hold on.

Listen I know I’ve made a thousand posts about this and I’ll make a thousand more but do you remember that time when Avatar: The Last Airbender had an episode where a bunch of earthbenders took over the Northern Air Temple and their leader created a bunch of steampunk inventions allowing them all to fly around:

And the reason he did all of this was so that his son, who was in a wheelchair, could get around just like everyone else:

And all throughout the episode, you saw the son going around in the wheelchair and even though the episode came out in 2005, his disability wasn’t used as inspiration porn or tragedy porn? In fact, though he was a main character in the episode, the plotline didn’t focus on his disability at all and other than the backstory and Sokka commenting on his glider chair, nobody ever brought it up but they still managed to help him when he needed it?

And not only did Tao help fight in this episode but he came back with a completely adapted tank in order to kick ass in the penultimate battle?

Do you remember this?

Because I still remember my eleven-year-old self sitting in my wheelchair, completely and utterly taken aback by this character in a wheelchair who was practically an airbender? My twenty-two-year-old self is still blown away by the episode. I still have the old wheelchair-glider toy.

(And of course, later on, Toph would come along and be an even better example of a disabled character. And years later, Korra would as well.)

Representation is important.

Photographs: Istanbul mosque, Turkey.  (sources: dailysabah.com and karar.com)

if u ever meet someone who makes ur life flow easier and makes u laugh a lot keep them, that’s all u need

Updates:

“Where Are They Now? A Year Later, Mixed Fortunes For Panama Papers Line-Up.”

“Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption, was killed in a car bomb.”

i will never be over this

I’m obsessed with these pictures of the Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders wearing their real world professional work attire as their cheer uniforms

I found these gifs I made a while back for a site that’s not running anymore, so I thought I’d post them here. It’s a description of psychiatric symptoms and states of mind using a pink box and some other stuff. 

These are so accurate

idk what it is or where big dick energy came from but all i know is that valkyrie has all of it

Florence + The Machine // HIGH AS HOPE (released June 29)

my uterus realizing we aren’t having a baby after building up a lining for three weeks:

Feinstein: You’re a big, powerful man. Why didn’t you [gestures pushing motion]?

Crews: Senator, as a black man in America [sigh]…

Feinstein: Say it as it is. I think it’s important.

Crews: …you only have a few shots at success. You only have a few chances to make yourself a viable member of the community. I’m from Flint, Michigan. I have seen many many young black men who were provoked into violence, and they were imprisoned, or they were killed, and they’re not here. My wife for years prepared me. She said, “If you ever get goaded, if you ever get prodded, if you ever have anyone try to push you into any kind of situation, don’t do it. Don’t be violent.” And she trained me. I’ll be honest with you it was the strength of my wife who trained me and told me, “If this situation happens, let’s leave.” And the training worked because I did not go into my first reaction, I grabbed her hand, we left, but the next day I went right to the agency. I have texts, I have phone conversations, and I said, “This is unacceptable!” And I told them how -you know- I almost got violent, but I didn’t. And I said, “What are you going to do about this predator that you have roaming your hallways?” And -you know- I was told, “We are going to do everything in our power. We are going to handle this Terry. You’re right. It is unacceptable.” And then they disappeared. Nothing happened.

Look at the faces of the black men behind him it says it all.

This is real fucking infuriating. This shit isn’t funny. Fuck them and anyone who makes fun of Terry Crews speaking out and taking a stand.

The quietly desperate work culture of “I hate Mondays”, “thank god it’s Friday”, “working for the weekend”, and similar nonsense is deeply disgusting, and I hate that it’s seen as normal.  We are burning away 70% of our lives waiting for the 30% where we can recuperate from work and actually live for a little while.  This is absolutely not the way life is supposed to be.  This is obscene.

me the week before I get paid

@teh_jeruk

You deserve to be treated well. Just because you aren’t being treated well doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to be.

It’s okay that you’re not who you thought you would be

wow this is one of the softest things I have read on here.

They are going to pass all of their finals

who?

the student reading this ❤️

I mean thanks for the support but idk…