Dark chocolate cake with raspberry mousse filling and white chocolate buttercream.
Oh my god this person needs to marry me.
(via wild-fangirl)
Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent
Better access to contraception, higher quality sex education and shifting social norms have contributed to a 36.9 per cent decline in Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate between 1996 and 2006, according to a report released today by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
America’s emphasis on abstinence-only sex ed “tends to result in a higher percentage of teens becoming pregnant,” as does the country’s lack of universal health care. Poverty is another factor.
Among the four countries compared for 2006, Canada boasted the lowest teen birth and abortion rate per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 (27.9), followed by Sweden (31.4), England/Wales (60.3), and the United States (61.2).
(via fureinenmoment)
Maybelline “Confidence” ads. SO happy with how the colors in these turned out in printing and matting. To clarify, these are not real Maybelline ads, they were created for an advertising class.
EDIT: This is important. This means a lot to me. I legitimately believe a huge mistake was made today.
These ads were a part of my portfolio into the advanced advertising program at my school. About half of the people who apply get in. I got into the first two creative classes, intro and intermediate, and I was confident I would get into advanced… especially after I posted these on tumblr and in a matter of a few hours got THOUSANDS of notes with people saying that they loved them, most people even believing they were real advertisements and not something a 21 year old student made for class.
The only reservation I had was that my portfolio was being judged by two older men. Two men who have never worn makeup in their lives. Two men who would probably not even begin to understand what this campaign means. Two men who have never been under societal pressures to wear makeup, but then being told they’re insecure for doing so.
Those reservations might have been founded, as evidenced by the fact that I did not get in. I was rejected. I got over 5,500 notes on these ads in 24 hours, yet I was rejected for not being good enough. I can’t finish the program, and I have to figure out where to go from here.
Now to the good stuff: Tumblr is amazing. Everyone who has reblogged this, whether your comments were negative or positive, is amazing. I find it truly astounding that these have gotten so much attention. These, which are advertisements selling you something, something people inherently dislike. I am humbled, shocked, and grateful. This is the first time since I’ve been in advertising that I felt like I was doing something right… that maybe, just maybe, I could make it in this industry and make a positive change.
Those dreams were squashed today. I cried, and I complained. I’m angry — but not at myself like I thought I would be. I feel they made a mistake. I refuse to believe that I’m in the bottom 50% of the people who applied. I deserve to be in that program, and I know it. Thousands of people can’t be wrong that this is a good idea. An idea that MEANS something, and idea that resonates with many people. 2 older, conventional men can absolutely be wrong when it comes to judging what makes a good makeup ad.
Here’s where you come in. Let’s make them regret their decision. Reblog this, like it, comment on it, whatever. Let’s get this attention… so much attention that they can’t ignore it. While the decisions are most likely final, I want to make them think twice. I want them to look back, and believe that they fucked up. If it doesn’t even benefit me personally, I want them to think about how fair a panel of 2 male judges is when it comes to evaluating work done by women, for an audience that consists of predominantly people who identify as women.
So let’s do this. They fucked up; I deserved to be accepted. I know it, and I have a feeling you guys know it too.
So I guess between Psychonauts, Bastion and the rest of the games in the Humble Bundle, which you should totally get because it’s one of the best ones they’ve ever done and it’s currently only $7.57 to get all the games offered, I’m going to have a very very busy yet simultaneously completely unproductive June
My roommate is letting me play through her copy of Psychonauts with her, and it is such a cool game. Might have to check these other games out now, if they’ll play on my old macbook.
It’s funny you mention this, because today I was thinking about how I didn’t really like Suki’s character in the original series and now we have Asami…who is essentially the same character. I guess my dislike of Asami extends from my dislike of Suki since they’re basically the same, if with different backgrounds.
