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pdothamman:smatter:This might be my favorite post hahahaI...

pdothamman:

smatter:

This might be my favorite post hahaha

I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD YO BECAUSE DON’T THEY KNOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE???

I’m betting these are all the same people who don’t know how to make tea properly

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cheesyradfem:

lettherebedragons:

vassraptor:

transcoranic:

how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay? 

none of them ever did any laundry at all

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters. 

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

Rosalind Miles’ “Who Cooked the Last Supper?” is about how women throughout history provided critical services so men could have leisure time.

Fuck

I forget that there’s folks who haven’t heard this so I always reblog.

THIS

jimmoriartyistyping:Doctor Strange: Behind the Scenes

jimmoriartyistyping:

Doctor Strange: Behind the Scenes

butchlena:me: haha this character gaystraight person voice: oh? that’s interesting :-) i never...

butchlena:

me: haha this character gay

straight person voice: oh? that’s interesting :-) i never really saw it that way i’ve seen this media a thousand times and i don’t remember them being gay? when did they come out? i distinctly remember them being straight actually… weren’t they in a heterosexual relationship? so while i think it would be totally fine :) if they were gay… they’re actually not so :-)

Omg this! Plus throw in a standard sized “I don’t know why everything has to be romantic. What ever happened to the beauty of friendship?” for good measure!

How do you make people fall in love with you

challenge them to a duel 

rosesnvines:redhatmeg:awesomebutunpractical:Some romantic subplots do not need conflict,...

rosesnvines:

redhatmeg:

awesomebutunpractical:

Some romantic subplots do not need conflict, per-say.

What do I mean?

I mean if you have a bigger story with a ton of stuff going on, a romance could be a place of rest to the character. A nice, stable relationship. That is only threatened when the big bad lobs a grenade at them and they need to fight over who jumps on it.

Someone finally put into words why romance drama is often such a distraction.

And why I hate it so much.

This is why I had such a problem with the introduction of Mary Morstan to the BBC Sherlock fandom in the first place. When the announcement came out that they were planning this for series 3, sometime in the spring of 2012, I heard so many Johnlock shippers argue that it was to introduce some romantic tension, aka a love triangle, to amp up the drama of what people (people other than me, that is) assumed would end up as a canon romance. Not only did I never once think that Moftiss would have the balls to do anything other than queerbait, I also just never once thought it was in any way necessary. The story and the relationship already had PLENTY of tension that needed solving. One character faked (aka was blackmailed into faking) his suicide in front of the other, then let him (perforce, that is) believe he was dead for over two years! Conflicts don’t come much thicker than that!! There were already years of misunderstandings and miscommunications between them - John believing Sherlock to not care about anything but the puzzle at hand, neither of them clear on whether or not John was asking him out that first dinner, John labouring under the delusion that Sherlock was heartbroken over Irene Adler. None of which have been resolved to this day, may I add, since all the writers ever did was layer more and more and more unresolved crap onto these two characters without ever letting them resolve ANY of it. The very last thing they ever needed was: a) a love triangle, b) one who - surprise! - was an assassin-for-hire who would shoot one of them in the heart and spew a virtual diarrhea of lies at the other, c) introduce the incredibly unnecessary complication of a baby onto the show (because that worked and was so well written around when they pulled the same stunt on DW!), and d) one whose incredibly fake-seeming death just further complicated matters between them forever afterwards. This is the literal definition of “unnecessary”. Just let Sherlock and John resolve their problems. By themselves!! They never “needed” a third party, either to drive them together (as many Johnlockers insisted, pre-series 3, that she would) or - much more likely, as it turned out - drive them apart.

strangeps3lyricsmuffin:jilldarbc:Don’t you think this...

strangeps3lyricsmuffin:

jilldarbc:

Don’t you think this SHEETBATCH is naughty and beautiful 

 #BenedictCumberbatch in Sherlock

Ooh yes

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strangeps3lyricsmuffin:

botanycameos:

Benedict Cumberbatch edits, 10/??? More.
(x)

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duskybatfishgirl:

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duskybatfishgirl:

the silhouette of this man, though. 

This is the look of a man who is about to get into trouble, and is damn well aware of it.

and that is very attractive

Yes. Yes it is.

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strangeps3lyricsmuffin:

elldotsee:

His eyes are different colors.

*heart beating extremely fast* ❤❤

Holy shit. I was not prepared for this post to just come along in my dash and attack me so mercilessly!