Latifa Nabizada - Afghanistan's first woman of the skies

Col Latifa Nabizada, the first female pilot in the Afghan air force, has battled prejudice, the Taliban and personal tragedy - but her ambitions for her young daughter soar even higher.


If you do one thing today, read this.


oliviawhen:

Reasonable armor fixes everything.


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reblogged from: sabrinasays + originally from: picsinframes.
#fairy tales and castles #I'm feeling a northern little mermaid here #cold water and a princess who spends every afternoon looking out that window #the mermaid falls in love and pines hopelessly #the princess walks down to the bank one day and catches sight of a beautiful girl splashing in the sea #the mermaid is shy and dives for cover but the princess knows she saw something #and so she takes off her bracelet and leaves it on the smoothest stone she can find #and hides behind the evergreen tree #after a few moments the mermaid surfaces and looks about desperately before fitting it to her wrist #holding it to her heart #the princess makes a delighted sound and the mermaid panics #dives again in a flurry of delicate fins and churning brine #and so the princess goes back to her tower and looks through her jewelry #and begins to court the mermaid #something new laid on the stone every day #the princess knows better than to make a sound behind her evergreen tree #and the mermaid takes every beautiful trinket laid upon the bank with reverence and delight #until one day the princess stumbles out from behind the tree #unable to bear just watching her beautiful mermaid any longer #only this time the mermaid doesn't run #their gazes meet and the princess sees every single gift she's given #decorating the arms and fingers and neck of the lady in the water #the mermaid smiles and extends her hand #webbed wet fingers meet delicately gloved ones #and that is how their story begins #also tagging this as #mermaids

anus:

renkris:

Gordon Ramsay doesn’t care about your gender, race, or creed. All he cares about is that you can cook.

The contestant, Christine, is blind, and he lets her know exactly what he thinks of her dish.

OMG I was preparing myself to be enraged by him making some horrible comment but now I’m crying in Starbucks GOD DAMMIT


samgagmee:

i usually just forget about martin freeman at this point but seeing him in that trailer got me thinking about how great the lotr cast was (and i’m sure a lot of the hobbit cast is great too) but like

elijah wood was (and is) nothing but gracious in interviews and promotional stuff and he says nice (omg shocking!!!) things about other people

and dom and billy were the resident jokesters but they mostly ribbed each other and i know that dom has since turned out to be kind of an asshole on twitter but they weren’t about to say shitty things about other people

they just all came across really well and at the very least made an effort to present themselves as friendly caring people which i think is why that cast has such a fan following you know?

whereas martin freeman’s ~sense of humor~ (read: asshole attitude) just kind of spoils things for me by comparison and usually i don’t let the fact that an actor is an asshole get to me but I think martin freeman especially bugs me because 1) he’s playing one of my favorite characters in literature and 2) he’s so utterly unlikable in comparison with pretty much everyone in the lotr cast?

idk maybe it’s unfair but i miss elijah wood boo


Elementary Season Two to Premiere September 26th » Read the Screen

OH HELL YES

published: 2 days ago, with: 81 notes
reblogged from: cbselementary + originally from: readthescreen.
#Elementary #S2 #EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


starfleetgrad:

omnivorousstegosaurus:

#CAN I JUST PRETEND THIS IS THE SAME FACE SPOCK MADE TO AMANDA AFTER SHE TAKES OF PICTURE OF HIM OUTSIDE THE VSA #LIKE A PROUD MOM WOULD? #ESPECIALLY IN THAT DORKY SWEATER 

“THIS IS THE DAY MY HANDSOME LITTLE MAN APPLIES FOR THE SCIENCE ACADEMY.”

“MOM, PINCHING MY CHEEKS IS NOT LOGICAL.”


unicorn-meat-is-too-mainstream:

photographer Yume Cyan has been shooting some magical long exposure photographs of fireflies in a forested area around Nagoya City, Japan. By keeping the camera’s shutter open at a low aperture Cyan captures every bioluminescent flash of each insect resulting in dotted light trails that criss-cross the frame.


oliviawhen:

What if sleeping beauty became a knight instead? 

A mini project I’ve been thinking about for awhile. You can find a backstory comic [here].