A Glitter Pill

I am feeling really good today, and actually really confident.

I feel like getting dressed up for no reason at all. Possibly with wigs. Maybe even in cosplay.

saphire-dance:

jimmoriartyandonyourkneespet:

londonprophecy:

qweeting:

ferrets-are-super-cool:

mama-rosemary:

teddy-assman:

annnielscienceaddict:

whatbritainloves:

Britain Loves to HelpSaying thanks to the bus driver
“Cheers, mate”, “Thanks, driver”, “Thank you”, “Nice one, pal”. It’s what you’ll hear on buses throughout Britain as, one-by-one, we shuffle out onto the street. Thanking the bus driver is a beautiful quirk of us Brits; a mundane politeness which makes the world a little nicer.
What makes thanking bus drivers so great is that there’s really no need for it. It’s not like you’re touching down after a long-haul flight where your life has been in the hands of an expert pilot. It’s a bus (as pictured above by David Henderson); you’ve only been driven 10 minutes down the road.
And it’s not like we ever run to the front of a train, bang on the driver’s window and start giving them a big thumbs-up. No, this is something unique to the world of bus travel.
That’s the beauty of this particular ritual. It’s a totally mindless and senseless form of niceness. We don’t even expect anything in return. We realise the bus driver has to cope with hundreds and hundreds of us mumbling thanks to them every day.
Just about the only thing the bus driver can do to stop us from thanking them is braking too hard, nobody likes that, or being aggressively rude. A little bit of rudeness is perfectly acceptable.
It’s a tradition that has developed its own regional quirks. The Bristolians, in particular, have made it their own with their distinctive use of the phrase “Cheers, drive”. Dropping the ‘r’ from driver has become a major source of local pride for them with museum exhibitions named after the phrase and t-shirts emblazoned with it.
One of the few places in Britain where the bus driver thanking tradition has fallen out of common usage is London. They try to make excuses for this; they say it’s the design of London buses with the exit in the middle so you don’t pass the driver on the way out. Yes, it could be that. It’s possible. Or it could just be that they’re misery guts.
By Tom Law

Sometimes when I get off of trains, I have to physically stop myself from saying thank you. It’s that engraved into my mind.I still say it in my head though.

do other people just not say thank you? i thought they did?

I always say thank-you.

I don’t go outside very often, and I loathe going on buses. One time, I had to, and my brother was accompanying me. He said “Thanks mate” as we got off and he had to explain to my confusedness that it’s what everyone does. I now hate going on buses even more as I don’t have the social skills to speak to anyone on the bus, let alone thank them, and I feel really bad jumping off the bus silently.

;~; briten

I FEEL RUDE IF I DON’T SAY THANK YOU
BEING A BUS DRIVERS’ GOTTA BE A SHITTY JOB, SAYING THANK YOU IS POLITE
LIKE THANKING SOMEONE FOR KEEPING THE DOOR OPEN FOR YOU
Except if they’re rude, they don’t deserve a thank you then
I thought people everywhere did this but nope, looks like it’s just Britain

….I live in the states and I do this. Other people sometimes do, but yeah, I don’t think it’s just a British thing.

Yeah, sorry Londeners, you’re not unique. Here we thank our bus driver as we get off too. It’s a very polite exchange all around as the bus driver thanks us for riding as well.

Yeah, I was gonna say, doesn’t everyone do this?

jimmoriartyandonyourkneespet:

londonprophecy:

qweeting:

ferrets-are-super-cool:

mama-rosemary:

teddy-assman:

annnielscienceaddict:

whatbritainloves:

Britain Loves to HelpSaying thanks to the bus driver

“Cheers, mate”, “Thanks, driver”, “Thank you”, “Nice one, pal”. It’s what you’ll hear on buses throughout Britain as, one-by-one, we shuffle out onto the street. Thanking the bus driver is a beautiful quirk of us Brits; a mundane politeness which makes the world a little nicer.

What makes thanking bus drivers so great is that there’s really no need for it. It’s not like you’re touching down after a long-haul flight where your life has been in the hands of an expert pilot. It’s a bus (as pictured above by David Henderson); you’ve only been driven 10 minutes down the road.

And it’s not like we ever run to the front of a train, bang on the driver’s window and start giving them a big thumbs-up. No, this is something unique to the world of bus travel.

That’s the beauty of this particular ritual. It’s a totally mindless and senseless form of niceness. We don’t even expect anything in return. We realise the bus driver has to cope with hundreds and hundreds of us mumbling thanks to them every day.

Just about the only thing the bus driver can do to stop us from thanking them is braking too hard, nobody likes that, or being aggressively rude. A little bit of rudeness is perfectly acceptable.

