Luck of the Draw

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Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:27 -0400

heatherbat:

theviolentflame:

unicornemma:

dttojay:

Is it just me or does this gif set completely summarize the way society treats bi people.

1: “It was only a phase”
2: “You had a sexy phase?” - overly sexualizing a relationship between two girls.
3: “Obviously men are better” so of course she became straight again after giving men something to drool over.

If I wasn’t hung over I might be able to put my thoughts out better.

EDIT: “I didn’t think it would count” - relationships aren’t real unless a penis is involved somehow. So this actually shows how bi girls are treated more than just bi people in general.

Ugh, the “sexy phase” line is just grosssss.

I will not stop telling people that I hate this movie every time it comes up. I was forced to go, I didn’t like it, and if I have to hear one more vegan superpowers joke I’m going to scream.

I will say the actor playing Ramona Flowers is very pretty though.

all of that, and also gross is the fact that non-hetero “needs” to be justified in the first goddamn place. how it should have gone:

“you and her?”

“yes.”

THAT’S IT. i’ll allow for the addition of “oh, okay. i didn’t know. sorry.”

also? i gave two years of my life to a girl who now goes around saying it was just a phase, it wasn’t really serious, it was just some weird thing, etc etc etc.

it’s so painfully invalidating. i felt so hard for miss bi-furious over there. to get told to your face that you didn’t even matter. you don’t even count. it wasn’t “real”.

it’s awful.

While I like this movie well enough, it has a lot of stupidity in it. This scene DID bug me… It’s Okay To Be Bi, dammit ;)

This scene is supposed to bother you. It’s not about digging against Bi people, though it can be about sterotypical perceptions of such things too, but mainly it’s about how both Scott AND Ramona are immature people. It was yet another relationship that Ramona ran away from because she was too immature to deal with breaking up with someone she wasn’t interested in. She does this with all her Exs (though really Gideon deserves NO sympathy, he’s a bigger ass and she needed to be away from him) as she’s selfish and only thinking about herself. Clearly evident in how she disregardingly talks about Roxie. Which is the same way she talks about the rest of them.

How many times have you heard people explain away their own relationships with something they were embarassed about?

That goth kid in high school? Oh it was a phase when I was younger.

“You kissed another guy!” “I was drunk; I didn’t think it counted!”

Ramona tried a relationship with a girl and she figured out she didn’t like girls. That’s not a bad thing. Her TREATMENT of another human being is. Roxie has every right to be upset at her. Ramona’s a shitty person you guys. The comic and the movie was about her growing up just as much as Scott.

Scott…well…Scott’s a douche. We knew this. I would have let Roxie punch him.

This puzzle was a SOB and took me about 2.5 hours to complete....

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:01:50 -0400

This puzzle was a SOB and took me about 2.5 hours to complete. But look at it!! Just LOOK!! So pretty! Crystal Palace yay!

I apparently bought the cheap Korean knock-off kind (no complaints there) so I had to free all the pieces from its plastic stabilizers before construction. Made it a little easier, otherwise it would have taken me much longer.

Also, take special note of the Engrish. “Towern” haha that’s how my Gypsy Larp character speaks :D

In the moments before she dies, a woman whose hair used to be bright ginger is visited by a man in a bowtie. She does not know who he is and thinks about giving him a piece of her mind till he moves forward and presses his fingertips to her temple. Memories flood her mind. People and planets and places she had saved alongside a long streak of nothing rush back to her. She remembers being the most important woman in creation. Then with a smile on her face Donna Noble closes her eyes and sleeps forevermore. The Doctor simply looks on with tears in his eyes as his best friend leaves this world with the only gift he could give her.

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:50:53 -0400

donnanoble-the-sasstronaut:

mrloopysquirrel:

wHy

hello yes, 911 send me an aMBULANCE

candescentgeist: Well. There goes my productively for the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:12:19 -0400

candescentgeist:

Well. There goes my productively for the evening.

My productiviting was COMPLETELY shot. I forgot to eat until I finished at 8pm, then I got a headache from that and squinty at clear 3-d pieces. Progess and finished shots upcoming!

shinichameleon: By akko

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:46 -0400

shinichameleon:

By

akko

GOD DAMN IT JOY

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:11:45 -0400

GOD DAMN IT JOY

coconotchanel: my crazy friends got her drunk! drunk off...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:33:54 -0400

mmmmm, pancakes & champagne!

uh oh! too much champagne!

way too much champagne!

tea time!

coconotchanel:

my crazy friends got her drunk! drunk off LOVE!!!

empressofkrakens: My squids! Rise my mini Krakens!!! Now that...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:29:35 -0400

empressofkrakens:

My squids! Rise my mini Krakens!!!

