The Doctor Dances

is une artiste trop avant-gardiste, a pirate, and an action-executive transvestite (in her mind). She has a perpetual Peter Pan complex and wants to become a super Sayjin (preferably 4, but if that isn't possible, I'll settle for 2). She is also a New Yorker at heart, European in mind, an Emirati body and soul, and occasionally, a Brasilian in spirit.

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Cross-Atlantic HighFive

Science side of tumblr random question, if my friend and I want to air five each other, but we are located on opposite ends of the earth (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, and Abu Dhabi, UAE):

a) what direction we would have to point in order to get it right, assuming the air five follows the curvature of the earth

OR

b) what angle/trajectory towards the earth do we have to aim if we assume the air five is travelling through all mediums, not just air (i.e. earth, magma, etc.)

Bonus points if anyone knows what our timings should be.

[your-instructions-from-moscow]

if you’re reading this, it’s too late

I already sent good vibes your way… they’re coming. there’s nothing you can do to stop them

[everystarstorm]

This is the most threatening way I’ve ever been cheered up.

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JOIN THE INTROVERT NATION MOVEMENT

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[jasonmantzoukas]

11 YEARS LATER

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Janelle Monáe

at the Los Angeles World Premiere of Marvel Studios’ BLACK PANTHER

Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, California

January 29, 2018 

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This woman is a QUEEN

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Add in your own language

English: I love you

Slovak : Milujem ťa

Finnish: Rakastan sinua

Slovenian: Ljubim te

Danish: Jeg elsker dig

Portuguese: Amo-te

Tagalog: Mahal kita

Punjabi: Panchod chup kar

Somali: Dhillo iska amus

Arabic: انتا حمار

Spanish: Te amo

Bangla: ami tumake bhalo bashi

Indonesian : Aku cinta kamu

Hindi: Mein ghadhe ka bacha hoon

Pashto: spey pashante khkarey

Urdu: Mujhay tum say mohabbat hai

Tamil: Po da mairu pudungi

Malayalam: Patti kazhuda de mone

Kannada: Nind tale nal gobra thumbide

Telugu: Nee muddilo manta petta

Azeri: Seviram Sani

Russian: иди на хуй (idi na houy)

Bosnian: Mrš u pičku materinu

Marathi: Mi tula prem karate/karato

Kurdish: Ez te hezdikhem

German: Ich liebe dich

Polish: Kocham Cię

Ukrainian: Я тебе люблю (ja tebe lublu)

Dutch: Ik hou van jou

French: Je t'aime

Japanese: だいすき (daisuki)

So....I happen to be an Arab....and as i was going through this post my thoughts were 'except for the obvious languages, who's to say if that's actually how to say 'i love you?'...and then I read the one in Arabic....

That doesn't say "I love you"

/dieslaughing

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For the second year in a row, we humble insane creative members of #JAFink are participating in #gisHwHes, the greatest international scavenger hunt the world has ever seen. The website has more information, but it's basically a week long "hunt" filled with items that encourage people to be different combinations of kind, creative, nerdy, generous, brave and crazy, occasionally forcing them to let go of inhibitions, think outside the box, and dive out of comfort zones. Basically everything we love here at JAF. When the week is up, we'll be free to post some of our favourite items, but in the meantime don't forget to root for #TeamInevitableBetrayal! #deathtonormalcy

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Aragorn: I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn.

Aragorn: This is Gimli, son of Gloin

Aragorn: And this is Legolas...

Legolas: he's fucking forgotten my dad's name

Aragorn: ...of the woodland realm

Legolas: oh my god

[countvonroo]

I love how groups of friends will end up adopting a group name. like wether it’s something just like “squad” or “meme team” an inside joke or something. and you’ll just refer to the group like one unit like “hey, the meme team is coming over,” and people will just know who that means. I love it. I love these little gangs filled with good pals.

[bookthiefes]

please install tag viewer for this one

[dockhands]

I

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Not so much referring to our group, but we used to call our apartment "the den of indulgence" back in college/grad school and then our group of friends/anyone who came over just started to refer to it as "the den"

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THROUGH A RAPIST’S EYES” (PLS TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. It may save a life, It may save your life.)

An Article from Neena Susan Thomas

“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.

3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.

4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.

5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.

6] Number three is public restrooms.

7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.

8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.

9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.

10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.

POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:

1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.

2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.

4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.

5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.

6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.

7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.

FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….

1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.

2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!

3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.

4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.

5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:

a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .

b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.

c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)

6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).

7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!

8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.

Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.

If u have compassion reblog this post. ‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand.

REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.

THIS COULD ACTUALLY SAVE A LIFE.”

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Post-GoT Finale Reaction

“I got this icebox where my heart used to be. I’m so cold, I’m so cold, I’m so cold, I’m so cold.”

[aimmyarrowshigh]

i mean i get that the entire theme of the franchise is “this is a terrible idea” but

if there were a real jurassic park/world

i’d totally go

i’d die

but i’d totally go

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That's exactly what I was saying! As my best friend so eloquently put it "there is a certain level of risk that you inherently understand upon entering into the 'Dinosaur Contract.' And fuck, but I'm just totally willing to take that risk. Always."

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From Dracula to Sherlock Holmes, The Man with the Golden Gun to Lord of the Rings, and a few heavy metal albums splattered in between being knighted, Sir Christopher Lee was a multifaceted actor with an expansive career that leaves us all in awe. You will be missed, may your soul rest in peace.

