amymebberson:

Ariel & Rapunzel

Etsy link!

crystalsoulslayer:

that-damned-elusive-pimpernel:

catbountry:

adriofthedead:

Opinion: Stephen Colbert must be stopped!

reaill:

thief-of-strife:

I’m…really not sure what to think about this? I’m just sitting here…staring at the article and…

eh.

huh.

OH

MY

It says at the top of the article that the writer is a comedian.

You might be a feminist if you spent more than half of the reboot wanting to punch DC Comics.

celticthistle:

dulosis:

realrealsoft:

Tumblr, I never post things like this, but I am asking you- from the bottom of my heart- to read this in full. Thank you.

This is Mitchell Wilson. Mitchell was an 11 year old boy about to start Grade 6 in Pickering, Ontario. Two years ago he lost his mother to cancer, and a year after that, he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.

The doctors told the Wilsons that daily walks would slow the atrophying of his muscles, so Mitchell would often walk around the neighborhood by himself.

Last fall, Mitchell went on a walk and borrowed his father’s iPhone so he could listen to music and call home to see what time dinner would be. He was jumped by a boy from his elementary school, who stole the phone and smashed Mitchell’s face into the pavement so hard he broke his teeth.

The alleged mugger was suspended from school and the Wilsons pressed charges. But the bully’s friends would continue to harass Mitchell, following him around and making fun of the way he walked. Mitchell’s father says he was never the same after the incident, and he stopped his daily walks, which led to complications with the muscular distrophy. He had to use a walker at school.

The day before Mitchell was set to start Grade 6, he received a subpoena for court to testify against his mugger. He was terrified of facing the boy in court. When his father went to wake him up for school the next day, he found Mitchell dead. He had committed suicide, at age 11.

I was about to go to bed last night when I clicked on the link to this story. I almost couldn’t believe it. I’ve seen many sad news stories and I know that awful things like this happen ever day, but it really hit home, and I couldn’t stop crying. When I look at his picture, I lose it. I have a little brother who was bullied in school, and I was, too. The worst was around the ages of 11 or 12. People still mention that I’m sensitive- well, you would be too if you were endlessly mocked from the ages of 7-15 for things you couldn’t help (including your looks and the way you spoke), or got the shit kicked out of you for saying the wrong thing. When I found out it was happening to my brother, years later, my blood boiled and I wanted to go all vigilante, but I knew it wouldn’t help a thing. I just listened and made sure he knew I was there, and gave the best advice I could. Mitchell Wilson didn’t have anybody to tell him that it would pass. Because it does pass. But when you’re eleven and the world’s against you, it doesn’t feel like it will.

Hardships like losing a parent and then being diagnosed with a slowly crippling illness are bad enough, but having to face that kind of bullying on top of it is unbelievable. It wasn’t just verbal, it was physical. Mitchell Wilson didn’t deserve this. No kid does.

A 17 year old boy from Hamilton ended his life just days after Mitchell, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation has already donated a $130,800 grant to a local Hamilton suicide prevention line that will allow them to work more closely with schools. I’ve contacted them, and so far nothing has been set up for Mitchell Wilson’s school, area, or in his honour, so this is what I will be doing.

If Mitchell had known of a place he could call and talk to someone, or if he had been paired with a Big Brother or someone who could level with him and keep him from hurting himself, or if he had even been aware of all the help he could have received, maybe he would have taken it, or spoken up. Now the boy who mugged and assaulted Mitchell may have the charges against him dropped because Mitchell won’t be there to identify him. This is unbelievable.

If you google him, there are fewer than ten articles about this. It angers me that this isn’t getting attention because it isn’t a “cause-celebre”- Lady Gaga isn’t forcing this story into the media. How young does a person have to be? How much more tragic can the story get for it to be noticed and have the proper attention paid to it? What if it had been your sibling, your cousin, or your child?

I will be working with Kid’s Help Phone, the Trillium Foundation and SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere) to try and get funding for Mitchell’s school and area, similar to what the Hamilton area received, and hopefully also a dontation to the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Canada.

Mitchell Wilson deserves it.

Sources: The Toronto Star, The Toronto Sun, CityNews
Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

signal boost

This makes me sick. The poor thing, he was just a baby. Ugh, tears at work. :( Home province, get on it.

spaceoodity:

lucindasaxon:

greglestrudel:

perididdle:

a-hat-full-of-sky:

dahlek:

imperfect-forger:

notyoursupergirl:

deficientbastard:

faggotyrandy:

spectrumfizz:

seki22:

varison:

dosmondmols:

toasterbread:

balfrog:

jackmyswagnoir:

‘from the innate disposition of infancy to civilised society’
freud……………………………

‘it makes me sad, my father’s ceaseless worrying’

life of pi……

“they could see everything except themselves”

sideways stories from wayside school……………………………

“said the lamplighter”

“She must have had six feet of cleavage”

oops

“War was his call to manhood”

sdkfja;sdf 

“Awkward or embarrassing any more”

oh okay then

“As long as I get to play music with you, I’ll have everything I want.”
Gravitation. |D

I wasn’t even reading this book recently.  Fuck, is my room that dirty!?
 

“I can take care of myself.”
South of the border, West of the sun 

rebellious

“You’re a liar.”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

“So happy.” 

“I lived with a female cat named Neil.” (Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris)

That’s… surprisingly accurate.

“What were we doing before we were talking about the sun?” - Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett 

“It contained no words, but this little line of dancing men.”

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”

“…Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.”

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A partial answer to this question comes from the sporadic distribution of asexual reproduction among complex animals.”

Economy of Nature by R.E. Ricklefs

…………………………….ok then

“It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in“ 

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

“Let him that is without sin cast the first stone.”
The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry

This is scarily accurate.

gailsimone:

I know a lot of people are mad about the relaunch, which is understandable, but I have a question just for curiosity and reference.

If you could pick, say, five characters, that you would want to see return to the DCU in a prominent role, post-relaunch, who would you choose?

It’s okay if you can’t come up with five, obviously. I’m just curious to see who people would like to see repositioned in a place of importance in the new DCU.

Thanks!

Cass Cain, Conner Hawke, Donna Troy, Mia Dearden, and 

TED FREAKING KORD! No one has to bring him back it’s horrible to pretend he never even exisited. How can anyone possibly do that to Booster?

sunnylass:

yearofthehorse:

-simplysmile:

Recently, I’ve notice a lot of media around Chris Brown. His performance at the VMA’s being widely and enthusiastically received. It saddens me so much for Rihanna, imagine someone beating you so badly, having it nationally publicized, that person barely serving any sort of sentence and then having him applauded at an award show.

I am a domestic violence survivor, and please listen when I tell you, people like that do not change.  Their anger may lay dormant for a while, but it will never go away. Abuse is about power and control, and the desire for those two things can not be taken away by some sort of bullshit therapy. Chris Brown was barely given a slap on the wirst, after beating his girlfriend, who he was supposed to LOVE.

No amount of singing and dance, no theatrical performances are going to change each punch and kick and bite. And it never should. Please reblog.

Why the FUCK doesn’t this have more notes? Oh right, cause people make excuses for poor behavior when it’s someone they like! Good job.

Reblogging this whenever it is on my dash. And you should too.

PLEASE REBLOG to show your LOVE AND SUPPORT for Norway and it’s people in this devastating time. 90 people confirmed dead, and the numbers are rising. Read more here.