Euclase just answered an anon asking for her age by saying what element she’d be on the periodic table. So I looked up Gallium for the number (and therefore her age) and then, for more funsies, I started looking up other people’s ages and their elements. And then I started…
So I walked to the bank, and some rude person let the door shut in my face, but then this strange-looking, scrawny dude in a flame orange stocking hat, taped-together glasses and a rugged black beard with missing teeth held the door for me and said the most touchingly random thing anyone’s ever said to me—”They feel bad that their lives didn’t go the way everybody said when they were kids.”
My jaw dropped. Fucking dropped. I think I gave a nervous laugh before he walked away with an awkward limp.
And then I came on Tumblr, and I saw a post where someone was falling all over a celebrity for saying something much less amazing.
I might have met a real honest to goodness time lord at the bank, and he was wearing flannel and smelled funny and had black under his fingernails. Wish I’d celebrated him a little, for real. I didn’t even ask his name.
My jaw dropped. Fucking dropped. I think I gave a nervous laugh before he walked away with an awkward limp.
And then I came on Tumblr, and I saw a post where someone was falling all over a celebrity for saying something much less amazing.
I might have met a real honest to goodness time lord at the bank, and he was wearing flannel and smelled funny and had black under his fingernails. Wish I’d celebrated him a little, for real. I didn’t even ask his name.
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I’m (expletive deleted) starving.
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog) I think this is the key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem. (via killsmedead) |
that is the best telling of that story I have ever heard
Can we just, like, let Chris and Tom dress up, and re-enact all the old myths, just for the fun of it? I don’t mean awesome hint-dropping like they did here. I mean for real. That would make an awesome movie. Just an off-shoot “We did this for shit and giggles” sort of thing.
Yeah, someone should make that happen.
Wil Anderson <3
Hope this gets reblogged millions of times.
fuck I love this man.
Please test the interior temperature of the pie before attempting to have sex with it.
apparently the “mewling quim” line is still bringing the heat?
here’s my take on it:
- yes, calling a woman a “whining cunt” is bad and very problematic (it’s very good that people have recognized this!)
- no, the usage of the term in the film was not intended to “give men another foul name to call women!!”
I’m pretty sure the writer who ended up putting that line in did not do so with the intention of shaming women (same with Tom, by association of him being the one to deliver it) and I’m impressed that they did their homework enough to get an accurate medieval equivalent to today’s language .. not to mention the fact that they’re staying character-accurate because Loki’s a royal asshole who will tear into you with well-crafted insults regardless of your apparent gender.
::HEADDESK::
Really, people? Really? Oh, for fuck’s sakes. Yes, “mewling quim” is a completely foul thing to call a woman - it’s a vile insult in general, but it’s hateful in a particularly gendered way. But DID YOU NOT LISTEN TO THE REST OF THAT SPEECH? What part of it struck you as appropriate?
Look, I have Loki Feels like I cannot begin to tell you, but I am under no illusions about him being some big sweet misunderstood woobie. He isn’t. He’s a fiercely intelligent, PROFOUNDLY fucked up alien failboat who has embraced genocide against his own species (the Jotens) in an attempt to earn the love and admiration of his adopted father (who had raised him to believe that killing the shit out of ice giants was entirely admirable, but then turns around and reprimands him when Loki tries to excel in this sphere) and having failed in that he has decided to turn his skill set to WORLD DOMINATION.
Y’know, like Hitler, only switched up to eleven and with no sense that ANY of the puny humans belong to a master race, what with the master race consisting of Loki.
Yes, as a character I love the crap out of him because he is essentially a cat raised by big barky dogs, but I don’t lose sight of the fact that I am a mouse in this metaphor, and that Loki would eviscerate me as soon as look at me. He is completely messed up, and what compassion and gentleness he had has been thoroughly plastered over with bitterness and rage and pain, which he’s venting by hurting Thor’s beloved humans as much as he can.
Did you miss the part about 80 innocent people having died in 2 days before the Avengers stuffed him in the Hulk box? Did you miss the part where he was, in this scene, threatening to have Clint torture Natasha to death, “intimately”, in the belief that she was in love with him? Loki is, in this scene, absolutely pulls-no-punches hateful and terrifying. This is his “I am the badguy, you stupid ants” scene. And he really means it. He isn’t a fluffy bunny. He isn’t a role model. He’s the fucking VILLAIN. I
love the fact that Whedon managed to get “Mewling Quim” past the censors. It shocked me rigid when he came out with that insult, but it was completely appropriate to situation and character AND, Goddamnit, the whole point of that fucking scene is that Loki is completely and totally wrong in his assessment of Natasha. He’d assumed that Fury would try to torture him and then send Natasha along to try to sweet talk him into revealing himself; he completely underestimates her because of her gender as much as her race, and she plays him brilliantly. She tricks the trickster god. He is trying to terrify and browbeat her through the glass, despising and belittling her to make himself feel more powerful and important, and all the time she is manipulating him and drawing him out, like the consummate professional she is, to get him to reveal his hand.