It’s a tradition that has developed its own regional quirks. The Bristolians, in particular, have made it their own with their distinctive use of the phrase “Cheers, drive”. Dropping the ‘r’ from driver has become a major source of local pride for them with museum exhibitions named after the phrase and t-shirts emblazoned with it.

One of the few places in Britain where the bus driver thanking tradition has fallen out of common usage is London. They try to make excuses for this; they say it’s the design of London buses with the exit in the middle so you don’t pass the driver on the way out. Yes, it could be that. It’s possible. Or it could just be that they’re misery guts.

By Tom Law

Sometimes when I get off of trains, I have to physically stop myself from saying thank you. It’s that engraved into my mind.
~~I still say it in my head though.~~

do other people just not say thank you? i thought they did?

I always say thank-you.

I don’t go outside very often, and I loathe going on buses. One time, I had to, and my brother was accompanying me. He said “Thanks mate” as we got off and he had to explain to my confusedness that it’s what everyone does. I now hate going on buses even more as I don’t have the social skills to speak to anyone on the bus, let alone thank them, and I feel really bad jumping off the bus silently.

;~; briten

I FEEL RUDE IF I DON’T SAY THANK YOU

BEING A BUS DRIVERS’ GOTTA BE A SHITTY JOB, SAYING THANK YOU IS POLITE

LIKE THANKING SOMEONE FOR KEEPING THE DOOR OPEN FOR YOU

Except if they’re rude, they don’t deserve a thank you then

I thought people everywhere did this but nope, looks like it’s just Britain

….I live in the states and I do this. Other people sometimes do, but yeah, I don’t think it’s just a British thing.

Yeah, sorry Londeners, you’re not unique. Here we thank our bus driver as we get off too. It’s a very polite exchange all around as the bus driver thanks us for riding as well.

Yeah, I was gonna say, doesn’t everyone do this?

I have a big list of characters I would like to cosplay as. But I admit I am always curious as to what other people think I could pull off, cosplay wise. So, here is a picture of me all dolled up, but not in costume.

So, what do you think, followers? I almost always wear wigs when cosplaying, so feel no need to go by hair colour. I also have contacts.

Note to self. Wear this dress more often. Cleavage looks epic.

alicebathory:

I wore this cosplay for the Marvel Avengers marathon. That was a record for me.

How do you always look so fabulous, woman? TELL ME.

Camera: Samsung Digimax V70/a7
Aperture: f/2.7
Exposure: 1/30th

alicebathory:

sofantasticallybrilliant:

Posting this for Alice, the wonderful lady that I met at the breakfast with Gail Simone. Happy Birthday Alice. Sucks I couldn’t see you as Outlaw, but I had to leave Yancy to go to work.

JEEZ. Check out the nerd next to the awesome Gail Simone. Outlaw pics with the awesome writer later. How many times can I say awesome. Awesome. Awesome day.

You both look great. Loving the She-Hulk shirt and the satement necklace. It looks so bright and SUNNY there too.

viviopsis:

grrrlsaredudestoo:

rusty—shackleford:

einsteinonacid:

connectthedots:

einsteinonacid:

ineedtogetpaid:

i thought LGBT was a sandwich

Lettuce, Glitter, Bacon, Tomato?

I always order an LGBT but I only ever get Lettuce Glitter and Bacon.

Yeah me too, actually… Plus it’s only ever on white bread?

oh sweet jesus the bolded

I can’t even deal

SO ACCURATE

I make a fantastic sandwich filling.

(Source: cassadagavortex)

Confession time

I actually try not to look too hard at any of the photos from my last Jeannette cosplay going around, because all I see is how much weight I’ve gained on this medication, and it makes me sad and unsure I can lose enough to do the costumes I want to do this summer (they will be my first spandex costumes, gulp).

I’ve seen photos of women/women IRL about my size or bigger doing cosplay and thought they looked amazing, but just seem to keep making excuses for myself as to why I wouldn’t look as good.

gailsimone:

angelophile:

Scandal Savage and Jeannette cosplay by Kat and Glitterpill at Wizard World Toronto 2012. Photo by stanicus. Source: Flickr

Angelophile, I swear, you post the best stuff. Sheesh. This made my day.

This has to be from when we just got there. My makeup still looks pretty good!

mcgone:

While working on my portfolio and reorganizing my digital files, I threw together this process look at my Lady Blackhawk piece for a fellow process junkie who had been asking. Then I remembered, Oh yeah, that’s exactly the type of thing I should be posting on the Tumblr. And thus…

Man. What I wouldn’t give to have that final design on a t-shirt.

canadianerd:

Here’s some pictures of me in various costumes.

Pretty sure I’ve seen some of these up close at various Toronto cons, and they were just as fabulous.