MY PVP OPPONENT’S IRON MAN JUST HEARTBREAKER UNIBEAMED MY RESCUE
THIS IS ACTUALLY PHYSICALLY DISTRESSING
June 2013
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facebook is suggesting i add somebody who i taught
they were born in 2000 and they have a facebook
i feel so old
reviewing an article about a lesbian subculture and the author is a trans man and i keep misgendering them and feeling horrible for it
How to change your gender settings to neutral with Facebook Timeline →
genderqueerid.com
Reblogging with a few clarifications since facebook changes stuff around sometimes!
First of all you HAVE to use m.facebook.com! Regular facebook doesn’t work!
You also HAVE to use Mozilla Firefox and Firebug! facebook mobile in chrome doesn’t let you edit your profile…
See full instructions at original post.
Much, much easier way to do this (that works on Chrome, I did it myself!) here. Spread the word!
so apparently i write essays much much faster if i give up on sounding formal on my first draft and basically write out the essay the way i would if i was posting it on tumblr under a readmore at 3am
then make it actually coherent/formal after i’ve got everything down
Being biracial should not define who I am nor dictate my ethnicity within the community | China Insight →
chinainsight.info
By Anthony James, Staff Writer I leaned against the wall in the dorm hallway. It was back in my college days, and I was spending time between classes expounding on light topics with a few fellow stude
“Mixed-race individuals tread an awkward line put in place by those who seek to define others based on ethnicity. I know mixed-race individuals who say they are black, white or that they are Latino. President Obama, though an African and Caucasian mix, chooses one. Though by that standard I could address myself as an Asian American, I wouldn’t imagine doing so. No one asks me what it is like to be Asian American, they ask what it’s like to be mixed. There is accuracy in the connotation: I didn’t experience being an Asian standing in the dorm hall while my friends knowingly made racial jokes. I don’t get the same looks that people give my Asian friends; I don’t experience the same generalizations given to Chinese or Asians. I am an Asian American incognito, I am biracial. Expressing life as being biracial
As my life may or may not fall under the pretense in which those would signify the life of a mixed person there are Chinese and Caucasians who continually choose to dictate my ethnicity to me…There was no eureka moment, but as my childhood transitioned to early adulthood I’ve come to appreciate that although my own identity might not carry one country, culture, or set of traditions, that it is an identity nevertheless.”
SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet. →
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Just to mention that I use this every day at work. It’s the best thing for calming my anxiety and letting me focus. I typically use the brown noise button, but pink and white are also good, and of course everyone responds differently so it’s good to try each to see if they might help. Excellent for writing, too, at least for me.
Sometimes I’ll open http://www.rainymood.com/ or http://rain.simplynoise.com/ as well, to mix rain with the white noise, depending on the day and how I’m feeling.
I just bought Simply Rain for my iOS devices. Oh man. I’m thrilled. Thank you for the link!
I also really like Coffitivity— ambient coffee shop noises. Apparently hearing an indistinct buzz of activity nearby boosts creativity. I like having it on.
Thanks for the link to Coffitivity! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. (I’ve also been using WhiteNoise Pro and (to fall asleep by) Tiklbox.
New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on comics fandom
Fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has published its thirteenth issue on comics fandom. Here are links to all the articles, on topics ranging from women in comics fandom to fans on 4chan to Captain America and various other Avengers-related things. Enjoy! As usual, we’ll be posting some good quotes from the articles too.
Editorial:
Matthew J. Costello: The super politics of comic book fandom
Theory:
Suzanne Scott: Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture
Praxis:
Catherine Coker: Earth 616, Earth 1610, Earth 3490—Wait, what universe is this again? The creation and evolution of the Avengers and Captain America/Iron Man fandom
Lyndsay Brown: Pornographic space-time and the potential of fantasy in comics and fan art
Tim Bavlnka: /Co/operation and /co/mmunity in /co/mics: 4chan’s Hypercrisis
Symposium (short articles):
Forrest Phillips: Captain America and fans’ political activity
Amanda Odom: Professionalism: Hyperrealism and play
Rebecca Lucy Busker: Fandom and male privilege: Seven years later
Kayley Thomas: Revisioning the smiling villain: Imagetexts and intertextual expression in representations of the filmic Loki on Tumblr
Ora C. McWilliams: Who is afraid of a black Spider(-Man)?
