Ruby Savage

tinyhousesmallspace: ittybittyliving: Erin Feher House Tour:...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:17:25 -0400

tinyhousesmallspace:

ittybittyliving:

Erin Feher House Tour: Living together in 500 sq. ft.

LOVE this place!

gothmina: Disturbing and grotesquely beautiful sculptures...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:51:54 -0400

gothmina:

Disturbing and grotesquely beautiful sculptures by Sarah Louise Davey ♥

leader-of-brokenhearts: If you want to create something, then...

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:25:56 -0400

leader-of-brokenhearts:

If you want to create something, then you must be something

deltaechofoxtrot: I watched this yesterday and it was beautiful...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:06 -0400

deltaechofoxtrot:

I watched this yesterday and it was beautiful and engaging: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/legendary-white-stallions/video-full-episode/8305/

U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:14 -0400

U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission:

bukrafilmishmish:

An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.

Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs.

did-you-kno: Source Frank Zappa rocks

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:02 -0400

did-you-kno:

Source

Frank Zappa rocks

runan: vastderp: ghostlysugar: PITBULLS Pibble, pibble,...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:43:20 -0400

runan:

vastderp:

ghostlysugar:

PITBULLS

Pibble, pibble, blowing bubbles

Let me pet them urrs

I’ll keep you in a totebag

And nuzzle at your furs.

I was doing okay up until totebag!pibble and then I just completely lost my ability to can like fwoosh! there it went

My pibble is my best friend! I wish he could fit in a tote bag, I would pack him everywhere!

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:15:54 -0400

sinnerme: mybeautifulrepublic: I took a 7 week coast to coast...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:40 -0400

sinnerme:

mybeautifulrepublic:

I took a 7 week coast to coast road trip after being laid off from Boeing. I didn’t have a camper but realized that being able to pull off the road at a rest or truck stop was the way to go to make the trip affordable. With a few sheets of 1/2” plywood and misc. hardware this is what I came up with. The effort was well worth the time and materials.

awesome

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:52:04 -0400

raideo: tf2maelgwyn: buzzfeedceleb: George Takei responds to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:26:09 -0400

raideo:

tf2maelgwyn:

buzzfeedceleb:

George Takei responds to fans of traditional marriage.

Mr Takei, I would marry you in a heart beat

oh my god I love this man

fuckyeahhardfemme: Want to know how to have a bikini body? Put...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:34:42 -0400

fuckyeahhardfemme:

Want to know how to have a bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. Boom. Done.

Please check out my plus-size style blog: P.S. It’s Fashion

You are sassy and sexy and I love your bikini! Wow!

th3skinny: magicalorphanboy: bronzebasilisk: ryunwoofie: sonn...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:09:08 -0400

th3skinny:

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.

Don’t care if this is OT for my blog.

I wanted to add that many adults who want to adopt can’t for several reasons. They can be denied because they’re a single parent, because they have a criminal history, even because they work too many hours and won’t be home enough. Reputable adoption agencies conduct lengthy screening processes including home studies. They require several letters of recommendation. And adoption costs A LOT of money. It’s a fallacy to believe that for every child eligible for adoption, there’s just a family waiting to scoop them up and save them. In reality, the majority of these children will end up in foster care (or worse — homeless, sold to sex traffickers and child traffickers). Giving birth to child you will not raise means there’s a very real possibility that your child will be shuffled around to different abusive homes until they age out or run away. This issue is not black and white, so don’t pretend like it is.

- A fellow adoptee

✿✿✿: fuckprivilege: I’m so tired of people saying “well you don’t face...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:43:23 -0400

✿✿✿: fuckprivilege: I’m so tired of people saying “well you don’t face...:

xedgemodificationx:

fuckprivilege:

I’m so tired of people saying “well you don’t face systemic oppression, so you could never understand the discrimination I face on a daily basis.”

I’m sorry, but to invalidate anybody’s experience just because they fit into “privileged” labels is ignorant.

Okay. For example, let’s take a young, white, cis, straight male. Thin. Middle class, maybe even upper middle class, with educated parents.

