totallycorrectfairytailquotes:

Sting: How’s the prettiest boy in the world doing today?

Rogue: (without looking up and completely earnestly) I don’t know Sting, how are you?

Sting: (chokes up) I’m fine…

good things that happened in 2018

jacarandabanyan:

mangosteeeeeeeeeen:

resplendentkiddo:

Hi i am back again this year with good things that happened and there were quite a few tbh. most of these are from this website and this post

• scientists are replacing plastic with algae, a revolutionary idea that can suck carbon out of the air 
  
• scientists accidentally create super enzyme that can devour plastic pollution 
  
• scientists capture first ever confirmed image of a planet being born 
  
• more reliable new form of digital analysis may help to eliminate animal testing 
  
• 361 golden retrievers met up in Scotland to celebrate their breed’s birthday 
  
• goats want to see you smile, says new study 
  
• France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away excess food, they must donate unused food or face a fine
  
• beer company creates six pack rings that feed turtles instead of killing them
  
• France becomes the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees
  
• Scotland gives free sanitary products to women on low income and students
  
• the number of tigers in the wild Nepal have almost doubled in under a decade
  
• 1.5 million volunteers in India set a new world record: they planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours
  
• a South Korean court has ruled the killing of dogs for meat is illegal in landmark ruling
  
• California banes beauty products tested on animals
  
• giant pandas are no longer endangered and China is going to build a massive $1.5B panda conservation park
  
• breast cancer deaths have fallen by 39%
  
• Portugal has banned the use of wild animals in circuses by 2024 with a new law passed in parliament
  
• Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving officially ends
  
• the ocean cleanup project hopes to remove 50% of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years
  
• soft drink sales in the United States dropped for the 12th year in a row, thanks to consumer education and new sugar taxes
  
• dutch prison population is the lowest in Europe and its prisons are being turned into homes for refugees
  
• Norway is set to become the 14th European country to ban fur farming industries
  
• rats are protecting elephants on their migration routes across Southern Africa, sniffing out land mines that are too small to trigger
  
• study shows that global tree growth over the past 35 years has more than offset tree losses
  
• Bill Gates is donating $12 million to help develop a universal flu vaccine
  
• plant based diets keep becoming more and more popular
  
• pianist finds fulfillment playing music for blind elephants
  
• World Bank says it will no longer fiance oil and gas exploration
  
• China is building another enormous floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine
  
• vulnerable turtles return home to shore after world+s largest volunteer-led beach cleanup
  
• world’s second largest coral reef has been removed from endangered list
  
• after planting a tree every day for the past 40 years, a man has created a blossoming forest on barren wasteland
  
• China hits carbon goals 12 years early
  
• once thought to be extinct, first ever photograph of the tree-kangaroo proves its survival
  

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• Scientists accidentally create a fast growing coral, which can help rejuvenate other reefs or create new ones.

• Ghana became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma. In 2000, it threatened 2.8 million people (15% of the population) with blindness
  
• Rwanda became the first low-income country to provide universal eye care to all of its citizens, by training 3,000 nurses in over 500 health clinics
  
• Since 2010, global HIV/AIDS infection rates have fallen by 16% in adults and by 35% for children
  
• The WHO revealed that teenage drinking has declined across Europe, the continent with the highest rates of drinking in the world. The country with the largest decline? Britain
  
• India registered a 22% decline in maternal deaths since 2013. That means on average, 30 more new mothers are now being saved every day compared to five years ago
  
• Canada signed another conservation deal with its First Nations people, creating the largest protected boreal forest (an area twice the size of Belgium) on the planet
  
• Harvey Weinstein finally got arrested for his crimes
• Ireland ended it’s abortion ban
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules that Latin American governments have to allow same-sex marriages in their countries. The court decision sets a binding precedent in Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname.
  
• France revealed a sharp fall in daily smokers, with one million fewer lighting up in the past year, and cigarette use among Americans dropped to its lowest level since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started collecting data in 1965
  
• In the forests of central Africa, the population of mountain gorillas, one of the world’s most endangered species, was reported to have increased by 25% since 2010, to over 1,000 individuals
  
• Scientists in Rome unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory
  
• Scientists report, for the first time, the discovery of a new form of light, which may involve polaritons, that could be useful in the development of quantum computers
  
• Morocco passed a landmark law that criminalizes violence against women, and imposes harsh penalties on perpetrators
  
• South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, shocked health officials by revealing a 44% decline in new infections since 2012
  
• The Kofan people of Sinangoe, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a landmark legal battle to protect the headwaters of the Aguarico River, nullifying 52 mining concessions and freeing up more than 32,000 hectares of primary rainforest
  
• A new assessment of the ozone hole, published by the UN, shows it to be recovering faster than previously thought
  
• The Indian Supreme Court decriminalizes homosexuality
  
• Scientists report the discovery, based on MARSIS radar studies, of a subglacial lake on Mars, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) below the southern polar ice cap, and extending sideways about 20 km (12 mi), the first known stable body of water on the planet
  
• Deforestation in Indonesia fell by 60%, as a result of a ban on clearing peatlands, new educational campaigns, and better law enforcement
  
• In a major milestone for human rights in the Middle East, a Lebanese court issued a new judgement holding that homosexuality is not a crime
  
