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December 2015

Dec 23, 2015 20,586 notes
#okay #i feel better now #thank you #writing
Dec 23, 2015 29,978 notes
#YOOOOO #so i'm writing a 'claire treats the entire goddamn mcu' fic #this...this may be a thing #or at least she might know nick fury #claire temple

sparklesandchalk:

guys please don’t vote for Donald Trump. I don’t have enough money to move out of the United States right now.

Dec 22, 2015 342,759 notes

thecapslockbrony:

luftblumen:

malcolm-f-tucker:

I wish people would stop saying “It’s July. Well done for wasting half a year.” Did you make someone smile in the past six months? Did you stroke a cat or throw a stick for a dog? Did you learn a new fact or teach someone a new joke? Did you laugh, cry, scream or sing in the past six months? Because if so, congratulations for not wasting your time at all.

I really needed this

I’m bringing this back for December to remind everyone.

You did not waste your year.

If you made it this far, that’s already not wasting your year.

You made it through the year, you laughed, you cried, you smiled, you saw the sun and felt the rain, and most importantly, you’re still here.

You did not waste your year.

You mad it this far, and I’m proud of you.

Dec 22, 2015 381,469 notes
Dec 22, 2015 4,872 notes

padfootandprongsy:

I just realised

trelawney worked at hogwarts for like 17 years so she must at some point have had at least one sick day

so someone must have had to teach her classes and I really hope it was mcgonagall because can you imagine

‘this class is like 90% bullshit so I strongly recommend you just enjoy your tea because the tea leaves aren’t going to tell you anything. you can sit staring into glass balls and deciphering the meaning of your reflections if you want, but doing your transfiguration homework would be a better use of everyone’s time. I’m leaving now, if professor trelawney asks what you were taught, tell her I showed you an obscure form of palm reading and you can demonstrate by pointing at your hands and looking thoughtful - she’ll never know the difference’

Dec 22, 2015 1,884 notes
#harry potter #minerva mcgonagall #HEADCANON ACCEPTED
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Dec 22, 2015 100,592 notes
Dec 22, 2015 337,776 notes

little-red-riding-huntress:

Okay i thought I misheard at first but no, I def did not. For any leverage fans who realized one of Mikel Dayan’s lines wasn’t subtitled in the first ep of leverage she shows up in…. She’s saying that their leaders plan led them right to Eliot spencer, and it isn’t translated because she ends her sentence with ‘kus ha'ima shelcha’, literally ‘the c*nt of your mother’ but basically used like ‘son of a b*tch’.

Dec 22, 2015 109 notes
#WOW #LOVE IT #leverage #mikel #god but let's just talk about that woman #she's so cool #i fucking coo every time i watch that episode
John Boyega Silences Critics With His Best Response Yethuffingtonpost.com

daji-ruhu:

onyourtongue:

frontpagewoman:

“I’m grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man,” he said. “I’m proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me. I wasn’t raised to fear people with a difference of opinion. They are merely victims of a disease in their mind. To get into a serious dialogue with people who judge a person based on the melanin in their skin? They’re stupid, and I’m not going to lose sleep over people.”

“I just don’t get it. You guys got every single alien in this movie imaginable to man. With tentacles, five eyes. Aliens that, if they existed, we’d definitely have an issue,” he said. “We’d have to get them to the government and be, like, ‘What are you?’ Yet what you want to do is fixate on another human being’s color. You need to go back to school and unlearn what you have learned.”

Well I guess he told them! 

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🇳🇬🇳🇬

YEWA!!!

Dec 22, 2015 18,023 notes
#god bless #a+ smackdown
Drinking games for book nerds

dukeofbookingham:

theterritories-sa:

literaryglamour:

Drinking alone (no judgement)

Chug your ale each time Dickens introduces a new character.

Do a shot each time you look over your shoulder during 1984. Two shots if you get up to close the curtains.

Slam a Red Bull every time you turn the page in Wuthering Heights. Just to stay awake, really.

Take a sip of wine for every Biblical sin you’ve committed. Start at Genesis.

Drinking with friends

Take turns trying to recite the infamous 11,282-word sentence from Ulysses in one breath. Whoever stops first has to drink the most.

Smuggle booze into a library. Or go to your bookshelves. Pull out books at random, playing “Never have I ever” with books: “Never have I ever read Throne of Glass,” etc. All who have read the book in question must take a drink.

Take turns reading passages from The Bell Jar aloud. Whoever cries hardest must be cut off from alcohol immediately. This is followed by a group hug and gentle rocking.

Group-read a Shakespeare play and take a shot whenever there’s a joke about venereal disease, gender roles, or sexual relations.

I’m down for the Shakespeare.

MY DAY HAS COME

Dec 22, 2015 1,515 notes
#ADLER #YOU DOWN BRO #COME ON WE WOULD HAVE SO MUCH FUN #drinking games
Dec 22, 2015 49,090 notes
#jessica jones
  • Me, writing: Have I already had someone shrug recently? Yeah I think she shrugged like two minutes ago already. I'm pretty sure I've written someone chuckling like five times. Everyone chuckles so goddamn much. Maybe everything is just super amusing here. How about I switch it up a bit and have someone raise an eyebrow curiously yeah that'll work hell yeah
Dec 22, 2015 80,890 notes
#writing
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS FOR MINORS ON TUMBLR:

isitconsensual:

aceofaces20:

lilystarlace:

If you have the Calculator% app or any other hider app(things that hide apps and pictures), GET RID OF IT QUICKLY. This jackass district attorney has put the lives of a lot of teens in danger by revealing these apps to parents. Now parents everywhere are going through their kids’ phones, looking for trouble(which they’ll likely find). 

