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daftwithoneshoe: omfgcate: tennantscookiejar: littlebitofallon...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:52:44 -0700

omfgcate:

tennantscookiejar:

littlebitofallonsy:

Drinks for the Ambassador of Thrace. That was the last time anyone told me I was beautiful.

#when moffat creates paradoxes he fucks with your head #when rtd created paradoxes he fucked with your heart (via jedidoctor)

The saddest thing about Cassandra is that she literally creates herself.

In which RTD once again does paradoxes right.

The thing about Cassandra is that she seems so vain. All of the ridiculous lengths she goes to for the sake of beauty. But it isn’t until this scene that you understand, because it seems like she’s meeting herself for the sake of more vanity. But then she repeats to her younger self that she is beautiful and you see the look on her face change and that’s when you see, because you can tell from the flippant way she regards it the first time that people had been telling her she was beautiful her whole life, but when this strange person comes up to her and tells her with such heartfelt sincerity that she is beautiful, this was the only time which Cassandra believed it. The only time she actually felt beautiful.

bloodmothers: discoverynews: teamepiphany: Virtual...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:19:13 -0700

bloodmothers:

discoverynews:

teamepiphany:

Virtual supermarkets are popping up in subway stations in South Korea, where commuters can virtually shop for items while waiting for the train to come. Customers simply scan an item’s QR code using the free “Homeplus” app and can have it delivered to their doorstep before they even get home. Ranked as the 2nd most hard-working country in the world to Japan, South Korea is rewarding its workers with this timesaving gem.

Wow! I kinda love this idea.

:3c

fahrlightloki: I swear I don’t remember a thing…

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:18:06 -0700

fahrlightloki:

I swear I don’t remember a thing…

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Thu, 23 May 2013 23:12:12 -0700

pottofpeppers: i just really like playing neopets how’s the codestone sniping going?

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:34:28 -0700

pottofpeppers:

i just really like playing neopets

how’s the codestone sniping going?

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:29:48 -0700

foervraengd: The thing with a “main character”, is that the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:26:28 -0700

Adult eye-level

Childs eye-level

foervraengd:

The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 22:23:18 -0700

doublepines: eyyyyy i guess you could call this a scene from a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:21:48 -0700

doublepines:

eyyyyy

i guess you could call this a scene from a fic i’ll probably never write

yup good enough

"One of the strongest taboos in Vulcan culture is making uninvited physical contact. Even husbands..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:20:04 -0700

“One of the strongest taboos in Vulcan culture is making uninvited physical contact. Even husbands and wives often only touch each other with one or two fingers at most in day-to-day situations. Contact such as hand-holding, hugging or kissing is unknown in civilized Vulcan behavior.”

- (via first—officer—spock)

I am pawning my things off you should signal boost this to musicians ~

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:14:31 -0700

I am pawning my things off you should signal boost this to musicians ~:

Ibanez X Series Blue Electric Guitar *Good Condition* in Musical Instruments & Gear, Guitar, Electric | eBay

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:41:34 -0700

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

gettingahealthybody:

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement

boombangbing: A+X #8 → aka that comic that kind of made...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:29:38 -0700

boombangbing:

A+X #8 → aka that comic that kind of made arrows-and-duct-tape canon?

Hawkeye: You’ll have to stop me from murdering everyone
Deadpool: I most certainly will not.
—
Deadpool: In fact, you inspired me to craft my own trick arrows for this mission.
Hawkeye: Oh, that’s cool, man, Respect the trick arrow.

rose-on-the-mountain: ironfries: because i’ll always love...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:19:46 -0700

rose-on-the-mountain:

ironfries:

because i’ll always love you

slightly bigger version here shush i’m having a tony/robots otp moment

{Power@0.06%….}

{Running.programme[love]}

{programme.complete:power@0.000….

shutting.down}

thisismyoneroomdisco: adventurerscelebrationgathering: Tell...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:54 -0700

thisismyoneroomdisco:

adventurerscelebrationgathering:

Tell ‘em.

I dedicate this little number to all those who like to say Disney princesses are nothing but passive, submissive, and horrible role models.

Bless this post.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 20:34:48 -0700

skyrimscreens:

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:25 -0700

skyrimscreens:

mymindrebels: #that’s it #that’s the show

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:09:57 -0700

mymindrebels:

#that’s it #that’s the show

salmiakkivodka: If dudes are expected to have a lot of sex But ladies are expected to stay virgins...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:08:47 -0700

salmiakkivodka:

If dudes are expected to have a lot of sex

But ladies are expected to stay virgins until marriage

But homosexuality is bad

I’m really confused who dudes are supposed to be having all that sex with

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Thu, 23 May 2013 20:08:19 -0700