“Blood is thicker than water”, when used in the context of family over friends, is in fact a wildly incorrect bastardisation.
The true, full quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” and refers to relationships forged by choice holding deeper meaning than those of mere biology.
No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.
This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.
Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.
We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.
#sometimes the family you start with isn’t a good one #but you can find your own #family is not absolute #blood is not absolute
One of my favourite movies ever
(Source: yaoikuza)
CARGO - A zombie-bitten father tries to save his infant daughter
This is an amazing short film I found on YouTube. Watch it, you won’t be disappointed.
Welling up here…
Wow…
Well, I cried. Damn. This is so good.
Twins Separated at Birth Find Each Other via YouTube
After Anaïs Bordier, a French student living in London, saw American actress Samantha Futerman in aYouTube video, she noticed a striking resemblance to herself. She found one of Futerman’s personal vlogs about being adopted, leading Bordier to find the two girls had the same birthday. After sending Futerman a Facebook message, the two realized they might be long lost twin sisters. Through Twitter, Skype and Facebook messenger, the girls have been using social media to cactch up on the first 25 years of their lives. They have since launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a documentary about their first meeting, as well as a DNA test to confirm their relation.
This is actually incredible
I freaking love the Internet sometimes
THIS IS CRAZY
it is making me tear up in class send help omg
“ You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go. ”
Daniell Koepke (via chubby-bunnies)
(Source: internal-acceptance-movement)
I think Emily told us a weird story about growing up that she would, um, she terrorized you, right?
Oh yeah, she came on here and humiliated me, in front of millions of people.
(Source: karennias)
Good Night Lamp: A Family of House-Shaped Lamps
“If you find yourself living away from your loved ones, the Good Night Lamp might be a way to bridge the gap. The series of house-shaped lamps are connected via the internet and they let you send or receive a signal (by the house being lit) from the people most important to you.”
Let me present you the first family in space! with dog and robot included.
After a little while of uncertainty, now I think I am in a good route with my narrative project, which you can check in detail in its blog.
How many more..?
How many more days do we have before she’s all grown up ? They did tell us that our children would grow fast.. I don’t think I really believed it until now. I heard it, I understood it.. I didn’t believe it.
Steve. Washington, DC.
“I hold a deep sadness that my first wife, who passed away when she was 26, has not been able to see our son grow up and have 2 children of his own.”
Photo by Amber Mahoney.
WORLD’S BEST FATHER
Dave Engledow (facebook) - “I have never pursued any sort of career in photography, although I have had a small number of gallery exhibitions and scattered publication. I am relatively new to the world of digital photography-I was inspired to purchase my first DSLR in 2010, upon learning that my wife was pregnant with our first child. I have shot and edited more images in the past year than I have in the previous 10 years combined. Since the birth of our daughter Alice Bee in December 2010, the majority of my inspiration has stemmed from creatively documenting the first moments of her life in our family.”
