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February 17, 2014
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February 16, 2014
"Samuel L. Jackson seriously wants to be in the new Star Wars movies. He doesn’t care how it happens,..."
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Is there anyone among us who doesn’t think Star Wars could use a little Nick Fury? (Source)
…it’s a universe with a well-established history of just cloning the shit out of people at the slightest excuse. Samuel L. Jackson could theoretically play every role in the next movie without it being that implausible, by Star Wars standards.
(via stuckinabucket)
Holy shit I would pay twice the going rate for a movie ticket to see a film performed entirely by Samuel L. Jackson. I don’t even care what film. Star Wars, Pride & Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes, The Godfather…Any. Movie.
(via copperbadge)
“From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and fucking conceit made me realize that you were the last motherfucker in the world I could ever be fucking prevailed upon to marry.”
(via hippity-hoppity-brigade)
It is a truth fucking universally acknowledged that a single motherfucker in possession of a giant motherfucking fortune must be in want of a goddamn wife.
(via knottahooker)
“The fucking recollection of what I said—of my fucking conduct, my fucking manners, my motherfucking expressions during it, is now, and has been many fucking months, goddamned painful to me. Your reproof, I shall never fucking forget: ‘had you behaved like less of a motherfucker.’ Those were your goddamned words. You know not, you can scarcely fucking conceive, how they have tortured me.”
(via stuckinabucket)
“Really, Watson, you fucking excel yourself,” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. “I am bound to say that in all the fucking accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have fucking habitually underrated your own motherfucking abilities. It may be that you are not yourself fucking luminous, but you are a motherfucking conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a fucking remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your fucking debt.”
(via knottahooker)
Motherfucker, mama always said life was like a box of fucking chocolates. You never fucking know what you’re gonna get.
(via asgardian-feminist)
To fuck up a motherfucker or to not fuck up a motherfucker, that is the question.
(via getdowngetfunky)
Guys this is the kind of thinking that got Snakes On A Plane made
(via xtremecaffeine)
But soft! What fucking light through yon motherfucking window breaks! It is the fucking east, and that motherfucker Juliette is the fucking sun
(via knottahooker)
“Harry, you’re a mothafuckin wizard.”
“Say what?”
“Bitch, did I stutter?”
(via ididthatonce)
“A little motherfucking sea-bathing would set me up for fucking ever.”
(via baileyeverywhere)
“About three goddamn things I was absolfuckinglutely postive. First, Edward was a motherfucking vampire. Second, there was a part of his sparkly blood drinking ass — and shit if I know how strong that part of the cold bastard might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was fucking unconditionally, irrefuckinvocably, in motherfucking love with the pale ass blood drinking motherfucker. “
(via duelist925)
We want the finest motherfuckin’ cakes known to humanity. We want them fuckers here and we want them fuckers now!
(via wellharkather)
“One day, and that fuckin’ day may never come, I may call upon your bitch ass to do me a motherfuckin’ favor. But for now, consider this a fuckin’ piece of generosity on the day of my daughter’s fuckin’ wedding.”
(via endlesskng)
“You cannot fucking stain a motherfucking black coat.”
(via maddy44)
“And none for Gretchen motherfucking Weiners, bye.”
(via jujuberry136)
“My good fucking opinion, once lost, is lost forever, motherfucker.”
(via misamdry)
We must be as swift as the fucking cold river, with all the force of the badass typhoon, screw shit up like the goddamn fire, mysterious as the mutherfucking dark side of the motherfucking moon.
(via nethenclawpuff)
“I’M FLYING MOTHERFUCKERS!”
(via loracarol)
The wand chooses the god damn wizard motherfucker!
(via queenofthedicks)
Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Motherfucker was something he couldn’t get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn’t have explained anything; I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life. No, I guess Motherfucker is just a… piece in a jigsaw puzzle… a missing piece.”
(via saunteringvaguelydownwards)
“With great motherfucking power comes great motherfucking responsibility.”
(via stuckinabucket)
“I will take the motherfucking ring to fucking Mordor.” [pause] “Though I do not know the motherfucking way.”
(via lord-kitschener)
“I’m the mother fucking Doctor, bitch! I’m worse than everybody’s fucking aunt!”
(via putthecheeseinthemac)
“Pay no fucking attention to that motherfucker behind the curtain.”
(via breelandwalker)
One ring to rule those bitchasses, one ring to goddamn find them, one ring to bring all those motherfuckers and in darkness bind them.
(via thebatsknees)
“I’m gonna fucking steal the Declaration of Motherfucking Independence.”
