Seriously though, modern fandom, y’all need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You don’t have to choose one or the other.
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I don’t have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.
Related: You don’t have to sink other ships to sail yours.
Exactly! You can have more than one ship. You can have an ARMADA!!!
Ship everything and ship it so hard you end up sideways in the Suez.
#I do this too#I'll clear out my space after this project I say#but then I don't#and I have more and more stuff and an ever decreasing amount of workspace#I just finished a three foot sword working in a six inch square#I had to finish painting it on the floor because there's no room left on the desk
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reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future
I reblog the money pigeon because I love him.
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‘dont say gay if youre bi’ lmao lets all leave the house! lets all go outside and get a big gulp of fresh air is what im thinking
#when I go to the shop next to the post office the guy working there makes a point of calling me 'sir'#thank you 'sir'™#here's your change SIR😒#really putting an unnecessary amount of emphasis on it#it's like he wants to say something but isn't brave enough to do it#so that's fun 🙃#there's always someone out there who shouts something from a safe distance
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I wasted a few minutes trying to remember what episode of Doctor Who this related to and then realized it was about Titanic…
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I wasted a few minutes trying to figure out why Rose and Jack would be in the Titanic episode when that’s season 4.
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I tried to click the reblog button in the picture.
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Whovians are a mess.
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I did all of the above.
doctor who heritage post
#mythbusters tested this#the extra weight would push the door a coulple of inches lower in the water#they'd both freeze and die#but! being soaking wet and exposed to the freezing cold air is just as bad as being in the water#there's no guarantee they would survive even if the door could hold both their weight#which it couldn't#Rose was lucky to survive#if she didn't have the plot shield from being alive in the future scenes she would almost certainly have died
As an AI training model is exposed to more AI-generated data, it performs worse over time, producing more errors in the responses and content it generates, and producing far less non-erroneous variety in its responses. As another of the paper’s authors, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and the University of Edinburgh, wrote in a blog post discussing the paper: “Just as we’ve strewn the oceans with plastic trash and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, so we’re about to fill the Internet with blah. This will make it harder to train newer models by scraping the web, giving an advantage to firms which already did that, or which control access to human interfaces at scale. Indeed, we already see AI startups hammering the Internet Archive for training data.” Ted Chiang, acclaimed sci-fi author of “Story of Your Life,” the novella that inspired the movie Arrival, and a writer at Microsoft, recently published a piece in The New Yorker postulating that AI copies of copies would result in degrading quality, likening the problem to the increased artifacts visible as one copies a JPEG image repeatedly. Another way to think of the problem is like the 1996 sci-fi comedy movie Multiplicity starring Michael Keaton, wherein a humble man clones himself and then clones the clones, each of which results in exponentially decreasing levels of intelligence and increasing stupidity.
Source: venturebeat.com
Behold! A new metre long wooden sword!
Wrapped in yellow this time
Behold! A new metre long wooden sword!
Wrapped in yellow this time
Ahh star trek is doing the thing of "this is definitely not an allegory for real life events whaaaat" anyway Stigma/pa'nar syndrome is a straight up allegory for HIV this is actual dialogue here between captain archer and the Vulcan doctor
A: "and because you find [the Vulcans who carry the disease] undesirable... They're not entitled to medical care?"
V: "we don't condone the intimate acts that these people engage in. They defy everything hours society stands for."
JESUS CHRIST they're not being subtle at all
The youngest of the Vulcan doctors sneaks the ill one the research and when she asks why he says "there is more intolerance today than there was a thousand years ago. It has to stop." And she replies "why jeopardize your career to help someone you despise?" to which he says "if I despised you I'd be despising myself. I'm part of the minority."
Her: "you know I'm not a member of the minority."
Him: "as far as my colleagues are concerned, you might as well be."
The whole thing rings so painfully true of closeted queer folks trying desperately to help the underprivileged members of their community and to make some kind of difference, and the people who suffered from HIV who although they weren't queer were disdained because they were poor or drug users or just happened to have contracted this incredibly stigmatised disease. It's even pointed out that she was coerced into a position where the disease was transmissible and is told she should tell the other doctors because "they'll be far more sympathetic" but that "if they ask [the closeted doctor's] opinion I won't be able to condone what you did, I hope you understand" and her immediate response is "you can't jeopardize your position" and immediate understanding of the importance of secrecy in this situation.
Star Trek: Enterprise was made in 2004. While the height of the crisis might have been over and treatment was becoming more available, the stigma around HIV and AIDS was still rampant. Star Trek has ALWAYS been political, it has ALWAYS been topical, and it is so important to have this kind of media.
