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the-fate-of-the-bbc: stalkingdeerwithadeathfrisbee: PRESS...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 09:06:42 -0400

stalkingdeerwithadeathfrisbee:

PRESS PLAY AND PLACE YOUR CURSOR ON IT

IT’S NOT EVEN A VIDEO HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT WORK

AWSOME

mumblingsage: kawabiala: vintagegal: “La Belle Dame sans...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:18:24 -0400

mumblingsage:

kawabiala:

vintagegal:

“La Belle Dame sans Merci” by Frank Dicksee, 1902

This picture is fascinating to me because of its portrayal of a powerful female character who doesn’t fall into any of the typical modern ‘Strong Female Character’ cliches.

The woman is the powerful, sexually assertive and threatening figure here, while the man is the more passive figure, visibly vulnerable to her. However, this portrayal of a woman as assertive and powerful doesn’t rely either on sexualizing her or on presenting that power in masculine ways.

This Belle Dame is traditionally feminine, drawn in flowing lines and curves. She is sexually assertive but not sexualized. The man is armed, masculine, stiff and drawn in straight, square lines - all stereotypically masculine, but his body language and expression make it obvious that he is the submissive and less powerful party here. His vulnerability is not expressed by de-masculinizing him, just as her power is not shown by making her any less feminine.

Some modern artists could stand to take lessons from Mr Dicksee.

The way her small hands grip that warhorse’s reins with such perfect strength and control never ceases to amaze me.

minion-with-a-shotgun: zookimer: iamtonysexual: spookyholmes: ...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:10:46 -0400

minion-with-a-shotgun:

zookimer:

iamtonysexual:

spookyholmes:

donricci:

hearthewolfhowl:

antiherozero:

jim-is-fabby:

t

satanhasclaimedthisblog:

tulililli:

missl0nelyhearts:

Fun fact: If you are male and under the age of fifty and wearing one of these outfits, I will willingly have sex with you. Not even sure you need to be male.

Completely sure that you don’t need to be male.

#if my boyfriend turned up to my house wearing any one of these he wouldnt be wearing it for long #sweet jesus

Fucking hell yes

If someone showed up at my house wearing one of these they wouldn’t be wearing it for long, or ever again, because I would take it off of them so that I could wear it.

You don’t even need to be human….really….just….

For all you dudes (or not dudes?) looking to nab a tumblr-lady (or dude?) of your own

Here’s where you can get your swag at maximum capacity

Same site I got this coat actually

MMPH.

not sure if want guy or want jacket or want both very confused here

Both.

Spiffy as hell.

jinglebellpanties: doublejoeseven: neko-shadow: ow ow owowowow...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:04:24 -0400

jinglebellpanties:

doublejoeseven:

neko-shadow:

ow

ow

owowowowow

puns hurt

Puns are glorious.

This is wonderful

I figure this is a pretty universal theme. I think people should...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:05:49 -0500

I figure this is a pretty universal theme. I think people should strive to find the balance between short and long term happiness. The world would be less stressful :)

charlesmarker: thedreadpoetroberts: thesunflowerparadox: Tears...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:49:54 -0400

charlesmarker:

thedreadpoetroberts:

thesunflowerparadox:

Tears.

THATS SUZIE IN THE BED! thats why she has mr bun! a;jd;lfkjsd;lfkjd;lkfjdf<3

Please say there are more of these!

HOW!?!? I want to know!

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:34:14 -0400

HOW!?!? I want to know!

FTW

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:34:00 -0400

FTW

omgthatdress: thedailywhat: On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:33:33 -0400

omgthatdress:

thedailywhat:

On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember “change your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuse”?), but you clearly won’t stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:

Stop sending me that video.

The organization behind Kony 2012 — Invisible Children Inc. — is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called ”misleading,” “naive,” and “dangerous” by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of “manipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.” They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureau’s standards.

Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they won’t let their financials be independently audited. That’s not a good thing. In fact, it’s a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money you’re sending them is going.