When they’re making a movie about men they make a movie about lifting a house into the sky with balloons and traveling across the world, or about a lonely garbage robot with a heart of gold (so to speak.) When they’re making a movie about girls they make a movie about the…
I agree but I also think it’s those same characters that allow younger girls to be stronger. It’s sad to say that society is still in a period where girls need those characters to look up to be strong and make a change. Yes Pixar is always making movies about women realizing that they are strong and fighting for power, but if they don’t who will?
Girls today need to see strong female characters breaking gender roles. Idealistically we shouldn’t have to justify women being badass it should be inherent nature; but with media constantly blasting what it means to be the “perfect woman” we still need movies showing girls that they have to stand up for what they believe in.
Hopefully we’ll finally reach a point when that isn’t even a point that needs to be made anymore.
yeah I agree, I’m not mad at Pixar or anything, it’s just weird and shitty that in society today people still think that female characters are BREAKING THE MOULD by being strong and powerful and independent, and it’s depicted as a deviation from the norm. blergggh
My favourite sort of feedback on essays is when the marker is like ‘this is obviously a thoroughly well-researched piece’ and you didn’t research SHIT.
Equality in America
I think I make it pretty clear in my video today that I don’t understand why we’re even talking about this. I don’t understand the arguments of people who oppose gay marriage, and I’m usually pretty good at understanding people’s viewpoints.
The arguments are so silly and uninteresting that it’s hard to argue that there isn’t a deeper place where all of this is coming from. I think, in my quest, I’ve found some understanding that allows me a little bit of peace.
The world is complicated, and we like to think that we have tools with which to understand it. But it’s difficult to imagine understanding a world with no foundations. To a lot of people, I think, gender and sexual orientation are a big pillar of support for their understanding of the world.
I have mine, science, belief in the fundamental goodness of people, love of family, etc.
Other people have God and tradition and loyalty.
And so when I say something like “All people who love each other should be allowed to get married.” People who use God and tradition and gender roles as fundamental supports for their understanding of the world feel as if those supports are being attacked.
When people attack my fundamental supports, I also get angry. Like when people stop teaching science in schools because they see it as an attack on Christianity…that pisses me off. A lot.
So I can understand that. But being American isn’t about protecting your pilars of belief, it’s about supporting equality and freedom.
We are not asking straight people to get married to gay people. We’re not even asking them to hang out with gay people, or agree that homosexuality is OK. They’re perfectly welcome to believe whatever they want, as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of other Americans.
Legalizing gay marriage does not infringe upon anyone’s rights, making it illegal does. It’s that simple.
Legalizing gay marriage does not infringe upon anyone’s rights, making it illegal does. It’s that simple.
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What the ACTUAL FUCK????In case you’ve been wondering how we’re doing, generally, as a country:
An unidentified entrepreneur admits he is trying to profit off Trayvon Martin’s death by selling gun range targets featuring the teen who’s death has sparked a nationwide controversy.
Although Martin’s face does not appear on the paper targets, they feature a hoodie with crosshairs aimed at the chest. A bag of Skittles is tucked in the pocket and a hand is holding a can resembling iced tea.
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In an email exchange with reporter Mike DeForest, the seller wrote, “My main motivation was to make money off the controversy.”
The seller would not disclose how many paper targets had been made, but said in an email, “The response is overwhelming. I sold out in 2 days.”
Short video and full story here (HT: Mike Gruszczynski).
…. That’s just fucking disgusting.
Pixar
When they’re making a movie about men they make a movie about lifting a house into the sky with balloons and traveling across the world, or about a lonely garbage robot with a heart of gold (so to speak.) When they’re making a movie about girls they make a movie about the restrictions placed on girls, and how this one! special! girl! will fight the (other women) people enforcing these restrictions placed on her.
Pro-tip: when the only plot you’ll write for girls are about how they’re GIRLS! DID YOU NOTICE THEY’RE GIRLS!! LOOK IT’S A GIRL! (BUT NOT A ~~GIRLY-GIRL~~ DON’T WORRY) THE WORLD IS UNFAIR TO GIRLS BUT SOME OF THEM ARE PERFORMATIVELY MASCULINE AND THAT MAKES THEM COOL as a priority dominating the story about them as people and it comes off as feet-draggingly second-wave and smacking of tokenism even though she’s the chief protagonist, which is almost impressive.
this is interesting and I think I mostly agree. agh.