Closeted teens everywhere are likely in a lot of danger right now. If you use a hider app to hide resources or a diary or anything else, it’s very possible your family might find it. 

Please please help yourself and remove these apps immediately! Switch your SD card if you need to! 
I’m not even trying to scare people but I know that when I was a teen, had mom found my hider app I would have been in for a world of hurt. Please be safe!

SOURCE

Also relevant to anyone who has been using this app in otherwise abusive situations

Dec 22, 2015 66,514 notes

seiya234:

bathtubbuccaneer:

cannibalcoalition:

Today I met a woman, whose age she did not mention because she is a lady, was buying a lot of Star Wars merch because we had it on sale. And she was telling me that she couldn’t wait to see the new one and how she was going to stay up and see the midnight release and take pictures of people in costumes. She was so excited, and then she leans in close:


“You know, all these young men at these conventions- they see me and they ask me trivia about this that and the other thing and I tell them- ‘Son, I went to see the first one in 1977 before you were even a twinkle in your daddy’s eye.’ If I don’t know the answer, its because I damn forgot.”

Literal Queen.

MOTHERFUCKING QUEEN

Dec 22, 2015 272,372 notes

deenoverdami:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

mazelt0v:

exams would never be scheduled on christmas. no important sporting event would ever be played on easter. it’s about time that jewish holy days are given the same respect.

Exactly.

I should add that this isn’t limited to us Jews, either. In the past two years or so, both the Olympics and and the World Cup coincided with Ramadan, and a lot of Muslim athletes were left in the really shitty position of having to choose between either not fasting or putting their athletic performance at risk. If Christians had a fasting month, you bet your ass no sporting events would take place until it was over.

I am here for the Religious Solidarity movements.

Yes?  All of this?  Like I heard someone make the case that there are ‘too many’ Jewish or Islamic major holidays to give students all of them off and I was just like ???????  I recognize and appreciate that I benefit massively from being Christian, because I get my holidays off due to the fact that the school system literally built their breaks around them.  Yes.  This.  These things.  I am so here for the Religious Solidarity thing that I can’t even articulate how here I am.

Dec 21, 2015 175,572 notes
#religion
Dec 21, 2015 214,201 notes
#wonder woman #really though

lupinatic:

the-carol-of-peter-pettigrew:

Okay maybe this is just me giving the benefit of the doubt to the woman I basically idolize but I don’t think JKR is just showing up ten years late to the party trying to take credit for the idea of poc Hermione????

She specifically said the only canon traits were frizzy hair, brown eyes, and cleverness so I interpreted the tweet as her expressing appreciation for other people’s visions, not trying to claim it as her own

just chill its okay i love bi remus! i do not claim to have come up with that headcanon. when i write bi remus i dont expect credit for including it if anything shes endorsing it so gross racists cant say its less canon than the white movie hermione like????? its a good thing chill with the cynacism its also possible that since writing the books shes come to be better educated/more appreciative of how important representation is like ITS POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN AND GROW AND DO BETTER jkr

Dec 21, 2015 28 notes

the-carol-of-peter-pettigrew:

downerpress:

bitterpunktrash:

I wonder if J.K. Rowling will ever actually write an important character as a minority, or if she will just leave it open and then claim it later when it doesn’t affect her sales so she can seem very politically aware

this! exactly.

Okay but she didn’t say “yes this is how I’ve always imagined her #officially canon” she says she LOVES black Hermione. As in appreciated the vision that other people have come up with

Not that it wouldn’t have been nice to have more representation explicit in the books but maybe it is POSSIBLE???? that she has since become morE AWARE?? that representation is important???? And out of respect for the influence of her series, is trying to do better now????

But that’s crazy. Everyone knows people never change, are always as ignorant as they were twenty years ago when they first started writing aNd defINITely wouldn’t do anything to give an impression to the contrary for any reason but to make themself look good

Dec 21, 2015 26,631 notes

wallflower227:

dynamic-ideation:

cutiereferences:

steampoweredcupcake:

jada-the-spoopy-adventurer:

ramblinprose:

unseilie:

fullofbeansandspunk:

everythingbutharleyquinn:

asinheavenasinhell:

thnafu:

• Use the hand you write with.

• Make a fist with your thumb outside, not tucked inside. If it’s tucked inside your fist, when you punch someone, you might break your thumb. The thumb goes across your fingers, not on the side.

• Don’t be like in the movies—don’t aim for the face. Face punches don’t usually stop people, and you can miss when they duck their head or break your hand on their jaw. If you want to get away quickly, or end a fight, aim for the chest, or the ribs. If you really want to do some damage, e.g., you’re being attacked, aim for the throat, which will make it hard for your attacker to breathe for a hot minute.

• When you punch, you want to aim and hit with your first two knuckles. Not the flats of your fingers, and not your ring or pinky knuckles, which can break more easily. You can use your weight, if you’re on your feet, to add wallop, and spring into a punch with your feet and torso.

Useful information, esp. if you haven’t taken self defense.

I reblogged this once before to add this and I’ll do it again…

keep your wrist straight.

You can also risk breaking your wrist if you allow it to bend.  I actually can’t believe this isn’t in there.

