If it weren't for the alligators,

I would sleep out in the woods.

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The Magical World of Living Light

This is the mysterious spectacle of bioluminescence. Its hard not to revel in the beauty of this remarkable natural phenomenon. These glowing creatures are primarily a product of the ocean. They are the primary source of light in the largest and darkest area of habitable land on Earth, the deep sea. On land, they are most commonly seen as glowing fungus on wood (foxfire) or in the few families of luminous insects (fireflies). 

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empresswuofthetangclan:

Hi. These are some pictures of my butt that I’ve posted on my blog. I just wanted to clear some stuff up about them. I have stopped posting them in the past because I was dating someone who 1) didn’t want other people seeing my butt and 2) was embarrassed that I would post them.

Here’s the most basic way I can say what I’m thinking.

Here’s what these pictures DON’T mean:

  • I want to have sex with you.
  • I want your attention.
  • I want sexual attention.
  • I have issues with self esteem.
  • I have no self-respect.
  • I have “daddy issues”.
  • I will have sex with you no matter who you are.
  • I am unintelligent and vapid.

Here’s what these pictures DO mean:

  • The human body is beautiful.
  • I have a butt.
  • It’s a good butt.
  • I’m proud of it.
  • Here’s a picture of it.
  • That’s it.
  • Nothing else.
  • Just a butt.

Here’s what these pictures say about me:

  • Nothing.

Here’s what pisses me off:

  • People who think that showing your body equates to a lack of self-respect or says something about your sexual activity.
  • People who think that this justifies receiving fucked up and creepy anonymous messages of harassment.
  • People who think that seeing a picture of my butt says anything about my personality, my mind, my soul, etc.
  • People who say they back up feminism and body positiveness, but if their girlfriend, or a girl they were interested in, posted a picture of their body on the internet they would suddenly “lose respect” for them.
  • People who think naked bodies = sex.
  • People who say things like “Do you think you’ll ever get a boyfriend if you’re posting those pictures?”, “I thought you weren’t posting those pictures anymore, haha.”, or “Why would someone date you when they can just look at your blog for those pictures?”
  • People who say those things and then ask me to send them pictures of my body. Fuck you.

Here’s what (I think) you should do:

  • Stop leaving hateful anonymous messages.
  • Stop using words like “slut” and “whore”.
  • Stop having double standards.
  • Stop assuming things about people.
  • Stop being hateful.
  • Be kind, be gentle, be respectful.
  • Keep scrolling down your dashboard.
  • Keep your shitty thoughts to yourself.
  • Love yourself.

That’s basically all I wanted to say for now, I’m sure I’ll end up thinking of more things but this has been a massive post about being body positive and loving the way you look and not letting shitty people get you down. 

It is a lovely butt! I love this whole post. So hard.

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Why They Weren’t Actually All That Nice

twentysomethinghussy:

I have dated genuinely nice men and I have rejected genuinely nice men. You see, my attraction to people is based off of more than the fact that they treat me like a human being — that’s kind of a bare minimum. 

The nice men I’ve rejected have always taken it in stride. “No worries,” they say, and they drop it and move on, just as I hope I would after a rejection. This is what nice people do. They are kind to others just for the sake of being kind and don’t freak out if their affections aren’t returned.

Then you get to the men who came off as nice at first, but then prove me wrong. Their kindness has an ulterior motive.

If you think that simply being treating me with kindness makes you deserving of and entitled to my body or my heart, then you’re wrong. And you’re not nice.  

So allow me to share my side of things - and why you’re not actually all that nice.

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stfuconservatives:

infoneer-pulse:

Charting The Insanely High (And Rapidly Rising) Cost Of College | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Since 1978, the cost of attending college in America has increased 1,120 percent. And as you can see in this infrographic the financial model for higher education looks broken, as tuition costs are rising faster than inflation. This infographic breaks down the small fortunes that students are investing in their academic lives—implicitly asking why it has to be this way, and explicitly advising future students on how to minimize their debt.

» via Fast Company

And don’t forget: your interest rates on your student loan debt is set to double on July 1.

stfuconservatives:

infoneer-pulse:

Charting The Insanely High (And Rapidly Rising) Cost Of College | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Since 1978, the cost of attending college in America has increased 1,120 percent. And as you can see in this infrographic the financial model for higher education looks broken, as tuition costs are rising faster than inflation. This infographic breaks down the small fortunes that students are investing in their academic lives—implicitly asking why it has to be this way, and explicitly advising future students on how to minimize their debt.

» via Fast Company

And don’t forget: your interest rates on your student loan debt is set to double on July 1.

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If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.

If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.

If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.

If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.

If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.

Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.

A Short Post on Rape Prevention (via brute-reason)

Exactly.

Be honest: You don’t give a shit about rape victims.

You don’t fucking care.

You make excuses for the rapists all the damn time.

This is about policing women’s bodies and telling them to just ‘shut up and stop complaining about your rape because you deserved it’

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