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claudiagray: Sherlock is clearly thinking, “Potato, poTAHto.”

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:45:03 -0500

Sherlock is clearly thinking, “Potato, poTAHto.”

wotcher-doctor: alwaysvotesaxon: squeetown: Jason Isaacs: I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:26:27 -0500

wotcher-doctor:

alwaysvotesaxon:

squeetown:

Jason Isaacs: I remember my very first day, I improvised a line. I had my first day, probably my first shot, I had to kind of flounce out of a room when Dumbledore, played by the late, great Richard Harris, put me in my place, and there was no line written, no exit line. And I’d been humiliated, and my plan had come to nothing. And I said to Chris Columbus, “Don’t you think there should be a line?” And he said, “Well, say something. Say whatever you like.” So we did another take, and I hadn’t told anyone what I was going to do. And as I turned to leave, I looked at Daniel, and I said, “Let us hope Mr. Potter will always be around to save the day.” And then Daniel, who was all of 12, stepped right up to me, looked me right in the eye, and said “Don’t worry. I will be.” A chill went down my spine. And as he did it, I thought, “Christ, this kid is good.”

This is the part in the Harry Potter issue of Entertainment Weekly, when Jason tells this story, that I started to cry.

One of the most iconic lines in the whole of the series was improvised. By a 12-year-old boy.

striderhibiki: brotherentropy: steampoweredrocket: gyodragon: ...

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:07:32 -0500

striderhibiki:

brotherentropy:

steampoweredrocket:

gyodragon:

Cubone + Hitmonchan

i just had to draw this guy!!

This is literally one of he best character designs I’ve ever seen.

holy shit

Suddenly I care about Pokemon mashups.

mustardwketchup: isaia: popcorn-hustler: THIS NEEDS TO...

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:48:34 -0500

mustardwketchup:

isaia:

popcorn-hustler:

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN

INTENSE ANGRY SOBBING

… Look at this man. LOOK AT HIM.

floranna2: darkpuck: slackeremeritus: jimmyjamjimjohn: rubywhiterabbit: One day we’ll be in a...

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:29:50 -0500

floranna2:

darkpuck:

slackeremeritus:

jimmyjamjimjohn:

rubywhiterabbit:

One day we’ll be in a Marvel movie, sitting there as something doesn’t feel right. and as the credits start to roll we’ll know what it is. It will flash up on screen and our hearts will break. “In loving memory of Stan Lee”. There was no cameo in that movie. And there never will be again.

YOU SIT IN THE CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU JUST DID.

I STARTED CRYING WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.

agentbartowski: someone said summarize season one of teen wolf...

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:11:02 -0500

agentbartowski:

someone said summarize season one of teen wolf in 10 words or less so

orientaltiger: H0les: Kaleidoscope Glasses

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:52:10 -0500

orientaltiger:

H0les: Kaleidoscope Glasses

woodendreams: (by Miles Morgan)

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:33:21 -0500

woodendreams:

(by Miles Morgan)

animals-riding-animals: possums riding cat

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:14:33 -0500

animals-riding-animals:

possums riding cat

crimson-sun: Playing Pokemon Fusion and cheating a lot! I dunno...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:55:36 -0500

crimson-sun:

Playing Pokemon Fusion and cheating a lot! I dunno about you guys, but most of the stuff that thing comes up with scare the crap out of me…

Done with a bunch of refs.

actuallymetro: TRIGGER WARNING : this is what I deal...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:36:37 -0500

actuallymetro:

*TRIGGER WARNING* : this is what I deal with on a daily basis, and THIS is why the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia is so important.

I responded and suggested Jerry watch my TEDx Talk (http://bit.ly/10XKlUp); unfortunately I don’t think that’ll ever happen. http://on.fb.me/12Iuh64

"Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:18:26 -0500

“

Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist myth; it’s what modern anthropologists believe. Women are thought to have invented pottery, basketmaking, weaving, textiles, horticulture, and agriculture. That’s right: without women’s inventions, we wouldn’t be able to carry things or store things or tie things up or go fishing or hunt with nets or haft a blade or wear clothes or grow our food or live in permanent settlements. Suck on that.

Women have continued to be involved in the creation and advancement of civilization throughout history, whether you know it or not. Pick anything—a technology, a science, an art form, a school of thought—and start digging into the background. You’ll find women there, I guarantee, making critical contributions and often inventing the damn shit in the first place.

Women have made those contributions in spite of astonishing hurdles. Hurdles like not being allowed to go to school. Hurdles like not being allowed to work in an office with men, or join a professional society, or walk on the street, or own property. Example: look up Lise Meitner some time. When she was born in 1878 it was illegal in Austria for girls to attend school past the age of 13. Once the laws finally eased up and she could go to university, she wasn’t allowed to study with the men. Then she got a research post but wasn’t allowed to use the lab on account of girl cooties. Her whole life was like this, but she still managed to discover nuclear fucking fission. Then the Nobel committee gave the prize to her junior male colleague and ignored her existence completely.

