Words Are People Too

[ahgoeff]

Cinematography I’m gay for: the Confident Woman Walk

[ekjohnston]

@allofthefeelings: #Moana#Wonder Woman#we’ve found two of the four#where are confident lady walk earth and air?

[drst]

Furiosa is Earth right?

[ekjohnston]

YOU ARE CORRECT.

[theotherhayley]

Asumi Rio as Tybalt | Romeo & Juliette (Takarazuka, 2012)

[naamahdarling]

i’ve been reading Seanan McGuire’s Toby Daye series so at first I thought this was fancasting for the king of cats and I just sort of lay back and passively accepted my own death by sexy headcanon

[gojiro]

Fun Vampire Fact; the reason that Vampires traditionally cannot see their reflections in a mirror is because mirrors used to be backed with a reflective layer of silver — which, as the metal of purity, would not ‘interact’ with Vampires, who are the Devil’s work.

However, modern mirrors have used aluminum as their reflective backing for many years now — and aluminum is not a ‘picky’ metal at all. So Vampires are able to see their reflections in modern mirrors.

[asheyna]

Now I want a fic about a super old vampire seeing their reflection for the first time in centuries.

[snorlax-con-tetas-deactivated20]

listen to pop pop

[robotmango]

i realize i’m maybe like, the Nichest of markets here, but i really really really desperately want to watch further adventures of Diana Prince, Curator of Antiquities™

…like, imagine the interdepartmental meetings

Diana: we have recently acquired several exquisite pieces of very early minoan kamares ware. i feel a refresh of the gallery might encourage our visitors to–

some marketing dipshit: look, we can’t get people in the door for pottery. we need another big show, like can you get a vermeer or–

Diana of Themiscrya, Amazon, God-Killer, Daughter of Hippolyta: pottery is important

some marketing dipshit, lightly pissing himself: i agree

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Not only will I join you in the Nichest of Markets, but I am suddenly stricken by the dismay that can only come from a depressing awareness of how niche this market is.  Does anyone…like…have fic?

[darnianwayne]

“Here you are, Ms. Prince,” says the mail currier. He grabs the tablet from his back pocket, presenting it to her. “If you’ll just sign right there…”

“Of course,” says Diana. She scrawls her name, and the currier dutifully passes over the package. It is reasonably sized, stocky, with the words FRAGILE, HANDLE WITH CARE written along the edges of the Wayne Enterprises logo. “Same time next week?”

The currier laughs. “More than likely, I’d wager. Weird that Mr. Wayne has taken a sudden interest in supplementing the Louvre with his own private collection, but hey. Billionaires, right? Who knows what they’re thinking.”

Diana thinks of the museums in Gotham, filled to the brim with some of the world’s most beautiful antiquities and artifacts, and about Bruce Wayne who cares not a lick about any one them but takes ownership of them anyway for the sole purpose of having free exhibitions open to the general public five days a week. She smiles, agrees, and waves the currier off, until the next time. 

She is examining the dish (Uruk period, likely kiln production, as it is a strange almost-blue tint that suggests a high-temperature controlled oven), when Isabell in charge of Eastern Eurasian arts knocks lightly on her half-open door and lets herself in.

“New delivery?” she asks, nodding to the dish.

“Yes.” Carefully, Diana puts the dish back in its box. She makes a note to have one of her assistants come by later to pick it up and send it down to the lab for testing. “The meeting?”

“Oh, uh.” Isabell in charge of Eastern Eurasian arts clears her throat and looks briefly at the floor, embarrassed. Diana lets her have a moment, used to the reaction. “Yeah. Want to walk together?”

Diana is already walking around her, throwing her disposable gloves in the garbage as she passes. “Sure,” she says anyway and waits for Isabell by the door. Isabell jolts when she realizes Diana is already ahead of her. Diana politely chooses to ignore that. 

It’s only when she is seated besides Isabell in charge of Eastern Eurasian arts and Haruki in charge of philanthropic outreach that she remembers: Timothy in charge of corporate marketing is going to be at this meeting as well.

She nearly groans aloud, already anticipating his tirade on diminishing returns this financial quarter and his chart predicting a downward trend of attendance among younger visitors. 

