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fiilme:

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i still cant believe they havent taken down the shirt i put it up there last friday im crying






                
            

            
            
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                they: Thatā€™s they give two life sentences isnā€™t it?
                
            

            
            
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    they: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


hereā€™s the closeted furries ā€œhey manā€¦ can u bum me a cigā€ and ā€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anywaysā€


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE heā€™s trans in this au (;Ā 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow itā€™s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I couldā€™ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.ļæ¼


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Donā€™t make your characters trans for the sake of it. Youā€™re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more ā€œinterestingā€, itā€™s not useful to the story or relevant, to you itā€™s like character being blonde. Itā€™s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DONā€™T. 


Thatā€™s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys ARENā€™T CHARACTERS. They arenā€™t fucking fictional! Theyā€™re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersļæ¼ļæ¼! ā€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwuā€ļæ¼ is literally fucking horrifying.ļæ¼
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


hereā€™s the closeted furries ā€œhey manā€¦ can u bum me a cigā€ and ā€œthe one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anywaysā€


if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE heā€™s trans in this au (;Ā 
ft John:



I found the original 



Oh wow itā€™s even worse than I expected. This is truly the post of the decade



Wait, but SUMO came out in 2016, I couldā€™ve sworn I saw this back in 2015.



How fucking dare you. How fucking dare you put this on my dash again. Just when I had eradicated it from my memory you dredge it back up out of the sewers. I will come to your house. I will burn it to the ground. I will end your bloodline.ļæ¼


Wannabe teens pretending to be trans gotta stop making this shit. Is borderline offensive, honestly. Donā€™t make your characters trans for the sake of it. Youā€™re only using a real and difficult condition to make your characters more ā€œinterestingā€, itā€™s not useful to the story or relevant, to you itā€™s like character being blonde. Itā€™s exactly the same as using rape to add action to an already shitty tale, just DONā€™T. 


Thatā€™s not even the real issue here. The issue is that these guys ARENā€™T CHARACTERS. They arenā€™t fucking fictional! Theyā€™re real historical people! Some of them were straight up fucking slave ownersļæ¼ļæ¼! ā€œWhat if this actual historical person who had a teenage slave concubine was actually a cute black transboi uwuā€ļæ¼ is literally fucking horrifying.ļæ¼
                
            

            
            
blizzrhy:

libertarirynn:

dashas-hideous-laughter:

fanburgers:


laizy-boy:


ask-crammaster-ham:


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    they: scifiseries:
Fire Princess and the OutcastsBy Luis Aleman(Winner of a writing contest voted on by members of VicsLab.com.)When a bounty mission takes an unexpected turn, it brings three girls together on a journey. The runaway princess with fiery red hair, Rosella, and her loyal former servant, Anneth, have escaped from their home to make there own place in the world. Backed into a corner by former mercenary Morvon, the pair of bounty hunters take in a talented young elf named Gertrude whoā€™s always wished to travel.With a staggering bounty on the princessā€™ head, though, the girls soon learn that not every smiling soul has good intentions for them. Even worse, the royal family doesnā€™t seem to care if Rosella is returned to them all in one piece or not. Luckily, a chance meeting with an otherworldly man named Hudson may steer all the girlsā€™ paths into a different direction then they could have ever foreseen.The fire princess and her group of outcasts just want to find their place in the world. The only problem is, those around them donā€™t want to let that happen. Can these travelers use their differences to survive and find their place in the world or will they be killed by bloodthirsty head hunters before that can happen?An Amazon countdown deal will be from Monday, Feb. 17, to Friday, Feb. 21 starting at 99 cents on Monday and increasing a dollar a day back up to normal price of $5.99. Please use link that leads to Amazon page and records number of clicks: getbook.at/FirePrincess


