it. They tell me every day that its disgusting and that it’s sinful and I’ll go to hell for liking women.
I moved out when I was seventeen, and in January I moved back in with them because I couldn’t handle everything that was going on. Every day one of my five siblings tells me to go back to Minnesota. My little brother Charlie (the black baby in the picture) is now 8 and he constantly physically attacks me and tells me that I’m not his sister and to leave. My other siblings make it very obvious and clear that they don’t want me here and my parents tell me constantly that they’re gonna kick me out soon.
I’ve been saving every penny for a bus ticket to Oregon to stay with my best friend and today I found this picture in my sisters’ room ON DISPLAY. Not hidden. On display. They cut my face out of the picture.

And that… That was just the last straw.
I don’t care if anyone reblogs this or whatever, I don’t wanna get popular, I just want people to know that this is not what a family looks like. This is not something people should have to go through.

This is no life.

kezcake: theblackship: its-a-duckpond: lesserkeystudios: jeth...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:27:37 -0400

kezcake:

theblackship:

its-a-duckpond:

lesserkeystudios:

jethroq:

killsmedead:

fullofwhoa:

killsmedead:

froggyphevoli:

thestarkidpaige:

newly-poly-nyc:

ilovecharts:

A pie chart of Voldemort’s soul, assuming that every time he made a horcrux his soul was split precisely in half.

Numbers are rounded down.

-returningtodust

…Harry had more of Voldemort’s soul in him than Voldemort himself had.

Whoa. That’s crazy.

This is super cool! Props to whoever made it!

I read “Diary” as “Dairy” and pictured him filled with cheese curds.

Relevant to my interests.

EDIT: Also, *damn*, Ginny basically got the worst Horcrux. She had way more of Voldemort in her than Harry ever did.

Reblogging for that edit because… I never considered that.

Which probably also explains why the diary was so powerfull and had so much of his personality.

I always believed that the Diary should have affected Ginny much MORE in the long run than it did. This chart just proves it.

I’m sorry I all I saw was “Ginny had more of Voldemort in her than Harry ever did”

urbancatfitters: “you’re only doing that for attention” well yeah

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:25:10 -0400

urbancatfitters:

“you’re only doing that for attention”

well yeah

neopoint: woah bitch the fuck was that for

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:22:51 -0400

neopoint:

woah bitch the fuck was that for

slenclerman: reasons to date me: -i can pick stuff up with my feet sometimes -ive never killed a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:18:11 -0400

slenclerman:

reasons to date me:
-i can pick stuff up with my feet sometimes
-ive never killed a man (yet)
-i once got 95% on guitar hero
-you can play with my hair
-im cheaper than a puppy

wishcave: opens jacket hey u wanna buy some oh jesus fuck it’s cold closes jacket

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:17:58 -0400

wishcave:

*opens jacket* hey u wanna buy some oh jesus fuck it’s cold *closes jacket*

ash always knows just what to say.

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:12:13 -0400

ash always knows just what to say.

thecookiecosplayer: looks like my ride is here

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:11:05 -0400

thecookiecosplayer:

looks like my ride is here

kylobe: geromykyle: you’re welcome fuckign finally thank u...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:10:49 -0400

kylobe:

geromykyle:

you’re welcome

fuckign finally thank u friend

when I went to England in 7th grade all the kids in my delegation started speaking in accents. -_____-

smallgoth: BUT we were made to love eachother and that’s amazing because without love we are greedy...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:44:30 -0400

smallgoth:

BUT we were made to love eachother and that’s amazing because without love we are greedy little animals but with love we care for eachother and we help eachother and it is really beautiful and I guess that’s really scary to me but it is also something that is very wonderful

Photo

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:40:32 -0400

Seriously: I don’t like how we as a species attach emotions with other people and...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:39:47 -0400

Seriously: I don’t like how we as a species attach emotions with other people and...:

smallgoth:

I don’t like how we as a species attach emotions with other people and how we get nervous around certain people and watch what we say and we love them and we hate them and we try to impress them with silly lines and interests and quirks but we’re all just losers who fall in love with eachother and…

WHERE???

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:34:43 -0400

WHERE???

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:08 -0400