To boldly go where no man has gone before

I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina and I'm 23 years old. My posts are mostly about Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. I'm a language nerd, love untranslatable words and British culture Books and music are my life.

[brittany]

Flowers in Film — ( 1 / ∞ ) 🌸

Memoirs of a Geisha, The Hunger Games, American Beauty, Annihilation, Crazy Rich Asians, The Wizard of Oz, Vertigo, Melancholia

[comingoutofthecauldron]

stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don't want kids that they'll change their mind

[weirdqueeraltkid-deactivated202]

reblog the shit outta this

[morriganwarrior]

I haven't been a teenager in over a decade. Mind has yet to change on the subject.

At 14, I told my guidance counselor that I didn't want kids. He chuckled, patted me on the back, and informed me that when I got a little older, and I was with a guy, I would change my mind.

At 16, my grandmother nearly had a heart attack because of her three granddaughters, myself and the youngest agreed we didn't want to uave babies. Ever.

At 17, my father asked about my life plan. I told him: graduate high school, get my college degree, do some traveling and writing, go for this particular job I wanted, retired around X age, take month-long vacations to places I wanted to spend time in, etc. He asked, "What about a husband? Children? Normal things a girl is supposed to think about?" My response- a husband if a man came along that could share an adventure with me, kids were a No Go. He assured me I would 'grow up' qnd change my mind.

At 19, I shocked my former babysitter who had known me since I was a toddler, when I confirmed the rumour she'd heard that I didn't want kids. She patted my mom's arm and reassured her in a sweet voice that, "Don't worry, girls say a lot of silly things before they meet the right fella, and wise up. She'll give you grand babies"

At 22, I was talking to a college professor who chuckled at my making a comment about how, "thank goodness I'm never going to have to worry about juggling child rearing eith marriage, work, and life", then she realized I was serious. She asked if I was alright, thinking I could-not (not didn't-want) kids. I told her the truth, could have but didn't want to. She was aghast, then told me that I'd change my mind when my husband wanted some kids.

Well, I'm over 30, still have absolutely no desire to give birth, adopt, raise, or have much of anything to do with children. I don't hate children, I don't think people who have them are crazy (more power to you, to create and/or care for another person), and I don't think it's impossible to have a life AND have children. I recognized at an early age that I don't have that biological imperative to procreate, I don't have the patience to deal with children (something that has shown very little improvement as I've gotten older, in fact it might be getting worse), and I don't feel my life is incomplete without creating another life- I am good with living my own and doing my best to enrich the lives of those I care about (I try my best to be a good friend, to be a good sister, good daughter, good pet-owner, and a good person in general).

So please, please stop telling girls (or really kids at all, but especially girls) that they will change their minds. Please don't tell them that meeting 'the right guy' will make them suddenly feel broody, that their potential future husband's desire to have children will make her reconsider and see things his way. For one, a couple should have had that conversation and decided if it was a deal breaker, LONG before they got hitched. For another, it's her body that gets to grow and birth another human being- her husband's desire to be a father doesn't supercede her autonomy.

Please, let girls make their own choices? Girls are forced to mature too fast as it is and are bombarded from all sides with SHOULD (you SHOULD be a size 2, you SHOULD wear this dress, you SHOULD have a boyfriend to be a normal teen, you SHOULD always smile), they don't need another judgement from someone who hasn't walked a mile in their particular shoes. Respect teenage girls and their ability to look at the world, themselves, their situation, and their future, and make an important choice.

*gets off soap box, slides it back under the sofa, lets out a sigh*

Thanks for attending my TED talk. G'night.

[arcaneglitch]

[thechekhov]

Some kid in 4019: Hey, look at this weird construction of an ancient civilization. My universal translator says it reads something like “This is not a place of honor.”…? 

Some other kid: Oh yeah I’ve heard of this. It’s a dank meme from the 21st century

First kid: What does it mean?

Second kid: Fuck if I know, let’s go inside.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

oh no

[kvothbloodless]

Honestly the whole system is doomed to fail there is nothing u can say or do that will prevent humans from looking inside a locked box. Even w people knowing what is inside nuclear containment areas people today would still go inside to look if we werent here actively preventing them. Pandoras box is not a moral tale its just a description of what humanity is like. The only way to stop people from going somewhere u dont want them to is to make it physically impossible for them to get there and thats a lost cause if youre working on a scale of 10s of thousands of years.

