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Shine - Years & Years

rest in peace, our cute and sweet honorary grandfather! 

Protesters in Paris today

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While there is a lot of appropriate rage about Ferguson right now, the killing of John Crawford, III is getting less attention than it deserves. I put Shaun King’s tweets and history lesson on the matter in chronological order for easier consumption.

Links:

Autopsy and video show John Crawford shot from behind in Wal-Mart

Witness in murder of John Crawford changes story

You really should be following Shaun King on Twitter.

sad

Do not sleep on this. It is happening. Still. Every day.

I think one of the reasons the Harry Potter Epilogue was so poorly received was because the audience was primarily made up of the Millennial generation.

We’ve walked with Harry, Ron and Hermione, through a world that we thought was great but slowly revealed itself to be the opposite. We unpeeled the layers of corruption within the government, we saw cruelty against minorities grow in the past decades, and had media attack us and had teachers tell us that we ‘must not tell lies’. We got angry and frustrated and, like Harry, Ron and Hermione, had to think of a way to fight back. And them winning? That would have been enough to give us hope and leave us satisfied.

But instead. There was skip scene. And suddenly they were all over 30 and happy with their 2.5 children.

And the Millennials were left flailing in the dust.

Because while we recognised and empathised with everything up to that point. But seeing the Golden Trio financially stable and content and married? That was not something our generation could recognise. Because we have no idea if we’re ever going to be able to reach that stage. Not with the world we’re living in right now.

Having Harry, Ron and Hermione stare off into the distance after the battle and wonder about what the future might be would have stuck with us. Hell, have them move into a shitty flat together and try and sort out their lives would have. Have them with screaming nightmares and failed relationships and trying to get jobs in a society that’s falling apart would have. Have them still trying to fix things in that society would have. Because we known Voldemort was just a symptom of the disease of prejudice the Wizarding World.

But don’t push us off with an ‘all was well’. In a world about magic, JK Rowling finally broke our suspension of disbelief by having them all hit middle-class and middle-age contentment and expecting a fanbase of teenagers to accept it.

Also. Since when was ‘don’t worry kids, you’re going to turn out just like your parents’ ever a happy ending? Does our generation even recognise marriage and money and jobs as the fulfillment of life anymore? Does our generation even recognise the Epilogue’s Golden Trio anymore?

#i think this one of the reasons why the james/lily/albus naming theme bothered me #because there’s a sense of going in a circle rather than pressing forward #the only way the wizarding world will survive if it changes dramatically from this point #having the station seem exactly the same #right down to the names being thrown around #makes it seem stagnant #so i’m guessing another dark lord should turn up in a couple of decades (x)

So I recently hit a certain milestone in followers and I decided that I should do a Follow Forever, as I’ve never done one, despite having being on this website since early 2011.

Fandoms are heavily mixed here, mostly doctor who/smillan or arrow people, some clintasha peeps in there as well. Some people I have followed for so long, and even though they don’t really post things relevant to my interests anymore, I’ve genuinely liked them for so long I couldn’t not put them here. Others I’ve followed recently, and am really enjoying seeing on my dash.

Basically all the people on this list are awesome and incredible and really really worth following

(please don’t pay attention to the shitty cheesy graphic, I can barely open Photoshop) 

SPECIAL SHOUTOUT to those girls - being your friend is a privilege

- to Sophia and Petra, my ladies, I’m so thankful I got to meet you via this website and also irl. Love you lots and lots

- to Dou, my partner in crime, my longuest internet friend since ‘07. There are no words to describe how much I value your friendship

- to Kristina, because you are an incredible human being and I cherish our conversations enormously

- to Kelsey, my lyoko friend, the biggest french-enthusiast I’ve ever met. Fingers crossed you will get here soon so I can show you everything :D

- and to Effie, because you’re so wonderful you needed your own category. When I first read your smillan fics on lj four years ago I never thought we’d be here today screaming together at a CW show!

JACK HARKNESS MEETING BUCKY AND STEVE IN THE 1940s AND FLIRTING FURIOUSLY WITH BOTH OF THEM

JACK HARKNESS SEEING THEM AGAIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND THEY’RE ALL EQUALLY CONFUSED AS EACH OTHER

We say farewell to the lovely and talented Lauren Bacall

(September 16, 1924 - August 12, 2014)

Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields Medal. It had been an all-boys club since the prizes were established in 1936.

Mirzakhani, a native of Iran, is a professor at Stanford University. She won for her work on “the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.”

Here’s how Nature summed up her contributions:

Peter Capaldi in Sydney, Australia (August 12th, 2014)

considering he’s such a nerd, he really looks the most rockstar-ish Doctor there’s ever been (maybe with the exception of Tom Baker who always seemed suitably high in 70’s interviews, like a proper rockstar should)

» Because only Vin Diesel could ever be ridiculously nerdy enough to attend the UK world premiere red carpet for Guardians of the Galaxy wearing a “I am Groot” t-shirt and walking on stilts

Vin Diesel is the Nerd that Wil Wheaton wishes he was.

KAREN LOOKS SO TERRIFIED.

Gillette Stadium - 8/08 (cred)