Other good pointers:

  • if your attacker is male, go for his junk - especially if he’s wearing loose pants. There’s no sportsmanship when it comes to assault so fuck them balls UP
  • punching pretty much ANYWHERE in the face is going to actually hurt you a LOT (just think - you’re punching your bones into their bones and ow). If you’re going for the face, my suggestion is to strick upwards with your palm.

see that meaty portion highlighted in red? There’s a lot of muscle and fat right there which makes it excellent for striking. Hold your hand as shown and aim for the nose or chin (though I’ve been told in extreme circumstances, doing this to the nose can be fatal but I’ve never really heard if this is true or not) and just aim upwards

  • other delicate areas: 
  • the shin (hurts like a bitch if you kick it right - also, you can hit this spot if you’re being held in a choke-hold and if your attacker has to move in order to stop you from kicking him, he’ll have to angle his body so as to expose his stomach and crotch to the wild spastic jabbings of your elbows)

  • the solar plexus (either jab while holding your hand in a sort of spear position or use your elbows - unless you’re super strong, your punch probably won’t wind your attacker. Your elbow or a spear hand will, however)

Originally in (most) martial arts, you hit the solar plexus because it supposedly contained an important chakra. Now we know that it actually also contains like a bunch of necessary organs that are exposed just below your ribs and is also (roughly) where your diaphragm lives so getting punched there is not pleasant.
  • the clavicle (from experience, getting hit in your clavicle HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. If you strike downwards with your knuckles, the person might just cry. Like I did.)

  • the ear (this is probably the best place to punch besides the throat. It’s all cartilage so it probably won’t hurt you all that much and most people will be like “DUDE YOU PUNCHED ME IN THE EAR WHAT THE HELL”)
  • the kidneys (this is harder to hit without training but if you somehow get your attacker’s back to face you, try to hit’em in the kidneys. Again, from experience, this FUCKING HURTS. You can’t really hit the kidneys from the front with any effect but from the back it is super painful)

  • if you’re held in a choke-hold, try turning your head so the forearm isn’t pressed into your throat. If you can position yourself right, you can sort of force your chin into the crook of the elbow, making you able to still receive (limited) oxygen and provide time for you to kick some shins or elbow some spleens and shit

-Also, remember that a guy’s junk is not an off-button. Don’t think that you can rely on a swift kick to the balls to immediately incapacitate him in an emergency. Adrenaline and anger can keep somebody going for a long time even through extreme pain, and if you expect to end a fight with a single groin-attack you might be caught off-guard when he doesn’t drop. Certainly go for it if you get the chance, but keep hitting him until the fight is over.

-Draw blood if you can, especially if you can draw it from the face or the eyes. Blood in the eyes is not just a good way to impair your attacker’s vision, it’s also a really good way to freak them out and let them know that they might be getting more than they bargained for by picking a fight with you.

-Elbows and knees are really powerful weapons. Elbows are very sharp and very strong and if you are in close-range they are often more effective than trying to throw a punch. 

-Yelling and shouting makes you scary. 

Nothing much to add to this, it’s pretty much all there. So. Reblog. Oh, also, it’s really easy to break a nose - go for the eyes too. All it takes to avoid a shot to the throat is tucking your chin.

Also, that part about the ear - don’t punch. An open hand over the ear hurts a lot.

Tumblr teaching me how to fuck a bitch up

Also if you fuck up their face it’ll be easier for police to identify the attacker.

If someone gets you from behind and you cant punch them, go for the underside of the upper-arm. A bad pinch there is legit so painful because that skin is super sensitive.
Also this cant be stressed enough, if the attacker is a guy then fucking rip his junk off.

When throwing a punch:

reblog to save a fuckin life

And try your best to stay off the ground!! Keep a wider stance, bend your knees- do what ever you can to stay balanced

A couple other tips!

Even if your attacker is female, a solid knee or kick to the crotch will hurt.  

Tip for chokeholds: if you can force your chin into the crook of their elbow (like described above), you’re right next to some sensitive tissue.  A hard bite will be unpleasant for you, but REAL PAINFUL for them.

Aim for joints if you can–slamming a kick into the outside of their knee can rip tendons, pop ligaments, and damage bone.  If you have a corner at hand, try to slam their arm across it at the elbow.  Grab a finger if you can and try to snap it at the bottom knuckle–this is also a good trick for pushy guys at bars/parties/whatever–by jerking it back at hard as you possibly can.

Try to use your environment!  This can be hard in the heat of the moment, but trust me, if you can slam their head into a wall or hit them with something heavy, they’re going to need a minute before they can come at you again.  That minute can be unspeakable valuable.

There’s no such thing as a dirty move when you’re fighting to protect yourself: yes, kick that guy in the balls, nail that girl with a headbutt to the nose, kick them while they’re down, bite, scratch, rip out hair, stab your fingers into their eyes.

It is not a crime or a failure to get help.  If you’re being attacked on the street, scream ‘fire’–unfortunately more effective than most other things.  If you’re being attacked in a building, try to break a window or get into a hallway, and then scream.  If you have the option to get someone to back you up, take it.

Nor is it a crime or a failure to run.  If you manage to put your attacker on the ground, or somehow mildly incapacitate them, don’t assume the fight is over.  As someone so astutely pointed out before, adrenaline can work wonders, so they might be able to get up even if you’ve done damage.  If you’re close enough to a crowded area or a locking door to get there fast, sprint.  Your best bet is to either render yourself inaccessible (locking door) or render the witness count unacceptable (crowd). 

