For Laura and Rachael

Hey girls. As promised. A guide :)

Keepvid.

1. Go to youtube. Find the video you want. Copy the url.

2. Go to keepvid.com and paste the url into the box

 3. Press download. The small grey rectangle one at the edge of the box. NOT the big blue one. Thats a pop up. You will get a list of results. Click to download one of the mp4 ones.

Freemake

1. Download freemake. It will only take a few minutes. When done, open it.

2. Click the + video button at the top. You will get this box.

3. Click the video you want and press open. It will go into freemake. If downloaded from youtube you can normally find them in your download folder :) 

4. press "to WMV" at the bottom and press convert. The longer the video the longer it will take but it still shouldn't take too long. 

It will save to your files and will now be in a format that will open in Windows movie maker. 

There you go girlies :) xx

To doubt is human

Now, I am no fan of The Archbishop of Canterbury and that might sound weird coming from an Anglican (almost like hearing a Catholic say they're not a fan of the Pope, but they exist too!) but something he has said quite recently is something I agree with (and I promise that is not likely to happen again anytime soon).

About a week and a bit ago, Mr Welby stated that he often has doubts about the existence of God. I grant you thats probably not what you expect to hear from the leader of the Anglican church but there you go!

I've read some peoples comments about that. Shouldn't the Archbishop be one of the few people on the planet that doesn't doubt? Well, no, he's not a robot. Does that make his faith any weaker? No. Why should it?

I'm a Christian. And I sometimes have doubts too. But it's human to doubt. I'd be worried if people didn't. But as Mr Welby says;

"It is not about feelings, it is about the fact that God is faithful and the extraordinary thing about being a Christian is that God is faithful when we are not."

Seriously, this is the only thing I actually agree with him on.

I'm a Christian. And I doubt. But no matter how much I've doubted his existence, I still believe in God. That doesn't weaken my faith. That makes it stronger.

Disney blog

For those who aren't aware, I now have a Disney blog called Life of a Disnerd

Also, for Tumblr users I have Once Upon a Disney Wish

:) xx

Sid Cordle - not at all Christian

A very brief post.

Just yesterday I saw an article about the leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance, Sid Cordle. According to Mr Cordle "God is angry over gay marriage" and that "God can show that anger." Mr Cordle believes that the passing of the same-sex marriage bill caused the horrendous floods seen in Britain.

For the full article, please click here.

I going to keep this short and get right to the point.

1. God is not anger. God is not hatred. God is love. To all Christians who do not realise that; you're not doing a very good job at being Christian.

2. The floods were most likely caused by global warming or some other kind of atmospheric conditions. Or maybe we were just having a bad winter/spring.

3. God made everyone. Including gay people. So how can He be angry when they find happiness? I thought He made no mistakes. How dare you suggest the LGBT community is a mistake?

As a Bisexual Christian, I laugh at you. Good day Mr Cordle, don't get caught in the floods of happiness and rainbows that is the LGBT community.

Dear UKIP, I am perfectly ordinary thank you

In a recent leaflet, UKIP claimed that if you didn't believe in same-sex marriage then "you are in the huge majority of ordinary people who think this way."

ORDINARY?

So people who do believe in it aren't ordinary?

Dear UKIP, the following is a list of things that I do. Pretty ordinary things.

The Basics 

1. Eat
2. Drink
3. Sleep
4. Use the toilet
5. Wash
6. Breathe

Emotionally 

1. Love
2. Laugh
3. Cry
4. Get angry
5. Feel happy
6. Feel worried

Things that your party would have me be ashamed of (but you have failed and I bet you do them too as well)

1. Swear enough to make a sailor blush
2. Masturbate
3. Watch porn
4. Read porn
5. Write porn
6. Have/have had a friend with benefits
7. Eat junk food

Others

1. Read
2. Watch TV
3. Write
4. Go on the computer
5. Sing 
6. Dance
7. Hang out with friends
8. Go to uni
9. Keep things of sentimental value
10. Hang out with friends
11. Shop
12. Use public transport

And much more. Sounds pretty ordinary right? You do a lot of this list right? A lot of people do. These are perfectly ordinary things. Guess what? I'm bi. Yep, bi. Shocking isn't it? Am I less ordinary now? Nope. Still pretty fucking ordinary. And fucking proud of it. 

