Month: March 2014

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I’VE HAD A BRILLIANT THOUGHT

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sofriel:

sofriel:

Imagine the #overlyhonestmethods posts from Carlos’s team of scientists.

“This paper is shorter than normal due to the primary researcher turning into a tree before she could finish it.”

“Test subjects were selected randomly by loitering outside Big Rico’s and offering illicit bread crust for all participants.”

“Experiment time intervals were carefully chosen so that Carlos would actually be on time for his date for once.”

“Potential errors include time loss from that cancelled Wednesday, the fact that the local government legally forbid us from mentioning the source of the data, and the loss of a substantial amount of recorded notes that were replaced with dead silence and the smell of vanilla.”

“Some results were altered to sound more normal so we don’t get our funding revoked.”

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#Welcome to Night Vale

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rebeccadirects:

shakespearean-spunk:

“you make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.”

no you don’t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart

  • that’s why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings
  • that’s why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character’s emotional state – any irregularities in the scansion are like the character’s heart stuttering or jumping or skipping a beat
  • that’s why when characters share the rhythm – switching off in the middle of a foot – those characters inevitably have an extraordinarily intimate connection

shakespeare fucking writes viscerally, he is literally in your body, and that, my friend, that is why the best shakespearean actors don’t posture and emote

you have to be fucking alive and passionate and electric – it can’t be intellectual, in the end, it has to be about connection and the sweating, cheering, jeering, bleeding masses you’re performing to, because make no mistake, shakespeare may go to lofty heights, but he only works if you’re just as grounded in the earth. he has to be in your body. he has to be in your body.

holy motherfucking shit i love shakespeare so much, get him in your bones, breathe him in, stomp and rage and pine, dadum dadum dadum dadum dadum, it is literally to the beat of your heart

Whenever I teach verse or direct a Shakespeare play, this is the FIRST thing I say.  People need to be reminded that Shakespeare is human.  It’s maybe the most human text you’ll ever encounter.  It’s easy to forget that, especially because so many of his words are so iconic.  But those words are as alive as you.  Hell, they even breathe the same way.

Am I the only one who finds this creepy?

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#you are sure as hell not in *my* body Shakespeare #my heart does not beat to another’s tune

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justice-turtle:

lost-spook:

lost-spook:

There’s a new comm started up on Dreamwidth – a ficathon to take Mills & Boon/Harlequin romance summaries and adapt to your favourite pairing.  (Hilarity ensues etc.  Maybe even some actual romance.) 

Anyway, it’s here:

unconventionalcourtship

This lovely, funny ficathon is running again!  Don’t miss out – go and sign up on Dreamwidth.

Ooh, it’s on again? AWESOME. :D Look, flisties who write shipfic, here is a comm you should look at! ^_^

(All pairings are allowed, and you can even download a Photoshop template to make your own banners like the ones above! :D)

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#mostly reblogging because the sight of a Harlequin cover showing Rimmer/Lister amuses me #may have done the same thing last year I’m not sure

Legally Recognize Non-Binary Genders | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

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{{Title link: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-non-binary-genders/j5KvDVvh }}

justice-turtle:

Okay, the previous version of this petition failed to get the necessary 100,000 signatures within 30 days of its creation, so they made another one. Here’s the link which is current from MARCH 21, 2014 – APRIL 20, 2014.

If you signed a petition on this topic before March 21, you need to RE-SIGN to have your signature counted on this version. If you live in the US, please sign this version of the petition and reblog to your followers.

If you are outside the US, it is possible to make a WhiteHouse.gov account and sign without giving a US zip code. If you are non-USian and concerned about the ethics of signing this, here is what you would be doing, so you can make an informed decision:

* If this petition, or any petition on WhiteHouse.gov, gets 100,000 signatures in a one-month time period, a White House spokesperson for President Barack Obama will give an official response to the petition. The response may be either “yes”, “no”, or “yes/no with these qualifications”.