By IC’s own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) — which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many can’t seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone they’ve ever known.

And as far as what they do with that money:

The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. Here’s a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.

Let’s not get our lines crossed: The Lord’s Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Uganda’s decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.

The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and it’s likely he will soon be caught, if he isn’t already dead. But killing Kony won’t fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didn’t end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is “a relatively small player in all of this — as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.”

Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africa’s woes on Kony — even as a starting point — will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.

Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the region’s medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.

Here are just a few of those charities. They all have a sparkling four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and, more importantly, no interest in airdropping American troops armed to the teeth into the middle of a multi-nation tribal war to help one madman catch another.

The bottom line is, research your causes thoroughly. Don’t just forward a random video to a stranger because a mass murderer makes a five-year-old “sad.” Learn a little bit about the complexities of the region’s ongoing strife before advocating for direct military intervention.

There is no black and white in the world. And going about solving important problems like there is just serves to make all those equally troubling shades of gray invisible.

[kony2012.]

Thank you, The Daily What, for your reason!

rebel6: Don’t worry, I have it covered by Therese Larsson

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:34:50 -0500

rebel6:

Don’t worry, I have it covered

by Therese Larsson

Photo

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:42:32 -0500

cruiseowwe: nerdy && baby owls.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:41:47 -0500

cruiseowwe:

nerdy && baby owls.

vaydra: Eridan no stopyou’re doing it wrong

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:32:51 -0500

vaydra:

Eridan no stop
you’re doing it wrong

askcharliefoxtrot: It’s not my fault, that clearly wasn’t the...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:13:18 -0500

askcharliefoxtrot:

It’s not my fault, that clearly wasn’t the right kind of music for dancing.

go-getter-guy: Mister Rogers and the Dalai Lama 15 Reasons...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:00:14 -0500

go-getter-guy:

Mister Rogers and the Dalai Lama

15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

1. Even Koko the Gorilla Loved Him

Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American Sign Language, and understand about 2000 in English. What most people don’t know, however, is that Koko was an avid Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fan. As Esquire reported, when Fred Rogers took a trip out to meet Koko for his show, not only did she immediately wrap her arms around him and embrace him, she did what she’d always seen him do onscreen: she proceeded to take his shoes off!

2. He Made Thieves Think Twice

According to a TV Guide profile, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

3. He Watched His Figure to the Pound

In covering Rogers’ daily routine (waking up at 5; praying for a few hours for all of his friends and family; studying; writing, making calls and reaching out to every fan who took the time to write him; going for a morning swim; getting on a scale; then really starting his day), writer Tom Junod explained that Mr. Rogers weighed in at exactly 143 pounds every day for the last 30 years of his life. He didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, didn’t eat the flesh of any animals, and was extremely disciplined in his daily routine. And while I’m not sure if any of that was because he’d mostly grown up a chubby, single child, Junod points out that Rogers found beauty in the number 143. According to the piece, Rogers came “to see that number as a gift… because, as he says, “the number 143 means ‘I love you.’ It takes one letter to say ‘I’ and four letters to say ‘love’ and three letters to say ‘you.’ One hundred and forty-three.”

4. He Saved Both Public Television and the VCR

Strange but true. When the government wanted to cut Public Television funds in 1969, the relatively unknown Mister Rogers went to Washington. Almost straight out of a Capra film, his 5-6 minute testimony on how TV had the potential to give kids hope and create more productive citizens was so simple but passionate that even the most gruff politicians were charmed. While the budget should have been cut, the funding instead jumped from $9 to $22 million. Rogers also spoke to Congress, and swayed senators into voting to allow VCR’s to record television shows from the home. It was a cantankerous debate at the time, but his argument was that recording a program like his allowed working parents to sit down with their children and watch shows as a family.

