Incredible illustrator @thelatestkate has never been afraid to talk about difficult topics; in the past, she’s shared her personal experiences with depression and leaving her religion, and her courage and candidness are always inspirational to us.
Today, she deals with another serious issue: how to cope if your parents are bullies. Bullying may seem like something that just happens in high school hallways, but it can happen at home, too—and if it’s happening to you, please know that the SparkLife community is always here for you, and that there are places you can turn to for help.
I want sensationalist headlines painting baby boomers as these confusing beings like they do to millennials.
“Why are baby boomers buying so many diamonds?”
“More than one house? The baby boomer obsession.”
“Baby Boomers: why do they find pleasure from swimming in their money?”
“‘When I was a kid I chased fireflies down by the creek!’ - why the beginning of this famous diatribe is irrelevant, ignorant and as worthless as baby boomer values.”
“Why are boomers terrified of kids on smartphones? A closer look into the older generation’s irrational fear of embracing new technology, even though they lived through half a century of rapid innovation.”
Incredible illustrator @thelatestkate has never been afraid to talk about difficult topics; in the past, she’s shared her personal experiences with depression and leaving her religion, and her courage and candidness are always inspirational to us.
Today, she deals with another serious issue: how to cope if your parents are bullies. Bullying may seem like something that just happens in high school hallways, but it can happen at home, too—and if it’s happening to you, please know that the SparkLife community is always here for you, and that there are places you can turn to for help.
when you break a world record, but a man comes in second (x)
And it’s worth note that Ledecky didn’t just win the 800 freestyle- she obliterated it:
Thats her. And those specks in the distance are her competitors. The second place swimmer was 11 SECONDS behind her. 11 seconds is FOREVER in something like this. Most second place swimmers in most races finish fractions of a second behind the first place swimmer.
Her finishing with none of her competitors in sight. And that yellow line is the previous world record’s pace. Ledecky is more than a full body length ahead.
Which, btw, she did in the 400m freestyle earlier in the games. Seen here:
(The previous world record in this race was held by her, to begin with, btw. As well as the 3 world record times preceding that one.)
So to sum it up: Yeah, Phelps is one of the most decorated Olympic swimmers ever etc etc but him getting silver means jack in the face of the actual-human-avatar-of-Poseidon that is Katie Ledecky.
Man okay when I got my wisdom teeth out it was a fucking experience. Before the surgery wasn’t too interesting but as soon as I woke up I saw the nurse next to me and was all like “hey… i think… i died… and now I’m in a parallel universe… and i gotta go back to my house and kill the me from this universe” and he was just kinda like “alright, you do that”. And then the other nurse kept going in and out of the room to get things and I thought there was like 5 of her that kept coming out of the room, and then so when she was wheeling me out in a wheelchair I was like “damn… why are there so many of you… there’s like 5 many of you” and she was just kinda like “alright, you do that”.
Anyway I got to the car and my dad was there and he was like “how ya feeling son” in the dadliest way possible and I was like “MAN I AM PUMPED LETS GET SOME JUICE I’M STARVED” so we drove about 3 blocks to a jamba juice, whereupon I say “I’m good I can do this” and run/drunkstumble 30 feet to the door. I burst in the door like a viking returning from some fucking battle and holler “WHATS UP FUCKS” to everyone in the store, which was thankfully just the 2 people behind the counter, who looked probably as scared/confused as a jamba juice employee could look.
So anyway, as my dad explained the situation I looked up at the jamba juice menu and was utterly fucking lost in it. Like I swear I was looking at this menu board for a year, deciphering this Rosetta stone of fruits. I distinctly remember that I was looking at each item in a smoothie, thinking of how it tasted, then moving on to the next thing and thinking of how that tasted, and how they would taste together. Since most smoothies had 3 or 4 items, this took some thinking. So my dad sees me in this extreme brain blast state of mind and says “hey are you going to order or what”. Keep in mind I’m on the first fucking smoothie on the list here. So I just say “shush man I’m trying to do fruit science”, and then when I realized that this process could take literal years, I just said “yeah give me a smooth regular” which for the uninitiated, isn’t actually a real thing on any menu. Oh, also I asked them if the “boosted” smoothies would give me super powers and then pointed my fingers at them and made “lightning noises”.
