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mssswitch: xtremecaffeine: miketooch: dirkstriderschoicebooty: raigeki55: scooterthebug: It’s...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:52:01 -0400

xtremecaffeine:

miketooch:

dirkstriderschoicebooty:

raigeki55:

scooterthebug:

It’s kind of funny when you realize that this guy

and this guy

were voiced by this guy

who played this guy

and this guy

Also this guy

and this guy

and these guys

Ron Perlman is pretty much the greatest

And yet…

His voice, his voice never changes.

Oh I didn’t know he was the Lich,cool.

Don’t forget he was Vincent too:

tardiscrash: Iron Man has defeated the Mandarin.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:17:08 -0400

tardiscrash:

Iron Man has defeated the Mandarin.

xoJane: Don't Gender Me, Bro: Writing Under a Gender-Neutral Byline

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:16:42 -0400

xoJane: Don't Gender Me, Bro: Writing Under a Gender-Neutral Byline:

Writing under a name that can be interpreted in any number of ways has provided a fascinating education in how people construct gender on the basis of very few social cues, and how they’re willing to overlook cues in order to maintain their idea of a writer’s gender. It’s also illustrated how important it seems to be to many people to know what someone’s gender is, to force someone into a tight category before relating to that person’s work.

Yet, our social construction and approach to gender is so warped and limiting that this approach is inherently flawed and troubling. There are so many people who occupy liminal, complex spaces, who are in transition, who don’t have easily-defined genders, that this insistence on knowing the gender behind the name can be tremendously damaging. It makes me wonder sometimes if perhaps “The Economist” has the right idea, allowing the writing to stand on its own as part of a collective.

Southern Poverty Law Center: Groundbreaking SPLC lawsuit accuses South Carolina, doctors and hospitals of unnecessary surgery on infant

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:04:04 -0400

Southern Poverty Law Center: Groundbreaking SPLC lawsuit accuses South Carolina, doctors and hospitals of unnecessary surgery on infant:

When M.C. was just 16 months old and in the care of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, doctors and department officials decided the child should undergo sex assignment surgery to make M.C. a girl. There was no medical reason to perform this surgery, which robbed M.C. not only of his healthy genital tissue but also of the opportunity to decide what should happen to his own body.

Now 8 years old, M.C. identifies as a boy – wearing boy clothes and hairstyles – despite an irreversible surgery that has left him with female genitalia. He has announced to his school and his religious community that he has always been a boy.

The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a groundbreaking lawsuit today on behalf of M.C.’s adoptive parents, Mark and Pam Crawford. It charges that the state of South Carolina violated M.C.’s constitutional rights when doctors surgically removed his phallus while he was in foster care, potentially sterilizing him and greatly reducing, if not eliminating, his sexual function.

Men who get mad at feminists for making it out to seem like most men are rapists but won’t collect the men who make rape threats against us whenever we speak out about anything.

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:21:56 -0400

misandry-mermaid:

red3blog: lovelyfugly: red3blog: So, guess what I got...

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:18:10 -0400

red3blog:

lovelyfugly:

red3blog:

So, guess what I got today?

(snipped cuz you already read this)

Hngh. This is so freakin’ cool. And I’m very jealous. (Though I think my choice would be blue or gold. I’m no officer.)

Heh. Its weird because in a lot of ways I should have identified more with Data and Geordi, but it was always Picard for me growing up so I always saw myself in red. Even as a geeky kid, I dreamed of being a leader like the President, so the authority of Picard was something I identified with a lot, even I was fantastically ill-suited to leadership for so many reasons.

Though (and I’m a geek, so I did give this some thought), I did conclude that my actual profession of marketing and public relations would likely be command division in Star Fleet, so the red still makes sense for me. Its not like the Star Fleet marketing department qualifies as a science or engineering.

You look FANTASTIC. I’m seriously envious and have bookmarked the website of the company. What an investment!

Oh god, here it comes, I can feel it. The “Annual Here Comes My Birthday And My Friends Have...

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:23:00 -0400

Oh god, here it comes, I can feel it. The “Annual Here Comes My Birthday And My Friends Have Abandoned Me Again” Melt Down.

ETA: I think it might be better this year though. I have an inkling that a new friend has tuned into my loneliness and is planning something sweet.

marchingjaybird: feels-like-fire: sconesforjustice: weepingnai...