Now that is love <3

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01:23 -0400

anaeolist: my sincerest apologies

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:40 -0400

anaeolist:

my sincerest apologies

What is wrong with Doctor Who?

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:21:02 -0400

What is wrong with Doctor Who?:

firebirdy:

ohputitdowngrantaire:

dancingcabinet:

I thought it was time to give some thought to what the Doctor-assistant relationship is, what function the assistant has on the show, how Doctor Who distributes personal qualities by gender, and why I now hate this lovely show that I used to love.

Damn, this rings true and it breaks my (1) heart.

“[in Moffat’s Who] the woman is not of interest for her character or her abilities, but for some fundamental mystery in her being. The mystery isn’t even a secret she’s keeping, something over which she has control- it’s something she does not know about, that the Doctor must puzzle out in his own mind. It’s not about her- it’s about what’s wrong with her. When Steven Moffat took over Doctor Who, women became a problem.”

I love this article.

kaible: smiledesu: petercoffin: I can’t believe NERV bought...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:52 -0400

kaible:

smiledesu:

petercoffin:

I can’t believe NERV bought Tumblr.

Now they’ll close Shinji’s blog and force him to get in the fucking robot

You Can (Not) Reblog

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:44:33 -0400

Tower De Tomato. Alone on the table.

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:26:20 -0400

Tower De Tomato. Alone on the table.

Things I have to do today

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:40:29 -0400

Leave work at 5pm
Go for my almost 3 mile daily walk
Do 30 sit-ups
Shower
Eat my sad lean cuisine for dinner
Pack for a Larp event this weekend
Pack to fly out to Kansas City tomorrow night for business trip
Make my Sailor Armor and/or Leotard for Sailor Moon
Go to bed in order to walk up at 4:30 AM for said flight to Kansas City
Fail to sleep
Try to not fall into despair

That sums it up nicely I think. ;_;

Game of Grails: 1/?

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:24:25 -0400

Game of Grails: 1/?

thestarlighthotel: Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:01:49 -0400

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2145760/Wonderland-Kirsty-Mitchell-heart-breakingly-beautiful-photographic-series-memory-extraordinary-life.html

thestarlighthotel:

Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.

She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.

‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).

Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:30:51 -0400

thehawkeyeinitiative:

I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done; they perfectly took they perfectly took the concept of The Hawkeye Initiative one step farther, and effected actual change. I hope this gives you as much of a laugh as it did me (the artwork is currently my desktop), and inspires you to be unafraid to stand up and take action in your own awesome way.

Now, excuse me while I go play my new favorite mech game. :)
-Skjaldmeyja

AnonymousFan8675309:

I work with an all-female team of data scientists, in the gaming industry. This makes me the professional equivalent of Amelia Earhart riding the Loch Ness Monster.

I love my job. Our company in particular is great. Firstly, our game (HAWKEN) is beautiful and people love it. Secondly, half of our executive branch is female. Half of them are punk rock, and all of them are badassed. Our gender awareness standards, compared to the industry at large, are top shelf. We are talking Amelia Earhart in Atlantis, at a five star resort, getting a mani-pedi from Jensen Ackles. I have it good.

For the last six months of my tenure at Meteor Entertainment, there has been only one thing I did not love about my job. This
picture:

Our CEO loves this picture. It is to all appearances his favorite piece of comic art for the game. He had it blown up poster-sized, framed, and displayed on the out-facing wall of his office. There, it looms over the front room like a ship’s figurehead. It is the first thing workers and visitors see when they enter the building and the last thing they see when they leave. This little lady’s undermeats have been the open- and close- parens to my work world for the last six months.
I loathe this picture.

Why do I loathe it? How, you ask, can I stay mad at a sweet young belle who has so obviously taken a break from her important welding to offer me a piping hot cup of coffee and/or a vigorous hand job? (And probably, given her apparent safety consciousness, simultaneously?) If you don’t already know the answer, you might want to check out things like #1ReasonWhy, and the Bechdel Test, and also this, and this, and this and this, and all these other things. (And while we’re talking you should check out this other bullshit right here.)

