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July 2015

Jul 20, 2015 8,155 notes
#he's not wrong #john watson
Jul 20, 2015 80,344 notes
#brutal #brutal and beautiful

snarliekelly:

agentbering:

jessepumpkin:

i can only handle so much socializing until i get tired and start getting irritated towards everyone and want to go home and sleep or lock myself in my room and go on the computer

#but until I reach that point I’m a fucking delight and you should appreciate that

This is what it means to be an introvert. Not being shy. This.

Jul 20, 2015 685,066 notes
Jul 20, 2015 356,369 notes
#swans #also #geese
Good Story Commenting

dareyoutoread:

primarybufferpanel:

Look I know it’s meant in enthusiasm and appreciation of a story, but ‘You had BETTER continue this’ is just not a review that makes me want to continue a story. Kinda makes me feel like a candy machine getting kicked.

This leads me to briefly discuss an idea I’ve been thinking about, which is that, while good fic writing is clearly alive and well, good commenting could use some parameters. lol. So: 

#1: Remember, unless you actually know the writer, /you don’t actually know the writer/. They might not read your humor the same way you do. Get to know them a llittle - then when you snark at them, they’ll probably snark right back. :-D

#2: Tell them what you liked about the WRITING. I LOVE EVERY COMMENT (y’know, as long as it’s not “this sucks!”), but the ones that really make me fall all over myself with glee are the ones that recognize where I’ve worked particularly hard to express an idea with just the right words (and none of the wrong ones). I could tell you the same story in a crappier way, but I like to know that you’re glad I didn’t. ;-)

#3: Any (remotely positive) comment is better than no comment. Take two seconds, and you’ll really brighten someone’s day. It’s worth it. 

#4: Tell them where they got it right - the emotions, the characters, the dialogue. Even if you don’t pick out a specific line, the turn or the beat of the story that really grabbed you is helpful to know. I’ll wager most of us writers are constantly trying to get better - help us by telling us where it worked!

#5: If you’re compelled to leave helpful or constructive criticism, do so if you’re pretty sure the author would welcome it, but for the love of good story, please, please sandwich it between some nice comments. This sh*t is hard enough (and we’re all insecure enough about it) already. ;-)

So, leave good comments! Make friends! The writing and fic community is a glorious place to go for encouragement and fun. Go forth and enjoy it!

Jul 19, 2015 88 notes
#writing #feedback #how to give feedback

maggieconnelly:

pondarling:

matt-smith:

do you ever just passionately miss the first series of doctor who but not just because you miss Nine but because you miss the monsters and the simple story lines that were new and so interesting and the companions that didn’t need a magic back story to be special and weren’t just a new puzzle for the doctor to solve they were just ordinary people with ordinary lives and taught (especially the young viewers) that anyone can be a hero i just really miss season one okay

I also miss Nine a LOT.

Jul 19, 2015 128,137 notes
#doctor who #NINE #MY PRECIOUS ANGSTY TIME LORD #god this is why i stopped watching #not because he regenerated #(ten is a LITERAL SAD PUPPY WHO I DESIRE TO SNUGGLE) #not because any particular companion came or went #but because i couldn't face the whole tangled mess #i miss believing that the doctor might come for my sorry uninteresting ass even though i'm not magically interesting or cosmically important #that was what meant the most to me

reading-while-running:

every-flavored-bean:

Ok but imagine every other Hogwarts student finding out each year why the Defense against the dark arts teacher has left.

“Harry Potter kiLLED HIM WITH HIS BARE HANDS?”

“Harry Potter erASED HIS ENTIRE MEMORY?”

“Harry Potter let hiM TURN INTO A WEREWOLF?”

“Harry Potter disCOVERED HIM IN CHEST??”

“Harry Potter let heR GET CAPTURED BY CENTAURS?

Forget the curse, Harry is the real problem here.