So my dad just orders me the first thing on the menu and I go to sit down and stare out the window or some shit and my thoroughly amused dad just looks at me and says “how ya feelin?”. Now at this time I was feeling a lot of things, but most noticeable to me was the gauze in my mouth, so I just look at him and say “there’s these fuckin… tiny sheep in my head” which at the time was the best way I had to convey this feeling. Anyway about that time, the jamba juice guy brings us our drinks and he gives me a small thing of mario kart stickers and I swear I almost cried from the tsunami of emotion that gift made me feel (I still have them).
Anyway the rest of the story is we drove home and I explained this programming project I was working on to my dad in perfect detail somehow and then I came home and went on facebook and posted a comment on my friends status (because I couldn’t find the status update bar) that read: “i just took a lort of painkillers and yelled at everyone in a jambo juice”
This may be the funniest thing I have ever read. There are actual tears coming out of my face.
the real glo up is when you accept everyone for who they are and you accept yourself for who you are and focus your energy on enjoying life and making the best of every moment instead of looking around at everyone else’s life with envy and self loathing
But since it’s a girl, then everyone needs to be so hateful.
I can’t even remember a boy group controversy that people are still bitter over.
Noh Hong Chul and Gil drove drunk, immediately dropped off their TV shows, and are now back (not on their respective shows, but on TV nonetheless) like nothing ever happened. Even after it happened, netizens were begging for them to come back.
If it were a woman, it sure as well wouldn’t have been the same. I mean, the list can go on about things that men could do in K-pop that would be all right, but if a woman did it, then they would be vilified.
Sulli saying a bad word in Chinese.
Park Bom amphetamines.
IU and that one dude from SuJu posting up pictures of themselves (guess who bore the brunt of that?????).
Taeyeon and Baekhyun (I wonder…………WHO BORE THE BRUNT OF THOSE PHOTOS)
It’s a bunch of fucking bollocks.
And then when shit does happen to males, it just gets swept under the rug like nothing happened:
EXO doesn’t talk about the members currently being disputed and they certainly don’t talk about members that departed (unless it’s media play that SM dictates). Same goes with SuJu in relation to Kangin and TVXQ in relation to Yoochun, Jaejoong, and Junsu. No one bats an eye.
Jessica left the group. SNSD doesn’t say a word. All of a sudden SNSD are bitches, sluts, whores, etc. for not saying anything about her departure. Except, you know, looking visibly upset when it first happened and tears. But, no, they clearly just think Jessica is a proper cunt and are not saying anything because they’re bitches.
Just take a look at what’s happening with Yoochun from JYJ! The man has had several people accuse him of raping them. Where the fuck is the uproar? Where are the netizens having a wank about how much of a vile human being he is?
Oh, they are all over on G.NA’s Twitter and Instagram chatting shit about how she supposedly fucked some dude for some money.
WHERE IS THE UPROAR OVER MEMBERS OF CNBLUE CLEARLY BREAKING THE LAW VIA INSIDER TRADING?! THAT SHIT IS ILLEGAL ALMOST EVERYWHERE.
I mean, the list goes on
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Member of boy group reveals his abs. OMGGGGGGG SO HOT OPPA PLS LET ME LICK UR ABS.
Member of girl group shows her ankle. FUCKING SLUT SELLING UR FUCKING BODY FOR MONEY STUPID PIECE OF SHIT WHY NOT GO CLUBBING OR SUCK A DICK FOR MONEY
No, this isn’t about feminism. Or equal rights. Or this or that. Or PC. I don’t even know what you’d call this post.
This is about respecting another person and treating others the way you want to be treated.
Why the hell are people telling Tiffany to go die? Or to be raped?
Like, what the fuck is wrong with you in your head to say that?
If someone hits me with a reblog trying to justify those words, I can 100% guarantee you that it solidifies what this post represents.
It’s sad that a community that supports people who sing pop songs is absolutely vile when something like this happens.
Ultimately, this post will change nothing. “Fans” will continue to furiously wank over anything oppa does and then hope that a girl group member dies in a horrible car accident or dies in a fire because she didn’t smile at an event due to fatigue.
Robert Jago on Gerald Stanley being granted bail. He’s accused of Second degree murder in the shooting death of Colten Boushie (A native man who was shot in the head while driving onto a farm looking for help with a flat tire). in Saskatchewan, Canada
me: “that Pokemon looks cool” Some buttman: “sure, but it’s attack stat is shit and not to mention it’s ability makes it worthless. It’s move pool is so shallow, it can’t even learn good tms. Not to mention that it’s 4x weak to fire.” Me: “he go swoosh swoosh and its cute”
