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wassa-matta-you-altair: FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT THE DEVELOPERS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED SHOWING EZIO WITH...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:12:19 +0100

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT THE DEVELOPERS ACTUALLY CONSIDERED SHOWING EZIO WITH LEO AT HIS DEATHBED BUT ENDED UP BEING CUT FROM REVELATIONS I MEAN CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE EZIO AT LEO’S BEDSIDE TALKING TOGETHER AND LAUGHING ABOUT MEMORIES FROM WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER AND EZIO’S STRUGGLING TO STAY AWAKE BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE THERE WHEN LEO FINALLY GOES BUT HE FALLS ASLEEP HOLDING HIS HAND AND WHEN HE WAKES UP LEO’S DEAD AND HE GIVES LEO HIS LAST RITES THE LAST THING HE SAYS TO HIS CLOSEST FRIEND IS “REQUIESCAT IN PACE, AMICO MIO” OH NO

You… you…

OH GOD IN HEAVEN.

vengefulbullwinkle: gallifrey-feels: earthgirldonna: feferipix...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:06:20 +0100

vengefulbullwinkle:

gallifrey-feels:

earthgirldonna:

feferipixies:

the-fandoms-are-cool:

everythingis19:

cosmicsyzygy:

Look, I made a gif of this most awesome wizard at the Leaky Cauldron!

DUDE IS READING ‘A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME’ BY STEPHEN HAWKING

I NEVER REALIZED

are you serious

I always assumed wizards just ignored science, because the fact that “magic” exists, can explain anything. But there are MuggleBorn wizards, ones who, until they were eleven, lived in the real world and learned science and things. Did they all just abandon that normal, muggle knowledge, like Harry did? It’s always been there, itching in the back of my mind.

FOUR FOR YOU SCIENCE WIZARD

YOU GO SCIENCE WIZARD

can we point out that he’s doing wandless magic too

like voldemort couldnt even do that shit

molly fuckin weasley couldnt fuckin do that

who are you

pretty sure this whole series has been about the wrong wizard guys

Plot Twist: He is able to do wandless magic because his comprehensive understanding of quantum physics means that he is the only wizard/witch to actually understand how magic works.

You could not possibly understand how happy this makes me.

I have hope for the wizarding world again.

randomsplashes: [SOLVING MURDERS YEAHHHH] bless the elementary...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:35:03 +0100

randomsplashes:

[SOLVING MURDERS YEAHHHH]

bless the elementary writers (◡‿◡✿)

How bout you cut yours first, asshole.

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:34:18 +0100

How bout you cut yours first, asshole.

Hey motivation. HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET IN MY HEAD. NO? NOT COMING? FINE, FUCK YOU. I’LL...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:12:46 +0100

Hey motivation. HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET IN MY HEAD.

NO? NOT COMING? FINE, FUCK YOU. I’LL MAKE MY OWN.

-you need a 2:1. No 2:1 means no fucking around in America.

-did you not understand that first point pal? No 2:1= NO FUCKING IN AMERICA.

-You want to go to America. Dear God, you want to go to America so bad. YER CAN’T GO IF YER DON’T GET YER FOOKIN’ ARSE INTO FOOKIN’ GEAR.

-You like your work. It is beautiful work. You love Shakespeare, you love Jonson, you think they are delightful bastards. YOU’LL ONLY GET TO WRITE ABOUT THAT IN AN INTELLIGENT MANNER IF YOU REVISE

-YOU WANT TO LOOK SMART, DON’T YOU? YEAH, THOUGHT SO YOU SMUG BASTARD. SO REVISE.

-Fuck Assassin’s Creed. Play that shit on Wednesday- NOT NOW YOU FREAK. You will have 8 FUCKING WEEKS TO PLAY IT. YOU DO NOT HAVE TODAY. THE EXAM IS ON SATURDAY.

-FUCK YOUR FANFIC. IT DOES NOT GET MARKED BY YOUR TUTOR. YOUR EXAM RESPONSE ON SEX AND WILLA CATHER DOES. TREAT IT WITH THE SAME SINCERITY. IF YOU FIND THAT YOU CAN’T, START SHIPPING THE DAMN CHARACTERS. CREATE HEAD CANNONS. PRETEND THAT THEY ALL TALK WITH THE VOICE OF HAYTHAM KENWAY. IDGAF. JUST. DO. IT.

