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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:59:16 -0600

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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:17:20 -0600

Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:16:16 -0600

Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com:

nevver:

in case you missed it

So Tumblr is trying to make a newspaper about Tumblr on Tumblr?

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:29:30 -0600

wildbeardedbrownmanontheinternet: youbastardpeople: chonklatim...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:22:36 -0600

wildbeardedbrownmanontheinternet:

youbastardpeople:

chonklatime:

m-azing:

nextian:

yupthatsmysock:

Wae so much win?

Oh I see it’s time to bring this back again.

oops i fell off my bed

WHAT.

WHAT.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

Did they think the pears could hide you?

Even now I’m going to eat you

I am at the store beside you

banana…

BURIED SWEETLY IN THE YELLOW PEARS.

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:20:55 -0600

wilwheaton: (via reddit)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:11:57 -0600

wilwheaton:

(via reddit)

nevver: Battleship

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:09:43 -0600

nevver:

Battleship

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Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:08:06 -0600

Always the Same Man - Part Three [One | Two]These photosets are...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:25 -0600

Always the Same Man - Part Three [One | Two]

These photosets are random collections of scenes where different incarnations of the Doctor do the same things, obviously. Often there are more than two fitting scenes and you might miss some of them in here. I’m aware of this and it’s possible that I already used them or am planning to use them for another set in the future.
By the way, many of the gifs can be found in their original size (500px width) as single posts on my tumblr.

nevver: Big Dill

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:21:00 -0600

nevver:

Big Dill

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:20:52 -0600

Sewing machines are magical. Based on this image

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:05:45 -0600

Sewing machines are magical.

Based on this image

"When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a believer, many people..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:06:57 -0600

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When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me — it still sometimes happens — & ask me if Carl changed at the end & converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again.

Carl faced his death with unflagging courage & never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don’t ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief & precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive & we were together was miraculous — not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance… That pure chance could be so generous & so kind… That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space & the immensity of time… That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me & it’s much more meaningful…

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.

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- ~ Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via conflictingheart)

Battlestar Galactica as an 8-bit RPG. Spoilers.

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:21:00 -0600

Battlestar Galactica as an 8-bit RPG. Spoilers.

She’s only sixteen, asshole.

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:13:44 -0600

She’s only sixteen, asshole.

leilockheart: via Wait, does this mean

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:10:00 -0600

leilockheart:

via

Wait, does this mean

harbek: A guide to the characters of Chess. Played by: Adam...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:44:35 -0600

harbek:

A guide to the characters of Chess.

Played by: Adam Pascal, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Clarke Peters, David Bedella, Marti Pellow and Kerry Ellis.

A star-studded revival of Chess? What world is this?

youllcomecrawlin: This has to be my favourite episode ‘leg...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:43:09 -0600

youllcomecrawlin:

This has to be my favourite episode ‘leg disabled’ hahahaha

This series was so hilarious. I hope the next season comes on Netflix soon.

Steven Moffat, Sex And Me

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:38:28 -0600

Steven Moffat, Sex And Me:

feministwhoniverse:

sarah531:

“Show me the man who says anything against women, as women, and I boldly declare he is not a man.” -Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

Steven Moffat ain’t a feminist. He’s said some really rubbish things, like that thing about how difficult it is to be a straight white male when it is most certainly not. Okay, I know a lot of quotes from him were taken out of context, but enough of them weren’t. Like this one, which really got me:

“A young married couple without a kid? They’re just dating. You tell yourself you’re married, but really you’re dating.”

That one hurts because I know people who are trying desperately for a kid and I’m pretty sure they’re married, since I was at the wedding and all. Or what about the people who don’t want kids? Or, selfishly, what about me? There’s something wrong with me now and children may not be an option any more. Things are piling up and sex might not be an option anymore. Does that make my future marriage mean less? I wish he hadn’t said that; I wish he’d use his not inconsiderable media power more wisely.

But I think Moffat’s writing problems spring from the fact that he thinks (or, you know, I think he thinks) that sex and the ability to have sex is the most important thing about a person. Sex gives you power, sex gives you control, sex gives you children. That’s why neither Sherlock or the Doctor can be asexual, why Amy, River and Irene all use sex as a weapon- to Moffat, that’s what makes characters good and makes them interesting. Sex and everything it creates.

Which brings me to Moffat’s attitudes on women, specifically. With only Moffat the writer to go on, not knowing the man…I think he’s jealous of them, in a way he probably doesn’t even know about. Womb envy or whatever it’s called. If sex is the most important thing, and if he thinks a woman can use sex as a weapon (or as a distraction- see Space and Time), and if he thinks a woman can have a baby and bond with it in a way a man probably can’t…I think The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe hinted that Moffat thinks being a mother is the most important thing in the world. And he isn’t one. Hence bad stuff. I doubt he even considered how traumatic a situation he put Amy in at the end of The Almost People- according to DWM, he “wanted Amy to have a baby just like that,” and thought about time
compression to reduce her pregnancy period before settling on the Ganger thing. And in the end poor old Amy suffered more than anyone, with things that wouldn’t have happened if not for her gender.

I wish he’d pay attention to his critics. (I do suspect The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe was a reaction to the misogyny criticism, just not the most well-thought-out one.) He badly needs to get some women on staff, for a start, and he needs to think about what his female characters can do rather than what can be done to them. Amy deciding to kill Kovarian was a good start, but River needs more interests outside the Doctor, and Irene needs to come back and kick everyone’s arse (including Sherlock’s) in style. I know Moffat will never read this, but I hope he picks up somehow that people want less Strong Female Characters (i.e. sex, guns, ~~rock n’ roll~~) and more…female characters. If that makes sense. I think he can do it, he’s a great writer. Someday he may even be a good one.

Recently Moffat was rightly criticised for saying asexuality was boring. His worldview really does seem to revolve around sex and procreation, and I hope one day it doesn’t. I don’t know for sure if there is a place for me, or for many others, in Moffat’s Whoniverse. But I’m gonna force my way in anyway- I love Eleven and Amy and Rory and River and they, I’m sure, would welcome me with open arms.

I don’t really trust Moffat to make improvements, he has reacted badly to criticism so far, but I believe and hope that the world isn’t divided into good people and misogynists. (Paraphrasing the fabulous JK Rowling there- hey, maybe she should join the writing staff!) And regardless of what happens with my future children, I will be married, because I want to be.

(crossposted to LiveJournal)

(emphasis mine)

this really taps into a lot of the things that are particularly frustrating about Moffat, the things he says, and the way he writes. Moffat has a lot of privilege and he doesn’t seem to be able/want to understand what it’s like to live without that.

I’m only reblogging this to comment on the thing about marriage. It’s out of context, so I’m really commenting on my interpretation of it as someone who used to be half of a young married couple without kids, which turned into an old married couple with a lot of kids.

He’s right. If you haven’t been married long and have no kids, there’s nothing more keeping you together than when you were dating. Legal divorce is a pretty small hurdle for short marriages. You also don’t have any more challenges than when you were dating. Having kids forms much deeper bonds, emotionally, legally, and financially, and it presents challenges you can’t even imagine.

Maybe Moffat was just being a dick and saying that people who can’t have children can’t have real relationships. But probably not.