Novocaine For The Soul

J is for Jean, who likes jelly beans. 37 is for age, which I cannot deny, and though I have the years the wisdom is somewhat lacking, le sigh. Fannish dreams are what fill my head, and what I blog about when I'm not in bed. What I post: Anything and...

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Oculus (Mike Flanagan | 2013)

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Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (Sforza Black Hours), attributed to Master of Anthony of Burgundy, Belgium ca. 1466-1476 via Austrian National Library on Wikimedia Commons. Image I: Public Domain (United States), Image II: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

“The Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza is an illuminated book of hours which used to be the property of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Its name derives from its unusual black borders, also found in the New York Black Hours. It follows the Roman liturgy and was produced in Bruges around 1466–76. It measures 25 by 18 centimetres (9.8 by 7.1 in), has 154 folios and includes 14 main miniatures as well as figurative and ornamental initials and borders with medallions. The illuminations of the book are entirely attributed to the anonymous Master of Anthony of Burgundy.” - Black Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Wikipedia

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Representation is important. People have become complacent and used to the way things have been up until now, but women have always known they’re capable of being an astronaut, or being president. Women are born with this desire, but their environment makes them struggle to keep it. They’re taught that they can’t, which is completely untrue.

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Luke Cage was created in 1972. Four years earlier, in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed. Five years before that, in 1963, Medgar Evers was shot and killed. Eight years before that, in 1955, a young Black man named Emmett Till was tortured, then shot and killed. These events, and numerous others with frightening similarity, happened in a line, and in the early years of the first decade to reap the social benefits of the Civil Rights Movement, Marvel Comics gives the fans (and the world) a Black male superhero whose primary superhuman aspect… is that he’s bulletproof. Not flight, or super speed, or a power ring. The superhuman ability of being impervious to bullets. Superheroes. Action heroes. Fantasy heroes. Power fantasies. Is there any doubt the power fantasy of the Black man in the years following multiple assassinations of his leaders and children by way of the gun would be superhuman resistance to bullets? In American society, the Black man has come a long way from the terrors of the past handful of centuries, only to crash right into the terrors of the 21st century. Some of those terrors being the same exact ones their grandparents had to face and survive — or not. There are Black men who are wealthy, powerful, formidable and/or dangerous. They can affect change undreamt of by their parents, and their parents’ parents. Their children will be able to change the world in ways we can intuit and others we can barely begin to try and predict. But a bullet can rip through their flesh and their future with no effort whatsoever. And so we look at Luke Cage, a man who gets shot on a regular basis, whose body language is such that he is expecting to be shot at, prepared for the impact — because he knows he can take it. And maybe, in the subconscious of the uni-mind of Marvel Comics, is the understanding that Luke Cage may unfortunately always be a relevant fantasy idea for the Black man. 2012 – Trayvon Martin is shot and killed. 2013 – Jonathan Ferrell is shot and killed. 2014 – Michael Brown is shot and killed. 2015/2016 – Luke Cage premieres on Netflix. I look forward to seeing if the Luke Cage of that show will have a true understanding of his power and what he symbolizes.

Real Life Proves Why Luke Cage Endures (via fyeahlilbit3point0)

There’s a whole section in “black power” about Luke Cage existing as an anti-lynching fantasy

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superhero ladies!!!! supporting each other!!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

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[storytime-writings]

It grates on me that the media keeps pitting these two shows and women against each other, when it’s quite clear that not only are they both happy for each other and proud of the other, they also really like their shows. Especially when it’s quite easy to love both shows even though they are pretty different.

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[kettlebaron]

Jurassic Park + Iconic Quotes

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Only the journey is written, not the destination.

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Novocaine For The Soul turned 5 today!

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Han n Lando by Rahzzah before they were scoundrels, they were just a couple of hooligans

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YES

[alwaysstarwars]

This is great!  Most depictions of young Han and Lando show them looking nearly identical to their OT selves, just a bit younger.  I love the different outfits and hairstyles here. 

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Fringe Tuesday 9-9-2008. It begins.

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WHEN I BUY A BOOK I TOTALLY CAN’T AFFORD

I’m just like:

[imhereforsookie]

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted—nevermore…

The Raven written by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Sir Christopher Lee

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but i thought christopher lee was immortal 

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He is, he just got too Metal for his body.

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Alistair meets Blackwall

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Sir Christopher Lee | 1922-2015

End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.