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LONDON—An early review confirmed Wednesday that upcoming historical drama The Sisters Of Darington Manor was just 90 minutes of a woman holding up her petticoats while scampering through an open field. “After the opening credits roll, it’s really just an hour and a half of a woman in a silk gown grabbing the hems of her petticoat while she hurries along a windswept plain,” said The Independent reviewer Christina Gordon, confirming that the costume drama—which offers no discernible dialogue and could take place at any point in history between the Georgian and Victorian eras—features a striking string soundtrack that swells to accentuate the woman’s progress across what appears to be either the English heath or possibly the Scottish moorland. “About midway through the movie, there’s this 45-minute unbroken shot of her rushing in front of a misty hillside. Then she mounts a horse at one point and rides it for a few minutes, which was nice. But then she just gets off, hitches up her petticoat, and starts hurrying across the plain again.” While criticizing the film’s lackluster narrative, Gordon praised the “breathtaking finale,” in which the woman completes her 90-minute journey by rushing directly into the embrace of a troubled-looking but handsome man in a brown frock coat and cravat.

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If you’ve stayed soft and kind and caring through your trauma, if you’re empathetic and full of love, if you find your good moments in others, if you are externally emotionally invested in the goings-on of the world, if that’s how you heal and how you find safety and peace and that’s what’s good for you, that’s good.

If your trauma made you cold and disempathetic and gave you violent impulses and wild anger you have to manage, if you find it difficult to truly care about others or find you have no capability to do so at all, if your experiences carved you out and filled the space with hollowness and persistent apathy, if you find your good moments in yourself, if that’s how you find safety and peace and that’s what’s good for you, that’s good too.

I see a lot of posts praising trauma survivors who have remained soft, remained caring, remained empathetic. There are not nearly as many to reassure people who feel hollowed out and filled with anger, or apathy, or who are disempathetic. Whichever you are, or if you find yourself with one foot on each side, your trauma was no less real, and your experiences are no less important. One category of survivors isn’t better than another because of how they healed. You deserve the space to heal and exist as you are.

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There are fat girls who are also poors, we don’t all have enough money to buy the new season in Torrid and have our closets filled of colorfull clothes. 

There are fat girls who live in cold places, we can’t run in the house in some thight sexy swimsuit, use short pants or be naked all day.

There are fat girls who don’t wear make up because their faces have acne and can’t use them, or because we just don’t want.

There are fat girls who don’t have a lot of free time and can’t take the work of look like models in a big house.

Feminism talk about minorities and the power of the woman as human being, and mostly, size our worth according the fact that we are a living thinking creature and not a sexualized object.

Then why even the movements of Body Positivity focus in show chubby girls looking like models? Instead to celebrate diversity, only reinforces the idea that we are pure objetcs to see. 

Even if you “dess to yourself”, even if you don’t look sexy for others, but only to your eyes, as a woman, we also need to make visible the other side. The side of the same womans that we look here, pretties, sexies, nakeds, with perfect hair and amazing make up, in her worse days. We are not less worthy, important and amazing creatures for not look like a model.  There are fat girls that never will look like a model, because their situation does not allow it, and that don’t make her less worthy, less human, less woman. And these girls, who never see a pic of a chubby girl looking like a trully mess, will grown up thinking that they are the only mess in the world. 

In my endless worst days I would had loved to see a chubby sexy girl showing me that she can be a trully trash sometimes too, that I’m not alone. And today, I still wanting to see that too. But the Body Positivity movements keep showing me the same: Pretty chubby girls of smooth sking with perfect make up in a king size bed, black goddesses with some epic cute dress in the sun, girls that weight barely over the average looking like the cutests things ever, big powerfull girls in swimsuit in a pool, totally naked girls with lovely tattoos and filters… 

I know my wish will end in the nothing, but I’m here to give a hand to these girls like me, that don’t know how is live like that, and tell hers: YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Ely- 29 @gildaelia

And even if I will be the only one… #TrashAndValuable

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It’s okay if you’re burning with anger or sadness or both it is necessary for you to collapse so you can learn how phoenixes are reborn when they burn and rise again from the ashes of their existence

Noor Unnahar (via help-n-quotes)

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You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions. You are not your parent’s possessions.

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You are beautiful, okay?

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WHEN A REFERENCE LIBRARIAN WANDERS INTO STORYTIME

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Hydra Decides To See Doctor About Painful Ingrown Head

ARGOLIS, GREECE—Worrying that it would become infected if left unattended, the water monster Hydra confirmed Friday that it was finally going to see a doctor about a painful ingrown head. “I noticed it a few centuries ago and no matter what I try, it just keeps getting worse,” said the serpentine creature, adding that the ingrown head was most likely caused by it growing back incorrectly after being sliced off by a hero at the wrong angle. “It’s all swollen, and it’s just gross to look at. I tried treating it with antibiotic cream and a bandage, but I think it’s time to have professional examine it before it gets way worse.” At press time, a doctor had successfully removed the ingrown head, but two more ingrown heads reportedly immediately appeared in its place.

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Libraries are an essential service in helping communities recover from disasters!

ALA state chapters, the Texas Library Association and the Florida Library Association are taking in donations, and leading the response efforts in their respective states. ALA encourages you to assist them. Information on how to donate to these efforts is listed below.

Since ALA’s two chapters are leading the respective recovery efforts in their states, ALA will be taking in donations to help the many libraries in the Caribbean that were destroyed and heavily damaged by Hurricane Irma.  Libraries such as the Philipsburg Jubilee Public on St. Martin has been damaged beyond repair and will need to be rebuilt.   Librarians in the region are trying to provide services for children and others in the aftermath of the storm.  Updates will be provided as they become available.

ALA is pleased to be partnering with Florida International University Library and its Digital Library of the Caribbean staff on assisting those in the Caribbean.

Make a donation to ALA’s Disaster Relief Fund to help libraries in the Caribbean recover and rebuild.  ALA is 501©3 and donations are tax deductible.

Florida Libraries Disaster Relief Fund

In the wake of Hurricane Irma, the Florida Library Association is working with the State Library of Florida to coordinate a response to damage caused to libraries across the state.

Anyone wishing to assist Florida libraries with their recovery efforts is urged to donate to the Florida Library Association’s Florida Libraries Disaster Relief Fund.  Donations are tax deductible.

The Florida Library Association will update our website frequently as we learn details about specific libraries and their needs.

Florida Libraries Rebuild Network - an online sharing tool to connect those libraries impacted by Hurricane Irma and those wanting to help.

Texas Libraries Disaster Relief Fund

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey the Texas Library Association and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission are coordinating responses to libraries across the state.  

Anyone wishing to assist Texas libraries with their recovery efforts is urged to donate to the Texas Library Association’s Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund.  Donations are tax deductible.  

The Texas Library Association will update its website frequently with learn details about specific libraries and their needs.

The Texas Library Association developed the Texas Library Recovery Connection, an online information sharing system to help connect those offering assistance to libraries in need.

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