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fluffmugger:

sapphysapph:

For the uninitiated, this is what Magpies are like during “swooping season” here in Australia.

  • Fun fact: people have been known to walk around with empty ice cream containers on their heads to protect themselves in lieu of helmets.

Things to remember:

1) This is an Australian magpie. it is not like European magpies.It’s not a flappy bappy chirpy little shitbag you can bat away with your palm. This is a fucking crow in cow makeup

2) Cats and dogs will not try and take them on because cats and dogs know they will lose

3) They live for 25 years and yes, they will remember your face.  Although I will confess that my 36 years of life I have never seen a dead one. Under tumblr logic this means they are immortal

4) They are insane. Cold stone bug-fuck insane.  And they give zero fucks.I’ve seen them attack cyclists, moving cars, trucks, even a goddamn train.

So imagine, if you will, you are walking merrily down a street one spring and suddenly this train-assaulting, cow-cosplaying ball of immortal feathers and batshit insanity comes screaming out of nowhere and tries to embed itself in the back of your skull, beak clacking like the pump of a shotgun as it tears out chunks of your hair.

This is Australia.

trans-mom:

As you get older you’re going to find that people won’t belive you about being abused. You’re going to have people tell you they did the best they could, they they did actually love you, and that it wasn’t as bad as you say. Your memories of it might fade, people will call you a liar, and you may start to question if it ever happened.

I just want you to know it did happen. You’re not making it up. No, they didn’t love you, and if they did it still doesn’t excuse what they did to you. And, you don’t have to forgive them.

sapphicwocsource:

If a white person doesn’t use a racist slur themselves but allows their white friend to use it and even goes along with and vehemently defends the use of it, they’re just as racist as their white friend who uses it. This also applies to nonblack people who happily use/allow the use of the n-word. 

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

marauders4evr:

I want to become a tour guide of one of those haunted asylum tours. I’d sort of hunch over in my wheelchair, wrapped in a cloak, greeting the people. They’ll be nudging each other, waiting to hear about the crazies.

I’ll beckon them with a single finger, wheeling backwards, letting the darkness consume me. They’ll follow, inch by inch, already trembling with adrenaline.

We’ll enter the asylum. It will be dark. Gloomy.

“Take your seats,” I say.

They’re confused but comply, feeling in the dark, finally reaching a table. They can’t wait. They have their cameras prepared.

Somebody asks if you can still hear the patients’ screams in the corridors.

“Well,” I say, “you can hear someone’s screams.”

Without warning, the door crashes shut. We hear a lock. People start screaming. Panicking. At that moment, the lights come on. We’re sitting in a lecture hall. I whisk off my cloak to reveal a perfectly tailored suit.

“All right, folks,” I say. “Let’s talk about how every single horrifying event that happened in asylums was a direct result of the doctors and nurses committing medical malpractice rather than the patients themselves, shall we? We’ll start with Rosemary Kennedy. Someone get the lights. I have a PowerPoint.”

I would totally fund this tour if I had moneys.

“

In a time when libraries are increasingly valued by metrics (circulation numbers, attendance at events, visitor counts), story time is a regular event that will get people through the doors. The story times I’ve been to have all been fun, noisy and colourful affairs, with singing, crafts, and books read aloud to a large group of excited children and their parents or guardians. Clearly well attended and popular, they are a key part of most libraries’ schedule of events.

The greatest benefits of story time, however, are not really for the libraries but rather for the kids and parents who attend.

”

— from On the Importance of Story Time
(via bookriot)