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Me, looking back at how many books i used to read: I love that bitch, she was going places.

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WARNING: ANIMAL CRUELTY

Apparently people have been adopting dogs and either killing them themselves or dropping them to a kill shelter (and one even said they were flying them to poor Asian areas to be eaten) under the Twitter hashtag #pitbulldropoff

This is completely cruel and evil and word needs to get around about these demons so everyone knows what these demons are planning to do to dogs once they get ahold of them.

If you know someone or if you yourself is planning to give away a pitty by craigslist soon, DONT and wait for awhile!!!! They act like they’re going to adopt them and act all nice then they get rid of them, don’t be fooled!!

DM me for uncensored names!!!!!!!!

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I’m through with playing by the rules of someone else’s game

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♥

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The other day I was washing my hands and another woman came out the stall a couple seconds after I did. She wasn’t cis, and a different woman waiting for someone to finish up looked angry and opened her mouth to say something. Before she could, I smiled real friendly a this woman who’s just trynna wash her hands and told her I loved her skirt, and we started talking clothes.

The waiting woman was still clearly pissed but she didn’t say anything because she knew I wouldn’t have her back. That’s all it took to keep some poor lady just trynna scrub up from getting harassed.

Sometimes doing the right thing is really hard and kinda scary. Other times all it takes is making it clear that you won’t support someone’s nastiness. It’s a little enough thing to do your part.

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I always get super confused when I see Orphan Black entire cast photoshoots like surely there should be more people in these pictures but then I remember that one woman played 14 different characters and I still can’t believe it

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modern orphan black aesthetic: sarah manning

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Moxham Castle was a beautiful castle that once stood in Sydney, Nova Scotia. AJ Moxham, who was a steel and rail engineer, moved most of the castle from Lorain, Ohio in 1900 to the small Cape Breton town for his wife, Helen, who only agreed to move if she could bring the castle too.

It has been described as having creepy wine cellars, large crystal chandeliers, a huge ballroom, a solarium, 14 fireplaces, 30 rooms and 2 large steam furnaces.

Not long after the move, tragedy struck when the Moxham’s son, Thomas, was killed after being hit and dragged by a rail train and nearly decapitated. Devastated by their loss, the Moxham family left the castle behind and moved back to the United States.

The Moxhams kept ownership of the castle for over 10 years, loaning it out as a convalescent house to soldiers returning from WWI. Eventually it became ruins after it was abandoned in the 1940s and was overgrown with weeds and shrubs before it ultimately caught fire and burned down in 1966.

(Photograph taken inside Moxham Castle with the staff of officers, doctors, and nurses during its time serving as a hospital during the first World War.)

(Only a few items of the castle remain on display at historical museums, one being St. Patrick’s Church Museum in Sydney, Nova Scotia, which holds 2 chairs and table that survived the fire.)

(The only thing still standing that once was part of the Moxham Castle is the original guard house and a small section of the original stone fencing.)

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Leda + Colors

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states of mind simplified

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Just remember my loves:

Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped into the next room. You can call me by my old familiar name, put no sorrow in your tone. I promise we will laugh at this difficult passing when we meet again.

All my love,

S

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My sister and I are orphans, you see. And we could have ended up anywhere. We could’ve ended up in any family. And if we had, we would have been entirely different people. But my mum, Siobhan, this woman, she chose us as her own. We are who we are because she carried two little London urchins on her wings to Canada. Watching her raise my sister, watching my sister raise her own daughter, finding my biological sister…it’s quite mad. It’s taught me that we are all mysterious works of chance. Of choice. Of nature vs. nurture. So to my galaxy of women, thank you for the nurture.

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U.S. American-washing and Canadian Erasure in Film & Television

So, I’m getting really sick of Canadian Erasure in the North American film industry. It’s a huge problem that is barely talked about and it spans across the industry in various ways.

It happens on Canadian shows. Canadian show creators have a very hard time pitching projects internationally. They are hit with “Nobody’s going to watch a show that takes place in Canada.” and “No one will understand the cultural context.” So Canadian shows are forced to make a “vague, generic North American city” for the story to take place in. AKA a city where the U.S. Americans and the rest of the world assume that it takes place in the U.S.A. Some great examples of this are: Sanctuary, Lost Girl, and Orphan Black.

story time: ~~I remember back in University a show called “Falcon Beach” was filmed in my province, and someone who worked on the show told me that they would shoot two separate scenes if there was money shown in it, one with Canadian currency and one with American currency, because the U.S. networks wanted the show to appear American to their viewers.~~

Canadian Erasure also happens on the production level. Many U.S.American shows (and movies) come to Canada to film. When projects are in Canada, the crew, background actors, guest stars, etc. are either mostly, or all, Canadians. Canadian writers and lead/supporting actors often bleed heavily into the project as well. Truly making a joint Canada/U.S. project. However, because the funding comes from U.S. companies, Canada is cut out of claiming credit for these shows. All they get are after credits. Think of T.V. shows like: Stargate, Once Upon a Time, The 100, or literally anything on the SyFy network.

Even for those non-Canadian actors who move away from their home country to seek a career in acting in the U.S. have a much higher chance of playing characters that hail from their homeland. We all know British characters played by British actors in U.S. media. However, in Hollywood, a place flooded by Canadians, has next to no Canadian characters! literally the ONLY example of a Canadian actor who played a Canadian Character because of their nationality, that I can think of, is Cobie Smulders as Robin Scherbatsky in How i Met Your Mother.

story time: ~~Jewel Staite, a Canadian actor, who played a character in Stargate Atlantis, was written as Canadian by, Martin Gero, a Canadian write on the show. The show centred around an international space exploration project, so it made sense to have different nations represented. Then one of the American producers said that they already had “too many Canadians” (There was ONE Canadian) so they changed her character into an American. However, they had already shot a bunch of scenes with her in a military jacket with a Canadian flag patch on her arm, so in post they CGIed it to an American flag!!! because heaven forbid there are TWO canadian characters in one show!~~

This Canadian erasure is getting so strong that we’re at the point that when Canadian shows are openly Canadian, people STILL think they’re U.S. American. Just recently I saw a post on here about the T.V. show Wynonna Earp and people were arguing that it takes place in the U.S.A. The post literally started with these hallowed words “If Wynonna Earp isn’t set in the US then where the fuck is it supposed to be set???” and people genuinely hopped on the thread, sharing their opinions as to why they think it’s set in the U.S. despite the fact that it’s a very openly Canadian show that takes place in Alberta.

Now, I’m not expecting tumblr to solve this huge problem that’s been around since the beginning of an industry. However, I do ask that people are more open-minded to the possibility that not everything in the North American film industry is a U.S. only production, or is even U.S.American at all.

Thank you!