I feel like if someone’s transphobic, biphobic, homophobic, lesbophobic, they shouldn’t go to pride. Even if they’re lgbt. Like stay home bitch.
Same if they’re racist or misogynistic or whatever. Like stay the fuck home bitch.
Someone really commented on this post like “wow lgbt community is so accepting.” And your bigotry is?
as a general rule, if you’re seriously asking yourself “but what if I’m faking?” then odds are you’re not faking.
I really needed this, so thank you.
Crows are scary They
Guys I’m really scared of crows now. (q)
Yeah but have you seen this
YEAH! THEY ALSO PLAY FOR NO EVIDENT REASON OTHER THAN FUN AND THEY LOVE THE SNOW! Crows are seriously the coolest birbs ever.
I WANT ONE!
A colleague of my dad’s lives next to a lake, and looked out the window one morning to see a duck trapped in the ice. A crow swooped down. “Oh hell,” she thought, expecting carnage, because crows are opportunists. But the crow chipped at the ice with its beak until the duck was free.
Idk of this counts but a few crows saved me from a magpie swooping attack once ,they’re bros who can tell when magpies are being unreasonable and need to chill
I love crows so damn much. When I was fifteen, I hit a pretty serious bout of depression, to the point I was in my room for months. Well, a family of crows made a nest in a tree outside my window. There were two parents and two chicks. One chick was healthy and strong. One was weak, and had a caw like something being strained. It sounded more like a rooster crowing and so my parents jokingly named him ‘Buck’.Well… months passed and Buck’s sibling was taught to fly. His parents focused on the sibling because the sibling was strong. The father stayed behind to try and teach Buck, but I saw him try to fly, fail, and crash to the floor. His father helped him back up into the tree.
Every day, I would watch Buck from my window until one day I opened it and started talking to him. He was small and gangly and he couldn’t caw right. His feathers were all over the place and I felt a kinship. So I made a deal with him. I told him that if he could do it, if he could fly, then I could find the strength to get up. Well… near the end of the season, after talking with him every day, I finally saw him get out of the nest. He went to the edge of his branch, braced himself, and jumped… and just before he hit the ground, he soared back up into the sky. I cheered harder than I ever had before.
That winter, Buck left the area. I was crestfallen. I felt like I’d lost a friend. But I was so damn proud of him.
Cut to the next spring? I’m walking up the driveway one day when suddenly I hear a sound… a broken caw. I look up, and Buck is sitting in a tree above my head. He stared at me and puffed his feathers, then hopped down in front of me and cawed again. I was so damn thrilled, and I told him how proud I was of him. He ruffled his feathers and then soared off into his old tree.
That summer? I heard two broken caws. One from Buck… and one from his chick.
Cut to ten years later? We have a family of crows who all have a very distinct caw and they come here and spend every spring, summer, and fall on our property. Buck still greets me every spring.
I love crows/ravens.
This post just got better and better. Isn’t it thrilling and amazing when you drop your prejudice toward another species and you are shown how intelligent and incredible individuals of those species actually are? And so glad that “old tree” wasn’t cut down.
A Russian family captured video of a crow using a lid as a sled and sliding multiple times down a roof.
crying males: “disney is destroying star wars with female leads”
“rogue one also has a female lead? ugh”
“great another mary sue”
me:
I don’t mind if Star Wars has a female lead, as the Star Wars franchise has always been home to strong female characters, I do care if she is another giant Mary Sue like Rey was. Rey was so Mary Sue that it became distracting to the movie. A character with no force training takes down a trained Sith Knight, she flies a freighter designed for two pilots with no help despite the fact she had never left the planet before, and she can also repair said ship with no problem because she had spent years salvaging parts off of a broken star destroyer? The only thing she didn’t do was have all of the male characters try to romance her at once and I thank the force for that small concession.
The only good new character in episode 7 was Finn. The rest of the characterization fell flat or was just used to make Rey ascend to Mary Suedom.
anakin built the worlds fastest pod racer and c3po when he was nine
the first time luke flew a spaceship he destroyed the fucking death star.
Kylo Ren: Not a Sith. Not fully trained. Also? Injured by a bowcaster that we’d seen could take out several stormtroopers at a time.
Rey: Literally spent all of her downtime flying a flight simulator to the point that it could no longer throw anything at her she couldn’t handle. For all kinds of ships. Nor did she solely scavenge star destroyers. She spent her entire life scavenging every imaginable wreck on Jakku, and her survival depended on her learning what ships had what parts and what was valuable. This, while competing with other scavengers, most of them working in teams.
Which meant she had to learn how to fight, or else she wouldn’t have gotten out of childhood.
Basically, Rey had way more in-canon reasoning to be as good as she was than Luke Skywalker did–who basically went from never flying much out of atmo to piloting an X-wing under combat conditions and rocking it… apparently just because of genetics and the Force. Who then went on, only half-trained, into a fight that even YODA thought he was going to die in, and survived, against a man literally birthed by the Force, trained as both a Jedi AND a Sith, with about 25 years of combat experience under his belt, whereas Luke had had a lightsaber for about 3 years. What a Mary Sue he was, huh?
Rey had more reason to be what she was than Anakin Skywalker, who accidentally wound up in a fighter and accidentally destroyed a droid ship. Anakin who was such a Mary Sue he was LITERALLY A VIRGIN BIRTH. How Mary Sue is THAT?
