jarring:

i love how it takes .08 seconds for me to determine whether or not a fic is good. like with regular literature sometimes you’ve gotta dig into it to figure out if you really wanna read this thing but when u got ao3 open at 3 am u just know. u just gotta read 3 lines and u know

tabrisapproves:

princetenjolras:

I used to legitimately worry about whether I had the “right face shape” for short hair, until one day it dawned on me that short hair is compulsory for all men here in the US and nobody gives a shit whether they have the “right face shape” for it. And I’ve never heard any beauty advice implying that there is a “wrong face shape” for long hair on women either.

Despite the artistry that does goes into the beauty industry, it exists first and foremost to enforce societal standards, and fuck that noise ok, the face shape bullshit is clearly dishonest and biased at best and a total myth at worst. Cut your hair any way you damn well want to and if it doesn’t look good it’s because you have a shitty ass barber ok not because you weren’t the right shape for it }:/

When Hard Candy came out a year later, Page quickly grew tired of answering questions about it. “I got really cranky about it when men would come in to interview me and go —” she paused to affect a nerdy, reedy male voice — “‘Oh no, are there any scissors in here?’ And I’d be like, ‘If we turned on prime-time television tonight, I will see a naked woman in a dumpster. So I need you to stop telling me how hard it is as a man to watch this movie.’

Ellen Page

(via

fulloflightning

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I’ve never been able to watch this movie, but DAMN, girl makes a good point

(via kateordie)

tygermama:

sightseeinginskyrim:

enkiduofvideogames:

zennistrad:

Not legitimate problems with GMOs:

  • They’re “frankenfood” or “dangerous” or “playing God.”

Legitimate problems with GMOs:

  • Artificially sterile seeds which force farmers to buy new seeds from with every crop from corporations which have a monopoly on said seeds. Especially harmful for smallholdings farms.
  • Like pesticides, pest-resistant GMOs become less effective at deterring pests over time due to natural selection.

licensing seeds which are then given away as a trial, then requiring farmers to either purchase the license again or destroy their entire crops. This is what at least one GMO corporation did in the wake of Haiti’s natural disaster.

We need to reframe the issue.  Pretty much every “legitimate problem with GMOs” that one can think of is a problem with the corporations that create them and the cultural and legal environment those companies operate in.  Patented gene sequences, artificially sterile seeds, GMO crops that take over other strains…those are all problems with the corporations that create them and the idea that doing those things is acceptable, not a problem with the GMOs themselves.  We need to stop looking at this as a “GMO problem” and start looking at is as a systemic problem.

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meeedeee:

cheshirelibrary:

How To Tell If You Are In A High Fantasy Novel

[via The Toast]

  • The Elders would like a word with you.
  • The Ritual is about to begin.
  • Something that has not happened in a thousand years is happening.
  • You are going to the City. There is only one City. It is only said
    with a capital C. No one needs to bother saying the name of the City. It
    is the City.
  • Certain members of the Council are displeased with your family’s recent actions.
  • A bard is providing occasional comic relief; no one hired or invited him and his method of earning a living is unclear.
  • The High Priest is not to be trusted.
  • Someone is eating an apple mockingly.
  • There is one body of water. It is called the Sea. The Great Sea, if you are feeling fancy.
  • You live in a region with no major exports, no centralized
    government, no banking system, a mysteriously maintained network of
    roads, and little to no job training for anyone who is not a farmer.
  • You have red hair. You wear it in a braid. Your father was a simple
    man, and you don’t remember much about him – he died when you were so
    young – but you remember his strong hands, as he fished or carpentered
    or whatever it was that he used to do with them.
  • You’re going to have to hurry, or you’re going to miss the Fair – and you never miss the Fair.
  • There is trouble at the Citadel.
  • Your full name has at least one apostrophe in it.
  • It is the first page, and you are already late for something. Your
    mother affectionately chides you as you gulp down a few spoonfuls of
    porridge; she will be dead by page forty-two.
  • There are two religions in your entire universe. One is a thinly
    veiled version of Islam. It is only practiced by villains. The other is
    “being a Viking.” You are a Viking.
  • There are new ways in the land that threaten the Old Way. Your
    grandmother secretly practices the Old Way, as do all of the people of
    the hills.
  • The real trouble began the day you arrived at court. Every last
    nobleman hides a viper in his smile. How you long for the purity of life
    in your village, which is currently on fire or something.

I think I broke a rib laughing. or something.