    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: scifiseries:
Fire Princess and the OutcastsBy Luis Aleman(Winner of a writing contest voted on by members of VicsLab.com.)When a bounty mission takes an unexpected turn, it brings three girls together on a journey. The runaway princess with fiery red hair, Rosella, and her loyal former servant, Anneth, have escaped from their home to make there own place in the world. Backed into a corner by former mercenary Morvon, the pair of bounty hunters take in a talented young elf named Gertrude whoā€™s always wished to travel.With a staggering bounty on the princessā€™ head, though, the girls soon learn that not every smiling soul has good intentions for them. Even worse, the royal family doesnā€™t seem to care if Rosella is returned to them all in one piece or not. Luckily, a chance meeting with an otherworldly man named Hudson may steer all the girlsā€™ paths into a different direction then they could have ever foreseen.The fire princess and her group of outcasts just want to find their place in the world. The only problem is, those around them donā€™t want to let that happen. Can these travelers use their differences to survive and find their place in the world or will they be killed by bloodthirsty head hunters before that can happen?An Amazon countdown deal will be from Monday, Feb. 17, to Friday, Feb. 21 starting at 99 cents on Monday and increasing a dollar a day back up to normal price of $5.99. Please use link that leads to Amazon page and records number of clicks: getbook.at/FirePrincess


                
            

            
            
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Fire Princess and the OutcastsBy Luis Aleman(Winner of a writing contest voted on by members of VicsLab.com.)When a bounty m...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                






            

        

        
        

            

                







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    they: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

ā€œMy body, my choiceā€ only makes sense when someone elseā€™s life isnā€™t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.Ā Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnā€™t want to.
See, we have this concept called ā€œbodily autonomy.ā€ Itā€™s thisā€¦.cultural notion that a personā€™s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.Ā 
Like, we canā€™t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.Ā 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You canā€™t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenā€™t using anymore after they have died.Ā 
Youā€™re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.Ā 

reblogging for commentaryĀ 

But, assuming the mother wasnā€™t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their ā€œbodily autonomyā€ is a choice that the mother made. YOu donā€™t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnā€™t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.Ā 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.Ā 
And hereā€™s another point: When you say that ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.Ā 
When you say that ā€œRape is the exceptionā€ what you betray is this: It isnā€™t about a life. This isnā€™t about the little soul sitting inside some personā€™s womb, because if it was you wouldnā€™t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donā€™t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their ā€œconsequence.ā€Ā 
And that is gross.Ā 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probablyĀ the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! iā€™M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why Iā€™m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

fandomsandfeminism:

betterthanabortion:

ā€œMy body, my choiceā€ only makes sense when someone elseā€™s life isnā€™t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood.Ā Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didnā€™t want to.
See, we have this concept called ā€œbodily autonomy.ā€ Itā€™s thisā€¦.cultural notion that a personā€™s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.Ā 
Like, we canā€™t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.Ā 
To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You canā€™t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they arenā€™t using anymore after they have died.Ā 
Youā€™re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.Ā 

reblogging for commentaryĀ 

But, assuming the mother wasnā€™t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their ā€œbodily autonomyā€ is a choice that the mother made. YOu donā€™t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isnā€™t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.Ā 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.Ā 
And hereā€™s another point: When you say that ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.
Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.
If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.Ā 
When you say that ā€œRape is the exceptionā€ what you betray is this: It isnā€™t about a life. This isnā€™t about the little soul sitting inside some personā€™s womb, because if it was you wouldnā€™t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.
When you say ā€œrape is the exceptionā€ what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but donā€™t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their ā€œconsequence.ā€Ā 
And that is gross.Ā 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probablyĀ the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

WHY THE FUCK HAS TUMBLR FLAGGED THIS?! iā€™M FUCKING FURIOUS!!!

Yep, this was flagged for me too. Which is why Iā€™m going to reblog it several time until Tumblr implodes.

