Feminine Things.
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Original image by Diana Walker for Time.
HRC for the win!
THE GREATEST!
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Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.
With her bare hands.
Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.
In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.
This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.
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Aw, it’s awesome how many notes this has… book-lovers unite!
Valentine’s Day thoughts, #shopping recommendations, & of course AWESOME DRAWING! CDs, #Perfume Samples, Candy & more! http://t.co/Alrq2UPz — femininethings (@femininethings)
The Will of Instinct: On @AmandaPalmer, #Nirvana, & the Language of Violence in Popular Culture #feminism #music #polly http://t.co/tmjdQnpR — femininethings (@femininethings)
- Doctor Who Fandom Curse: Knowing that at some point your Doctor will have to regenerate.
- Supernatural Fandom Curse: Knowing that your Series will end.... and soon.
- Avengers Fandom Curse: Knowing that Joss Whedon will likely kill a favorite character.
- Twilight Fandom Curse: Knowing that you will never win a fight against another fandom.... ever.
- Harry Potter Fandom Curse: Knowing that it will never be as good as the first time around.
- Sherlock Fandom Curse: Knowing that after waiting forever you will probably only get three more episodes with a cliff hanger even worse than the previous one.
- Queer as Folk Fandom Curse: Knowing that it's only time...and there won't be another episode to repair the damage done by the finale.
- Glee Fandom Curse: The show
YES.
#MARY POPPINS IS A TIME LORD.
If there was ever a female Doctor, Mary was it.
Head canon, idgaf, fight me.
seriously. she had the bag that was bigger on the inside and everything.
Bowties are cool, huh Mary?
OH MY F**KING GOD.
#been saying this for years #issues with authority. cheeky. sweeps children away on nonsensical adventures. is sometimes a dick. has sociopathic tendencies. is delightful. sounds like the doctor to me
Okay, so Julie Andrews for Twelfth Doctor, y/y?
I wear a daisy hat now… daisy hats are cool
How have we never blogged this before!?!
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Neil Gaiman (via booksandnerds)
… My mother asked me to give up books for Lent once. I was so quiet. She wanted to talk and interact more.
Two days later, with me pressed up against the bathroom door and her inside, with forty-eight hours behind us of me being the noisiest person in a house full of… well, my siblings, who played ball indoors and ducked witches in bathtubs, with me reading off the back of cereal boxes and being like ‘POTASSIUM, interesting, let’s have a discussion!’, with me desperate to talk and joke and share ideas and act out stories, anything, anything… my mother begged me to go get my book.
You cannot keep confined to one world a child who is used to being able to escape and adventure through thousands.
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When I was young and in trouble, my parents used to ground me…from books.
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Bitches get stuff done!
I have seen and loved this too many times not to reblog—in vain I have struggled—it will not do!
I often wish I was brave enough to be more of a bitch. ;) ‘But people won’t liiiike me…’ ‘Quiet Sarah! Look at Amy Poehler’s proud nod. Yeah, deal with it.’ ‘Sarah, you are being kind of bitchy to me right now…’ ‘Good, good. A good first step!’
