Stuff and Things

portaltwo:

shaun: the institute is not the enemy, no matter what you have heard about us above ground

sole survivor: what about university point, the settlement that was slaughtered because they simply had technology the institute wanted? what about warwick homestead, which you plan on razing to the ground and killing the people who live there when the experiment is over, including the children? what about the cpg massacre? what about the broken mask? what about when you let everyone in vault 111 apart from me suffocate for no reason? what about when kellogg kidnapped you and killed my defenseless spouse instead of taking all of us with to the institute? what about the FEV experiments and unleashing super mutants on the commonwealth? what about the kidnapping, torture and murdering? what about replacing people with synths? 

shaun:

shaun: anyway

guljerry:

I miss feeling creative and inspired, I miss being thinner, I miss not being tired all the time, I miss feeling like I had a chance at having a decent future, I miss the feeling of working towards something instead of just working to survive, I miss having conversations with people irl, I miss enjoying things instead of feeling like even the things I enjoy are a chore, I miss getting dates, I miss enjoying holidays, I miss the days when Trump was just some stupid joke on reality t.v. and not an actual threat to life.

hottiemcthotty:

theconcealedweapon:

Conservatives: I hate Muslim people. Look at what that Muslim person did at that Orlando LGBT bar.

LGBT people: So, does that mean you care about LGBT people?

Conservatives: No! Gay people are pedophiles, and transgender women are just men who want to invade women’s restrooms and harass women! WE NEED TO PROTECT WOMEN!

Women: So, does that mean you care about women?

Conservatives: Shut up, feminazi! Women in the United States are not oppressed! If you want to talk about women’s oppression, you should be focusing on how women in other countries are treated!

Refugees: So, does that mean you care about people from other countries?

Conservatives: Stay out of our country! Why should we care about refugees when we have people here who need help?

Homeless People: So, does that mean you care about people who need help?

Conservatives: No! Get a job, freeloader!

this is accurate

loveandlucky:

the benefits of never hearing the soundtrack or watching a preview for the greatest showman before seeing it:

-in the beginning you hear that first “woah” and you fucking freeze like “oh fuck am I about to find a new obsession”

-and then Hugh Jackman says “it’s fire it’s freedom” and you feel yourself get so excited, like you’re literally AT THE SHOW ITSELF AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S COMING NEXT

-and you’re dumbfounded and leaning forward in your seat, you haven’t blinked

-then you hear “it’s everything you ever want, it’s everything you ever need, and it’s here right in front of you, this is where you wanna be” and you feel this ACTUAL WILL TO LIVE ARISE IN YOUR SOUL

-and then the rest of the movie continues to blow you away and you cry at the end

musicalhell:

valeria2067:

marvel-lucy:

cassiopeiassky:

angryschnauzer:

mistytang:

ivegotthetriforce:

deliciouspineapple:

annerocious:

Lesser known facts when writing women:

• High heeled shoes don’t become flats if you break the heels off.
  
• The posts of earrings aren’t sharp.
• Nail polish takes a long time to dry and smudges when wet.
• You can’t hold in a period like pee.
• Inserting a tampon is not arousing or sexual in any way, ever.

Feel free to add your own.

- Bras leave red marks on the skin under and around boobs and it is a magical experience when taken off.

- Make up can take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on how skilled you are.

- Taking hair out of a ponytail after wearing it for hours does not make it perfectly straight when it comes down.

- Hair when wet sticks to the skin it no longer flows, idiot.

-When women with long hair kiss, turn around, do anything, their hair falls in the way.

- Stockings are itchy and tear like wet paper bags.

- Pantyhose, tights, leggings, and stockings are each different.

- Waxing hurts and leaves red skin for a while afterwards while shaving leaves stubble

- Most can’t run in heels unless they have been VERY worn

- Insecurity in appearance doesn’t mean “buy me a drink”

- EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT TASTES IN EVERYTHING

-Having large breasts sucks. It sucks beyond belief.  If a garment happens to fit your large chest, odds are it won’t fit the rest of you. Underboob sweat is real and terrible. Bending over for extended periods of time will tweak your back out. Running can be painful due to boob turbulence. Bras are hella expensive. Big breasts are not fun.

Putting a tampon in isnt a quick bend-poke-done kinda deal. It involves cubicle yoga, messy hands, numerous curse words as you realise it isnt in correctly and have to take it out and start again with a new one.

Yes to all of this.  But also:

If her hair is in an updo, one does not simply remove a hairpin to send her hair cascading down her back.  No.  If her hair is an updo, it will take at least an hour and an extra set of hands to remove the 137 bobby pins that are holding her hair in place.  Furthermore, there’s probably a can’s worth of hairspray in there, intended to withstand category 2 hurricane winds.  There’s no cascading happening here - the best you can hope for is a misshapen nest of hair to clump and poof unattractively in the back while it still remains flat against her scalp.

This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while (especially if you read all the comments), but also really depressing because at 42 I still judge myself as having failed for not matching up to all these mythical stereotypes despite knowing they’re impossible

^^^This though

The odds of a woman having smoothly shaved legs and armpits are directly proportional to the amount of skin her clothing bares and/or the amount of fucks she gives at that particular moment.

GLASSES ARE NOT COSMETIC.  If we whip them off, we do not become gorgeous fashion models.  We become squinty.

thewinterotter:

idrils:

dear clothing manufacturers:

• make sleeves go all the way to the wrist
  
• stop putting shelf bras in everything
  
• make jeans for short people with big butts
• make shirts out of anything more substantial than gossamer
• stop putting hanger straps on everything, they’re fn annoying and we’re disasters who don’t use them anyway
• fake pockets???!!? FAKE POCKETS??!!?
• put pockets on everything i am serious
• charge less than half what you’re currently charging for shorts
• end ‘one size fits all’ forever
• size women’s clothing the way you size men’s clothing: with MEASUREMENTS
• basically stop everything you’re doing and start over completely and don’t be rude dusty dongs this time

dear shoe manufacturers also:

• sometimes women also have feet larger than size 9?
  
