“something cool”

And then he would show up. And he’d offer to help, opening all the wrong doors and leading me the wrong ways. Whatever I did, I would always end up on the same platform again. And he would say “Just forget” and he’d try to hold me “I’m here”.

That when everything would start to go blurry. It would be like fog, settling over my mind, making it fuzzy and mad. And then I would hear her scream and there was this feeling of true despair, of fear like I never felt in my life. She’d be lying on the rails and she wouldn’t move, she’d just scream for help, over and over again, and I’d be there frozen, his hand on my arm. Then, next thing I know, I’d be on the rails and she’d be above me, on the platform and the wind would rush through my hair and there would be this deafening noise from the train rushing towards me. The cold rails beneath me and her, trying desperately to do something, anything to help.

And then he would show up. And he’d offer to help, opening all the wrong doors and leading me the wrong ways. Whatever I did, I would always end up on the same platform again. And he would say “Just forget” and he’d try to hold me “I’m here”.

That when everything would start to go blurry. It would be like fog, settling over my mind, making it fuzzy and mad. And then I would hear her scream and there was this feeling of true despair, of fear like I never felt in my life. She’d be lying on the rails and she wouldn’t move, she’d just scream for help, over and over again, and I’d be there frozen, his hand on my arm. Then, next thing I know, I’d be on the rails and she’d be above me, on the platform and the wind would rush through my hair and there would be this deafening noise from the train rushing towards me. The cold rails beneath me and her, trying desperately to do something, anything to help.

oh, that’s nice

oh, that’s kinda cool

oh, that’s pretty

okay…

but when one of my classmates speaks arabic in public to her family, she gets strange and disgusted looks. no one asks to be taught arabic. no one says its cool that shes bilingual

but arabic though……my friend speaks it a lot. she speaks it with her immediate family. despite her talking in english at school, she knows many out-of-town people who speak arabic. the circle of people she can speak arabic to is huge. its a very useful language, especially considering the refugees coming in. theres not even anything particularly bad sounding about it? 

so its racism. arabic is primarily spoken by middle eastern people. french is primarily spoken by white people. my middle eastern friend gets strange and disgusted looks for speaking her language. my white ass gets praised for speaking mine. its racism 

…and y'all, I almost cried. Just look at these. LOOK AT THEM.

So many skin tones!

PLUS SIZED BODY TYPES!

NATURAL HAIR STYLES!!! MULTIPLE SHADES OF DARK SKIN!!!

LOOK AT THIS PROFESSIONAL LADY!

SO MANY SKIN TONES AND BODY TYPES AND LOOK AT THAT MERMAN!!!

FRECKLES!!!

Y'all, I’m just…so so happy.

I’m 35 years old and I’ve never seen a Barbie that looked like me, and then there I am as a Barbie in a purple sweater with thick thighs and evenly proportioned boobs and pink hair and a cat.

I can only imagine how other girls must feel.

US students will be able to shield themselves during school shootings with the latest in body armour, the Bodyguard Blanket

But it must be a statistical flaw, you say, there weren’t that many massacres before 1996, right? No, WRONG.  In the eighteen years leading up to Port Arthur, there had been 13 mass shootings. 

But April, you ask, this couldn’t possibly have worked could it? Wouldn’t it only have reduced the mass shootings? WRONG. Since 1996, there have been ZERO mass shootings. That’s right, ZERO. FUCKING ZILCH. There have been scattered homicides, however:

How many schools have been raided and children murdered? NONE. How many film buffs have been murdered in their seats? NONE. How many innocent lives have been lost to the barrel of a gun? NONE.

On top of this, homicides involving the use of guns, and youth suicide involving the use of guns has declined dramatically, by up to 60%

Australia, however much the environment tries to kill you, is a safe haven, and you can walk the streets with 99% assurance that you won’t fall victim to a drive by shooting.

in 1996 another lone gunman killed 16 children and their teacher, and then committed suicide. again within six months the uk government outlawed all handguns. special dispensation had to be issued in order to hold shooting competition as part of the 2012 olympic games, and british hopefuls had to train overseas.

you can legally own certain types of shotgun, .22 calibre rifles over a certain barrel length, and antiques. that’s it.

in the nigh-on twenty years since the uk has had one mass shooting. one. and we’re down to about 30 gun-related deaths annually.

“They look nothing li—”

baby ducks act a lot like baby chickens so in the beginning it wasn’t so bad

the main problem is that baby ducks  LOVE water, but baby chickens get very very dead from it,

so you can imagine the mother hens surprise and horror the first time they go by the farm pond and ALL THE BABIES RUN TO THE WATER AND JUMP IN

my grandmother had to come out of the house to investigate all the noise the hen was making

The mother hen was clucking and screeching in distress and running circles around the pond while the duckies were having the time of their lives.

This happened a few more times before Momma hen was like FUCK IT YOU WANNA SWIM SEE WHAT I CARE , and would sit a distance away watching them in the pond.