So at our office holiday party, while our CEO was having everyone in the company sign it, I stand there grinding my teeth into tiny shards. Until, suddenly, it came to me: a vision.

And so it came to be that I approached Sam Kirk, a wickedly funny co-worker who shared my sentiment. Sam, turns out, is a very talented artist who can be bribed-slash-inspired using a medley of feminist indignation, hysterical giggling, and two $90 bottles of añejo tequila.

A month-and-a-half later, our vision was a reality. I give you:
Bro-sie The Riveter.

I want to make it completely clear that everything in this prank that required actual talent was done by Sam. Find this, and more of Sam’s art, at TheRealSamKirk.com.

We blew (ahem) Brosie up poster sized. We framed him. And then, at 7:30 on Monday, April 1st, we snuck into our CEO’s office and switched them.

I stood in the entryway, dizzy with joy. It was glorious. There Brosie stood, proud, nipples testing the air like young gophers in springtime, the post-apocalyptic breeze gently swaying his banana hammock. Brosie said, loud and proud: “Get ready, world! I am here to lubricate your joints and tighten your socket.”

I basically spend the next few hours having a joy-induced neurological episode.

As the morning progressed, Brosie (ahem) revealed himself to our co-workers. The air resounded with startled, suppressed gargles of mingled joy and horror. Some take pictures. Some instantly turn and flee. Several men blush and grin in vindicated solidarity. Several women ask us for prints. At this point I am in total rapture. This is the moment I have been dreaming about for six months.

Yet somehow everyone in the office manages to keep quiet about it. Until, finally, our CEO arrives.

We hear a loud: “What the hell is this?!” And then all goes quiet. Ten minutes pass. We panic.

We are both suddenly and painfully aware that we have, in fact, just punked the CEO of our company. He is by all accounts an awesome dude. He is also a late-50s ex-army guy who happens to determine our employment futures in an at-will state. Meep.

Twenty more minutes pass. And then our CEO comes up to my desk, taps me on the shoulder, and says this:

“That was a brilliant prank. You called me on exactly the bullshit I need to be called on. I put up pictures of half-naked girls around the office all the time and I never think about it. I’m taking you and Sam to lunch. And after that, we’re going to hang both prints, side by side.”

Ruby Underboob and Brosie the Riveter, together at last

Yeah. That happened.

This wonderful experience has taught me two things that I hope to carry with me for the rest of my career in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and in gaming. It taught me this:

Lots of men (like Sam) are already sympathetic to the stupid, constant crap women put up with in gaming/STEM, and they are ready and willing to call that crap onto the carpet.

And, most importantly, many of the guys who are behind that stupid, constant crap are totally decent, open-minded human beings who just don’t realize they’re doing it. You know how sometimes you don’t realize how much you and your girlfriend are talking about shoes or menstruation until some dude walks into the room? Well sometimes guys don’t realize how much they’re talking about titties.

We just haven’t been around enough for them to notice.

There is only one solution to that, ladies. Bust out your baby-Gap tee and your protective welding goggles, and let’s turn this damn industry into the environment we want it to be. It’s hard work, and yes, there are a couple genuine assholes along the way. But if Ruby Underboob can brave the occasional droplet of molten metal, so can we.

Speaking from experience, it’s worth it.

—K2

About our CEO, Mark Long:

Mark has a long and storied history with, among other things, research, games and comic art. He’s a partner in the RoqlaRue gallery in Seattle, representing “chick art.” Mark considers himself a feminist activist. He is proud to have created a graphic novel trilogy with Nick Sagan (Carl’s son) that features a female hero so strong, Hillary Swank is attached to star as her.

Mark and I are now in an open dialogue about gender in comics and gaming.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 20:01:08 -0400

loveofotaku: creaseintime: cookiekween: And there you have...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:02:13 -0400

loveofotaku:

creaseintime:

cookiekween:

And there you have it. The main cast of Cookies and Crime. A few changes and a few new characters. And it should be noted that Redusa’s (previously Ori) name was Quillystuff’s idea. And Lemony is a character loosely based on Crypticsparrow’s OC.

casually ships P.B. and Doodle

can i have some of the lemon siblings? they look delicious