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theslyestfox: velvetlovepocket: “If You Know Someone Who...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:04:19 -0700

velvetlovepocket:

“If You Know Someone Who Doesn’t Believe Sexism Exists, Show Them This”
Link here: [x]

This is important and it should have millions of more reblogs.

Tumblr, I give unto you this offering of goats, chillin’...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:51:30 -0700

Tumblr, I give unto you this offering of goats, chillin’ under the overpass after busy hard goat work of nomming all the plants!

argyle4eva: The original Captain Tightpants. Reblogging for...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:21:51 -0700

argyle4eva:

The original Captain Tightpants.

Reblogging for truth. Also, for ain’t no pants like CORELLIAN PANTS.

lumos5000: Little girls & aliens OH GOD I’M HAVING...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:15:50 -0700

lumos5000:

Little girls & aliens

OH GOD I’M HAVING FEELS

HA! These stories would have wound up a LOT differently if the aliens in question had been switched around. :D

"Once upon a time a woman never got married, but had many fulfilling relationships, a job that kept..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:47:20 -0700

“

Once upon a time a woman never got married, but had many fulfilling relationships, a job that kept her comfortable, an apartment that she got to decorate just for her, and hobbies that stimulated her mind.

The End.

”

- Six fairy tales for the modern woman. (via millionsmillions)

Reblogging for yeah, I like the one about traveling the world!

themarysue: marchingjaybird: mary-stormborn: lamentforboromir:...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:20:35 -0700

themarysue:

marchingjaybird:

mary-stormborn:

lamentforboromir:

greenstarz:

A cute Fem!Bilbo cosplayer from Heroes Con 2013.

This is me!

Brittany you are the best Bilbo, all other Bilbos go hone.

My daughter is an actual hobbit you guys. Look how precious she is!!

:D

Reblogging for OMG, this girl did an awesome femme!Bilbo costume! Way to rock the waistcoast! <3

themarysue: Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel in “The Desolation of...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:22:57 -0700

themarysue:

Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel in “The Desolation of Smaug”

Well, we’re sold.

I say again to Mr. Jackson: HEADCANON ACCEPTED! <3

topherchris: jurassiraptor: Raptor Pants John Rosengrant wears...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:25:16 -0700

topherchris:

jurassiraptor:

Raptor Pants

John Rosengrant wears a raptor half-suit for Jurassic Park III. Rosengrant was a major effects artist and puppeteer for Stan Winston Studio, and is a co-founder of Legacy Effects, which continues the late Stan Winston’s legacy of visual effects today.

Click here to learn about John Rosengrant, Legacy Effects, and the cool work they do.

Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants. Raptor Pants.

RAPTOR PANTS! I think we just found something that tops Hammer Pants!

HULK HAVE TROUBLE TYPING WITH BIG HULK FINGERS ON TINY IMAGINARY...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:19:04 -0700

HULK HAVE TROUBLE TYPING WITH BIG HULK FINGERS ON TINY IMAGINARY KEYBOARD. IS ALMOST LIKE SMASH!

solarbird: The YouTube version of Geekmusic Podcast Episode 3:...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:16:20 -0700

solarbird:

The YouTube version of Geekmusic Podcast Episode 3: June 2013 is up now, if you like your podcasts captioned. In this episode, we play a track from Boston band Local Midnight’s first live album and talk with songwriter Vicka Corey about the band; we chat with Death*Star and Klopfenpop about music and culture and art and generally cut up in the studio; there’s geekmusic news, including a surprising project from The Heather Dale Band, and more. Enjoy!

Dara made a podcast episode! Go clickie, won’t you? :)

ifyoulikemovies: Elves watching fans watching the teaser...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:14:27 -0700

ifyoulikemovies:

Elves watching fans watching the teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I daresay this is the jolliest-looking we’ll EVER see Legolas, Tauriel, and ESPECIALLY Thranduil. ;D

persian-slipper: anathemarmotqueen: Hello tumblr allow me to...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:31:33 -0700

persian-slipper:

anathemarmotqueen:

Hello tumblr allow me to present you the swedish vallhund

i´m VERY confused as you guys are not freaking out about these little guys yet since they´re basically WOLF CORGIS.

I swear to god, I thought it was a photoshop at first.

Cow and spazzkat, I believe this is relevant to your doggy interests. :D

vixyish: whybananaswhy: Eddie Izzard - “Pavlov’s Cats”, from...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:59:11 -0700

vixyish:

whybananaswhy:

Eddie Izzard - “Pavlov’s Cats”, from Definite Article

One of my favorite Eddie Izzard bits EVER.

NEVER not reblog Eddie Izzard. <3

OMG OMG OMG Desolation of Smaug Trailer!

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:15 -0700

OMG OMG OMG Desolation of Smaug Trailer!:

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG the second of three films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The first Desolation of Smaug trailer is UP! And after getting a load of Legolas and Tauriel in this lovely shiny thing, I have just two words for Mr. Jackson:

HEADCANON ACCEPTED.

solarbird: Before I became a musician, I was a glass sculptor....

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:30:47 -0700

solarbird:

Before I became a musician, I was a glass sculptor. I didn’t melt glass and form it that way; I broke, cut, assembled, built. I’d use metal and plastics and silicon with the glass. I rose through the local neighbourhood show circuit and won some judge’s awards and got into galleries and then into a srs bsns downtown gallery, and sold a bunch of pieces. You can see photographs of many here; the one pictured above sold at that downtown show, and is called Gods at War.

It was shortly after that – reasonably successful – downtown gallery show that when I realised… this just isn’t my art. Not in the sense of evoking passion, anyway. And the ideas just stopped.

