Still Nerdy After All These Years

Merry Christmas @lolcat76! Have some sickeningly happy Shandy <3

aaaaaaaaawwww I LOVE IT!!!

Center Stage / The Last Jedi

I am the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy. Who the hell are you? Nobody.

Merry Christmas @lolcat76! I love you bunches!

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This is spot on but I'll do one better. How about one of the greatest love stories. Sci-fi or any other genre doesn't matter. The chemistry, the writing, the acting just made this couple gold!

It’s August 24th somewhere! Happy happy birthday to my dear friend @lolcat76! Hope you enjoy this ridiculous fluff <3 I love you!

AAAAAAAAAAAH I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!! Go read this immedi!!!

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

white people can and should reblog this

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.

“The kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!

I love how the dudes at back are pure happy!!

Laura Roslin

Happy, or something like it.

Mate to this post

“I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things: 1) People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood. 2) Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism. 3) White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.”

— “Women of Colour in Canadian Academia,” Audrey Kobayashi (via lamaracuya)   (via hagereseb)

Laura Roslin: “And, uh, thank you, doctor.”

Sherman Cottle: “I’m just doing my job.”

Laura Roslin: ” No. You’ve done much more than that. You’ve taken a patient who should’ve died years ago, and you’ve given her a chance despite cancer, and the Cylons, and her own obstinate nature. And you’ve… You’ve given me the little time I have left, and for that you- you have my- my heartfelt gratitude and my thanks.”

Sherman Cottle: “Well, I-I…I don’t know what to say.”

Laura Roslin: “No, no, don’t, don’t. Don’t spoil your image, just light a cigarette and go and grumble.”

The House of the Future. Motorola advertisements from the early 1960s, illustrated by Charles Schridde.

Okay but [heavy breathing] Laura Roslin is afforded the opportunity to wrestle with ethics and moral complexity and make choices the viewer disagrees with, without becoming vilified by either the show or the audience. 

Do you know how rare that felt in the mid-2000s, when every Kate-centric episode on Lost was met with a groan and everyone cheering Ana Lucia’s death, when Jenny Schecter became the most hated character in lesbian culture, when we had all these cable shows revolving around male antiheroes that were afforded so much ethical leniency and the equivalent behavior in women was cause for torches and pitchforks? 

To me, Roslin is the female character of the last decade that comes closest to being allowed, and valued for, the kind of complexity and ambiguity usually reserved for those male antihero stories. She wasn’t an antihero herself, per se, but she was placed in that same narrative position of doing bad things that somehow felt justified by the situation: executing helpless prisoners, attempting to rig a democratic election, ordering infanticide, claiming a divine right to rule. Alarming and terrible and sometimes misguided things that, somehow, the audience kept cheering for. Because the show never punished her for not being the soft caretaker that women are ~supposed~ to be.

And I think this is precisely the brilliance of Battlestar’s treatment of gender. It wasn’t just that we got a female version of cocky, cigar-smoking Starbuck: it was that the gendered filters of storytelling got swept off the table. 

Admiral Adama was the military commander but he wasn’t for power grabs and bravado; he was emotional, he let his heart guide him even when it wasn’t wise, his primarily imperative was was keeping people safe. Giving them hope. Protecting his kids. It was such a tender portrayal of masculinity.

Meanwhile, Roslin had an arc that’s more typical of male characters: taking up the burden of power, heeding the call as the prophet, approaching politics pragmatically and, at times, somewhat ruthlessly. (See also; Admiral Cain).

It was fucking magnificent, I’m getting so hyped just thinking about it. And it makes me wonder why other shows couldn’t do this; why they couldn’t allow their female protagonists to be morally or ethically ambiguous without apologizing for it.

(I think it’s starting to catch on – POI very much does do this and that’s a huge part of the reason I loved it. But I feel like Roslin was so, so important, standing out in a sea of male antiheroes and protags on cable, proving that audiences could in fact get behind a show with that kind of complex woman in charge.)

I died! Source (X)