(via eternal8song)
“Your ass shouldn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, motherfucker.”
“Lemme tell you a riddle. Your ass is waitin for a train, a train that will take your ass far away. You know where you hope this motherfuckin train will take you, but you don’t motherfuckin know for goddamn sure. But it doesn’t motherfuckin matter. How the fuck can it not matter to you where the fuck this train takes your ass?”
(via hellyeahangels)
“Fuckers assume that time is a fucking strict progression of motherfucking cause to motherfucking effect. But actually from a goddamned non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big motherfucking ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey…goddamned stuff.”
(via dramageekforthewin)
Toto, I’ve got a goddamn feeling we ain’t in motherfucking Kansas no more.
(via total-screaming-genius)
One morning I shot a motherfucking elephant in my fucking pajamas. How the fuck it got there, I don’t motherfucking know.
(via underscorethony)
This is motherfucking Sparta bitch!
(via abumponthehead)
Seven motherfucking minutes ago… we, your forefather motherfuckers, were brought forth upon a most motherfucking excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill… and Ted. These two great motherfucking gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my motherfucking time, just as it’s true today. Be motherfucking excellent to each other. And… MOTHERFUCKING PARTY ON, DUDES!
(via pileofmonkeys)
“As you goddamm wish.”
(via aka14kgold)
“I AM MOTHERFUCKING SPARTACUS.”
(via lostinhistory)
“No, *I* am motherfucking Spartacus.”
(via quigonejinn)
“One motherfuckin’ day more before the godamn storm. Will we ever, ever, for the love of a motherfucker in the storm, meet the fuck again?”
(via )
That motherfucker is like fucking fire and ice and shit. He’s like the motherfucking night and the storm and the heart of the goddamn sun. He’s ancient as shit and fucking forever. He fucking burns at the center of goddamn time and he can see the turn of the fucking universe. And that motherfucker is awesome as shit.
(via only-slightly-insane)
Guys Star wars happens “A long long time ago, In a galaxy Far Far away” Fury hasn’t been born yet in them.
(via jimbly)
Only if you assume that George Lucas was making a documentary. Otherwise for all we know the actual intended audience of the piece was Jack Harkness sitting around on Boeshane in the year 5122.
Also this seems to indicate a despicable lack of faith in the time travel abilities of Nick Fury.
Or that you think our current Nick Fury is not himself potentially a clone of the Furies that existed a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
(via copperbadge)
…and now I am picturing Samuel L. Jackson as all three Greek Furies.
“We’re here for vengeance, motherfuckers!”
(via persian-slipper)
Either way, you’ll be receiving a visit from Director Fury shortly. I strongly suggest you have an explanation prepared.
(via copperbadge)
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One of the best things to happen in motherfucking ever. READ ALL OF IT.
(via tygermama)
"When I was a fuckin’ kid, whenever I’d feel small or fuckin’ lonely, I’d look up at the motherfucking stars, wondered if there was any fucking life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong fucking direction. When motherfuckin’ alien life entered our world it was from the deep beneath the goddamn Pacific Ocean, a goddamn fissure between two fuckin’ tectonic plates. A goddamn portal between the dimensions, a breach. I was fifteen when the first motherfucker landed in San Francisco."
(via initiala)
"The game, Mrs. Hudson, is motherfucking on!"
(via persian-slipper)
"One more day till the motherfucking revolution, we will nip that shit in the bud. We’ll be ready for these pansyass schoolboys, they’ll wet themselves with their own goddamn blood."
Or perhaps, “In the rain, the paving shines like motherfucking silver. All the damn lights are misty on that stankass river. In the fucking darkness, the fucking trees are full of fucking starlight, and all I see is his bitchass and me forever and youbetcherass it better be forever.”
(via prettyarbitrary)
"Space: the final fucking frontier. These are the goddamn voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five motherfucking year mission: to explore strange fucking new worlds. To seek out new life, and new fucking civilizations. Shit, to boldly go where no motherfucker has gone before.”
earthysoul:
16yearoldvegan:
youphoric:
crawlingvine:
theanima...
These cows won the lottery! Dairy cows jump for joy after release from their slaughterhouse fate into a big green pasture.
I AM CRYING ACTUAL TEARS RIGHT NOW IN FRONT OF MY COMPUTER I DON’T CARE WHAT U R DOING WATCH THIS VIDEO OF COWS BEING HAPPY. WATCH IT.
please please stop stop what ur doing for just a second and see the joy of real life animals
More than 50000 notes, I bet most people who reblogged this aren’t even vegan.