If you’re not close to a crowded area or another ‘safe’ location, take the moment when your attacker is incapacitated to kick them as hard as you can.  I’d recommend the back to avoid the risk of them grabbing your ankle and taking you down with them.  Aim for the kidneys (just below the end of the ribs), but barring that, stomp on them.  I’m serious, stomp the shit out of them.  Use your heel, put as much of your weight into it as you can, and try to shatter a hand or break their ribs.  (Warning about stomping someone’s ribs: this may cause complications including fractured ribs, punctured lung, pneumothorax, etc, and those can be lethal, so…like…be aware.  Relatedly, yes, a palm strike to the nose can cause the bone of the nose to damage the brain, causing death and death-like symptoms, but it’s sort of unlikely that you could manage it by accident.)

In the event that your attacker gets you on the ground beneath them: this is the most tactically disastrous position you could be in.  You WANT to be on top, where you have the freedom of movement to punch them in the throat/nose/solar plexus and then get back up.  First, you need to limit your attacker’s movement, which means going against your instinct to escape.  The best way to keep someone limited in this position is to lock your legs around their waist as tightly as you can, just above the hips–the thigh muscles are insanely strong, so they’re unlikely to be able to just shrug you off.  This brings your attacker closer to you, and you can further immobilize them by hooking one arm around their neck if you’re strong enough.  Once you have them trapped like this (having someone locked into this position, with your legs around their waits, is called having them in your guard), you have a degree of control, and they’re too close to punch you.  I recommend (from experience) jamming a thumb into their trachea (windpipe, right at the hollow of their throat).  Alternatively, clap both hands over their ears as hard as you can.  If you’re not lucky, this will be incredibly disorienting and rather painful to boot.  If you ARE lucky, you might blow their eardrum.  Slam your forehead into their nose, try to break it.  Use your close range to try to stab a finger into their eye (like I said, fight dirty).  The ultimate goal is to make your attacker disoriented enough to scramble out from underneath them, roll them so that you’re on top, or get up and beat them to a vertical position.  Anything that will accomplish that goal is fair game.

Aaaaaand that’s what I’ve got off the top of my head for actual combat, if anyone wants tips for avoiding combat in the first place message me.  It’s possible that I might be a little paranoid, but hey…who’s judging.

Oh.  Forgot one thing.  If someone’s pinning you to a wall and you have their face close to your face, take as deep a breath as you possibly can, get close, and scream like a goddamn banshee.  Embrace your inner fire alarm.  Remarkably alarming at close quarters, they’ll probably let you go or at least loosen their grip for long enough to get a good hit in.

Dec 21, 2015 678,217 notes
#combat #moran is paranoid #self-defense #fighting #self defense #how to punch someone

msjadepaton:

frozenfoxtails:

flikky:

flikky:

lauramichellekellys:

i think it’s time people realize that there is an actual need for shows to be professionally filmed and sold in order to stop bootlegs being filmed because no matter /how/ many times actors talk about bootlegs and ask for people to not film them people are still going to do it. Broadway is an incredibly hard thing to have access to when you’re a teenager or young adult and don’t live close enough to New York because overall, it costs a lot of money. There needs to be perspective from both sides and each side needs to give a little to take a little. Stop making theatre closed off for those who can’t afford to see it. Don’t just complain about a problem, realize that there IS a solution to it and fix it because at the end of the day, people are still going to want to see shows from Broadway and /will/ find a way to see them, illegally or not.

No but seriously.

This all goes hand-in-hand with the whole “NO ONE CARES ABOUT BROADWAY ANYMORE~~~ /SADFACE” BS spewed by Broadway industry/NYC tourism board people.

Like, they’ve got this narrative in their head that people just suddenly lost all interest in theater one day and are trying to paint themselves as the victims of an uncaring public completely oblivious to the fact that attendance went down around the same time that ticket prices started inflating into the hundreds for seemingly no other reason than “they felt like it.”

Back in the ‘90s you could get orchestra seating tickets for a popular new Tony Award winning show for somewhere between $80-$100.

Now?  Theaters are charging the same amount for seats in the nosebleed section with an obstructed view.  It’s ridiculous.  Orchestra seat tickets these days are going for as high as $500.  That’s a 400% increase over the course of twenty fucking years.

Imagine spending ~$1000 on a night out with your partner and that doesn’t even cover the cost of dinner.

Outside of lotteries – which not every theater does, aren’t highly advertised, are not easily accessible to people who work/are visiting –  it’s literally impossible to buy a pair of tickets without ending up spending somewhere between $200-$400 unless you’re seeing a show that’s been running for over ten years.

People can’t afford to go to Broadway anymore.  

Or if they do, they have to save up or wait for a sudden influx of money and then choose one show that they really want to see that year and hope anything else will still be open by the time they get the money to see that.

You cannot continue to price more and more people out of Broadway theaters and then 1) complain that no one’s coming anymore so they must not care, and 2) complain that people are finding other ways to try to experience these unnecessarily exclusive shows.

The film industry was partially founded on the idea of making theater more accessible to people who couldn’t patronize Broadway.  When did the theater industry decide that film was its enemy?

No wait, I’m not done.

People want to see the shows.

That’s why bootlegs exist!  Not because people are selfish, but because they can’t afford the only means of actually seeing them.

You really think that people who pay for bootlegs wouldn’t happily pay for a legitimate professional recording?