[rhetoricandlogic]

Pandoras box is not a moral tale its just a description of what humanity is like

Exactly.

[jabberwockypie]

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”

- Terry Pratchett, The Thief of Time

[morvidra]

“‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You *have* read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’

‘Of course I’ve read it, said Ridcully. ‘Why d'yer think I want it opened?’

‘Er… why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes.

‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’*

*This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

–Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

[jabberwockypie]

“Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, “What happens if I do this?”

-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

Pterry had a lot to say about humans being Like That. (And for a while he worked as a Press Officer for an electric company that had several nuclear power plants, right after the whole Three Mile Island thing - bringing us full circle to the original post.)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I can’t believe Terry Pratchett is calling me out like this.

[kimmycup]

How to break the system: “Big Red Button, must touch”

[comradesaucegay]

Asked to explain why not, Gates — whose massive fortune as founder of Microsoft relies largely on intellectual property laws that turned his software innovations into tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth — said: “Well, there’s only so many vaccine factories in the world and people are very serious about the safety of vaccines. And so moving something that had never been done — moving a vaccine, say, from a [Johnson & Johnson] factory into a factory in India — it’s novel — it’s only because of our grants and expertise that that can happen at all.”

[comradesaucegay]

how could india — the worlds largest exporter of generic medicine — possible hope to produce safe vaccines without this incredible expertise

[aosedit]

TOP 10 AOS CHARACTERS (as voted by our followers) #2. Bobbi Morse

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

(explanation)

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Let’s remember last year’s Good Omens book celebration! :)

[dingdongyouarewrong]

imagine being the woman at the end of 50 first dates and you wake up heavily pregnant with no memory of how you got there and all you have there is a dvd that tells you you’re married now and have been for the last five years. literally a horror movie premise

[dingdongyouarewrong]

oh and it’s to adam sandler. you find out via saw dvd that you’re having adam sandler’s baby

[sk-lumen]

11 Keys to a Successful Mindset

1. Work smart, not hard. In other words, quality over quantity. It’s not the amount of work and time you put in, but your strategy.

2. Community over competition. You’ll go 1000x farther by taking advantage of powerful, successful people around you, instead of watching from the sidelines coveting their success. Turn them into friends instead of enemies. You gain nothing from the latter and everything from the former.

3. If they can do it, so can you. Another way to make the best of other people thriving is by following in their footsteps. If they’re thriving, it means there’s a formula to their success which you can follow.  

4. Rejection is redirection. Any doors that close are an opportunity for new doors to open. Realign your mentality to see these occurrences as blessings, because better things are coming for you.  

5. Mindset is the foundation for everything. Let your mindset be a fertile soil for infinite possibilities. If you poison it with negativity, only weeds will grow.  

6. By creating a plan to achieve your goals, you are planning for success. If you don’t have a plan, you have no roadmap, no direction, and you’ll be stuck at the starting line.  

7. ‘How can I come out of this as a winner?’ thinking will change your game, water your crops, clear your skin and bless your newborn business. Thinking like a winner = acting like a winner.  

8. Failure is not a dead end. It’s a detour signalling you need to change your strategy. It’s also an opportunity to learn and improving yourself.

9. Blessings shared are blessings multiplied. Share your knowledge with others, share your advice and tips and tricks, help lift others up and the universe will do the same for you. When you are open about your journey, show that anything is possible, and teach others how to do the same, you are passing on the torch of success.

10. One step at a time. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Likewise your business or glow up plans will take time, and that’s completely okay. It’s better to do one task well, than 20 tasks incorrectly. Be patient, and honour the process of building something incredible - it starts from the ground up, laying the foundation brick by brick.  

11. Solution-oriented thinking. It will get you farther in life than a problem-oriented one. When you see problems everywhere, you get overwhelmed and shift into defensive mode, which is not conducive to growth or productivity, but when you see solutions everywhere, you are thinking out of the box and opening yourself up to creativity, opportunity and possibility.

