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pizzaforpresident: The Last of Us creative director Neil...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:42:00 -0400

pizzaforpresident:

The Last of Us creative director Neil Druckmann calls out Swedish game journal for removing Ellie from their cover.

iraffiruse: Frozach Submitted

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:36:25 -0400

iraffiruse:

Frozach Submitted

lulupaca: elektraeriseros: alecmadeablog: aicosu: saidthecat:...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:24:26 -0400

lulupaca:

elektraeriseros:

alecmadeablog:

aicosu:

saidthecat:

THORA THE EXPLORER

REBLOGGING BECAUSE I CRIED LAUGHING FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES.

I ASK YOU YOUNG ONES, WHERE IS THIS FORREST? WHERE? OVER WHERE? OH, FOR ODIN’S SAKE WHERE IS IT?

LET’S REQUEST FOR THE MAP! GRANT IT BY HELPING ME CHANT “MAP”! MAP!!! MAP!!!! LOUDER CHILDREN, MAAAAAAP!!!

IN THE NAME OF ASGARD, I DEMAND YOU HELP PREVENT THE SWIPING OF THIS OBJECT BY MY BROTHER, LOKI. ASSIST ME BY EXCLAIMING “SWING” AS I PROPEL MY HAMMER TOWARDS THIS EVIL CREATURE’S GUT!

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE PART? I MAY LIKE IT TOO, PERHAPS ODIN MIGHT CONSIDER.

857% done.

LOKI, NO SWIPING!

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:12:30 -0400

So for the past couple weeks, I’ve been feeling really stable despite some really chaotic...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:29:46 -0400

So for the past couple weeks, I’ve been feeling really stable despite some really chaotic things going on in my life (and emotions.) But now I don’t feel anything? And it’s freaking me out??

Nothing feels real or, at least, I don’t feel connected to anything or anybody.

I don’t feel worried or anxious, or affectionate, or excited, or sad, or scared, which is a huge change for me, considering I’m ALWAYS worrying. I don’t care about any fictional things at all, even my own projects, and I’m having a difficult time feeling affection for the real people in my life too. I usually only disassociate for a couple hours after being triggered, but this has lasted for at least half a week now.

It’s not comfortable. I feel adrift.

~~but at the same time it’s so nice not to be worrying or feeling guilty or talking down to myself so I don’t know if I want it to stop if it means I’m going right back to those things.~~

yeahwriters: writersdoitbetter: [all content taken from The...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:48:19 -0400

yeahwriters:

writersdoitbetter:

[all content taken from The Oatmeal]

theoatmeal.com

EVERYONE PLEEEEEEAAAASSSSSEE LEARN THISSSSS PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE

liddo-cait: i reblogged this before but we actually started...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:36:32 -0400

liddo-cait:

i reblogged this before but we actually started playing this game and it has resulted in spilled drinks, flying cigarettes, and friends getting hit in the gut with 5lb crystal balls

it is fantastic

pikachuears: “The story about where volcanoes come from”...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:24:33 -0400

pikachuears:

“The story about where volcanoes come from” from Adventure Time with Fiona & Cake #1

"Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:12:27 -0400

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.

Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.

In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows:

The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.

In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.”

- [x] (via neighborly)

As a teacher, I give girls what I hope is a lot of attention. I don’t know if I give girls their fair share, but I aspire to, especially after noticing that boys are willing to use their greater share of teachers’ attention to get girls who they feel aren’t being quiet and docile enough punished. I have therefore acquired a reputation for “caring more about the girls.” This has had two marked results: Some straight boys have gotten more hostile toward me, and most girls have gotten more confident around me. This makes me think I’m doing something right.

Longer thoughts on how this phenomenon relates to sexual harassment in classrooms, if you’re interested: The girls figured out I won’t report them if they hit boys who are sexually harassing them, I’ll only report the boys. This led to an increase in how often girls got the last word and boys got smacked in my classes, and, also, to a DECREASE IN HOW OFTEN GIRLS GOT SEXUALLY HARASSED. The sexual harassers seem to have been depending on the sort of “equal blame” and “retaliation is never warranted” and “don’t hurt others’ feelings” perspectives so many schools try to instill in kids; the sexual harassers were usually the ones bringing me into the situation by saying, “Miss, she hit me! You should write her up!” Once they figured out I was only ever going to respond, “If you don’t treat girls like that, they won’t hit you,” the girls got more confident and the sexual harassers largely shut the fuck up.