* This petition does not have any direct influence on the law in the US. Getting a bill introduced into Congress to be voted on is a thing done by Congresspersons (our equivalent of Members of Parliament), not by the President. The President can certainly say in effect, “Hey, Congress, it’d be really cool if somebody introduced a bill to make this the law, and if you managed to pass that bill I’d probably sign it”, and if the answer to the petition is “Yes” that’s most likely what he would do (in addition to possibly working for greater awareness of nonbinary people), but that’s the extent of the effect on actual USian law and policy that signing this petition will have.

* You might decide not to sign if you live outside the US. That’s fine! Please do reblog (this or any other post linking to the current petition) and ask your USian friends to sign. Thank you! :D

Not only a worthy cause, but the best guide to White House petitions I’ve ever seen.

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#petition #I didn’t reblog the last one because I figured you’d all seen it at least a half-dozen times already #but this is early enough you’ll still be in the first half-dozen #if not the first #(as I’m still a U.S. citizen I don’t feel much in the way of moral qualms about signing these) #(but if I were neither a resident nor a citizen I think I would) #(so it’s nice to have the explanation there)

Jackalope Wives

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{{Title link: https://www.apex-magazine.com/jackalope-wives/ }}

mls-classics:

1crowlaughing:

It was uncanny, sure, but they never did anybody any harm. Grandma Harken, who lived down past the well, said that the jackalopes were the daughters of the rain and driving them off would bring on the drought. People said they didn’t believe a word of it, but when you live in a desert, you don’t take chances.

Oh, I love this.  Hey everybody: go read this.

Hello, yes, good.

A tad body-horror-ish, but yes.

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#this fic #it is an awesome fic #go #bask in the wonders of Ursula Vernon #(I really should read Digger sometime) #(first people told me Digger was awesome) #(and I said ‘okay good to know’) #(and put it into the Infinite Pile of To-Be-Read) #(*then* I met Ursula Vernon) #(and found that she was awesome) #(*then* I learned she wrote Digger)

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lifeywifey:

So we had a “Doctor Two” party for my son last week and I had way too much fun with the food…

We also had beans on toast and mini-bangers and mash, but I didn’t get a picture of them.

And I know those aren’t real Jammie Dodgers, but I was making do.

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#Doctor Who #puns #fish and chips

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taracynara:

djrocca87:

taracynara:

djrocca87:

My tote arrived!!

adelelorienne it came out beautiful! The quality of the image is simply stunning. I’m almost tempted to get it as a laptop skin ;)

This is the smallest tote and it’s extremely roomie (will probably fit my large ass laptop with ease)

I WANT ONE.

http://society6.com/Meadowhaven/bags

:D next is SOOOO “fade from me” the 11/Amy one, it’s so moving and beautiful

*squees* THEY’RE ALL GORGEOUS.

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#Doctor Who #case in point #look everyone else associates it with him too #(I was originally going to tag this) #(‘Nenya is quickly convincing me that I need more Eight in my life’) #(but then I did that other post)

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justice-turtle:

shootthatlove:

do you ever wonder what you’d be into if you didn’t start reading weirdly kinky fics when you were like 12

i didn’t start reading weirdly kinky fics till i was like 25, it didn’t help much ^_^

I was 17 myself. (Only lying by a few months!) I…don’t think it’s really had an effect on my sexuality? It’s made me more aware of the variety of other people’s sexualities, sure, but not given me any more kinks than I already had.

(Thinking about it, I suspect it’s because of my lack of any vanilla desires. Genitalia aren’t sexy, and therefore cannot make things sexy through associative learning. You’d have to start from something I’m actually into.)

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#sexuality and lack thereof #appears to be my tag for this sort of thing #the first time I ever saw a picture of Paul McGann #it was that picture of the Eighth Doctor #you know the one #the one people use when they want an example picture of Eight #(or at least they did pre-Night-of-the-Doctor) #(not so sure now) #him standing #facing the camera #holding a pocketwatch in a suggestive manner #(it is somewhat tricky but possible to hold a pocketwatch in a *non*-suggestive manner) #(but that is *very* not how you do it) #(that is about as far away from how you do it as it gets) #it was quite the first impression #I think of that picture every time I see another one of Paul McGann #*that’s* how you go about this

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