the ugly-cute fat friend

Gloria and Marvin - “Waiting To Exhale”

Mercedes and Shane - “Glee”

Mercedes and Sam - “Glee” 

Florida and James - “Good Times”

Sheila and Troy - “Why Did I Get Married”

Lytia and Branson - “Single Mother’s Club” 

Jazmine and Dr.Tunde - “Phat Girlz” 

Georgia and Sean - “The Last Holiday” 

Gina and Joe - “Beauty Shop”

Cleo and Ursula - “Set It Off”

Leslie and Scott - “Just Wright” 

Belle and Jesse - “Taxi”

She was confused by my appearance and asked me “boy or girl?” It took me a while to understand what she was saying, but eventually she got the point across, and I told her that I was a girl. She seemed unsatisfied, and I explained that I was transgender. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t know the word.

We ended communicating by typing our respective sentences into Google Translate. Unfortunately, whatever the Arabic word for “transgender” is, it wasn’t a word she knew either. Eventually I ended up typing in “I used to be a boy but it made me unhappy so I decided to be a girl.” She stared at it for a moment then asked “You are happy now?” I said yes, and she smiled and looked thoughtful.

Challenge accepted

Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

They’re known as Butterworts or Pinguicula and they are officially THE COOLEST PLANTS EVER

See those leaves? They’re coated with DIGESTIVE ENZYMES TO TRAP AND KILL INSECTS

And they look FREAKING AMAZING