the internet gives me candy
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“Sexual freedom isn’t acceptable for women due to the misogyny massaged into men’s brains. A queen loses her crown when she loses her virginity. And a queen becomes a bitch when she likes it.” — Kai Davis (via fragiledaisies)(via hijabeng)
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Georgian traditional dance is crazy
I would break every fucking bone in my body trying to do this shit do they even wear knee padding i just
holy shit this is amazing.
holy goddamn this IS amazing.
But if you watch closely, when they land on their ‘knees’ they don’t really land on their knees. They’re taking their weight on their forelegs and not going down right on the joint (because yeaaaah).
What gets me are the spins! They’re spinning at like double the speed of Western ballet! Holy whirling dervish!
This is fucking witchcraft.
Not. Humanly. Possible.
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Oh, her arms are so great.
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Anecdotal, I admit, but most of the men in my office do none of these things. It hasn’t held them back professionally.
Men go to the spa and moisturize? BAHAHAHAHA
FOREVER WITH THE FLUSHED SKIN THING.
Also this is ridic (I don’t care how much I go to the gym, it’s not gonna make my eyelashes darker) (and also I wear what I want and whatever ladies and dudes want to wear is totally fine!) but you guys have that covered. Carry on!
Re: flushed skin - a lot of the major players of standard makeup application were engineered (over a very long time, of course), to simulate the look of just having had an orgasm. Widened eyes, you say? Pink cheeks? Don’t even get me started on lip gloss…
“Health and youth” is a short-sighted view of what makeup is supposed to reflect.
Ding ding ding WINNER.
You guys are the best.
edit: ALSO. Running marathons will fuck your shit right up. Unless “bleeding nipples and no toenails” is the look we’re shooting for with makeup.
Can we talk about bridal veils after this? Because DON’T EVER WEAR A BRIDAL VEIL, IT IS SYMBOLIC OF TERRIBLE THINGS. BURN THAT SHIT DOWN, LADIES.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, are we going with the SURPRISE I’m carting you off and marrying you stop yelling here I’m putting a cloth over your head mythology OR the SURPRISE here’s what my daughter looks like you’re already up here guess y’all are getting married now mythology or the SURPRISE the person lifting this veil off yo face is the one in charge and it’s not you, girlfriend mythology?
Worse. Way worse. Can you think of any other situations in life in which a man must clumsily remove a thin, filmy item from his bride?
SET
IT
ON FIRE.
EW
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Oh my fucking god if they do not quit with this white liberator story line I’m going to have to stop watching this show.
Even the film work is just shameless. Blonde haired, white woman, royal blue garb, amongst the chained and disheveled brown slaves. How they are all reaching toward her and calling her “mother.”
Even if this story line doesn’t bother you, you have to at least be a little suspicious when a show with nothing but white people in the main cast includes brown people only to portray them as slaves or slave owners. Savages, or cruel barbarians. Single minded slaves.
This show’s treatment (and I’m sure it’s a reflection of the book as well) of race is disgusting. It makes my stomach churn.
More disturbing is that they wrote in that sanctimonious speech about how she cannot give anyone their freedom, and then proceeded to follow it with her freaking crowd surfing the brown people. This device seems to have been added to absolve her of the “white savior” stigma, but really it only made things worse.
Shit, I really wanted to like her character, but this is just getting gratuitous and racist.
To the fans who think we’re reading too far into things:
We should be thinking about why a great show feels the need to buy into these hackneyed and demeaning stereotypes. Shouldn’t it be past that?
I love this show to pieces. It’s a great show. However, it is possible for something so great to have uncomfortable aspects that are not okay. The thing is these aspects cannot be ignored because these kinds of depictions keep actors of color out of a job - it really doesn’t help that this show is so popular, and people are just accepting these tropes.
For people who only watch the show, in the books, the all the cities in Slaver’s Bay enslave people of all races, colors, creeds and backgrounds. They gain the slaves through various ways, but they get people from all over the world, so it’s definitely the fault of the show that it shows such homogeneity of the slave population as brown people. It should have been much more varied, and it’s definitely a problem that it was not, because the fact that the slave population is racially and culturally diverse is made crystal clear on SO many occasions in the book.
I hope I won’t be receiving hate on this thing but I believe the reason why all the slaves are brown in the HBO adaptation of Daenerys’s story is because they film Daenerys scenes entirely in Morocco and thus all the extras are locals from the filming location.
I’m not trying to excuse HBO I’m just saying that from a point of view of a producer/filmmaker, extras are generally people hired for the purpose of the scene and living near the filming location (for example, all of BBC Merlin’s extras seen in Pierrefonds are actually french people, and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts kids are kids from schools nearby the filming locations as well) ; if most of the locals are brown people, then the producers are likely to give them a job as extras. They are not going to pay the plane ticket to white extras just because the show has to be a good representation of the book because then they’d have to pay all their travels and hostels expenses, which is quite unnecessary.
A fair point. But there are white people in Morocco, and there are white people in that scene, but they’ve all been made up to look much darker-skinned.
Fair point from you, too! I just watched the scene again, and you can see the various skintones, but all the slave extras look really dirty (well, they are portraying slaves and I don,t believe most masters in the GoT world asks their slaves to be superclean), and they all look tanned too (I don’t think Daenerys’s scenes contained a single cloudy day!) so it could also be because it was filmed during summer and the sun was more… present. I mean, I’m probably the boring type of white person but in the summer I tan enough to look like one of those very much brown skinned extras.
In fact, let me tell you, I find it more unrealistic that Dany doesn’t seem to have a tan when she’s spent YEARS in this region. Even if she’s blond-white, nobody can possibly be that long under the sun and sill be as white as she is. It’s either you tan… or you get tomatoe-red from sunburn.
House slaves, though. :/ Slaves do more than just work outside. A lot of slaves in Astapor in particular were better off than a lot of Westerosi peasants. A lot of them would be clean and lovely. You don’t want super dirty people cleaning your house and cooking your food and taking care of your kids and working on your clothes.
suns cannot tan a dragon
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Wow. WOW. That’s a whole lotta meta for official team twitter accounts.
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Hat-Trick Kane Welcomes the Bruins to Chicago! I’m ridiculously excited and nervous for this series.
Posted here at Runs on Duncan.
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Sir. SIR.
ooookay Kaner getting sweaty naked manhugs from Hottest Swede On Team Oduya nbd
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IRL - day 9 of period watch
Took the second test, and it… I don’t even know. To most ordinary humans (e.g. Mr. Weekend) it appeared negative. To me, the more I stared at it, the more I saw the world’s faaaaaaintest positive line. But I could have been imagining it. But. Oh god.
Luckily, I figured something like this was going to happen, so I have a doctor’s appointment on Thursday.
On the plus side, our place is listed! Yay!
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“In the U.S. every year, 207,754 people are raped, so there are also a whole bunch of people committing those rapes. What that means is that any comic who regularly performs in front of an audience is likely to spend at least some time telling jokes to someone who’s raped someone. And when he hears a joke like Tosh’s, that starts with “How can a rape joke not be funny?!” and goes on to say that a woman who interrupts him deserves to be raped –- or a joke like Morril’s (“My ex-girlfriend never made me wear a condom… She was on the pill: Ambien!”) –- he’s probably going to feel pretty comfortable in that room.
When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.” -
Hands down, best Tony opening number I’ve EVER seen.
Fuck, this made me CRY.
