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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:41:07 -0400

Deanery was the sword in the mother fucking darkness tonight!!!!
THE UNSULLIED FOR YOU DEANER’YS TARGARYEN YOU GO DEANERY’S TARGARYEN.
and ashes for asatapor slaver dude k bye.

ninja chipmunks united: therumpus: Jen: I think that there is a bias in the current literary...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:41:52 -0400

ninja chipmunks united: therumpus: Jen: I think that there is a bias in the current literary...:

therumpus:

Jen: I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male. Are we headed down some wrong road in the way we’re reading the novel now? Are we somehow using a lens where women lose their definition? You have to ask yourself…

Obscure Color Words

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:37:10 -0400

albicant: whitish; becoming white
amaranthine: immortal; undying; deep purple-red colour
aubergine: eggplant; a dark purple colour
azure: light or sky blue; the heraldic colour blue
celadon: pale green; pale green glazed pottery
cerulean: sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green
chartreuse: yellow-green colour
cinnabar: red crystalline mercuric sulfide pigment; deep red or scarlet colour
citrine: dark greenish-yellow
eburnean: of or like ivory; ivory-coloured
erythraean: reddish colour
flavescent: yellowish or turning yellow
greige: of a grey-beige colour
haematic: blood coloured
heliotrope: purplish hue; purplish-flowered plant; ancient sundial; signalling mirror
hoary: pale silver-grey colour; grey with age
isabelline: greyish yellow
jacinthe: orange colour
kermes: brilliant red colour; a red dye derived from insects
lovat: grey-green; blue-green
madder: red dye made from brazil wood; a reddish or red-orange colour
mauve: light bluish purple
mazarine: rich blue or reddish-blue colour
russet: reddish brown
sable: black; dark; of a black colour in heraldry
saffron: orange-yellow
sarcoline: flesh-coloured
smaragdine: emerald green
tilleul: pale yellowish-green
titian: red-gold, reddish brown
vermilion: bright red
violescent: tending toward violent
virid: green
viridian: chrome green
xanthic: yellow
zinnober: chrome green

Daernerys, Daefarys, Daewhereveryouareys: kitausu: 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:54:01 -0400

Daernerys, Daefarys, Daewhereveryouareys: kitausu: 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way...:

kitausu:

5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think

slephoto:

yvonneemilie:

divineirony:

To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the…

"Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:05:40 -0400

“Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses. Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what’s known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.”

- 3 Everyday Things That Drain Your Brain (via jointhewolves)

jtotheizzoe: How the Chinese and the Greeks viewed (pretty...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:58:33 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

How the Chinese and the Greeks viewed (pretty much) the same sky.

It’s pretty remarkable how differently two cultures can connect the same dots, don’t you think?

(maps via radical cartography)

tbhsad: BABY ON THE RIGHT

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:36:46 -0500

tbhsad:

BABY ON THE RIGHT

"I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it."

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:25:10 -0500

““I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.””

- Margaret Atwood (via kiddings)

greenpeniwrite: dracosredemption: So here you see two photos...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:38:13 -0500

greenpeniwrite:

dracosredemption:

So here you see two photos of Emma and Rupert displaying elegance and serenity—and then there’s Dan.

“I HAVE A FUCKING BRANCH ON FIRE! I’m not Daniel! I AM HARRY POTTER!”

i don’t know what makes me laugh more the comment or the photo.

I AM THE GOBLET OF FIRE!!

tyleroakley: Love takes you where you’ve never been before.

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:26:13 -0500

tyleroakley:

Love takes you where you’ve never been before.

"Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are often countered in..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:02:45 -0500

“

Criticisms about representations of gender (or race and other diversity) are often countered in fandom by sociological or scientific analyses attempting to explain why the inequality happens according to the internal logic of the fictional world. As though there is any real reason that anything happens in a story except that someone chose to write it that way.

Fiction is not Darwinian: It contains no impartial process of evolution that dispassionately produces the events of a fictional universe. Fiction is miraculously, fundamentally Creationist. When we make worlds, we become gods. And gods are responsible for the things they create, particularly when they create them in their own image.

”

- Laura Hudson writes about the shortage of women characters in Star Wars fore Wired.com in her article “Leia is not enough: Star Wars and the woman problem in Hollywood.”

“Science fiction in particular has always offered a vision of the world not myopically limited by the world as it exists, but liberated by the power of imagination. Perhaps more than any genre of storytelling, it has no excuse to exclude women for so-called practical reasons — especially when it has every reason to imagine a world where they are just as heroic, exceptional, and well-represented as men.”

(via racebending)

THIS IS A CORRECT THING

(via yourpalfriendpatine)

Your Pal Friendpatine: I Saw A Great Quote About This So Here Is An Inferior Article

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:58:35 -0500

Your Pal Friendpatine: I Saw A Great Quote About This So Here Is An Inferior Article:

yourpalfriendpatine:

I saw a quote by Laura Hudson earlier about the general bullshittery of, in particular, science fiction authors’ attempts to justify the absence of women in their books/films/etc. I write science fiction, and Laura Hudson is cool news, so I read the whole thing and lo, it was good.

At eighteen I

this!