The creators, in short, HAD TO GIVE REASONS for every single thing Rey knew how to do, because of assholes like this person, who would take any special skill she had as proof that she was a “Mary Sue” just because she was a female character. No one bothered to give those reasons to Luke or Anakin. Because they’re the hero. OF COURSE they can do the impossible. But Rey? Jesus, what a Mary Sue.
Reblogged for excellent commentary.
(I’d thought the Rey-hating twerp up there was like sixteen, in which case I’d cut them some slack, but nope turns out they’re in their 40s.)
On top of all that, with a single exception, all of Rey’s extraordinary feats are stuff we explicitly see folks with no Force training do in the original trilogy.
Pulling a lightsabre to her hand? Luke did it before he ever met Yoda. Granted, Luke had a visibly harder time of it, but as he was concussed and suffering from mild hypothermia at the time, he jolly well should have.
Firing ranged weapons with uncanny accuracy? Luke again, in his famous trench run - and again, he was untrained at the time.
Resisting mental manipulation? Freaking Jabba the Hutt pulled that one off, and not only is he not trained as a Force-user, as far as we know he’s not even Force sensitive.
(Yes, the EU tries to wave that last one away by asserting that all members of Jabba’s species are naturally immune to mind control, but come on - that’s the same EU lore that insists that Rodians are literally a culture of bounty hunters because the single Rodian we see on-screen is a bounty hunter.)
Of course, there is one exception - one feat of Force manipulation that we’ve never seen an untrained wielder pull off before: Jedi mind tricking the First Order storm trooper. You know, a brainwashed child soldier conditioned nearly from birth to display reflexive and unthinking obedience to authority - the writers could scarcely have given her an easier target.
In sum, the stunts Rey pulls off are entirely within the demonstrable capabilities of an untrained Force user. You’d think these jokers had never seen the original films!
Exhibit 948374858383 demonstrating that a woman has to work twice as hard for half the credit. Even fictional women.
I love how that dudebro said “sith knight” also
Random Dude Bro No.9828718738371: Rey is a Mary Su-
Tumblr:
Fake geek boys keep revealing themselves.
This is my new favourite post of all time.
If anyone who follows me has been receiving strange messages from another account asking how you know me, I'm sorry they are bothering you. For over a year, I've been dealing with a stalker/creeper on my twitter account and earlier today, they managed to find my tumblr account. I don't want to have to shut this account, but I'm tired of dealing with this. Anyway, I hope no one is bothering you guys. All the best. XOXO
“Sit the fuck down before I embarrass you, Jeffrey.”
Stop using the cry of "We must protect the women and children" as a way to excuse your fear and bigotry. We are not your crutch, and you don't speak for us.
Macbeth, probably (via incorrectshakespeare)
When your crushing procrastination gets in the way of your perfectionism.
JESUS Y E P The paradox continues
if the first shot of ur male main character involves him in bed with a naked woman he just had a one night stand with who’ll probably not have any lines (unless it’s to compliment the man) and who in all likelihood will never reappear in the story, all in an effort to make ur male character seem “cool but emotionally distant/fragile”
1. i already hate him
2. i already hate you
Women Warriors/Women in Armor
Awwww
Haha only in Canada
Poor guy forgot how to moose.
This is the most Canadian gif I’ve ever seen.
zorped smallsoapdish tomhazeldines sunny-is-sherlokid I can’t be the only one worried about the coffee… Can I?
I dunno, insanely-smart …I’m really worried about the moose…it’s Tim coffee, they have built-in inertial dampers in their cups, don’t they?
heavens
Best gif usage I’ve seen today.
Coming Shakespeare Week 2015: WillShake’s Henry V Shakespeare’s original play is brought vividly to life in a carefully abridged and adapted version for children of six and up. Narrated by young WillShake and award-winning actor Tom Hiddleston, this live action film is enhanced by beautiful animation, breathing new life into this engaging story about leadership and power. Digital Theatre Plus will be hosting the production and exclusive supporting material for a limited period as the launch event for Shakespeare Week 2015.
Digital Theatre Plus are delighted to announce that, in association with Short Form Film Company, we will be presenting the launch event for Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s nationwide Shakespeare Week 2015 (16 - 22 March).
Meet WillShake: the boy with a trunk of theatrical tricks who likes to tell stories. Join him as he embarks on his first journey to share with us the tale of Henry V. A play about growing up, becoming a man, becoming a King.
Shakespeare’s original play is brought vividly to life in a carefully abridged and adapted version for children of six and up. Part-narrated by young WillShake, this live action film is enhanced by beautiful animation, breathing new life into this engaging story about leadership and power.
Placing young audiences at its heart, WillShake’s Henry V sees the great history play told by children for children for the very first time. Its producers are looking to shape a change in how young people are introduced to Shakespeare, sharing his works with a new generation in a way that will ignite imagination, grab attention and support a life long enjoyment of his stories.
Willshake’s Henry V is the first in a new series of films being made by Short Form Film Company. It will be available to view for free exclusively on Digital Theatre Plus from Monday 16 March to celebrate Shakespeare Week, until Shakespeare’s birthday on the 26 April 2015, with a Watchalong taking place on Tuesday 17th March.
The WillShake Watchalong is free to all schools registered to take part in Shakespeare Week. To sign up for free go to www.shakespeareweek.org.uk
For everything you need to know about joining the WillShake Watchalong with Digital Theatre Plus, click here. x
THIS IS SO COOL
bipolarvulcan screaming!
