bargareanjade:

benyw:

despaclito:

alliluyevas:

alliluyevas:

National Geographic on Facebook: this is a facial reconstruction of a teenage girl who lived 9000 years ago based on her remains!

half the comments: men criticizing her looks and saying she’s unattractive and mannish

anyway this is the reconstruction and I always enjoy seeing the faces of prehistoric humans and how much we have in common over thousands of years despite how incredibly different our lives are. I support her and I think she looks wonderful.

everyone in the replies of this post saying “well I think she’s pretty!” missed the whole damn point lmao

I remember watching a documentary once where historians were trying to work out who a dead girl was and what her life was like. I’m pretty sure they dated the body back to the early Victorian era, and established pretty early on that she lived in poverty, died young, and was most certainly a prostitute.

The grand finale of the show was the reveal of her reconstructed face. Now, bare in mind that through their investigations they discovered that she had lived an awful life and died an agonizing death (syphilis iirc). So, you can imagine my disgust when the historians reacted with disappointment at the reveal of her ‘face’. This poor girl, who had suffered terribly, was obviously not the poor, tragic beauty they had been hoping for.

She was plain, maybe some would say she was ugly, but what was truly hideous was the fact that you could practically see the sympathy these historians had for this poor girl slip away as they looked at her ‘face’, and you could certainly hear it in their voices.

Even in death our value rests on the basis of our looks. Sympathy is conditional - based on where you fall on the looks scale.

Science: *gives us the miracle of seeing long-dead faces*

Men:

officialromaniantranslatiuni:

uwu-ni:

dawnofthebadpuns:

badgyal-k:

someclevermoniker:

poorsuzy:

I love Gordon Ramsay so much.

He comes from a very poor family. His father was an alcoholic who beat him and his mother (he once poured hot tea over her and put her in hospital several times), his brother is a drug addict, he literally built an empire out of nothing.

He credits his mother as his biggest inspiration and often has her cooking in his shows.

When he left his first restaurant he pulled a successful Jerry Maguire - the entire kitchen staff went with him. That tells you what he’s like to work with.

He was one of the first to give a restaurant to a female chef.

He went to prison (Gordon Behind Bars) and taught inmates to bake and they opened a bakery (Bad Boys Bakery) that is still running. He hired one of them when he got out.

He did documentaries about the cruelty of shark hunting and cocaine. (when he discovered cocaine was used by his staff he didn’t fire anyone but made sure they are offered treatment)

His kids are a treasure.

He is always ALWAYS kind to servers.

When one of his partners (Marcus Wareing) wanted to leave they got into a fight and settled it in court, they no longer speak to each other but this is what Marcus said about him after the fight: 

I feel bad that the first association to him for a lot of people is this shouty TV chef when he’s truly a wonderful person. 

Oh and then there’s this:

this entire episode 

never forget that the reason he’s “shouty and angry” on his tv show is that he’s yelling at people who ignore the rules of courtesy and food safety and basically feed their customers poison, something which would enrage any good person

Uncle Gordon

a good man

i’m crying

lesbianlinkle:

oh made these earlier 2 show that the issue w shading with black is not that you should never ever use black (terrible advice)

it’s just that black alone only darkens and desaturates colours. if you want to create more visual interest mix in more colours and saturation..

simply be aware of the fact that black deadens colours n work with that. White does the same, but lightens and desaturates rather than darkens.

you don’t have to avoid black, it’s just something to be aware of is all. and you can most certainly shade with black alone if it’s what you need for the piece!

my advice for anyone is if someone tells you “never do this” in art - find out why. The what without the why gives you no insight and limits your knowledge, always seek to understand the rules so you can break them as you see fit.

annikasettergren:

• I’m a flight attendant and you’re accidentally hitting the call button every 5 minutes so you’re lucky you’re so cute au
• You’re nonbinary and I didn’t know what that meant until you explained it and now I think I’m nonbinary??? au
• You’re the one person who can do my elaborate stage makeup so every night you spend half an hour in close proximity to my face and I am Distressed au
• I look a lot like someone in one of your classes and every other day you come up to me and start talking to me like I’m them au
• you’re sitting in the booth I always sit in but you refuse to leave and I refuse to let you have it so we end up sharing a booth au
• we’re both high school teachers and my students ship us but I won’t let them tell you au
• hi sorry I live below you and I hear your dog running around and barking all the time and— no no it’s fine I was just hoping maybe I could pet it? au
• we’re parent chaperones on the class field trip to a huge museum and somehow we got separated from the group??? au
• I keep walking in on you making out with my roommate and I’m uncomfortably into both of you au
• I put salt in your coffee when you were in the bathroom and you drank it all and that was hardcore want to go out sometime au
• sorry but this is the silent floor of the library and if you don’t shut up so I can study I will yell at you and get us both kicked out au
• I need a child’s birthday present? It’s my cousin’s child, I have no idea what they like but I think maybe it’s a girl can you help au
• you’re the only person on my floor who has a vacuum and I spill things a Lot sorry can I borrow it again au
• I thought those cookies were for the whole dorm but you needed them for class so now I’m baking a new batch with you au
• you’re the only other one who voted for my favorite movie on movie night so do you just want to watch it in my room au

wlwriot:

wlwriot:

wlwriot:

Today I called a girl homophobic as a joke and she almost started crying

She said “my neighbors are a lesbian couple! I’m the least homophobic person you’ll ever meet”

I said “Kelsea I’m really sorry I hurt your feelings but I need you to know that homophobic people can have lesbian neighbors” and she just got even more distraught and said “I’ve been inside their house and I wasn’t even afraid or anything”

AFRAID OF WHAT??

megasov:

viridiansunlight:

affectionatesuggestion:

I will flourish this year and no one can stop me.

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