I hope your kid has nightmares from "Beloved"

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:53:04 -0500

I hope your kid has nightmares from "Beloved":

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

thesoapboxist:

To Laura Murphy, the mother fighting to allow parents to opt their children out of reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved, due to its graphic content:

I’m glad Beloved gave your son nightmares.

You’re waging a campaign against Beloved’s “scenes of bestiality, gang rape and an infant’s gruesome murder”, content you believe is too intense for teenagers, after your son Blake reported having night terrors after reading the book. You wrote into theWashington Post todayto defend your efforts. You’re not a crazy book-burner, you say. You just want parents to have choices over whether their children are exposed to graphic content at school. Your son Blake is now a 19-year-old college freshman and he’s still disturbed about reading Beloved.

“It was disgusting and gross,” he says. “It was hard for me to handle. I gave up on it.”

Here’s the problem, Laura and Blake. Beloved is not disgusting and gross—it’s a beautifully-written novel. The content in Beloved is disgusting and gross, because slavery is disgusting and gross. Slavery is horrific, and Blake, I’m glad that having to spend a few hours in a book and imagining the horrors of slavery was such a visceral experience, it gave you nightmares.

That’s exactly why you should be reading this book.

I hope all the little white children of America have nightmares after reading Beloved. I hope they’re sickened when they imagine the treatment of slaves. I hope they’re disgusted when they think about the legacy of slavery in this country, how people are still suffering from it, how they benefit from all the bloodshed. I hope Blake Murphy remembers those nightmares when someone puts a gun in his hand and calls him officer, when someone puts a briefcase in his hand and calls him boss, when someone puts a gavel in his hand and calls him judge. I hope Blake Murphy will always be disturbed byBeloved. He should be.

The least your child can do, before growing up into his privileged white manhood, is spend a few hours between the covers of a book, imagining himself in the shoes of people struggling to recover from one of the most traumatic, violent, disturbing, and horrific eras of human history.

Because Laura, all the little black children of America have to learn to live with the legacy of slavery and its effects on their lives. We understand that slavery is disgusting and gross, hard for us to handle. But it’s not a book that we can put down and walk away from.

Happy birthday author Toni Morrison (February 18)

nothatsstupid: “One male poet approached me after a...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:30:24 -0500

nothatsstupid:

“One male poet approached me after a performance and said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but do you ever write about anything other than the struggles of women?” I replied, “I don’t mean to be rude, but take your finger off the trigger and I’ll stop.” After all, who among us ever wanted to speak about these things? What little girl dreams of growing up to write ‘rape poems?’ About violence? About the muffled voices of women worldwide?” -Andrea Gibson

No one ever asks men why they write books, movies, games, TV shows, laws, text books, entire genres of media (games) without any female input or any females at all. It’s only a problem when women do it.

iquitelikeitthatway: #i always hated scar when i was...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:29:17 -0500

iquitelikeitthatway:

#i always hated scar when i was little #but now i realize #i am scar

joshingtonbear: thismissatomicbomb: I love how Harry just...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:20:20 -0500

joshingtonbear:

thismissatomicbomb:

I love how Harry just genuinely likes Luna. Not in a romantic way, but in a “I don’t know how or why but I get you and you get me and I’d be honored to call you a friend and if anyone messes with you I’ll wallop them” kind of a way. I think he just marvels at her level of don’t give a fuck and her absolute sense of self. And then he and Ginny partially name their daughter after her (Lily Luna) and that to me is just fucking precious.

When I first read Order of the Phoenix, I thought these two would end up together. But I’m glad they didn’t. They’re so precious as friends.

Stick 'Em With the Pointy End: onlyfoolsandvikings: 123 Ideas for Character Flawsamandaonwriting:...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:19:06 -0500

Stick 'Em With the Pointy End: onlyfoolsandvikings: 123 Ideas for Character Flawsamandaonwriting:...:

onlyfoolsandvikings:

123 Ideas for Character Flaws

amandaonwriting:

Character Flaws

Absent-minded - Preoccupied to the extent of being unaware of one’s immediate surroundings. Abstracted, daydreaming, inattentive, oblivious, forgetful.

Abusive - Characterized by improper…

13 Photos From Taiwan’s First Same-Sex Buddhist Marriage Huang...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:38:14 -0500

13 Photos From Taiwan’s First Same-Sex Buddhist Marriage

Huang Mei-yu and Yu Ya-ting wed Saturday in a traditional Buddhist ceremony. Their union still isn’t recognized by the Taiwanese government, though support for gay marriage is mounting across Asia.

By Jessica Testa on Buzzfeed

Buddhist Master Shih Chao-hwei performed the ceremony, giving the women his full support: “I am certain you will lead a life of happiness together, especially after you have overcome so much difficulty and societal discrimination,” he said. “You have blessings not only from the Buddha, but also from those whom you may or may not know who are in attendance.

megg33k: laceyandthegreatpumpkin: alfredknot: Is it possible...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:33:27 -0500

megg33k:

laceyandthegreatpumpkin:

alfredknot:

Is it possible to be a fan of a fandom?

Reblog every time

I love this so fucking much

I’m not even in this fandom

youfeelsogoodimgoingtocry: ♡

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:37:59 -0500

youfeelsogoodimgoingtocry:

♡