The Martian

Woman. Virgo. Audrey Hepburn fan. Game of Thrones noob. Twin. Procrastination extraordinaire.

[harira-enthusiast]

yesterdays match was 10000x more entertaining i cant believe that this is the final we were stuck with

[harira-enthusiast]

this is the most boring wc final i’ve seen

[harira-enthusiast]

IM TAKING BACK WHAT I SAID

[frontier001]

They're Together Again...

[missmentelle]

This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting! Household Skills:

How to unclog a toilet without a plunger

How to fix a blown fuse

How to fix a leaky faucet 

How to clean soap scum from your tub and shower

How to escape from a house fire

How to make a budget and stick to it

How to sharpen a knife

How to clean a self-cleaning oven

How to clean red wine stains from carpet

How to clean blood stains from fabric

How to clean grease stains from fabric

How to do a load of laundry

How to iron your clothes

How to test your smoke detectors

Cooking Skills:

How to tell if produce is ripe

How to know if food is expired 

How to properly sanitize a kitchen

How to cook an egg

How to make rice

How to make pasta

How to put out a kitchen grease fire safely

How to use a gas stove

How to use a convection oven

How to cook meat safely

How to use a stand mixer

How to use kitchen knives properly

How to make mashed potatoes

How to make grilled cheese sandwiches 

Health Skills:

How to stop bleeding

How to treat a burn 

How to do CPR (on an adult)

How to do CPR (on a child)

How to do CPR (on a baby)

How to help someone who is choking

How to save yourself if you are choking alone

How to read a nutrition label

How to treat frostbite

How to recognize when someone is having a stroke

How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule

Mental Health Skills:

How to calm down during a panic attack

How to help someone who is suicidal 

How to meditate 

How to stop self-harming

How to recognize problem drinking

How to choose a therapist

How to deal with disappointment

How to cope with grief

How to raise your self-esteem

Relationship and Social Skills:

How to apologize

How to cope with a breakup 

How to accept criticism 

How to deal with bullying 

How to argue in a healthy way

How to ask someone out

How to break up with someone

How to recognize an abusive relationship

How to rekindle a damaged friendship

How to speak in public

Job Hunting Skills:

How to tie a tie

How to write a resume

How to write a cover letter

How to dress for a job interview (for women/femmes)

How to dress for a job interview (for men/masculines)

How to properly shake hands

How to nail a job interview

Other Skills:

How to sew on a button 

How to hammer a nail

How to change your oil

How to put gas in your car

How to jump-start a car

How to pick a good password

How to back up your files

How to write a cheque

[sacrificethemtothesquid]

If there’s ever anything you want that isn’t on this list…youtube it. Everyone always comments on my handiness, but everything I know comes from an old guy and his iphone.

[rareaudreyhepburn]

Over 30 years ago, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn gave this passionate speech as world leaders adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. 

Audrey Hepburn was appointed a UNICEF Special Ambassador on March 9, 1988 and then Goodwill Ambassador in 1989. Soon after becoming a UNICEF ambassador, Hepburn went on a mission to Ethiopia, where years of drought and civil strife had caused terrible famine. After visiting UNICEF emergency operations, she talked about the projects to the media in the United States, Canada and Europe over several weeks, giving as many as 15 interviews a day. It set a precedent for her commitment to the organization. In the years that followed, Hepburn made a series of UNICEF field trips, visiting a polio vaccine project in Turkey, training programmes for women in Venezuela, projects for children living and working on the street in Ecuador, projects to provide drinking water in Guatemala and Honduras and radio literacy projects in El Salvador. She saw schools in Bangladesh, projects for impoverished children in Thailand, nutrition projects in Viet Nam and camps for displaced children in Sudan.

Source: @unicef

[vaticanomenon]

Covid19 Entertainment Masterpost

The Met Opera is releasing a full recording per day.

Feature film archive

Open library

MS-DOS Games

 The Live Music Archive

 Ephemeral VHS collection

Berlin philarmonic

Museums

Peaches the Mouse by @my-darling-boy

450 Ivy League courses

Natasha and Pierre, King Lear with Anthony Hopkins and Much Ado About Nothing with Tennant and Catherine Tate

Learn Ancient Languages

Live stream from Monterrey Bay’s Aquarium via @hummingbird-hooligan

Project Gutemberg via @sailoreuterpe

Bob Ross on twitch! via @ponteh2dhh1ksdiwesph2tres

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[victorious]

Reblog this and money will be entering your life this week

[tchaikovskaya]

sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

[lisozima500]

[buttondownfold]

[puukkolesbo]

[the-fairy-dong-mother]

Sometimes facebook is hilarious

[instantbouquetface-me]

If you agree that Daenerys stabbing was morally justified, then why do you still say that Jon was wrong to do it?

Okay, consider this: What is it that could justify the murder of Daenerys at this juncture?

There are two possibilities:

1) Justice for what she has already done, i.e. her actions in the destruction of King’s Landing.

2) Prevention of atrocities she may commit in the future.

I separate these because these are often joined in anti metas as if they were they same thing although they are obviously not.