Jul 19, 2015 149,067 notes
#harry potter
Which Mad Max Fury Road character should you fight?
  • Furiosa: Fight her. She will beat you bloody and drive your face into the dirt but you'll be thanking her as she does it. Afterwards she would spit on your body and drive away but you will feel amazing.
  • Max: Fighting him would be like an angsty teenager lashing out at their parents, you'll break down crying midway through when you realise you have no reason to actually fight him and he'll awkwardly try to stop your gross-crying.
  • Immortan Joe: I wouldn't advise it but morally you should have a go.
  • Rictus: You will die. Try to realise 20 bears on him instead, that might do the trick.
  • Nux: You'll both be super pumped for this fight and the first part will be like pure adrenaline and you'll feel like a wild animal but then you'll break apart for a split-second and all you'll see if a very excited puppy and suddenly you'll feel terrible for fighting him even though he's still punching you.
  • Slit: Like Nux only he's not a puppy, he's an angry pit bull terrier and you'll have to go to the hospital.
  • Splendid Angharad: Even if you wanted to fight her she'll stare you down before you can get close. It'll be like her eyes are ripping your conscience out onto the ground. Go home in shame.
  • The Dag: Go and sit in the corner for even thinking about it.
  • People Eater: Do it. Fight him. He can't fight and he's on the same level of evil as Joe, there is literally no reason not to fight him.
  • Cheedo: How dare you.
Jul 19, 2015 575 notes
#okay #i like it #mad max #fury road

theologicalmess:

spyderqueen:

misandrwitch:

Hands up if large groups of aggressively loud white boys in your vicinity freak you out

One of the things that bonds women, POC, and LGBTQA+ together: The fear of white men in numbers.

Where is the lie.

Jul 19, 2015 495,511 notes
Jul 19, 2015 57,195 notes
#lito #lito x hernando #sense8 #IT'S SO TRUE #god i'm dying i can't with these adorable fucks

noelknd:

I always hate it when girls say “But I’m fat,” and then I automatically reply with “No you aren’t!” because that isn’t what I want to say.

What I want to say is a century ago you would have been a goddess.

What I want to say is you are a goddess now.

What I want to say is that society stole that word from you.

What I want to say is “So what? Fat does not mean ugly. Fat is not a bad word. You are fat. I am fat. And we are beautiful.”

What I want to say is fat and ugly are not synonymous.

What I want to say is my god, if you are fat, be fat, but fall in love with yourself all the same because you are so much more than weight and weight has never been everything.

But I always say “No you aren’t!” and they always know I’m lying.

GOD THANK YOU.  I have fought my way through the mire of pronouncing this concept for years, and for someone like myself whose whole world revolves around my ability to make words do what I want them to, that’s been incredibly frustrating.

My friends talk about how they’re fat and I want to scream for not having the words to say what I mean.

This is what I mean.

Jul 19, 2015 144,329 notes

zinyea:

redheadlandmermaid:

I’m here for the girls who unwillingly consented to sex or sexual acts because they were in a situation where they didn’t feel as if they had the right to say no and now feel violated but don’t feel like they can say they were raped or molested.

this is probably one of the most important text posts i have ever seen because i feel like this is a HUGE issue among teenagers especially young girls in today’s social culture and nobody talks about it. nobody tells you that you were in fact abused and sometimes it takes you years to finally realize what happened to you was wrong, and it’s really scary and confusing! we need to teach each other that “rape” or “molestation” can happen in many circumstances and not just the ones we are taught!!!!

Jul 19, 2015 333,256 notes
Jul 19, 2015 28,640 notes
#i love epic tales
Jul 19, 2015 225 notes
#mad max #fury road #NUX LIVES #FUCK YES #nux

jourdehn:

10000bc:

sometimes i’ll see ppl in their early 20’s completely fucking covered in tattoos and im like damn what if one day youre 33 and u want a new tattoo but u cant get one cuz u done run out of skin

I thought this was going to be really negative but Im glad with its turnout

This is totally a thing I worry about though.  Like I want script fucking everywhere bro, but what if I find a really great quote or a fantastic poem is written twenty years from now and I don’t have space?

