The Silent River

Fandoms and Random Shit Galore, or your money back.

[artemxmendacium-blog]

Scenes I need...

Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!

Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.

Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?

Loki: It varies from moment to moment.

Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?

Loki: …maybe a three?

Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.

Loki: -thinking- I like him.

[runnerfivestillalive]

It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.

It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”

And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.

[hindi-si-ikay-deactivated202501]

WE NEED LOKI AND PETER FICS

[kyrumption]

2x17 // 3x12

[fandomsandfeminism]

I’m really amused by the argument “You can’t expect straight writers to include LGBT+ characters. They’ve never experienced being LGBT+” 

Because like-

1) JK Rowling was never an 11 year old orphaned wizard boy. Tolkien was never an ELF. This is how writing works.

2) I, a bisexual woman, am perfectly capable of writing straight men? 

Why are you guys such bad writers?

Like, no, maybe you would struggle to write an accurate and realistic portrayal of a trans teens transitioning, or a gay teens experience with homophobia. But you know you don’t HAVE to go super in depth about those things to include LGBT+ characters AT ALL, right? We are more than the bigotry we endure.

[karazrel]

Teen Wolf starring…

[babil6]

[bbuchanann]

Chris plays ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’

[pussiesaregod]

#JUST DUDES BEING GUYS BEING BROS (x)

[vigilantejustice]

some dude got decked for looking like shia labeouf and so shia labeouf sent him the best voicemail of all time

[godshipsit]

#cas really wants to do dean

[anchorbabyvevo-deactivated20160]

[kane-town]

Leverage 5x02 — The Blue Line Job

There’s a pretty deep base of hockey players among the Leverage crew. Dean played in a Hollywood league back in the day (with Wil Wheaton, as a matter of fact), and there’s a pick-up team up in Portland. Aldis plays on that team. He was rather annoyed that he’s the only actor who does skate, and he didn’t get to strut his stuff.

Technically, he was the only actor who did skate. That changed. As soon as we knew we were doing this episode, we gave Kane a call.

“We need you to play hockey and fight on the ice.”

“When’s it shoot?”

“Third episode.”

“(beat) No problem.”

Kane flew up to Portland a month early, got a coach, and there he is — annoying me by doing his stunts in a whole new environment. Joy.

…

Yeah, that’s Kane doing all his own damn skating and fighting.

— John Rogers

[borrowedfeathers]

If a little girl says that she thinks boys are gross, the correct response isn’t “you’ll like boys when you’re older, honey,” it’s “you don’t have to like boys if you don’t want to.”

[sixpenceee]

The concept of intelligence has some rough backgrounds. 

THE OBVIOUS RASICM

For example during the 19th century physical anthropologist Samuel George Morton believed that brain size was a measure of intelligence. He measured the sizes of hundreds of human skulls to assert that there was a difference between races.

He concluded that Europeans had the highest brain capacity, followed by Chinese, Southeast Asians, Polynesians, American Indians, and lastly African & Australian Aborigines. 

Ofcourse now we look back at his work and realize it was the result of unconscious bias, reporting selected data, analytical errors & mismeasured skulls. 

SOURCE

DO IQ TESTS REALLY MEASURE INTELLIGENCE

IQ tests stand for Intelligence Quotient Test. They are a standardized test that one cannot really study for. An IQ test measures a person’s general intellectual ability to understand ideas compared to the general population at the same developmental level.

How well we reason, distinguish relationships and solve problems and how well we process information, particularly our ability to store and retrieve it are also things IQ tests measure. 

However, IQ tests fail to measure many things such as creativity, emotional sensitivity and social competence. 

IQ tests are fundamentally flawed because they do not take into account the complex nature of the human intellect and its different components. 

Furthermore, IQ tests are not good at predicting how well you are going to do in life. Just because someone scores high, it does not guarantee success. 

SOURCE

MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF INTELLIGENCE

Different people are good at different things. Someone might fail at one topic but excel at another. 

As Albert Einstein said, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

These are 9 types of intelligence proposed by Howard Gardner. 

Naturalist Intelligence (Nature Smart): human sensitivity to the natural word. Have you ever met someone who was really good with animals? Or who had a “green thumb”? Today they can be a chef or a botanist

Musical Intelligence (Music Smart): ability to recognize tone, rhythm, timbre, and pitch and more

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (Number/Reasoning Smart) : ability to calculate, quantify, consider propositions and hypotheses, and carry out complete mathematical operations. 

Existential Intelligence: sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why do we die, and how did we get here.

Interpersonal Intelligence (People Smart): ability to understand and interact effectively with others.

Bodily-Kinestic Intelligence (Body Smart): manipulate objects and use a variety of physical skills. (athletes, dancers, surgeons)

Intrapersonal Intelligence (Self Smart): capacity to understand oneself and one’s thoughts and feelings, and to use such knowledge in planning and directioning one’s life

Spatial Intelligence (Picture Smart): those who have an amazing use of mental imagery and artistic skills

Linguistic Intelligence (Word Smart): ability to think in words and to use language to express and appreciate complex meanings.

Ofcourse these probably don’t capture everything in the wide range of smarts that we all have. 

More on these here

[therighthandofdoomcpn]

We’ll get better, someday.

[sixpenceee]

That’s one of my favorite cartoons

[setheverman]

when you’re the piano player in the wild west when harry potter is being shown at the movie theater

[garbageshepard-deactivated20200]

bye

[nudityandnerdery]

Oh my god.

[setheverman]

Still one of the dumbest videos I’ve ever made

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[jcurnalism-deactivated20200330]

YALL

[root-beer-riku]

Anyone who says you can’t give flowers to boys clearly hasn’t tried it. Seriously, give a boy some roses, they get adorably flustered and go all red. It’s the most precious thing.

Give more boys flowers. 🌹🌼🌻🌸🌷🌺💐

[deadxsushi-deactivated20161125]

crush stereotypes now 

[somateo]

we love flowers. give us flowers.

[aspiring-stargazer]

I will love you forever🌹💕

[sixpenceee]

This was originally supposed to be a post about the boogeyman (top gif), but I stumbled upon more of Duane Michel’s sequence photography, and they took my breathe away.