Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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as we grow older, we are taught to put homework first, always. we are taught to set aside our interests to complete busy work. we are taught to indulge in time fillers, rather than doing what we really want. and so then, once in a blue moon, when we happen to have a day of no work, we don’t know what to do with ourselves. we forget what it means to be spontaneous; we learn to sit at a desk and focus. and I think that’s a shame
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)
And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.
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compulsive auto reblog
i want this tattooed on me at some point
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Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is.
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MY QUEEN
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And I would like to add:
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I do not spew profanities. I enunciate them clearly, like a fucking lady.
1) Aziraphale and Crowley are the best thing ever. Az is an angel, Crowley is a fallen angel who didn’t so much fall as sauntered vaguely downward. They’ve been relegated to working on Earth by their respective bosses, and once you’ve spent 6000 years with no one else to talk to you kinda become bros. Or boyfriends (I ship them so hard). They get dinner, get drunk, get into trouble, and occasionally get smote together. They also have a list of offenses that the other has committed that they bring up ALL THE TIME and they’re basically fantastic. They try to stop the Antichrist from ending the world and the whole thing is really just them fucking up one thing after another. Crowley doesn’t like to really torture people and has snake eyes and Aziraphale covets his bookstore and refuses to sell the books and wears tartan. They are fabulous, you will love them, I guarantee it.
2) A+ tropes-of-the-eighties smashing, which created some of the modern tropes we know and love. Including Bikers of the Apocalypse (smokin’ hot lady War with a big-ass sword, Famine who writes diet books, Pollution who is only there because Pestilence quit and retired to Africa, and Death who is done with everyone’s shit and baffled by modernity), very confused locals, an eleven-year-old Antichrist with the best of intentions, demons who are incompetent at best, angels who are just sort of dicks supporting the Apocalypse, a witch named Anathema who doesn’t fuck around with magic when she can just use the knife she carries, a book of prophecies by Anathema’s ancestor that is about absurdly minute and incomprehensibly important stuff, and a witch hunting guild that gets absolutely fucking nothing done.
3) The Bentley. The Bentley and an excess of Queen. A classic car and a classic band and if you don’t love it you’re WRONG.
4) A hellhound named Dog.
5) A group of kids called the Them who avert the Apocalypse.
6) The only way to get maximum blooms out of your houseplants is threats.
7) The only acceptable explanation ever of Creationism. I swear to God, you will laugh your ass off. I am a hard-core proponent of evolution and I am telling you right now that this book has the only acceptable version of Creationism.
8) Aziraphale’s collection of misprinted Bibles, including one that tells the REAL story of the Angel of the Eastern Gate of Eden.
9) Neil Motherfucking Gaiman.
10) Terry Goddamn Pratchett.
11) Neil Motherfucking Gaiman and Terry Goddamn Pratchett writing a book about the Apocalypse together and creating some of the best lines in the history of the world (seriously, if someone walked up to me and asked if it hurt when I sauntered vaguely downward from Heaven, they would get a phone number and a date WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM).
12) If you are not laughing like a lunatic by the third page, you are probably a robot masquerading as a human.
OKAY I’VE SAID MY BIT AND IF THIS DOESN’T CONVINCE YOU I DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL. GO READ GOOD OMENS. DO IT NOW AND SPREAD THE GOSPEL WHERE EVER YOU GO.
hey baby did it hurt when you sauntered vaguely downwards
I would date the man who tried to pick me up with this line.
Or woman.
Unf.
Agreed.
-From my Coursera course, ‘Fantasy and Science Fiction: The human mind, our modern world.’
#i love this idea about feeding people #seen it explored before as various expressions of love but never stated explicitly #and oooh yes of course #mostly I am thinking of Sunshine by Robin McKinley #closed off and a bit of a brass-bound bitch but always needing to feed people #and it’s an excellent way of saying I CARE FOR YOU without needing to use words #easier too (via spybrarian)OMG I JUST FOUND OUT THAT SPEAKING TO YOUR PLANTS ONLY HELPS BECAUSE YOU’RE BREATHING CARBON DIOXIDE ONTO IT OMG I HAVE THOUGHT THAT TALKING TO THEM JUST KINDA WORKED BECAUSE YOU WERE BEING NICE AND ENCOURAGED THEM AND SUPPORTED THEM EMOTIONALLY
Not if you’re Crowley.
but what if a vampire drank the blood of someone who was anemic like would they be seriously grossed out
“what the fuck is this”
“i have anemia”
“can you take something for that you should…
missus-e said: No but fo reals, you know Coulson has a five step plan to fix the science babies. His plan b is to lock them in a room until they talk it out (or make-out).
(Sorry I made this a text post because, well, it got long.) BUT YES.
Director Phillip J. Coulson’s 5-Step Plan: Operation Fix the Science Babies
Step 1: Make sure Simmons doesn’t die at HYDRA.
One of my favorite things about Leverage is when a bad guy points a gun at Eliot and there’s that moment of,”well, this is gonna be awkward for you,” that crosses Eliot’s face.