Why do you think Andrew Lloyd Webber is slowly working his way through his entire catalogue and putting out DVD’s?  Of even the FAILED projects!  And people are watching them!  They’re watching them so enthusiastically that he’s in the process of reviving at least one of those epic failures!

For fuck’s sake even the Metropolitan Opera has a partnership with one movie theater chain to livestream their productions because they understand this very basic concept that people will pay to experience something they really want to but not if they can’t afford it.

Also, What does it say that every time a musical is filmed and released, it always has big named stars attached to it, it’s always labeled with ‘movie of the year’ and always tops the box office for the weekend it’s released? 

The fact that Phantom of the Opera with gerard butler earned back more than twice it’s budget despite heavy criticism. Hairspray from 2007 earned almost 3 times. Mama Mia earned back 12 times its budget. 

Because i can afford ten dollars to see a movie, i might even be inclined to see a movie twice or three times in theatres, and still buy it on DVD for 25$ when it comes out. which, all in all is less than 60$. 

Clearly the point ins’t that musicals aren’t popular, despite what pop culture would like to tell you about theatre kids.  Musicals are always popular, and movie musicals almost always do well financially, and id bet money its because it’s a lot easier to take a chance on seeing a new movie for less than the cost of a dinner than to see a broadway show for the cost of a mortgage payment.

I can think of three live shows filmed, off the top of my head (Rent, Shrek and Cats) and they’re all very well done, (i mean, cats as a show is kind of generic) I own a copy of all three, and to be honest I’d rather have copies of these shows as filmed on stage then the ones i have that are actual movies. Stage performance is an entirely different medium than film performance and you can’t really encourage people to embrace a new art form if youc ant expose them to it.

Might I also add that there are also people interested in Broadway productions, but they don’t live in the US or Britain, so they don’t get to see it, because half of the productions don’t get translated and performed here. And if they do, some of them don’t have the quality of the original performence.

So it’s not just about the tickets. I might have enough money to actually buy a ticket to Broadway, but not a ticket to London or New York!

Dec 21, 2015 49,722 notes
#i mean really #shit #i'm not even a musical aficianado #(ask my roommate some time about the experience of trying to talk me into watching musicals) #(it's not even pulling teeth it's like prying cement pylons out of solid rock) #and the ONE TIME I WANT TO SEE A GODDAMN MUSICAL #(hamilton) #(it's hamilton) #(i really want to see hamilton) #IT COSTS SO MUCH MONEY #THAT I CANNOT EVEN FATHOM IT #THE TICKET TO NEW YORK ALONE WOULD KILL ME #FUCK THE TICKET TO BROADWAY THERE'S JUST NO WAY #theater

nothorcruxes:

People shaming jo for supporting a black hermione now, but in past saying emma was exactly how she envisioned her are really missing the point. Jo is white, and she saw a lot of herself in the character so it makes sense for her to see hermione as white. But despite this she has always, ALWAYS said it’s amazing how people see the characters differently and she has always supported that.
So don’t start attacking her now for being fake, instead maybe question why you have to be so bitter and cynical despite this happy and amazing casting.

Dec 21, 2015 157 notes
Dec 21, 2015 70,058 notes

plasticbagvevo:

me trying to comfort a sad friend

Dec 21, 2015 225,039 notes
#actually literally me #adler #you've seen my face between the time someone starts crying and the time i suck it up and help #pure unadulterated horrified panic
Dec 21, 2015 64,355 notes
Dec 21, 2015 120,137 notes
#yep
Dec 21, 2015 775 notes
#jessica jones #kilgrave #i really like this mental image #jessica fulfills her promise to kilgrave and wears a dress to his funeral #in the most joyful shade of banana-sunshine-freedom yellow she can get her hands on

yourdailyace:

mettatonpng:

yo btw if u ever have a crush on an aromantic person or anyone on the aro spectrum please don’t try to put the other person on the spot for not returning your feelings.

Like, don’t go “oh my gosh imagine if you weren’t aro! We would have so much fun…” Or “aw man, I wish you weren’t aro…” Because that’s disrespectful and makes it seem like the other person is at fault for the feelings YOU developed.

So if you ever have a crush on your friend who’s aro, please don’t be rude or disrespectful. Don’t invalidate their identity and romantic orientation because you want a romantic relationship with them. They don’t.

This goes for everyone. It’s really rude to tell someone that their sexuality or gender (who them are) inconveniences you because you like them.

What the fuck, is this a thing people do?  Who does this?  This is so shitty.  If you want to privately be sad that someone is (FOR WHATEVER REASON) not returning your romantic interest, that’s okay.  But then remind yourself that…shit, man, that person doesn’t owe you anything.  No.  Nothing.  Your unrequited feelings are your problem, not their fault.

Shit, I want to punch something.

Dec 21, 2015 11,692 notes

iouafez:

So I’m in theatre class

We’re working on Shakespeare scenes for competition

A couple of freshmen boys are doing a scene that mentions a sword

The teacher is trying to tell them that they do not need to have a prop sword

They are not understanding

So young

So naive

“90% of the time” she says

“When Shakespeare says ‘sword,’ he’s not talking about a metal sword”

They are still not understanding

The rest of the class understands

We know what we are witnessing

The destruction of innocence

They are so new to the ways and language of the bard

Cinnamon rolls

Pure

Unaffected by theatre kids

Untouched by the horrors of the world

They still do not understand

The teacher does not know what else to do

She knows they cannot go to competition wielding an actual prop sword

She knows they will eventually learn

The class knows this too

We are dying to know what she will say next

She opens her mouth

We are on the edge of our seats

She yells

“LETS TALK ABOUT PENISES!”

