February 2012
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nowherefille:
therichgirlsareweeping:
“In the last thirty or forty years, the writer has become someone who works on a well-defined career track, like any other middle class professional, not, however, to become a craftsman serving the community, but to project an image of himself (partly through his writings, but also in dozens of other ways) as an artist who embodies the direction in which...
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IMPORTANT QUESTION TIME
barbeauxbot:
Brought on by a chat with OYD
How many of you had homemade toys while growing up?
Not really. My mum did knit clothes for my teddies and paint Noddy fanart for me (sometimes on the back of old nude studies from her art classes :D) but the toys themselves tended to be bought new. My parents aren’t very good at making things apart from art and knitting. I made my own toys a...
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My Tumblr summed up in 7 questions.
URL: sqbr
Top 5 fandoms you’ll see:
Dragon Age
Homestuck
Mass Effect
Misc games and anime
Lesbians General femslashiness
Top 3 celebrities you’ll see:
I don’t really post celebrities. Though I nearly made an exception yesterday for this picture of Andrew Bird, because phwoah.
Top 3 other topics you’ll see:
Social justice, with a relative focus on disability
science
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tindog:
thegirlwiththedigimontattoo:
I know a lot of my followers are into Sherlock. And that’s cool, but I want you to take a good look at this picture and ask yourself what’s missing from your version that clearly makes this movie superior.
[Dominic Keating, Gareth David-Lloyd: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The World’s Greatest Detetctive has finally met his match....
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HOMESTUCK ALBUM TRACK ART
fwugradiation:
The winners of the contest have been notified! Thank you to all who participated in the music-making process! Now… onto the second part of this shindig. There’s a lot of artistic talent out there in the fandom!!! So we’ve decided to open our options and allow people to submit track art this time! It only seems fitting alongside the contest. If you want to contribute track art to...
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arijandro:
would anyone like to recommend me movies about NON-HETEREOZ living lives that don’t end in pain, death, and misery??
Seconding Saving Face, Imagine Me and You, and The Wedding Banquet.
Also: D.E.B.S, a cheesy but fun hero/villain lesbian romantic comedy, and “Plan B”, an adorable Argentinian gay romance.
I’ve heard good things about “Shelter”,...
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Reblog with the Name of Your Cat or Your Dog!
barbeauxbot:
tarysande:
lifeofkj:
sehnsuchttraum:
thewoofles:
hamburgerjack:
Panthro.
Alistair and Molly
Cats are Suzu, Sakura, Satsuki, dog is Schuster, spider is she-whose-name-cannot-be-spoken.
Lexi (short for Alexsei) and Tori (short for Yakitori).
Mr Darcy. He’s a cat. With white gloves and a white cravat. Unfortunately that’s where his resemblance to Mr Darcy ends; he is...
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Sometimes I don't know if my asks to other...
lifeofkj:
Gppppoy
Let it be hereby known that I always acknowledge all asks, either publicly or privately, and if you don’t hear back within a day or do, you should poke me about it.
Me too! Unless I have a whole heap at once, when I may take longer (but you’ll know when that’s happened, because I’ll be replying to a whole heap of asks) or when it’s a tricky question....
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“I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you...”
– CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews)
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Collections | Stephen Webster →
aeromachia:
itbitesshesaid:
Prawn Brooch guy. Did the seven deadly sins rings that were doing the rounds a while ago too. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to weep tears over this website.
/bites hand in longing for spider crab ring and jellyfish earrings
Oh, those earrings are pretty. Now I want to try making them with the silver clay I got for my birthday, but I KNOW it would end up...
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i am a cat on the internet: talldarkbishoujo:... →
momochanners:
anarya-c:
talldarkbishoujo:
b-mommy:
rapcat:
b-mommy:
barbeauxbot:
You know what I call a woman who sleeps around?
Her name.
#SICK BURN
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIITTT
Unpopular opinion: i hate isabella. Not because she gets laid, but because she STOLE THE FUCKING…
How good a pirate is Isabela? So good she can plunder intangibles. Guuuurl…I mean I know I need...
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SOCKS
So I finally found somewhere with a range of interesting socks: David Jones, in the city. And they had a bunch on sale! (Which is good, because David Jones prices are ridiculous) I got some fancy bamboo tights, I’m looking forward to trying those out when it’s not horribly hot.
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A Song About My Feelings:... →
cempa:
Tangential, but: I wish they’d utilised the concept of a genderless/single-sex species better (i.e. beyond “We’re hawt, palette-swapped, and into you”). Liara even says “I’m not a woman” at one point in the romance, as I recall - but this gets blithely ignored in favour of LA LA LA SPACE BABES ARE A CLASSIC PULP SF HOMAGE DON’T YOU KNOW. I’d like to see genderqueer/non-binary humans...