My heart
clementinevonradics:
ifabricatedknowledge:
An excerpt from...
An excerpt from Mouthful of Forevers by #ClementineVonRadics, “As Often As Miracles”. It gets me every time.
Amazon.com: Equinox I: Between Gods and Monsters eBook: CK Burch, Casey Burch, Shon Burch: Kindle Store
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latinagabi:
saturnsorbit:
Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History...
Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
Holy shit. I had to go look this up, but it’s for real. That is incredible, and also an incredible example of the whitewashing of history.
http://spicyshimmy.tumblr.com/post/76...
leonard nimoy is a national treasure but you know something william shatner is an international treasure who loves horses and tweets about gumdrops and he’s kind of an incredible actor who isn’t afraid to make good jokes at his own expense and he’s a total goofball and a complete human cherub and…
"[…] my mother replied saying that was pretty much exactly the problem she has with her English..."
[…] my mother replied saying that was pretty much exactly the problem she has with her English majors. They love to talk about character and plot, but they won’t spend any time on craft, structure, or form. These sorts of things are pretty much the “mechanics” of writing, and really aren’t actually that different. This repeated word hammers in emphasis, this sentence with lots of commas sounds breathless, these short sentences create a terse and minimalist aesthetic throughout the novel, etc. This stuff is actually more important than characters and plot, and my mother’s frustration is that her students treat characters as if they were actual people, speculating about their motives outside the novel and creating intricate justifications for their actions, all the while ignoring that they are craft elements themselves. Characters that are nothing but a metaphor are obnoxious, but characters are still crafted elements and they serve a function. They’re part of how the author says whatever it is they are trying to say; unlike humans, they have a purpose.
Talking about character and plot without form rapidly becomes ungrounded and airy, because I’m hearing about people that aren’t real and things that didn’t happen without any grounding in the countless craft and form choices that made all of that junk matter. If plot and character was all that mattered, Wikipedia would be a sufficient replacement for literature. Any description of the effect a game has on the author should come with your explanation of how that happened. What exactly was it about the heartbreaking indie puzzle platformer that made you feel nostalgic? What did Jane Austin do to make you like that dour Mr. Darcy so much? These are not strange or unusual or “academic” questions, they are questions of very basic specificity and clarity in any sort of writing.
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Mammon Machine, “Craft and Form”.
a fucking thunderclap.
(via retrogrammartown)
This is possibly the best fiction-writing advice I’ve ever read (aside from “read a lot of frakking books”).
(via otakukeith)
Yes. I notice this all the time when I’m reading student essays; they get so hung up on things like “plot,” that whenever you ask them to analyze a text (discuss things like tone, word choice, etc.) they immediately launch into a summary— they don’t know how to take a text apart and discuss the details and why those details are significant.
But even more frustrating is getting students to understand the importance of using correct grammar (which I hope the writer is including somewhere in this discussion). So many students get offended when you correct their run-on sentences, their split infinitives, their sentence fragments, etc. They all complain, “But that’s just my style— my voice!” or— even better— “But what do a few grammatical errors matter as long as my ideas are good!” Sigh. If the mistakes are unintentional, then it’s a lack of style; if you can’t effectively and completely express your ideas, then why should anyone care about those ideas? We all make mistakes— I know I still do— but it’s saddening when there are so many aspiring writers out there who are more than happy to remain ignorant of their mistakes or who show zero interest in craft or form— the very mechanics that make stories pleasurable to read.
(via calantheandthenightingale)
This, this so much, ow my heart. I’m so happy that this stuff is still being taught, from the way everyone talks about literature I thought character and plot are the all and everything in classrooms. But this is beautiful.
"Style and structure are the essence of a book. Great ideas are hogwash."
(via sammydavisjuniorjr)
I agree with 90% of the quote. But here’s the thing: style and craft are, for the most part, guidelines. Sure, you need to have an understanding of craft and style in order to properly write a novel. If the basic understandings are not there, you will have a poorly written novel despite the interesting plot or realistic characters. But part of the joy of writing is playing with style, with creating a different kind of craft; if we all followed Strunk and White then all we’d do is write with the same kind of cookie-cutter formula that merely swapped out different character and plot. Playing with style, inventing craft, using realistic and lifelike characters with twisting plot, that is the joy of writing, not simply the mechanics of writing, but the joy of it. Sadly, yes, there are a lot of new writers who don’t want to study the math and the structure of construction when it comes to writing.
