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Fantasy novelist: Alright, time to create my fantasy world. Great thing about this genre is that I can make it anything I want. Could be based on any culture in any place from any time. Could be a mix of places and times, or something newly invented by me. Yup, there is literally nothing out of bounds here.

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:08:56 -0500

Fantasy novelist: Alright, time to create my fantasy world. Great thing about this genre is that I can make it anything I want. Could be based on any culture in any place from any time. Could be a mix of places and times, or something newly invented by me. Yup, there is literally nothing out of bounds here.
Fantasy novelist: I'm gonna go with medieval England.

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:34:47 -0500

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.:

notesonascandal:

theraceproblem:

racismschool:

Just so we’re all clear on what we just read. Black people make up 22% of the poor but only 14% of the government benefits. Meaning, 8% of poor Black people are not taking government benefits when they need them.

While, white people make up 42% of the poor but receive 69% of the government benefits. Meaning, there are white people who are classified as middle class who are receiving government benefits.

…but welfare queens and stuff.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT!

Black people make up 22% of the poor BUT only 14% of the government benefits.

White people make up 42% of the poor BUT receive 69% of the government benefits.

This needs to go viral.

This is essential piece of information revealing racial bias AGAINST Black people in receiving government benefits.

Never again do I want to hear about White people living in poverty.

Never again do I want to hear about Black people living on government benefits.

Reblog this. Over and over again. POST IT ON EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE WHERE YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT.

spicyshimmy: i think it’s beautiful that no matter who you are, no matter your feelings about mages...

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:40 -0500

spicyshimmy:

i think it’s beautiful that no matter who you are, no matter your feelings about mages or templars, no matter what kind of hawke you play, no matter who you’re romancing, the very first time you play dragon age 2, everybody has the exact same reaction.

caligaes: robbiethewabbit: i got this mod to add more race...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:26:16 -0500

caligaes:

robbiethewabbit:

i got this mod to add more race variety to the people of ferelden and MORRIGAN IS SO CUTE???? SLAY ME

i’ve done this too! i modded everyone in my last playthrough to be poc. my wynne ended up being too hot though…

hawke: of course i will do thing for you, citizen, for i am a hero and friend to all

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:51:49 -0500

hawke: of course i will do thing for you, citizen, for i am a hero and friend to all
carver: rivalry +823

caligaes: milkydayy: leaked designs for the next 6 disney...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:17:36 -0500

caligaes:

milkydayy:

leaked designs for the next 6 disney princesses

look at that diversity!

misandrwitch: jadeita: i always prefer to be cold than warm bc if ur cold you can get blankets and...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:53 -0500

misandrwitch:

jadeita:

i always prefer to be cold than warm bc if ur cold you can get blankets and tea and soup and hug somebody

when ur warm ur just like ‘ew get away from me, let me perish in my own liquids’

#you can always add layers #but you can’t strip past naked

purplefridge: I’m a huge fan of politically incorrect jokes. Listen to this absolute classic:...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:08:57 -0500

purplefridge:

I’m a huge fan of politically incorrect jokes. Listen to this absolute classic: “Abraham Lincoln was never president”!

soilwitch: [[seductively does nothing to indicate I’m attracted to you]] my life

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:34:33 -0500

soilwitch:

[[seductively does nothing to indicate I’m attracted to you]]

my life

221b-mine-please: pirenstoletheimpala: mycroft-queenofcake: iamjayse: thenerdfighterkid: slydig:...

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:03:35 -0500

221b-mine-please:

pirenstoletheimpala:

mycroft-queenofcake:

iamjayse:

thenerdfighterkid:

slydig:

tsarbucks:

slydig:

dont be mean

be median or mode

damn math fandom bloggers

shut up we have a good range of jokes

this is our domain

guys we’re forgetting the point of this post and going off on a tangent

Are you all done cos I’ve had enough of this by now

Damn math fandom bloggers

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH IT’S A SIN

"Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:43:14 -0500

“Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.”

- Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)

So true. In fact, the entire capitalist system — all banking, all corporate operations, all military industry — is built on and based upon government assistance; or rather, much more than “assistance”, more like extreme government largesse by granting public funds from taxes and public resources to private interests.

Private banking relies entirely on credit, loans, underwriting, insurance, and political-military protection from the government. All corporate merchandise in the USA is moved and distributed on highways and roads built and maintained using public money. The telecom companies sell you mobile phone service using radio spectrum which belongs to the public and is granted to them by the government. Agribusiness is well-known to be subsidized. Big pharma relies on publicly funded research to isolate its private profit makers. There are no major areas of corporate America which are not entirely reliant on government assistance. And that’s not even getting into corporate tax breaks.

Yet god forbid Black people get any benefit from the government whatsoever, amounting in total to the tiniest trickle in relation to the government largesse extended to corporate America. Suddenly that is seen, within the prevailing racist US political discourse, as a burden upon society and sign of an imaginary racial pathology of laziness and dependency. Good one, white America.

(via zuky)

harmalade: USEFUL WAYS OF TAGGING: #[topic] cw, #[topic] tag, #[topic] tw, #[topic] trigger...

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:34:10 -0500

harmalade:

USEFUL WAYS OF TAGGING: #[topic] cw, #[topic] tag, #[topic] tw, #[topic] trigger warning, #[topic] content warning, #[topic] talk, etc.

this is so people who use tumblr savior to block [topic] can just block one thing: #[topic] which appears in each one of these tags. blocking the word without the hashtag may hide many posts that weren’t actually about [topic], especially if it’s a common word or phrase. it’s an inconvenience

NOT USEFUL WAYS OF TAGGING: #tw: [topic], #cw: [topic], #trigger warning: [topic], #content warning: [topic]

this forces a person who wants to block posts that are about [topic] to block every single variation of these, filling up their blacklist and making it slower. it also increases the likelihood that the person will not have blocked any single variation.

WORST TAGS: #trigger warning, #content warning, #tw, #cw

these tags are absolutely useless for warning people about topics. just

for example, here are some common topics someone might choose to avoid: violence, blood, (grosspost), insects, snakes, food, eating disorders, body horror, rape, self-injury, suicide, sexism, racism, ableism, abuse, etc. etc.

many of these have absolutely nothing in common, labeling them all with “trigger warning” is of no help to anyone. “trigger warning” could mean there’s a picture of graphic violence or it could means there’s a picture of somebody eating a salad. it doesn’t mean anything.

thanks!

also, if you want to be sure things don’t end up in the tracked tags!

tagging posts so that people can use TS to automatically block them can be handy, but you might also be concerned that people will be tracking some of those tags maliciously to harass people. if you’re worried about this (like I was)

* first off, only the first five tags will show up in tracked tags. So if it’s tags that probably aren’t going to be a problem - for example, my first tag there is “maybe a repeat reblog idc” and there is a 0% chance literally anyone will have been tracking that tag already and see this - you can put them in the first five.

* you can round out the remaining five with empty pointless tags like my fifth tag “/” below

* you can add a bunch of anything after [topic], because someone might be tracking “#[topic]”, but it’s very unlikely that anyone will be tracking “#[topic] a;sdlkjf;sdlkjf]” ; however, someone who’s blocked “#[topic]” will still not see the post despite the keysmash you added afterwards.

* to be absolutely sure the first five CANNOT show up in tracked tags, you can add a string of characters like ” -/-” to the end of a tag, like I did with the “#blogkeeping -/-” tag below! Anyone who’s blocked the term would still have it blocked, but if you try to click that specific tag, it actually won’t show any posts. This is because of the way tumblr parses the space, dash, and slash; I don’t know the specifics, nor the minimum needed to break it and ensure that it can’t actually be tracked, but this is sufficient.