Despite that, I kept the studio wondering if that art would turn itself back on. It didn’t. So, I’ve decided enough is enough: I’m not going back to this. I’ve found another glass artist who wants my raw materials; I’m turning the space into a rehearsal studio! This is awesome and exciting.

But there’s a lot of sculpture still sitting out there. Most are pictured here. If you’re interested in any of the pieces, make an offer. If you’re local or can get to Seattle, that offer can be a willingness to pick it up – tho’ I’d at least like to get materials cost back. I’d so much rather have them in someone else’s houses than gathering dust in an attic, there just aren’t words.

A couple more are finished but not photographed; Water Dragon is the better example. Depending on how this goes, I’ll get around to that.

Many are too big to ship without hiring someone. Some smaller pieces (such as Breech and Remembering Someone Else’s Grandmother) should be fairly simple.

And then, there’s the unfinished All the Moons of Mongo:

A huge piece, originally envisioned as a wall hanging; kind of a frieze. That was not a good idea. So in the end, it became a mobile assemblage – each moon (Frigia, Land of the Lion Men, Arboria, City of the Hawkmen, Mingo City/Ming’s Palace) is separate, with a metal grid base of aluminium. Each one is intended to be displayed individually around a large room, and they can be stacked as seen here – tho’ the wood blocks visible here would be replaced by glass brick I never bought.

It’s about 90% complete. I will finish this if someone wants it.

Otherwise, it’ll be disassembled.

This isn’t to say I dislike like the piece – or any of the work. I’m entirely fond of it. Of the ones that didn’t sell back when I was doing this for galleries, there several I’m just going to keep – they’re marked on their individual pages as collection-of-the-artist.

But of all this – there are just far too many, and they’ve been sitting far too long. It needs to get out and into the world. So if any of it strikes your fancy, make an offer. Even if that offer is just a willingness to pick it up – particularly in the case of All the Moons of Mongo. Yes, you, too, could have a kingdom of Mongo, to rule as your own. I’d much rather you had it in your house, than it be scattered…

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil. Come listen to our music!

Reblogging because Dara has some shiny, pointy ART! And she’d like to get these pieces as well as her leftover raw material to good homes!

"Anything that makes for a safer, more accepting society inevitably makes for a better place to raise..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:28:50 -0700

“Anything that makes for a safer, more accepting society inevitably makes for a better place to raise a family and build a marriage, create a strong community and create a healthier society. We took decades to accord the vote to women and Aboriginal peoples, to get to gay marriage and so many other steps we have taken along, confronting the frontiers of the equality of rights issues, but we always, in the end, get to the right thing. Why do we not just fast-forward past the arguments now, past the barriers, past the obstacles, avoid at least some of the pain and anguish otherwise to be suffered by trans people in the future if this is not passed and give this recognition and protection to these Canadians who are asking us for our help?”

- The Honourable Senator Grant Mitchell, sponsor in the Senate of C-279, speaking at the Second Reading debate on 16 April 2013. It’s worth reading the whole thing. (via criacow)

Reblogging because this is a quote of Beauty.

mikemaihack: So happy someone commissioned Toph. Lots of fun...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:27:57 -0700

mikemaihack:

So happy someone commissioned Toph. Lots of fun drawing this. :)

Reblogging some delightful fanart of Toph. Because Toph is BADASS.

gingerhaze: feminspire: alyssakorea: Tumbling over the past...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:05:00 -0700

gingerhaze:

feminspire:

alyssakorea:

Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.

I’ve thought about this a lot and I think the answer is MORE, and MORE DIVERSE female characters.

We’re used to having one or two female characters in a cast of mostly men, and hold them to a higher standard because of that. So all of feminism is resting on the shoulders of one female character - and that DOESN’T WORK. Because there isn’t one right way to be a woman.

If casts had more diversity of gender, we could have warrior women and non-warrior women, sexual women and non-sexual women, feminine and non-feminine, and mixtures of all of the above…all are completely legitimate ways to be a woman.

We’re used to seeing a lot of hypersexualized, scantily clad, one-dimensional stereotypes of women without stories or motives of their own. We respond by asking for characters that AREN’T THAT, but we may end up pushing too far in the opposite direction, and demonize traits like sexuality, conventional attractiveness, and traditional femininity as “sexist.” That’s why the most popular female characters are the ones that are most similar to male heroes - the Arya Starks - emotionally distant, unattached, solve their problems with violence, not remotely sexual. That’s fine too of course. I love Arya. It’s just not…the only way to be.

Reblogging for truth. There are as many ways to be female as they are to be _human_.

whatisleon: What time is it? It’s vintage-Firefly-movie-poster...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:32:06 -0700

whatisleon:

What time is it? It’s vintage-Firefly-movie-poster drawing time!

So I finished it!! Just in time for Calgary expo. Oh man, I don’t think I’ve spent a longer amount of time on a single drawing/painting EVER. I’m pretty well satisfied with how it turned out though! So many bitty details, you have to see it printed. It’s pretty great.

Anyway, if you want to see a couple progress pics of this drawing, you can check it out here, or on my twitter (starting about here and going backwards). I didn’t document the progress as well this time, probably because it took me like 3 weeks to finish it? I’ll try better next time!

xoxo

OH WOW. Reblogging for shiny, shiny goodness. :D

sigridellis: The Big Four as The Avengers (Kind Of) Let’s...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:30:04 -0700

sigridellis:

The Big Four as The Avengers (Kind Of)

~~Let’s just pretend they’re speaking through earpieces that you can’t see like how they did in the final battle sequence of The Avengers. Srsly, Marvel?~~

Best AU is best.

I’d watch this! :D