                
            

            
            
atlinmerrick:
dancinggrimm:

truckyousasha:

thekaraokeninja:

fandomsandfeminism:

generalmaluga:

albinwonderland:

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    they: jayofolympus:
valsore:


silver-millennial:

mandalorianreynolds:


icantwritegood:

3hunnitcreditscore:

chantosakura:

cliomancer:

bunjywunjy:

rjzimmerman:

From the Facebook pages of Project Coyote/Classic Cars USA:
Last week on my way to work in the early morning, a coyote darted in front of my car and I hit it. I heard a crunch and believed I ran over and killed it. Upon stopping at a traffic light by my work, a construction woman notified me that there was in fact a coyote still embedded in my car. When I got out to look, this poor little guy was looking up and blinking at me. I notified Alberta fish and wildlife enforcement right away who came to rescue him. Miraculously, he was freed and had minimal injuries despite having hitched a ride from Airdrie to Calgary at highway speeds! Their biologist checked him over and gave him the good to go. They released him in Kananaskis. Clearly mother nature has other plans for this special little guy!-Georgie Knox

FOOD CHAIN, BABYYYyYyy

Plot-essential NPC.


Iā€™m dying at the fact that he looks only likeā€¦mildly perturbed and inconvenienced by this at most.



ā€œWell shit, this is not how I expected to spend my dayā€

the coyote on the highway like



I feel slightly bad for laughing so muchā€¦
But, uh, luck of a Trickster God indeed;



The roadrunner got away this time

Anyone can accidentally hit an animal. But you FUCKING STOP TO CHECK ON IT. Maybe itĀ“s not dead, Maybe itĀ“s injured and needs help, maybe heĀ“s suffering. What the fuck is wrong with people! Not funny, not funny at all.



Sometimes itā€™s just not feasible to stop. If youā€™re on the highway or somewhere else where it would be dangerous to stop, then you just have to keep going and hope the animal is okay

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: jayofolympus:
valsore:


silver-millennial:

mandalorianreynolds:


icantwritegood:

3hunnitcreditscore:

chantosakura:

cliomancer:

bunjywunjy:

rjzimmerman:

From the Facebook pages of Project Coyote/Classic Cars USA:
Last week on my way to work in the early morning, a coyote darted in front of my car and I hit it. I heard a crunch and believed I ran over and killed it. Upon stopping at a traffic light by my work, a construction woman notified me that there was in fact a coyote still embedded in my car. When I got out to look, this poor little guy was looking up and blinking at me. I notified Alberta fish and wildlife enforcement right away who came to rescue him. Miraculously, he was freed and had minimal injuries despite having hitched a ride from Airdrie to Calgary at highway speeds! Their biologist checked him over and gave him the good to go. They released him in Kananaskis. Clearly mother nature has other plans for this special little guy!-Georgie Knox

FOOD CHAIN, BABYYYyYyy

Plot-essential NPC.


Iā€™m dying at the fact that he looks only likeā€¦mildly perturbed and inconvenienced by this at most.



ā€œWell shit, this is not how I expected to spend my dayā€

the coyote on the highway like



I feel slightly bad for laughing so muchā€¦
But, uh, luck of a Trickster God indeed;



The roadrunner got away this time

Anyone can accidentally hit an animal. But you FUCKING STOP TO CHECK ON IT. Maybe itĀ“s not dead, Maybe itĀ“s injured and needs help, maybe heĀ“s suffering. What the fuck is wrong with people! Not funny, not funny at all.



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valsore:


silver-millennial:

mandalorianreynolds:


icantwritegood:

3hunnitcreditscore:

chantosakura:

cliomancer:

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    they: dynastylnoire:

writernotwaiting:

hellenhighwater:

astolen98saturnsedan:

luadell:

thisnewdevilry:

sputnikcentury:

teapotsahoy:

lovedsomuch:

warsfeils:

anubituf:

harukami:

last-snowfall:

weareallmedie:

firedanceryote:

reptila-tequila:

qeilla:

thefreckledavantgardegoober:

mysticmisfit89:

Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canadaā€¦..

No no, you donā€™t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. Iā€™ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

And thatā€™s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and ā€œIn terms of raw numbers, they attack more people thanĀ bearsĀ andĀ wolvesĀ combinedā€ and ā€œĀ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.ā€
like, fuck off with that

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. Iā€™ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. Iā€™m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog whoā€™s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all ā€œoh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, yaā€™ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.ā€Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes donā€™t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night. Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If sheā€™s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

Iā€™ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DONā€™T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING
Moose are terrifying, you guys.