Whoop.

There it is

The secret is out

Shakespeare makes dick jokes

Theatre teachers sometimes say things other teachers don’t

It is a shock to their system

In their minds, the kill bill siren

Their world has turned upside down

We can see it in their face

We lose it

We are accustomed to this

We have heard worse

But seeing their faces

It is too much

At this moment

The door opens

A sophomore enters

This is his first theatre class

All he heard was

“Let’s talk about penises”

He shouts out in a confused horror

The cycle is never ending

Dec 21, 2015 30,783 notes
#I'M DYING #i love epic tales #shakespeare #motherfucking shakespeare #oh sweet summer child #you have not even begun to plumb the depths of frat boy humor that is the bard of avon
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A post for men about creepy men

realsocialskills:

I wrote a post a while back about how some people are very good at getting away with doing intentionally creepy things by passing themselves off as just ~awkward~.

Recently, I noticed a particular pattern that plays out. While creeps can be any gender, there’s a gendered pattern by which creepy men get other men to help them be creepy:

  • A guy runs over the boundaries of women constantly
  • He makes them very uncomfortable and creeped out
  • But he doesn’t do that to guys, and
  • He doesn’t talk to guys about it in an unambiguous way, and
  • When he does it in front of guys, he finds a way to make it look deniable
  • And then some women complain to a man, maybe even a man in charge who is supposed to be responsible for preventing abuse in a space
  • and he has no idea what they are talking about, since he’s never the target or witness
  • And he’s had a lot of pleasant interactions with that guy
  • So he sympathizes with him, and thinks he must mean well but be have trouble with social skills
  • And then takes no action to get him to stop or to protect women
  • And so the group stays a place that is safe for predatory men, but not for the women they target

For example:

  • Mary, Jill, and Susan: Bill, Bob’s been making all of us really uncomfortable. He’s been sitting way too close, making innuendo after everything we say, and making excuses to touch us.
  • Bill: Wow, I’m surprised to hear that. Bob’s a nice guy, but he’s a little awkward. I’m sure he doesn’t mean anything by it. I’m not comfortable accusing him of something so serious from my position of authority.

What went wrong here?

  • Bill assumed that, if Bob was actually doing something wrong, he would have noticed.
  • Bill didn’t think he needed to listen to the women who were telling him about Bob’s creepy actions. He didn’t take seriously the possibility that they were right. 
  • Bill assumed that women who were uncomfortable with Bob must be at fault; that they must be judging him too harshly or not understanding his awkwardness
  • Bill told women that he didn’t think that several women complaining about a guy was sufficient reason to think something was wrong
  • Bill assumed that innocently awkward men should not be confronted about inadvertantly creepy things they do, but rather women should shut up and let them be creepy

A rule of thumb for men:

  • If several women come to you saying that a man is being creepy towards them, assume that they are seeing something you aren’t
  • Listen to them about what they tell you
  • If you like the guy and have no idea what they’re talking about, that means that what he is doing is *not* innocent awkwardness.
  • If it was innocent awkwardness, he wouldn’t know how to hide it from other men
  • Men who are actually just awkward and bad at understanding boundaries also make *other men* uncomfortable
  • If a man is only making women uncomfortable but not men, that probably means he’s doing it on purpose
  • Take that possibility seriously, and listen to what women tell you about men

tl;dr If you are a man, other men in your circle who are nice to you are creepy towards women. Don’t assume that if something was wrong that you would have noticed; creepy men are good at finding the lines of what other men will tolerate. Listen to women. They know better than you do whether a man is being creepy and threatening towards women; if they think something is wrong, listen and find out why. Don’t give predatory dudes who are nice to you cover to keep hurting women.

Dec 21, 2015 64,782 notes

freakingdork:

knatalie:

okay but please please tell me someone sat down and wrote after-mulan fic where some days li shang wakes up and rolls over and murmurs mulan’s name and reaches out for her only to hear “call me ping today” whispered back

and how everyone else not in the know thinks he has a wife and a secret army boyfriend and that he’s hiding one from the other

and someone tries to tell mulan and she just collapses laughing because they’re close but totally wrong

and li shang all the time just deals with it because he loves ping and he loves mulan and he doesn’t care what name he’s using or what gender he’s kissing as long as he can sneak one kiss a day

the dragon kind of creeps him out sometimes but it’s all cool

it’s all cool

Dec 21, 2015 68,011 notes
#sure #i like it #mulan
Science finally supports that we are all born as blank slates and gender is merely a constructtheplaidzebra.com

reyairia:

superluminalflower:

the-descolada:

fuckyeahsexeducation:

There’s been so many studies on this it’s ridiculous and I think we need to stop focusing on the why and just respect people’s genders and stop forcing gender roles on to people (and I totally see how a TERF could twist this so don’t even try). However, as a genderqueer person I do get a little joy from this. Now we just need someone science-y to point out sex is a construct.

get fucked gender essentialists

someone send my dad this lmao

HUMANS ARE A SEXUALLY MONOMORPHIC SPECIES

HUMANS ARE A SEXUALLY MONOMORPHIC SPECIES

HUMANS ARE A SEXUALLY MONOMORPHIC SPECIES

This is pmuch common sense. We are not anglerfish. We are not elephant seals. We are not orangutans. We are not peacocks. We are sexually monomorphic - that means there are literally no actual difference between males and females outside of our genitalia, and humans are similar to crows and dolphins in that aspect. And thus, our rigid concepts of gender and sex roles are entirely social constructs. One based on a myth of sexual dimorphism that does not exist in our species.

