pastelchainsaw:

iamalsothybrother:

jawdust:

Why you should be in passionate horny love with Elizabeth ‘Nellie Bly’ Cochrane

• Born in 1864/65, Elizabeth, one of 15 children, was always ‘the rebellious one’. Ferociously strong from an early age, she testified against her abusive stepfather in her mother’s divorce trial.
• In 1880 she enrolled in a teacher-training college but had to leave after her first semester due to lack of funding - then moved to Pittsburgh to help run a goddamn boarding school. 
• This is where we get to the good shit. Age 18, she wrote a letter-to-the-editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch bitchslapping the everloving fuck out of a sexist ballsack of an article entitled ‘What Girls Are Good For’. 
• The editor was so goddamn impressed with her razor-sharp tongue that he RAN AN AD asking her to identify herself. Elizabeth owned up, and was hired instantaneously, her badassery radiating from her pores and intoxicating all those in a twenty mile radius.
• Working under the pen-name Nellie Bly, Elizabeth kicked the butts of morons everywhere, writing articles aimed at social justice, particularly labour laws to protect working ‘girls’ and reform of Pennsylvania’s divorce law, which greatly favoured men.
• Not content with changing the world from behind her desk, Elizabeth became a founding mother of investigative journalism. She was expelled from Mexico for exposing political corruption, and henceforth wrapped in cotton wool by her editors. Infuriated by their mollycoddling, Lizzie left them a note essentially telling them to fuck themselves and hot footed it to NYC. She was still only 23.
• Within six months she was hired by Joseph fucking Pulitzer himself, and continued her batshit crazy investigations uninhibited. Her very first assignment had her feigning mental illness to expose repulsive conditions in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum. Her cutting report was so fucking horrifying, compelling and persuasive that it triggered public and political action, leading to reform of the institution.
• In the next couple of years she had herself thrown in jail and hired by a sweatshop, all for shits and giggles. Oh, and to uncover incomprehensible injustice, cruelty, poverty, and the concealed, heinous treatment of the vulnerable and voiceless. 
• But was pioneering journalism, social revolution and batshit badassery enough for our Liz? Like fuck it was. On a whim Nellie did what any self-respecting 25 year old woman in the 1800s would do - she emulated Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, and did it in 72.
• Millions followed her journey, and its appeal to a semi-literate populace resulted in greatly increased newspaper readership. So while travelling the entire globe (IN THE 1800s, AS A WOMAN) by ship, train, burro and balloon, she taught the world to read.
• Having essentially conquered the entire goddamn universe before hitting 30, Nellie retired, and wed 72 year old industrialist Robert Seaman. Their marriage was a happy one, and after his death she took over Iron Clad Manufacturing Co.
• But Lizzie was a writer, what would she know about the metal industry? Well, she invented the steel barrel that became the model for the widely used 55-gallon drum and turned her inherited businesses into multimillion-dollar companies, so apparently quite a bit.
• Furthermore, she set a precedent for working conditions, ensuring her workers had good pay, gymnasiums, staffed libraries, and health care, all completely unheard of at the time, while still writing to further the plight of the Suffragette movement.
• Nellie may have died aged 52 of pneumonia, but HBIC’s live on forever.

I wish my history professors presented lessons this way, I would have learned a lot more. This also slightly depresses me because at the age of 20 I have done absolutely nothing. 

This bitch.

novocainelipstick:

pff them dudes don’t know style when they see it

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snuffboxisdead:

The Night of The Hunter (1955)

As a child, my parents would only let my sister and I watch classic horror/thriller films. This movie scared the shit out of me when I was little. Robert Mitchum was such a creep!

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martaunderthesea:

Natural Remedies: day to day survival kit  

Lemon Drink lemon in water every morning to help cleanse the body
- blood purifier
- good for the liver
- helps the body eliminate toxins

Rosemary Add rosemary to your cooking or throw it in a bath
- helps improve memory and can stave off Alzheimers
- good for upset stomachs, digestive disorders and headaches
- boosts liver functions
- improves hair quality and can help ward off baldness

Cayenne Kind of a wonder drug
- good for digestion, circulation and the heart
- helps boost energy levels
- good for colds and sore throats
* For a cold: boil some hot water and pour into a mug with pressed lemon juice, a splash of pure maple syrup and a dash of cayenne. 

Garlic Your one piece survival kit
- helps fight acne, lower cholesterol and blood pressure
- potent antibiotic, effective in fighting bacteria, fungi and viruses
- has anti-carcinogenic properties

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Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads

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loveyourrebellion:

Patti, black slip, early 1970s

by Judy Linn

hamadryad:

clevcat: Death Becomes Her
 I love this movie so goddamn much. 

word.