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wafflesforstephanie: geth-metal: frostbackscat: Oh my god if...

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:21:22 +0100

geth-metal:

frostbackscat:

Oh my god if you’re going to judge someone’s cosplay you better learn your fucking shit because this is Duela Dent you goddamn assholes.

AHAHAHA

Perpetually laughing over the fact that “real gamer/comic book nerd” males keep insulting women for cosplaying things they’ve never even heard of

who’s the “fake geek” now, fuckers?

Make it viral

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:34:23 +0100

aplacetolovedogs: Cutest and smartest 7 month old Yorkie Misa...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:08:11 +0100

aplacetolovedogs:

Cutest and smartest 7 month old Yorkie Misa Minnie does some amazing tricks!

For more cute dogs and puppies

resurrectionlily: The Militant Baker’s Attractive & Fat...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:53:30 +0100

resurrectionlily:

The Militant Baker’s Attractive & Fat open letter to Mike Jeffries.

apparently my term of the week is 'reproductive futurism'

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:45:22 +0100

sapphoshands:

You know, when a character who is canonically ambivalent about becoming pregnant (potentially) develops ovarian cancer and the immediate responses are “oh no she’s never going to have kids,” it gets my hackles up. It’s particularly ironic given the recent furor over Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and how disgusting the responses that stated she no longer ‘counted’ as a woman were. Suggesting that Myka’s first and main concern is the potentiality of a child she may never have wanted, rather than what’s happening to her own body, reinforces outdated societal norms that prioritize the value of a woman based on her ability to breed heirs, not on anything she might herself accomplish.

This is actually one of the points I’m hoping to see the show tackle directly and why I’m intrigued by this storyline rather than entirely distraught. If I trust any show to handle it, it might be Warehouse. Is fertility likely to come up? Yeah - especially as it’s been a theme throughout the season, with Myka’s sister’s pregnancy. Do I think it’ll be the main consideration that’ll determine her treatment options? I sincerely hope not; Myka deserves better than that.

…I shall end this rantlet by pointing you to my favourite “what if Myka stayed pregnant” post-4.05 AU, The New Normal by cosmic_llin.

a.k.a. karen: Why Superman/Wonder Woman is the most patriarchal concept to ever exist at DC Comics

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:41:23 +0100

a.k.a. karen: Why Superman/Wonder Woman is the most patriarchal concept to ever exist at DC Comics :

therearecertainshadesoflimelight:

I’ve had multiple requests from people to make this post rebloggable. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure I was going to bother because continuing to talk about this is just so darn exhausting at this point. It’s very easy to feel like, “What’s the point?”…

"If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:19:50 +0100

““If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.””

- Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\

I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said

(via aragingquiet)

megaman2: “there’s nothing wrong with the video game...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:06:46 +0100

megaman2:

“there’s nothing wrong with the video game community”

thefingerfuckingfemalefury: ^ Actual favourite character in the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:01:42 +0100

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

^ Actual favourite character in the whole film :D

xactodreams: No, I couldn’t be happier. Though it is, I admit,...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:16:37 +0100

xactodreams:

No, I couldn’t be happier. Though it is, I admit, the tiniest bit unlike I anticipated. But I couldn’t be happier. Simply couldn’t be happier. Well - not “simply”…

#THE ONLY TIME IN THE WHOLE DAMN SHOW WE GET GALINDA’S GENUINE POV WITHOUT THE FACADE #AND IT’S A TINY LITTLE REFLECTION OF DISAPPOINTMENT HIDDEN IN A SONG ABOUT BEING GRATEFUL AND FULFILLED #she gets no sweeping solos about her feelings like Elphaba does #she just gets this. #and it’s perfect that way #I have a lot of feelings about the choices in Wicked

ds9vgrconfessions: Follow | Confess | Archive Even Ethan...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:09:00 +0100

ds9vgrconfessions:

Follow | Confess | Archive

Even Ethan Phillips remarks at conventions, “No like likes Neelix.”

Robert Picardo originally auditioned for the role of Neelix, but was passed over for Phillips before being offered The Doctor.

Obligatory addition of a link to cosmic-llin’s awesome Neelix vid!

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:01:50 +0100

"Listen, I think one of the things that’s real strange, and you see it for when I see it with my..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:58:00 +0100

“

Listen, I think one of the things that’s real strange, and you see it for when I see it with my kids, is that they have entire networks of communications and entire networks of sort of joining up with each other and talking that I think elude folks like me and older. I mean, I’m not on Tumblr every darn day. I’m not. I don’t have Instagram. I don’t get on any of these networks my kids are on. There’s all this movement and information that’s passing and that is sort of slipping past what we would call the mainstream radar.

My kids, my students, they understand that there’s these kind of two worlds. That there’s the official world, or the official world that they’ll go work and the official world where they’ll talk to adults. And in that official world, folks don’t talk about race. Folks don’t talk about rape. Folks don’t, you know, acknowledge how much young people are doing or what they’re doing. Folks don’t talk about how many gay folks are out there. Folks don’t talk about how Iowa’s got all these Mexican Americans living there. And then there’s the world that they live, on the ground, where they’re seeing all this stuff right up front. And I think a lot of what’s going on is that you’re getting communities that are becoming bilingual and speaking real speak (and real speak is the stuff that, you know, we can acknowledge is happening) and speaking the official speak. And in the official speak, we don’t acknowledge any of this stuff.

”

- Junot Diaz

Oh, Junot, LITTLE DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE ON TUMBLR

(via thebardofavon)

The more different ways of talking we have, the more opportunities we have to tell the truth.

(via sarahreesbrennan)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:56:39 +0100

stormcloaca: shi39: Finally after many years of eluding us the...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:54:54 +0100

stormcloaca:

shi39:

Finally after many years of eluding us the Giant Squid has finally been capture on video in its natural habitat.

Congratulation to Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera for being the first scientist to come face to face with this magnificent creature.

And Congratulation to the rest of the scientist who help made this fantastic moment in history possible.

fuck yeah

unicarna: You love her

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:54:08 +0100

unicarna:

You love her

onegirlinalltheworld: Dawn AU: “I didn’t realize that after...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:51:44 +0100

onegirlinalltheworld:

Dawn AU: “I didn’t realize that after Dad… I mean, you probably thought I was gone forever. But I’m always going to come back for you, okay?”

(requested by feelingsofthesecondarycharacters & sufficientlyobscure)

"For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:48:24 +0100

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For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.

Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.

In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.

Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.

”

- Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style” (via kpop-confessions)

T H A N K S

(via fuckme-bradtollman)

...and then they came for the trans* people.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:38:47 +0100

...and then they came for the trans* people.:

blackandwhitestriped:

themothking:

tooyoungforthelivingdead:

Transgender people in Greece are now being rounded up and detained in a continuation of the social cleansing of the “undesirables”.

FUCK.

THIS.

Pay attention. Pay attention. Pay attention. Pay attention.

“Under the pretense that of checking that the person is not involved in the sex industry trans people are being rounding up and arrested. Their details are taken and they are detained for several hours. On release they are warned that if they did not “return to normal” they would be arrested for public indecency.”

Absolutely terrifying. Please spread this around and make it known that this is happening, and there’s also a petition you can sign!

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:30:35 +0100