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.
I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. Iā€™veĀ seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.Ā 
Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose wonā€™t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.Ā 
Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like ā€œey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I canā€™t get outā€ AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.
Moose. MOOSE.

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

The commenter above who claims that mooseā€™s eyes donā€™t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a mooseā€™s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.


Kaiju category: Maple. Ā 


Now I kinda want a kaiju movie set in Canada where itā€™s just a moose. Like a regular moose but more aggressive. 

@ssalogel

For scale, a female african elephant is 7.2-8.5 feet at the shoulder, according to Wikipedia. A moose isĀ 

4.6 ā€“ 6.9 ft. at the shoulder. So instead of thinkingĀ ā€œThis animal is a bit bigger than a deerā€ you can thinkĀ ā€œThis animal is barely smaller than an elephantā€

And they can run up to 40 miles per hour


A 16 wheeler with fur

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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Meanwhile, in prehistoric Canadaā€¦..

No no, you donā€™t understand, moose really do get that big. Take it from a Canadian. Iā€™ve seen that bullshit in person. Scary as all heck.

And thatā€™s how people can die if they hit a moose. Seriously, one of our fears when driving in the country is having to deal with this scenario of a moose jumping out in front of the car.

moose are actual legit ice age megafauna; theyve been here since the ice age, they are old as fuck. they also are pretty terrifying and ive echoed this before but i went to wiki and ā€œIn terms of raw numbers, they attack more people thanĀ bearsĀ andĀ wolvesĀ combinedā€ and ā€œĀ In the Americas, moose injure more people than any other wild mammal and, worldwide, only hippopotamuses injure more.ā€
like, fuck off with that

I was dog sitting a dog once who insisted she had to go out in the middle of the night it was an emergency, so I took her out. Suddenly she starts pointing and barking and I look up and can just make out the outline of a HUGE moose. Iā€™ve been accidentally face to face with a black bear and that scared me less than being up close with a moose. Iā€™m 5 foot so imagine staring up at an animal several feet taller than you that is debating charging the dog whoā€™s leash you are holding. I was terrified as I grabbed the dog by her collar to get better control over her and backed up slowly til I was out of line of sight and bolted for the house at a dead run. Did you know most Canadian lake monster stories come from people seeing moose swimming? They are massive animals.

They are massive and they charge. I get so scared when tourists are all ā€œoh yeah, we got out of the car to get a closer look and, yaā€™ll have some mighty impressive animals around here.ā€Yes, yes we do, and they have mighty tired guardian angels because moose can, and do, charge at people.

Someone my mom worked with died hitting a moose on the highway. Their eyes donā€™t reflect light. In the dark they are literally nothing but a big slightly darker shape in the night. Roughly every year in the town I grew up in, a cow (moose) and her calf will wander through downtown. Maybe once or twice. If sheā€™s aggressive enough, the local Mounties will escort her through to keep idiots away.

Iā€™ve definitely talked with people who thought moose were deer-sized or maybe horse-sized and I was like NO YOU DONā€™T EVEN UNDERSTAND MOOSE ARE TERRIFYING
Moose are terrifying, you guys.

I finally live on a province where moose and deer exist.
I do not drive at night in fear of meeting one. If you hit a moose going 90 on a highway, not only is your car trashed, you are probably trashed. Iā€™veĀ seen cars that got wrecked and there seems to be a consensus that at least half the time, the giant fucking beastie just shakes itself off and continues gallumphing along the countryside.

If you fucking hit a moose with your car and their legs go through your windshield, congratulations, you are dead. Massive hooves kicking you to death? Yeah.Ā 
Moose are fucking terrifying. Bull moose wonā€™t fuck with you too much unless you fuck with them, but the time a bull moose casually swaggered his way past 7 year old me when I was sledding literally put me off winter sports for a solid month.Ā 
Momma moose and their babies, though? I legitimately had to call in to work to be like ā€œey yo there is a moose in my driveway and I canā€™t get outā€ AND MY MANAGERS UNDERSTOOD.
Moose. MOOSE.