Science, motherfuckers

THERE WE GO.  Now when someone tries to de-legitimize your gender identity, your response can be “SCIENCE BITCH I’M VALID AS FUCK.”

Dec 21, 2015 126,410 notes
#nice #science!
Boys with a tummy are beautiful

blackgirlaesthetic:

car-crashhearts:

tyloriousrex:

fatandfabulousmermaid:

Pass it on

Wait…this made me feel really good about my entire existence

It’s lit! 🔥🔥🔥

Yes yes yes.

Dec 21, 2015 153,591 notes

lotrlocked:

llamajun:

“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” is a phrase often thrown around to prove that women are materialistic, but if you listen to the song you realize that it’s really about how men think a woman’s looks and youth are the only valuable assets she has. They’ll trade her in when she “loses her charms”, so she needs to collect diamonds and valuables to sustain herself when she’s old and alone.

Consider that the song was written and performed during a time when women couldn’t find a job for decent pay, that the only way they could survive financially was to tie themselves to a man and hope he’d stick around and provide support.

The real message is that men are shallow and flighty, so take their sweet words with a grain of salt and make sure you get something real out of the relationship.

Holla

Dec 20, 2015 46,288 notes
Things I’ve Seen During Finals

howtomusicmajor:

  • Someone calling in sick to work in order to sleep for their hour long shift.
  • Someone breakdancing to a boombox blasting Christmas music on the quad.
  • Someone crying because they got a free sandwich.
  • Someone walking into the lounge at 1 am with a huge stack of books, and the determination of someone who forgot a term paper.
  • Someone putting off writing their thesis because someone else needed math help and “logarithms are fun!”
  • Someone taking a lighter to a notebook as soon as they left the science building.
  • More than one flask being carried to class.
  • Someone literally giggle evilly when given a 6-pack of beer.
  • A freshman taking gen eds complaining about everyone else complaining about how hard finals are. (Note: the freshman may or may not have ever been seen again.)
  • Someone crossing campus at a run in slippers.
  • A nursing major explaining that finals are actually natural selection, and that she is the strongest and most adaptable and she was going to survive, while talking to herself.
  • A different nursing major looking very forlorn because she just ran out of wine.
  • Someone sleeping on a bench in the music building, with actual pillows and blankets and everything.
  • Sticky notes with swearwords written on them littered around the science building.
  • A group of students trying to one-up each other about how badly their juries had just gone.
  • Someone leaving for the library at 3 am, because there was free coffee there.
  • Someone flipping off the professor after being wished good luck on the final.
  • The same person realizing that they have an entire lifetime of that class ahead of them, because it’s their major.
  • Someone being questioned about how they wanted their funeral to look, after talking about the 8000 words they had due.
  • Just, so many people sprawled on floors because it’s easier to do that than anything else. So many.
  • The most genuine gratitude I’ve had directed at me possibly ever, because I gave someone a peanut butter cookie.

Finals: we’re all tired, hungry, and a little unhinged. It’s okay.

Dec 20, 2015 59,000 notes
#college #i feel it #finals #i went pre-med and currently regret every decision ever #i love epic tales
“The printer didn’t have any formal procedures for paid vacations, so we bought 100% of the factory’s capacity and paid them to produce nothing for a week.”—Cards Against Humanity buys a vacation for its Chinese factory workers (via nickdouglas)
Dec 20, 2015 3,364 notes
#um shit #that's the spirit #goddamn

jamagotchi:

hey also remember that guy, martin shkreli, who bought the rights to that HIV drug then jacked up the price like crazy?

not only did he get arrested today but his lawyer increased his hourly rate by 5000%

“Shkreli, who reportedly received the news about the price hike while he was being fingerprinted, cried foul and accused his attorney of “outrageous and inhumane price gouging.” (Source)

merry christmas, good bless us everyone

And that, kids, is the true meaning of Christmas.

Dec 20, 2015 25,688 notes

bcfurs:

cakeisnotpie:

desidesidesi:

cortohdow:

glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon:

elvenkingtranduil:

anonymoussong:

huntinthedwellin98:

un-rare:

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

Not a rock THE  ARKENSTONE 

Why just one rock
Why not three
Why not the silmarils

#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’  (x)

And one on why not the arkenstone

You’re right. Just get them a ring.

Dec 20, 2015 1,092,531 notes
#lotr #excuse me while i die of laughter #actually literally the plot

tweeckos:

inyouendohs:

My goal is to have a “controversy” section on my future wikipedia page

send me an anon describing my (future) controversy section

Dec 20, 2015 52,159 notes
#i also very much want to have a 'controversy' section #hopefully pertaining to something like this #'and then someone tried to fuck with her friend (all one of them) and she punched them in the goddamn throat' #not that i'm a violent person or anything #pffffft

nineprotons:

geekandmisandry:

Getting salt from gamer boys in my inbox.

Listen up turd turrets, I WANTED to just play video games, I WANTED to just have fun, I NEVER wanted my gaming to be political or a struggle, I just wanted to play.

But you wouldn’t fucking let me, you brought up my gender, you judged me based on it, YOU made it political.

So now I WILL wreck everything with my fucking feminism, I am the feminist nightmare you fucking created.

Witness me.

Ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

Dec 20, 2015 81,406 notes
#WITNESSED #feminism #ride eternal
“The truth is, chivalry has basically fuck all to do with women, and everything to do with horses.
See, the word “chivalry” comes from the French word “chevalier,” which comes from “cheval,” which means “horse.” Chivalry is literally just “rules for if you have a horse.” This was an important set of rules to have in chivalry times. Horses were the Blackhawk Helicopters of the Middle Ages; if you had a horse, you could absolutely kill anybody who didn’t have a horse and nobody was going to say a god damn thing. The only thing stopping you was chivalry.
That’s what chivalry was for. Chivalry was – and still is – basically a way of saying, “okay, I have an optimized death machine between my legs, maybe I should look out for people who don’t have one of these.” So it’s not that chivalry is specifically about defending women because women are weak. It’s that chivalry is about defending people who don’t own horses, and in the middle ages women didn’t own shit.”
—

Chivalry Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Know What the Fuck it is.

Also:

“Chivalry boils down to three things: mercy, charity, and humility. Mercy means being conscious of your advantages, and treating other humans gently. Charity means giving without expecting anything in return. Humility means accepting your mistakes, and recognizing that those who don’t have your advantages aren’t your inferiors.“

(via gallifreygal)

Dec 20, 2015 23,459 notes
#THERE WE GO #IT'S IN WORDS #i mean to be fair #even in this sense of the word chivalry is barely clinging to life #although hey what up i see you humanity doin' good every once in a while #history according to tumblr
Dec 20, 2015 775 notes
#mad max #fury road #I LOVE IT #max rockatansky #furiosa
*bangs fists on table repeatedly* TELL US THE STORY TELL US THE STORY

SO OKAY

Picture the scene. Eighth grade. Tiny baby earlgraytay- young, scrappy, hungry, and with a chip on their shoulder from being the Weird Kid who was constantly in and out of trouble.  

Tiny baby EGT has an American History teacher that we’ll call Mrs. B. Mrs. B. was very loud and very Long Islander and liked baby me for being just as nerdy about history as she was (though I think she occasionally wanted me to stop blurting out all the answers so that the other kids could learn something.) 

We did a Mock Constitutional Convention wherein every kid in the class got the part of a delegate. If you were quieter and/or needed to watch more than talk, you got an obscure delegate and could mostly watch.

If you were a blabbermouth, like me, you got Alexander Hamilton.

Originally posted by punchedthebursar

So, I was really proud of myself, because Alexander Hamilton was a big important guy who talked a lot and had a lot of opinions. 

My mom helped me make a terrible tiny Hamilton cosplay. I had a frilly shirt and buckle shoes and I distinctly remember putting my hair in the rattiest boy-ponytail in the history of boy ponytails.

 I spent like three days reading over all my notes and vibrating intensely, and vowed I would give, like, the best performance ever, and do all the arguing. 

Unfortunately, there was a flaw in my clever plan. 

The flaw in said clever plan was that everyone else in my class was in eigth grade. They thought history was a thing you slogged through to get an A, and no one else was as into this as I was.

So, I basically had the floor for the entire mock Convention. 

I seem to remember spending a lot of time talking about the National Bank and making compromises with imaginary opponents because our TJeffs and our John Adams and just about everyone else were wayyyyy happy to let me talk and get graded for my performance. 

tl;dr: Imagine an AU wherein Alexander Hamilton wrote the entire Constitution single-handedly because no one else showed up. 

Dec 20, 2015 3,217 notes
#i love epic tales
Dec 20, 2015 27,473 notes
#donald trump #this is my solution #it's a good solution

officialnatasharomanoff:

steveandbucky:

clint and nat getting into arguments about stupid things and nat calling him ridiculous bird names like ‘bluetit’ and ‘penguin’ just to watch him get irrationally angry over it like “PENGUINS AREN’T EVEN REAL BIRDS!” and “I’M A HAWK! A HAWK!” and her responding with “whatever you say, goose”

and one day in the middle of a fight, he just stops yelling and looks at her and whispers, “brown recluse.” she doesn’t talk to him for two days.

MADLY in love with this headcanon.

Dec 20, 2015 18,698 notes
#clint barton #poor shmuck #natasha goddamn romanoff #otp: budapest #clintasha #'brown recluse' #god i'm killing myself i'm laughing so hard #i can't fucking breathe
Dec 20, 2015 116,570 notes
#marry me #anti-snape #lily evans defense squad #is that a thing? #i wanna be in on that #fight me #harry potter #lily evans
Dec 20, 2015 37,997 notes
#HAVE YOU ACCEPTED RALEIGH BECKET AS YOUR RESPECTFUL KNIGHT IN A SWEATER YET #I'M SCREAMING #I WILL CALL HIM MY #RESPECTFUL SWEATER KNIGHT #FOREVERMORE #RALEIGH BECKET #MAKO MORI #PACIFIC RIM
Dec 20, 2015 84,734 notes
“There’s also the argument ‘Books are supposed to challenge you!’ which is an interesting argument, but I don’t actually like it very much. Most of my books aren’t actually supposed to challenge you, they’re supposed to comfort you because life is a hard country and we all need a little kindness along the way. (It is totally fine if other people’s books are supposed to challenge you, just… er… #NotAllBooks or something.) I do not actually feel bad about this, because I think comfort is hard to do and generally worthwhile.”—Ursula Vernon, as if speaking directly to me. (via lotstradamus)
Dec 20, 2015 1,673 notes
#writing #writing tips
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