Jul 19, 2015 360,040 notes
Jul 19, 2015 105,334 notes
#i mean sure i'd buy it #he must have been at least reasonably decent right #the other founders were good with him #salazar slytherin #harry potter #founders
Jul 19, 2015 1,238,664 notes
#seals #leopard seal #dude #incredible

whiskey-and-ink:

I think people who don’t menstruate overall just don’t understand that we cannot stop the blood. If there’s nothing to collect it, it’s going everywhere. Most people can hold a shit, can hold a piss, and can hold back sex, until it’s convenient. When we bleed there is just no stopping it. It doesn’t matter if there’s nothing to catch the blood, it will keep coming.

That’s why this free-tampon discussion is over your heads. You don’t get it. You can compare it to toilet paper or condoms all you want but most of us have control over those things. When we bleed, we keep bleeding until it’s done. There’s no clenching or muscle training that will keep us from bleeding everywhere.

So stop talking about what you don’t understand. If condoms can be free, so can tampons.

Jul 19, 2015 456,073 notes
#menstruation
This is even funnier than gal pal

alyciainwonderland:

lady-patra:

shiraglassman:

purpleshimapan:

fireandwonder:

shiraglassman:

shiraglassman:

We just bought a cute sofa from an antique shop, while being very obviously a couple and looking like a butch/femme salt and pepper shaker set, and the shop owner wanted to know how long we’d been, and I quote, “hanging out.”

I’ll still laughing at this the next morning.

*gets down on one knee in front of gal pal* *takes out ring* Will you hang out with me?

There was one time I was out shoe shopping with my partner and I was debating buying these cute pastel green shoes. The saleswoman was like “well why don’t we ask your friend here?” I said “oh actually this is my partner.” The woman stared at us blank faced for a few awkward seconds before forcibly smiling and saying, “partner in crime?”

JAW….DROP…. 

In a store once with a girl I used to date, browsing through all these different mattresses. One of the sales ladies came over and talked about all the beds with us for quite some time while we told her what we were looking for. It was painfully obvious we were a couple, like literally holding hands and calling each cute pet names out loud. Finally the sales lady laughs nervously and says “sooo.. wow, what kind of roommate setup is that that forces you two to have to share a bed!?”
I just sort of stared at her for second at a complete loss and said “… the dating kind…”

Reblogging again for that last one

Jul 19, 2015 276,905 notes
#gal pals #i'm dying
  • Marvel: to relate to female audience, we will have Black Widow involved in a romance with a team member
  • Every Girl I've Ever Heard: I want to see Natasha Romanoff crush a man's skull with her thighs without a single hair falling out of place, and then I want her to terrorize her teammates with bad jokes and pranks
  • Marvel: to relate to the female audience we will have Black Window involved in a romance WITH ANOTHER TEAM MEMBER
Jul 19, 2015 69,292 notes
#natasha goddamn romanoff #and the travesty that was brucetasha #GOD FUCK YOU #NO
Jul 19, 2015 95,174 notes

vivianvivisection:

biruskis:

If the Winter Soldier was responsible for the Kennedy assassination and Magneto tried to STOP the Kennedy assassination then that must mean somehow Magneto lost a fight to a guy wITH AN ENTirE ARm MADE OF METAL

Marvel writers sweat intensely

Canonically in the comic, Magneto has lost to the X-Men.  When they had neither Jean Grey nor Professor X (psychics) with them, and both Wolverine (metal skeleton and claws) and Colossus (metal everything) with them.  You don’t get more impaired than that against Magneto.  I’m sure HYDRA could have found a way.

Jul 19, 2015 204,810 notes
#guys #come on #magneto #winter soldier #x-men

starrr-prince:

onethingconstant:

agentnicdown:

