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If you can’t beat fear, just do it scared.

Glennon Doyle Melton (via downwiththedown)

Essentially, how I handle all aspects of my life.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens (via elemesy)

Forever my favorite quote.

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Putting this as nicely as possible: the “Jophia” ship name has always been primarily used for Jensen Ackles and Sophia but now has a lot of Sophia x Jesse in the tag. 

Bushfer or Jeshia/Jessia or something would work instead? I see Bushfer the most though. I like both ships just fine, but I would prefer to be able to find them in separate tags, so it’d be cool if people could please not use Jophia. 

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Free Dry Cleaning Offer Changes Lives Of The Unemployed

Carlos Vasquez owns First Professional Cleaners, a business that has helped thousands of people with one small act of kindness: free dry cleaning.

For the full touching story including the donations that flooded in to help pay for this free dry cleaning service go here. 

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Segun Oduolowu dragging Annie Lennox for her comments on how Beyoncé and her ‘twerking’ “isn’t feminism” on the Wendy Williams Show

can I marry this guy?

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What I’ve Learned: 1. A girl can lose feelings for you over night. 2. A kiss can be just that, a kiss. Completely meaningless. 3. Love can be one sided but I still wonder if that is love at all 4. Never beg for someone to stay or to love you. You shouldn’t have to beg for someone to be a part of your life or to love you. You deserve better than that. 5. Stop breaking your ribs to make space for those who do not belong there. 6. Learning to breathe again is harder than the doctors said it would be. 7. I don’t know what hurts more at night; being alone or being in love. 8. Laying with someone in bed at night is temporary. It won’t get rid of the lonely. You will still wake up and leave in the morning with a heavy heart and no hand to hold. 9. Sometimes the sky rains gasoline instead of water and you have to be strong enough and ignore the urge to set yourself on fire. 10. I will be okay someday. Bad things happen for no reason sometimes and things end but that shouldn’t mean you should come to an end too. The ocean will always have waves; I just have to learn to swim through them for a bit longer. 11. The stretch marks I left on my mother from birth will not be another suicide letter I never finished.

Oliver Nolau   (via stewheart)

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Red lipstick in advertisements in the March 1, 1942 issue of Vogue Magazine.

As the United States and other Allied powers tried to prevent the spread of the totalitarian regimes of Italy, Germany, and Japan, they assembled the largest fighting force in history. The urgency of the war, along with changing conceptions of women’s roles in society, meant that the U.S. military enlisted the help of thousands of women. In fact, about 350,000 women served in thee armed forces, while 19 million women held jobs at home supporting the war effort (Collins 374). When women shipped off, they took cosmetics with them into battle. Lipstick was one of the ways these women defined themselves; to them it signaled femininity and strength.

The U.S. government endorsed lipstick for other reasons. Along with cosmetic companies, the government nationalized women’s bodies and militarized their sexuality, creating a new proper usage of lipstick by associating it with war effort. Women took the encouragement to wear lipstick as an opportunity to participate in war support and boost morale, as well as to explore personal expression of the once taboo topic of the female body. The necessities of war clashed with traditional gender roles, and as women took on greater responsibilities, they had to satisfy seeming impossible demands. Women were to be feminine, but not too sensual, and able to do a man’s job when needed, but not become masculine in the meantime. Ladies navigated this treacherous terrain by using a widely accessible vehicle: the simple, everyday item of lipstick.

— "Speak Softly and Carry a Lipstick": Government Influence on Female Sexuality through Cosmetics During WWII by Adrienne Niederriter

[Detail from Tussy lipstick ad:]

New brave lipstick color by Tussy

Like warming your lips with rosy-red courage! Tussy Fighting Red—new as today—is brave in color. And on your lips it glows like Liberty’s torch, it wins! Perfect make-up partner for your spring costume colors of navy, aqua, air-force blue, rose, and beige … adds dash to your defense uniforms. This spring wear the new Tussy Fighting Red and be brave—for him!

[Illustration detail from Tussy lipstick ad.]

[Detail from DuBarry lipstick ad:]

WHEREVER THERE’S A JOB to be done, you’ll find her. The American beauty has rolled up her sleeves and gone to work. And what’s more—she’s kept her spirit and her perspective.

SHE HASN’T FORGOTTEN the job of being a woman too! She knows that “beauty is your duty" … that little things like a radiant smile, a dash of color, and a fresh, well-groomed look can add up to a very important thing called morale. 

AND SO DU BARRY SALUTES the new American beauty with a spirited cosmetic color—Emblem Red. A bright, brave red … clear as a bugle call. In lipstick, to add sparkle to her smile. In rouge, to play up that vital clear-skinned glow. A perfect foil for muted “military” blues and olives … lovely, too, with Easter Parade navy, grey, and beige. On duty—or off—the new American beauty looks her best!

Note: Look at the rhetoric used in the ads. Words such as “courage” and “brave” are used to describe appearances, colors are described in military terms (“navy,” “air-force blue,” “beige,” “‘military’ blues”), and patriotic imagery is used (“Liberty’s torch,” “American beauty”). The lipsticks are named “Emblem Red” and “Fighting Red.” The war is never explicitly mentioned, but there’s no doubt what effort the American beauty should be working towards.

The Tussy ad shows a woman in a dress dancing with a man in uniform and emphasizes how the lipstick will make her look brave “for him”. Conversely, the DuBarry ad shows a woman in uniform and speaks of her “duty” to both work and beauty.

Both ads frame woman’s appearance as a responsibility — to retain her femininity and maintain male soldiers’ morale.

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Academy Award Winner Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1

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I can’t even right now

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