I have to admit I thought they were like a Canadian deer before this.

The commenter above who claims that mooseā€™s eyes donā€™t reflect light is only partially correct; if you shine a flashlight in a mooseā€™s eyes it will glow like a cat (and then you will probably get killed to death by an annoyed moose) but the reason they are so dangerous to cars at nights is that they are too tall for the headlights to reach. Think about that.

Moose confirmed for actual kaiju.


Kaiju category: Maple. Ā 


Now I kinda want a kaiju movie set in Canada where itā€™s just a moose. Like a regular moose but more aggressive. 

@ssalogel

For scale, a female african elephant is 7.2-8.5 feet at the shoulder, according to Wikipedia. A moose isĀ 

4.6 ā€“ 6.9 ft. at the shoulder. So instead of thinkingĀ ā€œThis animal is a bit bigger than a deerā€ you can thinkĀ ā€œThis animal is barely smaller than an elephantā€

And they can run up to 40 miles per hour


A 16 wheeler with fur

                
            

            
            
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    they: scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
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                they: scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
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The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who,...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                







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fvckupss:
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Itā€™s nice they let her keep teaching

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    they: twitblr:They should just box and cut out the middle men.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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eldritchgentleman:

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cishetwhiteoppressor:

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesnā€™t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.
Source

My god I love her.

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God sheā€™s RIGHT.
When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. Iā€™ve youā€™ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a ā€œlookā€. 
Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesnā€™t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a ā€œlookā€.
The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a ā€œlookā€. 
Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people donā€™t even think they exist.

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carterā€™s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted. 

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention HughĀ ā€œWolverineā€ Jackman here.
Yeah, he is ripped, isnā€™t he?
Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of ā€œwater weightā€.Ā 
Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.
As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, ā€œIf You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ā€˜Roll it!ā€
Itā€™s the same with professional bodybuilders whoĀ get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.
According to experts, healthyĀ body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables.Ā 
Fitness model and professional bodybuilderĀ Helmut Strebl also known asĀ ā€œWorldā€™s Most Shredded Manā€ as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%ā€¦
ā€¦ But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of oneā€™s body for longer periods of time.
I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human thenā€¦
There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydrationā€¦
And letā€™s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known asĀ ā€œMegarexiaā€ orĀ ā€œBigarexiaā€.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia
Yeah, itā€™s a thing, but itā€™s barely talked about, since itā€™s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorderā€¦
Soā€¦ Thanks Hollywood?


I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failureokay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ā€˜thats not good enoughā€™ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ā€˜one day away from organ failureā€™thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent 
guys, feminism is for you, too. itā€™s for all of us.



Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!

since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.
one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.
We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you donā€™t immediately think dehydration.Ā 



Remember when people shat all over Adam Driver because even though heā€™s clearly muscular he didnā€™t have ridiculously toned abs in that one shirtless scene from TLJ because heaven forbid he decided not to deprive his body of vital nutrients just to look like a Greek sculpture? Oh! And remember that dumb take about Jason Momoa ā€œletting himself goā€œ and ā€œhaving a dad bodā€œ because of that one candid beach picture where he had his normal healthy layer fat instead of his toned GoT physique? ļæ¼ļæ¼Good times.ļæ¼ļæ¼
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: iamcon-fu-sion:

archivistofnerddom:

shipperwolf1:

brunhiddensmusings:

fierceawakening:

guyveranimefan87:

eric-coldfire:

eldritchgentleman:

cruxofargon:

the-critical-feminist:

cishetwhiteoppressor:

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesnā€™t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.
Source

My god I love her.

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God sheā€™s RIGHT.
When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. Iā€™ve youā€™ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a ā€œlookā€. 
Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesnā€™t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a ā€œlookā€.
The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a ā€œlookā€. 
Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people donā€™t even think they exist.

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carterā€™s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted. 

