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FYI
I am currently two weeks behind on Revenge, a week behind on The Secret Circle (soon to be two), and also behind on Community. I have not yet seen Avengers. Plus I’m hopelessly behind on all current comics. Therefore, I’m not really watching my dash at all. I just came here to say something that someone already said better and therefore I reblogged it when I was lucky enough to spot it in under a minute. However, I will continue to be missing until I get all of my work done and catch up on all shows, etc. Well, maybe not comics, because that might be hopeless. But yeah, missing for a few more days anyway, sorry. Carry on.
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Oh for frak’s sake, dogs and ice cream and tables and whatever the hell other stupid thing someone said earlier cannot get married because they cannot give consent or sign a contract. So all you panicked bigots can STFU with that crap.
On a related note, I hope that even the most selfish voters will vote based on the policies that affect their lives, and not let their votes be steered by hatred.
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Posted on May 10, 2012 via Drunk On Stevphen with 37,711 notes
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“I really believe that if Regina were a man, more people would be okay with the non-canon shipping of Swan Queen..Swan King? And they’d be down with this for much of the same reason people ship Rumbelle: it’s like the whole Jane Eyre complex of twisted, powerful man sparking with his complete opposite. I’m not saying that you have to ship Swan Queen or even like the idea, just accept that others do. (I might be a little defensive here-somebody called me immoral for shipping them..oh fandom.)”
Yeah no…my problem with this ship is because -ahem- Regina is Emma’s step-grandmother. Sorry. I just can’t get over that one enough to even try to sail with that ship. Besides! I’m already going through Mad Swan v. EmmaxAugust (WoodenSwan?) dilemmas I don’t need another ship possibility mussing that up!
I honestly don’t understand this. Like it actually confuses me.
From a societal standpoint, incest is taboo for two reasons, the problem of two people who are too closely related having children or the power differentials that result from one person having emotional and/or physical power over the other.
One. Neither of them is related by blood.
Two. Regina isn’t actually related to Snow at all anymore. Her husband, Snow’s father, is dead. So there is literally no connection at all. Not to mention that with Regina only being seven or eight years older than Snow at all, there’s no real way for her to be a ‘mother’ to Snow in anything other than by default of her having been forced to marry Leopold against her wishes. Further, that Emma didn’t grow up with her biological mother nor have any knowledge of Regina’s existence at all before coming to Storybrooke, meaning that the power issues of growing up with Regina as a parental figure are non-existent. And would have been non-existent anyway, even if Emma had grown up with Snow and Charming since Regina was not even related by marriage.
I mean, ship or don’t ship. But if you’re gonna use incest as an argument against, it should probably actually be incest, right? I mean, if non-sanguine relationships are that important to the point that even when they no longer exist and none of the people involved know they exist, then the idea of Emma even attempting to take Henry away from Regina should be unthinkable.
It’s gonna get awkward when it turns out Baelfire is Henry’s birth father (yawn, please don’t go this route, show) and all the Gold/Emma shippers realize they’ve been shipping Emma with Henry’s grandfather, isn’t it? Or that the intention of Geppetto was for August to grow up basically as Emma’s sibling.Personally, even without a blood relation, the family relation is enough to turn me off. But I also never find enemy ships particularly appealing, so it didn’t have a shot with me anyway. But I’m not out there arguing against this ship just because I don’t get it — people ship it, good for them, and also the ship name is adorable. Why should I or anyone else care enough to get riled up and mean? People should enjoy whatever they want, however they want, and manipulate their headcanon any way necessary to make it work best for them, and not worry about what other people are enjoying — it’s entertainment, it’s supposed to make people happy. End of story.
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Posted on May 1, 2012 via i fear your absence. with 196,716 notes
Source: avoir-peur
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We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.
Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”
The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.
I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.
So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.
… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.
Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”
Go read the whole damned thing.
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Posted on May 1, 2012 via BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. with 5,669 notes
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You get home from a long day at work and turn on the TV. It’s been a long week, so you think to yourself- maybe i’ll take the family to a movie on Saturday. Maybe we’ll even go on a vacation soon! We could visit museums and go to plays and see all sorts of fun attractions.
When you turned the TV on, nothing happened. There are no actors to entertain you.
When you went to the movie theater, nothing was showing. There were no advertisements to tell you that anything was showing, so you went to the theater to find out. Nothing playing. There is no one to film and create movies for you. Well at least your vacation will be fun, right? Not like there will be any plays to see and there won’t be anything in the art museums.
Well at least you have the shack you are living in that you made out of cardboard and sheets.
Not like you could find an architect to build you a house with all the money you’re making as an engineer.i have no words.
Fuck. You. Society.
Hahahaha wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
LET US USELESS BEINGS INHERIT THE EARTH!
I guess tv stations don’t need people to make their broadcast graphics
And movies don’t need posters and advertisements
Books don’t need to be typesetted
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Posted on April 30, 2012 via ethereal graveyard with 41,814 notes
Source: swyhis
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5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds
David Wong internet gaffe blasts news media in dramatic blow to journalism?
Posted on April 30, 2012 via CRACKED.com with 88 notes
Source: cracked
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(I regret nothing. Mostly.)
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(I regret nothing. Mostly.)Maybe I’m just completely shameless, but I wouldn’t even bother to change the names, let alone edit anything out. Just turn it in and see what happens.
Posted on April 29, 2012 via FYFF with 231 notes
Source: fuckyeahfanficflamingo
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Posted on April 27, 2012 via things with 109 notes
Source: skyisaname
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Fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Buffy, Firefly, Roswell, Star Trek, Doctor Who, X-Files, Terminator, Marvel Comics, Dark Angel, Babylon 5