In schools, fighting against sexual harassment is often punished exactly the same as, or more severely than, sexual harassment — a lot of discipline codes make no distinction between violence and violence in self-defence, and violence is ALWAYS the highest level of disciplinary infraction, whereas verbal sexual harassment rarely is. Sexual harassers, at least in the schools I’ve been in, rely heavily on GETTING GIRLS IN TROUBLE WITH HIGHER AUTHORITIES as a strategy of harassment — creating an external punishment that penalises girls for and therefore discourages girls from fighting back. Sexual harassers are willing to use their greater share of floorspace to ask to get girls who won’t date them punished. By and large, teachers do punish those girls when they swear or hit. Schools condition girls to ignore sexual harassment by punishing them when they speak up or fight back instead.

Once the sexual harassers in my classes understood that girls wouldn’t be punished for rejecting them, they backed off around me. And there started to be a flip in what conversations I get called into — girls are telling me when boys are being nasty (too loud and dominant), instead of boys telling me when girls are being uncooperative (louder and more dominant than boys think they should be).

(via torrentofbabies)

reblogging again for the wonderful commentary.

(via partysoft)

Holy crud, so glad I read this. Reblogging for other educators.

(via eupheme-butterfly)

As a girl who would not be shut up and would not tolerate teasing or abuse from boys in my class and was several times sent to such higher authorities for it, reading this is extremely, extremely vindicating. I was lucky, though, because being a particularly bright, advanced student for those grades, they generally took my side and I never got into any severe or lasting trouble. Again ,this was luck, and shouldn’t be the rule.

(via eruditechick)

I was going to write that exact last paragraph; WOW.

(via supersandys-space)

moniquill: This is Mary Poppins’ creation story, isn’t it.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:48:34 -0400

moniquill:

This is Mary Poppins’ creation story, isn’t it.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:36:30 -0400

sweetyhigh: This is what happens when you fill a tub with...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:24:27 -0400

sweetyhigh:

This is what happens when you fill a tub with packing peanuts… and ferrets.

Jessica Trinh Captures Beautiful Portraits Of Her Pet Dogs.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:12:26 -0400

Jessica Trinh Captures Beautiful Portraits Of Her Pet Dogs.

ev0lutionary: DSC_5097-1 (by Nose Horned Viper)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:48:18 -0400

ev0lutionary:

DSC_5097-1 (by Nose Horned Viper)

imsarahcate: fattyforever: mittenburger: cumaeansibyl: kasmir...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:36:54 -0400

imsarahcate:

fattyforever:

mittenburger:

cumaeansibyl:

kasmir-the-soulless-ginger:

This

“are you being the person Mr. Rogers knew you could be?” is probably the best motivational technique ever invented

I didn’t even care that much about Mr. Rogers as a kid, but being told that would fucking make me reevaluate my entire goddamn life.

I will always reblog Mr. Rogers life philosophies. Always.

WWMRT (What Would Mr. Rogers Think)… good way to live your life I think.

Fact.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:24:25 -0400

john-egbert-watson:

factssphere:

Fact: Canadians do not have any internal organs. They actually have very soft stuffing. This is because it makes them nicer to cuddle and also if someone wishes to punch them, their soft stuffing won’t hurt their attackers hands.

yes this is true i am canadian 100% fact

doctorandhisrose: gayerthanthefourthofjuly: speculationspectrum...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:12:23 -0400

doctorandhisrose:

gayerthanthefourthofjuly:

speculationspectrum:

The TARDIS interior map.

Holy fuck, this is either so cool or so geeky.

It’s both

brashblacknonbeliever: With Father’s day fast approaching, I would like to send a shout out to the...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:44:27 -0400

brashblacknonbeliever:

With Father’s day fast approaching, I would like to send a shout out to the people typically ignored on days like this:

To the people with abusive fathers

To the people absentee fathers

To the people who don’t know their fathers

To the people who cut their fathers out of their lives

To the people with conflicting feelings about father’s day because their own father was a piece of shit but other men they know and love are awesome dads

To the people who learned how not to be a shitty dad by not doing what their father did

You are not alone. If you don’t want to celebrate father’s day or you don’t want to talk to your father, that’s perfectly fine. Do whatever it takes to make sure you are healthy and happy.

rrevolutionaries: xxii

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:26:22 -0400

rrevolutionaries:

xxii

kevin-ryan: Kuroshio Sea - Second Largest Aquarium Tank in the...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:48:28 -0400

kevin-ryan:

Kuroshio Sea - Second Largest Aquarium Tank in the World (x)