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See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

bella was lucky she didn’t have a cell phone of any kind because you know ya boi edward would be blowing up that phone 24-7 going “saw a snail today…. effervescent” or some shit equivalent

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

Thank you for your patience, tumblr. I have been at work all day but now I am home and ready to build this horse you asked for.

First, let's pull up the poll results alongside an average looking horse. I have calculated the size of each part of our horse in relation to Average Size.

Next we will adjust our horse's components according to the specifications.

Finally, let us properly assemble these parts and see how it looks.

And there you have it. Great work team. No notes.

and i think to myself

what a wonderful world

occasional posts from users

reblog if you make occasional posts

Sometimes I still hear my voice

Keep telling everyone I'm dead

no one writes love stories better than aromantics send 

The amount of care and detail aroaces put into writing steamy romances is unreal.

The thing is we can’t rely on “love at first sight” or “it just is” logic because we don’t have that button, so instead we build relationships up and up and up, realistically, the only way we could imagine love happening 

us 👏 aro 👏 aces 👏 make 👏 it 👏 happen 👏

Aroaces writing romance:

listen asexuals have written some of THE kinkiest hot shit and i can testify that that is because they do not find the mechanics of sex interesting in and of itself, so they look at the scene and say “how can I make this spicy”

THIS MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW!!!!

(looks @dsudiswith new eyes)

…You know, it just occurred to me now that one of the pieces of advice I absorbed early on for writing sex scenes was that it’s a bit tricky to write your own deepest kinks, because it will seem hot to you no matter what, because it’s Your Thing, and you will not be able to accurately gauge how well it will work for anyone else.

And, uh, I guess by that light, yeah. If an ace writes a sex scene of any kind that seems sufficiently sexy to them, it must be fucking sexy. 

another underappreciated tumblr feature that you dont get on other sites is the queue. i love it when something i thought was funny six months ago and then forgot about a week later crawlts its way out of the processing vortex and i get to see it all over again.

you should queue this post it would be funny and grant me immortality

you motherfuckers put me in the processing vortex

the gifs i find on this website... you guys are art curators

this is not about gifsets this is about shit like this

please remember the people of Palestine at your Seder tonight. when they tell of our people being driven from their homes, remember what Israel has done to Palestine. that our history of being oppressed does not excuse Israel's oppression of Palestine.

reminder that digital libraries aren’t owned, also why pirating digital content is a necessity

As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

does it look like this

i was picturing this as after a successful writing jaunt but this is so much darker

You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

On a related note, that post also opened up the world of naps for me. I used to think that napping was mostly pointless for me, because I'm pretty much incapable of falling fully asleep in the middle of the day. But when I redefined naps to include "lying down with my eyes shut for an hour," even if I just spent the whole time brainstorming fanfiction, that was often enough to get me from "exhausted and running on 4 hours of sleep" to energized and refreshed

they are swimming around ur blog