5. He Might Have Been the Most Tolerant American Ever

Mister Rogers seems to have been almost exactly the same off-screen as he was onscreen. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, and a man of tremendous faith, Mister Rogers preached tolerance first. Whenever he was asked to castigate non-Christians or gays for their differing beliefs, he would instead face them and say, with sincerity, “God loves you just the way you are.” Often this provoked ire from fundamentalists.

6. He Was Genuinely Curious About Others

Mister Rogers was known as one of the toughest interviews because he’d often befriend reporters, asking them tons of questions, taking pictures of them, compiling an album for them at the end of their time together, and calling them after to check in on them and hear about their families. He wasn’t concerned with himself, and genuinely loved hearing the life stories of others. Amazingly, it wasn’t just with reporters. Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

7. He Was Color-blind

Literally. He couldn’t see the color blue. Of course, he was also figuratively color-blind, as you probably guessed. As were his parents who took in a black foster child when Rogers was growing up.

8. He Could Make a Subway Car full of Strangers Sing

Once while rushing to a New York meeting, there were no cabs available, so Rogers and one of his colleagues hopped on the subway. Esquire reported that the car was filled with people, and they assumed they wouldn’t be noticed. But when the crowd spotted Rogers, they all simultaneously burst into song, chanting “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” The result made Rogers smile wide.

A few more things about him…

9. He Got into TV Because He Hated TV. The first time he turned one on, he saw people angrily throwing pies in each other’s faces. He immediately vowed to use the medium for better than that. Over the years he covered topics as varied as why kids shouldn’t be scared of a haircut, or the bathroom drain (because you won’t fit!), to divorce and war.

10. He Was an Ivy League Dropout. Rogers moved from Dartmouth to Rollins College to pursue his studies in music.

11. He Composed all the Songs on the Show, and over 200 tunes.

12. He Was a perfectionist, and Disliked Ad Libbing. He felt he owed it to children to make sure every word on his show was thought out.

13. Michael Keaton Got His Start on the Show as an assistant — helping puppeteer and operate the trolley.

14. Several Characters on the Show are Named for His Family.Queen Sara is named after Rogers’ wife, and the postman Mr. McFeely is named for his maternal grandfather who always talked to him like an adult, and reminded young Fred that he made every day special just by being himself. Sound familiar? It was the same way Mister Rogers closed every show.

15. The Sweaters. Every one of the cardigans he wore on the show had been hand-knit by his mother.

Best human

uMM„,i HAVE FINALLY SUCCUMBED TO THE FANDOM„, hERE...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:45:39 -0500

uMM„,i HAVE FINALLY SUCCUMBED TO THE FANDOM„, hERE IS MY FIRST PIECE OF HOMESTUCK FAN ART, tAVROS IS MY PATRON TROLL }:- ) iSN’T HE CUTE? wHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT THIS TIMID, ROLE-PLAYING, PARAPLEGIC? i’M PLEASED WITH HOW THE D20 TURNED OUT„,iT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE! };-D

Paper demolishers: Copics and Prisma markers, Prisma c.pencils, EPIC WHITE GEL PEN!!!!

Tavros (c) Andrew Hussie

capricecrane: I’m not saying the woman one table over at this...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:22:48 -0500

capricecrane:

I’m not saying the woman one table over at this diner looked like Severus Snape but yes that is exactly what I am saying.

pleatedjeans: apparently, tumblr isn’t a sin!

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:22:06 -0500

pleatedjeans:

apparently, tumblr isn’t a sin!

christiantheatheist: My degree in a picture

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:10:00 -0500

christiantheatheist:

My degree in a picture

gypsy-garden: I saw an ol’ gnomeTake a gknock at a gnatWho was...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:38:12 -0500

gypsy-garden:

I saw an ol’ gnome
Take a gknock at a gnat
Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu.
I said, “Gnasty gnome,
Gnow, stop doing that.
That gnat aint done gnothing to you.”
He gnodded his gnarled ol’ head and said,
“’Til gnow I gnever gnew
That gknocking a gnat
In the gnoodle like that
Was gnot a gnice thing to do.”

By Shel Silverstein