frankgaillard:

These surface rendered images of the thigh demonstrate normal anatomy. 

Remarkable anatomical detail can be obtained with modern 3D surface shading software and good quality contrast enhanced CT. 

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Social Justice League: Leave Kim Kardasian Alone (via grrrlstudies)

As much as I despise the kardashians- this is true.

I don’t view myself as a girly girl. but i spend a lot of my time choosing outfits and coordinating makeup and accessories. 

I think I’ve adopted a lot of manly traits- walking with a certain confident stride, cursing a lot, and being one of the men- in order to seem confident and competitive. I am really ambitious and I do not want the label as some waspish girl. I am assertive. However, I still wear make-up daily and talk about my hair. I am still afraid of losing my label as a women. It seems to me that I am taking what is seem as traditionally masculine traits in order to advance myself in my career because those are the traits that will get you results. But losing my femininity would also be a detriment. its a fine line you walk every day. 

this is how they train you and how you train others.

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harrypotterconfessions:

( we got a few messages asking for these responses to be rebloggable but i cant make the others so i made this one.

AND NOTE: THIS IS THE LAST ONE. I’ve already deleted all the others from the inbox. We cannot keep cluttering the blog with these, no matter how much fun I am having answering them.

If you have a question for the mods, go ahead and ask but we’ll only do like one or two a day or something. It’d be easier if you asked via fanmail or off anon so we could reply privately to you and stop annoying a majority of our followers. Ask off anon and I will discuss everything with everyone alll ddaaayyyy lol

thankkksssss )

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Well first I would like to say that sexuality most certainly does work that way. Everyone keeps trying to shove sexuality into a box with boundaries and borders. keep it black and white with no shades of grey. but its a rainbow spectrum with infinite possibilities and combinations.

You can be gay for 7 years and then find yourself growing attracted to someone female. Does that mean you were never gay? no. It means you liked boys and now you like this girl. 

“Oh but tech, that means youre bisexual”

No it doesn’t. Because you might not be attracted to guys anymore. That makes you straight. You were gay, now you’re straight. And thats POSSIBLE, it happens and its totally okay despite all these narrow minded people on both sides calling you a liar or a fake. I hate the labels people put on sexuality because labels = restrictions and sexuality has no limits. People like what they like and dont like what they don’t like, i don’t get why we can’t just leave it at that.

that being said, how I feel about dumbledore turning celibate. I think the way Jo described it made perfect sense and anyone who’s had their heart broken can probably relate on some level. She said “He lost his moral compass completely when he fell in love and I think subsequently became very mistrusting of his own judgement in those matters so became quite asexual. He led a celibate and bookish life.”

Dumbledore didn’t ‘change his mind’ he made a choice. He saw how powerful love was, what it did to him, how it blinded him to what Gellert was and blurred the lines of good and evil, and he was ashamed of himself for letting it get so bad.

Sometimes when you lose someone you love you feel like you’ll never love again, or that you dont want to because youre scared youll get hurt again. What that quote says to me is that Dumbledore was more afraid of himself in love because of how it changed him. He didn’t like the person he became when in love and so he vowed not to let it happen again. 

He became asexual, uninterested in sex and romantic love to prevent himself from getting caught up in anything like he had with Gellert. It was a traumatic experience really, his turning asexual could’ve been a result of the events and not a choice. I’m just of the opinion that it was something he chose. 

Totally logical to me.

Random afterthought: I dont think it hypocritical at all either to preach about love as he did when he himself was scared of the way it transforms a person, because there are so many different types of love. Just because he didn’t have romantic love in his life, didn’t mean he didn’t have any.

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Frodo, son of Drogo

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thelastsupperafterparty:

Old Tjikko is a 9,550 year old Norway Spruce Tree located on Fulufjället Mountain of Dalarna province in Sweden. 

To put it’s age in perspective the invention of writing didn’t occur until this tree was about 3,500 years old. Over 20 similar trees have been found nearby, all over 8,000 years old

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