The Cat Who Leapt Through Time

fuckyeah-nerdery: epic-lee: THIS IS WHAT COLLEGE FEELS...

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:29:04 +0100

fuckyeah-nerdery:

epic-lee:

THIS IS WHAT COLLEGE FEELS LIKE

Are you shitting me?

so-relatable: Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:51:51 +0100

so-relatable:

Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are against this!

themetaphoricalsandbox: tearingclocks: starlyclimler: thisisra...

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:14:06 +0100

themetaphoricalsandbox:

tearingclocks:

starlyclimler:

thisisrapeculture:

[TW: Abortion, Medical Abuse]

magicalorphanboy:

bronzebasilisk:

ryunwoofie:

sonneillonv:

autumn-and-eve:

erinsmomma:

How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.

Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirst

Hi, OP! As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there! You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants! There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me! I was SOOO lucky! But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color. Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society! Neat huh?!

Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt. Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive. Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa??? And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL. Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time? Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!

Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home. But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters! This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE! Isn’t that wonderful?

And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby! I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him! But I also nearly died giving birth to him. You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world. My blood pressure was 180 over 130! At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah! How funny is that? And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son. Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic! And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST! It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes. You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again. Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT. :( My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now. I used to be tough). These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix! And many people go through worse! I know, right? Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny. Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues. Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!

I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous. I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking. I’m not trying to be mean! :( But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst. That’s just a clump of cells. Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL! Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that! They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids! Isn’t that so caring of them? I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me! And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split! Isn’t that wild?! Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses. But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?

Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption. And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying. Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs! Isn’t technology AMAZING?

And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming? Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted. But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me. And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her. As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own. Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them. For some, that’s poverty. For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability. For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.

May your birth control never fail!

Pro.

Sonneillonv deserves a mother fucking standing ovation here.

Slow clap.

On another note:
Don’t fucking bring religion into this shit.

As an adopted child this post is brilliant. You win all the awards Madam <3

Yeah, for all the church’s “lessons,” logic isn’t one of them.

help wat is the hawkeye reference in that gifset

Sat, 18 May 2013 04:05:51 +0100

M.A.S.H. It’s a tv show from the 70’s about a mobile army surgical hospital during the Korean War. The guy in the gif, his characters name is Haweye.

archangejolras: supersaiyanswagga: GREATEST FILM EVER: The...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:54:41 +0100

archangejolras:

supersaiyanswagga:

GREATEST FILM EVER: The Avengers (1978) trailer (xxx).

#oh my god #held it together until hawkeye #and then i lost my shit entirely

sirashtonirwin: deadfelinesociety: there is nothing romantic about not knowing you’re...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:35:06 +0100

sirashtonirwin:

deadfelinesociety:

there is nothing romantic about

not knowing you’re beautiful

loving someone until they learn to love themselves

please stop romanticizing low self esteem.

it’s one thing to love a person who happens to have low self esteem

it’s another thing to frame low self esteem as a desirable trait.

#hey #hey EVERY BOY BAND EVER

tropius-paskewitz: michishigeglb: docscratch: oh my fuckin...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:20:21 +0100

tropius-paskewitz:

michishigeglb:

docscratch:

oh my fuckin god im pissing myself at how unimpressed kakashi is rn

The number of fucks Kakashi gives is equal to the number of living relatives you have Sasuke

xxspiritkeeperxx: testchamberphi: I’m just going to leave this...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:17:49 +0100

xxspiritkeeperxx:

testchamberphi:

I’m just going to leave this here.

DEAR GOD YES

hiddlestalker: whos-super-locked: skinnycalibabe: honeyyboo-be...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:53:21 +0100

hiddlestalker:

whos-super-locked:

skinnycalibabe:

honeyyboo-bee:

oocupcakewhoreoo:

fuck-kira:

lunchtrae:

… if there are 107.4 million blogs currently, reblog if made your tumblr before they added a picture to the sign up page

thats rude as fuck how the log in page doesnt have a picture….

wait, tumblr has a picture on the login screen now?

i haven’t logged out of my tumblr in over a year what

You know you never log out when….

….uhh

you can log out?

I can’t find the logout button oh god I’m trapped
This is like a doctor who episode

lucyzephyr: saucefactory: OH, COULSON. ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLY...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:51:49 +0100

lucyzephyr:

saucefactory:

OH, COULSON.

ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLY AROUSED.

ARE YOU.

ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLY AROUSED AND HATING YOURSELF.

ARE YOU.

will forever be the best thing to come out of this fandom

wellthatsabitunfortunate: tiger-in-the-flightdeck: I once retold that joke: “On a scale of Jack...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:27 +0100

wellthatsabitunfortunate:

tiger-in-the-flightdeck:

I once retold that joke: “On a scale of Jack Harkness to John Watson, how out of the closet are you?” while visiting my family.

My brother didn’t even glance up from what he was doing, and answered with “Arthur Pendragon.”

Oh my god

”I like those crucibles that people have to go through. I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:30:18 +0100

”I like those crucibles that people have to go through. I wouldn’t wish the anxiety of them on an enemy, but I also know that if I’d been spared a single one of them, I wouldn’t be where I am.”

witneyhouston: im having one of those nights where u watch one youtube video and watch a related...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:12 +0100

witneyhouston:

im having one of those nights where u watch one youtube video and watch a related video and 3 hours later ur watching an hour long conspiracy documentary about how the illuminati killed michael jackson

thats-slightly-raven: spoken-not-written: thats-slightly-raven: My brother was trusted to go...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:26:57 +0100

thats-slightly-raven:

spoken-not-written:

thats-slightly-raven:

My brother was trusted to go shopping for the first time yesterday and he bought 39 loaves of bread because it was on offer so now our kitchen is just full of a fuckton of bread and we have nowhere to put any of it because our freezer is full, my house is like a shitty math problem right now.

oh crumbs.

I swear to god.

You wanna know how to tell it's finals? I'm currently in the library at 2 am on Friday night/Saturday morning and there's a fuckton of other people in here.

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:08:00 +0100

staceythinx: Free your lines and the rest will follow…or at...

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:06:52 +0100

staceythinx:

Free your lines and the rest will follow…or at least that’s the idea behind this notebook created by Marc Thomasset.

wearejohnlocked: daughter-of-white: sakura-rose12: Guys,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:21:04 +0100

wearejohnlocked:

daughter-of-white:

sakura-rose12:

Guys, guys, I made a gif.

LOOK AT IT. IT GAVE ME HELL. PHOTOSHOP CRASHED 4 TIMES! 4. FREAKING. TIMES.

*rage quit*

Worth it.

my mum heard me and came to ask me what i was laughing at and i had to show hER THIS GIF IM DONE

kogla: I got you, my angel!

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:20:02 +0100

kogla:

I got you, my angel!

felicia-dayum: snickerdoots: helpful-and-dreamy-castiel: plaidsunglasses: theangelgabrieldidmyhai...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:18:50 +0100

felicia-dayum:

snickerdoots:

helpful-and-dreamy-castiel:

plaidsunglasses:

theangelgabrieldidmyhair:

So if Sam was the one who turned Crowley human, and the first one around when Crowley started feeling feelings and stuff, does that mean that Crowley’s now imprinted on Sam like a baby duck?

no. baby moose

quick someone draw crowley as a bby moose

HERE YOU GO!

Goddamn, the hiatus is getting to me. @_@

THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING TO COME OUT OF ANY HIATUS

adriofthedead: ＴＨＥ　ＲＩＴＵＡＬ　ＩＳ　ＣＯＭＰＬＥＴＥ

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:56:56 +0100

adriofthedead:

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