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rekkka: 1x06 // 3x08 suggested by khaleesiofthesouth

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:23:44 -0700

rekkka:

1x06 // 3x08 suggested by khaleesiofthesouth

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Thu, 23 May 2013 09:20:46 -0700

innerbohemienne: I await the summer bounty of figs with their...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:19:45 -0700

innerbohemienne:

I await the summer bounty of figs with their soft, honey-sweet flesh… which I will compete with the wasps and birds for.

bbeeaarreecccaa: “I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:38:49 -0700

bbeeaarreecccaa:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

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jhermann: jtotheizzoe: Meet Ronan, a 3-year-old sea lion that...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:37:30 -0700

jhermann:

jtotheizzoe:

Meet Ronan, a 3-year-old sea lion that loves disco and the Backstreet Boys, and is the first non-human mammal able to keep the beat to music.

Previously, birds like parrots (like this parrot, and this parrot, and this parrot, and these parrots) were the prime head-bobbers of nature. And it’s not tied to vocals, like the way that parrots mimic human speech (since sea lions don’t do that). It seems like rhythm is a natural part of biology.

So next time you move, feel the beat in your evolution, man.

(via The Two-Way : NPR)

Oh man, if you watch one animal video this afternoon it should probably be this sea lion jamming along to the Backstreet Boys.

forgotadaydream: Summer Wine: Lana Del Rey

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:24:22 -0700

forgotadaydream:

Summer Wine: Lana Del Rey

benedryl-pumpkinpatch: Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:22:15 -0700

benedryl-pumpkinpatch:

Butawhiteboy Cantbekhan

dotofink: A Lady among the Lions made as a gift for...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:19:43 -0700

dotofink:

A Lady among the Lions

made as a gift for heiligershadowfax//blatterburystreet

Sansa after her wedding with Tyrion.

Cersei Lannister partnered first Lord Redwyne, then Lord Rowan, and finally her own father, who danced with smooth unsmiling grace.

Sansa sat with her hands in her lap, watching how the queen moved and laughed and tossed her blonde curls. She charms them all, she thought dully. How I hate her. (ASoS p. 411)

grrrlfever: motivation behind misogyny: men maintaining power over women results of misogyny: rape,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:14:28 -0700

grrrlfever:

motivation behind misogyny:

men maintaining power over women

results of misogyny:

rape, abuse, murder, lower pay, less opportunities, general discrimination and loss of power, restrictive gender roles, and much, much more.

motivation behind misandry:

men as a group sure do a lot of bad things as a result of their gendered power and male privilege, im not sure that i trust them or even like them.

results of misandry:

hurt feelings

theniftyfifties: Guerlain lipstick advertisement, 1957

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:40:43 -0700

theniftyfifties:

Guerlain lipstick advertisement, 1957

Can We PLEASE Stop Using the Term "Slut Shaming?"

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:37:49 -0700

girlinfourcolors:

Like, we already had a word for it. It’s called “MISOGYNY.”

I just saw an article about “slut shaming” being written into middle-school dress codes, and all I can think is “COULD WE PLEASE NOT?” Like, these are middle-school girls. Must WE TOO label them with the term “slut” while claiming to have their backs? They hear that word enough from their peers, their teachers, and their parents. We don’t have to put it on them too.

They’re not being “shamed” for being “sluts” (whatever that word even means anymore). They’re being shamed for being GIRLS and young WOMEN, and the term “slut-shaming” just serves to further obfuscate the sexism and misogyny at play.

So about the so-called lack of boy stuff in YA

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:22:02 -0700

seananmcguire:

yaflash:

So I have a lot of feelings every single time I hear that people are “angry” or “annoyed” or whatever that they can’t find ONE SINGLE YA BOOK IN THE ENTIRE YA SECTION FOR BOYS TO READ and YOUNG MEN ARE FAILING BECAUSE GIRLS ARE TAKING OVER LITERATURE and HOW CAN BOYS POSSIBLY BE EXPECTED TO WANT TO TOUCH WHINY GIRLY CRAP WITH A TEN FOOT POLE?????

I have a few thoughts.

1) If you cannot find at least a handful of books in the YA section that might appeal to a teenage boy, you aren’t looking very hard. Maybe peruse this list of 140 titles that would appeal to teenage boys. Also, that list is from last year and similar books are being released every month.

2) LOLOLOLOLOL okay yeah young boys have absolutely nothing to read, you’re right. It’s not like you can walk into any library or bookstore and find that the majority of the books in it are about white men.

