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mujertropical: gameshowstouchourlizas: fuckyeah-nerdery: fucky...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:53 -0400

gameshowstouchourlizas:

fuckyeah-nerdery:

fuckyeah-nerdery:

Saw this picture on imgur and just had to post it here, because this is without a doubt, one of the most badass women alive. Meet Katrina Hodge, a corporal in the British Army and Miss England 2009. According to Wikipedia, she enlisted back in 2004 after her brother challenged her to and earned the nickname “Combat Barbie” after showing up at her assigned unit wearing false eyelashes, kitten heels (whatever those are) and carry a pink suitcase. In 2005 her unit, the Royal Anglian Regiment, was deployed to Iraq, where she saved the lives of her comrades from a prisoner by wrestling not one, but two rifles from him and then knocking his ass out with her bare hands.

With her bare hands.

Then in 2009, she decided to compete in the Miss England competition to destroy stereotypes about women in the military. She didn’t win (she placed runner-up), but still became Miss England after the woman who did got into a fight and gave up the crown. While Miss England, Hodge convinced the people running the competition to ditch the bikini contest, because she felt that it was more important to be a role model than looking good in a bikini.

In 2010, she handed over the crown and returned to military service, being deployed to Afghanistan.

This woman is both a BAMF and a HBIC. Damn.

Over 62k notes. o_O

BADASS.

FYI, these are kitten heels:

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novicewizard: get-back-to-hogwarts: I sometimes feel offended by American stereotypes, but then I...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:16:47 -0400

novicewizard:

get-back-to-hogwarts:

I sometimes feel offended by American stereotypes, but then I remember that we had a nationwide panic when they stopped making Twinkies.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:24:46 -0400

"Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred, how did it find us? Did it steal into our..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:24:07 -0400

““Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred, how did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us that we now send our children into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some would be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows. Swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?””

- Lucas Scott - One Tree Hill (Season 3: Episode 16)

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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched"

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:17:37 -0400

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched”

- Edgar Allan Poe (via atggcct)

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jinxley: i tried to invoke the powers of jesus on my history...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:24:19 -0400

jinxley:

i tried to invoke the powers of jesus on my history test but the lord has failed me

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:23:12 -0400

ohfredow: I think we spend too much time wondering why we’re not good enough. We spend too much...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:20:13 -0400

ohfredow:

I think we spend too much time wondering why we’re not good enough. We spend too much time over analyzing, over thinking, and overreacting. We waste too much time putting ourselves down. So much that we don’t ever stop to see that well, we are good enough. You are good enough. We spend too much time with our heads down and hearts closed; and never get a chance to look up from the group and see that the sun is shining and tomorrow is another day.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:18:00 -0400