I’m going to PAX!

PAX Australia that is :) Further travel is unlikely for me given

So right now, Liara and Lizzie Shep will go, also Turian extras, no big props, but I have a game costume I’ve wanted to do for years and I know I can do it really well and if I make it my one…

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Tumblr Tuesday: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Edition

Official Gazette
Direct from the Office of the President of the Philippines.

UNICEF
Inspiring, enlightening updates from UNICEF’s humanitarian efforts around the world. Donations given now help supply health kits, hygiene kits, and clean water to affected Filipino communities.

Oxfam GB
A look inside the lives of Filipino children currently living in evacuation zones. Citizens of Great Britain can donate £5 by texting DONATE to 70066.

Doctors Without Borders
Documenting their pursuit of a better cure for TB as well as their emergency responses to natural disasters. Cargo teams are currently prepping supplies to be sent to the Philippines, just one of the 60 countries Doctors Without Borders aids every year.

In Other News
Comprehensive but digestible daily round ups of what’s happening around the world. Stay updated on the most recent news from the Philippines, ways to help, and places to donate money to typhoon survivors.

For more ways to help our friends in the Philippines, look here.

staff:

Tumblr Tuesday: Typhoon Haiyan Relief Edition

Official Gazette
Direct from the Office of the President of the Philippines.

UNICEF
Inspiring, enlightening updates from UNICEF’s humanitarian efforts around the world. Donations given now help supply health kits, hygiene kits, and clean water to affected Filipino communities.

Oxfam GB
A look inside the lives of Filipino children currently living in evacuation zones. Citizens of Great Britain can donate £5 by texting DONATE to 70066.

Doctors Without Borders
Documenting their pursuit of a better cure for TB as well as their emergency responses to natural disasters. Cargo teams are currently prepping supplies to be sent to the Philippines, just one of the 60 countries Doctors Without Borders aids every year.

In Other News
Comprehensive but digestible daily round ups of what’s happening around the world. Stay updated on the most recent news from the Philippines, ways to help, and places to donate money to typhoon survivors.

For more ways to help our friends in the Philippines, look here.

She Lies Shattered: grungeisde4d: this is really selfish butwhy can’t mental illness be…

She Lies Shattered: grungeisde4d: this is really selfish butwhy can’t mental illness be…

grungeisde4d:

this is really selfish but

why can’t mental illness be like any other kind of sickness where you go to hospital and your loved ones come and give you flowers and tell you that they love you and hold your hand and make sure you get better

why doesn’t that happen instead of…

Short term illnesses are generally more tolerated by society because they reenforce stereotypes that good health is a moral issue. You get hurt/sick you do/get whats needed and everyone goes on with life.

What is incomprehensible in all long term illness (and I do include mental health in there as well) is that it doesn’t follow a narrative. It isn’t a cause you can get behind once and then not need to worry about again. It is constant and people do grow tired, naturally, and wonder why on earth you aren’t better.

What a lot of people also don’t understand is that often mental health and phsyical health both wind up being compromised even if the initial cause was one.

Years of isolation and pain has an effect on mind and brain and there can be effects in the other direction (which I cannot be a spokesperson for, my depressive episodes tend to be shortlived and highly dependent on physical factors).

We are in this together, none of us have the exact same experience but share that diagnosis of something that will live with us until our last days and that those last days may mean decades of the same or (more usually) worse with periods of remission. Or incredibly sadly and unexpectedly quickly. Rates of early death is very high in both groups compared to a healthy population.

The years of care and loyalty, were nothing but a sham it seems,

The years belie we lived the lie “I love you ‘til I die”

Definitely one of the most devastating songs of their oevre.

Also:
I hang my head and I advertise; a soul for sale or rent.

I have no heart, I’m cold inside, I have no real intent

Kind of resonates a little more than is comfortable. 

taking-an-apple:

Storytime with Miss Susan.

I’ve had issues with some of the casting in Dscworld adaptations but she was so perfect even if “my” Susan was a little different in my head.

Also during the blackout here I chomped through the first half of Hogfather by LED light 😉 As soon as I saw the first line I knew what this was.

Ah Discworld, I have missed you.

taking-an-apple:

Storytime with Miss Susan.

I’ve had issues with some of the casting in Dscworld adaptations but she was so perfect even if “my” Susan was a little different in my head.

Also during the blackout here I chomped through the first half of Hogfather by LED light 😉 As soon as I saw the first line I knew what this was.

Ah Discworld, I have missed you.

admhawthorne:

crackinois:

I actually think this was one of my favorite and most powerful scenes in the show. Kate Mulgrew expertly portrayed the hurt we’ve all felt at one point or another when we were ostracized by people we wanted so desperately to be accepted by and the fact that this feeling knows no boundaries of age.

I ached for her in this scene.