Queen of Procrastination

"Whedon had previously alluded to a brother/sister duo being in the film, which EW later said was..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:41:58 -0400

“Whedon had previously alluded to a brother/sister duo being in the film, which EW later said was indeed Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. When I brought up Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to Whedon, he confirmed they were the characters in question, explaining, “You know, they had a rough beginning. They’re interesting to me because they sort of represent the part of the world that wouldn’t necessarily agree with The Avengers. So they’re not there to make things easier. I’m not putting any characters in the movie that will make things easier.””

- Joss Whedon Talks Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Iron Man’s Roles in Avengers 2 (via vengerturtle)

No Labels

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:46:39 -0400

pyroclast:

gasptambourines:

gay-men:

Absolut Vodka release a limited edition label free bottle to celebrate diversity and challenge Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender prejudice.

socially conscious vodka? SIGN. ME. THE FUCK. UP.

This makes me sad that I gave up vodka.

feministwerewolf: nospockdasgay: nievie: arachnis-deathicus: ...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:51:26 -0400

feministwerewolf:

nospockdasgay:

nievie:

arachnis-deathicus:

Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

Reblogging again for that

Omg yes

This, this right here is why I will not see the new star trek movie.

kingdizzy88: dabaryah: I tested Walmart’s brand of bottled...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:55:56 -0400

kingdizzy88:

dabaryah:

I tested Walmart’s brand of bottled water and I was shocked to see they sell the most toxic water ever. I tested for Total Dissolved Solids using a TDS meter and the number I got was 271. THAT IS THE MOST TOXIC WATER I HAVE EVER SEEN. Even NYC tap water TDS score is 39. Poland Spring is 42. The water is not even drinkable. I think it’s Criminal to even make profits from selling this water filled with sodium fluoride and who knows what else is in that. 500 ppm (parts per million) is the EPA Maximum but even though the FDA is corrupt their recommended is 000, which is pure.

THE ONLY BOTTLED WATER THAT READS 000 IS DUANEreade/Walgreens ‘NICE’ branded water.

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO ALONG.

- anonymous

Damn wally mart… Damn… :/

thinkspeakstress: indica-tor: POC who live here in America: I realize you’re hurt by the ignorant...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:00 -0400

thinkspeakstress:

indica-tor:

POC who live here in America:

I realize you’re hurt by the ignorant words of “white people” who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I’m sorry.

But I have a question for you. In this “land of the free”…aren’t you free? What are their words doing to you, unless you LET them affect you? I thought this was a free country, where people were allowed to speak their minds, and other people were allowed not to listen.

But maybe I was wrong. Maybe the words of people are so strong that it’s impossible to stand up against them. Which is sad, and basically means our country is full of weak people.

No matter what race or gender I am, I would never let people’s words affect me. Don’t you realize they’re just words? Words are not physical, they will not capture and torture you. They won’t keep you from getting a job (and if your race is keeping you from getting a job, that’s the owners problem, not every white person), and they won’t kill you.

Unless you let them.

So take pride in who you are and stop listening to stupid people. It’s that easy. Once you let go of worrying about what other people think, your life will be a hell of a lot easier. And a lot less stressful.

Empower yourself. Empower your own life.

Only a white person would be able to say this with a straight face. Jesus god.

Only someone who has never been verbally abused on a regular basis could possibly say this. Seriously, indica-tor, It is hard to have pride in who you are when people are trying to tear down every shred or humanity you have, that you don’t deserve to have pride in who you are. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to deal with institutionalized racism on top of that. Words are strong, they convey ideas, and they do kill, literally and figuratively. I can find you a GIANT list of people that have been killed due to racism.

This post belies your ignorance.

