I Absolutely Love Her Character! I Could See Myself In Her, And I Don’t Just Mean The Part About Being

Welcome to Australia...

Where an already endangered species is on the brink of functional extinction...

Oh, and 500 million animals unique to this country have already lost their lives, upon homes that have been destoryed and lives lost of people as well...

I mean... we're only living in a literal inferno...

415 fires. Fuck are we dying...

Oh yeah and people are just fleeing to the damn ocean, you know?

Do you want to know what Hell on Earth looks like..?

Because there it is in all it's unfiltered, firey rage...

There it is... my home from space...

This is only the beginning. Our country has not only entered a new decade, it seems a new dawning era as well, because this flaming apocalypse doesn't show any sign of stopping any time soon.

And you know what saddens me? I've never seen Australian tragedies trending here on this website. I mean it's been going on for months and only now does it seem to really be getting recognized, even if it is only at #9.

And I'm going to be honest with you here - the internet, and media in general is so American centric, this website being no exception. You'd think that an entire continent being on fire for several months with devastating consequences would have more recognition, but no, it really doesn't. The most notes I've ever seen on a post about the Australian fires is at least a few thousand, and that's about it.

So just... please. If you can, with this post or any other post in regards to the fires going on down here, reblog. Because the only thing that should be spreading like wildfire, is a post about a burning country...

I truly wasn’t expecting that.

watch until the very end

Made some soft-baked vegan sugar cookies with one of my sisters. Surprisingly, the cookies aren’t too sweet. ^.^

This is so true. Animals are our companions, not our property. :(

Anthony Damiano is the president and co-founder of the Alliance for Earth, Life, Liberty & Advocacy an environmental, animal and human rights organization.

Image: In the public domain.

Oh, I think this is really beautiful. I hope to one day paint this if possible. 😍🥰

happy sunday!

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This made me feel a lot better. :) There’s nothing wrong with being a Hufflepuff. The world needs more Hufflepuffs, and it really shows when people call us losers and unwanted. There needs to be more kindness in the world.

Hufflepuffs ARE:

hardworking

loyal

dedicated

kind

patient

honest

great finders

Hufflepuffs are NOT:

useless

talentless 

unwanted

spineless

pathetic

losers

don’t be ashamed; no matter what anyone thinks, you guys are awesome

[ gryffindor ]   [ slytherin ]   [ ravenclaw ]

People think that it’s easy to overcome depression and other types of mental illness. It’s really not. It takes time, a lot of it sometimes. People shouldn’t feel shame for taking baby steps so that they can feel better. :(

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When you feel insecure of yourself, wanting to be somebody else – take some steps back, don’t take the curiosity too far. While it is good to wonder about being different and crave for new, don’t take it to the point where you will feel inadequate. We’re here not to be perfect but to enjoy. So let’s carry our hearts with candor, live our lives with belief in ourselves, and limit our comparison. Realize there’s nowhere else to go – Ourselves is our home to create happiness in.

Jerico Silvers (via wnq-writers)

I always feel insecure due to comparing myself to who I wish I could be. We should all strive to be the most excellent versions of ourselves, but we shouldn’t belittle ourselves when we have’t reached our utmost potential. <3

Recycled old picture frame glass by painting cute characters created by Aki Kondo. Rikki is impressed. ^.^

“But Artemis Fowl problematic”

Yes, and that was the fucking point. Especially in book one, he was the villain. He did bad things for mostly bad reasons. He was  well written and sometimes sympathetic, he had his doubts about what he was doing, but he was undeniably 100% the villain of book one.

And if you take that away, and start out with him as a mostly good person, not only do you make him much less interesting, you remove Artemis’s growth and redemption. Some of the deeply emotional and meaningful moments of the later books wouldn’t mean anything at all if Artemis doesn’t start off as a terrible person with tiny glimmers of hope.

At the end of book two, arguably one of the most significant moments is Holly doing this.  “Captain Short plucked a gold coin from her belt, flicking it fifty feet into the moonlit sky. With one fluid movement, she brought her weapon up and loosed a single blast… …Holly held out her hand, revealing the still raw scar on her finger. “If it wasn’t for you, I would have missed altogether…..“You keep it, to remind you.”

“To remind me?”

Holly stared at him frankly. “To remind you that deep beneath the layers of deviousness, you have a spark of decency. Perhaps you could blow on that spark occasionally.”

Artemis closed his fingers around the coin. It was warm against his palm.

“Yes, perhaps.””

That scene would mean absolutely nothing, might not even be includable, is Artemis were not a problematic brat. Another meaningful scene, Artemis begging to save Butler’s life, not for gain but because he loves Butler like a second father, would mean jack all if Artemis were emotionally open and less selfish.

The fear, at the end of the eternity code, that losing his memories will erase the emotional growth he has made, what happens to that? Or the gut wrenching realization in the epilogue and start of book four that yes, almost all of his progress did get erased along with his memories. And though we get much of his progress back by the end of book four, there is still the strong sense that we still aren’t where we were pre-memory wipe.

I could continue like this for all the books, pointing out how Artemis’s growth from terrible villain, to major brat, to a reasonably good person is one of the huge, important, overreaching plot arcs through the whole series. It’s part of why I absolutely love the books. 

I can not see any version of the movies without this plot line, this slow growth and backtracking and eventually redemption as complete or even the same story. So yeah, book one Artemis is an utter brat of a villain. But you can’t erase that. Because that’s the entire fucking point of the series as a whole.