Timothy in charge of corporate marketing does not disappoint. After the heads of every department say their piece and give the customary updates, Timothy in charge of corporate marketing has an assistant hold out a poster board detailing their declining revenue and inability to attract attention. For nearly half the appointed time for the meeting, he speaks, pointing back to his poster board at regular intervals with frothing enthusiasm.

“Well,” says Diana, when Timothy in charge of corporate marketing finally allows the department heads to speak. “We have recently acquired several exquisite pieces of Early Minoan Kamares ware. I feel a refresh of the gallery might encourage our visitors to—”

“Ms. Prince,” Timothy in charge of corporate marketing interrupts. He is smiling, not unkindly, in the way a headmaster might at a particularly rambunctious child. Diana feels her fist curl, despite herself. “We can’t get people in the door for pottery.” He laughs. “No, no, we’d need something bigger. Grander, you understand. Something that will hold our visitors’ attention. Perhaps if you could get a Vermeer, yes? I hear you’ve been receiving packages from Bruce Wayne himself, and he has a lovely piece, if I do remember correctly. Maybe try asking—” 

The way Timothy in charge of corporate marketing says asking, Diana knows that is far from what he actually means. She is about as likely to follow through with that as she is to ask Timothy for anything.

As calmly as she can, she places both hands atop the table and uncurls her fists. Below her fingers, a minuscule part of the grained wood chips. She extends her spine, sitting straight, and beside her, Isabell in charge of Eastern Eurasian arts swallows. 

“Tim,” she cuts in. “For how many quarters have our returns, as you keep reminding us, diminished?”

Timothy in charge of corporate marketing blinks. He squints. “Well, I would say for nearly six quarters now.”

“Hm. And remind me, how long have you been with us here?”

The room has the same quality of quiet that Diana is intimately familiar with, bordering on dangerous. 

“Nearly six quarters, if memory serves,” says Diana. 

“Now, Ms. Prince,” Timothy in charge of corporate marketing blusters, “if you are implying that somehow I am responsible for the state of our returns—” 

“I am not implying anything. Just perhaps that big shows and singular centerpieces are not the way for us to go. Isabell?”

Isabell in charge of Eastern Eurasian arts jolts and looks up at her, wide-eyed. “Yes?”

“Didn’t you recently acquire some newly discovered Jomon pieces?”

“Yes.”

“Of course, it’s a matter of opinion, but if we were to redesign the gallery to incorporate the different wares from different eras and locales, it might encourage our visitors to learn more about them and could even encourage repeat visits.”

“I suppose…” allows Timothy in charge of corporate marketing. 

Diana stares at him, the same way she might have once stared down her own mother to let her leave Themyscira or even looked down on Ares as he tried to tempt her to his side. She stares at him, and remembers with a certainty that has been granted to her after years in man’s world that he is but a man and like any man, he is fragile and breakable, when she is not. 

“Pottery is important, Tim,” she says.

Trembling, unable to meet her eye, Timothy in charge of corporate marketing agrees.

[robotmango]

YOU DID THE THING YOU WENT FORTH AND DID IT I SALUTE YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sufferingsappho-deactivated2017]

“Everyone thinks he’s mentally ill but he actually just has superpowers.”

Okay, but like, what if both? Can we get a superhero with a mental illness depicted in a nominally positive way? That’s not just a cheap plot twist? Is that really too much to ask?

[sufferingsappho-deactivated2017]

And not the whole “I’m psychotic and I could lose control of my powers at any moment” shit. I’m sick of that.

How about “I’m psychotic, but my telepathy helps a lot. If I think I’m hallucinating, my friends can let me see what they see and hear what they hear to keep me grounded in reality.”

Or you know, maybe someone whose mental illness and superpowers are unrelated. A speedster with depression who knows they /could/ clean their apartment in under four seconds, but would rather just watch Netflix and eat chocolate. A super strong hero who also has ocd and keeps rearranging their furniture, and sure it’s physically easy, but it’s still a pain.

Like, literally just in the few minutes it took me to write this post, I probably already came up with a good 30 character concepts. It’s not that hard, as long as you like, you know, think of mentally ill people as people and not plot devices.