  • Steve, Bucky, and Thor chilling after a battle, sharing some of Thor’s special brew because they’re the only ones who can handle it.
  • Thor setting the hammer on a table and grinning at Steve, Care for another try?
  • Steve shrugging good-naturedly and taking hold of the handle. Sure, why not.
  • Thor watching nervously while pretending not to be nervous.
  • Steve budging the hammer.
  • Thor LOLing.
  • It would seem that you are still simply unworthy, Captain.
  • Bucky snorting, tossing back the rest of his drink, and stepping up next to Steve. Are you kidding me? Move aside, Rogers.
  • Bucky grabbing the handle with his metal arm and pulling and pulling and glaring and looking to Steve.
  • Give me a hand.
  • That’s not how it works, Buck.
  • Just get over here, ya punk.
  • Steve grabbing hold just above Bucky’s clenched fist.
  • Thor LOLing in the background.
  • Bucky and Steve getting ready, Steve beginning with On the count of 3. 1, 2, 3–
  • And the hammer lifts off the table so easily that the two stumble back, shocked, hands still clasped one above the other.
  • Silence.
  • Bucky and Steve hold the hammer in the air and look at Thor in unison.
  • Thor stares wide-eyed.
  • Well, he begins after a few more moments, … if there are no pictures, it never happened.
  • Bucky yelling for Nat or Sam to get their butts in the room to take a photo before Thor can call the hammer back to him and growling Don’t let go Steve for fuck’s sake DON’T LET GO–

ACCEPTED SO HARD.

NEITHER of them thinks that they are worthy, but they both believe that the other is so their faith in one another balances it out

Jul 19, 2015 23,043 notes
#headcanon accepted #steve rogers #Bucky Barnes
Jul 19, 2015 171,871 notes
#bernie2016 #bernie sanders
Tips from orion

im-a-good-girl-i-am:

mauvieh:

cryztalgemz:

5t4rch1ld:

rniraclewhip:

fuchsiakind:

5t4rch1ld:

If you wake up one morning and you can’t move anything but your eyes DONT OPEN UR EYES

more info!;

- its called sleep paralysis 

- you will not be able to move or talk

- you will feel like there’s someone in the room with you

- you may hallucinate

- it is HORRIBLE

wiggle your tongue, it wakes you up. i get them a lot so yea

THHHAAAANNNKKKK YOUUUU

it is also said that wiggling your toes and moving your fingers can help regain your full mobility faster

also, when OP says “don’t open your eyes” it is serious, let me explain:

while asleep, your breathing is very different than while you’re awake, you are consuming way less energy, so you breathe less.

in sleep paralisys, the part of your brain that controls your conciousness and your senses will be awake, but the part that controls your body and lets you move will not.

with this decreased breathing rate, your concious part of the brain will believe you are having difficulty breathing because something is preventing you from, which can lead to a hallucination, which will probably show something you are very afraid of sitting on your chest or strangling you.

if this ever happens to you, wiggle your tongue, your toes, and your fingers, this will help you wake up, but even if it is the middle of the night you should not try an go back to sleep, because it could happen again.

to prevent them you can try sleepinng on your side and preventing having your arms above your head while falling asleep.

sleep paralisys is very scary, please stay safe, and when it all pases remember that it is not real, and that you’re ok.

THIS IS A MUST READ

I taught myself to wiggle my fingers… I always remember right before I panic

Jul 19, 2015 127,753 notes

fiercefatfeminist:

anti-fem-anti-stupid:

fiercefatfeminist:

Feminists don’t wanna live in a world without men, we want to live in a world without patriarchy and violent, toxic hyper-masculinity

So a world where men can’t be themselves.

Being violent and overly masculine is men “being themselves”? Sounds like you’re the one who wants to demonize men

Jul 19, 2015 272,330 notes

datneeks:

socialjusticeichigo:

shadowthorne:

mizushimo:

mauridianhallow:

fangirlingoverdemigods:

drtanner:

suicunesrider:

uneditededit:

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

Jul 19, 2015 829,504 notes
#today i have learned #jurassic park
Jul 19, 2015 160,299 notes
#headcanon accepted #stiles #teen wolf

chaotic-array:

lumos5001:

screaming-till-im-numb:

I want someone to write a book where Mermaids are the women thrown off ships when the sailors got afraid because having a woman on the boat is bad luck. And as they sink to the bottom, legs tied together, they change slowly until they can breathe, until they can use their tied up legs to swim. And they drown sailors in revenge, luring them in by singing in their husky voices still stinging from the salt water they breathed. 

someone please write this

“Please, don’t do this!” her voice comes out hoarse, cracked. The men leer at her, their gazes cold.

