I'm a little man and I'm also evil, also into cats

92/100 pictures of Eddie Redmayne

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:07:00 -0400

92/100 pictures of Eddie Redmayne

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:19:13 -0400

digivolvin: love stories about monsters are THE BEST because the idea of conceptualizing love in a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:45:45 -0400

love stories about monsters are THE BEST because the idea of conceptualizing love in a way that is not human and fundamentally cannot be human and is AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE LEVEL FROM THE HUMAN is so great.

made better when one half of the relationship is human and suddenly we’re dealing with a) a human learning to love like a monster or b) a monster learning to translate their love into human terms and that’s

the best thing

to me.

which often goes hand in hand with MONSTER TRYING TO HUMANIZE THEMSELVES but that’s.. not necessary, don’t worry monster, you don’t need to do that. your capacity for love does not need to be whittled and softened into a human shape. it’s okay. your heart can be brutal and all consuming. you will learn to cope and you will learn to funnel it, pieces at a time, into something conceivable and measurable to the human mind.

and i don’t strictly mean monster monsters because there’s room here for divinity (alpha and omega, first and last, holy terror OF THE HEART. apocalypses OF FEELING.) or ghosts, or non-human, non-monster outliers (superheroes, androids, idek), or even human beings who are self-made monsters and whose expression and understanding of love is two steps removed and two shades off.

but, you know what i mean.

love stories about monsters.

holajupiter: I started watching Downton Abbey yesterday. Here,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:20:36 -0400

holajupiter:

I started watching Downton Abbey yesterday. Here, I fixed it.

REPRESENT

guyfarris: CHOREOGRAPHER HERMES PAN INSTRUCTING NANCY KWAN...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:18:31 -0400

guyfarris:

CHOREOGRAPHER HERMES PAN INSTRUCTING NANCY KWAN DURING THE FILMING OF THE “I ENJOY BEING A GIRL” NUMBER IN THE MOVIE MUSICAL “FLOWER DRUM SONG” (1961).

Personally I don’t see why people with tuxedo cats are...

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:06:56 -0400

Personally I don’t see why people with tuxedo cats are expected to meet obligations that involve leaving the house.

cosmic-philanthropy: melodyquill: the-strider-strudel: dreamofserenity626: nooby-banana: you...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:55:53 -0400

cosmic-philanthropy:

melodyquill:

the-strider-strudel:

dreamofserenity626:

nooby-banana:

you can walk diagonally in pokemon x and y

YOU

CAN

WALK

DIAGONALLY

DIAGONALLY

DIAGONALLY

~~DIAGONALLY~~

DIAGONALLY

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pokemon fandom

u ok

NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND
WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS MOMENT

michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:54:44 -0400

michaonthemoon:

yaoibutts:

I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”

like what stupid frenchman saw this:

and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”

j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:

et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!”

(z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)

i change my mind, i guess this is my token star trek casting meta

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:28:19 -0400

there is a longer meta I could write but don’t feel like writing at the moment about how tumblr’s/fandom’s actor obsession and need to develop imaginary relationships with actors, as if they are people they personally know and not artists who create individual works they like, is what leads to people having immature and wrongheaded reactions to stuff like Star Trek’s casting fail — if your social group bases their fucking personal identities on liking or disliking Hollywood actors, it’s no wonder they go to war over them as if one’s personal feelings on B.C. are even remotely relevant to whether or not the Star Trek casting fail is insulting and depressing and a really egregious symptom of how Hollywood functions right now.

yeah I do actually think this is the direct flipside of PERFECT FACES and stanning—people who think they only stan nice actors who do progressive things are just setting themselves up to be wrong, at which point they will mumble and try and pretend it didn’t happen, or irrationally defend their bb, and pretty much never react well because… well if you spend that much time cultivating your imaginary relationship with a person, it’s a hard breakup, isn’t it.

actors are literally no more personal to you or to the filmmaking process than screenwriters, soundtrack scorers, editors, costume designers, sound designers, art directors, or any of the million other people whose creative decisions critically influence how a viewer reacts to and interprets a film. they’re just a lot more visible.

(and sigh, for strangers and new friends, I should probably put in the disclaimer: I don’t freaking hate Benedict Cumberbatch personally, I like his work generally quite a bit and I have his autograph somewhere. he’s a fucking actor! you can’t personally love or hate someone you don’t personally know! unless you buy into the collective delusion, which again I think goes way beyond this particular fandom and this particular drama, on tumblr.)