"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing–that it was all started by a mouse."

This really is just a short post to say thank you to a man that I will, sadly, never get to meet.

He is a man that changed my life and the lives of millions throughout the world. You don't have to be a child to appreciate what he gave us. Anyone can. Anyone at all.

In 1928, a 26 year old American man created one the most iconic characters ever to grace animation. This character would signal the start of a story telling industry that has captured the hearts and minds of countless people. It would signal the start of a magic that has yet to die.

That characters name was Mickey Mouse. And his creator was a man by the name of Walt Disney.

Mickey debuted in a 7 minute short film called Steamboat Willie and it was this that started the animating magic of the Walt Disney Studios.

After a short while, a cast of characters slowly joined Mickey; his girlfriend Minnie debuted with him in Steamboat Willie, Clarabelle Cow followed in 1929, Pluto in 1930, Goofy in 1932, Donald Duck in 1934 and Donald's girlfriend Daisy in 1940. Disney's first feature film also came out during this time; in 1937, Snow White became the "princess who started it all" and began the tradition of Disney adapting fairy tales. These characters and the magic they created went a long way to help the world through the struggles of World War II with their cartoons sporting pro American messages and giving the hope of winning a better world.

I know I can speak for countless others when I say that Disney has changed my life. They gave us stories that give us hope that everyone can have a happy ending. Disney has taught us to be true to who we are. That we can have the Prince, the Princess, we can be a housewife, a warrior, an outcast, a dreamer, we can live without the true love, we can fix bonds we thought to be forever broken. That sometimes just believing in the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful magic. They taught us to see beneath appearances, that not everyone is as they appear to be. A beast may be more human than man. That, if we want to be more than we are, we can be so as long as we try. That if we want to be exactly who we now, we do not need to change. Most importantly, Disney has taught us that can be who are are, and we can be proud. We do not have to hide. We can be anything we want whether that be the princess or the outcast, the housewife or the warrior. This is the true message of Disney. This is the true magic. After all, Walt did say "If you can dream it, you can do it." 

And so, I say this to the man who gave us all of this. Walter Elias Disney, thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

Supporting women's choices - what some feminists don't do.

I am a feminist.

But it's almost scary to say those words because of those people who give feminists a bad name. Those are the people that say women should be able to do what they want to do and yet criticise the choices they make.

For example, if a woman should choose the traditional role of housewife because that it what she wants to do then more power to her. Good luck and have fun! And yet some feminists will turn around and say that she is betraying feminism because she is fulfilling the traditional role. No, she is not betraying feminism by doing this. She is choosing to do something she wishes to do. That is feminism.

If a woman wishes to be a sex worker because that is what she wants to do I say fair enough. Again, good luck and have fun! Yet some feminists see this work as immoral and degrading to women thus bringing down the standards of feminism. The only thing that brings down the standards of feminism is the "feminists" who criticise women for the choices they make. Again, this sex worker is choosing to be a sex worker. That is feminism.

And then there are these feminists; "You were born a man so you are not a real woman. Feminism is only for women, not men."

I really hate those people. For one thing, women who were assigned male at birth are women. Feminism is for all women so stop picking and choosing. Its Transphobic and that is just not on. Secondly, feminism is not just for women. Men can be feminists as well. They are not all patriarchal snobs who think women are only useful in the kitchen. Yes, they do still exist, but don't tar all men with the same brush. Many men want women to be free to make their own choices and do more for the cause of feminism than some women.

I am a feminist. I believe all women should make their own choices in life and I will not criticise anyone for the choices they make. That is feminism.

Feminism should empower women to make their own choices, not bring down women because you don't approve of their choices.