“Storm is comin’ now” the captain says. He is the worst, because in his eyes there is regret. Compassion. Pity. He doesn’t want to do it. Not like the others do. But that won’t stop him.

“Told your father a ship is no place for a girl,” he says. “Told ‘im to find another vessel, told ‘im to just keep you home, if e’ had ta. But did he listen? If you want someone to blame, miss, blame him. Tha ocean is cold, cold and cruel. And she ain’t gonna let us through this without payment, without a cost.”

The wind blows his gray hair back from his face, and he nods at one of the crewman - the one who’s eyes always linger on her for too long - and he steps forward and jabs Alice in the side with a paddle from one of the rowboats. She cries out, even though she doesn’t want to, even though she wants to scream instead, scream and curse the way a lady of her standing is never meant to do. She wants to curse them all to a watery grave and watch as they suffer.

She tries to move, tries to run past them, to break the rope binding her legs at the ankles through sheer power of will. She fails.

The crewman jabs at her again, and she spits at him. The glob of saliva hits him on the face, spittle clinging to his sun-tanned skin. His crewmates laugh.

Alice realizes her mistake too late.

His eyes darken, he steps forward - and he strikes her across the face with the paddle so hard she’s twisted around, so hard she sees black and careens of the gangplank and plummets to the dark, thrashing water below.

The captain was right: the sea is cold. Colder than any hell she’s ever imagined. Colder than the time she fell face first into a deep puddle on the street in the dead of winter. She feels the ice flood her mouth, fill her lungs, turn every vein and bone bitter blue with frost. She can’t breathe, can’t think, can’t move.

The water tosses her against the hull of the ship and she feels her skull crack against the worn wood. The world fades, and she begins to die…

She remembers the sea, through the darkness. Remembers tossing her friend Lydia into the waves at the beach, remembers their laughter as Lydia pulled her in as well. She remembers dunking her head under, feeling the rush of cold fill her up as she became lighter than she’d ever been, became part of the water.

‘The sea is cold,’ she remembers the captain saying. Yes, she thinks, but I am colder.

And the ocean? she realizes. The ocean is her sister.

She feels it filling her up, feels it caressing her body, enveloping her. Not killing her, but cradling her. A sister holding up her own blood, a mother, soothing her wailing child, kissing the hurt away. A goddess, hearing the prayers of her devoted believer, and answering them.

I have salt and seawater in my soul, Captain. I will show you how cold these waters can be.

She feels the edges of her body fading, feels herself stop being a me and become a we, become an us, become every drop of water and every clump of foam and every weed and every wave. Feels herself changing.

Her dress is pulled away by the waves, button by button, seam by seam. The sea strips her, soothes her skin. She feels herself swaying, feels her injuries healing. Feels herself become something more than a scared girl or a single spot of death in a pool of life, as her body flares like a fire, as her legs brush together, as they begin to fuse…

She feels herself heal, and she feels herself change.

When it is over, she is bare, but she feels no shame. Her tail twists in the water beneath her, swaying, more natural than her legs ever felt. Stronger, too. She runs her hand over the dark blue scales, the same shade as the surface in a storm. She feels herself smile.

Siren, she thinks, mermaid. Sister of the sea.

The captain was right; a ship is no place for a woman. This is the place for a woman.

And when she drags him screaming down into it, he will realize: the ocean may be cruel…but her sisters are worse.

Alice smiles again, and begins to swim after the ship fading into the distance.

Jul 19, 2015 407,545 notes
#shit #i need a novel #like now #mermaids

queenofnude:

if there is one piece of relationship advice i could give to women dating men, it’s this:

you’re not his mother. you don’t have to take his tantrums and walk him through basic shit. i know women are taught that they have to be nurturing and all that but it’s absolutely not your responsibility to “teach him to be a better person”.

