It's me, ¡Mira! Where I reblog the BBC Sherlock images I have fallen in love with! Also! I'm a very excitable girl! Hence the exclamation marks! #believeinsherlock!
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And that’s a very noble thing, but it’s not— you’re not the story, you’re helping tell it.
What advice would you give to someone starting out? (pt 2)
You got it right, Mr. Freeman.
If owning a gun and knowing how to use it worked, the military would be the safest place for a woman. It’s not.
If women covering up their bodies worked, Afghanistan would have a lower rate of sexual assault than Polynesia. It doesn’t.
If not drinking alcohol worked, children would not be raped. They are.
If your advice to a woman to avoid rape is to be the most modestly dressed, soberest and first to go home, you may as well add “so the rapist will choose someone else”.
If your response to hearing a woman has been raped is “she didn’t have to go to that bar/nightclub/party” you are saying that you want bars, nightclubs and parties to have no women in them. Unless you want the women to show up, but wear kaftans and drink orange juice. Good luck selling either of those options to your friends.
Or you could just be honest and say that you don’t want less rape, you want (even) less prosecution of rapists.
I suggest all females watch this.
*i suggest all humans watch this.
THIS SHOULD BE REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL HUMANS
I’m a 17 year old white guy living in middle class America. I’ve never exactly been a supporter of feminism because that kind of thing has never really affected me personally. I don’t notice it and I don’t care about it. But in nine minutes this video has made what is truly a serious problem extremely apparent. Those “why I need feminism” posts or those slut-shaming or rape culture campaigns never convince me of anything. But this video actually did I think.
tl;dr This video kicks ass, just watch it.
(Source: dave-bowman)
I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!
Reblog if you’re currently writing a novel, even if it’s only in your head or scribbled in the back of a notebook somewhere.
Think about how many books don’t exist yet.
Morning jet traffic over San Francisco.
Amsterdam is turning rainbow for a visit of the Russian president Putin. The council of the city of Amsterdam has decided to hang out the gay pride flag on all council owned buildings and offices, in protest to Russia’s new anti-gay law.
there’s several of these as well;
pretty sure Amsterdam is now the sass capital of the world
Excellent job guys you should also spray him with sparkles when he arrives
Some aloe vera for that burn. MEANWHILE, HIGH FIVE AMSTERDAM.
You never realize how rampant homophobia is until you see it laid out like this. I really have no words.
Holy shit.
Jesus
What
The
HellI thought this was a huge number and then I realized that JUST TODAY was what was being counted.
just watching all those tweets pass makes me want to blow my brains out.
oh my god.
theoncomingwolf:There is something called the Bechdel Test. It’s a scale you run movies through to basically see how conscious of female characters they are.
The test is as follows: 1. It must have at least two named female characters. 2. They must speak to each other. 3. They must converse about something other than a man. Anything with a score lower than 3 fails.
I’ve run all of the episodes of NewWho through this test and here are my results:
Percent of failed episodes written by RTD: 9.7%
By Moffat: 55.6%
Percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another by RTD: 9.7%
By Moffat: 16.7%
Percent of episodes without two named female characters by RTD: 0%
By Moffat: 5.6%
Percent of failed episodes with RTD as showrunner (including those written by other writers): 20%
With Moffat: 67.8%
Percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another with RTD as showrunner: 10%
With Moffat: 25%
Percent of episodes without two named female characters with RTD as showrunner: 0%
With Moffat: 25%
Total percent of failed episodes: 35.2%
Total percent of episodes in which there were two named female characters, but they didn’t speak to one another: 14.8%
Total percent of episodes without two named female characters: 8%RTD did a lot better than Moffat. This is not a go at him, just facts.
Over half of SM’s episodes failed. RTD neither wrote or was showrunner to an episode with less than two named female characters. Moffat wrote one episode with less than two named female characters, and a staggering 25% (1/4!) of episodes with him as showrunner did not include more than one named female character.
My data is here. You can check it if you like, and please tell me if you find any errors. Thanks!
Charts.
it reached the point where I just started to say how much I wish Moffat would leave Doctor Who and let someone else take over… preferably someone who would do better with minority characters and writing plots.
Because as much as I love the twists and turns of Moffat’s plots… they don’t carry substance. And that is a sad fact.
I love it when my gut reaction is supported by data. yuummmmmm, *data*.
Also: Moffat, you can go now.
So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.
The last sentence of Roger Ebert’s last blog post. (via nedhepburn)
R.I.P.
(via bbook)
(Source: digg)
I hope you don’t mind that I publish this, since it might be useful to others.
Here is where I put in the bg image:
And here is where I sort of hacked in a “fake” description and other blog links:
I hope those images are large enough. I might have done something wrong but it works so I don’t really worry about it lol
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For those who don’t know where Neil Gaiman got the name for the fine “Neverwhere” character being played by Benedict, may I present to you Angel, a lovely district you’ll find inside the London borough of Islington?
May I also present to you the wings and halo you’ll find inside that district?