RIGHT. YOU GOT THIS SHIT, NOW GO AND RUN WITH IT, MOTHERFUCKER.

afternoonsnoozebutton: mr-cappadocia: You didn’t think too...

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28:08 +0100

afternoonsnoozebutton:

mr-cappadocia:

You didn’t think too deeply about this did you? Of course not. If you were prone to thinking deeply about things… you probably wouldn’t be a Feminist, now would you?

I’m screaming “THAT’S THE POINT THAT’S LITERALLY THE POINT YOU JUST MADE THE EXACT POINT” at my computer screen right now.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 14:26:43 +0100

drparisa: i’m glad that AC3 took that extra mile in being historically accurate to the point where...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:10:28 +0100

drparisa:

i’m glad that AC3 took that extra mile in being historically accurate to the point where using guns and muskets drove me insane because of the reloading time and i wish that ONCE connor just got fed up and tore off his robes and flexed his arms like ‘SAY HELLO TO MY GUNS: THE LEFT ONE IS ‘FREEDOM,’ THE RIGHT ONE IS ‘JUSTICE,’ AND THEY DON’T NEED TO BE RELOADED’

darksnowflakes: Yes, I asked doubleleaf to draw me drunk...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:01:37 +0100

darksnowflakes:

Yes, I asked doubleleaf to draw me drunk pole-dancing Edward! xD

But poor Connor and Haytham are not impressed as I am! lol

dA link: http://doubleleaf.deviantart.com/art/pole-dancing-Edward-373215028

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Wed, 22 May 2013 23:31:19 +0100

liamdryden: tondalayo: foxes enjoying themselves (x) you’re...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:30:26 +0100

liamdryden:

tondalayo:

foxes enjoying themselves (x)

you’re welcome

i can’t deal with this

Do something productive, she says… * Aggressively writes fanfic*

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:50:42 +0100

Do something productive, she says…

* Aggressively writes fanfic*

theknightofdavekat: br000t: healthy-mind-body-me: the fuck am...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:40:24 +0100

theknightofdavekat:

br000t:

healthy-mind-body-me:

the fuck am i suppose to do with this

i have honestly never laughed so hard in my entire life

so thats why her handjobs are second rate

radhauswife: This is amazing.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:34 +0100

radhauswife:

This is amazing.

"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:19 +0100

“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””

- http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)

That sums it up

[trigger warning for the commentary below]

(via erikawithac)

This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this guy chimed in and was all “It’s hard for guys too! I’m so awkward around girls! It’s embarrassing!” Yeah, not the same thing, exactly?

(via tulletulle)

Wow.

(via kittencoaster)

This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them.

I think that says a lot.

(via kaitg)

Its interesting also that these fears sit subconsciously until woman are asked to exams their responses to men. We women will operate with this fear in mind, the way we protect ourselves, make sure our friends know where we are when we go on a date, words that we use while interacting with men, all in hopes they will not kill us, but simultaneously love us.

I think bell hooks made a point about this in her series on love. something along the lines of how can women hope to love and receive love from men when at the foundation of our relationships there is this strong fear of men. you can’t build true trust when your foundation is crumbling under you.

the scariest part is, once you recognize this fear, and face it, how do you address it when there is evidence of “good” men abusing, hurting, and killing women everyday?

(via becomingchichi)

I was in my early 20’s when one of my homegirls broke this down for me.

I was in a broken relationship, and one of the things was that bugged me at the time was that the girlfriend at the time would freak out whenever I got angry - I never yelled, never throw or hit things, mostly, I just needed some time to cool out.

“Why does she get scared when I’m angry? I’d never hit her!”

“But she doesn’t KNOW that. She can’t assume that. Look at how many dudes are out there pulling shit.”

And that stuck with me for a hot minute. The relationship was broken on so many levels anyway, but that fact still remains, as a man, I can’t fault women for assuming the worst in order to protect themselves, especially how the world’s patriarchy and misogyny rolls.

(via bankuei)

My brain knows that my husband won’t hit me. Really, the logical part of me totally gets that. But when we’re arguing he has to stay on the other side of the room & not yell too loud because my fight or flight instincts have 25+ years of being hard wired that loud = violent & our 11 year relationship isn’t long enough to undo that.

