Heartfelt Thingamajigs

Sherlock (and a lot of Benedict in general), Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Marvel/Avengers (a lot of Tom in general), Elementary, Game of Thrones, Firefly, Les Mis, Shameless, love for a variety of actors (dudes: Leo diCap, Hugh Dancy, Martin, Ewan McGregor, Lee Pace, Ben Wishaw, JRM, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Goode) (gals: Natalie Dormer, Keira Knightley, Emilia Clarke, Rachel Weisz, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, J.Law, Gemma Arterton, Scarlett, Lena Headey...). Also some litgeekness, a lot of book adoration, Nerdfighterness, art-geekness, theatre / ballet / performing arts love/appreciation etc.

[sandandglass]

President Obama tries to get a driver’s license

[tastefullyoffensive]

[video]

[hiddleston-daily]

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[monochromaticblack]

men are not “helping out” when they take care of their children… they’re taking care of their children.

[dduane]

The perfect heists that involve stealing nothing at all

Instead of making off with actual objects, thieves can now just pinch the data that describes them and recreate exact replicas of their own

“In February, two artists, Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles – claimed to have scanned the bust of Nefertiti in a German history museum using a handheld Kinect Sensor. They then posted the digital files online.

Their goal, they said, was to free the statue from its imprisonment inside the walls of Berlin’s Neues Museum by enabling anyone with access to a 3D printer to make their own near-perfect replica – a Nefertiti for all.

Al-Badri and Nelles saw their caper as an act of cultural liberation. It was a gesture against what they believe to be a legacy of colonial theft and appropriation, in which the goods of one nation or culture – in this case, Egypt – ended up in the museums and storerooms of another.

But the stunt illustrated another possibility: the indirect heist. Instead of stealing the thing itself, you can just pilfer the set of parameters – the metadata – that define it.Why steal the actual bust of Nefertiti when you can instead easily nab the measurements to fabricate a new one? You would not have the original but you would have the peculiar wealth that comes with possessing a potentially infinite number of exact copies.“

[mid0nz-deactivated20170516]

Relevant to my current feature draft interests.

[devourfrombeneath]

“Ghostbusters Movie Trailer Most Disliked In YouTu-”

It’s because they’re women. Just. I’m going to stop you right there and tell you, yeah, it’s disliked because it’s a movie starring women.

“Well no but see it’s actually because it’s a reboo-”

Of the top 15 highest grossing movies of 2015, 9 were either reboots or sequels and 5 were adaptations based on books or comics. [x] You don’t hate the new Ghostbusters because it’s not original enough. It’s because they had the audacity to cast women in a movie not marketed specifically for women. It’s because it’s a reboot of a movie starring men and they cast women.

“Honestly I just didn’t think it was all that funny-”

Don’t be an asshole. That is not why THIS movie’s trailer, above all the outrageously shitty movie trailers made, got the most negative reaction. The movie’s made by and starring people who are already established as marketable. It stars SNL cast, which, again, is really goddamn marketable. It’s an established and popular franchise (and tapping into those has already proven to be really fucking marketable, if last year alone says anything.)

In 2014 only 12% of all clearly identifiable film protagonists were female. (For the purpose of the study, protagonists = the characters from whose perspective the story is told.) [x] People complaining about Ghostbusters are the same mouth-breathing troglodytes who complained that Star Wars cast “ANOTHER girl!” in Rogue One. (Or complained about Rey in Star Wars, or Furiosa in Mad Max, etc. etc. without any fucking end in sight oh my god.) People hate the trailer because they hate women stepping out of the 12% of place they have.

Look, it’s 2016. Let’s just call misogyny what it is and not give it any fucking trending headlines, alright.

[firebaeb]

Elle Woods could lift Thor’s hammer

[believesinponds]

#what like it’s hard

[exploregif-blog]

[gifsboom]

Corgi Fails At Hopping Over Fence

[yolowoho]

A replay of the women’s Frozen Four 2016 championship tournament this year brought in around 651,000 households, more so than any other men’s Frozen Four competition that weekend, according to the BC Interruption. This also beat an estimated 635,000 household views of the men’s Frozen Four championship the year before.    It is not just hockey that is receiving such high view ratings. A video by NBC News Today said the U.S. women’s soccer team beat records with the amount of household views upon their World Cup win in 2015, far surpassing the best viewership that the men’s team has ever brought in. Not only have they surpassed the men in viewership, but they also surpass them in revenue according to U.S. soccer’s own numbers.    In 2015, the U.S. women’s soccer team brought in revenue of $16 million, compared to the men’s team who caused a $2 million loss. This is irrefutable proof that U.S. soccer’s main source of income comes from the women, not the men.    Despite this knowledge, upon their 2015 World Cup championship FIFA awarded the women $2 million for their record-breaking win 5-2 against Japan, according to an article by National Public Radio. The men who came eleventh in the 2014 World Cup were awarded $9 million, over four times the amount given to the women’s world cup champions.

Inequality For Women’s Sports Must Be Addressed (via thejusticethatissocial)

[svartvitkatt-blog]

The kakapo, New Zealand’s flightless parrot (x)

[nexya]

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

[charlesoberonn]

The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”

[terminallydepraved]

my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”

[loremerchant]

Ancient Shitposting

Now on the History Channel

[self-critical-automaton]

‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world

[azvolrien]

Also, basically every generation has had people complaining about the younger one. Victorians, Tudors, Ancient Greece - if you were to go back to the Palaeolithic, you’d probably find a caveman going ‘Rock good enough for Ug! Why Ug Jr tie rock to stick? Youth today too dependent on technology!’ And I think that’s brilliant.

[makinology]

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

things are awful and will remain awful for a very long time so here is a picture of two chickens with little handmade knitted capes on. Someone must love these chickens a lot to make them little chicken capes. They look so warm and lovely in their little chicken capes.

[mediamattersforamerica]

The Daily Show and the USWNT take on myths about the wage gap (and destroy a Fox News guest’s opposition to equal pay in the process).

[treehauslove]

Asheville Treehouse. A permanently inhabited treehouse in the beautiful woods 200 yards above the Ivy river. Located in Asheville, North Carolina. 

[weloveshortvideos]

[usaonetwothree]

[aheapofgarbage]

[simonwang]

my friend showed me this video of his pet donkey greeting him when he returned home from college after a few months and you just have to watch it RIGHT NOW

[otterologist-blog]

Oh my god I thought this was going to be cute and heart warming and yeah it is but holy shit please turn the sound on I’m fucking dying

[tschaikovsky]

[neokingserenity-deactivated2016]

So I can’t stop crying after watching this.

[featheredtentacles]

this is by far the most incredible thing I’ve watched in days

[smartass-stripper]

This is why I try to see the best in people. This is why I will always take the side of people trying to make this world a better place. Incredible story.

[thewickeylady]

Amazing.

[letargos]

omg that was UNEXPECTED

[jouramarin-deactivated20160821]

She speaks such a good French it sounds like a novel and I’m in love with her voice

[swedebeast]

On the day that Hitler made a self-administration of a fast acting lead pill, this feels as the best day on the entire year to share this.