Jul 19, 2015 385,110 notes
#THANK YOU #could have stood to hear this a year ago #two years ago

danverskate:

marvel studios is going through a moment where they could literally pick any character and make a successful movie if they wanted to. for fucks sake they made one about a team that not even most marvel comics fans really cared about, when no one was asking for a movie about them, a team that features a talking tree and a talking raccoon, and it had the fucking biggest box office of the year so far. stop giving me those weak ass excuses for the lack of female led movies

LOOK AT ALL THE TRUTH.

GIVE ME MY BLACK WIDOW MOVIE.

Jul 19, 2015 85,456 notes
#black widow movie #please #P L E A S E #natasha goddamn romanoff #also #Guardians of the Galaxy #sort of

sherpawhale:

Everybody who says feathered dinosaurs aren’t scary has never been chased by a goose.

Jul 19, 2015 33,737 notes
#geese #geese are evil incarnate #every midwesterner knows it

assetandmission:

goddessofidiocy:

[quietly breaks table] natasha romanoff is not a romantic prop to use interchangeably 

Jul 19, 2015 48,343 notes
#i will never stop reblogging this #natasha goddamn romanoff #and the travesty that was brucetasha #in aou

natasharommanoff:

info on the agents of shield vs agent carter dubsmash war from hayley atwell’s london comic con talk yesterday

hayley talked about how competitive she and james d'arcy got and how they were devastated when the shield cast did the video with clark gregg dressed as peggy. and then she said how james was basically like “well, there’s only one option. we have to fly to atlanta, we have to get chris evans involved”. so chris evans was texted, his response: “you guys are crazy. i love it, let’s do it”. so they just decided to fly to atlanta to enlist chris evans’ help.

hayley atwell and james d'arcy literally booked a last minute 5 hour trip to atlanta, just to film a 7 second video with chris evans, and then fly back again

Jul 19, 2015 28,177 notes
#oh my god i love it #hayley atwell #james d'arcy #chris evans #dubsmash war 2015
Notes on the Vuvalini Aesthetic

hauntedjaeger:

And by “aesthetic” I mean “what you need to wear to survive in a brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland”. 

1. MATERIAL

Contemporary retailers are full of lightweight knits and wafting synthetics. Be assured that these materials would not still be around 45 years after the end of civilization–they would fall apart under heavy wear. 

The Vuvalini favor thicker, durable fabric, such as military-weight canvas for their topmost, protective layers. In some cases their sleeves appear to be sweatshirt-style jersey. 

If you’re cosplaying, it will take a lot of wear and/or distressing to get new fabric to drape this way. One alternative is linen, which is suitably durable, but much less densely woven than most of the fabric onscreen. It will hang nicely right off the rack, and keep you cool. Plus it’s regaining enough popularity in more interesting cuts than the traditional tropical suit that you might even be able to find something Vuvalini-ready in a discount store. 

Jeans will work for Vuvalini pants, provided they are adequately distressed. Unnamed Vuvalini #4 wears cargo pants. 

Given that there have probably been no large animals in the Wasteland for some decades, they use very little leather. The pieces we do see are ragged edge cuts, like on the Valkyrie. 

One of the cleaner exceptions is Unnamed Vuvalini #4′s cowl: 

The top portion resembles an aviator cap, but it bells out and might even be attached to the part that covers her shoulders. 

There’s also Keeper’s suede vest:

By the same token there is very little wool, which is a shame because it regulates body temperature and keeps you quite cool once you sweat through it. It’s also easy to repair… provided you have more wool. I’ve only spotted it on Unnamed Vuvalini #2:

And the vest they gave Cheedo.

2. LAYERS

Layers, layers, layers! 

The least clothed we ever see one of the Vuvalini is Valkyrie at the tower; otherwise they’re positively bundled. They are all about coverage and protection, which adds up to probably at least three layers on each of them. A few of them do wear clearly detachable sleeves. 

3. ZIPPERS = NO. BUCKLES = YES!

Sand and zippers don’t mix. I haven’t spotted a single visible zipper on the Vuvalini. Instead, there are loads of buckles. 