[meeresbande]

“think of mentally ill people as people and not plot devices” Yes please!

[scriptshrink]

Exactly this.

[chronicallylate-blog]

HOW TO MAKE A CUTE DRESS OUT OF SHORTS

put shorts on

put legs in one leg hole

pull up and on to shoulder

instant fashion

[glitterweave]

And here we have glitterweave sporting a beautiful Sunset Yellow 

NEVER forget to accessorize 

[silversora-deactivated20190324]

well one of us is going to have to change

[littlekingtrashboy]

Guys

I really think

I’m winning this. 

(Yoga pants do the trick)

[dalekpoetry-deactivated20150207]

Ladies…..please….

[necessary-sass-deactivated20150]

Send this to all the straight boys

[dwnsy]

House for hamsters

[asheyna]

@thepiig

[richie-luna]

friendly reminder that jughead jones is canonically aro/ace 

happy pride month, everyone :) 

[nyokoko]

After A Year, Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Hasn’t Raised Retail Prices

Business owners did a bunch of handwringing about how damaging to the economy the wage increase would be. But so far, they’re wrong.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Shocking News Update: giving workers a living wage that actually allows them to afford basic necessities while being able to save to treat themself to something nice sometimes has not lead to the destruction of the economy and the downfall of civilisation as we know it

Republicans everywhere left baffled

[bastlynn]

*GASP*

It’s almost like this is… consistent with 70 years of documented impact of minimum wage increases…

http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-effect-on-jobs-2016-5

Full report: http://www.nelp.org/publication/raise-wages-kill-jobs-no-correlation-minimum-wage-increases-employment-levels/

[shrimpnastee-deactivated2017122]

Robin Wright’s most iconic roles

General Antiope (Wonder Woman, 2017) Claire Underwood (House of Cards, 2013 -) Jenny Curran (Forrest Gump, 1994) Buttercup (The Princess Bride, 1987)

[madlori]

I feel like Robin Wright sort of disappeared for awhile and then re-emerged, triumphant, to have one of the most quietly amazing woman-over-40 careers ever.

[tzikeh]

Did you mean “fell into the soul-sucking, black-hole maw that is a relationship with Serial Abuser Sean Penn from the mid-‘90s to the late-2000’s, but finally clawed her way out of that and got her life back from the soul-sucking, black-hole maw that is Being Anywhere Near Serial Abuser Sean Penn?” Because that is what I feel like you meant.

[madlori]

You know, I had actually forgotten that she was married to that dickhole, her awesomeness since has eclipsed it. But yes, that is absolutely what I meant.

[annikasettergren-archive]

talk street magic to me

drawing power from the metro lines

illusionists busking illegally, shimmering lights disintegrating as they run

plant mages tending tiny rooftop and windowbox gardens

elementary school kids learning basic sigils on the playground

wixen taking a while to key into the magic in new cities when they move

alchemists dealing on the side to support their experiments

middle schoolers making friendship talismans and amulets for everyone

numerologists who’ll do your math homework for $5 or divine your fortune for $10

kids mass-texting luck and speed spells when their parties get broken up by the cops

[deskgirl]

Hell yeah, let’s talk about magic.

Like elementary kids learning silly (or inappropriate) charms from each other on the bus, the same way we learned our first swear words. Clapping games across the bus aisle, but with spells instead of rhymes.

Worrying that your friend is getting into dark magic, but not knowing how to talk to them about it. Intervention programs for kids abusing hexes and runes, because magic has given them control over something for once in their life, and they’re starting to make some dangerous choices.

Psychic teachers knowing when you’re cheating. Knowing when you’re having trouble with homework. Or at home. Knowing when you need tutoring or an AP course because you’re just not being challenged or a different teaching method because you can’t process what you’re learning in class no matter how hard you try, and the teacher tells you it’s okay, they know. They know.

Magic graffiti. Graffiti in wild places, and graffiti that vanishes when certain people roll by like the police. Or graffiti that only appears when the police walk by to insult them. Murals. Swirling, living murals on the sides of buildings. Murals that—if you listen closely—can be heard, not just seen.

