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At the time this post will self publish I will not yet have graduated. My graduation ceremony isn’t until 4pm and this thing usually goes live around midnight so I’ll either be asleep or doing other things.

I will however have completed all my final examinations. I will have no idea if I passed or not, and I tend to think negatively about such things to ward off disappointment (not saying it’s healthy, just saying it’s what I do) but I know that I did my very best on all of them.

This was an interesting semester for me. Perhaps it was because it was my last, perhaps it was pure circumstance but I was considerably more interested in my courses this semester than any previous semester.

Well, I was extremely interested in ONE course, interested enough in three, and I tolerated the forth.

It felt very much like my senior semester; everything felt big and important and final—part of why I think it has more to do with it being my last semester than the content actually being significantly different.

I do not know what the future will hold, but I have been in school so long at this point that I am beyond ready to take that next step at a full run. I want to leap into the unknown and get on with my life. I know it won’t be easy, that it will be both terrifying and incredibly difficult, but I am ready for this challenge.

I know many have already completed their semester or are nearing the end, and I’m afraid I have no words of wisdom to help you save to say that I believe in you, regardless of whether you have exams to do or summer plans to make real, I believe in you.

So let’s blow this popsicle stand.

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winterelf86:

uberwren:

winterelf86:

theangrygypsy:

    Ah, satire…how we adore you…

    From artist David Trumble, here are ten real-world “princesses” — from Rosa Parks to Madam Curie — who come to us in the wake of Disney’s latest princess-based faux pas.  Since Disney is generally about marketing and expanding their brand these days, Mr. Trumble asks a simple question: how many of these women would be improved by a few extra sparkles?  

    Obviously, the answer is NONE, because these are real women.  They have performed real feats of courage and determination — and ALWAYS without the help of little animal friends or enchanted furniture.  They don’t need to be improved by anything, which was also the general argument made against Merida’s makeover.  She didn’t need the makeover because she was fine the way she was to begin with.  Her imperfections made her perfect.

    That’s the whole point with the image above.

    Jane Goodall, for example, is shown kneeling in the front of the group, essentially wearing the stylized equivalent of sparkly booty-shorts in her “Disney-esque” rendering.  Not exactly the most ideal stuff to be doing ground-breaking research with primates in, now, is it…?

    Yet, according to Disney, that’s supposedly how it works.  In order to be a woman of note, you need the glitter.  Without it, you’re just another background character.

    Granted, everyone is going to draw their own conclusions from this, and that’s fine…but my own conclusions is that now I want to launch a counter-movement that redefines Princess Culture as being less about the beauty and the fantasy and more about the real-world history we have at our disposal.  Instead of Cinderella, Belle, Jasmine, and Aurora, it’d be Elizabeth I, Nzinga Mbande, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Zenobia — among others.  

    Real princesses vs. fictional princesses.

    Why?

    Because our girls deserve better, that’s why.

Or…..

…how about girls can like whatever they want to ;D And look up to whoever they want to, instead of other people telling them what their interests and likes should be.

This is a really interesting argument and I think the satire of the piece is fascinating and worth examining.

But when I first saw this I took probably the EXACT wrong thing away from it initially because I see sparkles and glitter and princesses and I think “OMG YES YES YES!”

Particularly with real world female role models like Susan B Anthony and Harriet Tubman. Honestly I really just want to cosplay as one of these supremely awesome women now in a nice glittery dress because DAYUM this is such a beautiful thing to imagine!

I like strong, powerful, brave, innovative, and inspiring women and I also like sparkles, sue me.

Oh I appreciate the satire of course. But lately there’s this thing going on the world today about ” girls should be princesses” “no they should be like Madam Curie” “They need to look up this person or that person”.  It’s all hypocritical when you think about it. And you can like both. A lot of these Disney fairytales are based off fairytales that were based off of myths (some of them). When you look at the origins of these stories they were empowering in a way.

Let the girls choose. Forcing princess stuff on them isn’t going to work and neither is forcing women with swords going to work.

I’m a tomboy and my mom always tried to force bows in my hair. I took them off. Finally she gave up. If one of my girly girl friends were forced to play with my Batman toys….she would have just looked at you like you were crazy.

Kids know what they want to a certain degree.

Ah yeah, I get what you’re saying. And amen to that, you’re absolutely right. Kids know that they like, and letting them discover all the different things there are in life is the best way for them to determine who they are.

I was that weird kid who half the time pretended to be Maid Marian and half the time pretended to be Robin Hood, and I was fortunate enough to have parents who let me do that.

All kids should have the option of being princesses, or not being princesses, or being everything at once ^_^

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winterelf86:

theangrygypsy:

    Ah, satire…how we adore you…

    From artist David Trumble, here are ten real-world “princesses” — from Rosa Parks to Madam Curie — who come to us in the wake of Disney’s latest princess-based faux pas.  Since Disney is generally about marketing and expanding their brand these days, Mr. Trumble asks a simple question: how many of these women would be improved by a few extra sparkles?  

    Obviously, the answer is NONE, because these are real women.  They have performed real feats of courage and determination — and ALWAYS without the help of little animal friends or enchanted furniture.  They don’t need to be improved by anything, which was also the general argument made against Merida’s makeover.  She didn’t need the makeover because she was fine the way she was to begin with.  Her imperfections made her perfect.

    That’s the whole point with the image above.

    Jane Goodall, for example, is shown kneeling in the front of the group, essentially wearing the stylized equivalent of sparkly booty-shorts in her “Disney-esque” rendering.  Not exactly the most ideal stuff to be doing ground-breaking research with primates in, now, is it…?

    Yet, according to Disney, that’s supposedly how it works.  In order to be a woman of note, you need the glitter.  Without it, you’re just another background character.

    Granted, everyone is going to draw their own conclusions from this, and that’s fine…but my own conclusions is that now I want to launch a counter-movement that redefines Princess Culture as being less about the beauty and the fantasy and more about the real-world history we have at our disposal.  Instead of Cinderella, Belle, Jasmine, and Aurora, it’d be Elizabeth I, Nzinga Mbande, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Zenobia — among others.  

    Real princesses vs. fictional princesses.

    Why?

    Because our girls deserve better, that’s why.

Or…..

…how about girls can like whatever they want to ;D And look up to whoever they want to, instead of other people telling them what their interests and likes should be.

This is a really interesting argument and I think the satire of the piece is fascinating and worth examining.

But when I first saw this I took probably the EXACT wrong thing away from it initially because I see sparkles and glitter and princesses and I think “OMG YES YES YES!”

Particularly with real world female role models like Susan B Anthony and Harriet Tubman. Honestly I really just want to cosplay as one of these supremely awesome women now in a nice glittery dress because DAYUM this is such a beautiful thing to imagine!

I like strong, powerful, brave, innovative, and inspiring women and I also like sparkles, sue me.

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decaffeinate-o:

#I’m not even in the Dr Who fandom and I agree with the gif.

Single most appropriate cross fandom reference I have ever seen.

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