Chris Hemsworth (via fuckyeahblackwidow)
#chris hemsworth will make a black widow movie even if he has to make it in his backyard with an ipod #he’ll call up his brothers #HEY LIAM HEY LUKE HEY GUYS #I’M MAKING A MOVIE YOU NEED TO PLAY SHIELD AGENTS #they’ll be like srsly bruh #YEAH MAN CMON THERE’LL BE FOOD #they get won over #he calls up tom one night when he needs a scriptwriter #tom wakes up like ‘chris my god what time is it’ #chris is like CAN YOU WRITE A SCREENPLAY FOR A BLACK WIDOW MOVIE MATE I NEED YOU #tom lurches out of bed #almost starts crying #’yes of course i’ll do it #do you think she’d like shakespeare??’ #’tom wait—’ #’I CAN DO THIS’ #he mails over a script worthy of an oscar stuffed full of classical literature parallells and gorgeous imagery #chris stares at his one camera and grumbles about ‘fancy fucking brits’(via lanaparrillasituation)
#and scarjo would be pulling one of those actor-director deals actually running the whole show #from a chair that is precisely 10 inches higher than everybody elses #and all the boys are terrified of her; but also take great pride in being her willing minions #’yes scarjo; i chris hemsworth major movie star shall run down to starbucks and inform them to make you a nonfat pumpkin spice mocha frappuc #’chris i asked for a triple espresso shot’ #’your WISH MADAM’ #’shuttup and help me hoist these lights into your old treehouse’ #avengers #how to tag????#give me the black widow film or give me death (via okayophelia)
[crashes 1920s Bentley through ur wall] READ GOOD OMENS
WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS POST ON YOUR DASH, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR YOUR CURRENT PROJECT.
Just one sentence. Stop blogging for one minute and write a single sentence. It could be dialogue, it could be a nice description of scenery, it could be a metaphor, I don’t care. The point is, do it. Then, when you finish, you can get back to blogging.
If this gets viral, you might just have your novel finished by next Tuesday.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS WILL GET THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR INBOX.
- A BRIEF ORIGIN STORY
- A SUPERPOWER OR THREE, MAYBE FOUR DEPENDING
- A SUPERHERO OR VILLAIN NAME
- YOU MIGHT ALSO GET AN ARCHNEMESIS WHO HAS REBLOGGED THIS ALREADY
AND YES I MEAN EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS. UNTIL, SAY, AUGUST 2015. A FULL YEAR. LONG ENOUGH, RIGHT?
LET’S DO THIS THING.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS WILL GET THE FOLLOWING IN THEIR INBOX.
- A BRIEF ORIGIN STORY
- A SUPERPOWER OR THREE, MAYBE FOUR DEPENDING
- A SUPERHERO OR VILLAIN NAME
- YOU MIGHT ALSO GET AN ARCHNEMESIS WHO HAS REBLOGGED THIS ALREADY
AND YES I MEAN EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO REBLOGS THIS. UNTIL, SAY, AUGUST 2015. A FULL YEAR. LONG ENOUGH, RIGHT?
LET’S DO THIS THING.
Despite Twilight’s flaws I think we can all appreciate what Rosalie Hale did to her gang of rapists after she became a vampire
tchy:
there is literally no difference between academic scholars discussing their interpretations of a text and a bunch of people yelling YOUR HEADCANON IS WRONG at each other
As a Masters student I can vouch for this.
The difference is citations.
Where were my women who were forced to learn that with great power comes great responsibility? Where were my awkward school girls who were just trying to graduate high school when they found they didn’t need their glasses anymore, but could lift a school bus one-handed? Where were the funny best buddies? It’s not as though we can all be Lara Croft. Yet for a long time, she was all we had: if you were a woman, you had your place, on one end of the spectrum or the other. Why, I still ask every single time the movie is on TV, is it Kick-Ass and not Hit Girl?
Then the recent Marvel films arrived. Pepper Potts came along in her business-wear and skyscraper Louboutins and was unstoppable in her rise to CEO of Stark Industries. Black Widow slunk onto the scene and showed us that we don’t need to choose between sexy and dangerous. Jane Foster, the astrophysicist genius, still blushed when confronted with Thor’s overwhelming good looks, just the way the rest of us would, while Darcy Lewis was as concerned about her iPod as she was about the faceless government organisation behind its theft.
Maria Hill reached the very top of the male-dominated SHIELD organisation, Sif is a fully-fledged goddess of war, and Peggy Carter was a sharp-shooting, red lipstick-wearing female officer at the frontline of WW2. These aren’t the cardboard cut-out women of action movies gone by. They’re more than the girlfriends or relatives or unobtainable dream girls, more than pawns for a hero’s man-pain. They’re definitely more than a gorgeous yet robot-like tomb raider with a penchant for dressing in clothes that are so often inappropriate for the weather.
They’re you, me. The boss you want to be someday, the academic your friend aspires to. The student who just wants to listen to music and have fun. The women who can do battle, run Fortune 500 companies, wield tasers and drive questionably. Girls who can show fear but fight against the bad guys anyway, who flirt just for fun. The brainwashed Russian superspy assassin. (OK, so maybe not that last one. Then again, we do all have that one friend we wonder about.)
”—Marvel’s women are so much more than just eye candy
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