The Fan of Fans

pluckypalaeontologist:

pinecounty:

necroluste:

J.R.R Tolkien, looking at flowers.

Apparently people hated to go for walks with him because he would stop and look at every tree for like 20 minutes.

EXPLAINS THE BOOKS

^^^^ This

areyoutryingtodeduceme: mrbluechalk: radioactivepapertowns: wi...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:58:16 +0200

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

mrbluechalk:

radioactivepapertowns:

wizard-me-timbers:

I totally remember watching this as a kid and thinking that looked like the most delicious biscuit/cookie in the world

me too!

when in reality was’t it a ritz cracker dipped in water?

THAT’S CREME A LA CREME A LA EDGAR YOU IGNORANT SLUT

every so often I sometimes get a mug of milk, add a splash of vanilla extract, a spoonful of sugar, and a sprinkle of cinnamon and heat it in the microwave and have it with Ritz Crackers and pretend it’s Creme A La Creme A La Edgar and it’s seriously just the best.

darkamychan: SasuHina Ying/Yang!!

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:56:42 +0200

darkamychan:

SasuHina Ying/Yang!!

“One look and I knew we had the same crazy idea.”

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:56:42 +0200

“One look and I knew we had the same crazy idea.”

iwilleatyourenglish: iwilleatyourenglish: once my baby was being really annoying so i put it in...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:55:59 +0200

iwilleatyourenglish:

iwilleatyourenglish:

once my baby was being really annoying so i put it in the basement but then i forgot and decided i didn’t want my basement anymore so i got rid of the door and then decided to do the rest later and when child protective services came they couldn’t get to my kid so they just wandered around my house

i’m talking about the sims please don’t call the police

shiphassailed: fluentinkeysmashing: rose-and-valerie: rose-and...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:53:30 +0200

shiphassailed:

fluentinkeysmashing:

rose-and-valerie:

rose-and-valerie:

E N J O L R A S

he was angelically handsome

he was endowed with excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to hours of pallor. already a man, he still seemed a child. his two and twenty years appeared to be but seventeen

that face of a youth escaped from college, that page’s mien, those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the wind, those rosy cheeks, those fresh lips

the frail young man … with bare neck and disheveled hair, and his woman’s face

his blond locks fell back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo

“it seems to me that i am about to shoot a flower”

#I just #I get the angelically handsome but #okay…?

?? Those are all quotes from the book about Enjolras. This is just my fancast, since Enjolras never has been and probably never will be cast as he was described (“woman’s face”, etc.)

No I get that you’re using quotes, I’ve read the book. I’ve just never pictured Enjolras as feminine because men like Bahorel and Feuilly wouldn’t have taken him seriously. At least, that’s how I feel. I get that he had pink cheeks which was considered feminine, but idk how feminine he’s supposed to be seen. I usually fancast guys like William Moseley and Xavier Samuel because young and pretty but capable of putting the fear of god in other people.

I reblogged your fancast because I thought the interpretation was interesting. You’re right that most people don’t cast him like this and it was neat to see someone use a different pov on him :)

you know it’s really amazing, somehow i manage to get men to take me seriously and put the fear of god in people virtually every day even with the horrible handicap of a woman’s face

chaseyourcopaface: lets-defuse-it: thedoctor8547: dear-melina-...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:48:19 +0200

chaseyourcopaface:

lets-defuse-it:

thedoctor8547:

dear-melina-count-me-in:

luminousbehavior:

zombies-of-death-from-space:

Parkway Drive

Did they just wall of death on the equator?

omfg

I tried so hard not to reblog this. But it was just so amazing I had to.

someone wall of death with me at the equator

^I will

futurefutures: Appropriate response to cat calls.

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:47:47 +0200

futurefutures:

Appropriate response to cat calls.

milesjai: Saw that tumblr post of cute girls making ugly faces...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:45:34 +0200

milesjai:

Saw that tumblr post of cute girls making ugly faces and decided to give it a try.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 12:45:05 +0200

fat-birds: mumblingsage: snarkeet: billiondollarbooty: jeffre...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:43:39 +0200

fat-birds:

mumblingsage:

snarkeet:

billiondollarbooty:

jeffreymann:

White Blue Peacock

This bird is a crossbreed between blue and white peacocks. The result is one spectacular creature.

wow, I haven’t seen such a dramatic display of genetic mosaicism before.

It’s a Shiny Pokemon.

There are two kinds of people.

this needed to be on this blog because of reasons

scienceing: mybluedecember: princess-munchkin: How the fuck...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:36:01 +0200

scienceing:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here.

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields.

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit.

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now.

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966.

Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.

Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970.

Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952.

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit.

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter.

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am.

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there needs to be more women scientists in the world.

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