I don’t really see how they’re the same at all? Suki was the leader of a group of lady warriors who developed a relationship with Sokka. Asami is the daughter of a businessman who drives fast cars and is in a relationship with Mako. She doesn’t know martial arts, she’s not particularly aggressive, but she’s good with machinery and will probably take to that glove rather nicely. They don’t even look at all similar.
Literally, the only thing they have in common, besides the possible Kyoshi Island connection, is that they are both non-benders who are dating dudes. That’s… that’s really it.
I can’t “like” this post more than once, so I reblog. Also… keeping the tags. Because I like them. :D
I need to make out with Spirit now.
Mina and Zoe won’t mind too much right?
“Literally, the only thing they have in common, besides the possible Kyoshi Island connection, is that they are both non-benders who are dating dudes. That’s… that’s really it.”
SO MUCH LOVE
:D What they don’t know won’t hurt them, right?
I just have a lot of Asami feels, because I feel like the writers very intentionally set her up to resemble this Hollywood cliche of the sexy, rich, snobby girl. We all hate the rich snobby girl. Especially when she is a romantic rival of the leading female.
Action stories are particularly bad for limiting female presence. It’s like the screen can only accommodate one female lead at a time. If there is another woman on screen, it must be because she is either a throwaway character or a villain or both. She can’t possibly be important, and she can’t possibly be good, because as the media loves to tell us, womanfolk just can’t get along.
And they’re playing with that trope a lot here. Because it also occurred to me that she’s a strong parallel for Azula. She even looks like Azula. So much about Azula was wrapped up in her following after her father, winning his approval, taking the power that he held and holding it over other people. Asami had the chance to become just like Azula, and she didn’t. She had the strength of will to stand up to her father the moment she disagreed with him, not even taking the entire series to reach that decision like Zuko did.
(Not that Hiroshi Sato is necessarily a bad person, certainly not comparable to Ozai, although he is shady as fuck.)
But anyway, you don’t see people claiming that Bolin is just a remake of Sokka or that Mako is the new Zuko. They’re comparable, but they are not at all the same characters.
It’s a minor detail, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the non-bender on the new Team Avatar has a clearly Japanese name. Kyoshi Island was the most clearly Japanese culture in the Avatar universe. The Kyoshi Warriors were the most amazing non-bending fighters we ever saw on the “good” side.
And that is also significant, because Kyoshi Island was founded by Avatar Kyoshi, in order to protect its people from Chin the Conqueror. Reinforcing the fact that the Avatar is meant to serve both benders and non-benders.
It’s one of those details that really shows the legacy of the first series, along with the fact that Mako and Bolin are of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom heritage, showing just how successfully peace has been established between the nations.
It’s funny you mention this, because today I was thinking about how I didn’t really like Suki’s character in the original series and now we have Asami…who is essentially the same character. I guess my dislike of Asami extends from my dislike of Suki since they’re basically the same, if with different backgrounds.
I don’t really see how they’re the same at all? Suki was the leader of a group of lady warriors who developed a relationship with Sokka. Asami is the daughter of a businessman who drives fast cars and is in a relationship with Mako. She doesn’t know martial arts, she’s not particularly aggressive, but she’s good with machinery and will probably take to that glove rather nicely. They don’t even look at all similar.
Literally, the only thing they have in common, besides the possible Kyoshi Island connection, is that they are both non-benders who are dating dudes. That’s… that’s really it.
It’s a minor detail, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the non-bender on the new Team Avatar has a clearly Japanese name. Kyoshi Island was the most clearly Japanese culture in the Avatar universe. The Kyoshi Warriors were the most amazing non-bending fighters we ever saw on the “good” side.
And that is also significant, because Kyoshi Island was founded by Avatar Kyoshi, in order to protect its people from Chin the Conqueror. Reinforcing the fact that the Avatar is meant to serve both benders and non-benders.
It’s one of those details that really shows the legacy of the first series, along with the fact that Mako and Bolin are of Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom heritage, showing just how successfully peace has been established between the nations.
