Wallpaper adapted from here.

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In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists

Or as James Bond.

That would work, too.

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Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing 

edwardspoonhands:

First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a lot of our perspectives, is a laughably backwards and culturally irrelevant company) is going to own Tumblr. I sympathize. 

But there are a number of circumstances in which this will not be a disaster. Let’s think:

WHY TO NOT BE TERRIFIED

1. David Karp is being kept on as CEO for at least 4 years. Karp’s policies made Tumblr what it is.
2. Tumblr is only as good as we (its creators) are. The idea that the cultural identity and creations we’ve fostered here have become worth a billion dollars is both inspiring and worrisome. But nevertheless, since we hold the value, we hold the power. 
3. Tumblr is being kept as a separate company. This is what Google did with YouTube and significant changes were very slow to come to YouTube (though they eventually came, and are still coming). My guess is there will be no significant changes to Tumblr for at least 12 months.
4. They’re buying it to become more culturally relevant. They know that controlling the platform will reduce or even remove that relevance, so they would be idiots to do it.

WHEN TO ABANDON SHIP

1. If Tumblr requires an account somehow linked to Yahoo.
2. If David Karp steps down, no matter what the reasons are.
3. If you have to pay to reach all of your followers (FACEBOOK!)
4. If Yahoo begins censoring legal images and videos.
5. If your dashboard becomes three columns by default.
6. If more than 10% of the dashboard is taken up by advertising.

ADVICE TO YAHOO! PEOPLE

1. Don’t do any of the above things or we will leave and you will own a billion dollar hole in the internet.
2. Drop the exclamation point for chrissake…it’s gaudy and grammatically confusing.

Yes, I do wish that Tumblr (being a more interesting kind of company) could have found a more interesting kind of exit for its founders and investors than the old standby of selling to a floundering company trying to revitalize itself. But I think Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are intelligent enough to not totally fuck it up. Here’s hoping.

 - Hank

canadianslut:

I wish my name was Zoe so I could introduce myself like this

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susannathinks replied to your post

Hang in there! Sorry about whatever’s going on :(

valeria2067 replied to your post

*hugs you*

pipilottirist replied to your post

you ok?

Aw, thanks everyone!

Things are mostly fine, I’m just so done with some stressful stuff that’s not actually “bad” per se, but it’s difficult to constantly be around, is all.

fishingboatproceeds:

#sass

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First of all, the whole entire world is critical of the way women look. Whether you are a supermodel, a teenager or even Secretary of State, if you’re a female, there are people all around you ready to tell you how bad your body looks. Secondly, the idea that women are valuable only for their their beauty permeates nearly every facet of modern society, from the billboards we walk past to the social media we use daily. And this idea that women should be reduced to their appearance originated almost entirely in the minds and actions of men. And it is still largely perpetuated today by men – who run over 90% of our media.

So to say women are their own “worst critics” when it comes to beauty puts the blame on women for a beauty-obsessed, body-shaming and misogynistic world created and maintained largely by dudes.

" —

Miss Representation » Blog Archive » Women Are Not Their Own Worst Beauty Critics

This Dove campaign did not sit right with me from the very beginning. Thank you Miss Representation for putting the words to it.

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AHH THAT LAST PART. That’s exactly what’s been bothering me about the video.

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krypto-the-hellhound:

saltyfeathers:

The first scene of s9 should be a montage of a bunch of angels fucking normal shit up.

maybe they’re the ones on all those infomercials 

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littlepaperhugs:

i am very proud of you for waking up today. you are very brave. existing can be hard sometimes and that is okay. i am proud of you even if all you did today was exist. i am proud of you for existing.

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• Cas: On a scale of 1-10, how much do you love me?
• Dean: 3.2
• Cas: ...
• Dean: I love you more than pi

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kirbyrightbackatya:

do you ever see someone with the same name as you and your immediate reaction is just

Except that my first name (hell, probably my first name and last name combo) is so. freaking. common.

So this happens a lot (with just my first name).

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I fucking love Lindy West, and here’s another reason why: 

I swear a lot. In writing, if not so much in speech (but, fuck it, also a lot of times in speech). Swearing is awesome, because it adds a little extra punch to your sentence that lets people know you mean business! Or, at least, I guess that’s how most people characterize the function of swearing. Personally, I don’t really give a shit. That “punch” is meaningless—it’s a construct—I swear this much because I like to push back against outdated, constrictive, distracting forms of propriety that I don’t believe in. When people bitch at me about swearing in articles about grievous, mind-boggling, viscerally enraging hypocrisies and human rights violations—that’s what’s interesting to me. That tension, that decision to prioritize meaningless bullshit over tangible real-world harm. Fuck you, and fuck your delicate sensibilities.

Also have this interesting tidbit she quotes from another piece, for free:

When swearwords don’t become more equal-opportunity, they often begin to be used solely for women — Geoffrey Hughes calls this the “feminization of ambisexual terms.” Words such as scold, shrew, termagent, witch, harlot, bawd, and tramp were all at one point in their histories terms for men; furthermore, the terms were usually neutral and sometimes even adulatory. Scold, for example, comes from the Old Norse word for “poet.” When these terms were feminized, they perjorated, going from neutral or positive to insulting. Bugger bucks this trend, too, going from a word used of men and women equally to an insulting term reserved almost exclusively for men.

All bolding added by me.

- Fuck Your Delicate Sensibilities, I’m Going to Swear as Much as I Want, by Lindy West

silencingthedrums:

robcoindustries:

see, in spanish the word for “genre” and the word for “gender” is the same: “género”. if you live in mexico and someone asks you what gender you are, you can be whatever i’m comfortable with. i’m a boy, or a girl. i’m a crime noir with a bit of spicy romance. i’m post-punk electronic music. i have trascended human perceptions of gender and am now a being of pure art

I’m a fantasy novel with homoerotic undertones.

Dude, if they’re not specifically marketed to children, that last part is completely redundant.

And even if they ARE for kids, it might STILL be redundant.

Related: My mom says that when she read Shakespeare in high school in the 70s, they definitely didn’t discuss homoeroticism. BUT THAT’S SO MUCH OF SO MANY POINTS, GAH!

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Susannah Wellford Shakow and Jessica N. Grounds of Running Start discussing the importance of women in politics, why it’s important to get young women interested in running for office, and Running Start’s 7th Annual Women to Watch Awards.

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