* you’ll notice I also added the ” -/-” to the “tagging” tag. It wasn’t in the first five anyway, so this is unnecessary from the POV of keeping people tracking the tag “#topic” from finding your post. However, this also keeps people who know your blog from being able to easily find the post by going to [yoururl].tumblr.com/tagged/[topic]. the ” -/-” breaks it and no results will be displayed, just like with tracked tags.

drenchedinlove: POSTING NUDES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT. POSTING PROVOCATIVE IMAGES DOES...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:26:00 -0500

drenchedinlove:

POSTING NUDES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING PROVOCATIVE IMAGES DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING SKIN DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

POSTING SEXUAL IMAGES OF YOURSELF DOES NOT MEAN YOU LACK SELF RESPECT.

YOU CAN RESPECT YOUR BODY AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT AND SHARE IT WITH WHOMEVER YOU WISH, AND THAT IS NOT A BAD THING.

warpfactornope: i feel so frustrated with writers who write inspirational posts — read more! read...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:51:53 -0500

warpfactornope:

i feel so frustrated with writers who write inspirational posts —

read more! read all the time! read books

i can’t read books anymore. i am so tired of being told to read books.

if you love stories, you will see them around you. you will consume the stories you need, whether they are found in books or not.

and then you will write what you want. and what you need.

and if you don’t, you tell your stories in some other way that may or may not be seen as literature. you tell them to your friends over skype. you tell them in your to-write tag. you tell them on twitter. you tell them in every i wish it had gone like this, and why didn’t they do that instead.

being a writer is a hard. why make it harder with this pressure to do this and that to be a writer?

i don’t know. i don’t want to discourage people to read, but it is not the only way to write or to become a good writer.

Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF'

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:51 -0500

Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF':

thingsthatverbme:

misanthropicqueer:

mockingdjay:

thedoctorlikessouffle:

Steve Wilhite, the father of Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs), has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce “GIF” at this year’s Webby Awards.

Well then. We’re all fucked.

get fucked

funny how you have to spell it wrong to pronounce it right

^^^ YEP! because we’re going off the sound of the original G in the word “graphic” which has a hard sound. Unless y’all wanna start saying Jraphic, STFU.

In before all my awesome linguistic friends start ranting about the awesome fludity of language. <3

“It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF,” read his acceptance speech, which adhered to the ceremony’s five-word speech limit.

hahahahah the bolded, yes XP and that the correct spelling is automatically assumed to have the “~incorrect” pronunciation

(anyway can I pitch my movie idea, Jraphic Park, to anyone? :PPP)

captainmoi: George R.R. Martin can’t tweet because he’s killed off all 140 characters

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:08:54 -0500

captainmoi:

George R.R. Martin can’t tweet because he’s killed off all 140 characters

The Adler Conundrum: How Elementary Solved The Problem of The Woman

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:34:32 -0500

lyrangalia:

By now, most of the Elementary fandom has probably already seen or been spoiled for the season finale double-whammy that was “The Woman/Heroine”. But just in case someone hasn’t, abandon ship now if you want to remain unspoiled, because this bit of rambling meta is going to lay out just how cleverly Elementary updated and made the one woman who bested Sherlock Holmes their own.

Short version: Warning, here there be spoilers.

So, just a quick refresher: In the original ACD canon, Irene Adler appears in one story, A “Scandal in Bohemia,” and is mentioned in others, as the woman who bested Sherlock Holmes and ran off to her own life and is never seen again. From Dr. Watson’s perspective, Holmes did not love Irene Adler, but that he did feel an immense respect for her.

In many of the adaptations since the original story was published, the role of Irene Adler as The Woman has been expanded, usually to that of criminal, and usually as a love interest for Holmes.

And for a while, it appeared Elementary not only went down the same path, but that she was also dead (which again, a nice nod to the original canon and ACD’s complete inability to remain internally consistent but that’s another point altogether), leading to cries of her being “fridged for Sherlock’s manpain”.