In the evenings, kids hiding out in someone’s backyard or an alley passing around a joint and casting minor illusions to watch while high.

Chalk artists making works that are so realistic, they come to life off of the sidewalk.

One man bands in the park, with instruments floating around playing themselves.

Punk concerts in empty lots with amped out music and lights, but noise-cancelling spells and illusion hide them in plain sight from anyone outside of the lot.

Mediums predicting people in need, and making sure to be there at just the right moment to lend them a helping hand. “You seem upset, do you need to talk?” “Oh, you’re a dollar short? No, don’t put the milk back; I’ll cover you.” “You really ought to try taking your resume to this store. Trust me.”

Necromancers in forensics speaking with the dead to solve homicides and cold cases. Living lie detectors as beat cops and detectives and DEA agents.

Strangely cheap five star food diners that bake actual love into their apple pie, and they always know your dietary restrictions without being told.

Service golems in various sizes and shapes, making sure their magic users aren’t crowded, get medical attention, go where they need to, etc. They don’t get distracted, they can be hollow to hold things like medications, and in rare instances, they seem to develop loving attachment to their users despite not being alive.

Little old landladies who dabble in witchcraft brewing homeopathic remedies for people in their apartment complex.

Street magic is an amazing concept.

[theinktree]

Heck yes.

Cars with paintjobs covered in sigils, protecting them and others from harm.

Churches that are literal sanctuary, backed up with wards to prevent violence being done within their walls.

Practitioners of Sympathetic Magic using company logos to invoke the associated concepts - a nike tattoo makes you faster, something stamped with “Nokia” is more durable.

The old leylines don’t work, but the highways, train lines, water mains and high-tension cables do the trick.

Magic Conventions.

just. Magic Conventions.

[snailchimera]

All of this please.

[softlenaluthor]

Into It™

[tabine]

@all artists who want to draw symmetra doing indian classical dance things

as an indian classical dancer i support you 100% in your endeavor but please please please do not under any circumstances draw her doing classical dance things while wearing shoes!!! i know it sounds stupid and something insignificant to get this worked up over but wearing shoes while dong indian classical dance is highly disrespectful and sacrilegious (especially if the dancer in question is wearing their gungaroo/gajjalu/dance bells and shoes at the same time) and also inaccurate as far as the traditions of india go too so please be aware of this! and as for why you absolutely do not ever wear shoes while dancing: i’ve talked about it here and here but i am more than happy to answer any other questions people may have about it as well! :D)

i’ve seen a ton of beautiful dancer!symmetra art out there but literally just seeing her wearing shoes in the art in question just breaks my heart so uh yeah just consider this your generic public service announcement from your local indian classical dancer and symmetra fan :D

(and yes this is okay to reblog!)

[tabine]

please reblog this even if you’re not into overwatch: there’s already so much misinformation and ignorance and so many misconceptions about indian classical dance and culture out there – even within the indian and classical dance communities – and i just don’t want such a beautiful, lovely character who already shows having autism and disabilities in a positive light to haver other aspects of her character suffer just because something “looks cool” or “exotic”

[beardedjoel]

hobbies include:

playing video games

crying over video games

buying video game soundtracks

talking about video games

taking screenshots of video games

video games

[gogomrbrown]

favorite sign

[doublehoeee7]

Aye that’s at my school

[docholligay]

Coming from a state champion baker:

If y’all use a decent box mix and use melted butter instead of vegetable oil, an extra egg, and milk instead of water, no one can tell the difference. I sure as hell can’t. 

Also, if you add a little almond extract to vanilla cake, or a little coffee to chocolate cake, it sends it through the roof. 

This concludes me attempting to be helpful. 

[meowjorie]

yo I can vouch for this I’ve done this for the last few cakes I’ve made and holy crap it makes suuuuch a difference the cake is still fluffy, but it also seems more dense, and it doesn’t dry out like at all you can leave it uncovered on the counter all day after being cut into, and it won’t get all crusty and dry this is an amazing way to take your cakes to the next level

[leaper182]

Does this count as cake hacks?

[haberdashing]

cake: hacked