(via karnythia)

I’ve had continual discussions with Tchy about this, and I don’t expect to stop. It’s fair to say that there’s no one in the world that I trust more, and he has been extremely careful with me, but… the fact remains that he leans quite a bit towards the masculine, and this means that that fear is always there. The news of transmasculine folks abusing/raping people doesn’t help that fear any. :(

I’m learning not to apologize for it. It’s not my fault (nor, really, is it his) that I’m scared of dude-type people. But it’s always there. Which is another reason why I get so pissed off when trans men try to make transmisogyny about them.

(via kiriamaya)

men, read all of this please. including the commentary. esp if you consider yourself a Nice Guy.

(via static-nonsense)

This is an incredible thread of responses. I’ve seen this quote before, but not the dialogue that built up around it. The part about loud=violent hits home particularly hard for me. I am terrified of getting into irl arguments with men, especially when they get loud. It’s always going to sit in the pit of my stomach.

(via mizbingley)

That part resonates for me too, although from a completely different angle. Despite being more terrified of sexual violence than I am of anything other than my own brain, I do not hesitate to yell, confront, get up in the face of, threaten, even hit men twice my size and many times my strength. Faced with a threat of violence from men, I will either imply or state “I dare you to.”

I also, as previously established on this blog, have a death wish.

To me, that encapsulates everything about the violence, especially sexual violence, coded into relationships between men and women in our society: for a woman to assert herself in the face of maleness may require the woman in question (such as me) to be perpetually suicidal.

(via 14kgoldnyc)

Reblogging for commentary. I have been frightened and scared by men being loud with me, even if I don’t think they’ll be violent. Like people have said above, it’s just a latent response in your brain to fear violence from men.

I went out to dinner with someone a couple of weeks ago (LONG story, was supposed to be a group dinner but it ended up just being me & a strange man) and I told him I blogged about feminism and politics, and he went off on me. He told me feelings were bullshit and women just wanted special privileges, and then he said, “Women don’t give men enough credit for not being violent psychopaths. That’s what we are, deep down. We want to rape and pillage, and we don’t, and women don’t give us enough credit for that.” I burst into tears. That shit was terrifying.

(via stfuconservatives)

I’ll always reblog this when it comes across my blog with different commentary! It’s all important!

(via everythingbutharleyquinn)

I referenced this quote in a discussion I was having with a teacher a few weeks ago. He shifted uncomfortably and didn’t say anything for a few minutes, then told me “I couldn’t write like that in an essay.”

The truth hurts, huh.

(via gtfothinspo)

14K and I are twins because I will not hesitate to answer a physical threat from a man. It’s a built-in response from years of watching my mother get hurt that I WOULD NOT go down so gently.

And even with non-physical responses. I don’t let anyone in, I don’t lean on anyone, I don’t trust anyone because damnit I will not let myself go through what she did. And I’m definitely a “I’ll hurt you before you hurt me” kinda person.

Therapy’s making it better, but these ingrained fight or flight defensive mechanism aren’t uncommon.

(via nanner)

I too am reblogging this for the amazing commentary.

When supposed feminist ally men deny this very basic, simple truth - that’s how you know they are an ally to no one.

This all gets taught to women at a very young age, how dangerous the world is when you’re in it being a woman. I’ve been struggling to write about something that happened with my daughter a few weeks ago, how to form the words, but this is possibly the best context.

We were in the wine shop, in line to pay, and she was so excited to get her lollipop (in the time honored tradition of wine stores everywhere). A man two people ahead of us started fighting with the woman behind the counter about how much money he’d given her. As I was moving her behind my body, my daughter froze, and when I say froze, I mean wasn’t moving a muscle except to shake.

It sorted itself out pretty quickly. We paid and left.

Once we got back into the car, she started crying. I asked her what was the matter, and she said, “Mama, I was so scared. When men get angry they shoot people.”

That’s a direct quote. When men get angry, they shoot people.

I asked her, “baby, why do you think that?” She replied, “on NPR, that’s what happens. When men get really mad they kill people. That guy was really mad, what if he had a gun? What would you do?”

The talk we had afterwards was difficult; no one said parenting was easy. But this is the life we live as women. If my 9 year old understands it, then men of the world, alleged feminist allies, Nice Guys, random douches on the street, and even actual non-dangerous men: so can you.

