Elizabeth just has the best scarf. She made it.
We had four of us sitting together, each with a section of the scarf wrapped around our necks.
Ladies and gentlemen, my sister.
(Source: pleatedjeans, via frezned)
YESS!
Waaaaaant!
-bookmarks-
IS THAT ENTIRE ROOM A BED?!
PLATOON, BOUNCE FORMATION! PILLOWS AT THE READY! CHAAAAARRGE!
think of all the nothing you could do in that room
Ohhhh my……. I almost passed out looking at this slice of heaven on….. ohhhh myh gooooddd.d
So much room for activities!
imagine the forts!
IMAGINE THE FORTS
Dude. The whole thing basically is a fort.
(Source: autoentropy, via aussieirish)
“You will often find yourself being flogged for being you. That’s tough but take some solace in knowing that you’re on the right track. You’re hitting a nerve and that’s why people might bother to beat you up some.”
Ben Folds, https://www.facebook.com/BenFolds/posts/10150698599782231
“George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he’s done in years.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and has spent the past few years trying to transform the ranch on it into a massive, nearly 300,000 square foot, state-of-the-art movie studio complete with day care center, restaurant, gym and a 200-car garage. His neighbors, however, have rejected it every step of the way. Despite the promise of bringing $300 million worth of economic activity to the area, the already-well off neighbors are worried about years’ worth of construction activity and the additional foot traffic it will bring into their neighborhood once completed.
[…]
So what is George Lucas going to do with his property now that he’s tired of his rich neighbors putting up a not-in-my-backyard stink? He wants to transform the property into low-income housing, naturally, ending their official statement with this zinger, “If everyone feels that housing is less impactful on the land, then we are hoping that people who need it the most will benefit.”He’s working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes. In order to smooth along the development, he’s already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting. And we think that’s just great. Because if there’s one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it’s poor people moving in.
”
George Lucas Does Something Likeable For a Change (via melon-lord)
(Source: liquidiousfleshbag, via frezned)
“A writer gets to explode on the page. Critics and readers are the ones get to to gather up the shrapnel and examine the damage and figure out who got hurt.”
Neil Gaiman, http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/
My favourite Buffy character.
(via frezned)
“They pay me absurd amounts of money, for something that I would do for free.”
Steven King, on writing. (from an interview with Neil Gaiman)
what if there was a popular tv show that had a gay character whose entire personality and plot wasn’t based on the fact that they’re gay
Max from Happy Endings
Is Happy Endings popular?
Anyway also Omar from The Wire, Oscar from the Office, Mr Garrison from South Park - who does have a lot of plots based on his queer-ness but also has a lot of plots based on his general insanity - and Willow from BTVS.
Also any number of gay characters whose sexuality just isn’t mentioned in the show. Dumbledore’s the go-to guy for this, although I’ll pay that he’s not in a TV show.
I can imagine people arguing that Willow doesn’t fit the criteria because a lot of her plot centers around a gay relationship, but her plot centers around a gay RELATIONSHIP, not a GAY relationship. (ie the fact that Tara is a girl is incidental to the majority of Willow’s arc there).
I can also imagine people arguing that Dumbledore doesn’t count as a gay character because he’s not gay in the books, he’s just revealed to be gay by Word of God after the fact. To THOSE people I have to say, you can’t have it both ways; if you want a gay character whose sexuality doesn’t come up in the story, don’t say they’re not really gay if their sexuality doesn’t come up in the story.
Also, disclaimer, I’m not saying that non-supergay gays aren’t underrepresented in TV.
My point is not THIS POST IS RETARDED my point is “hey, if you wanna see gay characters whose sexuality doesn’t define all of their story arcs, go check out The Wire, The Office, BTVS and… maybe not South Park.”
I’ve always been incredibly annoyed by JK’s “Dumbledore is gay I just never mentioned it in any of the books” move. It’s like she gets all the props for having a gay character while having 1% of the controversy.
Can you imagine if Dumbledore had been gay in the actual books? Shit would have gone down.
His homosexuality not being mentioned until all the books are done contributes to gay people being invisible in popular culture, IMO. She had the chance to do something extremely pro-gay but controversial, and instead she chose to do something less pro-gay without any risk. I also think it weakens his character, but that’s another tale.
I’m a big fan of death of the author - if something is part of the story, put it in the story. What if she came forward tomorrow and said that the whole last book was a fever-dream, and Voldemort actually won? Would that make it true?
(Source: happydoge)
