consacrer:

Any Uni students wanna talk Uni talk with a year 10 student?

I’m currently in the last year of my uni degree.  For one, don’t freak out too much about marks to get into your dream course or whether the subjects you study are directly on track.  I got the best marks in highschool on the subjects least related to my course and have fonder memories.  If you end up with awful marks there are plenty of things you can do like bridging courses, or getting into another course at uni and changing.  I know people re-do year 12 and it’s a much better idea to go to uni and learn how to do assignments and organise your life and then get into the course you wanted than redoing year 12. 

Join the student union!  If you ever get into issues with your course they are a fantastic resource and will advocate for you.  They know their stuff.  

Everyone I know had a really crap first day.  It feels enormous and overwhelming and like you’re the only one who doesn’t get it.  It’s no big deal and you are so not alone.  

Do something that seems interesting and that you are interested in!  I have friends who have done/are doing language and arts degrees, they have a ball.  I was fixated in high school on medicine and realised that I actually much prefer nursing. If it makes you excited, do it.  

pearlconcubine:

tacobelt replied to your post: My blog is not your pickup zone.
yor smart, interesting and hot…get over it

So what you’re saying is, I deserved to be harassed by strangers because of how I look? 

Cool story bro.

“yor” smart, interesting and hot, therefore you should not use your intellect or own sense dictate how you reasonably expect to be treated, but instead “get over” people overstepping boundaries in your personal space.  

skillzmcfly: **Giveaway!!** In celebration of my daughter’s birthday, I decided to give away a three sets of my wood paneling cupcake wrappers! (Each set includes 12 wrappers.) The giveaway is open to everyone, within the US or not, and it includes shipping. The giveaway will end on Tuesday, April 17th at midnight and the winner will be chosen on April 18th, my daughter’s birthday! To win, you must reblog this post. Once this post has been reblogged, you can enter a second time by tweeting about the giveaway. Just make sure to add #NellieCakesGiveaway and your tumblr name to the tweet, otherwise it won’t be counted. (Also, make sure I can contact you via your tumblr ask box or through twitter!) Feel free to check out the other stuff in my etsy shop too!  Om nom nom

skillzmcfly:

**Giveaway!!**

In celebration of my daughter’s birthday, I decided to give away a three sets of my wood paneling cupcake wrappers! (Each set includes 12 wrappers.) The giveaway is open to everyone, within the US or not, and it includes shipping. The giveaway will end on Tuesday, April 17th at midnight and the winner will be chosen on April 18th, my daughter’s birthday!

To win, you must reblog this post. Once this post has been reblogged, you can enter a second time by tweeting about the giveaway. Just make sure to add #NellieCakesGiveaway and your tumblr name to the tweet, otherwise it won’t be counted. (Also, make sure I can contact you via your tumblr ask box or through twitter!)

Feel free to check out the other stuff in my etsy shop too! 

Om nom nom

clambistro:

Katter’s Australia Party - Campbell Newman/gay marriage attack ad

When even Bolt thinks you’ve crossed the line, you know you’re in trouble:

First, why freight the same sex marriage debate with pictures of gay men being physically intimate? The intention is plain and foul: to appeal to the yuck factor with homophobes. Would we illustrate a defence of traditional marriage with a couple of porn stars engaging in foreplay?

Second, why show a gay couple as a beautiful young man and an older and plainer one? Again, the intention seems plain: to link gay marriage or gay relationships generally to pedophilia - or at least to gay predators. Would we illustrate an argument on the sanctity of marriage by showing a 40-year-old groom with a teen bride?

Third, what’s with the creepy pixellation on the picture of the gays? The area being covered is a man’s chest, for goodness sake. Again, the intention is plain and foul: to make even the sight of a gay man’s chest seem sinister. To hint at the illicit and disgusting.

Fourth, what’s with the footage of Newman folding a skirt, after asking in this context: “How well do you really know Campbell Newman”? This time the intention is slightly less clear, even if the malice isn’t. Is this meant to sneer at gays as sissies? Or as Campbell as a closet gay - or even crossdresser?

Disgraceful stuff.

AUSTRALIA, YOU’RE STANDING IN IT!!!

Seeya, dudes, I’m outta here!

The pixellation is because the original photos show the man on the left with a fake pregnant belly and breasts.  The photographer was making a comment on gay adoption. 

But yeah, Katter is an arse. 

