queensthief:

gaywrites:

The Peace Corps announced yesterday it will now accept applications from same-sex couples who want to serve overseas. Couples will be required to sign an affidavit verifying their relationship and will be placed in countries that are determined safe for LGBT people.

“The Peace Corps has long looked to expand opportunities to serve and reflect the diversity of the United States in its volunteers abroad,” reads a supplemental statement released by the Peace Corps. “In 2009, President Obama directed agencies to take steps, where possible, to expand access and benefits to the LGBT community, and that also drove the development of this policy. The agency has recognized an interest among prospective volunteers and believes same-sex couples will bring new skills and experiences to the field that will benefit the organization.

“… The Peace Corps will only consider placement of same-sex couples in countries where homosexual acts are not criminalized. There are many factors that affect ultimate placements, including applicants’ overall competitiveness, program availability, departure dates, medical accommodations and safety.”  

The application process for same-sex couples opens officially on June 3. Woohoo! 

Hannah we’ve talked about this! This makes me silly amounts of happy.

HUGE GRIN I am also super happy! I was going to tag you in it but then I remembered that you and Sara both check my blog so

in other news I did some more research about OCD and serving and honestly, the prognosis isn’t super good. It’s not getting the meds, they just don’t want to pour a lot of money in and then have me flake out in the middle of nowhere
so having that on your application is a big disadvantage :/

BUT if you have a super-confident letter from your psychiatrist and are good elsewhere you can still be a candidate.

I wish you all cute anons and lots of notes on your text posts

azkabanescapee:

carbonated-milk:

hey if ur ever feelin shitty use this

Holy shit I’m trying not to cry.

(Source: bakerstreetbabes)

gaywrites:

The Peace Corps announced yesterday it will now accept applications from same-sex couples who want to serve overseas. Couples will be required to sign an affidavit verifying their relationship and will be placed in countries that are determined safe for LGBT people.

“The Peace Corps has long looked to expand opportunities to serve and reflect the diversity of the United States in its volunteers abroad,” reads a supplemental statement released by the Peace Corps. “In 2009, President Obama directed agencies to take steps, where possible, to expand access and benefits to the LGBT community, and that also drove the development of this policy. The agency has recognized an interest among prospective volunteers and believes same-sex couples will bring new skills and experiences to the field that will benefit the organization.

“… The Peace Corps will only consider placement of same-sex couples in countries where homosexual acts are not criminalized. There are many factors that affect ultimate placements, including applicants’ overall competitiveness, program availability, departure dates, medical accommodations and safety.”  

The application process for same-sex couples opens officially on June 3. Woohoo! 

doctorwho:

Salvador Dalek

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them-days-was-olden-as-fuck:

An interesting article about a temporary truce on the Eastern front between imperial Russian and German soldiers, who declared a ceasefire to fight off a growing population of starving wolves. Click here for a larger version of the article.

shaggydoge:

actinoutloud:

shaggydoge:

i cant believe joHN HARRISON WAS ALMOST JOHN HARRISON AND THEN THEY CHANGED IT IM SO FUCKING MAD

they were going to have him be an original character and then when filming had already started they were like haha let’s make him khan or something idk do u wanna smoke a blunt

wildehack:

so I’ve been reading Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, which is a collection of letters between the Fitzgeralds, and it’s so gorgeous and so sad and I love them both stupidly a lot.

and way more of Zelda’s letters are included than Scott’s. And I know that there are so many reasons why Scott’s letters might have disappeared—Zelda was in so many sanitariums, she might have lost them, she might have destroyed them, they might have been taken from her, they might have burned with her—

but I just think of Scott with his file labeled Z that he put absolutely every letter into, every devastating word (“The rotten letters you write me I simply put away under Z in my file,” he wrote a paragraph before telling her “I am hardened to write you so brutally by thinking of the ceaseless wave of love that surrounds you and envelops you always, that you have the power to evoke at a whim”)  and it just gets me that we collectively care about Scott’s words so much more than we care about Zelda’s, and we remember Scott’s words so well, because we all read Gatsby in high school, if nothing else—but these are the words he cared about, because he kept every single one, and, just. It’s such a terrible love story, and it’s so perfect to read it all in a book, because they were such performative, poetic, dramatic people, and whatever truths they wrung out of each other on paper are cloaked in their performance and their poetry and. it’s just perfect.

I think I love them so much that I’ve lost coherency?

I mean, she wrote Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself. and he wrote You were going crazy and calling it genius—I was going to ruin and calling it anything that came to hand., and she wrote I want to love first and live incidentally, and he wrote For all your superior observation and your harder intelligence I have a faculty of guessing right, without evidence even with a certain wonder, and she wrote no matter what happens, I still know in my heart that it is a Godless, dirty game; that love is bitter and all there is, and he wrote We ruined ourselves—I have honestly never thought that we ruined each other.

this may border on tmi for some of you sorrynotsorry i’m going to talk about my boobs now

I hadn’t measured myself for bras since 8th grade, just buying slightly larger band sizes when they got uncomfortable. I figured my boobs didn’t seem to have grown that much, so I could keep wearing the same B cup I’d always worn.

and then I looked online at sizing charts, and discovered that rather than a 36B, I’m a 32/34 DD. oops.

and then I went to Target, because I am cheap and their bras are cute and inexpensive, and discovered that that combo of band/cup size is either nonexistent or pretty damn bland. I found one 34DD (one! in the whole store!) and had a damn hard time finding 34D, never mind 32. 32 band sizes didn’t exist in cups above A.

because most mainstream American bra manufacturers make their cups larger than they should be, I could fit into 34D, but it wasn’t as comfortable. also, I had to go hunting like crazy. I could tell that they did stock them, because there were stickers on the back of the racks for 34D, but there were fewer D cup bras than any other cup size.

apparently, the average American woman is a 36DD. which would answer the question of why all the cute D cups were gone, because that’s actually closer to the average boob size of the people shopping. but the options for smaller band sizes and larger cups are really limited, unless you go out and buy specialty bras, do a lot of research, or buy online.

the thing is, I’m not a specialty size. I’m close to average. so why aren’t there convenient, affordable, and attractive options for me?