The cracks are starting to show

An academic learning to live with depression.

[anjelia3]

Hector and Armistice enjoying themselves with automatic weapons!! (christmas came early for these two!)

[archaeteacher]

I could watch this scene over and over again!

[tenaciouspeachbread]

[archaeteacher]

Who's your best friend? #lottiethecollie #grizzlythegsd #hug #love #bestfriend #dogsofvine #dogsonvine #dogoftheday #cute #adorable #love

[fradine]

Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter (1968)

[klokwerkheart]

YES!

[erikakarandy]

This may be the Greatest Movie Ever

[shmoo06]

[mamrie]

Cannot physically cope with this.

[superreturnofthejedi]

Damn straight

[archaeteacher]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pq3u-Ey5M)

[archaeteacher]

Congratulations to everyone celebrating love! #LoveWins

[archaeteacher]

This was the first time I heard a person in real life say, "Totes!" A young, expensively dressed, white woman sitting at the next table in a third wave local coffee shop said, "Totes!" unironically while discussing her ideal tenant for an art space. Am I being punked?

[clarabeau]

Ladies, I am holding out my hand. Do you trust me?

I need you to open Google Maps. Locate your nearest mall. Get in your car. Drive to Yankee Candle.

Past the seasonal pumpkin display, near the back of the store, you will find a trash pile Man Candle section. You will see candles called MMM, Bacon!. Riding Mower. Man Town. (I’m not kidding. Man Town.) Stay strong. Not in this section, but likely very near this section, you will find a candle called Mountain Lodge.

Hold this jar in your hands like a talisman. Close your eyes and picture a man.

I want to be clear: I’m not talking about a Hugh Dancy. Or an Andrew Garfield, a Ben Whishaw, even a Tom Hiddleston. This exercise requires someone in the Chris Evans weight class. The Richard Armitage department. Someone with smile lines around his eyes who could chop the cedar for your bower with his own hands, strangle an alpha wolf, carry you home when you sprain your ankle in the woods, bench press your entire body. Picture this man in your mountain home with a full beard, a slightly grimy white henley, a fond half smile he reserves only for you. Now open the lid and smell Mountain Lodge.

Steady yourself on the man candle display. Give yourself a second. No, you’re not wrong. Yes, the Yankee Candle Company has just eliminated the need for men. This medium tumbler Mountain Lodge candle jar is now your boyfriend. The Yankee Candle Company has effectively replaced the need for contact with the male half of our species with a compact and clean-burning candle in a jar.

“Do you like this one?” the cashier asked, ringing me up. “Every man should be required by law to smell like what this candle smells like,” I replied intensely. “That’ll be $12.01,” she said.

MOUNTAIN LODGE

[archaeteacher]

Thank you tumblr! I finally have an objectification ideal to which I can realistically aspire.

[archaeteacher]

Is it just me or does this make sense?

“Icarus is Bullshit, that’s why it’s mythology!”

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw2qEUwFbGM)

[georgetakei]

Why aren’t we funding this?! Source: The Daily Buzz

[archaeteacher]

[archaeteacher]

True Grad School  confessions.

[archaeteacher]

My wife’s reaction on FB to someone using the phrase “feminist agenda”

Oh yay! I love when people talk about the feminist agenda! Here is mine: 5:30am - get up and do some yoga, while thinking about how the patriarchy has wronged me 6:15am - Have some feminist coffee 7:00am - Meditate on how I can use my time today to punish nice guys everywhere for just trying to help 7:30am - LA traffic. Ugh. 8am - 8pm - work hard in my job as a producer to smash the patriarchy by insisting my coworkers redo all their shows to purposefully annoy and undermine the persecuted cis-white-male demographic, laughing the whole time because I enjoy persecuting them with my boobs and vagina. 8:15pm - Seriously why is there still traffic on the 101? 8:45-9:45pm - Cook dinner while lamenting the fact that I wasn't able to force more of my feminist wiles on the unsuspecting public. 10:00pm - head to bed, dreaming of more ways to force men to advance my radical feminist agenda of empathy, understanding, and mutual respect.

[archaeteacher]

I just realized that the current trend of “internet intellectuals” resembles the bad poetry phase most teenagers experience. Rhetoric, like poetry, requires very little initial commitment to produce and bad examples are less obvious without increased proficiency. One can read poems early on that inspire and empower a bright young person struggling to find a means of expression. By a similar token, compelling rhetoric can ignite a passion for intellectualism. 

However, just like poetry, one never seems to do it well, right away. If you spend your life practicing, you ought to look back on your early arguments and philosophies and cringe. If that’s not the case, you’re probably like one of those poor arrogant souls at open mic night insisting that you can’t get your book published because everyone else is the problem.

[archaeteacher]

MovieBob provides a lengthy, insightful critique of the cultural significance of the original Ghostbusters. This gave me renewed interest and appreciation for a beloved film from my youth, and helped me consider it as I never have before.

Really That Good: GHOSTBUSTERS