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IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN 50 SHADES OF GRAY OR AMERICAN SNIPER AND HAVE NO INTENTIONS OF DOING SO, REBLOG THIS

I’m following all of you

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I Stand with Irene Gallo

Disclaimer (since they’re so fucking important): I speak here as an individual, not a representative of any company, industry, species, or whatever. Also, Chuck Wendig’s got a great piece on this. You should read it. Don’t, on the other hand, read the comments on the Tor piece, unless you have a strong stomach. 

Coming from the video game industry, with its overt, reactionary, enthusiastic, and proudly violent misogyny, I tend to think of the publishing industry as more genteel. I tend to think its intentions are better, and that the endemic sexism in SFF is a relic of earlier times, spurred by remembered love for pulp novels with sexy ladies on their covers. A soft sexism, if you will, in which women are prizes to be won and damsels to be rescued, and are thereafter expected to reciprocate with nights of grateful passion, but not the enemy. Not things to be ground under boots, punished for existing, battered into silence.  

Of course, that’s not true. SFF has its own slate of ardent misogynists and enthusiastic racists, and fairly recently, they decided that including women and people of color with, like, agency and main character roles and everything was just a bridge too far. So two groups of them, the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies, came up with their own slate of Hugo Award nominees, and mobilized social media to vote for those nominees, hoping to shut out anyone who wrote books with any sort of dreaded progressive agenda. 

Here’s what you need to know. The Rabid Puppies were started by Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day. 

Here’s a glimpse into how Vox Day feels about women: 

According to him, “female equalitarianism” is a greater threat to science than religion.[15][16] In response to a blog posting by PZ Myers questioning how, exactly, many of the unsavoury aspects of religion benefited women, Beale suggested that honor killings, throwing acid in women’s faces and even genital mutilation benefited women because they prevent female independence and promiscuity, which he repeatedly referred to as social ills.

That’s right. This is a guy who advocates for honor killings and acid attacks to keep uppity women in their places. 

He’s also an open white supremacist:

He calls for the formation of a independence party to slow the “infestation” by non-whites, because there is no geographic escape from them anymore. 

This is the guy who called author N.K. Jemisin, who is black, an “ignorant half-savage.”

The Sad Puppies are a slightly less overtly bigoted counterpart. 

So, Irene Gallo, the creative director at Tor, posted the following on her Facebook page:

There are two extreme right-wing to neo-nazi groups, called the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies respectively, that are calling for the end of social justice in science fiction and fantasy. They are unrepentantly racist, sexist and homophobic. A noisy few but they’ve been able to gather some Gamergate folks around them and elect a slate of bad-to-reprehensible works on this year’s Hugo ballot.

And Tom Doherty, founder of Tor, felt the need to post a piece on Tor’s site. In it, he talks about how the Puppies aren’t really that bad, and how Irene Gallo’s views don’t represent Tor’s, and how she’s been reprimanded for her post. 

Just to be clear:

A woman speaks up against a racist and misogynist hate movement.

Her male boss shuts her up.

Her male boss then goes public, reassuring everyone he’s shut her up and that he has no issues with the hate movement.

He also makes sure to call her out by name.

I don’t know if you’ve been on the internet lately, but in the current Gamergate climate, a man calling out a woman for talking about misogyny is a fucking bat signal to the worst elements of the internet. It’s basically painting a giant target on her back for harassment, threats, doxxing, and all the other methods misogynist mobs use to attempt to shut up women they don’t like. 

I didn’t expect that the publishing industry would have any more spine than the videogame industry did in standing up to this crap, but I didn’t expect to see them cheerfully throw a female employee to the wolves. (The ass-covering could have been done without naming her.)

HERE SHE IS, BOYS! THIS WOMAN, RIGHT HERE! GO GET HER!

You don’t get to pretend, Tom Doherty, that you don’t know what the potential consequences are for her. None of you men in games, tech, SFF do. 

You don’t get to pretend after like the 900th news piece about women getting harassed for being Industry Women Who Talk that you don’t know. 

I’m done with guys being all, oh, women in geekdom get harassed and doxxed and threatened when they speak up about sexism? I HAD NO IDEA. 

I don’t believe your ignorance any more. You are lying. You are lying because you don’t want to be bothered. Because the serial harasser you employed was a guy you kinda liked. Because, well, bitches be crazy, amirite? 

You don’t get to pretend you don’t know what will happen when, as a man, you call a woman out for speaking up about sexism. 

You are lying because part of you kinda thinks she deserves it. 

I mean, it’s great that you feel the need to reassure your readers who kinda agree with Vox Day that you have taken care of the woman who said critical things about them. 

I note you didn’t feel the need to reassure any of the people who were harassed by your editor, James Frenkel, or to anyone who felt uncomfortable or unwelcome because of how long the SFF publishing community protected him.

You’ll publicly reprimand Irene Gallo for calling a hate group what it is, but a serial harasser?

James Frenkel is no longer associated with Tor Books. We wish him the best. (1/5)

— P Nielsen Hayden (@pnh) July 11, 2013

He gets a polite and discreet send-off. 

Your message is clear:

Women and people of color aren’t really part of the SFF community. Women can hang around the edges as long as we’re demurely quiet, as long as we prop up the men or hang admiringly on their arms like all those ladies on the pulp covers do. People of color can come through the door as long as they don’t make any trouble. But when it comes down to it, the guys who are really part of the community will always choose their own. 

There’s a saying in Spanish: dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres. Tell me who you hang out with, and I’ll tell you who you are. If you want to stand with Vox Day, so be it. 

I’ll be standing with Irene Gallo. 

[buffybites]

No matter how many times I watch this it seems to always break my heart.

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Oh God so many tears.