Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

justastormie:

seriousjones:

hartfairyprincess:

seriousjones:

themarinestarringjohncena:

I love sincerely arguing over citation formats. On that note APA format is absolutely the best and easiest.

enjoy making a cover page for your fucking 2-page paper while i’m over here with the superior MLA format (Magnificent, Logical, Astonishing format) eating up multiple lines on the front page to bump up my page count. MLA is not only the most efficient, it is the most environmentally responsible option. the earth is dying and my grandchildren will know that it wasn’t my fault

Y'all can go eat a shoe.

Chicago is where it’s at.

Chicago ruined citations more than they ruined pizza

i’m sorry you can’t handle the depth of our pizza or the superior style of our footnotes. who needs a four line heading to bump up your page count when you can take up the entire page with a speculative footnote that boils down to i actually don’t really know what the answer is to this, somebody should work on that but i wrote this at three am so it ain’t gonna be me. 

like your pizza, your APA is cheap, easy and slides by tests of academic rigor like the greasy cardboard crap that it is. 

chicago pizza and style adapt to whatever your toppings and academic needs are, while after putting cheese and sausage, or sources with any depth from further back than the first three results on a google search, on your MLA and APA shit folds like burnt fucking wax paper.

chicago style. real research. real academia. REAL PIZZA. 

(Source: cimerie, via notbecauseofvictories)

currentlyacceptingcuddles:

I like how Bethesda manages to be more progressive than most of the games industry by doing as little work as possible.

Unnamed npcs like bandits are randomly assembled from the available body features, which inadvertently leads to more balanced gender and race representation, because every physical attribute has an equal chance to be chosen. In Skyrim, marriageable npcs are marriageable no matter what the player is, because having a single “marriageable” box to tick when coding npcs is easier than having to check for multiple variables like race and gender in the player.

No one in any bethesda game will treat you any differently or even speak differently other than “he” or “she”, and even then a lot of dialogue uses “they” or your characters titles rather than your pronouns to save dialogue lines.

It is literally less work to just represent everybody equally. The next time a game dev tries to say they don’t have the resources to include more diverse representation, you push that shit back at them because that shit is bullshit.

(Source: pinkprincessrei, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)

1918: Court Refuses to Fine Woman in Man’s Attire

allgreymatters:

klavier-gavin:

crumblingpages:

“St. Louis, Mo., Dec 14.– Ruling that male attire was not unbecoming to Mrs. Mary Bertha Schmidt, alias ‘Mister Schmidt,’ judge Hogan, in police court here, refused to fine the young woman who for two years posed as a man and who ‘married’ her cousin, Anna Assade, last October. 

‘I think you look very nice,’ said the court. Mrs. Schmidt was clad in her neatly pressed trousers and pinchback coat. She explained she had adopted the garments because she could earn $80 a month as a man and $6 a week as a woman. 

‘If a woman can earn $4 a day by reason of wearing trousers, I say wear ‘em,’ said the court, and ‘Mister Schmidt’ walked out of court with a smile on ‘his’ face.”

~From El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.), December 14, 1918

‘I think you look very nice,’ said the court. 

Wtf. The cutest verdict ever passed.

She explained she had adopted the garments because she could earn $80 a month as a man and $6 a week as a woman. 

actress4evr:

constantine-spiritworker:

its-thedinosaurman:

staying-happily-high:

butterscotchwm:

notnights:

soloontherocks:

my favorite side effect warning is for antidepressants

pros: you won’t want to kill yourself

cons: you might want to kill yourself

Back when I was in a psychiatric hospital, and was offered antidepressants, my mother had declined them due to that apparent side effect. So the staff actually explained about this effect antidepressants have, that give reason to that warning.
When first taking antidepressants they raise up your energy first. So that you have the energy to do the tasks you might have avoided doing due to your depression.
Because of this those who were already suicidal, now have the energy to go do so. Which is the ones this warning is given for.
It’s not that a side effect of antidepressants magically makes you want to kill yourself, it’s the energy it gives those who were already struggling with suicidal issues, to actually attempt the act.

Very informative…

Wow. I’m so glad you explained that. Now I understand

My high school choir/psych teacher actually told is about this. She also said if you have a suicidal friend who starts seeming like they might be getting better because they have more energy, that’s the time to be cautious because that’s when they may still be suicidal but they’ll actually have the energy to go through with it

THIS. a thousand times THIS. I had it explained to me in my AP psychology class in high school. super fucking important.

College psych classes say the same thing. Suicidal people are at the most risk as they begin to come out of their depression because of rises in energy/motivation. And if they have bipolar depression and get mixed state episodes (not terribly common, but it’s getting both depressed and manic at the same time,) that’s also a really risky time, for similar reasons.

(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)

penfairy:

belleandthetardis:

penfairy:

In ancient Rome, pants were considered effeminate. Only dirty barbarians wore pants. A good Roman male was expected to keep a breeze on his privates at all times. Also, women couldn’t wear togas. If you saw a woman wearing a toga, it meant she was a prostitute.

History side of tumblr: verify please?

*Bursts through the door* You rang?

I should probably clarify I mean trousers, not underpants, for all you folks of the British persuasion out there. Romans didn’t have undies as we do, but they did have loincloths. Generally they just let it all hang out, though. Wearing leg wraps or thick loincloths was a sign of old age or weakness. Think of high school boys today who wear shorts in winter to prove their toughness; it was the same for Romans.

Trousers were despised in ancient Rome because they were worn by barbarian Germanic tribespeople. In iconography that depicts Germans, they are shown with wild hair, long beards and pants to distinguish them from the good, civilised, neatly-shaven toga-wearing Romans. Just look at those filthy barbarians. In trousers! So unlike us masculine Roman men. #judgingyou

Wearing pants in Rome was a big no-no. A good Roman citizen simply wouldn’t wear pants, and they were banned from the Senate, Forum and Circus, so any Gallo-Germanic representative from the provinces had to change into Roman dress before he would be admitted.

Slaves and non-citizens still wore them, but freeborn Romans attached enormous prejudice to trousers. Inevitably, however, they became popular among lower classes until, in the lead up to the sack of Rome by the Goths, strong anti-Germanic sentiment against barbarian invaders led to Emperor Honorius banning pants in Rome. That’s right, trousers were banned. (Codex Theodosianus 14.10.2-3, tr. C. Pharr, “The Theodosian Code,” p. 415)

This site here should give you a quick run down on the basics of Roman dress. Togas were for men, and women wore long flowy dresses called stola that covered everything down to their feet. There’s a hilarious poem by Ovid where he talks about getting off on seeing a girl’s ankles; that’s how modestly they dressed (Amores, Book 3, Elegy II). The stola also came with a headscarf attached. Women were expected to cover their hair when they went out, which means dress standards for women were not unlike the dress codes of some Muslim countries today. Wearing the stola with the headscarf up says “back off boys. I’m a respectable Roman lady. Go find someone else to annoy.” can’t touch dis

Prostitutes, of course, need to send out the opposite message, and the simplest way to do that was by cross-dressing. If a Roman man walked down the street and saw a group of girls wearing men’s clothing and scandalously showing off their legs, he’d know instantly they were lupae, she-wolves; what we might call ‘ladies of the night’. In law, prostitutes actually came to be denied the privilege of the stola so that at all times they would be marked as meretrices. Prostitutes were also known to cut their hair short and dye them fantastic colours to further advertise their availability. This site should give you further information; it’s got some great quotes from source texts too.

(via bronzedragon)