I think the fact that the graphics are on a slide show says it all really:  Old and out of touch technology for an old and out of touch view on homosexuality.

 http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/photographer-snaps-at-katters-ad-20120312-1uwhx.html

Cynical Idealism: i wish that instead of calling it "losing your virginity," everyone referred to it as your "sexual debut"

extranjero:

bitterbuffalo:

youarenotyou:

decodeunzipdiscover:

theoceanandthesky:

crystalsavestheday:

therhapsodyincidents:

SOOO INTO THIS!!!!

I’m also REALLY into this. That’s lovely. So much better, especially because that’s inclusive and doesn’t…

This is such a charming term. 

(Source: pontificatorymasturbation)

gently-tongued-by-stephen-fry:

Stephen Fry on his role on the Borrowers.

(Source: slowly-tongued-by-stephen-fry)

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feministslut: newwavefeminism: no one sells movies like female body parts. Nothing sells movies like women’s asses and legs… Kinky Boots is actually about drag queens… so that picture is actually of a man’s legs. 

feministslut:

newwavefeminism:

no one sells movies like female body parts.

Nothing sells movies like women’s asses and legs…

Kinky Boots is actually about drag queens… so that picture is actually of a man’s legs. 

(Source: thedorseyshawexperience, via historicalslut)

[Possible TW for thinspo bullshit. At link: Picture of a rhino running on a treadmill. There's a picture of a unicorn on the wall. The rhino is presumably trying to lose weight and look more like the unicorn. Some thinspo site put words over it that read, "you just need motivation!"]

bubonickitten:

khaleesi:

awildvuvuzelaappeared:

this picture makes me so sad and it also embodies a lot of what is wrong with media and its effect on body image. The unicorn in the photo doesn’t exist. It’s an unattainable dream in the clouds. Also, the unicorn is a horse. The poor rhino on the treadmill is a RHINO. Rhinos and horses aren’t in the same family of species. That rhino is built like a rhino. It’s a beautiful rhino. It looks exactly the way a rhino should look. But if it only ever thinks it’s supposed to look like something that it genetically and physically just is not, it will believe that it won’t be beautiful ever.

It’s exactly the same thing with girls and “thinspiration.” Bodies in magazines are photoshopped. Not even the models in the magazines look like the pictures. Ladies, don’t look at something that isn’t you and wish that you could be it. Look at yourself and wish to be yourself. Don’t love something fake and unattainable more than your own self. Love your self, or a version of your self you want to become, but don’t disregard everything you have going on for you in favor of some poster figure. And furthermore, don’t give in to what media and society tell you about your body. Own your body and love it. It does everything for you and it’s the only one you have. Don’t hate the way it looks just because it doesn’t look like a magazine picture. That’s no way to treat something that literally does everything for you.

Dear cartoon rhino in this picture, you are perfect just the way you are. BE a rhino. OWN being a rhino. Embrace being a rhino. You want to be a rhino that exists and not a fake horse with a horn that doesn’t exist. Replace that poster with a poster of a rhino. You are a beautiful rhino with a beautiful horn, an adorable tail, and adorable ears, and all the other rhinos love you exactly the way you are.

Put behind a cut mostly because I hate the thinspiration on that image so much I don’t want it on my blog. Anyway, reblogging for that commentary. And that goes for anyone, not just women. Of course, I’m 100% body acceptance, and I love all body types, and yet I still have trouble embracing my own body. So, loving yourself… much easier said than done, and who knows if I’ll ever get there. And that’s due in large part to what society says about body types like mine, and what society says I should look like (even if it’s unattainable). So, yeah. The image is being used as thinspiration, and yet the original image sans words always reminded me as a metaphor for how messed up sizeism is.

I own this image on a shirt (without the stupid message on it). To me it’s a cheeky “fuck you” to thinspo. I’m quite content to be a rhino.

(Source: get-thinspiration)

glossylalia: 10knotes: tumblrloveraddiction: REBLOG AND CLICK THE PICTURE TRY TYPING YOUR NAME, TUMBLR URL, ETC. This is so much fun. Submitted by dayanatuna Featured on 10Knotes, the 10,000 notes blog. Badass. though my IRL name is much more rockin’ than my tumblr name. 

glossylalia:

10knotes:

tumblrloveraddiction:

REBLOG AND CLICK THE PICTURE

TRY TYPING YOUR NAME, TUMBLR URL, ETC.

This is so much fun.

Submitted by dayanatuna

Featured on 10Knotes, the 10,000 notes blog.

Badass. though my IRL name is much more rockin’ than my tumblr name. 

(via bubonickitten)