I almost want to say it is kind of ableist. I am white, and therefore have not suffered from racism but you saying people should “not let someone’s words offend me” is something I don’t even have words for. I have been verbally/emotionally abused and bullied, I can’t comprehend that you have the gall to tell people you don’t even know to ‘just get over it’ acting like you are some kind of savior or leader. Please, I would not have had to/still have to pay for thousands of dollars of therapy and medication in order to reasonably function in life if that was possible. Not to mention that often, going to a therapist wouldn’t even help POC because therapists are not educated on different cultures and/or how to help people who have suffered from racism.

either you have some deep deep problems and are lying to yourself, or you have never been exposed in any way to any of these things and are therefore not qualified to talk about it.

Since you included gender, it implies to me that you are either male or very sheltered. Because as a girl, even if it is not true, you are lead to believe that your worth is in your looks. That you need to be smart and pretty, smart isn’t good enough. When I go for an interview, I have to put just the right amount of makeup on in order to seem trustworthy (there was a study on it, for real, go look it up). This is coming from a girl who was parented by a ‘radical feminist’ I was very shelter from harmful social media as a kid in elementary school and I know I am much better off than some people because of that but I have still been affected even though I have been exposed to considerable less of it.

Maybe you believe that you have suffered through something and that you have gotten through it and would like to impart your wisdom.

How dare you call me weak for being affected by words. HOW DARE YOU. You don’t know me, you don’t know my life and what I or other people have been through.

Why would you even post something like this?

If you actually read this, and have questions, I am happy to find the giant post of Death due to murders. I can even tell you about my life and experience with emotional/verbal abuse but it might be hard to understand if you have not experienced it because they seem like little things that just add up, even if you did have the empathy or capacity to understand it at all.

kingerock288: thespacegoat: • Accidentally close a tab?...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:33 -0400

kingerock288:

thespacegoat:

• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria.
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, save it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom while showering to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread from going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times.

Thank you Moufasa. I will remeber

silencingthedrums: butlertotheprotomen: drvalkyrie: btprincess...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:42:25 -0400

silencingthedrums:

butlertotheprotomen:

drvalkyrie:

btprincessgirl:

herrmedic:

lollipocalypse:

sublimesublemon:

These are… actually pretty inspiring.

Cool.

Forever reblog.

“you are never taller than when you stand up for yourself”

thats just awesome

“You’re the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success; F***ING ACT LIKE IT.”

My fave right there.

“Bite off more than you can chew and chew it” is my life motto

“When life gets harder, you must have leveled up”

Love that

I need to make the ‘level up’ one my personal life motto

"Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:56:18 -0400

““Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to America. The immigration guys kick the star out of stardom. They always ask me how tall I am and I always lie and say 5 feet 10 inches. Next time, I am going to get more adventurous. If they ask me ‘what color are you?’ I am going to say white.””

- Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)

Multiple actors and other prominent individuals in the film industry with the last name “Khan” have been detained when entering the country. Irrfan Khan (The Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire, Spider-man) described the three times he was stopped—while on the way to receive honors for his roles in films such as The Namesake—as “humiliating.” Actor Aamir Khan was stopped and stripped searched in 2002. Director Kabir Khan, was reportedly detained at least three times in 2008 while filming in the United States. The New York Times ended up remarking on The Dangers of Fying While Khan

This much is clear:

Despite being an incredibly common surname, in the United States, Khan is a racialized last name and those who carry it suffer from additional, insulting, stigma and scrutiny.

There is no shortage of talented actors of South Asian descent whether from within the United States, from the UK, or Bollywood—and many of them even have the last name of Khan.

With Star Trek Into Darkness the name “Khan” is once again stigmatized as antagonistic, but the actors named Khan, the Khans of the world, and those who look like Khans once again have no voice about how they are represented in American media.

If you’re an award winning actor named Khan, you will still get stopped and humiliated at the airport. When that rare character in American media finally shows up sharing your name, he will be played by a white British man. That actor will wear your name for one movie and sneer and strut to great critical acclaim. You will wear your racialized name, your skin color, and hope you don’t get detained another time.

(via racebending)

So fuck Star Trek and FUCK JJ Abrams and FUCKKKK Cucumberface

(via searchingforknowledge)

talknurdy2me: Source: Africanisms in American Culture...

