March 2012
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February 2012
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“You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– I stole this from my best friend’s facebook page. :-)
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
(via fozmeadows)
Lucy Liu and Fandom Freakouts: a Retraction →
I have digested the news and think my initial reaction was a little extreme.
vejigante asked: But we don't know that, they are probably just friends. Besides, i would only side eye if they were whitewashing actual text gay relationship, not subtext. Personally, i think it's great seeing a female POC in a leading role in a show.
STAB ALL THE THINGS!: Elementary →
feelingstabby:
When I first heard CBS was planning their own spin on Sherlock, I think my first reaction was, “Oh gods, WHYYYYY?” But the “why” was pretty obvious- the BBC version of Sherlock has been a huge hit, even with less than a handful of eps per series. The US also has a history of taking popular British…
I really do think that casting a woman as Watson was to keep the homoerotic...
Well isn't THIS an interesting rumor (Sherlock &... →
gothiccharmschool:
“There’s a rumour that Benedict Cumberbatch, of the BBC’s Sherlock and Tinker Tailor fame, is being considered for a turn as the Master in Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary season. According to The Express, Steven Moffat, the showrunner for both Who and Sherlock, is trying to get his two leading men together.”
If it’s true, I predict all of fandom having a collective freak-out of...
paint your own nebula →
cruisecontrolforcool:
THIS HAS NOT LOADED FOR ME EVER
WHY CAN GOOGLE CHROME NOT CONNECT TO STUMBLEUPON.COM THAT IS STUPID
firefox won’t do it either :(
is my internet being too safe or sth I just want to make shiny things
I got it to work, after prodding no-script a few times.
“Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your...”
– Maureen Johnson, Zombies vs Unicorns (via bygoshbygolly)
If you don’t follow Maureen on twitter, you should. You don’t have to read her books. She is all I aspire to be.
“For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign,...”
– From Terry Pratchett’s “Thud” Yes, it’s about a war brewing between Dwarfs and Trolls, but it all sounds so oddly familiar even to a world without either species…
(We need a Sam Vimes in this world.)
vega-ofthe-lyre:
deirdrerose:
Oh my...
Flavorwire » The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author... →
osheamobile:
cleolinda:
15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
SOMEONE WAS DRIVING THE TOLDSMOBILE THAT DAY
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
(via lord-kitschener)
