necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

Sometimes a king needs a queen (◡‿◡✿)

necromorph-slayinglovemachine:

I’m not sure but I think I just accidentally created a legendary Pokemon

theuppitynegras:

thecommandertoast:

ofmagicandice:

So I just gained a follower a few moments ago with the name maartin4life

LISTEN TO ME

WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU DO

DON’T

OPEN

THEIR FUCKING PAGE

I JUST OPENED IT AND MY AVAST ANTIVIRUS TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS A FUCKING TROJAN HORSE

verified. it contains a malware bug encrypted inside the javascript. 

SIGNAL BOOST

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tealtigress:

There should be options beyond tomboy (like Merida) and girly girl (like Cinderella).

NOAH BERLATSKY | MAY 21 2013, 12:04 PM ET

Princess Cimorene, as depicted on the cover of Dealing With Dragons. (Harcourt Brace)

Princesses are easy to hate. They don’t save kingdoms. They don’t fight dragons. They don’t battle giants. They just dress up and look pretty and get saved and get married. They’re passive and boring and so, so…feminine.

The hatred of Disney Princesses in particular, then, can end up looking something like a hatred of, or a discomfort with, the feminine itself. Peggy Orenstein pointed this out in a 2006 article about her discomfort with princesses. After her daughter began questioning her obsessively about the reason for her anti-princess stance, Orenstein suddenly wondered,

What if, instead of realizing: Aha! Cinderella is a symbol of the patriarchal oppression of all women, another example of corporate mind control and power-to-the-people! my 3-year-old was thinking, Mommy doesn’t want me to be a girl? […] I may be inadvertently communicating that being female (to the extent that my daughter is able to understand it) is a bad thing.

So how do you hate princesses without hating girls? Or how do you separate princesses and femininity?

In a column last week at The Week, Monika Bartyzel suggested that these are maybe the wrong questions. The problem, Bartyzel argues, isn’t princesses, but the fact that “princess”—and by extension, femininity—has ended up meaning such a limited range of things. Bartyzel argues, “The truth is that, just as there are all kinds of women, there can be all kinds of princesses.” She points to the film Brave, where the heroine, Princess Merida, is basically defined by her dislike of the princess role—she hates dressing up, doesn’t want to marry anybody, and loves archery and swordplay like her father. And yet, as Bartyzel says, when Disney officially coronated Merida into their official Disney brand, they gave her a makeover, complete with bigger breasts, less wild hair, and the sort of finery she disliked in the film. The outcry—including a withering statement from Bravewriter Brenda Chapman—was sufficiently intense that Disney backpedaled, and has apparently pulled the redesigned Merida from their site.

Bartyzel argues that more different kinds of princesses would mean more different role models, and more options, for little girls. That’s certainly true. But it could also, and relatedly, provide a broader definition of femininity. Merida’s love of sports and weapons and her rejection of marriage and dresses and etiquette is a welcome alternative to Cinderella. But are the only options really tomboy and girly girl? Merida is a different kind of princess in part because she doesn’t want much to do with traditional femininity—and her story is exhilarating for that. But still, it seems like it maybe leaves out a fair number of girls who like princesses because of the femininity, not despite it.

There are some princesses out there who exemplify additional options. Probably not coincidentally, many of them aren’t from Disney. Perhaps the best known example is Wonder Woman, who is rarely even thought of as a princess. And yet, a Princess she is—Princess Diana of the Amazons, specifically.

Created in the 1940s by William Marston, a psychologist and radical feminist, Wonder Woman was specifically and deliberately designed to show not just that women could be brave, but that femininity itself was a kind of superpower. Where heroes like Merida and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen use pointy, utilitarian, arrows, Wonder Woman’s weapon is the deliberately non-phallic lasso. Over time, that lasso has morphed into a lasso of truth, but originally it was a much more effective lasso of command. Anyone who was caught by it was compelled to obey the wielder.

In an interview Marston called the lasso “a symbol of female charm, allure, oomph, attraction” and of the power that “every woman has…over people of both sexes whom she wishes to influence or control in any way.” The lasso is not a weapon despite its femininity; it’s femininity weaponized. For Marston, love wasn’t something women sat around and waited for. It was a power women picked up and used to save the world from violence and hate.

Another, more recent example is Princess Cimorene, of Patricia Wrede’s wonderful 1990 Dealing With Dragons and its sequels. Cimorene, like Merida, dislikes many of the stereotypical aspects of being a princess. She doesn’t want to learn to embroider or learn etiquette. Instead, she wants to learn sword-fighting, magic, and cooking.

The last one there is the tell. Cimorene doesn’t want to follow the Disney princess script of sitting around and waiting for a prince to come. But she doesn’t want to be a hero either—on the contrary, she thinks all the princes going on quests and fighting dragons are just as dull and conventional as the princesses they save. Cimorene wants nothing to do with either archetype.

Instead, she decides to become the princess for the female dragon Kazul—a position which is decidedly domestic. Cimorene cleans and makes cherry jubilee and organizes the library, acting as a combination secretary and maid.

This isn’t presented as burdensome: Cimorene has a good, domestic, down-to-earth practicality, as well as an enormous curiosity. She likes to organize things, and she finds rifling through a dragon’s treasure and library fascinating, which it seems like it would be. But there’s no doubt that in her female-female partnership with Kazul, she is taking on most of the traditional wifely functions—a fact only emphasized further when Kazul wins the unisex title of King of the Dragons. Even when Cimorene does fight, she tends to do so in a domestic way. She and her friends discover that the evil wizards who are the series’ chief antagonists can be melted by soaking them in soapy water (with a hint of lemon). Battle involves not swords, but buckets.

