superherotoranse:

the administrative assistant told me yesterday, “I hope you like the rain” after my branch manager told her I was moving to Portland.

But today I’m sitting here thinking about how it’s 90 degrees right now, we’re only going to get hotter as the days go by, and I am a person who is prone to getting heat sick, dehydration, and low blood pressure made worse by dehydration, heat, and salt loss…

rain has got to be fucking better than this desert.

a;lsdkf; you are moving to Portland wow awesome

People in the Pacific Northwest like to complain about the weather a lot, but really they’re ridiculously spoiled. It’s pretty ideal: there are basically two seasons: cool/rainy and warm/sunny. Seriously inconvenient weather is usually no more than a once-a-year occurance, and the temperature hardly ever gets into intense hot or cold territory (except maybe a few days in the summer, but then I really don’t like the heat so). It’s funny when it does though because people freak the fuck out like SWEET MOTHEROFGOD IT MUST BE 90 DEGREES OR SOME SHIT BREAK OUT THE POP-SICKLES GUYS DO WE EVEN HAVE A FAN (or idk maybe that’s just me). My only complaint is the lack of frequent thunderstorms.

I miss the Northwest. This will be my first summer in the New England. I’m going to miss the Northwest a lot more very soon :(.

(Reblogged from superherotoranse)
booksnbuildings: aleyma: Marginal figure pulling over a block of text that was accidentally omitted from the main text. From a copy of The Regiment of Princes by Thomas Hoccleve, made in England, 1411-32 (source). before copy/paste? View high resolution

booksnbuildings:

aleyma:

Marginal figure pulling over a block of text that was accidentally omitted from the main text. From a copy of The Regiment of Princes by Thomas Hoccleve, made in England, 1411-32 (source).

before copy/paste?

(Reblogged from archivalia)

ellernock:

raging-rabbit:

because you can never have too many cute capybara pictures from Japan on your dash…

oh my god they’re all in the baths

oh my god

capybaras are an animal i want to be friends with

(Reblogged from shakespeareishq)

Sorry for dearth of ides posts yesterday

too busy minting coins and drinking the blood of my enemies. also being seduzed. 

Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement! 

mostexcellentcanopy:

friendly reminder that julius caesar “accidentally” burned down the library of alexandria, so in my book he kind of had those 23 stab wounds coming lbr

In which it is revealed that “your mom” is not the REAL secret linchpin in Brutus’ internal justification of this act. 

(Reblogged from hydrargyrum80)
invisible-gun: How does a whiptail lizard have sex? Trick question! There are no males – all whiptail lizards are females, so they can’t have sex at all. Wait a minute – so how do they reproduce? By cloning themselves: In the bizarre life of a whiptail lizard, reproduction is preceeded by pseudocopulation, where two females act out the roles of a male mounting a female (they switch roles later on). Apparently, this is required to stimulate egg production in both lizards. When the eggs hatch, they will be all-female clones of the mother lizard.  in case anyone forgot about asexual lesbian lizards. this is the real life. 

invisible-gun:

How does a whiptail lizard have sex? Trick question! There are no males – all whiptail lizards are females, so they can’t have sex at all. Wait a minute – so how do they reproduce? By cloning themselves:

In the bizarre life of a whiptail lizard, reproduction is preceeded by pseudocopulation, where two females act out the roles of a male mounting a female (they switch roles later on).

Apparently, this is required to stimulate egg production in both lizards. When the eggs hatch, they will be all-female clones of the mother lizard. 

in case anyone forgot about asexual lesbian lizards. this is the real life. 

(Reblogged from invisible-gun)
princelybum: pyroland: This is in an art book I have and omfg i can’t stop laughing at it “St. Nicholas Refusing His Mother’s Milk” is the title. The artist isn’t known. a gem lost in time This right here is why I love the middle ages.  View high resolution

princelybum:

pyroland:

This is in an art book I have and omfg i can’t stop laughing at it

“St. Nicholas Refusing His Mother’s Milk” is the title. The artist isn’t known.

a gem lost in time

This right here is why I love the middle ages. 

(Reblogged from yourfutureleader)

birdsbirds:

hookteeth:

DUCKS DO IT TOO

good news, everyone.

