Dancing through life

naamahdarling: Burlesque Dancer, Pinup Model and Dance...

Sun, 26 May 2013 00:27:31 +0100

Burlesque Dancer, Pinup Model and Dance Teacher

Linda Marraccini (Miss Dirty Martini)

Miss Exotic World 2004

ATTN: ARTISTS

YOU CAN HAVE HELLA MUSCLE DEFINITION UNDER FAT.

This is what my belly looked like when I was a belly-dancer and had core muscles like you would not beLIEVE. They were rock hard, and under a nice squoosh of fat, but the whole thing stood out like this.

It was beautiful. It is beautiful on her.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:14:27 +0100

stfuconservatives: grrrl-riot: I saw this post among the slew...

Fri, 24 May 2013 23:06:39 +0100

stfuconservatives:

grrrl-riot:

I saw this post among the slew of comments on this Planned Parenthood post regarding the decision on the after 20-week abortions ban in Arizona.

It was nice to see a conservative man standing up to the anti-choice bullies on the page.

The horrors we inflict on pregnant people by forcing them to keep nonviable pregnancies are just… I mean, I can’t even imagine. This is what late-term abortion bans do. I wouldn’t wish that woman’s experience on anyone, and good on her and her father-in-law for being willing to publicly stand up for choice now.

humansofnewyork: “We’ve been friends since we were 13.” “What’s...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:00:24 +0100

humansofnewyork:

“We’ve been friends since we were 13.”

“What’s the most fun you’ve ever had together?”

“Oh, we don’t know…”

“Well, what’s the hardest you’ve ever laughed together?”

“Now you listen here! I want you to write down these questions you’re asking us, pull them out when you’re 85 years old, and see if you can answer them yourself!”

thatgryffinclawchick: mermaidheartsongs: AHHHHH OMG WHAT IS...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:56:54 +0100

thatgryffinclawchick:

mermaidheartsongs:

AHHHHH OMG WHAT IS THIS FROM

I WAS SO PISSED WHEN THIS SHOW GOT CANCEL.

FLASHFORWARD HAD IT.

lamagdalena13: Belly Dancing for Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:46:43 +0100

lamagdalena13:

Belly Dancing for Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys in Burbank -Magdalena <3

"This is how you’re meant to argue when you’re eventually in charge. You’re trained for it, and part..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:58:38 +0100

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This is how you’re meant to argue when you’re eventually in charge. You’re trained for it, and part of that training is regularly being presented with morally indefensible positions to defend anyway or risk losing whatever competition you’re engaged with. I have seen perfectly decent young men get carried away defending genocide and torture because that’s the only way to win. Those who are unable to do so are taught that they have no business having political opinions. The people assumed to be the future elite are not rewarded for getting the answer which is most correct, most compassionate or humane or even sensible - they’re rewarded for smashing the opposition. And that’s how you get politicians who will argue anything they’re told to, enact any policy they’re told to no matter how many how many people will get hurt, just so that their team can win.

Moreover, this isn’t just a standard homework question. It appears on a scholarship entrance exam, a test designed to be sat by young men seeking to join the ranks of the rich and powerful by virtue of merit and smarts rather than family money. Most fee-paying schools have such a system in place, especially the really elite ones which need to maintain a veneer of public conscience to bolster their tax-exempt charity status (yes, Eton is technically a charity) and boost exam results by scattering some middle-class nerds amongst the rich twits. I sat an entrance exam just like this thirteen years ago, because my parents wanted me to have a private education and they couldn’t afford the fees. Of the hundreds of exams I’ve sat since, none has had quite such a material affect on my future.

Had a question like this appeared on that test, I know I’d have been torn. I wouldn’t be torn now, of course, I’d write ‘go fuck yourself’ across the paper in my sparkliest pens, but right now I’m an adult with a job, not a scared thirteen-year-old who wants to make her mum proud. The obvious answer- that any Prime Minister who attempts to justify the murder of protesters after the rule of law has disintegrated is not fit to rule and should step down immediately - is not one that appears on the test. And that’s the point of tests like these.

It’s not enough to be clever. What this test says is: if you want to be part of the ruling elite, you have to share our values, and one of those values is maintaining power at any cost, even if it involves defending the indefensible. Having a moral compass that doesn’t spin wildly at the promise of power is an active impediment. The significant line in that extended question is ‘You are the Prime Minister.’ As if you’d be anything else.

”

- The Eton Scholarship Question: this is how the British elite are trained to think | Laurie Penny for The New Statesman

(via spellcoats)

#1: eton’s a fucking CHARITY?
#2: well this explains everything wrong with this country. all these countries.

(via forochel)

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Fri, 24 May 2013 14:11:25 +0100

rosalarian: typette: silverpastel: luz-sonriente: Siren Song...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:36 +0100

rosalarian:

typette:

silverpastel:

luz-sonriente:

Siren Song series by Victor Nizovtsev

I FUCKIN LOVE MERMAIDS I JUST WANNA SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS PLEASE LET ME BE ONE OF YOU

ahh I love it, her scales look like pretty coins

I want all of these as prints so I can hang them up in my room

Some amaaaaaaazing merms.

sheercompulsion: How well do you know your teammate: Jordan...

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:21 +0100

sheercompulsion:

How well do you know your teammate: Jordan Eberle 101 (x)

victoriapyrrhi: I got 99 problems and hockey is all of them.

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:29:50 +0100

victoriapyrrhi:

I got 99 problems and hockey is all of them.

olfeminines: It’s finally the day of the Champions League final...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:08:05 +0100

olfeminines:

It’s finally the day of the Champions League final and Louisa Necib is on the front page of the biggest sports paper in France.

thedramaticsneeze: hoshigumayuugi: i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:39:27 +0100

thedramaticsneeze:

hoshigumayuugi:

i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up early

YOU PUT THIS IN WORDS

"Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:06:58 +0100

““Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor - areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.””

- The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard (via lionxvx)

"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:29:57 +0100

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”

- Flannery O’Connor (via thepurplepapers)

I see One Direction are adding a little flamenco flavor to their...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:24:25 +0100

I see One Direction are adding a little flamenco flavor to their lineup…

missmollyetc: exemplaryetoile: Dreaming My Dreams With You -...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:23:31 +0100

missmollyetc:

exemplaryetoile:

Dreaming My Dreams With You - Sidney and Taylor Crosby

Kill me.

littlemixbutts: bodenniss: littlemixbutts: i wish i was a mermaid so i could have a nice shiny...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:27:04 +0100

littlemixbutts:

bodenniss:

littlemixbutts:

i wish i was a mermaid so i could have a nice shiny tail and a pretty seashell bra and a beautiful voice that i could use to entice cute boys and make them crash their ships and drown at sea so human women could rise as the dominate gender of the land

well that escalated quickly

paige i’m a lesbian why would i entice cute boys where did you think that post was going

sealcat: sidney crosby’s life was in the hands of a mozzarella...

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:21 +0100

sealcat:

sidney crosby’s life was in the hands of a mozzarella stick

"More African American adults are currently in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:14:59 +0100

“More African American adults are currently in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850.”

- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crowe

This is how institutionalized racism works, operates and destroys the lives of POC (and here specifically black people) while enshrining white supremacy. And people say that things have “changed.” BS. Words for serious thought.

(via blackinasia)