Men in all patriarchal civilizations, including ours, have worked to downplay or deny women’s creative contributions. That’s because patriarchy is founded on the belief that women are breeding stock and men are the only people who can think. The easiest way for men to erase women’s contributions is to simply ignore that they happened. Because when you ignore something, it gets forgotten. People in the next generation don’t hear about it, and so they grow up thinking that no women have ever done anything. And then when women in their generation do stuff, they think “it’s a fluke, never happened before in the history of the world, ignore it.” And so they ignore it, and it gets forgotten. And on and on and on. The New York Times article is a perfect illustration of this principle in action.

Finally, and this is important: even those women who weren’t inventors and intellectuals, even those women who really did spend all their lives doing stereotypical “women’s work”—they also built this world. The mundane labor of life is what makes everything else possible. Before you can have scientists and engineers and artists, you have to have a whole bunch of people (and it’s usually women) to hold down the basics: to grow and harvest and cook the food, to provide clothes and shelter, to fetch the firewood and the water, to nurture and nurse, to tend and teach. Every single scrap of civilized inventing and dreaming and thinking rides on top of that foundation. Never forget that.

”

- from a post by Reclusive Leftist on women’s erasure in history.

her comments relate specifically to an article by the NYT thanking “the men” who invented modern technology, but pick absolutely any academic field of study, and women’s contributions are minimized, if not outright ignored.

literature has been a huge part of my life for a long time, and i grew up reading the classics—which, of course, are typically books written by white men, depicting their experiences. i was taught that the first “modern novel” was Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s by a guy (Cervantes). i don’t think i know of a word to accurately describe my mixture of outrage, shock, and pride, when i discovered later that actually, the first modern novel was written 600 years earlier—by a woman! (it’s The Tale of Genji, written by a Japanese lady-in-waiting who was known as Murasaki Shikibu.)

this might not seem important, but if you’re a woman you know just how vital this knowledge is. even now, when women are being told that we can do anything we set our minds to, the historical, literary, and scientific figures we learn about are all men. it’s a much more insidious way to discourage women from aiming high—because what’s the point in putting in so much hard work if it’s not even going to be remembered after you’re dead?

(via sendforbromina)

Once in college, I was complaining about the male whitewashing of history. One of my female classmates said, and I quote, “Women would BE in the history books, if they ever DID anything.”

I went completely off the rails and started ranting about how the patriarchal society has held women and people of color down for ages, and as I went to an extremely conservative, religious school, THIS IS LEGITIMATELY WHAT WE WERE BEING TAUGHT. We were being told daily that women are to be submissive towards their husbands and that we really should be stay at home mothers but as it’s hard to do that on one income these days, they supposed we should have a degree of some kind. I mean, hell, there was a class on “how to be a pastor’s wife” for god’s sake.

Getting nowhere with my classmates, I decided to really grind some salt in and started ranting about the Iraq war, which was just nicely brewing at that point, and about how we had no business there, and how Bush was a horrible president. The college Republicans was practically a requirement there and Democrats were often threatened with violence, so this was somewhat unpopular. Students- male and female alike- were yelling back at me, insisting that the reason that women aren’t really mentioned in history is because they didn’t do anything, and that’s the way God wants it, and one girl stood up and she was crying, and said “If you don’t support Bush, you don’t support the troops!”

I very calmly told her that my brother was over there, and I supported him VERY much, and the way to properly show support to the troops was not to send them into a country we had no business invading in the first place.

The professor was never able to regain control over the class, and I just sat there with a shit-eating grin on my face, sowing chaos in my wake. It was beautiful..

I have NO IDEA how I didn’t get beaten up after class, but the professor never willingly called on me again and nobody talked to me in it, ever. That didn’t matter. I kept trying to address the whitewashing of history anyway, and it didn’t devolve into screaming ever again. I hope maybe SOMEONE listened.

(via evilkillerpoptarts)

"Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:59:03 -0500

“Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s appearance matter a lot. Not all men buy into this, of course, but many do. Some seem incapable of entertaining the notion that not everything women do with their appearance is for men to look at. This is why men’s response to women discussing stifling beauty norms is so often something like “But I actually like small boobs!” and “But I actually like my women on the heavier side, if you know what I mean!” They don’t realize that their individual opinion on women’s appearance doesn’t matter in this context, and that while it might be reassuring for some women to know that there are indeed men who find them fuckable, that’s not the point of the discussion.

Women, too, have been socialized to believe that the ultimate arbiters of their appearance are men, that anything they do with their appearance is or should be “for men.” That’s why women’s magazines trip over themselves to offer up advice on “what he wants to see you wearing” and “what men think of these current fashion trends” and “wow him with these new hairstyles.” While women can and do judge each other’s appearance harshly, many of us grew up being told by mothers, sisters, and female strangers that we’ll never “get a man” or “keep a man” unless we do X or lose some fat from Y, unless we moisturize//trim/shave/push up/hide/show/”flatter”/paint/dye/exfoliate/pierce/surgically alter this or that.