So if nothing else, wear multiple belts over your top layer. Which brings us to…

4. ACCESSORIES 

Nearly everything the Vuvalini wear is in drab earthtones, but they squeeze in swatches of bright color and patterns in their accessories, like the woven pieces at UV4′s hips, Maadi’s headband, and UV3′s and Keeper’s scarves. And of course, the bikes–so much brocade! If you have a scrap of cloth that makes it look like your first priority after the fall of civilization was looting an antique store, find a way to attach it to you. Then go roll in the dirt.

Almost nothing the Vuvalini wear seems to be purely decorative; even UV4′s necklace looks like it might double as a flask. And of course any pieces would be handmade of readily available materials, or possibly passed down from one generation to the next. When in doubt, if your item would be significant to your character, wear it.

Get ye some goggles! I daresay no Mad Max cosplay is complete without a pair. They’re not limited to the Vuvalini either:

If you can’t find any you like for cheap, look for spice tins with glass lids (check World Market if you have one near you). Punch a hole in the side of each lid, wire them together, and wrap the whole shebang in leather. 

Everyone also has some form of wrist guard or wrapping. The Valkyrie has one full glove, probably for the purpose of doing zany shit like this:

Their boots are all calf-high, or else augmented with spats. 

5. MODIFY EVERYTHING

Seriously, everything. These ladies have been living in the desert for years, and they have modified and repaired their clothes numerous times. Check out the side panel on UV4′s vest:

The only visibly whole items they have were clearly packed away for a long time before they gave them to the Sisters:

There are lots of ways to modify store-bought items–look up creative mending to get ideas. 

And one more resource: this link has simple, easy-to-modify patterns for a leather cowl and spats!

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bonehandledknife:

This is part of an ongoing discussion about film theory and its execution Mad Max Fury Road. I’ve talked, at length, about how composition how it can objectify a body, how it doesn’t matter if the body is in motion, how Mad Max mostly avoids the objectification by use of center frame, how Golden Rule framing isn’t necessarily objectifying.

Additionally, here is post breaking down how composition, lighting, and blocking (actor position) systemically deemphasized the female body in the My Name Is Max scene.

But lets get to the most controversial scene in Mad Max in terms of feminist theory, the infamous Water scene. I’ve been frankly putting this off because if you get into the larger visual, narrative, and thematic context of this scene, this post will never end. This is even before delving into the the meta-context of genre and tropes. So I’ve decided to narrow the scope of this post down as far as I can in terms of pure composition and practical concerns. However, if you have meta on these topics, please let me know by ask or via reblog and I will add as a footnote below the cut-tag.

Let me first point out though that we have spent the few minutes prior to this scene with Max waking up from the sandstorm (having flashbacks), getting freaked out by the needle in his skin, and about to shoot a man’s wrist off to get free.

He then has another flashback, notice the sound effect, but the flashback is triggered by a very specific thing:

Girl’s voices. Like Glory. Like, say, voices he finds when he turns around the corner, of the Wives:

A note on why I use both Golden Rule and Rule of Thirds: The Golden Rule, while is more effective/precise is ridiculously hard to eyeball on-the-go and while filming moving images. Rule of Thirds is often ‘good enough.’ Film as a medium is not photography or painting, it’s a medium intent on capturing moving objects, and sometimes the demands of the shoot means that you end up with the ‘best try,’ especially if it’s an action shot containing either internal or external movement (ie. either in-camera objects moving or the view itself moving). What is more likely to be specifically composed are still shots, wide shots, or the beginning/ends of shots/pans.

Which you can see here. Look at how BOTH the Rule of Thirds and Golden Rule lines up with the landforms at the horizon. Look at how precisely the War Rig lands on the major diagonal.

Now look at what happens when the camera lands in it’s final position and the Wives come into focus:

Nothing lands on any of the 8 major sweetspots (the crosshairs of the Golden or the Third. The Dag’s back bent over the boltcutters is centerframed. And check out what falls on the horitzonal Golden:

The water. Angharad is bent over and covering her face, Toast’s head is blocking Capable’s chest. Look at that space between the vertical Third. It’s the chastity belt.

I am telling you right now that it would be easy as pie to take that belt and put it past the lower third where it wouldn’t be seen or to the far left. If they really hated it they could have told the people who erase wires in visual fx to erase the belts or to move them. It’s position is not an accident.

