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

capnromanoff:

capnromanoff:

consider this: 

thor is always running into little kids who are thrilled to meet him - he doesn’t really understand the concept of signing autographs, but he starts carrying asgardian toys around in his pockets to give to kids he meets (much to shield’s chagrin - how are we supposed to keep alien tech under control when the god of thunder is giving out magnetic propulsion toys to five-year-olds?) 

but one day, he meets this girl who’s nine, maybe ten, and she runs up to him all misty-eyed and immediately asks him if he knows jane foster

and her mother’s embarrassed because “honey, that’s thor, aren’t you excited to see thor?” but the girl just explains that she wants to be a scientist when she grows up, and that jane foster is the astrophysicist (she pronounces the word carefully, as if she’s been practicing) who found out how the rainbow bridge worked - isn’t that so cool? she read about it in kids discover and they watched a documentary in school and dr. foster was in it and it made her think that maybe because she likes planets so much she could be a scientist, too 

and thor smiles broadly and tells her that wanting to be a scientist is a noble dream, and he says “if your mother would be willing, i could introduce you” 

and that’s how jane foster ends up with a tiny science geek in pigtails trailing around behind her in her lab, asking how everything works. jane can’t really comprehend the fact that a kid would want to meet her, but she likes explaining things and she looks at this girl and can’t help seeing herself. thor is just fucking delighted because to him the idea of jane being a child’s hero makes perfect sense, why wouldn’t it? she’s jane

and years later the girl grows up to be an astrophysicist or an astronaut or an aerospace engineer and she never forgets the time that dr. jane foster knelt down beside her and said, don’t let anybody stop you from chasing the stars, if that’s what you want 

jane foster inspiring girls in science, y/y 

I’m really glad that one of my most popular posts on this site is one that I’m genuinely happy with

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A Thing that I keep thinking about off and on

bonehandledknife:

bonehandledknife:

If trees are so rare in the Wasteland that Nux completely doesn’t have a name for one, not even a made up name…

Toast keeps chewing on a toothpick I mean, can we just. It’s made of wood, I presume?

I mean, she’s basically chewing on the wasteland equivalent of gold. 

Just.

I mean also: white cloth? In the Wasteland? White???

Miller might as well have dressed them in diamonds.

And by this I mean I want a Transporter AU or maybe a mafia AU and that I see all these family aus, but I never see addressed the fact that these girls come from wealth and they’re returning to wealth.

thanks-for-the-scarf:

cecisghost:

the whole “why do girls travel in packs when they go to the bathroom lol” joke gets a lot less funny when you realize that it’s because we’ve had it etched and engraved into our minds since our parents first started dropping us off at the movies or at the mall that we absolutely always need to stick together with our girlfriends no matter what, even when we go to the bathroom, because the bigger the group we were in, the smaller the chances were of us being harassed or abducted by creepy older men in public. 

I’ve started to think about this a lot. Like I think it’s almost instinctual for girls to go to the bathroom together for SAFETY. Not because we’re “silly girls lol”

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dukeofbookingham:

I know I run a book blog so maybe this isn’t the right platform for this, but girls: Please look out for other girls. Tonight I was stuck at a bus stop in Shoreditch circa 2 AM and saw another young woman getting harassed by a drunk, aggressive dude, and at first I thought, “She’s got it under control.” But then he started touching her and I went “No, that’s definitely not right.” So I barged over and shoved him out of the way and said, “Beth?? Oh my God, how are you, I haven’t seen you since grade school!” And this girl I’d never seen before in my life threw her arms around my neck and whispered, “You are an angel, thank God.” We talked for fifteen minutes, the creep lost interest, I watched her get on the bus and I will sleep so much better knowing she got home in one piece. If you see something weird happening, intervene. The worst that can happen is embarrassment, and I think that’s worth the risk when you consider the alternative.

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Anonymous asked: In your opinion, does the Harry Potter series have literary merits?

dukeofbookingham:

Absolutely. Setting aside the obvious fact that it got a whole generation of kids reading and made intellectualism cool to them and gave young girls positive female role models while also gently introducing them to the idea that the world isn’t black and white, studies have also shown that kids who grew up reading Harry Potter are more tolerant and compassionate individuals. JKR used things like house elves and werewolves and giants and Death Eaters to show kids why discrimination and bigotry are fucked up. Hell yeah. HP has so much merit. Honestly like how you could argue that it doesn’t, I have no idea.

your fave is problematic: mako mor-

liberty-flight:

3fluffies:

patrickwsawyer:

3fluffies:

rubertkazinsky:

[raleigh becket bursts in] exCUSE ME, WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT RHEFCK, CHUCK HOLD MY POODLE, *grabs baseball bat* WHAT TRHE FUCK-?

