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jenstansfield: smellslikegirlriot: Wonder Woman knows...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:02:26 -0400

jenstansfield:

smellslikegirlriot:

Wonder Woman knows what’s up.

I went into the Star Trek fanfiction archive on A03

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:15 -0400

I expected to come out shipping Spock/Kirk like burning.

Somehow, I came out shipping Kirk/Bones like burning.

I don’t know what happened

leonardsmccoy: she wears short skirts, i wear blue shirts, she’s cheer captain and damnit jim, i’m...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:54 -0400

leonardsmccoy:

she wears short skirts, i wear blue shirts, she’s cheer captain and damnit jim, i’m a doctor

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:53:46 -0400

PSA

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:51:19 -0400

stridersnakedtuesdays:

If you are a trans person and you
constantly pester another trans person about them needing to come out to someone else because IT’S HARD FOR YOU to keep things straight, and you do this every damn time you see or talk to them, then you are actively being a horrible person to them and you need to stop.

nsfwhumor: [via]

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:07:26 -0400

nsfwhumor:

[via]

herroyalcondesce: cheru8kind: x is that the guy from blues...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:41 -0400

herroyalcondesce:

cheru8kind:

x

is that the guy from blues clues?

omfg thats gavin

sansaofhousestark: arianne—martell: Every time I think of the black market, I actually imagine a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:56:55 -0400

sansaofhousestark:

arianne—martell:

Every time I think of the black market, I actually imagine a market, with little stalls selling illegal things like nuclear weapons and organs.

tine-o: maplewren: laughingalonewithklingon: Ok, this kind of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:55:52 -0400

tine-o:

maplewren:

laughingalonewithklingon:

Ok, this kind of breaks my heart, and I feel like it’s exemplary of something that I think is one of Hussie’s greatest strengths as a writer. Well, two things.

The first thing is that he has this incredibly strong grasp on the fact that for the people sad things are actually happening to, they are not dramatically resonant or bittersweet or poetic. They are just sad.

When Vriska and John meet in dream-bubbles, Vriska doesn’t consciously think about how heart-wrenching it is that, in death, she’s meeting the one person that she kind of tied her hopes of redemption to, only for him not to remember any of the stuff they shared that she remembers as meaningful. She’s just a little sad about it, and a little unsure, and trying to make the best of it all.

And just recently when Dave sees Dirk for the first time and we all went batshit trying to figure out what tender, tragic things might be going through his head, and then his reaction is basically “DO NOT WANT.” He’s not thinking about the godforsaken tragedy of it all, he’s thinking that he’s upset and wishes he wasn’t. Like real people do tend to react to stuff at first.

Which kind of brings me to the other thing I wanted to talk about. Which is that Hussie completely and totally gets that he doesn’t need to spell out what a character is feeling. He understands the power of audience empathy and he uses it to his advantage. When presented with an opportunity to make it crystal clear to us what a character is feeling, he will leave it vague almost every time.

And not only that, but when he does tell us how a character feels (as above) he keeps it general. He understands that he can tell us that WV feels sad, and we understand immediately that sad is a severe understatement of how WV must be feeling, without needing to be explicitly told. Hussie implies, rather than states, and he leaves it up to us to understand and imagine based on our comprehension of the characters involved and the situations they’re in.

What he expects of us is to fill in the blanks and flesh out the story with our own emotional reactions and with our empathy. He asks us to participate on an individual level in constructing the emotional resonance of the story, by embellishing it for ourselves as we go.

