Ryukochan

Why Rapists in the Military Get Away With It

It’s maddening. Growing up in a military family, I understand some of the unique needs for trust and solidarity in and between the ranks - it infuriates me that there are people (in every walk of life) who are ready and willing to exploit what should be a strength, and twist it into a vehicle for brutality and suffering. I like his idea, but I agree that changes in military culture never come from the outside.

Oklahoma City Thunder Facebook Cover Photo

This is a cover photo I made for my personal facebook, but I wanted to share it with anyone who wants it :) (I don’t own any of the marks, images, etc. used here - think of it as a collage ^_^ ) madebyryu

Oh, how I wish this was more than a prototype. The Fluidity, by Design Libero of Milan.

Oh, Doctor, My Doctor!

mssheather:

I actually think this is kind of cool.

puckchk:

seriously? 

mermaidgypsyskys:

c-athedral:

The House didn’t pass the Personhood Bill!

WE DID IT

YAAAAAAY OMG YAAAAAAY

garlandgrey:

[No babies were harmed in the making of this metaphor, but one was fed a few tiny marshmallows to keep him quiet.]

You know what I love? Babies.

I am totally down for the babbling and the obnoxious cooing and the soft baby whispers into baby’s ear and OH MY GAWD, THE TINY BABY HAIR, MUST KISS. I will change diapers and make bottles and play peekaboo and watch a baby rock in one of those perpetual motion machines that apparently runs on babies - I’m totally down for all of that. I took care of Ty Ty during his first 24 hours outside of the hospital, because his mother had a medical emergency. I learned how to wrap him up in the little comfort swaddle and laid him on my chest and we slept in between feedings and diaper changes.

Babies? LOOOOOVE THEM.

But if someone came to me and said “Garland Grey, since you love babies so much, I’m going to build a machine that takes zygotes, incubates them and then shoots them out into the loving arms of an adoptive family or at least a social worker,” I would say:

“So you want to build a baby cannon?” 
“Yes! Of course! Because babies are so great!”
“No, don’t ever do that. Stop doing that this instant.”
“What, you don’t like babies? You don’t want to manifest babies at every available opportunity?”
“No! What about the babies that don’t get caught?”
“Oh, they’ll get caught! They won’t hit hard pavement moments after being born! People love babies!”
“Yes, but what happens when everyone who loves babies has already caught as many as they can?”
[Mumbles something about adoption.]
“What about the babies that aren’t adopted? What about the babies that aren’t going to be landing in the soft arms of noble caretakers?”
“Sex has consequences, Garland.”

Because that’s what it always comes down to, isn’t it? Four decades of slut shaming, disguised as concern for babies. We talk a lot about developmental stages when we talk about abortion - conception, the formation of certain anatomical structures, the audible heartbeat, the quickening, and then, of course, the final dimension: birth. The question I’ve always had is: what is so goddamn special about birth that makes a child worthless to conservatives? Why are they in favor of a fetus until it is born, at which point they make public statements about poor children needing to starve so they don’t multiply like stray animals and hunger being a great motivator?

Conservatives want to exist in this extra-moral bubble where none of us are allowed to notice that if they really, truly wanted to reduce the numbers of abortions, they would fund comprehensive sex education and contraceptive programs. But babies - precious, magical, subject of many a chain e-mail babies, the very reason they think they occupy the “high moral ground” - are significantly less important than making sure no one gets off without being punished. They know that teen pregnancy rates are highest in states with abstinence-based sex education programs and yet they are more interested in giving teenagers ultimatums about chastity than lowering the abortion rate.

We support legal abortion because we know that illegal abortion is too high a price to pay to let conservatives control Reproductive Rights. We know that life is more complicated than screaming when you don’t get your way and pretending it’s discourse. We know that a group of people that loves fetuses but doesn’t care about babies would gladly accept half a baby in a maternity dispute than deny it was their’s and save its life.

vintagegal:

DC Comics Valentines c. 1980’s part one

i hate missing you almost as much as i hate you being gone.

jimdoindierockmusic:

OK Go - Needing/Getting

The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net.

putting this here so i can link to it :)