[Stacker Pentecost walks in] That’s quite enough, Mr. Becket. [calmly removes jacket]. Hold this for me.

[Kaidanovskys watch, smirking and eating popcorn]

[The triplets wait at the edge of the scene, waiting for their turn…]

[Tendo elbows past the others with a camera]

[Mako sighing in the background]

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teacupsandcyanide:

do you think after Ron and Hermione got out of the trapdoor and raised the alarm and were being patched up in the hospital wing

do you think they were given the most royal proud mama smackdown by McGonagall like “ how DARE you infiltrate a death maze you are ELEVEN and miss granger how on earth did you solve my chessboard i”

and hermione interjected like “oh professor it wasn’t me. i’m useless at chess. it was ron.”

and McGonagall turned to look at Ron Weasley in total amazement at this 11 yr old kid who had been pretty ordinary in all her classes but had apparently beaten her in death chess and he just shrugged like “rookie mistakes, professor. you made some rookie mistakes.”

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asphodel-grimoire:

doe-eyed-harpy:

winebrightruby:

@asphodel-grimoire on the subject of sister feels: Athena and Artemis

1) Totally got shouted at a lot by Demeter when Persephone skipped town because YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WATCHING HER and I EXPECTED BETTER FROM YOU and YOU TWO ACT LIKE YOU’RE GROWNUPS HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN and at first Athena is trying to reason with her (Athena gets angry in a cold fashion) and Artemis crosses her arms and scowls more and more intently (Artemis gets angry in a murder-everyone fashion), but by the end of it they are just so tired of hearing Demeter’s voice that they basically walk away with her still scowling behind them. They lay very, very low for the next few days.

2) They were picking flowers with Persephone. The goddess of war, aegis-bearer, helmed and spear-wielding, was out picking violets and roses and idk braiding them into flower crowns for the goddess of wild animals, huntress, death to maidens and mothers alike. Like. Can we process that.

3) tbh Athena probably likes spending time with Artemis and her nymphs because it’s practically the only place that no one acts shocked over a) her weapons or b) her femininity or especially c) the fact that she is both at once. Like I realize Athena is remarkably unfeminine in terms of her own actions and presentation, but it seems plausible to me that she finds a unique relaxation in the company of the other warrior goddess, especially her sister who chose to embrace her gender while also demanding the destructive capabilities of her twin brother. There’s so much to explore here! Artemis doesn’t act faux-shocked for laughs when Athena carefully brushes out her hair before pinning it meticulously into place. “omg you brush your hair?? I would’ve thought you’d chopped it all off by now! wow it’s almost like you’re a girl!!!!” – that is not a thing Artemis does to her. There are no mutters about ball-busting during her weapon drills. There is only the total acceptance of every part of her, and the uncomplicated warm friendship of other goddesses. Because you cannot tell me the nymphs in Artemis’ retinue don’t dote on Athena like an adopted older sister.

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letsgostealafandom:

So, here is the thing. I don’t believe that Parker has a plan M. She doesn’t have a plan C, an NOPQ. Parker has her plans, and yeah, they’re basically labeled the same as Nate’s were, but there’s not a single one in which Hardison dies.

But here is the other thing, and that is: Parker has contingency plans and backup plans and backup plans for her backup plans for her backup plans, but she doesn’t have a plan B. Or a plan F through L. There’s no Z, or A prime, or anything that allows for Eliot dying. And there is, especially, no plan where Eliot dies so that Hardison lives. I just don’t buy it.

Once Parker discovered what family – real family – is, she grabbed onto it with both hands and will never, ever let go. They’d have to pry it out of her dead, bloody fists before she’d let it go, and that doesn’t only include Hardison. Her family’s not one person big. Eliot is not somehow less than because they’re not fucking him (yet), or because Hardison came first, or because Eliot’d understand being sacrificed.

(Eliot just assumes that there’s a whole bevy of plans where he dies for them, where his dying day comes so long before theirs he’s barely a blip on their radar. Eliot is wrong.)

There’s no plan where people die, because Parker is not Nate v2.0. Parker is not playing a giant game of chess, where what’s most important – important beyond everything else by far – is the win. Parker is better because she knows when to lose. She knows when to walk away and try again some other time, when to fold and let down the people they’re trying to help because nothing, nothing, is as important as keeping her family alive and with her.

And, you know, maybe that actually makes her worse than Nate. Maybe it means that they’re doing less good, now that it’s her in charge, because she can’t bring herself to look at Eliot, to look at Hardison, and think “tomorrow you might not be here”. But she also can’t bring herself to care.

So, yeah, I just can’t buy Parker as Nate v2.0, or Nate Lite. I can’t buy her being willing to lose anyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