But lo and behold, not only do we find out in the season finale that Irene Adler is still alive, but that she isn’t in fact Irene Adler at all, but Moriarty herself. And this is a twist that, as far as I know, has not been played with in modern Holmes adaptations (though if it has happened in pastiches, someone please tell me).

And why not? It’s brilliant.

On Irene Adler as the Holmsian Love Interest… again.

One of the most problematic and most prevalent themes of the Adler-as-Love-Interest tropes is how despite she being the woman who beat him, that Holmes eventually returns to save her. The idea that Holmes has feelings for Adler because she’s beaten him is, I think, an acceptable read of canon. It’s clear that he has some strong regard for her, and whether it’s taking into account Watson as unreliable narrator or adaptation degeneration, the idea that Holmes felt something for Irene Norton nee Adler does not seem too much of a stretch.

(Why it always has to be love, well that’s another discussion entirely on the changing views of rationalism and love, one I’m nowhere near qualified to really expound on)

But the fact is that the return is always to the trope that Irene Adler, having beaten Sherlock Holmes, requires saving by him. And Elementary sidesteps this beautifully by having Irene Adler succeed in fooling Sherlock Holmes, and going on her merry way.

And this is the part where the idea gets a little complicated. Because by the end of the episode we realize Irene is and always has been Moriarty. So does Adler really beat Holmes? Or is it Moriarty who does. What does that mean for the Adler/Holmes narrative in the scope of A Scandal in Bohemia?

Trying to answer that question is where things get very interesting for me, and really brings to light for me how extremely clever the Elementary writers were. I think it’s very useful to distinguish between Moriarty and Irene Adler despite them being the same person, because the show itself takes such pains to set them apart. And for a good reason.

Things to note about Elementary’s Irene Adler: Much the same as “A Scandal In Bohemia“‘s Adler, she is content to have one encounter with Holmes and be gone on her merry way. Moriarty’s motivations for experimenting with Holmes, for observing him, are related to this fact, but the key is that the core of Irene Adler, the one who encounters Holmes, impresses him with her intellect (and in this case, intellect AND appreciation for art preservation), and then walks away from him with exactly what she wants, remains the same.

It gets a little more complicated, when we remember that Adler is, in fact, a construct of Moriarty’s. And how much could Moriarty be willing to walk away if the entire point of the exercise is to observe Holmes in his natural habitat?

But that too, is made clear in Moriarty’s reveal. Moriarty-as-Adler is still perfectly willing, perfectly capable of walking away from Holmes. Moriarty-as-Adler still wins by successfully fooling Holmes by faking her death.

It is Holmes who falls, who is deeply affected and deeply moved by his meeting with Adler. In the story, that deeply moved leads him to stop underestimating women, to give her the title of The Woman, the one that eclipses and predominates the entirety of her sex; in Elementary, Holmes ends up with a heroin addiction. But in both he is still deeply moved by having met her.

And Moriarty-as-Adler doesn’t need rescuing by Holmes. She isn’t saved, she doesn’t need to be. She walks away from Holmes with her agency and the very core of her being firmly intact.

Which is far truer to the text than would initially meets the eye with the red herrings of Dead Girlfriend and Bohemian Painter and The One that Got Away that had been thrown our way.

Some people might consider it a bit of erasure, for Irene Adler as a character to be revealed as Moriarty in disguise, I actually really like the twist, for a simple reason:

Irene Adler was The Woman to Sherlock Holmes, the one woman who eclipsed and predominated the whole of her sex, the only one to gain the honourific of The Woman from Sherlock Holmes.

And Irene Adler doesn’t exist. Irene Adler as The Woman is a construct, a fantasy, and Elementary very simply puts that out there. That the person Holmes considered The Woman, the single one, the woman who is representative of women. That person doesn’t exist. No perfect woman exists. Not for Sherlock Holmes, not for any one.