Doesn’t he have a good life?

If you think you can answer that question based solely on that information, you are more judgmental than you know.

People are so much more than societal labels. This kid is more than just a white, cis, straight male. Maybe he’s bullied. Maybe he’s picked on incessantly, maybe he can’t face going to school everyday. We’ve all known kids like this. We all know a kid who, for whatever reason in elementary school, became the pariah before societal labels were really given to him.

Okay, but wouldn’t it be so much worse if he wasn’t a white, cis, straight, thin male?

Maybe, maybe not.

When we define someone by their labels, we aren’t recognizing experience, we’re ignoring it. Who’s to say that he has a support system? Who’s to say he’s got friends, he’s got people to relate to, to trust?

This is my problem with tumblr social justice. It perpetuates this idea that happiness can only be obtained through privilege, that somehow all it takes is to be straight, white and male to unlock a world of ease, comfort, and general satisfaction.

If you don’t have privilege, you know what? You can still be happy. If you do have privilege, maybe you aren’t happy. And people with privilege who aren’t happy aren’t necessarily spoiled. This thinking reinforces negative stereotypes about both ends of the spectrum. This thinking is alienating. This thinking will never lead to equality.

I’m not saying that discrimination isn’t real. It is. But to judge somebody’s quality of life from these labels is wrong. And I’m just so sick of people believing that someone having “privilege” equates to happiness.

You don’t know what somebody has gone through just from learning about their race, gender, religion, etc. Maybe they’ve gone through a lot of really bad shit. Maybe they haven’t. You can’t look at somebody and know.

You want to talk about identity erasure? Labels do exactly that.

My little brother has been bullied. And he’s a cis, straight, “white passing” male. Don’t ever tell me that he’s had it easier because of any of that. Don’t tell me that his privilege saved him. Don’t invalidate those experiences with “well if he was a POC it would be so much worse.” Stop. “If he was fat, the bullying would be worse.” Saying that means that you fail to acknowledge real human suffering. It’s minimizing his experience because it doesn’t fit into your prototype of “having it hard.”

People are individuals. If you can’t be empathetic toward someone just because of their “privilege,” maybe you ought to reconsider what kind of person you really are.

(Hint: a shitty one)

This literally summed up my angry feels towards the social justice corner of the internet, and made me feel much less bad for having them

beautifulbarns: Roseview Dressage, Millbrook, NY

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:17:48 -0400

beautifulbarns:

Roseview Dressage, Millbrook, NY

ionicruby: fuckingrapeculture: the-uncensored-she: ::melts:: ...

Sun, 19 May 2013 06:51:47 -0400

ionicruby:

fuckingrapeculture:

the-uncensored-she:

::melts::

aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee but seriously owls make out?

Gimme! Gimme!

roy-alty: fat-and-pathetic: migrated: change the direction of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:26:14 -0400

roy-alty:

fat-and-pathetic:

migrated:

change the direction of the train if you concentrate

i feel like i have super powers or something now

oh my god.

marielikestodraw: dirtydirtychai: asexual-not-a-sexual: Here...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:35:00 -0400

marielikestodraw:

dirtydirtychai:

asexual-not-a-sexual:

Here are some reaction badges for when people troll you with their bullshit and ignorance.

These are glorious.

Ahahha perfect

menandtheirdogs: idratherbewiththedogs: Pit Bull Saves Owner’s...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:01:06 -0400

menandtheirdogs:

idratherbewiththedogs: Pit Bull Saves Owner’s Life An Eastpointe man’s life was saved when his 3-year-old dog prodded him awake after he slipped into a diabetic coma last month.

Rules my Grandma's Psychiatrist gave her in 56'

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:09:02 -0400

teatravelandtraining:

Get some cheap dishes and break them when you get upset.

Learn how to say “NO” and don’t feel guilty about it

Buy something frivolous for yourself once in awhile, like a new hat.

Never again do anything you don’t want to do.

These are legit. Now a days they just give you pills. What a joke.