February 2012
185 posts
soft and sweet: The problem with parenting culture →
The problem with parenting culture
littlemissmutant:
allies-person:
To begin, an anecdote: My grandma used to live in a retirement community. She and her friends had numerous games that they played together: poker, mahjong, gin rummy…and one-upsmanship about their children. This is how it went. They would sit around talking about their children and their degrees and professions and...
In which one black (female) artist with simple...
Bon Iver: And I told you to be patient, and I told you to be fine. I told you to be balanced, and I told you to be kind, but now all your love is wasted. And then who the hell was I?
Death Cab: So one last touch and then you'll go and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more. But it was vile, and it was cheap and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me. Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
Radiohead: But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run. And it wears me out... It wears me out. If I could be who you wanted, if I could be who you wanted all the time... all the time.
Brand New: You are calm and reposed, let your beauty unfold. Pale white like the skin stretched over your bones, spring keeps you ever close. You are secondhand smoke, you are so fragile and thin standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins.
Nicki Minaj: You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, you a you a stupid hoe. You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe.You a stupid hoe you a you a stupid hoe. You stupid stupid, you a stupid hoe
“My episode is in a genre I’ve never written before — frankly, no one has written...”
– Toby Whithouse on his series 7 episode (via doctor-who-companion)
#aw toby whithouse #it’s nice to have a writer whose work i enjoy on board #so ty
okay so which genre is it tho
toby is another one I’d love to have as showrunner.
(via cyruspotnoodle)
WE WANT TOBY WHITHOUSE FOR SHOWRUNNER, YES...
but for real if gender roles in ASoIaF were...
yousordidharlot:
Male!Cat: Strong and emotionally distant.
Female!Jon: Whiny over-dramatic bitch.
Female!Tyrion: Annoying know it all bitch.
Female!Robb: Vengeful slut.
Male!Sansa: Brave and idealistic. It’s a good thing that he still holds onto the stories he grew up believing.
Jaime: Cersei
Cersei: Jaime
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Congrats to the makers of My Little...
No matter how much the fanboys whine about their harshed squee, it was the right thing to do.
You just can’t put a word that is at least partially used as a disparaging reference to the intellectually disabled (which I don’t think the makers realised when they made their initial shout out to the fandom) in a children’s educational cartoon show about tolerance of others.
That...
meanandchildishandboring asked: Parenthetical Girls EP and song. Felt a bit conflicted about it myself. TELL ME HOW TO FEEL. I really love the band and it's their best EP yet, but christ. I think it's meant to be some kind of knowing joke but I dunno if that's Mr. Pennington's place.
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The final episode of Battlestar Galactica...
I saw earlier it in the week so I’ve had some time to reflect and enjoy despite thinking it a bit flabby, indulgent and in need of editing in places. (the flashbacks were interesting but I don’t think this was the time or the place for them) I think it’s unpopularity is likely due to Ron Moore and the other makers being out of touch (or maybe not caring) about the mindset of the...
“The only national anthem of Westeros is the screaming of its dying citizens.”
– Gabrielita, first of her name (via hotelsongs)
itsinthetrees asked: Daenerys never seems actually -interested- in Irri sexually. It's more of a pressure release valve, and Irri suggests it as just another handmaiden's duty. So no, I don't think of her as bi.
it's in the trees; it's coming: cognizes:... →
itsinthetrees reblogged gematriya:
cognizes:
villainesses:
belsrowley:
watermeloncholy:
ivanolix:
So the Baratheons have Stannis (asexual) and Renly (gay).
The Tyrells have Loras (gay) and Margaery (lesbian, though not confirmed)
And then there’s Jon Connington (gay), Illyrio (gay), possibly Brynden Tully (gay), and maybe Taena (bisexual) and Oberyn (bisexual). Some guy up at the...
shit-i-dig replied to your post: Ok, if I make “dreambabes” a this-blog-specific…
I fully support the blogging of dream babes.
Hahaha, please note “dreambabe” is the non-gender specific term used among my group of friends in reference to the elite of attractive people (in mind, body and soul)
I always feel guilty that most of my favourite contemporary musical artists are also...
Ok, if I make “dreambabes” a this-blog-specific tag you’ll all unfollow me, right?
