Let’s face it, 80% of the reason these boys were my default team in ME1 is ‘cos having two toweringly-tall dudes decked out in armor and flanking you at all times is the most glorious heady feeling. I felt like a mob boss.
I need an appearance pack that puts everyone in crisp suits and shades.
Your reasoning is sound :D Also very neat art.
“You obviously haven’t seen turians swim. It lots of flailing and splashing, interrupted by occasional bouts of drowning.” — Garrus Vakarian, everybody. (via simplykateryn)
just casually deleted the little argument going on there, to add some relevant input
I think the main, horrifying thing about these airbrushed pictures being distributed, is there has been a lot of media hype calling this beautiful girl fat. It’s like, the media refuses to let her be proud of her body. They’ve even changed her face shape, making her almost unrecognisable. We always rant about how airbrushed photos affect us, but imagine how they must affect the people being airbrushed. Imagine feeling super confident and good about yourself after a photo shoot, and then seeing the end result and realising you weren’t good enough for the magazine. It must be crushing.
I remember, when my friend was practising photo shopping, she took a photo of my face and airbrushed it without my permission or even warning me. Personally, I found the un-airbrushed photo of myself more attractive, since it looked like me, but the airbrushed version was so disheartening. She’d changed the shape of my nose, elongated my face and taken out the scars by my eyes and the scar on my chest from my operation. She only did it as light hearted practice for her art exam, but it crushed me. She didn’t realise, and perhaps the photo-editors don’t realise, that by airbrushing out all the little imperfections on my face she made me feel like I wasn’t good enough. The little scars and freckles and the bump in my nose were all things that made me, me, and she took them away.
Similarly, by changing Jennifer Lawrence’s body, they’re telling her that no matter how successful she is, no matter how talented she is, she will not be good enough because of the things about her that make her who she is.
And I just find that sad.
Couldn’t have said it better.
By airbrushing her, you made her into something she said she never wanted to become.
(Source: day47, via littlelionheartedavatar)
“Geek,” “nerd,” and “dork” are not gendered terms. Nor is “gamer,” for that matter. If you are addressing an unknown audience of geeky, nerdy, dorky, gaming people, you do not have to come up with some female equivalent to make it clear that you are including women in your audience. In fact, if you talk about “geeks and geek-ettes” or “nerds and nerd-ettes” or “dorks and dork-ettes,” I am not going to feel more included. I am going to feel othered and uncomfortable. I’m a dork! I do not need a suffix. I’m already covered.
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On women’s issues, men are quoted overwhelmingly more often than women.
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Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong.
You might not even understand why it is so wrong, and you definitely don’t understand why it bothers me so much.
I don’t even know how to make you understand.
How do I explain that being autistic does not make it OK for people to torture you in the name of therapy?
How do I explain that false treatments that would be considered abuse if the kid wasn’t autistic are… still abuse when he is?
How do I explain that triggering PTSD is not an acceptable way to fix a behavior problem, ever?
If you don’t get that those kids feel that pain, that those kids are fully human, how can I explain that?
Why do I have to explain that?
I want to explain.
I want you to understand why this is wrong.
I want to shout at you that I know autistics can feel pain because I am autistic.
But I see how you don’t think we’re quite human.
I see it when a man keeps his two autistic sons in a cage, the prosecution can prove that he did so (he admitted that he did so!) and the jury thinks it is reasonable protection.
I see it when mothers murder their autistic children and then the other parents rally around the murder, rather than condemning her.
I see it when, as soon as I tell you that I am autistic, I am suddenly too autistic to understand what is best for my own life.
Even though I was competent five minutes ago, before I shouted “I know autism doesn’t have to mean X because I’M AUTISTIC,” now I am not.
Now I am autistic.
Now I am one of those people who can not possibly have emotions, who cannot possibly feel.
Now teaching me is not education, but intervention.
Now abuse is therapy.
Because I’m not really a person either, it’s OK to ignore me.
To make you understand why the wrongness bothers me as much as it does, I have to tell you something.
That something is the one thing that will also make my opinion invalid in your eyes.
It will make you think I have no empathy, that I can’t possibly know what it’s like to deal with someone as
I think you have no empathy.
If you had empathy, you wouldn’t need me to tell you that torturing an autistic person is torturing a PERSON, and that it’s wrong.
If you had empathy, you would realize that painting autistic people as tragedies can’t be good on our end, and you would stop.
But you don’t stop.
And if I try to tell you why I care so much that you stop, I am the one who can’t understand.
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How to fail your autistic child without even trying: A guide. -
Autism parents, here’s the deal: Every shitty thing you do to me, you are giving the next generation a pass to do to your kid. So, here are some brand new techniques, in case your current ones were getting boring.
(Source: timetolisten.blogspot.ca, via nekobakaz)
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Harry Potter- Tell about a scar on your body.
Ron Weasley- Something you’re afraid of.
Hermione Granger- A subject you know a lot about.
Draco Malfoy- Closest green item to you.
Severus Snape- Your favorite Alcoholic beverage.
Rubeus Hagrid- Your favorite animal.
Luna Lovegood- Something about you other people find weird.
Neville Longbottom- Your favorite flower.
Nymphodora Tonks- Something you would change about your appearance.
Fred and George Weasley- The last prank you pulled on someone, or someone pulled on you.
Voldemort- If you were to make a Horcrux, it would be…
Moaning Myrtle- The last thing to make you cry.
Sirius Black- Have you ever taken the blame for something you didn’t do?
Dobby- What is your most loved article of clothing?
Peeves the Poltergeist- What is the best/funniest insult you’ve used/heard?
Sybill Trelawney- When was the last time you experienced Deja Vu?
Filius Flitwick- What is your favorite spell from the Harry Potter series?
Lily Potter- Is there anyone you love so much you would die for?
Arthur Weasley- What piece of “Muggle” technology fascinates you most?
Mundungus Fletcher- Have you ever stolen anything?
Viktor Krum- If you were a Quidditch player, what position would you play?
Fleur Delacour- What physical attribute do you like most about yourself?
Hedwig- What was your all-time favorite pet, or, if you’ve never had one, your all-time favorite birthday gift.
Albus Dumbledore- What is your proudest accomplishment? (Dumbledore’s is, of course, being featured on a Famous Wizards Chocolate Frog Card)
(Source: throughherprettyeyes, via sherlocksflataffect)