For some comparison here is some concept art of the scene (found in The Art of Mad Max Fury Road):

Even if they were more clothed, look at how more objectifying their poses are, how the butts are subtly (or not subtly) turned towards the viewer instead of slightly away from our gaze (compare Toast and Angharad to the two wives on the right in the art) and how Furiosa was supposed to have been freeing them, instead of the wives freeing themselves.

Here’s the full picture:

Notice the absence of the belts and the placement of the hose. Look at how Furiosa and the gun are on the Golden.

Let’s go further into the movie itself however. (warning, lots of pictures)

Keep reading

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welcometocaritas:

harblkun:

krazykitsune:

leupagus:

jaaaaaaaaaackfrost:

frostlands:

jaaaaaaaaaackfrost:

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 probably take something for that this shit is nasty to drink let alone have running through your body i’m setting up a doctor’s appointment for you”

“dude really you don’t have to just leave what the fu—”

“you disgust me here take these iron supplements”

“where did you even get th—”

“shut up and take your pills and dont forget your vitamin D”

“i’m going to check up on you weekly to make sure you’re taking them”

“that’s not necessary”

“maybe we should work on a dietary plan with foods rich in iron and other things for you”

“do you get this involved with all of your meals”

VAMPIREDUDE:
did u get the cookbook i orderd 4 u

ME:
Oh my god, first of all stop using text speak, you told me you were 278, second how did you know where I LIVED, third yes I got it.

VAMPIREDUDE:
heard onions were good 4 blood, eat lots

ME:
So you can have a tasty meal? I guess you’d rather I stay away from garlic, huh.

VAMPIREDUDE:
UR being v rude I just got u a present!!!

ME:
THE COOKBOOK IS CALLED “HOW TO TASTE DELICIOUS,” I AM CALLING THE COPS

#sounds like the begining of a beautiful friendship #gimme this sitcom

The Sun will go down eventually!

still a better love story than twilight

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primarybufferpanel:

lierdumoa:

calystarose:

quietgames:

Frustrated or triggered because of that one tag/ship/fic/author that keeps showing up while you browse ao3?  Here’s step-by-step guide to blacklisting à la tumblr savior on Archive of our Own.

Keep reading

@lierdumoa all tags are from OP *giggles*

Oh bless you and thank you.

Listed under: Things that make my fandom experience significantly more pleasant

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neverbat:

farorescourage:

kaplands:

we should talk more about how ‘macaroni’ in 18th century england was used to mean ‘fashionable’ because a bunch of rich young dudes went to italy and really liked the stuff there

language is weird

humans are weird

#’stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni’ #THAT USED TO CONFUSE ME SO MUCH WHEN I WAS LITTLE
it finally makes sense

WELL THAT’S ONE FUCKING LIFELONG MYSTERY SOLVED

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madhattressdelux:

Benefits of having OTPS that can double as brOTP:
Always together (platonic or romantic)
Nobody can deny they aren’t important to each other
Their fucking friendships are a precious thing
A good relationship
Communication comes relatively easy
Simple things can’t shake their unbreakable bro-ship

Cons:

Did you mean MAX ROCKATANSKY AND IMPERATOR FURIOSA.

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bopeep:

*has never been in a fight in my life* listen. i will beat ur ass

Me: *has never lost a fight in my life* Listen, I will beat your ass.

Them: *sees that I am five-nothing, curvy, and female* 

Them: Yeah, right.  

Them: *continues touching me*

Them: *freaks out when I almost break their wrist*

Me: Listen, I told you I would beat your ass.

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ravingliberal:

Other Sense7: Oh no! I need someone fucked up!

Wolfgang: Hello friends, I am here!

Other Sense7: No, no, like SERIOUSLY fucked up!

Sun: Hello friends, I am here!

Also:

Other Sense7: Oh no! I fucked up!

Wolfgang: Hello friends, I am here!

Other Sense7: No, no, like SERIOUSLY fucked up!

Sun: Hello friends, I am here! *beats up everyone*

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