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:18:06 -0400

marchingjaybird:

feels-like-fire:

sconesforjustice:

weepingnaiad:

tigerarchivist:

jazuthewasianprincess:

beeishappy:

TDS | 2013.05.13

AH, I HAVE DISCOVERED WHY I HATE YOUR GUTS.

THANK YOU, JOHN. I feel like JJ owes all us Trekkies a goddamn apology, too.

Goddamn. And this is the director of Star Trek? Thank you, Jon Stewart, from all the fans.

I watched that last night, when it aired, and I have been RAGECAPSLOCKING ever since. He also managed to say that Star Trek suffered from being too sci-fi—he backtracked and said he meant the budget was too low … which only actually is a legit criticism of TOS, not—seriously not—TNG, anything subsequent, or any of the movies.

Look, I’ve spent 20-odd years being told that it’s not okay to like Star Trek as it is, and then finally, in 2009, it was okay to like Star Trek, right? At least a little? And then the fucking person who made the movie says it’s not okay to like Star Trek.

So, from all of us, JJ, SHUT UP.

(via

TumbleOn)

OH LOOK, JJ ABRAMS RUINING STAR TREK AGAIN

I don’t think you guys understand how much I want to punch his smug face

The thought of him getting his grubby, awful hands all over my Star Wars too is making me want to scream and cry and destroy things.

The. Fuck.
Look buddy, you don’t have be a raging nerdgasm to remake it, ok we know that can go pear shape (just look what Shane Black did to Iron Man 3). But for fuck’s sake…have an appreciation of it’s history, what it means to the fans, do your fucking homework on the canon. Not go and completely rewrite it because you DIDN’T LIKE IT.

Fucking hell. Who takes an entertainment entity and remakes it OUT OF SPITE?!

Escher Girls: Clothes I'm forced to wear in the majority of MMORPGS

Wed, 15 May 2013 04:12:54 -0400

Escher Girls: Clothes I'm forced to wear in the majority of MMORPGS:

repair-her-armor:

[Please take note that the commentary is just for fun. Bunch of sarcasm. Don’t take it too seriously. I am getting tired of these outfits, though.]

1. The classic Bikini Armor. If you’re lucky you might get an actual shoulder-pad! If the designers even bother…

Haha omg this is like looking at every single one of my female Guild Wars toons.

cunthulhu: i watched this video like a week ago and i am still...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:10:03 -0400

cunthulhu:

i watched this video like a week ago and i am still laughing to myself about it every day help me

Hay gurl, let’s get together for a knitting party and cereal.

fozmeadows: yerawizardmary: sad-teeth: So today Angelina...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:51:34 -0400

fozmeadows:

yerawizardmary:

sad-teeth:

So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists for being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.

This is why I hate people.

All of these people - and I mean this from the bottom of my heart - need to DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST ON A BICYCLE. Woman doing something life saving with her breasts not approved by douchecanoe patriarchy bzzzt does not compute bzzzt how dare she take titty away bzzzt

Yeah, I hope their heads fucking implode.

Rematriation.: The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome'

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:31:00 -0400

Rematriation.: The Racist Myth of MSG and 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome':

riotrite:

apihtawikosisan:

zuky:

This is the story of a racist myth that began with a light-hearted letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968 and subsequently exploded in North American culture — in direct opposition to every shred of scientific evidence — becoming so prevalent that credulous eaters buy into it to the point of experiencing its effects on a purely psychosomatic basis.

It’s often been called “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome” and its premise is that MSG in Chinese food results in unpleasant allergic reactions. Interestingly enough, higher quantities of MSG in non-Chinese foods are not reported to have the same effects. MSG is a naturally occurring amino acid, and some of the highest levels of MSG a North American consumer is likely to ingest come in vine-ripened tomatoes, aged cheese, and dry-aged steak — yet there is no reported medical phenomenon known as “Italian Food Syndrome” or “American Steakhouse Syndrome”.

Monosodium glutamate was first isolated from the seaweed kombu, commonly used in the Japanese broth dashi, by biochemist Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University in 1908. He named its taste umami because it differed from the five conventional flavours of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and spicy. Ikeda patented his discovery and MSG became commercially available in 1909. It was found to enhance flavours with one third of the amount of sodium as traditional salt, i.e. sodium chloride. In this sense, monosodium glutamate is probably healthier than sodium chloride because it achieves flavour with reduced sodium levels.

