penfairy:

okay if I could time travel to the past, you know what I’d be most excited to see? THE QUALITY OF TEXTILES. Clothing was built to LAST before the industrial revolution and everything was HAND-MADE. We lose so much of women’s art from the archaeological record because textiles are perishable and we only get vague snapshots of what clothes and tapestries, etc, were like, and these would have been so important to everyday life! What did a hand-made toga feel like! How heavy was it! What did the tapestries hanging in castles look like! How did needlework enrich the home! Fuck! I love textiles!

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

swan2swan:

yeah-yeah-beebiss-1:

spookyscaryskeletitties:

tarradash:

sparkylurkdragon:

cerastes:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

tropiyas:

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize

“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”

– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis

“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created?”

-Steve Buscemi’s character in Spy Kids 2

“The people of this world are builders, and you will find that they also have the power to destroy.” –Makuta, Bionicle

“We deserve a soft epilogue my love, we are good people and we have suffered enough.”- Source, a Captain America fanfic.

Intellectual elitism is complete bullshit.

primusmummysparkmate:

rtrixie:

hayamika:

anyday-happyday:

moxperidot:

my favorite thing about “fbi/nsa agent monitoring my computer” things is it implies that there is at least one agent for every single person on earth with a computer

not really.

like i know this is a shitpost but just in case folks aren’t aware: the fbi and nsa and whatev gov agencies do monitor all internet traffic. The idea tho is to catalogue and scan for things like keywords and other data analysis and use that info to flag accounts/ip addresses/identities. Basically, building massive databases of information on all people just in case you become a threat to the state.

Think of it like an automatic file being built on every single person in real time. Should you do anything to warrant state suppression, your file may be flagged for further investigation which may lead to being actively tracked or suppressed (as evidenced in the past with COINTELPRO)

so no, there isn’t an agent per person. But you bet your ass there is a profile of you that connects all your electronic activity (including GPS data/metadata and tracking via MAC addresses, user agents and/or unique hardware identifiers) to intelligence agencies.

of course, much of this is intended to specifically instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt as part of a larger culture of fear.

but I figure it is better to know what’s going on so you can understand what’s happening.

so anyway, yeah, shit’s real yo.

hhh this is uh… kinda terrifying.

Hey remember when this was exposed and not a single person in the US government went to jail or even lost their job over it

We’ll never let them forget 

tlitookilakin:

elwurd:

fruitbi:

Someone: If you could have any one super power what w-

Trans and nb people:

just gonna be real and say that shape shifting is by far the best super power just from how versatile it is

it packs in shape shifting(duh), flight, super strenght, and regeneration depending how you look at it(shapeshifting into a form without your injuries), possibly a few others

also, stretching/shrinking, extrahuman abilities taken from animals (stereoscopic sense of smell? expanded color range? underwater breathing? able to just straight-up hear heartbeats n stuff? night vision?), plus ALL CLOTHING would fit. EVERYTHING is your size and looks good on you.

and, more debatably, able to turn into different states of matter, immunity to some poisons and hostile environments, ability to travel incredibly quickly through open spaces by turning into light and back again.

spank-the-villain:

royal-loki:

WHY DOES EVERYONE ASSUME THOR DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE’S DOING??! He literally smiles every time someone falls for his “I’m just a dumb jock” routine. Guys, he grew up with Loki, he went to university, he’s been alive for over a millennia. His flaw in the first Thor movie was that he had too much hubris, not that he was stupid.

He knows that he can play dumb and get out of any situation. Do you all not see that sheepish smirk he always does? 

Thor: Ragnarok only confirms what the first two movies were hinting at – Thor is very intelligent and can even pull one over on Loki when he wants to. After the events in The Avengers, he knows Loki’s true feelings about him and that’s why he’s so emotional in The Dark World and why he’s always teasing him in Ragnarok.

@unstatedmartini: #i’m 200% sure that they had another game called Terribly Sorry#hey. let’s do Terribly Sorry.#no. it’s humiliating.#not for me it’s not.#*cue thor being fake-stupid and fake-clumsy and fake-drunk and real loud*#*loki following along waving his hands nervously* terribly sorry! oh dear! my brother can be such a brute! terribly sorry!#and they’re long gone before anyone realizes that the Important Magic Thingy or Super Secret Map is gone

love-ya-to-the-moon:

scrabblezard:

gaysemiotics:

dirtylittledamsel:

cops on Queer Eye:

• are openly tr*mp supporters with a MAGA hat that they let the fab 5 find
• their idea of a prank is pulling over a gay black man for no reason and scaring him into thinking he’s about to be brutalized by the police or even killed with his friends clearly expressing their concern for him to even get out of the car when the cop asked
• when Karamo tries to tell them that it wasn’t funny to try that kind of joke in the current political climate the cop tries to switch it to a “but not all cops are bad cops and we get discriminated against too” conversation 

firefighters on Queer Eye:

• try to raise money with a community fundraiser to properly train other firefighters 
• let the fab 5 hose them down in wet t-shirt contest
• let Jonathan give them a little spa day with foot soaking and face masks
• take dance classes for said fundraiser and even willingly learn a couple Magic Mike dance moves
• their idea of a prank is to startle Tan with an exploding pen
• the hot white one let’s Karamo crush all over him and call him Superman the whole time without any hesitation

Remember there’s a reason no one ever says “Fuck the firefighters!”

I’m pretty sure Karamo wanted to fuck the firefighters

I’m pretty sure we all wanted to fuck the firefighters

maplepancake:

jenniferrpovey:

comtessevoncorbuleac:

bat-addicted-loony:

The thing that annoys me most about broadway musicals that shake their fists at those ‘pesky bootlegs’ is… You have professionally filmed your musical, I KNOW you have, most of them have promotional material and even full songs filmed and recorded, they’re on youtube!
What the fuck is stopping you from just spending 1 entire day, maybe 2, on recording your musical, let it be edited and slapped on a dvd, ready to be mass-spread across the globe and earning potentially millions from musical-kids who are not rich Americans? 
It would take no time, no budget (compared to the loads you spent on the stage production in the first place), it would stop bootlegs from being a thing and you’d make so many people happy. You’re not stopping anyone from coming to your musical because those who can’t afford it WON’T COME TO YOUR MUSICAL, and those who can, WILL. Because that’s the audience you’re dealing with: devoted theatre lovers. You don’t have to lecture us on how the stage production is better than what will eventually be released on the dvd because, trust me, WE KNOW. And we will forever mourn the fact that we might never be able to see our favourite musicals on stage because plane tickets and hotels are fucking expensive, but in the meantime, we can enjoy all your hard work, we can enjoy the cast’s amazing singing, acting and dancing, we can admire the decors, the lights, all the costumes, the music.

Most importantly, you are making your fans happy. 

So why the crap are musical dvd’s not a goddamn market, right now?

Preach.

Follow the pirates. There be treasure there.

‘Follow the pirates. There be treasure there.”

Why don’t more companies realize this? Pirates exist because they are filling a market need. If you do what the pirates do, but legally, you will fill that need and probably make plenty of money doing it.

This reminds me of the DRM problem with gaming and how it led to an increase in piracy.