— but yeah, there’s a big difference between Roddenberry’s well-intentioned 60s-70s failings and the kind of hardened apathy and calculation that goes into making films like JJA’s Trek remakes. or in other words: it’s not just that they cast a white guy, it’s that brutally and honestly speaking, you know that there was no way in hell they weren’t going to cast some white guy, or that anyone other than a white guy was ever seriously in consideration for the role, or was ever going to be, in a sanitized soulless high-concept remake like JJA’s Trek. (Or Nolan’s Batman films.)

sigh. it’s hard to expect a decent overall discussion of something serious when the very way it’s psychologically framed in a particular social group is not conducive to realistic judgments. but fannish loyalty is just a subgroup of team loyalty and well we know how I feel about team loyalty’s effects on human behavior. :\

themousygirlscreams: The Mountain Goats - No Children our...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:40:53 -0400

themousygirlscreams:

The Mountain Goats - No Children

our friends say it’s darkest before the sun rises/we’re pretty sure they’re all wrong.

ikenbot: Star Trek: Into Whiteness If there’s one thing that...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:18 -0400

ikenbot:

Star Trek: Into Whiteness

If there’s one thing that most fans of Star Trek will agree on, it’s the fact that Gene Roddenberry’s vision for the show — and, more optimistically, for human society — was predicated on the idea that all life is valuable, and that the worth of a person should not be judged by their appearance. Much of this was done through the old sci-fi trope of using aliens to stand in for oppressed groups, but Star Trek didn’t rely on the metaphor; it had characters who were part of the ensemble, important and beloved members of the Enterprise crew, who were people of colour. It had background characters who were people of colour. And, here and there, it had anti-heroes and villains who were people of colour … one of whom, Khan Noonian Singh, became well-nigh iconic.

Image 1: “Who is your favorite villain?” ; Actor John Cho (Lt Sulu) answers.

Image 2: TOS Khan looking at a watercolor of himself. Yes, he’s wearing a dastar (Sikh turban)

Image 3: Cumberbatch and Montalbán (as Khan)

And who is now being played by white actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the new JJ Abrams reboot movie, Star Trek: Into Darkness.

We’re all cynical and jaded enough to know the standard dismissal when it comes to matters of media representation: Paramount Pictures and most film studios are not interested in diversity or visibility, they only care about the bottom dollar. Star Trek as a franchise is too much of a juggernaut to affect with boycotts. There are too many people who love it, who love those characters and that world, and will go to see the movie. And for some of these people, this devotion to the idea of a future where even South and East Asian men get to pilot a starship and love swashbuckling, where Black women make Lieutenant on the Enterprise and actually get the boy, will be trivialized and eroded and whitewashed when the most formidable and complex Star Trek baddie becomes a white man named Khan.

It wasn’t perfect in the 60s when Ricardo Montalbán was cast to play Khan (a character explicitly described in the episode script of Space Seed as being Sikh, from the Northern regions of India). But considering all of the barriers to representation that Roddenberry faced from the television networks, having a brown-skinned man play a brown character was a hard-won victory. It’s disappointing and demoralizing that with the commercial power of Star Trek in his hands, JJ Abrams chose not to honour the original spirit of the show, or the symbolic heft of the Khan character, but to wield the whitewash brush for … what? The hopes that casting Benedict Cumberbatch would draw in a few more box office returns? It’s doubly disappointing when you consider that Abrams was a creator of the television show Lost, which had so many well-rounded and beloved characters of colour in it.

Add to this the secrecy prior to release around Cumberbatch’s role in the film, and what seems like a casting move that would typically be defended by cries of “best actor for the job, not racism” becomes something more cunning, more malicious. Yes, the obfuscation creates intrigue around and interest in the role, but it also prevents advocacy groups like Racebending.com from building campaigns to protest the whitewashing. This happened with the character of the Mandarin in Iron Man 3, as well as ‘Miranda Tate’ in The Dark Knight Rises, who ended up being Talia al Ghul but played by French actress Marion Cotillard. This practice is well in effect in Hollywood; and after the negative press that was generated by angry anti-oppression activists and fans when Paramount had The Last Airbender in the works, studios are wising up. They don’t want their racist practices to be called out, pointed at, and exposed before their movies are released — Airbender proved that these protests create enough bad feeling to affect their bottom line.

So the studio has now found a way to keep it secret and underhanded. Racebending.com was there for most of the production of The Last Airbender, and were even able to correspond with Paramount Pictures about it. This time, for Star Trek: Into Darkness, their hiding and opaque practices has managed to silence media watchdogs until the movie’s premiere.

As I said, this racist whitewashing of the character of Khan won’t affect how much money this Trek movie makes. And I’m happy that the franchise is popular, still popular enough to warrant not only a big-budget reboot with fantastic actors but also a sequel with that cast. I’m happy that actors I enjoy like Zoë Saldaña and John Cho are playing characters who mean so much to me, and that they, in respect for the groundbreaking contributions by Nichelle Nichols and George Takei in these roles, have paid homage to that past.

But all of that will be marred by having my own skin edited out, rendered worthless and silent and invisible when a South Asian man is portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch up on that screen. In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch, intellectually and physically perfect, possessed of such charisma and drive that despite his efforts to gain control of the Enterprise, Captain Kirk (and many of the other officers) felt admiration for him.

And that’s why the role has been taken away from actors of colour and given to a white man. Racebending.com has always pointed out that villains are generally played by people with darker skin, and that’s true … unless the villain is one with intelligence, depth, complexity. One who garners sympathy from the audience, or if not sympathy, then — as from Kirk — grudging admiration. What this new Trek movie tells us, what JJ Abrams is telling us, is that no brown-skinned man can accomplish all that. That only by having Khan played by a white actor can the audience engage with and feel for him, believe that he’s smart and capable and a match for our Enterprise crew.

What an enormous and horribly ironic step backwards. For Star Trek, for media representation, and for the vision of a future where we have transcended systemic, racist erasure.

(via RaceBending)

Rosalind Lutece - Bioshock Infinite | requested by anonymous

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:15:44 -0400

Rosalind Lutece - Bioshock Infinite | requested by anonymous

the standards of professionalism were invented solely to spoil my window shopping fun

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:57:28 -0400

what “business appropriate attire” SHOULD mean:

what it actually means:

i would say i can’t be tamed but i in fact can be tamed, temporarily, for self-preservational etiquette reasons. w/e at least express shirts and ties come in every color necessary to repaint the interior of a preschool

grosgrognon: imagineyouricon: Imaging your icon trying to have a threesome with your OTP my icon...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:42:00 -0400

grosgrognon:

imagineyouricon:

Imaging your icon trying to have a threesome with your OTP

my icon + my OTP would be a fivesome. A very awkward, unsatisfying fivesome. ):

i think brienne would disagree with some of robert lutece’s moral decisions and jaime has probably had enough distaff lookalike sex to last him quite a while

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Fri, 17 May 2013 21:03:52 -0400

he’s almost as smug as i am

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:00 -0400

he’s almost as smug as i am

zerostop: pyropancake: kiokom2: FLORP Roll Roll this will...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:35:59 -0400

zerostop:

pyropancake:

kiokom2:

*FLORP*

Roll Roll

this will always be one of my favorite tf2 comics

my new cat

anachronistique replied to your post: I’m afraid to post or reblog certain things on my Tumblr for...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:34:25 -0400

anachronistique replied to your post: I’m afraid to post or reblog certain things on my Tumblr for fear of you judging me. Your opinion means enough that I don’t wish to lower it.

lolol if that was how you assessed people we would never speak again

The most recent things on my Tumblr aside from my new cat have been Ouran High School Host Club and Veronica Mars and d’Kushielle’s Legacie. THAT WHICH YIELDS IS NOT ALWAYS WEAK NOMIE

yellow-mixtape: White TownYour Woman

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:08:00 -0400

yellow-mixtape:

White Town
Your Woman

holy crap that was a fast reblog :P

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:42:00 -0400

you’ll always be my colonel sares

I'm a little man and I'm also evil, also into cats

92/100 pictures of Eddie Redmayne

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digivolvin: love stories about monsters are THE BEST because the idea of conceptualizing love in a...

holajupiter: I started watching Downton Abbey yesterday. Here,...

guyfarris: CHOREOGRAPHER HERMES PAN INSTRUCTING NANCY KWAN...

Personally I don’t see why people with tuxedo cats are...

cosmic-philanthropy: melodyquill: the-strider-strudel: dreamofserenity626: nooby-banana: you...

michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means...

i change my mind, i guess this is my token star trek casting meta

themousygirlscreams: The Mountain Goats - No Children our...

ikenbot: Star Trek: Into Whiteness If there’s one thing that...

Rosalind Lutece - Bioshock Infinite | requested by anonymous

the standards of professionalism were invented solely to spoil my window shopping fun

grosgrognon: imagineyouricon: Imaging your icon trying to have a threesome with your OTP my icon...

Photo

he’s almost as smug as i am

zerostop: pyropancake: kiokom2: *FLORP* Roll Roll this will...

anachronistique replied to your post: I’m afraid to post or reblog certain things on my Tumblr for...

yellow-mixtape: White TownYour Woman

holy crap that was a fast reblog :P

zerostop: pyropancake: kiokom2: FLORP Roll Roll this will...