When stripped of artifice and the Sherlockian trappings of intelligence and meetings of the mind, the courtship of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, and the revelation of Moriarty-as-Adler, speaks to something incredibly basic:

Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Girl turns out to be not as perfect as boy thinks. Boy is distraught. Boy (with help of Friend) Gets Over It.

It’s simple and it’s powerful and it is poignant. And it flies in the face of every single romantic comedy in the media. By breaking Irene Adler down into a fabrication, Elementary shows us how hollow the idea of The Woman, The Man, The Perfect Ideal of Your Choice, is.

And, you know what, that’s awesome.

On Irene Adler Being Beaten By Sherlock Holmes… Again

Some people have said that by making Moriarty Irene, that it again takes away Irene’s agency that she is not the woman who beat Sherlock Holmes, but the woman beaten by Sherlock Holmes. And once again, this is the part where putting a distinction between Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes is helpful. Irene Adler is a construct of Moriarty’s, and it was Moriarty who was defeated.

But not by Sherlock.

Moriarty was beaten by Joan Watson.

Let’s repeat that. Sherlock’s overdose was a ruse. Sherlock being in the hospital was bait for Moriarty, and it was Joan Watson who beat Moriarty, who diagnosed Moriarty and beat her.

Joan was right. Moriarty remains (as both herself and in the Irene Adler guise) the woman who beat Sherlock Holmes. And who in turn was beaten by another woman, by Joan Watson.

How is that not absolutely beautiful and a clever way of keeping the core of what made Irene Adler so deserving of respect for Holmes while still remaining true to the Moriarty narrative of Moriarty being beaten. And in this case, even as Moriarty loses (in this case to Joan), Holmes loses too. Instead of losing his life (as the original intent of ACD’s Final Problem), Holmes loses a bit of his own history, a part of himself that was both painful and formative and something that was good that he obviously treasured.

But having addressed “The Final Problem,” let’s circle back to “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Holmes loses to Adler in “Scandal” because he underestimates her because she’s a woman, because he found himself believing the cultural myth of that period, that woman are inherently inferior to men, that they can’t be as clever. And he loses, to his detriment.

On Elementary, it’s not Holmes’ misogyny and buying into the cultural myth that is his downfall. This time it’s Moriarty’s. Moriarty buys into our cultural myth. Moriarty is a woman, Moriarty is the one who should know better than Holmes that women are a force to be reckoned with. And yet Moriarty buys into internalized misogyny and underestimates Joan Watson.

Think about it for a minute. Internalized misogyny is not being perpetuated by the hero who is then rewarded. Internalized misogyny is being practiced and perpetuated by the antagonist and her downfall is directly related to her internalized misogyny. Her dismissal of other women, as seeing them as competition, mascot, as lesser directly relates to her losing.

Just let that sink in for a moment.

In the current media landscape, we are still regularly reinforced by the idea that women should be seen as competition, where we all buy into (to varying degrees) a social expectation that women are lesser desirable, are expected to be less interesting, less well written then men. We all buy into that to varying degrees. But suddenly we have Elementary, we have a show that not only updated a classic canon to the modern age by the inclusion of peoples of colour, but one that proceeds to update the myths and shatter the idea of people as paragons of their gender, that manages to make internalized misogyny a trait that doesn’t just exist but is actively negative.

How cool is that?

Now, if only we can stop with the Microsoft product placements.

[Self-hate]

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:15:51 -0500

failurefailurefailurefailurefailurefailure

jawnsolo: leaving your room when people are over

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:51:53 -0500

jawnsolo:

leaving your room when people are over

rebekahloves: girljanitor: jhameia: kynodontas: tangledaxon: ...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:17:25 -0500

rebekahloves:

girljanitor:

jhameia:

kynodontas:

tangledaxon:

Cover reveal for Ascension. It’s gorgeous and I couldn’t be happier with it. I hope you love it too!

Art by Scott Grimando, cover design by Sherin Nicole.

#QUEER #POC #POLYAMORY

:’)

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Wishlist’d

holy crap. gimme. gimme. gimme.