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention HughĀ ā€œWolverineā€ Jackman here.
Yeah, he is ripped, isnā€™t he?
Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of ā€œwater weightā€.Ā 
Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.
As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, ā€œIf You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ā€˜Roll it!ā€
Itā€™s the same with professional bodybuilders whoĀ get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.
According to experts, healthyĀ body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables.Ā 
Fitness model and professional bodybuilderĀ Helmut Strebl also known asĀ ā€œWorldā€™s Most Shredded Manā€ as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%ā€¦
ā€¦ But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of oneā€™s body for longer periods of time.
I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human thenā€¦
There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydrationā€¦
And letā€™s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known asĀ ā€œMegarexiaā€ orĀ ā€œBigarexiaā€.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia
Yeah, itā€™s a thing, but itā€™s barely talked about, since itā€™s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorderā€¦
Soā€¦ Thanks Hollywood?


I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failureokay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ā€˜thats not good enoughā€™ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ā€˜one day away from organ failureā€™thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent 
guys, feminism is for you, too. itā€™s for all of us.



Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!

since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.
one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.
We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you donā€™t immediately think dehydration.Ā 



Remember when people shat all over Adam Driver because even though heā€™s clearly muscular he didnā€™t have ridiculously toned abs in that one shirtless scene from TLJ because heaven forbid he decided not to deprive his body of vital nutrients just to look like a Greek sculpture? Oh! And remember that dumb take about Jason Momoa ā€œletting himself goā€œ and ā€œhaving a dad bodā€œ because of that one candid beach picture where he had his normal healthy layer fat instead of his toned GoT physique? ļæ¼ļæ¼Good times.ļæ¼ļæ¼
                
            

            
            
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Cindy:Ā Heyā€¦ can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can IĀ be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā You really want this? Sincerely? NotĀ ā€˜cause this oneā€™s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?
Cindy:Ā Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, Iā€™d go to hell. And if I was good, Iā€™d go to heaven. And if Iā€™d ask Jesus, heā€™d forgive me and that was that. And here yā€™all are sayinā€™ ainā€™t no hell. Ainā€™t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as Godā€™s concerned, itā€™s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. Itā€™s like a verb. Itā€™s like ā€¦ you do God. And thatā€™s a lot of work, but I think Iā€™m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe Iā€™ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You knowā€¦ Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?
Rabbi:Ā Ask me again.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā Yes.


I cried so hard during this scene.


First of all, this is beautiful.
Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.
Third of all, this is beautiful.


Adrienne KILLED it in those scenes. I wept with her!
ā€œItā€™s like a verb.ā€ She wants to work on her faith continuously and that was gorgeous and so honest.


THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT DO U UNDERSTAND. We arenā€™t a people who actively convert people. Youā€™ll never see a Jewish person try to convert you. We believe in everyoneā€™s right to believe what they want. But it was so nice to see someone who wasnā€™t raised in it be able to see value in my faith. I have never seen anything like that on tv before  

Not only that?? Its one of the only times Iā€™ve ever seen Judaism The Faith and Religion ever actually articulated on screen. What do we believe? We believe that You Choose To Do God. Thats why weā€™re the Chosen People - because we Chose to Opt In To Doing God this particular way. I have never in my life before seen any form of media EVER express what Jews ACTUALLY BELIEVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE out loud but OITNB did. And when people ask me? I always throw them here. Because itā€™s dead on. You do God (Jewishly) and you have to choose it. Thatā€™s what we believe. Thatā€™s it. Thats the entire thing. And this is the only time we have EVER had ANY representation and I will cherish it always. And for those of you who didnā€™t see the show? She got to bathe in a mikvah equivalent and convert fully so yes, Cindy is as Jewish as the whitest Ashkenazi Jew. More, because according to the sages, the convert is to be praised for their choice and their dedication. And as such, any children she has will be Jewish too. <3 Love for Cindy. Love to any religious Jews out there who feel unseen in media (youā€™re right, we arenā€™t seen). Love for any converts out there who donā€™t feel Jewish enough (you are - no matter what branch you converted in). Extra love for all my Jews of Color (no addendum - just love to you all period). Stay strong out there yall. Write yourselves into some stories and talk about our faith okay? We deserve to be seen and known, even if we arenā€™t converting. Demystification is part of the fight against antisemitism. 


