I'm a teacher who likes reading, teaching, writing, taking pictures and doodling.
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Prince Gumball’s path to the throne was brutal. Fionna wasn’t around during the Sugar Wars; Gumball distracts her by acting super bland and wearing disco pants.
Marshall Lee knows the truth, but as Chaotic Neutral, he just can’t bring himself to give a shit.
ETA: Nhyworks just gave me the amazing pun ‘Game of Scones.’ Brb dying ok.
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whoa, amazing body paint by Carolyn Roper
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How can you NOT find this cool?
TOOTHLESSS
This look never means anything good is going to happen.
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(via Recipe: 15 Minute Brussels Sprout & Tempeh Stir-Fry | In Pursuit of More)
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Dear anyone responsible for a work of fantasy fiction,
This is how you warrior.UGH. YES. LADIES IN PROPER ARMOR.
Two of those are by Marian Churchland, who is THE BEST
I WILL NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR MY LOVE OF FULL ARMOR.
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
by Virginia Hamilton
A collection of twenty-five African-American folktales focuses on strong female characters and includes “”Little Girl and Bruh Rabby,”” “”Catskinella,”” and “”Annie Christmas.”” By the author of The People Could Fly.
one of my more favorite books <3
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Fill your heart with secrets but the only way to read them is if you break your heart.
i will forever reblog this
i need me one of these.
OMG I WANT ONE
i think every couple should get one and fill it with the little things they love about each other. and then if they’re fighting throw it at a wall and read all the little things that come out and hopefully that will remind them to love again.
asdfghjkl reblogging for that ^
want want want
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Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
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Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
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canadians
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SUICIDE BY ART: Irene Adler: Male feminists need to shut the fuck up →
I don’t recall how or where but several days ago I came across an interview with Lara Pulver, the actress of Irene Adler in BBC’s SHERLOCK.
There were just comments from men of all sorts just relentlessly BASHING her and the character, saying it’s the most sexist piece of trash they had ever…Howdy there. So I’m a woman, and I find BBC Sherlock’s Irene Adler to be INCREDIBLY problematic.
Not only is she highly sexualized in very male-gazey ways, but she is routinely disempowered by the narrative.
The episode plays into the “Women are so emotional” trope and has Irene lose to Sherlock because of her emotions which as, to quote Sherlock himself a “chemical defect of the losing side.”
Irene is also denied agency when it is revealed that she was little more than a henchman to begin with. She is one of Moriarty’s puppets, not really a threat on her own.
On top of that, she has to be rescued by the “Scary scary terrorists” (thanks for the casual islamaphobia, Sherlock) by Sherlock at the end.
AND the episode engages in severe queer erasure by having Irene identify as gay, only to “fall in love with the right man” in Sherlock.
The entire Irene Adler story in BBC Sherlock is deeply flawed. It is a male gaze saturated cliche male wish fulfillment fantasy. It denies Irene any real sense of agency or power.
Hell, we have a queer woman who is disempowered by becoming sexually available to the male hero, who was only a threat in the first place due to the male villan, and has to be rescued at the end from the scary brown people. Literally everything about the episode is problematic in some way.
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But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.
Also holy shit I love these.
How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?
Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:
um yes
Reblogging because this is awesome and also: tell me more about the dude in the second portrait. He looks badass as fuck.
That’s Juan de Pareja, painted by Diego Velasquez circa 1650.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Juan de Pareja (born about 1610, died 1670)
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599–1660 Madrid)
Date: 1650
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 32 x 27 1/2 in. (81.3 x 69.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Fletcher and Rogers Funds, and Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), by exchange, supplemented by gifts from friends of the Museum, 1971
Accession Number: 1971.86
This extraordinary portrait depicts Velázquez’s slave of Moorish descent, who served as an assistant in his workshop. Painted in Rome, it was displayed publicly beneath the portico of the Pantheon in March 1650. Velázquez clearly intended to impress his Italian colleagues with his unique artistry. Indeed we are told that the picture “gained such universal applause that in the opinion of all the painters of the different nations everything else seemed like painting but this alone like truth”. Juan de Pareja became a painter in his own right and was freed by Velázquez in 1654.
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I remember posting somewhere once in a thread about why girls aren’t exploited in animation anymore where some guy said, “all the disney girls are drawn to be generally attractive, but I don’t think there are any eye-candy men… or are there? Are there any Disney men that lots of girls like?” and I mentioned Roger. Tons of girls replied agreeing with me and the original guy was like “wait, Roger? from 101 Dalmatians? What’s attractive about him, he’s tall and lanky and has a big nose, he isn’t muscley at all! Wouldn’t you all prefer Gaston or something? Or do you girls think his big nose is indicative of something else?” and I was like “no, you idiot, he’s a silly, goofy guy who likes animals and can play a bunch of instruments, that’s why he’s attractive. What’s the matter with you? Gaston, seriously?”
This is why we need more girls in animation. And more guys like Roger apparently.
This is why I laugh my ass of whenever dudes talk about how men are “objectified” by the media too. Because 9 times out of 10, what men think is “women objectifying men” are characters like Gaston.
And Gaston is NOT a woman-driven fantasy. Gaston is a male wish fulfillment fantasy. Gaston is not what women want, he is what men want to be. He is hyper-masculinity to an extreme degree, dripping with sexism and testosterone. The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men.
While I don’t want to generalize, female fans tend to prefer a very different kind of male hero. We like the Rogers, the Milos, the Hercules. Genuinely kind, often awkward men who are sometimes vulnerable and respectful to women.
Yes, this is a generalization. I own up to that. But I think it’s important to remember that there is often VERY big difference between what MEN want to be and what women (not all of whom are even attracted to men) WANT to see in our media.
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Beautiful photographs shot by artist and activist Zanele Muholi.
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Let’s talk about the dark night.
Yes this post is about Batman.Our common assumption is that the night sky is supposed to be dark with only few dots of light.
But then, aren’t there supposed to billions upon billions of stars in the night sky emitting light. Yes, they are very far away, but, there is nothing stopping (like air or glass) the light from reaching us. So, shouldn’t all those stars make the night sky (very) bright and not dark ?
This is actually called Olbers’ Paradox.
Let’s look at the problem in another way. We can divide the universe into a series of concentric shells, being 5 light years thick. Thus, a certain number of stars will be in the shell 1,00,000 to 1,00,005 light years away. If the universe is homogeneous at a large scale (i.e., static), then there would be four times as many stars in a second shell between 2,00,000 to 2,00,005 light years away.
But, the second shell is twice as far away, so each star in it would appear four times dimmer than the first shell (intensity is inversely proportional to the square of distance). Thus the total light received from the second shell is the same as the total light received from the first shell.
Thus, the argument is that if the universe were static and filled infinitely with stars, the night sky should be much brighter than it is now.
I think you guessed the loop hole here. I said if the universe were static, which it clearly isn’t.
The Big Bang explains this paradox by saying that the universe started at a point, and expanded from that point. Thus, it is not static.
We know that the expansion is accelerating. So, two things happen.
One is that, those stars in the night sky are moving away from us and the distance between them and us increases. This increase the time for to see them and eventually it takes millions of years for the light from those stars to reach us.
Second, which is the more important reason, is that these starts get redshifted away. Redshifting is when the wavelength of an object moving away from us goes towards the red side of the spectrum and eventually, it goes into the infra red, which we cannot see. It is like we listen to a honking truck passing by at great speed. As it moves away from us, the the sound becomes softer and softer and eventually it is inaudible.
So, because of these reasons, we never get to experience the real night sky light. But, it may be a good thing, as otherwise our eyes would be blinded by the light !
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