Interviews:
Matthew J. Costello: Interview with comics artist Lee Weeks
Kate Roddy, Carlen Lavigne, Suzanne Scott: Toward a feminist superhero: An interview with Will Brooker, Sarah Zaidan, and Suze Shore
Reviews:
Daniel Stein: “Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology,” edited by Matthew Pustz
Drew Morton: “Of comics and men: A cultural history of American comic books,” by Jean-Paul Gabilliet
perhaps more importantly
what if the conclusion is “you really shouldn’t be in university at all”, and by extension “you can’t function in an adult bureaucratic environment at all i.e. everything from state healthcare/welfare to academia and most work environments”
what do i do then
Ghost
Feedback on the Wikipedia article on ghosts:
We received several requests for more pictures of ghosts:
…actual ghosts? Surely they mean like drawings or paintings, right?
I think there should be more pictures of ghosts, like real pictures not just paintings.
Nope.
really, really fucking angry and i’m going to cry
I always kinda laugh when people do “Gender swap” characters, because it would be hilarious if nothing actually changed except their concept of their own gender. Because by definition, that’s all that would happen.
It doesn’t mean they lose or gain anything physical, deal with it. :D
this gets sort of off-topic, but it’s a thing i’ve been thinking about, so forgive me for hijacking your post! (edit: holy fuck that’s long, added readmore)
when i remember something embarrassing i did years ago
all the fucking time
- men get into something not aimed at their gender: get special titles like "brony." recognition by creators. heralded for defying gender appeal. get documentary.
- women get into something not aimed at their gender: not real fans. probably secret friend zone warriors deadset on erasing men from the human race. get insulting demeaning memes and sexual harassment.
“i know very few trans people who are actually out to make cis people feel bad for being cis. i know a much larger number of trans people who are out to make cissexist cis people feel bad for being cissexist. there’s a difference.”
—lookatthisfuckingcisgender, hitting the nail on the damn head (via tetraghost)
current emotion: 20% battery
eggreport replied to your post: did clark gregg’s wife just post a sexy picture of…
yes. yes she did. jennifer grey is better than everyone.
kinda regret that i don’t know as much as i could about her tbh because she does seem really cool
(and probably was really shitty of me, in hindsight, to refer to her as ‘clark gregg’s wife’ straight off in the same way kelly sue constantly gets ‘fraction’s wife’, and something i’ll need to unlearn/fix for future stuff)
did clark gregg’s wife just post a sexy picture of scarlett johansson
i hate when people vilify psychiatric pills as ‘mind-altering drugs’
like
yes
that’s exactly what they are
they are for mental illness
mental
if i had a kidney-related illness, i would hope to have kidney-altering drugs on the market
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For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.
Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.
In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.
Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.
” —Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style” (via kpop-confessions)
T H A N K S
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Guys, check out this crazy bird!
This is a real animal, I shit you not!
The Pennant-winged Nightjar (Macrodipteryx vexillarius)
HOW DOES IT FLY WHAT THIS IS SO COOL WOW
A Superhero Who Looks Like My Son →
parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
Because he was born in Ethiopia and came to us as a stumbling, almost walking baby, I was especially disappointed when my son lost interest in Superman and his cape; he too had been sent as a baby from one world to another. Don’t you see yourself? I wondered.
And then I realized: all my childhood heroes were squarely white. They were so white, they never had just one WASP name, but two: Bruce Wayne, Donald Blake, Clark Kent, Steve Rogers, Reed Richards, Peter Parker … My son’s name is Dagim. How could I share my comics with my son and say, “Don’t you want to be like them?”
“Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness … If he gave an interview to a reporter, or performed any unusual exploit, he would find it recorded in such terms as these: “Professor Bract, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has, in fact, a wife and seven children. Tall and burly, the hands with which he handles his delicate specimens are as gnarled and powerful as those of a Canadian lumberjack, and when I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong, gruff voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache.” […]”
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From seanan_mcguire’s posting on Sexism, the current SFWA kerfuffle, and “lady authors:” in the comments, via jenk, a long lovely passage from Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1947 essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”. Read the whole thing. The perception of this problem is nothing new… (via dduane)
I love me some Dorothy L. Sayers.
(via sarahreesbrennan)
#Professor Bract is an incongruous figure in his field #which has historically been dominated by young women #even today men—especially masculine ones—have a difficult time adjusting to the intellectual culture of botany #many report having a difficult time asserting themselves in concise respectful tones— and in a field based on collaboration #that often puts them behind the curve #women established in the field seldom have much patience for loudness or gruffness #Despite the increased focus on men in the sciences and the availability of scholarships and acceptance quotas to increase male presence #many men still prefer more traditional non-intellectual careers #like staying at home chopping wood or practicing a craft to support their families #some have argued that this trend indicates innate differences between the male and female mind. #”I certainly wouldn’t say that men and women have different levels of intelligence” says psychologist Jane Smith at Prestigious University #”but it’s certainly true that there are biochemical differences in the brain #as well as differing social cues given to the genders. #Of course there are outstanding individuals like Mr. Bract #but on the whole I’d say it is psychologically unsurprising that we see so few men in botany or any of the other sciences.” #for his part #Bract seems uncomfortable to address the subject #”It’s a problem of course” he grunts #hunching over and frowning when questioned on the subject #— suddenly devoid of his confident demeanor and looking a bit like an upset schoolboy — #”but most of my colleagues have been very supportive—as are most scientists I’ve met—toward men in their field.”(tags via raktajino-hot)
eggreport replied to your photo: here’s that silver eyeliner i bought a while ago,…
omg i love it
well g’morning kiwi (i think it’s morning?)
on a completely unrelated note my church youth group is having a formal/ball thing and the theme is “blockbusters” and nobody ever buys proper clothes for it (other than some of the girls who actually went to a prom this year who are just wearing the same dress) so i thought i might source an eyepatch and toy gun and closet cosplay a slightly femme’d-up-fury and make some minor additions to a nerf rifle and grab a guy friend who owns a nice suit and sunglasses to be phil/my date (maybe find some bluetooth earpieces for comms?) and i thought you would appreciate this plan
captainlitebrite replied to your post: didn’t realize till i was ful…
I LOVE YOUR OUTFIT TODAY omg you look amazing
omg so I got home and my sister took one look at me and went “you’re wearing clashing stripes you look like robert downey jr” and i’m still trying to work out if that’s a compliment or not because his dress sense is horrendous but??
can we just take a moment to imagine little cute nine-year-old hermione reading matilda
and peering into this book about a smart, bookish girl who could move things with her mind
and then can you imagine her concentrating very hard on the books on the bookshelf and slowly, slowly, getting them to move
been violently ill for the past few days + sprained the shoulder on the side i write with + heavy crampy period + dentist appointment before hardest and most important exam tomorrow (which i missed most of the lectures for due to more illness) + ptsd has been playing up in that way that means i just don’t get enough sleep and every waking moment reminds me of the shadows
+ worrying about keeping my grades up enough to keep the scholarship which the university scholarship board pretty much only gave me because they figured i really needed to worry about getting a shrink and not about university/fees/classes and wow the irony and wow i basically got given money to go get myself help and i didn’t until i’d made a complete hash of one semester how great is that
“Do not equate being single with being alone. I was thinking about this recently because of the phrase ‘just friends’ and ‘more than friends.’ That phrase implies that like, being ‘just friends’ with someone is somehow less than being in a romantic relationship with them - that like, friendship is a continuum that ends with sex. Which is an extremely weird thing to think and say, but it’s so built into our language that we don’t even think about how incredibly strange it is.”
—John Green, The Miracle of Swindon Town #208 (submitted by thatsnothowyoubook)
