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Just as European sex ed programs are looking to urge more births to combat falling fertility rates, the U.S. might be seeing similar trends in its own birth rate. Not just yet, though. But, according to new numbers from the Census Bureau, more American women of childbearing age are actually childless. Almost half of women between the ages of 15 and 44 didn’t have kids in 2014, with an increase from 46.5 percent in 2012 to 47.6 percent last year. 

Census Bureau finds the highest percentage of childless women of reproductive age since the 1970s

#yes! #This

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I wanna get on a bus and get away from you and mom, and hopefully be a different person than you two.

#Sally Draper #mad men

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Natalie Dormer as Lady Seymour Worsley in ‘The Scandalous Lady W’

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My biggest dream as a writer is not to get my books published, but for someone to write fan fiction off of my own work.

#yes #But I still want to publish some well-received books #and make some money from it

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#giant bunnies

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One important thing to remember in life: Do not coddle men. Do not do their work for them. Do not perform uncredited labor for them, including intellectual labor. Do not bend over backwards to help them. Do not tell them they are good at things they are bad at. Do not smile at them when you don’t want to. Do not laugh at their terrible jokes or stroke their egos or let them think they are better than you when odds are good that they are almost definitely not. Do not even deal with men whose presence bothers you when you can get away from them/when you aren’t regularly forced to be near them for things like work. Do not include men in your life who don’t deserve to be in it any time that you can avoid it at all.

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Tumblr, we need your help.

This evening as we were arriving at our hotel on the North Carolina coast, we heard a cry in the parking lot.  We thought it might be a cat, so we called for it.  The cry persisted.  Out of the darkness ran a little orange kitten.

The kitten was desperate.  He cried and cried, until we picked him up, put him in our car, and drove around looking for a place to buy cat food after midnight.  We found some at a gas station, along with cat litter, and then we smuggled him up into our hotel room.  We have since bathed him several times to combat the flea infestation from which he was suffering.

Throughout these multiple baths, he has not stopped purring once.  He follows us everywhere.  He wants to be cradled and cuddled constantly, he is especially fond of toes and kisses.

On top of everything, it seems as though his whiskers have been cut.  We don’t know everything this little guy has been through, but he’s clearly had a hard life so far and he deserves so much better. As you all know if you’ve been following me, we already have multiple cats and probably shouldn’t add another to our household.  However, surely someone out there can give this guy a home.

We found him in Morehead City, NC, and will be traveling back up to Chapel Hill. NC on Sunday.  Is there anyone who is interested in this little guy and can meet us to give him a good home?  Please send me or Ash a message if you’re interested.

Please reblog even if you can’t offer him a home.  Maybe someone you know can!

#cat in need of home

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I walked to a deli and got a sandwich to go and a coffee and while I was waiting these two teenage girls ran up and were like OH MY GOD JESSICA HOW ARE YOU and then hugged me and the one whispered “that guy was following you and taking pictures of you” and then they walked home with me and that one guy stopped following me and hONESTLY THIS IS WHAT I AM HERE FOR

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the second disney movie no one asked for

#Disney AU #Ariel/Jasmine #Another good job

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the disney movie no one asked for

#Disney AU #Aladdin/Hercules #good job

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Holding steady ~ By Kevin Carden

#pretty hut owwwww

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prepare for an over-analysis of fucking minions:

okay so apparently the creator of the Minions (who is named Pierre Coffin, holy shit, what an amazing name) said something along the lines of “All the Minions are boys/men because I just can’t see women acting that stupid” which a lot of people are taking as “haha yeah men are stupid!” but also this is a really boring trend I’ve seen in media (especially cartoons and sitcoms) since the dawn of time

characters that are silly, goofy, stupid, funny, loud, obnoxious, and ridiculous are always boys.

characters that are smart, mature, delicate, and sophisticated are almost always girls.

now to a lot of people this is probably a “yeah, so?” kind of thing, and some people might even see it as a good thing? they might see it as “yes i’m glad girls are being taught that boys are stupid!”

well, that’s not really the case. girls aren’t being taught boys are stupid, they’re being taught that boys GET to be stupid. boys GET to be loud and goofy because they’re boys, and that’s just how boys act. it enforces a really harsh gender role that says that boys are naturally funny and silly and girls need to stay quiet. 

and typically whenever these two character archetypes interact, the mature girl is always there to ruin the boy’s fun (Cosmo and Wanda, Billy and Mandy, Dib and Gaz, Goku and Chichi, Fred and Wilma, George and Jane, and Every Sitcom You’ve Ever Seen)

i just think it’s time for some girl characters that are allowed to be silly! that are allowed to run the show with their goofiness! to tell girls that it’s okay to not be mature and have fun! i’m just tired of the same gender roles being enforced that I’ve been noticing since I was a kid!

#yes! #Gender roles

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Heart attacks symptoms are different for women. I recently learned this. 

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Absent

Appealing

Baby-faced

Beatific

Black

Bleak

Brooding

Bug-Eyed

Chiseled

Craggy

Curious

Dark

Darkly

Deadpan

Doleful

Downcast

Dreamy

Etched

Expressionless

Faint

Fine

Fixed

Fresh-Faced

Full-Face

Furrowed

Glazed

Glowering

Good Looking

Grave

Handsome

Hatchet-Faced

Haunted

Hunted

Lived-In

Made-Up

Meaningful

Mild

Mischievous

Mobile

Mona Lisa

Negroid

Pained

Pitying

Pleading

Pleadingly

Quizzical

Radient

Roguish

Sardonic

Sculpted

Seamed

Set

Shame Faced

Slack Jawed

Sly

Smiley

Snub-Nosed

Straight Faced

Sullen

Taut

Thin

Thoughtful

Tight-Lipped

Unblinking

Unlined

Vacant

Wan

Wanly

Weak

Weather-Beaten

Wide-Eyed

Withering

Wolfish

Worried

Words Used to Describe Someone's Face or Facial Expressions

#writing #Facial expressions

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Your Majesty, the King is here.

#anne/henry #The Tudors

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Ball Gown

Late 1870s

British

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