3) I resent the implication that a book with a female protagonist OR romantic element, no matter how slight, is a “girl book” unless it’s by some guy who gets really upset when anyone calls him a romance author because HIS BOOKS ARE NOT ROMANCES THEY ARE ~SERIOUS LITERATURE~ because the two are mutually exclusive. I also resent that we continue to encourage our boys to distance themselves vehemently and often violently from anything that could be considered even slightly non-masculine.

There is this thing people say: “My son/brother/I had nothing in the YA section to read! They/I had to go STRAIGHT FROM KID’S BOOKS TO LORD OF THE RINGS/WHEEL OF TIME/ENDER’S GAME/CATCHER IN THE RYE/ETC.!”

Wow. I mean, do you understand what a tragedy it is that these poor boys don’t even get to stop in the YA section and they are forced to go immediately to the thousands and thousands and thousands of fantasy and science fiction and ~real literature~ books that are about young white men coming of age and having adventures? Greatest tragedy of our generation, honestly.

I mean doesn’t anyone find it a little… odd? That the fantasy and sci-fi shelves are bursting with young 16-25 year old men who are doing lots of different things (including kissing/sexing ladies OH MY GOD ROMANCE???!!!!?!?!!?), and then the YA section is hanging out over here with lots of stories with VERY SIMILAR CONTENT (Kristin Cashore! Tamora Pierce! Beth Revis!), but everyone looks at those books and goes “Ugh, girl books, there’s no possible way a young man or even a smart girl could be into those?”

TAMORA PIERCE LITERALLY WRITES ABOUT KNIGHTS AND MAGIC AND FANTASY CREATURES AND WAR AND SASSY ANIMAL SIDEKICKS. She just writes about them from a *girl’s* perspective. Which means boys are physically incapable of reading it, I guess?

I just can’t wrap my brain around the fact that people do not get the irony in what they’re saying. They don’t even realize as the words are rolling off their tongue that YA is so female-centric because coming-of-age stories for young men have already been staples in the “real books” section for decades. Because being a young straight white man is universal, see, while being a girl is something that’s impossible to care about unless you’re both a girl and stupid. (COOL GIRLS read the boy stuff, duh!)

And even then, even then, there’s still plenty of boy-centric YA, too. Because there is no boy-free space, you guys. That’s the thing about privilege — you’re so used to being allowed in every space and have everyone accept you as the default that when you can’t immediately find something that’s obviously “for you,” you claim that it’s excluding you and that you must be included. You don’t even see that you can literally sidestep into another area that is catered exactly to you.

Honestly, to a point, this is not even the fault of young men. It is the fault of a society that continues to tell them that they’re the most important of all. Boys don’t start out believing that they can’t relate to girls, or that romance is sappy and beneath them. They’re not born with the idea that sex is a game or they’re “naturally” better at certain things. We feed them that. And we continue to feed it to them every time we huff about there being no “boy stuff” in YA, which is a flat-out, complete and total lie.

Of course, at a certain point they can reason on their own, and then it’s on them whether they’re willing to learn some empathy, just as it’s on any other privileged class.

There is so much more to this, like the fact that patriarchy often drips from those so-called “girl books,” even though they’re “for girls.” That publishers literally can’t afford to be idealists and they have to take society and money into consideration, and how much that sucks.

I have said this before, and I doubt I’ll stop saying it: if young men aren’t reading, it is not because of women and their stupid girl books. There are other elements at work here, because there has never and will never be a “lack” of books written by dudes for dudes. Please try again.

In the meantime, I might segue into the way we pish-posh “romance” and sex if it’s written by women, but that’s another post.

So much yes.

What’s a typical day in the life of Anna Kendrick?

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:08 -0700

What’s a typical day in the life of Anna Kendrick?

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Fri, 17 May 2013 12:19:14 -0700

dailypine: Chris Pine on The Ellen DeGeners Show 2013Ellen...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:35:41 -0700

dailypine:

Chris Pine on The Ellen DeGeners Show 2013
Ellen Tries to Make Chris Pine Cry

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:47:46 -0700

kaalashnikov: I have a few important things to say: Having a mental illness does not excuse you...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:55:43 -0700

kaalashnikov:

I have a few important things to say:

Having a mental illness does not excuse you from being an asshole, and it does not free you of the obligation to really apologize and make it up to a person when you have caused them harm.

You are allowed to terminate a friendship if a person’s mental illness is aggravating your own mental illness or personal issues and stressing you out.

This has nothing to do with ‘dropping a person once they become an inconvenience’, it’s literally not being able to handle a person anymore because their health issues are negatively affecting your health, and you are not obligated to put up with that.

You are permitted to remove toxic, stressful and abusive people from your life. Them being mentally ill does not make them not responsible for the bad things they do to you.

wutheringss: Film Noir (by Louise Ebel)

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:48:44 -0700

wutheringss:

Film Noir (by Louise Ebel)