• speaking of which why not just use sizing based on measurement there too it works out I swear to you like why would I need to wear a different size of shoes depending on which gender the shoes are supposedly made to fit on that makes the least sense
  
• feet are not naturally pointy I mean power to the people who can rock a pointy shoe, I hope they’re using them to kick you right in the balls, but maybe sometimes make shoes that are foot-shaped
  
• athletic shoes don’t all need to be hot pink because they’re intended for women, really, we don’t actually have to advertise our gender by completely cloaking ourselves in pink 24/7
  
• also why don’t you produce some fashionable boots without a skyscraper fucking heel on them, I think you should put some of those heels on men’s shoes instead like it is well past time that “a well-turned calf” makes a come-back as the most-desired sexy feature on men what do you say?
  

petimetrek:

obstinatecondolement:

Alexander on DS9 Missed Opportunities™

• Him running headlong into Chief O’Brien and apologising to him by name and Miles is astonished that this is the same little Klingon boy who used to come up to his knee
  
• Captain Sisko taking him and Worf and Jake out to play catch
• Tiny Molly O’Brien falling desperately in love with him and telling everyone that they’re nearly the same age,  so obviously they can get married
  
• Jadzia taking him to the holosuites to play his Deadwood program
  
• Quark trying to figure out exactly what the Klingon legal drinking age is, because three months ago this kid looked like a lobeling and now he’s ordering bloodwine and??? Have a root beer, kid, I’m not going to get on the wrong side of your father until I’ve spoken to him about it and sure okay, ‘He said it was fine’ well I’ll just get it from the horse’s mouth, shall I?
  
• Him getting a trumpet from Commander Riker for his birthday and then tormenting the entire habitat ring with it when he practices. Worf is annoyed as anyone, but gets indignant when people ask him to get Alexander to stop because His Son Has Every Right To Play That Instrument
  

• More episodes with him and Lwaxana Troi
  

theblueboxonbakerstreet:

what they did with the ages in the harry potter movies really weirds me out 

• lily and james died when they were twenty-one. let me say that again. lily and james died when they were twenty-one. the movies made them look like they were in their forties which took away from the tragedy of their really young deaths (I’ve outlived them by five years whaaaaaat)
• I love alan rickman, but let’s break this down. snape is the same age as lily and james and they died at twenty-one and ten years later harry comes to hogwarts. that makes snape thirty-one at the start of the first book. I love alan rickman, but he was in his late fifties when he did the movies
• same with lupin and sirius: david thewlis and gary oldman were in their late forties and it showed
• if sirius went to azkaban when he was twenty-one and got out when he was thirty-four, then he spent more than a third of his life in there
• I think showing them in their thirties makes what they’ve gone through so much more poignant. it really gives the full picture of how young they were to be fighting voldemort and taking on that amount of responsibility
• this is making me want the bbc or hbo to make a tv series and get everything right that the movies got wrong

cemetery-prince:

So I just bought A Stitch in Time by Andrew Robinson, the actor who played Garak, and I knew it was about Garak’s background and about him returning to Cardassia and everything, but oh my god; this is all addressed to Dr. Bashir. This is Elim Garak’s private, personal logs, chronicling his life, and he’s giving it all to Julian.

If I wasn’t already sitting down I would have to sit the fuck down. I’m emotionally lying flat on the floor, this is outrageous, I’m so upset.

adulting:

If you have ever worked with the public, you know that people can be … what’s the word? … Ah, yes, fucking terrible. 

If you have ever worked a seasonal job, in retail, where you already have no idea what’s going on and there is no one to help you because everything is a crazed holiday terrorscape, then you have truly gazed into the abyss of humanity. It has gazed into you.

It is not hard to inject kindness into this situation. Acknowledge that this person is a human — ask how their day is going, and mean it. Be patient and courteous, because you are not the only one who wants their help or attention; the store is, in fact, full of people with the same aims and goals as you: get in, find gift, leave. 

Let it be known that you recognize that their job is not easy or fun. Know that they are probably not making more than minimum wage. They are working long, hard hours for a job they need. You can be a very small bright spot, that person who reminds them that not all — heck, not even most! — humans are bad eggs.

If other shoppers are being awful, let it go. You don’t know what’s up with them that would cause them to act like this. As my friend Virginia would say, you don’t know where they’re coming from — in the last 20 minutes or the last 20 years.

dictionarywrites:

impossiblejellyfishfart:

indigobluerose:

What if, instead of a forced and inappropriate romantic plot, Garak had actually become Ziyal’s mentor, and not only encouraged her creative side, but also taught her thirty-seven ways to kill a man with a crochet hook?

this is INFINITELY better

“Now now, my dear,” Garak murmurs, his hand sliding over hers to adjust its position, affecting her to move the placement of her fingers. “One’s grip must be quite perfect.”

“Yes, Garak,” Ziyal says: he hears the smile instead of seeing it. Her wrist twists suddenly, and the Vulcan gurgles breathlessly as he drops to the floor. She holds tight to her needle as he falls to the ground, and they both peer down as he goes through some deathly throe for a moment, and then goes still. A pause, and then she says, “I preferred the crochet hook.”

He takes the knitting needle from her, wiping it with a handkerchief, and he nods his head. “There is a certain indelicacy to it, but one must always work with the tools one has to hand.”

She smiles at him, and he smiles right back. It is quite lovely to have a young person so ready to be suitably educated, and he is glad Quark is so scared of him as to readily supply an appropriate holosuite program for practice.