This is a good post because it lists the perfect examples that make Homestuck what it is: a story driven primarily on the reader’s emotions.

this is everything i have ever wanted to say about homestuck

callmekitto: internetfeet: People mistake ovulation and menstruation to be the same thing when in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:41:02 -0400

callmekitto:

internetfeet:

People mistake ovulation and menstruation to be the same thing when in fact they aren’t

Ovulation is when the eggs are saying “hello friends I am here”

And menstuation is when the eggs are saying “goodbye friends I am gone”

THIS EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE 40x BETTER THAN MY ENTIRE SEVENTH GRADE SEX ED CLASS.

solluxcoptier:

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:40:37 -0400

solluxcoptier:

"Gentlemen. This is what rape culture is like: Imagine you have a Rolex watch. Nice fancy Rolex, you..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:38:07 -0400

“

Gentlemen. This is what rape culture is like:

Imagine you have a Rolex watch. Nice fancy Rolex, you bought it because you like the way it looks and you wanted to treat yourself. And then you get beaten and mugged and your Rolex is stolen. So you go to the police. Only, instead of investigating the crime, the police want to know why you were wearing a Rolex instead of a regular watch. Have you ever given a Rolex to anyone else? Is it possible you wanted to be mugged? Why didn’t you wear long sleeves to cover up the Rolex if you didn’t want to be mugged?

And then after that, everywhere you go, there are constant jokes about stealing your Rolex. People you don’t even know whistle at your Rolex and make jokes about cutting your hand off to get it. The media doesn’t help either; it portrays people who wear Rolexes as flamboyant assholes who secretly just want someone to come along and take that Rolex off their hands. When damn, all you wanted was to wear a nice watch without getting harassed for it. When you complain that you are starting to feel unsafe, people laugh you off and say that you are too uptight. Never mind you got violently attacked for the crime of wearing a friggin time piece.

Imagining all that? It sucks, doesn’t it.

Now imagine you could never take the Rolex off.

”

- holy shit (via thelittlistprincess)

hetaliagirl104: swagito-komaeda: i did it. i finally defined...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:04:59 -0400

hetaliagirl104:

swagito-komaeda:

i did it. i finally defined tumblr dot com

This needs more notes.

damnromulans: “ I w a n t y o u t h e r e . ” #ok but...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:11:30 -0400

damnromulans:

“ _{^{I w a n t y o u t h e r e .}}”

#ok but this is actually a perfect quote to represent their relationship #jim kirk has been abandoned by just about everyone in his life #and he’ll get beaten to a bloody pulp before admitting that he needs someone #but now jim has bones and he can let himself need him #this aviophobic misanthrope will follow him into space and disease and darkness and silence #he’ll follow jim anywhere and jim can depend on it #star trek #xi #mckirk

whoreisawhoreisawinchester: iguanamouth: i think its funny how there are some actors who played a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:13:17 -0400

whoreisawhoreisawinchester:

iguanamouth:

i think its funny how there are some actors who played a role for so long that its almost impossible for me to see them as anything else

and then there are some actors who’ve done so many roles i dont even see them as actors anymore it’s just them as themselves in another movie

and then there are actors who you’re not quite sure what they really look like

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:47:52 -0400

This really isn't that difficult to grasp.

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:25:57 -0400

tzikeh:

1) Benedict Cumberbatch gave a phenomenal performance as Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek: Into Darkness.

2) The casting of a white man as Khan Noonien Singh in 2013 is HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC.

3) Both of these things can be true at the same time.

4) No, really; they can.

starxapple: the ships that i end up investing myself the most in are the ones where at first im...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:25:33 -0400

starxapple:

the ships that i end up investing myself the most in are the ones where at first im like, “meh i guess i can see that” and then somewhere along the line my brain just fucking snaps and i cant control myself its like a demons possessed me and im going 900mph to hell

kiskex: Distinguished sociologist Erving Goffman noted that...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:04:43 -0400

kiskex:

Distinguished sociologist Erving Goffman noted that women in photographs are often portrayed in compromising or submissive situations such as having the head turned upwards to expose the neck or in a contorted stances often with light self-touching. Such poses invite the gaze of the viewer and make the subject of the photograph seem vulnerable and exposed to sexualization.

anotherbeetle: psilentasincjelli: If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:34 -0400

anotherbeetle:

psilentasincjelli:

If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and I’m hallucinating plot points I haven’t written yet

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^