Anonymous asked: Hi I knew Braill for 3 years. I have periodically googled her name ever since her death, but your posts never showed up before today. Is there a way I can get in contact by email? It would mean a lot to me.
Of course. My email is lpg3@msn.com
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“No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don’t select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they’re the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it’s a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.”
—Alan Shepard, first American in space
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More of my favourite miniature effects shots from Alien. Can never get enough of this movie. Images from Alien Movie Novel by Richard J Anobile (Futura Publications, 1979)
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Anonymous asked: Hi, I'm looking for information about Brial Rose Dang. One of my friend confided in me that she had fled an abusive relationship with a certain Luke Getting, and googling around I found a post of yours saying that Ms. Dang had also been abused by Mr. Getting, prior to committing suicide. Is there more information out there? He's still friends with a number of my other friends, and I feel like I should warn them, but my friend doesn't want to be mentioned, so looking here instead.
Hi there. I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you. This is all very important to me, and I would actually be very interested in discussing it with you further if you wish. Also, everything I am about to type I either experienced myself, or heard from multiple trustworthy witnesses. None of this is exaggerated in the least.
I knew him as Luke Ghering. It would be interesting if he changed his name. I had met him through a mutual friend long before me and Briall met. He and Briall were in a poly relationship, and had been together for sometime. Me and her hit it off and started dating as well. There were many red flags in his behavior, but I didn’t notice them at first. At the time my understanding of consent, boundaries and abuse were not solid and therefore I spent much more time tolerating his actions and words than I am proud to admit. He was in every way a horrible person to her: Psychologically manipulative, regularly physically abusive (He had beat her in front of many people at parties, he never did anything like this with me around however) and he forced her to perform sex acts on many occasions. Many of the people who were present when he would abuse her were very good friends of his, and a few simply joined in. I didn’t find most of this out until long after the fact. It is also very clear that he has treated many women this way: there were quite a few exes of his that would try to warn Briall and other girls as he started dating them.
Fast forward a few months and Briall had found the strength to file a restraining order on him. I was with her, and the report she had to write was as horrific as you can imagine. She didn’t try to get him in trouble for the almost year of physical and sexual assaults. She just wanted him out of her life. Two weeks later she was found dead in the apartment that they shared. She supposedly killed herself, I’m not so sure: she died the night before she was due to testify against him in court.
Some other things I’d like to share:
Briall was not a hard person to get along with. She was amazingly bright, friendly and easy going. Always bubblingly happy, and quick to forgive. No one deserves abuse, but she never did anything that anyone could use to self-justify this kind of treatment.
She was 17 when he met her, and had been sober for almost a year after drinking too heavily as a child (her Mom was abusive as well) Luke was, and may still be, a wake up with a glass, drink all day, every day kind of alcoholic. He had had a DUI before I ever met him, and he drove with a drink in his cup holder always. pulling her back into alcoholism was his first tool for control, since she couldn’t buy it.
She was a sub, he thought he was a dom, at first she liked it, but he was just evil and controlling. He would order her not to wear clothes during parties, and would give his friends “permission” to sleep with her whenever he felt like it. These kind of stories went on and on when she opened up about it.
He had banks of photos and videos he had taken of most of the women he had ever slept with, and he would use them as leverage if they ever threatened to expose his behavior. Also when Briall filed the restraining against him a huge amount of his friends were threatening her. He had friends threatening to “kidnap, rape, and kill her for being a lying whore”
Last, but not least, he’s a sociopathic pick up artist. He was capable of bringing home a new person every night if he felt like it. This means that he could be continuing this abusive behavior over and over, with a new person whenever he loses the old. There is a string of women who’s lives he’s hurt or ruined, and frankly I don’t believe Briall is the first person to die because of him.
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Macdonald, William, Dry Farming, 1911 Dry-Land Wheat in Utah, 1911
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you ever been so stressed that youre calm
this is my constant state
my chill is fake
“How are you so calm?!”
“I’ve passed beyond stressed, beyond hysteria, into the grey misty indifference of complete shutdown of all but emergency services in my brain.”This is just what panic looks like for me.
It’s called dissociation. Have you people never seen a therapist???
SOME OF US CAN’T AFFORD IT OR WE ARE STILL AT HOME AND OUR PARENTS DENY US EVEN THE ABILITY TO SAY “I AM SAD/STRUGGLING” HOLY SHIT
I just live in a war zone.
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I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.
Sufjan Stevens
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I must add, when you’re a lesbian, sex is endless too.
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¡Autodefensa feminista!
1- Pepper spray is rubbish for self-defense, it doesn’t thwart an attacker only makes them angrier
2- a knife or a gun is statistically more likely to be used against you than in your defense. In order for them to be effective self-defense weapons you need to be highly trained and also willing to take a life. If you truly believe in your heart that street harassers/creeps deserve to be killed and are willing to risk life in prison over that, feel free to carry a gun or knife.I carry an expandable steel police baton. It’s got better reach than a knife or stun gun, more stopping power than pepper spray, and won’t ever get me charged with assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder like a gun or knife.
I know from experience that I’m not willing to use a knife in self-defense. I did one time. It was the worst thing I’ve ever done, and I got lucky about it too.
yeah, Ive heard that about pepper spray, that if your attacker is really drunk or on other drugs or even just has a lot of adrenaline going, its not gonna stop them. You want something that’ll stop them in their tracks. And realize if youre a girl that cant depend on claiming self defense in court and win (black women, sex workers, trans women, etc).
i’m pretty sure that “guns are more likely to be used against you” stat has been debunked but idk
I have been involved in quite a few altercations where I and/or my attacker has had a gun or knife. I can tell you from my experience alone taking a weapon from someone else, or having yours taken, is just not going to happen like they want us to believe. Not if you are at all willing to USE the weapon! I would love to see any studies to the contrary!
So many millions of women and grrrls must not carry because they think this way. It is just another male lie!
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