MSG was immediately popular in Asia and became common in the North American food industry after World War II, used in baby food, canned soup, vegetable juice, frozen food, as well as seasoning mix brands such as Accent. Yet somehow in the 1960s, this popular food additive became associated with Chinese food and deemed a health hazard. Why? Because Chinese people, culture, and food have been targeted by widespread and effective racist hate campaigns in North America since the 19th century, buttressed by wild claims that the Chinese are “unclean”, carry diseases, are sexually-deviant opium addicts, inscrutable and sneaky, a Yellow Peril.

The 1968 letter to the New England Journal of Medicine which solidified the myth of MSG was actually written by a Chinese immigrant named Robert Ho Man Kwok, who described “numbness at the back of the neck, gradually radiating to both arms and the back, general weakness and palpitation” after eating in American Chinese restaurants. The letter opened the floodgates to a barage of letters and related articles complaining of headaches, dizziness, paralysis of the throat, tingling in the temples, tightness of the jaw, irregular heartbeat, depression, hyperactivity, and all manner of digestive ailments.

Given this preponderance of anecdotal evidence, numerous scientific studies have been performed since then attempting to identify this “Chinese Restaurant Syndrome”. The funny thing is that no study has ever been able to do so. When people don’t know that they’re consuming MSG, they don’t suffer adverse reactions. All national and international food safety bodies have concluded that MSG is perfectly safe. People in Japan eat MSG every single day and the Japanese have the longest life expectancy in the world.

Fear of MSG is a racist remnant of the Chinese Exclusion era which exists only in North America and has been thoroughly debunked by science. Yet racist socialization is so powerful that people actually experience physical effects such as headaches, depression, and indigestion based solely on their indoctrinated fear of Chinese people and Chinese food. Think it over next time you eat parmesan cheese or a vine-ripened tomato.

I had no idea…going to look more into this.

I’ve been complaining about the MSG myth for a long time, but I never stopped to think about it being linked to racism. Makes perfect sense.

Holy crap, I remember this myth getting air in New Zealand in the 80s and early 90s, but it was billed as MSG having a higher salt content than normal salt (this was during a time when NZ was going through a major moral panic over salt). To this day there are still Chinese restaurants and takeaway shops that bill themselves as “MSG Free”.

Isn’t it interesting that now we’re starting to get a generation of people with thyroid problems, which is being directly related to the 80s/90s panic of removing salt from EVERYTHING.

fuckyeahsirpatrickstewart: STAHP He’s my headcanon...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:17:41 -0400

fuckyeahsirpatrickstewart:

STAHP

He’s my headcanon grandad…

samorchard: I did a comic about marriage equality…

Tue, 14 May 2013 01:34:53 -0400

samorchard:

I did a comic about marriage equality…

hawkawaii: WITH THE FUCKING MUSIC AND PEPPER WATCHING IM SO...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:25:49 -0400

hawkawaii:

WITH THE FUCKING MUSIC AND PEPPER WATCHING

IM SO MAD

*fans self* Whirr click

itsfullofstars: A revised version of David Bowie’s Space...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:15:31 -0400

itsfullofstars:

A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

Why is slow motion walking such a sexy thing…

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:01:06 -0400

Why is slow motion walking such a sexy thing…

rennerobsession: jaspersdarkangel: rennerblackhawk: mira-of-sa...

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:55:07 -0400

rennerobsession:

jaspersdarkangel:

rennerblackhawk:

mira-of-sassgard:

sherlocked-inside-the-tardis:

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen today.

oh, wow….

omg i love this

This…. my Thor this is beautiful.

Stunning, just stunning

Photo

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:36:15 -0400

craftastrophies: Whelp, hyperbole and a half is frighteningly...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:52:31 -0400

craftastrophies:

Whelp, hyperbole and a half is frighteningly accurate, as usual.

Is it bad that I understand why the corn is funny?

I have my own piece of corn. Not long after I finished counselling for my post earthquake things, I randomly started laughing at that “satanic robot fish” video doing the rounds. I wasn’t even that funny, just the battery running out on a singing fish ffs. But I played it over and over and cried and laughed and laughed and cried for almost 2 days straight, and nobody understood why.