(Reblogged from mayorlemonsnout)
funnyordie: Guide to the Papal Smoke Colors As a new pope is being chosen, smoke billows from the Sistine Chapel in indicate whether the Roman Catholic cardinals have made a decision. Here’s a handy guide to what each color means. View high resolution

funnyordie:

Guide to the Papal Smoke Colors

As a new pope is being chosen, smoke billows from the Sistine Chapel in indicate whether the Roman Catholic cardinals have made a decision.

Here’s a handy guide to what each color means.

(Reblogged from hydrargyrum80)
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When a fan says ‘I really, really want Swan Queen to become canon because they’re two strong, dynamic, beautiful women who have an important role on their show and I think it’s about time that the morals of fairytales expanded to include same-sex couples in their definition of True Love, too’, they don’t want to hear that it’s not going to happen because it would be too weird. Because that is the very thing that they are hoping to discourage. ‘Oh you crazy people, you don’t really think they’ll let your gay delusions come true, do you? This isn’t a show about being gay, ergo, there shouldn’t be anything gay on it, because homosexuality is not normal’. When people argue that a show will never make a character pursue a same-sex romance because they do not fit a queer stereotype, or because it’s a family show, or because the character is too important – that is the point. We have gay stereotypes in our media. We have risqué shows about the drama of being LGB. But we have very, very few shows where someone can just be queer and be themselves and do other things that do not revolve around their sexuality. We have very few stories where queer people are just people who happen to be queer, and therein lies the appeal of taking a character who is not initially presented that way and then allow them to explore a same-sex relationship. Because if Dean Winchester hooks up with Castiel, the show is still going to be about fighting monsters. The idea is not to turn Supernatural into Queer as Folk; the idea is to have Supernatural be Supernatural, and let some of the characters be not straight on it at the same time.

Shipping, Othering, and Heteronormativity by sharbi (via sassygayangel)

(Reblogged from classyshippingblog)

kawaiiuscassius:

missturdle:

being a woman is a performance. being feminine is a performance, being a lady is a performance, being a girl, being being a sister, a mother, daughter, madonna, whore, crone, grrl, goddess, jezebel, matron, siren, widow, maiden, tomboy — all of womanhood is a construction because gender is a construction so if you’re trying to argue there’s such a thing as a “fake woman” for whatever reason, i have news for you: authenticity as a woman is what a woman makes it to be, the rest of those are all just roles women get cast in or take on.

except that, no, it isn’t? i’ve struggled for years, and continue to struggle, with the way that i act my gender. i used to think that when i was feminine, i was making a point, i was looking Pretty for Boys and Society. when i wasn’t feminine, i was Rebelling and Being An Individual, Not Like The Other Girls. and the point is, both of those were very flawed ways to think of myself as female, and both of those stemmed from my own ideas of femininity as a performance: femininity as something that only exists in relation to the perceptions of others, femininity as never an actor, only a reactor. i didn’t start becoming content with my identity, both as a woman and as a person, until i stopped seeing it as something that i had to ‘perform’ for others.

also, if you think that femininity is a performance…. and masculinity somehow isn’t??? i don’t know. go away.

I think that both masculinity and femininity are performances, because all social interaction has a performative aspect. They can be very powerful and genuine performances that relate something true. They can be forced and even coerced performances. They can be manipulative, disingenuous performances. They can be performances that we fall into by default, not even necessarily because we don’t know any other way to communicate, but because that’s the easiest thing —- the first thing our hand falls upon when reaching for some sentence or action, some way to get through this meaningful or meaningless interaction and get on with our days. They can be unconscious or conscious performances. We can hate them or love them or feel utterly indifferent about them. But they are performances, because like pretty much all of human culture they developed through social interaction, which always always always has a performative aspect —- an aspect that is not static and dependent upon biological hardware —- an aspect that can change and adapt much more quickly than our species. 

Maybe I see it this way because I identify as agender, and if I don’t believe that gender is on some level a performance, then my gender doesn’t exist. I believe that gender is separate from biological sex. That, by default, makes it a social construct: something that humans built together with their minds because that’s what humans do. It is not however ‘just’ a social construct. Language is also a social construct. Civilization is a social construct. Social constructs are real, powerful, and necessary for pretty much everything I love about the world. I hope people keep making social constructs. But it is empowering to recognize that something is a social construct, because that means that I —- as a member of society —- can exert agency over it. If I don’t like the way the world is, there is at least a small part of it that I can change. I don’t have to accept a gender role or a sexual orientation based on my biological sex or something that scientists have already proven is predetermined by my DNA. So far as I can tell, I wasn’t born with a predetermined sexual orientation (some people are, I think, but not me), or a predetermined gender identity. But I have developed patterns of interaction that help me know what to say and do when faced with the (sometimes terrifying) prospect of Communicating With Other People, and help other people to understand me. Those patterns have become an identity —- one that I am very attached to. I can only do this BECAUSE I believe that gender is a construct. It gives me not only choice, but creative agency. 

