Not Your Typical Barbie

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
boyznotinmotion
anyarps

i never talk about these things but i can’t remain silent.

i know tumblr doesn’t give a SHIT when things happen in countries outside the “most popular ones” (such as the usa & england). it’s true, don’t lie to me. y’all don’t give A FUCK. not every issue and problem in said countries gets the appropriate exposure but in general shit shows up on the news WORLD FREAKING  WIDE. you set up donations, you help out, your spread the word, you say “pray for x”……

southern europe is burning. 

my country is burning.

people are dying - at home, on the road, trying to run away, in their cars.

yesterday my country had 300 active fires.

people are losing EVERYTHING they own.

i have a friend that is on a train right now passing through places that have been burnt to the ground and she says the smoke is so intense it’s getting inside the train and she can barely breathe.

and yet, even though several people (myself included) have been trying to bring awareness to what has been happening in southern europe… what we get from most of you, those not part of the countries suffering, is silence. we don’t ask for money, we don’t ask for shit other than a reblog to spread awareness… something you can delete in 24/48hrs if you wish. 

i don’t know what to tell you. i’m angry. i’m frustrated. i’m disappointed. i feel like i’m screaming into the void. “a reblog does nothing” - you know that’s a damn lie, you know exposure always helps, you know people start paying attention when posts on social media become popular. my country in particular is a small one, we get ZERO exposure. y’all are only starting to figure out we even fucking exist bc of the shit we’ve been winning lately. 

but hell, if the EU doesn’t give a shit, why should some user on tumblr dot com?

again, i don’t know what to tell you so i’ll let the images speak for themselves: 

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An image captured by a Nasa satellite shows a thick plume of smoke blowing southward from the Greek island of Chios over the island of Crete

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Torneros de Jamuz, Spain

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Duca, Croatia

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A helicopter from Italy’s civil protection service drops water on a fire near the railway between Venice and Trieste

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Residents take refuge on the beach as a wildfire burns on the mountain next to the village of Lithi, on the Greek island of Chios

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Men gather cattle during a forest fire in Vieira de Leiria, Marinha Grande, Portugal.

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Charred trees are seen on the hills above the Cloister of Thivaidas on Mount Athos, a World Heritage Site in Greece

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Portugal

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tinacroat

This is fucking important. I am glad someone fucking spoke about this and said what they had to say. The damage is terrible, and all the evergreen, stone, even the ground is black. I was fucking terrified when Croatia was burning. The fire was near a village where I like and I thought it will burn down. I thought the church will burn down. I thought the cemetery where my grandpa is buried will burn. I still remember the smell of smoke, and when I went to check how bad is fire, my clothes and hair and skin all stunk of smoke. It didn’t go away for weeks.



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This is NASA’s picture of Croatia and Montenegro burning. My fucking country was burning. Fucking reblog this. I don’t care that it isn’t UK or US, or that it doesn’t go with your blog, fucking. Reblog. It.

surviving-an-ocean-of-fandoms

Not my blog type, I dont care.

silversmith-91

God please stay safe everyone, take care

pheita

A perfect example what is wrong with the media. I can’t recall hearing about it in the German news.

mastreworld

I had nightmares like this when I was little.

malicemanaged

Dear gods this is horrible!

iamhisgloriouspurpose

The world is on fire, literally and metaphorically.

slumberinggirl

Holy shit

neurodivergent-crow

Hello please don’t blame individuals for their country’s news outlets refusing to cover things. This is awful and we do care, we just need to be told it’s happening.

hedgehog-goulash7

Reblogging to spread awareness. These beautiful countries (Greece, Croatia, Montenegro, Portugal) are burning with intense wildfires which have apparently exposed the EU’s unreadiness to combat such a disaster. Many people – at least 80 in Greece alone, according to the New York Times (July 25, 2018) have died – including 26 people together at one Greek resort, some dying with their arms around each other – and the scenes of devastation are shocking. The cause of the fires is still being investigated, but intense hot and dry weather is contributing to the spread of the blazes.

As a resident of California, which deals with terrible wildfires also, my heart goes out to these countries and the families who have lost loved ones, as well as everything else they had.

Please reblog to spread awareness of this ongoing disaster – that’s all they are asking.

eventyyr

It’s not only Southern Europe; Sweden, too, suffers from wild fires out of control

rarecolesprouse

yup, there’s a wildfire around half an hour away from where I live. It’s crazy. Fortunately, nobody has been hurt yet…

@pheita I’m not sure if you’re actively avoiding the news, but the fires are most certainly all over the German news?! And I’m not even in Germany right now, but everyone from back home is asking how the situation here is right now…

pheita

@rarecolesprouse and @xirosh you both tagged my in this post and basically claimed I don’t read/watch news.

It is bold of you to assume the reblogg and my addition to it happened within the last couple of days where the wild fires were the major topic all over the news
I looked up in my archive when I reblogged this and it was somewhere in April and correct me if I am wrong there was nothing about fires in Croatia, Italy or Spain on the news. .
So the next time you feel like asking if someone avoids the news take into consideration the post/reblog/addition might be weeks or even months ago since Tumblr doesn’t adds time stamps on the rebloggs/posts. A lot of posts circulate for years now and get additions every now and then.