All of this, but ALSOitā€™s so rare to see black people get to be any other religion of Baptist Christian. Or to even talk about that not all of us believe in God in the way weā€™re been taught. Most of what Iā€™ve learned about Judaism I learned through the Jewish bloggers Iā€™ve found here like @prismatic-bell @realsadjewishhours and @wetwareproblem among others, but even as an agnostic black woman, I was just as happy to see Cindy find her own way, and even happier to hear that they actually did right with the conversion process this time.


And @dancinbutterflyā€™s last line is why, when my rabbi said I should go to rabbinic school, I saidā€¦..no.Rabbi means teacher, and there are a ton of good Jewish teachers of Jews out there. But there arenā€™t so many Jewish teachers of gentiles. Itā€™s why I work at cons under the name Oy Vay Productions. I am like you, except where Iā€™m not, and where Iā€™m not should not have to be frightening or mysterious to you. And then, when someone is all ā€œwell the Jews are a bunch of wealthy lizards,ā€ you can remember me, think of me teaching you not just about anime but about the fact that Jews are just people out here doing how we do, and instead of ā€œthat seems possibly incorrect but I donā€™t know enough about Jews to dispute it,ā€ you can say ā€œthat is not true, I have met and been befriended by a Jew, shared a meal and a class talked, and I know better.ā€I do my teaching by being a loud and proud Jew who is out here doing G-d an living my life. There are plenty of rabbis with skills I could only dream of having. But what I do is just as important to protecting and preserving Am Yisrael.
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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Cindy:Ā Heyā€¦ can I be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy: Can IĀ be a Jew?
Rabbi: No.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā You really want this? Sincerely? NotĀ ā€˜cause this oneā€™s trying to blackmail me for something stupid when I was 19 or for broccoli with your dinner? What is this for you?
Cindy:Ā Honestly, I think I found my people. I was raised in a church where I was told to believe and pray. And if I was bad, Iā€™d go to hell. And if I was good, Iā€™d go to heaven. And if Iā€™d ask Jesus, heā€™d forgive me and that was that. And here yā€™all are sayinā€™ ainā€™t no hell. Ainā€™t sure about heaven. And if you do something wrong, you got to figure it out yourself. And as far as Godā€™s concerned, itā€™s your job to keep asking questions and to keep learning and to keep arguing. Itā€™s like a verb. Itā€™s like ā€¦ you do God. And thatā€™s a lot of work, but I think Iā€™m in, as least as far as I can see it. I mean, maybe Iā€™ll learn more and say fuck the whole thing, I mean, but I wanna learn more, and I think I gotta be in it to do that. You knowā€¦ Does that make sense? Shit, did I just talk myself out of it?
Rabbi:Ā Ask me again.
Cindy:Ā Can I be a Jew?
Rabbi:Ā Yes.


I cried so hard during this scene.


First of all, this is beautiful.
Second of all, as a contextual note, the rabbi said no for a reason. In Jewish conversion, one of the steps is that you must be discouraged at least three times. This comes from the story of Ruth, where Naomi told her not to follow her back to the Jewish tribe three times before giving in.
Third of all, this is beautiful.


Adrienne KILLED it in those scenes. I wept with her!
ā€œItā€™s like a verb.ā€ She wants to work on her faith continuously and that was gorgeous and so honest.


