Your daily dose of cat memes

every time i hear jefferson say “i arranged the menu, the venue, the seating” i picture him spending a solid 3 hours trying to decide if he wants madison sitting to his left or to his right and just rearranging 3 placecards over and over

and then hamilton comes in, sits in madison’s seat and swaps the name cards

The ‘talking mirror’ trope from fairy tales probably originated when a careless time-traveler was seen using a Smart phone or a tablet.

#Siri Siri on my phone#how the fuck do I get home

u ever see a character that’s so much Your Type it makes u genuinely mad at ur own predictability

Just aired during Gotham! Get excited for January!

German Shepherd Dog painted in time for Halloween. (x)

SPOOPY PUPPY

As much as I love this photo set…no one ever includes the best part of it:

THE PAINT IS GLOW IN THE DARK

THIS LITTLE DOGGY RAN AROUND ALL NIGHT LIKE A GLOWING SKELLY REAPER PUP

(づ₀☆w☆₀)づ

+3 armor

Converts all damage to Spirit damage

This is awesome! 

why people in the united states should care about the upcoming canadian election

 america’s election isn’t until november 2016, but tumblr is already blowing up about it. i agree that it’s absolutely important, but no one seems to care that canada’s federal election is this october. tumblr is extremely united states-centric, but canadian politics affect americans too. 

issues not directly related to the united states, but still extremely important:

please feel free to add relevant sourced topics.  

“Recognize the KluKluxKlan as a domestic terrorist organization & make their eradication a Homeland Security priority.” There are 24,980 signatures by far and 75,020 is needed.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov//petition/recognize-klu-klux-klan-domestic-terrorist-organization-make-their-eradication-homeland-security-priority

The link is in my bio! #KuKluxKlan #Terrorism #Terrorists #BlackLivesMatter

Everyone Boost This, please. Tell the same people who DESTROYED the BLACK PANTHERS For doing nothing racist and fighting for our Black people, that they need to take the same actions, if not worse actions, against these Domestic White Terrorists. Reblog. 

if you sign, please remember to verify your email or it wouldn’t count.

This picture will never cease to inspire or motivate me. #WhatIsLove

Girls c’mon! Leave the saving the world to the men? I don’t think so! I don’t think so…

I’ve been pondering Paul Magr’s blog post about RTD and talking about Mary Sues and self-inserts. Because I am generally very much behind what Russell is saying there: it’s always you in there when you write anyway, and if you want to go ahead and write yourself into the story, have at it. There’s no shame in it. The way “Mary Sue” is deployed is misogynist about 99% of the time and I hate that term and I hate what it s use represents.

And I’m trying to square that with the fact that one of the things I hate about Moffat is his self-inserting in the form of Eleven and Sherlock (I mean, that has to be why they’re basically the same character, right?). And I think the difference for me is that what Moffat is doing comes off as a shallow power-fantasy. Which I’m not going to tell anyone they can’t write and put out there, but I’m not going to enjoy it. And it’s really not helped by Moffat’s power fantasy being a sexually aggressive, emotionally stunted creeper that everyone is inexplicably in love with. I’d be more into it if his power fantasy was an honest, brave, compassionate hero buuuuut it’s clearly really not. Writing a self-insert starts to break down at the point where your self-insert is a loathsome individual rather than a flawless hero. (Bonus negative points if your text seems blissfully unaware of the loathsomeness. At that point we enter the realm of “I think I might know more about your deep issues than your therapist, and that ain’t right, man.”)

I always got the feeling from RTD’s writing that he had a message he was trying to deliver. A message about the human condition, love, hope, how we deal with one another, and how we deal with deities. It’s his message and in that way he’s self-inserting in everything he does. And if he has certain characters be mouth-pieces for that, they retain their interest because those are interesting things to talk about and ponder through fiction.

But if you don’t have a message beyond “I AM AWESOME!” then your self-inserting is boring and shallow. If you’re just ficcing for fun or practice? Have at it. There are many worse things for a fic to be than boring and shallow. (Also? Everyone does this when they are 12. It’s a stage of creative growth and you can all thank your lucky stars that the internet did not exist when I was 12 and writing self-insert LOTR fic. So not only is “Mary Sue” usually  misogynist, it’s also often picking on actualfax kids, which is doubleplus awful.)

But if you’re a grown-ass man and a highly-paid professional with an inexplicable amount of power in the TV industry in your country? And you want me to be interested in viewing your little self-insert power fantasy whose only message is “Look how awesome I would be if I were handsomer and younger and powered-up”?

our President told a trans immigrant activist to be quiet during a statement about Pride Week

no analogy here, I’m sure

she is an undocumented trans woman from mexico and her name is Jennicet Gutiérrez. obama not only told her to be quiet, but he had her escorted from the white house by secret service officers while his mindless supporters cheered.

I went and did some research on this, and this is what I found.

–Obama was giving a speech during an event celebrating L.G.B.T. pride month, where he was repeatedly interrupted by Jennicet Gutiérrez.

– Gutiérrez’s words were “President Obama, release all L.G.B.T.Q. immigrants from detention and stop all deportations!” which is something Obama has been trying to do (via blocking a large amount of deportations entirely, which would affect L.G.B.T. immigrants as well) but has been repeatedly blocked by both republicans in congress and judges in the border states where this is especially relevant.

– Gutiérrez continued to interrupt Obama for nearly two minutes before she was removed from the White House. From this transcript I can see Obama even outright told her that “You can either stay and be quiet, or we’ll have to take you out.“ And then she kept going. And she was removed.

do ur research folks

Hey, Just a few things. I was there when this happened. It was at a the LGBT Pride Reception. This was an invitation only event for members of the community and allies, who had done substantial work for the community. I.E. Lobbyist, Activists, Heads of LGBT Democratic Committees, etc. My friend was invited because he was the youngest, openly gay state representative elected in the US. (I was his plus one.) Jennicet Gutierrez was escorted out because she used this opportunity to heckle the president. Heckle. As Obama said, “No, no no. You came into my house, and you were invited.” Both the President AND the crowd asked her to quiet down. She was only escorted out after she INSISTED on interrupting the event.

Hadn’t heard this side, only that she’d spoken up and got taken out. Makes more sense cause that didn’t mesh with what I know of Obama. So, good to know.

some good facts on what happened.