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lifeofkj asked you: 2012-02-23 00:53
E, G
Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what
Stupid hilarious crack is my stock in trade, you’ll have to narrow it down :) But for example, my two most popular works at AO3 are some silly comics about being terrible...
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FANDOM EDITION: Are these the kind of things you'd...
A - Your current OTP
B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind
C - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will
D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t
E - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what
F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom
G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was...
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Could I be a bigger geek?: Why Joker Shouldn't Be... →
ouyangdan:
pocketpilot:
[Image of Joker and Shepard]
I’m sensing some tl;dr here…
So there’s a question I get asked a lot as somewhat of a bleeding heart, die-hard Joker fan. Okay, perhaps not so much asked and more beaten over the head with a cudgel made from electronic words — but I digress:
‘Pocket Pilot! OMG I love…
This is one of the things I am enjoying about ME. There are...
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minor earth major sky: Question for... →
lifeofkj:
minorearth:
janiejanine:
Do you share your work with friends/family/significant others? Or do you prefer to keep your fandom life separate from your personal life?
Friends know but are mostly indifferent, even the gamers. We do sometimes have interesting discussions about the culture, though. My husband, similarly; he knows that he’s welcome to read my fic but has, so far,...
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If you say "y'all" or "ain't" in my presence,...
emberkeelty:
inkstrangle:
ferrrox:
clearly-borderline:
coolbrosparkles:
clearly-borderline:
Agreed.
I’m originally from Gaston County, North Carolina, which is RIGHT IN THE FUCKING MIDDLE OF THE BIBLEBELTED SWEET TEA DRINKING FUCKHOLE, and I said it all of my life up until I moved to the coast. Nobody says it unless they want to get beat up.
Fucking.
Thank.
You.
It’s like, I...
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BioWare: Our statement supporting a valued... →
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A Song About My Feelings:... →
lifeofkj:
fenrisdesolar:
seraveline:
millilicious:
I’m trying to prove my brothers and group of male co-workers wrong by showing them that yes, girls and other people play video games like Mass Effect. And YES, we want options in video games that affect us as well. So! With that in mind,…
Yeah, I’m pretty much here too. When even the *industry* releases data revealing that 40% of...
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a penguin of very little brain: To some of the... →
echeveria:
searchingforknowledge:
thesavagesalad:
thesavagesalad:
TW: talks on genocide, racism, privilege denial, Australians who don’t know history
Namely those who are quite upset by the PM losing her shoe and have now resorted to engaging in hateful rhetoric directed…
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Mom + Nate, part the second
barbeauxbot:
tasmen:
barbeauxbot:
dragonageaccordingtomom:
Mom: nate is dead Reg: What. Mom: hung him Mom: is that bad Reg: WHAT. Mom: ? Reg: WHA Reg: WHY Mom: squats Reg: MOTHER. YOU CAN’T JUST KILL EVERYONE. Mom: y Mom: he is important Mom: ? Reg: YOU COULD HAVE MADE HIM A WARDEN Mom: y do they need other wardens Mom: they have me
/sobs uncontrollably in the corner
I have...
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aeromachia:
sqbr:
Taliesin: on painting skin tones, and why lighting = pale is a fallacy
deliciouskaek:
championofpitfalls:
greytaliesin:
Okay guys. Rubbing hands together and pulling some of my own art to serve as a visual of sorts here. Whitewashing, as most of you know, is taking a character of color and depicting them as white or with light skin. It’s a controversial issue—and for...
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just a Holocene voyager: Making Hoddeok (호떡) /... →
ghirahim:
peegaw:
***This post goes out to Beatnotthepoordesk who made a foodwish for Hoddeok and to Aina @Red+Black Apron who wants to see a post for it.
Hoddeok, or hotteok, is a popular Korean street snack that’s made out of balls of yeasty dough stuffed with a…
These look delicious and I should be able to eat them. The only issue is finding the energy to cook them, but my...
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Ride the Spiral to the End...: ionsfolly: BioWare... →
barbeauxbot:
rurone:
ionsfolly:
BioWare writer’s vagina versus the Internet | Destructoid
valkyrierisen:
Quoted for truth: ”I’m getting really tired of the “this is the internet” excuse that gets thrown up so often in these things. It is on par with “boys will be boys,” it does nothing to address the…
I am hoping to see a sidequest in DA3 where a group of entitled noblemen have been...