(Sorry I’m not sure if I’m arguing with or against you or just using words differently but I have a lot of thoughtfeelings about this OK.)

(Source: turdlewexler)

(Reblogged from odysseiarex)

poetwithoutadream:

syllablesongs:

treblesandtardises:

tookmyworldwithyou:

josephthropp:

forever-a-baddie:

merlinsbearditsthedoctor:

2460-done:

another-day-another-destiny:

augustj0j0:

nomoreexplanations:

another-eponine:

One Day More flashmob in the middle of an engineering test. The professor is not amused.

This made my entire month. I LOVE all of these people. All of them.

Bahahahaha :’D

OMG love so much.. and the professor.. Rachelll looook.l

I SEEEE IT I SEEEEE IT SHANNIE I SEEEE IT

wait guys….exams start tomorrow 

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THAT WAS ONE PLOT TWIST I DIDN’T SEE COMING

Welcome to college

I love the girl in the front just filming it all.

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FUCKING DEAD AT THE PROFESSOR

SIT DOWN SIR. I WILL FORCEFULLY REMIND YOU-ONE TEST MORE

yes, good

I WILL FORCEFULLY REMOVE YOU

(Source: valjawn)

(Reblogged from hydrargyrum80)

BRAIN SEX DOES NOT EXIST.

foervraengd:

ehungerford:

ehungerford:

These scientific authorities demonstrate with exhaustive research and great analytic detail that there are no meaningful differences between male and female brains, making implausible all arguments about transgenderism that depend on a connection between one’s brain and their sex.

REBLOG IT. YELL IT.

Fuck gender. Fuck stereotypes. Fuck naturalizing sex stereotypes as consensually chosen “gender identities” that are MAGICALLY divorced from the socio-historic context of female oppression. Fuck all that.

BRAIN SEX DOES NOT EXIST. Science agrees. :) GENDER IS A CONSTRUCT.

There are a few things I reblog on my main account due to the importance of the message, this is one of them.

YAY.

(To be clear, I am by no means implying that nothing is valid until backed with socially condoned methods of prestigious scientific research.) 

(Source: sexnotgender)

(Reblogged from thingsthatmakeyouacey)

kawaiiuscassius:

OK BUT

HOMURA AS THE HORATIO TO MADOKA’S HAMLET?

No really but what if Horatio had the power to go back in time and try to stop things from going down as they did? The play we see is the second version or something. The first time he didn’t come from Wittenberg soon enough and by the time he got there too much shit had already gone down. And it’s against his nature to interfere too much with anything and Hamlet is really stubborn and just keeps finding creative new ways to end up dead so he has to do it over and over.

I just proposed this to hydrargyrum80 the other day. I want it in my life. Maybe i could try to write it????

(Reblogged from odysseiarex)

superherotoranse:

You know, I don’t even know if my attraction has anything to do with gender.

I just like safety and safe people and people who don’t intimidate me or feel threatening. I like meaningful conversations, people I can open up to, and share things with, people who share things with me, people whose idea of a good time is walking through a park and talking until our voices are hoarse.

And it’s those kind of feelings and circumstances that I think might be necessary for me for attraction to grow. idk. it’s all so complicated.

But I do know I like safety, and the way society conditions people means that the feminine - not necessarily women, but femininity - feels safe.

idk.

This makes a lot of sense and is totally valid. I wish more people thought about attraction this way (recognizing that it may have to do with factors other than sex/gender which may or may not be generally attached to a certain sex/gender right now b/c of social conditioning and personal experiences and other things that we don’t even understand because attraction is really hard to study scientifically because hormones are sneaky bastards and WOAH WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY CULTIVATED ON A BIOLOGICAL LEVEL THROUGH SOCIAL CONDITIONING rather than predetermined from our birth, but even that isn’t under our control because we don’t know exactly what causes what hormones when, and intellectual components of attraction are also very important to a lot of people and not always easily distinguished from physical components, so yeah, i think your thoughts on this make all of the sense and that you are very perceptive and things.) 

(Reblogged from superherotoranse)