Now with this said: 
Please stay safe everyone. It is just a matter of time until more countries have to deal with wild fires and a lot of European countries aren’t properly prepared for this amount.

mimi-and-the-next-20th-century
teamgalactica

people with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes are so pretty.. fantastic combination…

teamgalactica

god i never realised how little people with dark brown hair n eyes get complimented until i made this post and discussed it with one of my friends, you guys dont get appreciated as much as you should and im glad that this small post meant something to you, youre all lovely

harajukucherrypopper
harajukucherrypopper

This just came to my mind

Tandy didn’t get the cloak ability obviously because she’s a runner, she didn’t need any help. Also in a way her white privilege is her cloak. She can move easier in the world, no cloak needed. BUT her being a woman is also kind of an invisibility. How men don’t really see her on a fair level. How rich guy sees her as less so he corners her in that ally.

Tyrone damn sure didn’t need the dagger ability. He’s got all that “poisin” in him just waiting to unleash on the cop. Him being a black male translates so negatively to ignorant people, they probably believe he’s got a weapon on him always. To society, his skin color IS the weapon.

Tandy’s white privilege works until her being a woman in today’s world kicks in. Her dagger helps her take back the control men think they are entitled to have over her.

Tyrone’s male privilege is cool until his blackness overrides it. The world labels him a thug. His cloak allows him to get justice for his brother in a way America doesn’t expect: rationally and without violence.

carebeardestruction
ruby-white-rabbit

There’s a turtle in my yard laying eggs

This bitch really gonna dump her kids on me and vamoose

I’m not ready to be a single mom

I know shit about reptiles

ruby-white-rabbit

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I had to put a stick next to the nest because she decided the MIDDLE of our yard was the primo spot to give birth

Mowing is gonna be interesting this summer

ruby-white-rabbit

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Meet the mother leaving her wildlife progeny under my city girl care

ruby-white-rabbit

I’m googling turtles right now. I sent photos to my southern stepmom for help. Apparently she’s a box turtle?

ruby-white-rabbit

70 DAYS UNTIL THEY HATCH??

iplemons

You a mom now

ruby-white-rabbit

Text from stepmom “watch out for foxes, cranes, raccoons, and snakes. They’ll eat the eggs so chase them off”

I’m gonna fistfight nature

ruby-white-rabbit

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@mrswinterbarnes you’re not wrong. When I came back from closing the barn doors she was gone. Nowhere in sight. I thought turtles were supposed to be slow

I was gone maybe ten minutes so first off, not even a goodbye??

mrswinterbarnes

I don’t think Box turtles return to their nest either, so until they hatch and dig out

YOU GONNA BE A MOMMA

ruby-white-rabbit

DAMN IT SHARRON

First that bird makes its nursery in my bike basket on our porch and now this

Why am I becoming a wildlife nanny??

ruby-white-rabbit

UPDATE


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SHES BACK

ruby-white-rabbit

NEVERMIND

ITS A DIFFERENT TURTLE

That’s two deadbeat turtle moms dropping their spawn on me

dancelikechangbin
dantecain

When I complain about being a ‘gifted’ kid who grew into a talentless adult I don’t mean that I’m not trying to work on my talents or anything

I mean that the ‘gifts’ I had are useless

Reading books above my age isn’t a talent when I’m not eleven

Knowing big words isn’t a talent when I’m not a kid, it’s just growing up

It’s just a weird thing that happens and it feels shitty when you’re brought up being told you’re an exceptional child only to realise as an adult you’re just average

coolfayebunny

This

riotbrrrd

I did a lot of reading about gifted kids and especially gifted adults when I got my “diagnosis” because I was told I was gifted at 23 and well, it serves no purpose to have a confirmation that you’re gifted at 23

Thing is, gifted children are not amazingly better than everyone else. Gifted brains just don’t work the same so they build their skills in a different order

Basically when you’re very young, most people brain learn social skills and how to interact with their peers, but gifted brains are already at the next step which is how to understand and interact with the world

That makes the stereotypical young children that are very good at math, always asking questions about how things work, very upset when they don’t know a thing

But the thing is, when everyone gets older, they’ve mastered most social skills and now turn towards understanding the world

But the gifted children have already mastered that part and are turning towards how to build social skills. Except there’s no one left to teach us about that! Because we’re late to that party

Long story short, at the end everyone, gifted or not, goes through all the necessary steps to make functioning adults, so the difference that was obvious as a child has disappeared

But us gifted people often end up with social anxiety and impostor syndrome because we are actually less equipped than others to face a world that taught everyone to be confident and talk to people while we were busy reading books above our age

poppetawoppet

……………that last paragraph.


damn.

youngbloodphoenix
batmanrogues

dc fandom has been redeemed by 99% of the fandom siding with riddler over joker

problematicgaysinspace

to be fair its kinda like being asked to choose between a delicious slice of cake and a kick in the crotch with ice skates

wombatking

I bet even Batman likes Riddler. He gets the call that Riddler’s broken out of Arkham and is terrorizing the city, and he’s like “Oh, good. I get to give my mind a workout and keep Eddie from doing anything too stupid. I’ll bring the kids. They could use some critical thinking training.”

janothar

Ahh, the riddler. Just remember, in the Arkham games, he’s just “hey batman, I hid question marks. Can you find them?” And then just wandered off. No murder no mayhem. Just puzzles.

youngbloodphoenix
snowthunder

What she says: I’m fine

What she means: In Howl’s Moving Castle Sophie goes back in time and witnesses Howl making his original deal with Calcifer thus discovering the way to break Howl’s curse and before she leaves she tells Howl to find her in the future and if you recall to the beginning of the movie Howl saves Sophie from some highly questionable and rapey soldiers and tells her “there you are sweetheart, sorry I’m late, I’ve been looking everywhere for you” because he took what she told him as a child to heart and has been looking for her ever since and if that’s not the tightest shit ever I don’t know what is