Also, she refuses to use that coercion as a defense because she says (rightly) that in doing so, she would be condoning their prejudice and simultaneously indicting every member of the minority and she won't do that despite the fact that other people are telling her she should and that because she has pa'nar syndrome she is going to be roved from her post, a very real possibility for any individual found to be HIV-positive at the time. I am so proud of this show.
And now I'm crying because the things being said are exactly the same statements I've heard about queer people and especially queer men, that the minority have "elected to conduct themselves in an unacceptable manner" and when it's pointed out that they're born with this the tactic changes to say the minority are "genetic aberrations that prey on people like you, people foolish enought to experiment with abhorrent behaviour", all of which is being said in the presence of the closeted member of this minority
and it sounds like the statements I have heard from bigoted assholes over and over and over again and I am sobbing because this is exactly what it was like, what in some cases it still IS like, and the legacy we are still struggling with today.
It's only been 20 years since the Thatcher-era ban on teaching about homosexuality and "pretend," aka queer, family dynamics in schools was repealed. This is still so relevant and so godsdamn painful.
Archer: "If you call yourselves enlightened, you have to accept people who are different than you are."
Doctor: "this is pointless. Our culture is governed by rules. We are not about to ignore them."
T'Pol (infected Vulcan): "there are no rules telling you to oppress minorities."
Doctor: "you'd rather let them spread their infections. That's exactly why you're being recalled."
T'Pol: "no, I'm being recalled because you're afraid of anything that doesn't conform to your idea of acceptable behaviour."
And HER willingness to stand up is what finally gives the closeted Vulcan the courage to stand up to his bigoted colleagues and tell them they are prejudiced and wrong.
Minority Vulcan: "Those of us who are gay capable of mind-melds are no different than you are. We love share our thoughts differently. We shouldn't be punished for that."
STAR TREK IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN POLITICAL AND IMPORTANT.
Stigma isn't being at all subtle about the strong undertones regarding HIV and sexual orientation because they were asked to make an episode about HIV.
It's so direct and blunt and not at all Star Trek about the issue because they had to send a clear message to the viewers. It was their contribution to Viacom's HIV awareness campaign of early 2003
They didn't want to risk the message being lost in the fun space adventure side of the show
#also the number of vulcans 'capable of mind melds' is all of them#the high council were just being bigots about it for some reason#here is a completely normal natural thing every member of our species can do#but if you ever do it you're going to be cast out of society forever#which isn't very logical of them#especially for a species who believe in infinite diversity in infinite combinations#except 'those people' apparently
[ID: Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul kissing on the lips at Comic-Con with the word “Every” in caps overlaid /End ID]
i think if you block someone it should play an explosion animation on their dashboard but not say what happened or who . just like battleship
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if you say anything homophobic in June this truck comes out of nowhere and crushes you like that bus crushed Regina George
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it’s optimus pride
Shoutout to the all queer family heroes
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wow this actually makes me feel really happy cause that person is me…
It me
I have to tell this story.
I thought I was the first person to come out on either side of my family, but like three years after I came out, my mom was like, “By the way, my Aunt Mildred was a lesbian.”
“What? Really?”
“Yeah. My mom just told me this story the other day about her. She also had really bad depression, so bad that she was hospitalized. Her father flew out to San Diego to see her there. The nurses caught him on the way in and told him the no matter what she said, he was not allowed to get upset.” (This is the Catholic side of the family. Like, serious Irish Catholic with eleven kids and multiple priests in the family. Also super-duper Southern. And this was the 1940s and it was illegal.) “And he got real scared, but he went in. And she said, ‘Daddy, I’m a lesbian.’ He threw his hands in the air and hollered, ‘OH THANK GOD! I was worried it was gonna be something bad.’”
So. Shoutout to my Great Aunt Mildred, because she got there before I did.
Further shoutout to my second cousin Jared, who thought he was the first in even the extended family until he turned up for Granny’s 90th birthday, saw me for the first time in probably fifteen years, and heard me utter the words, “My wife…”
General shoutout to anybody who even thought they were the first in their family when they came out, even if they found out differently later on.
Y'know what, I love this story so fucking much that I’m going to schedule it to reblog when people will see it.
shoutout to those nurses who were ready to throw the fuck down for their young depressed lesbian patient like… when we talk about allies that is actually the kind of ally that has helped us to survive. in the most literal sense.
I found out that my grandmother’s cousin Sam was gay and had a partner, and my uncle stayed with them over several summers, and when she told me about them I was so happy and also so sad that I’d never gotten to meet them
Anonymous asked:
Can you tell me why Frodo is so important in lotr? Why can't someone else, anyone else, carry the ring to mordor?
but someone else could.
that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.
(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)
but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.
it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.
and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.
(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)
but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.
someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
y'know say what you want about tumblr (and I have), but this is still probably the simplest and most powerful distillation of the heart of the Lord of the Rings I’ve ever read. I think back to it all the time