Here Be Dragons

Writer/Actor, Dragon Slayer, Champion Skee Ball Player. Skills include: dancing, using comedy as a defense mechanism, loving dogs, and being a fully functioning news junkie. Would make an excellent Time Traveler.

[feministmadmax]

hey girl: I’ve never seen such a group of varied, complex and badass female action heroes. I’m glad to be riding with you. 

[theavc]

Pride And Prejudice 2005 + Onion headlines = one totally endearing meme

Some of the best memes out there are the ones that make absolutely no sense. Take, for instance, “Pride And Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines.” Created byauthor and blogger KC Kahler, the three-part meme popped up on Tumblr recently and basically just consists of cropped Onion headlines strategically placed over screencaps from the Kiera Knightley, Rosamund Pike, and Matthew Macfadyen version of the classic Jane Austen tale. The results work surprisingly well, especially for those with at least a passing familiarity with the old English source material.

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[kcinpa]

Well, it looks like I’m moderately internet famous now. 

To be fair, I didn’t create the meme of combining Onion headlines with movies/tv shows, or even with Jane Austen adaptations. whatwouldelizabethbennetdo got there first. That’s the thing about memes though, everyone wants in.

[kcinpa]

Pride and Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines, part 1/3

Other Austen + Onion Headlines

[cmoeckel]

Informal Tone Of Cover Letter Sets Job Applicant Apart From Seriously Considered Candidates

MILPITAS, CA—Saying his casual writing style made him “stand out immediately,” sources at Redding Media reported Monday that the informal tone of Michael Yanover’s job application had set him apart from the candidates under serious consideration.

All of this.

[feministmadmax]

hey girl: you can use my shoulder as a rifle stand, as you’re the better shot of the two of us.

[feministmadmax]

hey girl: I don’t need to see the pain and humiliation you suffered as a sex slave. I believe you. 

[cmoeckel]

(via Hitting a little too close to home - Album on Imgur)

[eccebitch]

[shitpeoplesaytowomendirectors]

While I was directing an actor, he broke out in the middle of the scene and shouted, "She's EMASCULATING ME!"

[animal-factbook]

The recently trend on flower crowns was actually started by bunnies. Flower crowns came from the bunny tribe “rabbitus” in northern Antarctica, and was bought to America in the 1861 San Francisco Carrot Rush. Flower crowds has become a symbol of indie music because white girls stole the look to wear to Coachella. Sadly bunnies aren’t allowed in music festivals to stop them from stealing their look.

[femsplain]

:)

[castingcallwoe]

Happy #worldbookday from the delightful world of casting calls!

[explore-blog]

Novelist Richard Ford visits The New York Public Library’s Books at Noon series for a fantastic conversation with NYPL’s Jessica Strand. Here are some of the highlights – a fine addition to this ongoing archive of celebrated writers’ advice on the craft.

On not being creatively timid and...

[gellerchandler]

gif request meme favorite newsroom character (requested by abrandnewname)

"Do your piles of cash protect you from this interview in which I’m intentionally stripping you of your dignity? And, by the way, I’ve managed to do it without lying once.”

[cmoeckel]

I love her.  Can I please be Sloan Sabbith?

[someladyparts]

What am I even going to aspire to in life, now that I’ve been made into a gif?

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[cmoeckel]

It feels like the world is in a crap place right now: fatal consequences of abhorrent racial inequality, the rise of Isis, the awful sexism that is still pervasive in our society, deadly sieges in Australian cafes, tornadoes in Los Angeles, earthquakes in the midwest, pay inequity, entrenched career politicians, torture reports, global warming the massive failings of our news organizations to actually do their jobs...

So...I took my dog to see Santa.

No judgements. Just let the cuteness and warmth wash over you.

[cmoeckel]

I’d say, ‘I don’t think she needs to be a prostitute to be interesting’ or ‘I don’t think she needs to be raped to be interesting,’ and they’d say, ‘Well, geez, we do need the vagina dentata and we do need the sexual violation, otherwise…’ I mean, should most actresses just get double mastectomies? Is that what they have to do to change the cultural narrative?”

Debra Granik

Life after Winter's Bone

[cmoeckel]

Outlander and TV's Sexual Revolution

Maureen Ryan of the Huffington Post wrote an elegant, articulate, and extremely important article:  'Outlander,' The Wedding Episode and TV's Sexual Revolution.  

This piece is definitely worth a read, even if you are not currently watching the show (Which you should be because it is wonderfully executed, full of complex characters, not to mention, the show is a fine example of subtle but innovative storytelling. Vote with your viewing habits!)  

A few highlights (but seriously, you should read the whole thing):

-"We've witnessed gripping moments and tremendous performances over the last decade and a half; we've also seen a lot of prostitutes, a lot of female scolds and so many dead girls. So often women were in the story to present opportunities for the man to demonstrate tenderness or, more commonly, they were the recipients of brutality, verbal and otherwise."

''Outlander" is more committed to the emotional realities of its characters than to the magical per se, and it certainly hasn't been concerned with propping up shopworn cliches about intimacy, power dynamics and sex."

-"...in 'The Wedding,' both characters' points of view, and both bodies, were equally important. The camera was interested in everything -- in both characters' mental and physical states, in every curve and every limb."

"By being conscious of women's desires, these shows make it clear that they are conscious of women's humanity."

From 'Outlander,' The Wedding Episode and TV's Sexual Revolution by Maureen Ryan