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:32:37 -0400

talknurdy2me:

Source: Africanisms in American Culture (Holloway)

gailsimone: sourcedumal: authorsofcolor: The above graphic is...

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:31:34 -0400

gailsimone:

sourcedumal:

authorsofcolor:

The above graphic is from Erika Alexander’s website http://www.erikaalexander.com/.

Black people write and consume Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Anyone who says otherwise is a racist. Erika Alexander, Maxine Shaw from “Living Single” is producing a graphic novel series with Dark Horse called “Concrete Park”.

If you love horror and speculative fiction and would like to read some done by African American authors, Brandon Massey has collaborated with dozens of writers to produce three horror anthologies. This is a great way to discover authors.

Dark Dreams

Voices from the Other Side

Whispers in the Night

YES!

YES!!!!!

YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Want this.

thewritershelpers: uberwench: skokielibrary: teen-stuff-at-the...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:32:51 -0400

thewritershelpers:

uberwench:

skokielibrary:

teen-stuff-at-the-library:

A Great Guide on How to Cite Social Media Using Both MLA and APA styles

You’ll probably find this useful at some point.

Man, where was this chart when I was in library school?

Reblogging because EVERYONE (ESPECIALLY COLLEGE STUDENTS) needs this in their life. -H

For the Writers out there: Common Injuries And How To Treat Them

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:37:42 -0400

jellicleoverlord:

In my experience, RPers and Writers alike enjoy one thing: Making characters suffer. This little guide is supposed to help you with keeping injuries and the First Aid - in case you want to patch your character back together - realistic.
I am no medical professional, but I dare say I picked up a thing or two during my First Aider training ;)

Under read more for length! Also, trigger warnings for blood, I suppose?

Read More

Help needed: funeral expenses and moving costs

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:42:40 -0400

Help needed: funeral expenses and moving costs:

autumnyte:

(TW: Domestic Violence)

I’ve never made a post like this before. But I’ve seen the tumblr community do amazing things, and I’m hoping you can help.

My friend, Georgina, had a 30-year-old sister named Penelope who was killed on May 9th as a result of domestic violence. Penelope had three beautiful girls, all under the age of 8, who are now left without a mother and with a father on the run.

The plan is for the girls to be placed in the custody of their grandparents, but the family is in desperate need of funds to make this happen. Friends are coordinating a fundraiser to cover the funeral expenses and moving/ongoing transportation costs. The goal is $20,000, and if anything is raised beyond that, it will go toward the substantial expense of rearing three young girls.

Any amount you are able to contribute would be a big help to these little girls and this woman’s stunned, grieving family.

If you aren’t able to donate, please consider a signal boost. Thank you.

#He’s like a damn Disney prince #who sleeps with all the other...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:46:55 -0400

#He’s like a damn Disney prince

#who sleeps with all the other disney princes

science-junkie: Why everything you know about wolf packs is...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:55:53 -0400

science-junkie:

Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong
By Lauren Davis

The alpha wolf is a figure that looms large in our imagination. The notion of a supreme pack leader who fought his way to dominance and reigns superior to the other wolves in his pack informs both our fiction and is how many people understand wolf behavior. But the alpha wolf doesn’t exist—at least not in the wild…

Although the notions of “alpha wolf” and “alpha dog” seem thoroughly ingrained in our language, the idea of the alpha comes from Rudolph Schenkel, an animal behaviorist who, in 1947, published the then-groundbreaking paper “Expressions Studies on Wolves.” During the 1930s and 1940s, Schenkel studied captive wolves in Switzerland’s Zoo Basel, attempting to identify a “sociology of the wolf.”

In his research, Schenkel identified two primary wolves in a pack: a male “lead wolf” and a female “bitch.” He described them as “first in the pack group.” He also noted “violent rivalries” between individual members of the packs… Thus, the alpha wolf was born. Throughout his paper, Schenkel also draws frequent parallels between wolves and domestic dogs, often following his conclusions with anecdotes about our household canines. The implication is clear: wolves live in packs in which individual members vie for dominance and dogs, their domestic brethren, must be very similar indeed.