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Taliesin: on painting skin tones, and why lighting... →
deliciouskaek:
championofpitfalls:
greytaliesin:
Okay guys. Rubbing hands together and pulling some of my own art to serve as a visual of sorts here. Whitewashing, as most of you know, is taking a character of color and depicting them as white or with light skin. It’s a controversial issue—and for very good reason. PoC are concerned about…
this is a good post and you should feel good
I’m...
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cone sold stober: eyeofmantorok: ouyangdan replied... →
ouyangdan:
sqbr:
eyeofmantorok:
ouyangdan replied to your post: Hm
Can you take them with milk? Sometimes a bit of milk helps me with those meds if I can’t eat.
That… is a good question actually.
I tried asking one of my pharmacists exactly how much food I needed to take them with…
Hmm! This would be really useful if I could eat milk or fudge :) But I have often wondered what the...
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cone sold stober: eyeofmantorok: ouyangdan replied... →
eyeofmantorok:
ouyangdan replied to your post: Hm
Can you take them with milk? Sometimes a bit of milk helps me with those meds if I can’t eat.
That… is a good question actually.
I tried asking one of my pharmacists exactly how much food I needed to take them with…
Hmm! This would be really useful if I could eat milk or fudge :) But I have often wondered what the minimum requirements...
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nextian:
So let’s talk about the Alinea Project.
For those of you who don’t accidentally stumble across interviews with the creators of food blogs while looking up the twitter account of a food truck on the SFWeekly website—I am including this humiliating introduction to make it clear that I am complicit in everything I describe here—the Alinea Project is this guy Allen Hemberger, a special...
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"Considering when WV rebels and that afterward... →
emberkeelty:
This makes more sense than any other theory, and now I am doubled over clutching at my chest unable to handle all these feelings about NPCs.
Backstory. He exists to be backstory.
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Theoden King and other tautologies
Kassie: I was amused to find the exact phrase "the lord of the rings" in Beowulf the other day
Kassie: I mean, it is specifically talking about rings of chainmail but the words are right there
Kassie: "hringa thengel"! It is in the bit I quoted on tumblr the other day actually
Kassie: I knew "Theoden" meant "lord"
Kassie: but also
Kassie: "Edoras" means "buildings"
Kassie: "Mearas" means "horses"
Em: lololol
Kassie: "Ent" means "giant/barbarian (?)"
Kassie: etc
Em: you do find yourself wondering how the Rohirrim name things
Em: 'This is our capital! We call it... Buildings.'
Kassie: hsdgfg yes
Em: 'And these are our magic horses! We call them Horses.'
Kassie: "Here is our king, his name is King."
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sqbr:
“Call out culture, a phenomenon that casual readers might not even notice, is to me, the most toxic aspect of blogging. Not because it is set to correct wrongs and engage in meaningful ways to actually enact change. No, call out culture is toxic because it has developed as a tool to legitimize aggression and rhetoric violence. Its intent, at the root, is seemingly positive. Constructive...
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get this--
nextian:
gangbanglerfish:
windows-vriska:
ahpoordogsbody:
the ar is speaking literally when he says “oceans will rise. cities will fall,” and so is dirk when he describes things as “antediluvian”
because dirk and roxy live in the future
in a dystopian waterworld openly ruled by the condesce
thats why dirk’s apartment is infested with seagulls and the environment outside roxy’s house is...
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“Call out culture, a phenomenon that casual readers might not even notice, is to...”
– Feminist and Social Justice Blogging as performance and bloodshed | Tiger Beatdown (via apiphile)
just gonna reblog everything you quote from this article because it’s fantastic
it’s easy, once you find a system that seems to explain everything, to find ways in which that system justifies behaving...
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This Freakin' Movie (Whip It)
ouyangdan:
There is so much good stuff here.
It passes the Bedchel Test as if it were launched from a cannon.
It has so much grrl!power.
A great mother-daughter relationship that felt believable.
Women of colour.
Women of size (bonus: the are also athletes).
Women with disabilities (who are also athletes).
Women of varying ages, and most of the cast is in their mid-thirties.
So many...
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me: [saying something]
mother: what
me: i was talking to [cat's name]
(Heh. This JUST happened between me and my husband)
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aeromachia:
theshamblehouse:
apiphile:
aeromachia:
thedailywhat:
Too Cool For School of the Day: Springs Academy in Sheffield has banned students from using slang and “text speak” while on school grounds.
The academy says its students, mostly children from working-class families, stand a better chance of landing a job later in life if they learn to be less reliant on slang phrases early...