Lets consider 1) first. Here is the argument: Dany did something terrible. It was unjustified by any military logic. It was an atrocity. The pointless murder of so many innocents was a crime deserving of punishment, even the death sentence. But the power dynamics were such that it was impossible that anyone would ever be able to bring her to trial and punish her for any of this. No one can punish a war criminal who has won and holds the real power here. 

Fair enough. As an act of justice, i.e. delivering justice  for what she had done but justice that would never be delivered otherwise, I can see the act as being morally justifiable. And if Jon had done it for this reason, then I would agree that the act was morally justified. It would still feel out of character for him to do this since he has not acted as an agent of justice in this manner before, but it would not be open to moral objection. If I was his lawyer at a trial, this is exactly the sort of thing I would argue to save him.

However, here is the fact of it: We  as the audience know that Jon did not do it for this reason. He did not do it to exact justice for what had already been done.

Which brings us to reason 2) i.e. the desire to prevent future atrocities.

Here it is far more plausible to believe that Jon did it to prevent these from happening. But then look at what he actually did: He had one brief conversation with Dany for a minute or two (only conversation he had with her ever since the battle) and killed her!

Think about that. In just a minute or two of conversation at a point right after her victory high, Jon decided that she was irredeemable and her future course of action will inevitably be full of atrocities. Remember that at this juncture Dany posed no immediate threat to any other cities. It would have taken substantial time for her to settle down in King’s Landing first before starting another war. After what had happened here, it was highly unlikely that anyone else would have shown the sort of defiance Cersei did. They would have bent the knee. Jon had a lot of time to try to persuade her that her new course was wrong and that she had to change direction. If she were about to fly off and burn another city on Drogon’s back, then fine, I could see the argument. But she was not doing that right now. Jon had unparalleled access to the Queen. He could have undoubtedly waited till the last moment before doing this, if it truly was inevitable. I mean he was never himself in any serious danger. He was clearly protected by Dany’s great love for him. He got hardly more than a slap on the wrist for spilling his secret to Sansa after all. So why didn’t he make much more of an effort to bring her back to the good side? That is big problem for me.

Take the example of Anakin Skywalker that antis like to compare Dany too. Darth Vader had been evil for decades by the point Luke met him. Would his murder have been justified? Definitely. But look at how hard Luke tried to bring him to the side of the Light. And he finally succeeded! 

How hard did Jon try with Dany? As per the show’s narrative he didn’t really try at all. I mean one brief conversation and that was it? If he had kept at it, tried a number of different ways, he may well have broken through. Dany was initially traumatized at this juncture. With some time she might start seeing the error of what had happened. She may have started feeling the sort of guilt that one would expect her to feel after such an action. But Jon didn’t even try to do this. Even though he had seen her change her views before. Even though he had seen her work under a better morality before. Even though she loved him so much that she would have let him argue with her and try to convince her. This was the woman he loved. The Queen he had pledged to. Even his closest living relative. Who had only recently done everything under the sun to save him and his people, including risking her own life to save him. And he didn’t even try to redeem her? He gave her no chance to return to the Queen she was only so recently? He just killed her after failing to persuade her at once? I mean who does that in a relationship? We all know that sometimes you may know that something is right, but it can take time to convince your partner. You may have to adopt different lines of argument. Sometimes you realize that you were being stubborn on something your partner was right about, but only realized it after it was brought to your attention in a particular way. Jon just killed her after a few words. 

I can understand that D&D didn’t have the time to show a development like that. But whose fault is that? HBO would have given them entire seasons to show it if they had asked for it. In the absence of any such development, Jon’s actions under the second justification begin to look really bad. At least from a Watsonian angle. Because from a Watsonian perspective I cannot see it as justified but rather see it as impulsive and stupid.

And then it felt even worse when they didn’t spend any time showing Jon grieving over what he had done either. Yes it did seem like he was quite willing to have Drogon kill him and be done with it in the scene itself, but we didn’t see the sort of lasting grief that makes sense for the character. And that made it feel worse. it almost makes one question how much he really loved her.

Of course, from a Doyalist perspective I believe that D&D retconned Dany altogether. So for them the question was not whether Jon would work hard to bring the woman he loved back to side of good after Dany had fallen to the dark side. But rather that Jon would come to realize that Dany was never on the side of good to begin with. She was always a sinister force. Jon was only coming to realize that she was always evil, not that she had just turned evil and could be turned back. Therefore he was right in not trying to save her now because there was nothing to save. This was always who she was. Jon had just been the fool who saw good where there was none.

My issue hence comes back to not being able to accept the retconned vision of Daenerys. If I see Dany as someone who had recently fallen to the dark side then Jon’s actions are hard to accept. Even though, as per 1) above, they may be morally justifiable.

[chewbacca]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 — 2003)

[mckinnonfan]

“You can go to hell, but I’m going to Texas.“

[violadvis]

There’s more to life than stupid boys.

[sheikah]

[rareaudreyhepburn]

Audrey Hepburn photographed in Paris promoting Paris When It Sizzles on July 13, 1962. William Holden was also in attendance.

Audrey’s sunglasses are by Oliver Goldsmith. They are the same pair she wore in Love in the Afternoon (1957) and, most notably, in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961).

[lexiegrcys]

swanfire appreciation week 2019: day 2 ✻ favorite underrated moment