(via someauthorgirl)

I cant take men posturing me. Or getting loud with me. Fight or flight kicks in. And, like karny, ima be as far away as possible while talking if im feelin some kinna way. I have every reason to respond that way. We all do. Its the norm for us to incur the wrath of men. (via bad-dominicana)

This is why, no matter how much I love my husband, or how well I know my friends, I still panic when we have an argument. I don’t want to feel that way, I want to feel safe and unafraid.

(via little-airheart)

wow

just

wow

(via xxthesmittenkittenxx)

This post and its commentary is most important for everyone to see. I burst into tears reading this because now I realize it’s not a problem I have, but a problem that we have. If strangers are being loud or threatening, I tend to try and be invisible and ignore it. When it is not possible, then I get bold in my responses, sometimes even verbally aggressive. But it’s all because deep down I’m terrified, I’m just even more scared that they would see that. That they would know. Because I have this deep conviction that if they did that would be the end of it.

(via imaginativecrime)

I bolded for emphasis on what really resonates with me. This is absolutely one of the best fucking things I’ve ever read. It completely validates (not that we needed any) any and all concerns and fears we constantly run through by hearing personal accounts of other women. I’ve been in MANY a situation where I will stand up in the face of a dude ten times my size and dare him to fucking put a hand on me. ESPECIALLY when they play that shit off in the “you better get out of my face before I do this” sorta way. I don NOT play like that. If you’re gonna threaten to hit me I will beg you to. Just to prove how manly you are. But the simple shit that remains behind this is even the nicest, sweetest, quietest men who claim that they are “allies to feminists” and have the “utmost respect for women” will still fucking snap on you and try to hurt you or rape you. AND I WILL NOT FUCKING STAND FOR ANOTHER PERSON (MAN OR OTHERWISE) TELLING ME IT’S NOT FAIR OR HELPFUL TO FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT ALL MEN. BECAUSE IF THAT’S WHAT I HAVE TO DO TO KEEP MYSELF SAFE THEN THAT’S WHAT I’LL DO. My fucking safety is way above a man’s hurt feelings. NOT sorry.

(via moon-cunt)

Look at all that commentary, and some people still don’t take our struggles seriously.

(via fuckmras)

wtfshiroko: Radioactive (Music Box Version) - Imagine...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:11 +0100

wtfshiroko:

Radioactive (Music Box Version) - Imagine Dragons

by JoshuaSaundersMusic

Oh, this is beautiful.

fieryholocaust: pangurbanthewhite: ryttu3k: healthisnotafad: ...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:04:34 +0100

fieryholocaust:

pangurbanthewhite:

ryttu3k:

healthisnotafad:

sexyfitduh:

awesometriathlon:

anewstartabetterme:

fullyactivated:

This is pretty cool and eye-opening. I wish someone would do this sort of thing with male 6-pack ab models.

They even Photoshopped the woman behind Selena’s arm, because apparently not only do celebrities have to be thin, but they must also only associate with other thin people…

Enrico Francis has been caught

This pisses me off so incredibly much!

This is ridiculous. And disgusting. beautiful people being photoshopped to fit impossible standards AND most of the non-caucasian women are being white washed so they look more “appealing”

What the fuck, editing out ‘Elton John AIDS Foundation’?!

This is goddamn disgusting.

Beauty standards for women are so high that not even our “perfect” celebrities can fit them without edit. Let’s scrap our culture and start over.

supermerwholocked: yoursourwolfisshowing: kingofanxiousthinking...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:58:19 +0100

supermerwholocked:

yoursourwolfisshowing:

kingofanxiousthinking:

HOLY FUCK

I ACTUALLY CANT BREATHE

I LITERALLY JUST HIT REBLOG AND LAUGHED AT MY PHONE FOR A MINUTE OR TWO TRYING YO COMPOSE MYSELF ENOUGH TO TYPE THIS MESSAGE.

ITS BACK

DEAD, FUCKING DEAD.

OH MY GOD

what even,

this is music

this is actually my favourite audio post on tumblr and i’m going to reblog this for the 3rd time

oh

I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON, BUT I LIKE IT

WHAT IS GOING ON????

elementarystan: Now that’s a US Open match I’d pay to watch..

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:52:42 +0100

elementarystan:

Now that’s a US Open match I’d pay to watch..

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:57:36 +0100