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Thinking of blogging properly again. This week has been beyond hellish and at the end of every day it has felt like my soul has been sucked out through the top of my head, but I have done a ridiculous amount of work and it feels amazing, like I'm finally getting on top of everything and for the first time in ages I feel like living again.

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Yayyy the weather is finally starting to resemble spring! I'm gonna take a half day tomorrow and go shopping for some nice spring-like teas in a pretty dress, because this week, wearing scrubs all the time and feeling like shit can go and fuck themselves. Stereotactic surgery, I wash my hands of you. Also fuck working for 13 hours straight with a 20 minute break. Never again.

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Male Privilege #14

Nobody tries to take away your right to use a condom. Nobody hammers into your head that you should feel guilty and shameful about preventing your gift-from-God sperm from fertilizing an egg and thus ensuring the birth of a beautiful child. No politician tells you using condoms makes you a slut. Nobody bombs a convenience store that sells condoms, threatens people who put condom vending machines in areas, or attacks politicians who support condom use.

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99 bottles of beer on the wall.

99 bottles of beer.

Take as many as you possibly can down and hoard them for yourself

because doing anything else is communism.

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My mouse is the cutest mouse in the universe, I love it so much I just want to feed it oats all day

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Anything on earth that a woman is capable of doing is womanly. It is impossible for a woman to be unwomanly because a woman is a woman. Therefore, anything a woman does is womanly by default. Fighting is womanly. Winning fights is womanly. Bruises are womanly. Savagery is womanly. Unwholesomeness is womanly. Athleticism is womanly. And not giving a shit what some poor delicate flower of a newspaper columnist thinks about your womanliness is super fucking womanly.

Fierce Women’s Judo Competitors Offend One Man’s Delicate Sensibilities (via catladysoul)

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fml I think I'm getting sick again after having just recovered, had to choose between a 12 year old and a 9 year old antibody to put on my 60+ sections and wont be surprised if both are expired who the fuck keeps antibodies for that long, this lab is crazy, almost broke a piece of equipment just now in the middle of cleaning it, my cells got completely overgrown and are now weird and clumpy, my mouse hates me and I just want to go home and hug 3 cats :( Fuck being a "scientist" or having contact with germ-carrying humans.

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My mouse doesn't love me and that makes me sad, because I love my mouse so much that sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm too busy worrying if he's died when I can't hear him scuttling around :( I just want him to stop hiding in his tunnel all the time so I can feed him treats and look at his adorable little face

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If only I had a dollar for every time someone said one of these things to me >_<

“These incidents may appear small, banal and trivial, but we’re beginning to find they assail the mental health of recipients.” 

-Sue et. al , 2007

If white people would even admit any of the stuff on this list was racist my life would be easier. 

http://www.olc.edu/~jolson/socialwork/OnlineLibrary/microaggression%20article.pdf

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/02/microaggression.aspx

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If you try to fuck with me, I will stab you with a fucking knife and literally get away with murder while wearing perfect shoes and perfect make-up and here's a fucking philharmonic orchestra playing live in the background. Such pwnage.

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But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She’s the only one who makes it into a performance. And there’s something radical in acknowledging that feminine vulnerability as a performative, as something fake we are taught to expect and to mimic. That can be our superpower. We can be strong in ways men never will be because we face bullshit they will never have to face. That’s not justice, but it is power. It is strength. It’s control.

this super great essay about black widow and feminism (via helio-phile)

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omg

Stark’s Moving Castle

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Yup but I'll actually physically put one in the mail every day. Hmm, I wonder how much that would cost. Your postcards were amazing

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Weltschmerz - "the psychological pain caused by sadness that can occur when realizing that someone's own weaknesses are caused by the inappropriateness and cruelty of the world and (physical and social) circumstances."

The English language is so inadequate so much of the time.