That’s also why when a woman wears revealing clothes, it’s okay, in our society, to assume that she’s “looking for attention” or that she’s a slut and wants to sleep with a bunch of guys. Because why else would a woman wear revealing clothes if not for the benefit of men and to communicate her sexual availability to them, right? It can’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that it’s hot out or it’s more comfortable or she likes how she looks in it or everything else is in the laundry or she wants to get a tan or maybe she likes women and wants attention from them, not from men?

The result of all this is that many men, even kind and well-meaning men, believe, however subconsciously, that women’s bodies are for them. They are for them to look at, for them to pass judgment on, for them to bless with a compliment if they deign to do so. They are not for women to enjoy, take pride in, love, accept, explore, show off, or hide as they please. They are for men and their pleasure.”

- Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via pushtheheart)

psychofink: #THAT’S IT THAT’S THE SHOW

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:40:22 -0500

psychofink:

#THAT’S IT THAT’S THE SHOW

this-tea-tastes-like-sleep: Omg where have you been all my god...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:21:41 -0500

this-tea-tastes-like-sleep:

Omg where have you been all my god damn worthless life

trauma-tize: Aww :3

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:02:44 -0500

trauma-tize:

Aww :3

Punishment for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:43:51 -0500

Punishment for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.
Punishment for rape in America in 2013: 1-2 years of jail and victim-blaming, rapist-sympathetic media coverage.
Me: Can we re-adopt the Roman method?

Owen/Puck Appreciation Post

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:25:13 -0500

Owen/Puck Appreciation Post

darrenpillowscriss: aesawinterfell: yodropthechampagne: i...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:06:23 -0500

darrenpillowscriss:

aesawinterfell:

yodropthechampagne:

i wrote a poem

whoa

I almost scrolled past this but it’s actually really fucking deep…

dave-vriska: av0idant: pervocracy: thatscienceguy: I’m sure...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:47:25 -0500

dave-vriska:

av0idant:

pervocracy:

thatscienceguy:

I’m sure everyone has heard about the great Lake Baikal, and if you haven’t,boy, are you missing out.

This ancient lake, which is about 25 million years old, and thought to be the oldest in the world, contains 20% of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. That’s right, it contains just 1% less fresh water than all the Great Lakes combined,while it’s surface area is over 7 times smaller.

Why is that, you ask? It’s because Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world: It’s maximum depth is 1642 meters, which is deep enough for the Eiffel Tower to stand on itself 5 times and not reach the surface.

But it gets better: the Lake Baikal is among the clearest lakes of the world, so you can see the bottom to a depth of nearly 40 meters, and you can drink right from it, no purifying needed. Furthermore, Lake Baikal sustains 2630 different species of animals and plants, 80% of which are unique to it, and can’t be found anywhere else.

Oh, and by the way? Under both the lake and it’s underwater sediment some of Earth’s tallest mountains(plural!) are submerged, their height over 7000 meters.

Lake Baikal is perhaps one of the world’s most amazing, awe-inspiring, and unique locations, and I would seriously recommend everybody who has some free time on their hands to discover more on their own.

P.S. Have I mentioned that when it freezes (fully, whoa!) it’s ice looks like this? And you can listen to some beautiful sounds you can make with it here!

Lake Baikal has seals, even though it’s more than a thousand miles from any ocean. No one’s really sure how they got there.

have we fucked this up yet? we’re going to fuck this up

okay but how the fuck did the seals get there

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claudiagray: Sherlock is clearly thinking, “Potato, poTAHto.”

wotcher-doctor: alwaysvotesaxon: squeetown: Jason Isaacs: I...

striderhibiki: brotherentropy: steampoweredrocket: gyodragon: ...

mustardwketchup: isaia: popcorn-hustler: THIS NEEDS TO...

floranna2: darkpuck: slackeremeritus: jimmyjamjimjohn: rubywhiterabbit: One day we’ll be in a...

agentbartowski: someone said summarize season one of teen wolf...

orientaltiger: H0les: Kaleidoscope Glasses

woodendreams: (by Miles Morgan)

animals-riding-animals: possums riding cat

crimson-sun: Playing Pokemon Fusion and cheating a lot! I dunno...

actuallymetro: *TRIGGER WARNING* : this is what I deal...

"Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This isn’t some feminist..."

"Here’s the thing. Men in our culture have been socialized to believe that their opinions on women’s..."

psychofink: #THAT’S IT THAT’S THE SHOW

this-tea-tastes-like-sleep: Omg where have you been all my god...

trauma-tize: Aww :3

Punishment for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.

Owen/Puck Appreciation Post

darrenpillowscriss: aesawinterfell: yodropthechampagne: i...

dave-vriska: av0idant: pervocracy: thatscienceguy: I’m sure...

actuallymetro: TRIGGER WARNING : this is what I deal...