if you don’t count 3… which I don’t. it’s a stupid number.
Publishing MA student. Lover of young adult fiction, the 80s and all things nerdy. Full-time dork. Creator and host of Adaptation, a book-to-movie podcast (adaptationpodcast.com).
♥♥ true
This has become one of my favorite sayings.
I love this.
One my my friends had a facebook rant today about how we shouldn’t be worrying about Kony and things that are happening thousands of miles away when we have too many problems of our own to fix.
Do we have our own problems? Absolutely. But just because you have your own stuff to worry about doesn’t mean you can ignore the plight of others. If a person lived like that, we wouldn’t see them as a very benevolent person, just as we would not be a benevolent country if that was our policy.
And I completely understand the mentality of taking care of your own first and then moving outward. We need to be in good shape in order to have the capacity to help others. But we are already so much better off than most that it’s extremely ignorant to say that we can’t help when it is needed.
I also think that it’s dangerous to think of people in other countries as not part of the same group, as different from us. We’re all people. We should all take care of each other and stop labeling “us” and “them”. Which brings me back to the above quote. Let’s fight for the world, and every person in it, not just those in our country.
THIS just THIS.
districtnineand-three-quarters:
if this eggplant gets less than 5 million notes i’m going to be so upset
Reblogging because eggplant
Fewer than 5 million notes. Fewer. Not less.
I believe that it is called an aubergine.
IN AMERICA WE LET EGGS BE PLANTS BECAUSE FREEDOM
In Britain we let those AUBERGINES live once we heal them with our FREE HEALTH CARE
NOBODY CARES, ENGLAND
at least America came up with their own word and didn’t steal ours
you used the wrong flag France
Hey! Hey, guys! Canada likes eggplants - or aubergine - what ever you want to call it - too!
Can we be included in this!?
(Source: hungarian)
aw.
is this true?! this can’t be true… IS THIS TRUE?!
oh god, my state is orangy red. I’m so ashamed.
what do we do?!
no, no. there’s no way this is true. there has to be laws…
how are we still allowing this?
total understatement: this sucks.
aw, poor Canada. sorry we got your hopes up.
(Source: magical-lolita-ocean)
if you don’t count 3… which I don’t. it’s a stupid number.
THIS STILL MAKES ME SAD
oh my gosh, I’m loving all the Canada love.
we’re sorry! we’ll just have to skype, okay?!
(Source: castielsmissinggrace)
Oh dammit. Now I ship The US/Great Britain
thanks silly graphic.
“Listen, you have to let me be represented. I can’t just…keep giving you my heart and my taxes and not be a bigger part of your government. I want more than that. I deserve more than that.”
“You know I can’t. You knew that from the moment you went so far away. I just…this is what I have to give. I don’t have anymore. For God’s sake, there’s an ocean between us!”
“Fine. You know what, fine. Here, just, see all this goddamn tea you gave me? Well you can take it back. Here, fish it out of the harbor for all I care.”
“Don’t do this.”
“I have no choice. I’ll never be anything more than a colony to you.”
“America—”
“No, Britain. Don’t.”
“I can’t just let you go, you know that. I’ll fight for you if I have to.”
“And I will fight back.”
OHM Y GOD
YOU MADE ME FUCKING SHIP BRITAIN AND AMERICA
Libertea
WELL NOW I HAVE A NEW SHIP AND THERE’S FANFICTION FOR IT
(Source: itsabritishthing)