A key problem with Schenkel’s wolf studies is that, while they represented the first close study of wolves, they didn’t involve any study of wolves in the wild… In more recent years, animal behaviorists, including [wildlife biologist L. David] Mech, have spent more and more time studying wolves in the wild, and the behaviors they have observed has been different from those observed by Schenkel and other watchers of zoo-bound wolves. In 1999, Mech’s paper “Alpha Status, Dominance, and Division of Labor in Wolf Packs” was published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology. The paper is considered by many to be a turning point in understanding the structure of wolf packs…

Mech’s studies of wild wolves have found that wolves live in families: two parents along with their younger cubs. Wolves do not have an innate sense of rank; they are not born leaders or born followers. The “alphas” are simply what we would call in any other social group “parents.” The offspring follow the parents as naturally as they would in any other species. No one has “won” a role as leader of the pack; the parents may assert dominance over the offspring by virtue of being the parents. While the captive wolf studies saw unrelated adults living together in captivity, related, rather than unrelated, wolves travel together in the wild. Younger wolves do not overthrow the “alpha” to become the leader of the pack; as wolf pups grow older, they are dispersed from their parents’ packs, pair off with other dispersed wolves, have pups, and thus form packs of their owns.

This doesn’t mean that wolves don’t display social dominance, however… Wolves (and other animals, including humans), display social dominance, it just isn’t always easy to boil dominant behavior down to simple explanations. Dominant behavior and dominance relationships can be highly situational, and can vary greatly from individual to individual even within the same species. It’s not the entire concept of wolves displaying social dominance that was dispelled, just the simple hierarchical pack structure…

Source: io9.com

Images credit: Caninest - Michael Cummings

You Best Believe: The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome'

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:37:32 -0400

You Best Believe: The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome':

zuky:

This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy…

strugglingtobeheard: notesonascandal: sourcedumal: notesonasca...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:42:20 -0400

strugglingtobeheard:

notesonascandal:

sourcedumal:

notesonascandal:

echidna-boy:

echidna-boy:

So you know how there’s that post saying how people should invent birth control for men? (Take bullets out of a gun, not put on a bullet proof best) Well here it is. If some of you had actually researched it for like, 5mins, you would’ve actually found it.

Here’s the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/04/03/male-birth-control-reversible_n_1400708.html

To put it simply, the whole procedure takes about 15mins and lasts 10 years with a 100% success rate.

After an anesthetic, there’s an injection of some sperm-killing gel (Vasal Gel) into the male vas deferens. If the guy wants it reversed, he can get another shot which does that.

So, spread the word or something, but here it is.

How this post hasn’t gone viral by now is fucking beyond me.

Men don’t want it. They don’t want anything fuckin’ around “down there”. That’s why they refuse to get vasectomies. I’ve been asking them about this shit for years. YEARS. They simply don’t want to deal with it. And as long as they don’t have to be pregnant & give birth, they could give less than a fuck about birth control. Seriously. But they will cry, bitch and moan about the burden of child support and “Baby Mamas”. I don’t care how accessible or simple birth control men is made, hormonal or surgical, they will not fuck with it. Instead of exercising their reproductive freedoms that exist with NO THREATS WHATSOEVER, they’d just rather not.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Exactly

Vasectomies are clinically proven to be safe and reversible, yet men are not getting them in droves

MRAs bitch and moan about how they shouldn’t be forced to pay child support?

But I don’t see them campaigning to get them vasectomies done en masse.

Not at all.

Safer and less invasive than tubal ligation. In office procedure vs. going to the hospital. Quicker recovery time than tubal ligation. Tubal ligation is NOT reversible. Vasectomies are also less expensive than tubal ligation.

Tell me again why the fellas ain’t gettin’ them? That shit sounds perfect to me.

