YOU'VE ALWAYS COUNTED

Sherlock. Harry Potter. Doctor Who. Star Trek. Hunger Games. Downton Abbey. Anglophile. Tea. LOTR. The Hobbit. Science/Space. Taylor Swift. Emma Watson. Lizzie Bennet Diaries. [Not spoiler free!]

[simonghostrileys]

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan

[movie-gifs]

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

[allthingseurope]

Prague (by Pierre Blache)

[cilly-murphy]

I know that they will be loving children to you. Do their duty faithfully. Fight their enemies bravely. And conquer themselves so beautifully. That when I come back to them, I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

LITTLE WOMEN

2019 | dir. Greta Gerwig

[classicfilmsource]

You have to show a movie at a party. It’s a Hollywood law. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen

[stydixa]

Make Me Choose = Anonymous asked: The Lion King (1994) or The Lion King (2019)?

[batwan-deactivated20220318]

What’s the first thing an actor learns? “The show must go on!’ Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show MUST go on!

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen

[fluffygif]

Ocean lover by Mitchellpettigrew

[pusheen]

[thenatsdorf]

[sandersstudies]

My favorite part is when the kitty runs to the window and looks out like “the outside stuff????? It is inside?????”

[strawberryjellystuff-deactivate]

i

i had to

[6qubed]

I like how he’ll get up and check the window to confirm that, yes, this is still the Inside and that is still the Outside, And Yet Snow

[movie-gifs]

DAISY RIDLEY STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (2019) DIR. J.J. ABRAMS

[bob-belcher]

Legally Blonde (2001) dir. Robert Luketic

[catchymemes]

[yeahiwasintheshit]

these women are all clearly high as shit

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

[marzipanandminutiae]

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

[rosslynpaladin]

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

[explorerrowan]

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

[twodotsknowwhy]

This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:

Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.

When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.

[allthingseurope]

Dunquin, Ireland (by Fabian Fortmann)

[allthingseurope]

Cascais, Portugal (by Chris Fullmer)

[justcatposts]

“Quarantine had me bored so my stepdad and I made a cat tank that we saw somewhere on reddit”

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