Neither Wonder Woman’s vision of femininity nor Cimorene’s is going to appeal to everyone (whether male or female) in every way. Marston’s ideas about feminine love power can seem essentialist and weirdly sexualized. Washing floors can seem a pretty tedious task even if it’s a dragon’s floor you’re cleaning. But most masculine narratives for kids—filled as they are with guns and swords and sentient fossil-fuel-guzzling tank engines—have their downsides, too. The point isn’t to create a single perfect role model, be it Merida or Wonder Woman or Cimorene or Cinderella. The point is to give girls, and for that matter boys, the chance to see femininity not solely as a prison to inhabit or escape, but as a story that can be told in lots of ways. As Cimorene’s friend Princess Arabella tells her at the end of the novel, “I wouldn’t like being princess for the King of the Dragons, but it will suit you down to the ground.”

Perfect commentary is perfect.

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just-another-lurkim:

excusemeandmyexistence:

an-owls-eye:

gay waterbending

I will never not reblog this

The fiercest bender of them all

forever reblogging

SOMEONE WHO COSPLAYS A WATERBENDER MUST TAKE THIS POSE

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musicalmurderscene:

Dog: Hello koi!

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this just makes me happy for some reason.

it’s like the dog is giving the koi a hello smooch

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magnetic-rose:

oh man i haven’t had long hair in such a long time and sometimes my hair will get caught underneath my armpit and i’ll move my head and it pulls my hair painfully is this like a normal thing for long hair or am i just really that stupid???/1?

It’s normal. You just have to remember to sweep it behind your back every now and then so it won’t get caught on everything.

ALSO BE CAREFUL ABOUT CLOSING CAR DOORS I’M SERIOUS

uglymyfanwy:

archersstolenchallenger:

hypnophilia:

gallifreyan-wings:

tyleroakley:

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans. 

George Takei is flawfree.

OMG PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THIS ISLAND OF MEN IS THANKS AHAHAHAH MY HERO

this brightened my day my GOD George Takei is the fucking best.

I don’t know what’s worse: 

That people have these feelings

or

That nstring together a simple sentence. 

George Takei is such an amazing human being.

I just laughed for a minute straight.

when i saw “Because it’s right to do it”

I KNEW WHAT I WOULD SEE NEXT AND I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

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hiddle-stoned:

life-more-abundantly:

denyselfandfollowchrist:

spadeoface:

he looks like one of the italian people pushing one of those boats

#DEAD

You don’t even understand, there are actual tears.

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fhobos:

leradny:

The Truth Will Out

WONDER WOMAN AND ARTEMIS TALKING IN A COFFEE SHOP. 

WONDER WOMAN. AND ARTEMIS. 

TALKING TOGETHER.

WONDERWOMAN AND ARTEMIS—- 

/screeches

Really this was just an excuse for a cheap crack at Greek and Roman mythology, and also seeing how many deeper levels I could shove into the conversation without Artemis noticing at all.

BUT SERIOUSLY I AM ALWAYS GLAD WHENEVER SOMEONE LIKES MY WRITING ENOUGH TO SAY STUFF ABOUT IT

batched:

just shine a light on me: Hello friends!

tinkersandtoymakers:

tinkersandtoymakers:

So, cutting to the chase: I’m poor as hell. I can barely afford food; I just lost my job but am unable to collect unemployment; I have no income; my family can’t ease my way; and I have to pay rent at the beginning of next month, which will suck my finances completely dry.

In an effort to not become a homeless manchild, I’m offering commissions.

I’ll do a bunch of $2 sketch commissions for people, if that’s what I need to do. I’ll do $30 digital vector portraits if people want. I’ll do $15 flat color illustrations. I don’t care. Name your price and I’ll draw your thing. Just please help.

And if you can’t purchase a commission then at least reblog this. I’m in serious trouble and I’m really stressed out about the whole situation. Examples of my work can be found here.

Guys, it’s been 10 minutes and this has 3 notes. I have more than 1200 followers. If you each take one second to reblog this or request a sketch commission, that’s $2400.

PLEASE. HELP. I am seriously in a pit and I don’t know what else to do right now.

If you can reblog a funny text post about “penus” from me, you can reblog this to help me not become a homeless post-adolescent panhandler.

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imagineyourotp:

Imagine Person A of your OTP as a superhero, and Person B as their supervillain nemesis, each trying to convert the other to their side. Every time they meet, they end up flirting while they fight and having incredibly strong romantic/sexual tension with each other.

this is traught

except for the fact that they weren’t actually flirting

or on opposite sides

*claws face*

inacosmicfunk replied to your photo: the question is when did jesse mccartney get…

Honestly, the hair is a big improvement, but he was sucha babe when he was younger. Now, he’s…aite.

Well, I like dark hair so that’s probably why I like Jesse’s current look more than when he was younger

warulv:

warulv:

Things have gone from bad to worse and mom is now bullying me. In short I am a very sick pathetic Canadian who cannot keep a job and my mom has gone cray and wants me out of the house. I thought things were going to be okay, but there are no jobs in my area, and we once again cannot afford the simple things. I’m trying very hard to seek out a way to earn money.

I don’t know what else to do so I’ll put up my donation box again at the end of this post, but I just want everyone to know all you do means so much to me. Boosting, small donations, tall donations, kind words, I’m thankful for it all.

If anyone’s interested, just send me a message if you’d like some custom jewellery (I can do bracelets, necklaces, and earrings, I use glass beads, and if you’d like I can do rope bracelets or necklaces!) or a sketch commission. ;;u;;

Thank you loves, and sorry for being a bother.

Dennies’ Donation Box

My mom sold my fathers motorcycle today, for the money. Besides heartbroken, I’m terrified. I didn’t think we were this bad off. I’m very sorry for having to put this on your dashes again.

Every little bit helps.

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the question is

when did jesse mccartney get brunet and really really cute