• Scientists discovered a whole new branch of the tree of life, distinct from animals, plants, bacteria and fungi
• New research revealed that in the last two decades, female genital mutilation has fallen from 57.7% to 14.1% in north Africa, from 73.6% to 25.4% in west Africa, and from 71.4% to 8% in east Africa
  
• In California, the world’s smallest fox was removed from the Endangered Species List, the fastest recovery of any mammal under the Endangered Species Act
  
• According to new data from the Department of Justice, the proportion of people being sent to prison in the United States has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years
  
• The WHO certified Paraguay as having eliminated malaria, the first country in the Americas to be granted this status since Cuba in 1973
  
• Niger revealed that it has planted 200 million new trees in three decades, the largest positive transformation of the environment in African history
  
• Scotland became the first country in the world to include teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights into its state school curriculum
  
• Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace treaty, signaling the end of a 20-year war, and reuniting thousands of families
  
• After a decade long effort, Herat, Afghanistan’s deadliest province for landmines, was declared free of explosive devices
  
• For the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty
  
• Chile said it had managed to quadruple its clean energy sources since 2013, resulting in a 75% drop in the average cost of electricity
  
• Pakistan’s parliament passed a landmark law guaranteeing basic rights for transgender citizens and outlawing all forms of discrimination by employers
  
• 120 million people gained access to electricity. That means that for the first time since electrical service was started (1882), less than a billion of the world’s population are left in darkness
  
• Bangladesh revealed this year that it had reduced its child mortality rate by 78% since 1990, the largest reduction by any country in the world
  

vyrthur:

vyrthur:

vyrthur:

LOL I’m bein kicked out n it’s fucking winter y’all wanna help me afford a place to stay tonight please sorry abt not being able to draw for it like usual but I won’t b able to get on a computer for a while LOL

http://ko-fi.com/A230DXX

Buy Freya a coffee.

Little update: I have found a place to stay for the night, thank you so so much to everyone who helped me & offered comfort. However I’m only allowed to stay here for one night only as staying would require me to get a dbs check which I not only do not have the funds to spare, I also don’t have any of the forms of ID id need to get one. Tomorrow I am maybe taking the bus three hours away to stay with a friend, but this is not an ideal situation either as my DWP appointments are stationed where I am staying now and if I do not turn up for them all my benefits will be stopped, which is my only source of income right now. My gf is still stuck at home with her unpredictable mother (who kicked me out) and we are desperately trying to scrape together the money to go towards paying the bond to rent a house. Thank you so much to everyone boosting this, I really cannot express how grateful I am right now. This situation is defietely not ideal and quite scary, but it warms my heart knowing there’s people willing to help

Update 2: I haven’t eaten or slept bc this whole situation is making my mental illnesses so much worse. Today I’m going to sell my graphics tablet n my computer since they’re the only thing of value left I own (I sold everything else in the past for food money n stuff) needless to say I’m heartbroken. Please keep boosting this I still really, really need the help & I only have accommodations for the next two days. After that it’s sleeping in doorways in 0 degree weather.

lessmodest-more-lesbian:

anyway congratulations to me for being gay

jehovahhthickness:

I hope dark skinned women, especially the ones who are having trouble loving themselves, have an amazing day today.

gayijou:

hi y’all. i just wanna say….that i am so fucking sick and outraged by guad and their incessant bullshit, and the fact that they were payed over $1,000 to eat a fucking crayon. in light of that, i thought i’d compile a list of pretty much every single donation post i’ve reblogged over the course of a few weeks. please feel free to add your own in the notes/a reblog!! i’m so sorry if i forgot anyone. as well, let me know if you’d like to be taken off the list for any personal reasons. i will understand! (ps: if any links are broken, feel free to add that in the replies)

chaotickindbird had to move back in with their abusive family recently. they have no job and are fighting to get on disability. they have a four month old kitten named bear who’s been threatened multiple times. both of their safety is extremely important. 

iv-fischer is a black trans woman who needs the money for facial feminization surgery! she’s at $1,815/$10,000 of her goal. here’s her gofundme. 

pacificnorthwestdoodles has a 6 year old son. he is a chemo patient with a weak immune system. he likes books, and would love a subscription to ranger rick.

kurosuga is a black trans boy who wants to invest some money in buying new clothes because his transphobic mother won’t do so. as of recently, i believe his paypal isn’t working, so you could also send him an amazon gift card.

miss major griffin-gracy is a black trans woman who is widely known for her activism during the stonewall riots. she is 78 and doesn’t have enough money to comfortably retire. she is at $26,628/$36,000.

lesbianjeice is a nonbinary lesbian who lives in a low income neighborhood and needs money for necessities. 

stonedfutchblues is a trans woman who’s teeth were smashed out in a transphobic assault. she is okay, but very close to being able to afford a heavy piece of dental work that could help her chew painlessly again. as of january 2nd, she has $225 to go. 

kvnhcng was born with  a rare form of muscular dystrophy called arthrogryposis, which effects their joints and muscles. because of this, they use a wheelchair, but their transportation is limited. they need an accessible vehicle, but they don’t work, are a full time student, and come from a low income family. they are at $4,214/$50,000 of their goal. it has been 5 months. 

toastoat needs help to have rent money in case their housing falls through before the spring semester starts, and would also like to save up for a tattoo they’ve delayed getting because of it.