THIS WAS SO IMPORTANT DO U UNDERSTAND. We arenā€™t a people who actively convert people. Youā€™ll never see a Jewish person try to convert you. We believe in everyoneā€™s right to believe what they want. But it was so nice to see someone who wasnā€™t raised in it be able to see value in my faith. I have never seen anything like that on tv before  

Not only that?? Its one of the only times Iā€™ve ever seen Judaism The Faith and Religion ever actually articulated on screen. What do we believe? We believe that You Choose To Do God. Thats why weā€™re the Chosen People - because we Chose to Opt In To Doing God this particular way. I have never in my life before seen any form of media EVER express what Jews ACTUALLY BELIEVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE out loud but OITNB did. And when people ask me? I always throw them here. Because itā€™s dead on. You do God (Jewishly) and you have to choose it. Thatā€™s what we believe. Thatā€™s it. Thats the entire thing. And this is the only time we have EVER had ANY representation and I will cherish it always. And for those of you who didnā€™t see the show? She got to bathe in a mikvah equivalent and convert fully so yes, Cindy is as Jewish as the whitest Ashkenazi Jew. More, because according to the sages, the convert is to be praised for their choice and their dedication. And as such, any children she has will be Jewish too. <3 Love for Cindy. Love to any religious Jews out there who feel unseen in media (youā€™re right, we arenā€™t seen). Love for any converts out there who donā€™t feel Jewish enough (you are - no matter what branch you converted in). Extra love for all my Jews of Color (no addendum - just love to you all period). Stay strong out there yall. Write yourselves into some stories and talk about our faith okay? We deserve to be seen and known, even if we arenā€™t converting. Demystification is part of the fight against antisemitism. 


All of this, but ALSOitā€™s so rare to see black people get to be any other religion of Baptist Christian. Or to even talk about that not all of us believe in God in the way weā€™re been taught. Most of what Iā€™ve learned about Judaism I learned through the Jewish bloggers Iā€™ve found here like @prismatic-bell @realsadjewishhours and @wetwareproblem among others, but even as an agnostic black woman, I was just as happy to see Cindy find her own way, and even happier to hear that they actually did right with the conversion process this time.


And @dancinbutterflyā€™s last line is why, when my rabbi said I should go to rabbinic school, I saidā€¦..no.Rabbi means teacher, and there are a ton of good Jewish teachers of Jews out there. But there arenā€™t so many Jewish teachers of gentiles. Itā€™s why I work at cons under the name Oy Vay Productions. I am like you, except where Iā€™m not, and where Iā€™m not should not have to be frightening or mysterious to you. And then, when someone is all ā€œwell the Jews are a bunch of wealthy lizards,ā€ you can remember me, think of me teaching you not just about anime but about the fact that Jews are just people out here doing how we do, and instead of ā€œthat seems possibly incorrect but I donā€™t know enough about Jews to dispute it,ā€ you can say ā€œthat is not true, I have met and been befriended by a Jew, shared a meal and a class talked, and I know better.ā€I do my teaching by being a loud and proud Jew who is out here doing G-d an living my life. There are plenty of rabbis with skills I could only dream of having. But what I do is just as important to protecting and preserving Am Yisrael.
                
            

            
            
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The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
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                they: scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
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scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who,...

            
            
        

    



            

        

        
        

            

                







    they: scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
Buy at Amazon



    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                they: scifiseries:
The Earth Family Smith (The Tumuerian Dream)
The book begins on Cameronā€™s last day on Earth. Cameron is a teenage girl who, with her parents and her two siblings, is fleeing her climate change-ravaged home. They are just hours away from boarding a space ark that will take them to New Terra, a habitable planet located on the far side of a recently discovered wormhole. After they board the ark, they blast toward their destination, but they fail to arrive on New Terra. The three Smith children are separated from their parents, and they crash land on an alien world whose dominant inhabitants largely view them as illegal aliens. Just moments before an angry mob of narrow-minded Arap-Musoogums attack the children, a group of progressive residents intervene. The Smith children befriend their saviors, and through their new friends they learn that political partisanship on Tumuera is not much different from the political divide they left behind on Earth. Cameron, the oldest of the three siblings, is idealistic and empathic, and she imagines that she can prove her worth by working hard and staying humble. But the nativist forces on Tumuera, led by an orange-skinned commander-in-chief, will stop at nothing to deport all illegal aliens from the planet. The Smith children have no way to return to Earth, so deportation means death for them. They will have to fight to survive on Tumuera.
Buy at Amazon



                
            

            
            
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