Because they enjoy creating kids they don’t and won’t care for. Honestly

Yo, listen up. Here’s a story about a little guy that lives in...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:37 -0400

Yo, listen up. Here’s a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world…

xcgirl08: shoujofeels: becausetheinternet: A 2500 year old...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:51:16 -0400

xcgirl08:

shoujofeels:

becausetheinternet:

A 2500 year old mummy that had some amazing tattoos.

WHAT.

NO FUCKING WAY.

YO HOLD ON.

IT GETS BETTER.

This mummy, found in the Altai mountains of Siberia, is actually that of a young woman who died at about the age of twenty-five; she is thought to have been a member of the Pazyryk tribe.

She was buried with six horses and two similarly-tattooed men (the horned griffon that decorates her shoulder also appears on the man buried closest to her, covering most of his right side), possibly escorts. She was also wearing a horse-hair wig, silk, and elaborate boots, which is all a level of ceremony that would have likely only been accorded to a woman of high rank. You didn’t get inked like this unless you were very important, and had worked your way up to that importance.

…Hence, of course, the references to her by researchers as ‘The Ukok Princess,’ although due to the lack of weapons in her grave they have concluded that the woman was in fact a healer or a storyteller.

And now I’m all consumed with curiosity: Who was she? What amazing things did she accomplish? Why these symbols, and what did they mean? Who were the two men alongside her?

The most informative article about it can be found here, although I would completely eat up any other information you guys could find.

all-the-british-fandoms: tardis-thesexysnogbox: carryon-mywaywa...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:56:06 -0400

all-the-british-fandoms:

tardis-thesexysnogbox:

carryon-mywayward-misha:

thosewerethe90s:

yaoibutterfly:

rah-b-loved:

inkyblacknight:

paradoxsocks:

ihavemjolnirinmypants:

withoutapresspass:

cyborglovesong:

UNITEDSTATESCANADAMEXICOPANAMALKFHDSHFSDKJCNOIDSUHFISUFN:SD

I AM GOING TO MAKE LEARNING THIS THE OBJECT OF MY LIFE.

I always lose it at Cota Rica.

I ALREADY KNOW THIS BY HEART

United States, Canada,
Mexico, Panama,
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru;
Republic Dominican,
Cuba, Carribean,
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia,
Venezuela,
Honduras, Guyana, and still;
Guatemala, Bolivia,
then Argentina,
and Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize,
Nicaragua, Bermuda,
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan;
Paraguay, Uruguay,
Suriname, and
French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden,
and Iceland, and Finland,
and Germany now one piece;
Switzerland, Austria,
Czechoslovakia,
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania,
Scotland, Albania,
Ireland, Russia, Oman;
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia,
Hungary,
Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There’s Syria, Lebanon,
Israel, Jordan,
both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Belgium, and Portugal,
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan,
Burma, Afghanistan,
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan;
Kampuchea, Malaysia,
then Bangladesh, Asia,
and China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos,
and Tibet, Indonesia,
the Philippine Islands, Taiwan;
Sri Lanka, New Guinea,
Sumatra, New Zealand,
then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco,
Uganda, Angola,
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana;
Mozambique, Zambia,
Swaziland, Gambia,
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho,
and Malawi, Togo,
The Spanish Sahara is gone;
Niger, Nigeria,
Chad, and Liberia,
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia,
Kenya, and Mali,
Sierra Leone, and Algier;
Dahomey, Namibia,
Senegal, Libya,
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea_
Bissau, Madagascar,
Rwanda, Mahore[?], and Cayman;
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi,
Qatar, Yugoslavia,
Crete, Mauritania,
then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein,
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan!

reblogging for the lyrics.

OwO

I lose it after Peru. like, I can’t even follow the lyrics. I just sit in awe of it.

This show was on in the 90s.

“Germany now in one piece.”

IT FREAKING REFERENCES THE FALLING OF THE BERLIN WALL, 1989

Every History class should do this as a project to memorize it.

we had to ……… in fifth grade.