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grimmstale asked: It would be worth it for a Death Star though, admit it. What do you mean you think Belle and Sebastian are shit? Say that again to my Death Star motherfucker.
grimmstale asked: La Divina Commedia draws on religious theology and philosophy, predominantly the work of Thomas Aquinas, not to mention the fact that it was deeply political for the time, whilst on the surface it was about the souls search for God, it is religious fan fiction perhaps, not biblical fan fiction. Paradise Lost I'll give you but the bible isn't well written when you get write down to it,...
“The resolutely punitive turn taken by penal policies in advanced societies at...”
– Ordering Insecurity: Social Polarization and the Punitive Upsurge by Loïc Wacquant (via reinventionoftheprintingpress)
a dream of passion: like i can't believe that... →
like i can’t believe that sansa gets hate for this
nissanissas:
sansa, an eleven year old girl who is betrothed to the prince and knows how court intrigue works only from songs, goes to her prince’s mother and tells her her father’s plans because a young lady begging for her father’s life will surely be heard
ned, a thirty someodd year old man who is the hand of the king and should...
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A DEFINATION OF LANDFILL INDIE
For any non britishers confused by my last post.
Indie kind of has a different meaning in the UK other than “independent labels” Since the 90s Brit Pop movement when a lot of bands perceived as indie got huge with quite commercial/poppy music it’s basically used for any guitar music that isn’t like metal or punk or something. Landfill indie was a period where there was...
threnody.: ateacupinastorm replied to your post:... →
meanandchildishandboring:
ateacupinastorm replied to your post: ateacupinastorm replied to your post: just…
Though have to confirm that as some one 20ish at the time I think the landfill indie era was legit the nadir of British pop.
disagree :’( sure a lot of it was pish and i am looking at it from the extremely biased view of my 13-15 year old self but it WERE GR9. I kind of feel sorry for...
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vault11 answered your question: SERIOUSLY WHY DO I KEEP DREAMING THAT I’M GAIUS BALTAR?
but he’s a complete coward and is only interested in himself -.-
Pft I love Gaius to bits. He’s not a good person by any stretch of the imagination but I honestly don’t think he was ever particularly bad either. Just a very human human who reacts to the mind-boggling events around him in a...
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SERIOUSLY WHY DO I KEEP DREAMING THAT I'M GAIUS...
You’d expect someone like me to have a lot of nerdy fandom dreams but no.. I rarely do. The weird thing is these dreams about being Baltar have actually cranked up to “recurring dream” frequency now. WHAT IS MY SUBCONSCIOUS TELLING ME?! Answers on a postcard to…
Perhaps it’s because of that episode where he puts on a Yorkshire accent and starts trying to agitate a...
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Much as I'm enjoying the government and Tesco etc...
Unpaid forced labour for multinational corporations subsidised by the tax payer*
But everyone knows this went on throughout Labour’s time in office too, right? I experienced it almost 8 years ago. Reminds me of the US right wing moan of “people only protest wars when a Republican is in the White House”
The tougher “bash the poor and disabled in order to please the...
“It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white,...”
– comment left on the Racialious blog post “Sustainable Food & Priviledge: Why is Green always White (and Male and Upper-Class)” (via ouiominy
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I'm actually enjoying Being Human series 4 now
Having to “start again” with the cast changes has shifted it back to the first series comedy roots. While S3 will always be my favourite series, I really didn’t think they could possibly sustain or heighten that level of serious bizness darkness and thought it was time to reign it in at least a little bit.
Still not sure about the whole prophecy+magic baby arc which seems...
I am. I am. I am.: TW: Ableism, rape culture →
TW: Ableism, rape culture
micesacle:
Court bans autistic woman from having sex
blinkpink:
goldenheartedrose:
Well, I’m officially disgusted.
Cue vomiting.
I have no words. Not a fucking one.
Edit: Except to say that there’s so much fucking sexual privilege and ableism in this bullshit that my jaw is on the floor.
How so?
You’ve not explained how this action is bad, you’re just...
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Last night drunk with my good friend Michael I was telling him that he should watch Battlestar Galactica and kept drunkenly describing it as “the war on terror in space”
Later on I brought up My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic and he stopped me and said “wait a second, you’re not going to tell me it’s the war on terror in a field are you?”
Love my life.
ps I...
When people reblog me before I fix a typo:
tyleroakley:
This is 95% responsible for the ongoing death of my soul tbh