✨ More articles on mindset, leveling up your life, selflove/selfcare & entrepreneurship on my blog sklumen.com 🥂✨

[lesbiskammerat]

[russingon]

i know i always talk about this but. “don’t go where i can’t follow” is such a wild line. it’s literally 6 words and yet

[jessebloom]

[i-am-dulaman]

I’m sorry I simply could not reblog this without your tags.

[thestrawberrydreams]

[alberto-balsalm]

link to the relevant section on Wikipedia

[tyrantisterror]

Man I hope they cancel standardized testing, any education professional can tell you it’s a bunch of useless horseshit that does nothing except make students and teachers miserable while utterly failing to accurately gauge understanding.

[harriyanna-deactivated20221223]

“why yall gotta make everything about race?”

because everything is about race. you just upset cause we’re talking about it. 

[jo-constantine]

Bly Manor + Guide to Troubled Birds (pt. 1)

[tinybed]

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[owlmylove]

Why are they kissing through plastic wrap? o:

oh my god you dont know what pushing daisies is!!!! people dont know what pushing daisies is!!!!! oh my GOD anon strap in

okay picture this

Brian Fuller’s original 2007 magical realism romantic comedy with a dash of morbidity (after all, this is Brian Fuller we’re talking abt) & fairytale elements

as this review describes: “Characters & plot like Lemony Snicket, sets like Tim Burton, shots like Wes Anderson, rapid witty dialogue like Gilmore Girls, and costumes like uh, frickin’ magic.” 

everything is Super Saturated All The Time and the costume design is literally flawless

starring: asexual bakery man, very tall very kind and himbo-adjacent, has low-level necromantic powers named Ned

Ned is, for convoluted reasons, the accomplice of a film noir detective named after a fish (Emerson Cod) who looks like a hardass but secretly loves pop-up books and knitting

Ned the bakery man is a Piemaker and works in and owns a building that looks like this

(there are novelty cherry lighting fixtures)

he has a dog, who is undead, bc aforementioned necromantic bakery boy has the unique skill of being able to touch dead things and bring them back to life 

he and Emerson Cod touch murder victims, ask them who killed them, and then collect the reward. easy get-money-quick-scheme, UNTIL

Ned’s childhood crush and my life’s icon, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, gets murdered on a cruise

he touches her once (ONCE) and is never able to touch her again, lest his necromantic powers zap her back to death. hence:

contact-free romance ensues.

 I highly recommend the show for: asexuals, demisexuals, dog people, people who like pie, fashion & costume design enthusiasts, anyone who’s a fan of film noir, people who like pie and dogs and mermaids

literally this show is my absolute all time favorite PLEASE watch it

you can watch both seasons for free here

literally if you’ve ever cared for my opinion at all please watch at least the first episode i beg of u

[round--robin]

PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT PUSHING DAISIES IS? This statement still surprises and astounds me. Go watch it, it’s so amazing

[porcupine-girl]

Just know in advance that it only got two seasons and you will be left WANTING when you’re done with them. On the list of TV crimes to be punished by the gods of early cancellation, this one is high up there.

[nonasuch]

I highly recommend the show for: asexuals, demisexuals, dog people, people who like pie, fashion & costume design enthusiasts, anyone who’s a fan of film noir, people who like pie and dogs and mermaids

huh. I definitely knew this show Awakened Sonething In Me re: vintage fashion and costume design, but upon reflection? yeah, also the ace part

[esotericy]

ONE OF THE SEXIEST CLIP ON THE INTERNET

[hurryupmerlin]

Someone: What are you thinking about?

Me, internally: Whenever John puts a new magazine into the Kimber 1911 he does a press check to make sure it didn’t jam, because Kimbers are notorious for jamming on the first bullet of a magazine. He doesn’t do that with any of the other guns. Also, he flicks out the old magazine to make sure it’s not stuck – something that never happens in movies but often in reality. This is some brilliant film making an love to detail.

Me, out loud: Not much.

[sindri42]

headcanon: the director didn’t know any of that stuff but when Keanu got hired to play a guy who was really good at guns he did a bunch of research and training to make sure that he was actually really good with guns.

[noan-laughs]

Pretty sure there clips of him schooling his firearms instructor for one of these movies, so either you’re right or he knew all this BEFORE starring in John Wick.

[tvandfilm]

Lady and the Tramp, 1955 – dir. Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi