thewaroffivequeens:

slowly lights treklock on fire

pluckyminna:

cumaeansibyl:

ragingbitchfest:

peachsss:

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

This is a byproduct of class warfare. “Lets make people poor through unjust tax codes and a racist war on drugs, then we can dehumanize them for a profit”. I’m disgusted.

I’d shoot them. Seriously. Fuck these pieces of shit.

Hahaha, yeah, Europeans, you don’t have any problems with poverty or racism, so it’s totally cool for you to come laugh at ours and feel superior! I mean, we invented ghettos, right? And we’re the only country ever to use political and economic power to keep minorities segregated and subjugated so I can understand why you’re so fascinated with the results. It must be so foreign to you in your land of prosperity and harmony.

it strikes me as all kinds of disrespectful to be using the exploitation of these people as a way for you to score points against other white people

can we maybe not move the narrative from the people actually being hurt in order to play ‘no u’

you’re right, that was shitty of me, I’m sorry

princessnijireiki:

i’n-shta-heh

I could watch this for hours

desliz:

audiodrops:

californiapants:

the-tabularium:

weeaboo-chan:

ok so i tried to find out what breed of cattle this is and i havent been successful but i found these two

and their names are texas tornado and johnny football

the pics are from this website and i dont know jack shit about cattle breeding so maybe someone can tell me if they’re a special breed

SWEET SKIES ABOVE WHAT BREED OF COW IS THIS?!?!

Man that’s a silly looking animal

ARE THESE FUZZY COWS

I’M LOSING MY MIND HERE ARE THERE FUZZY COWS OUT THERE

MY GOD. FUZZY COWS.

I really love livestock sites, the only place where you can see the word semen 567658768 times and not be concerned when you see a link called “Youth Support”.

Also this:

Wondered when you be in…I need bodacious semen. Our Reply: Tuesday, Thanks

anyway, there doesn’t appear to be one breed represented here (beef cattle are are often crossbred to optimize economically desirable qualities in the offspring, e.g., make them as profitable as possible at slaughter), but the fuzzy effect is mostly likely just the product of careful trimming, as indicated by the evenness of the hair length and the fact that their faces are practically shaved). So really, any breed that tends to develop a shaggier coat in the wintertime can be made into a fuzzy cow, if you are devoted enough to their grooming and semen.

POODLE COWS THIS IS WHAT MY LIFE NEEDED

graceebooks:

i think one of my biggest problems with female characters in general is that they so often lack a component of natural humor, if that makes any sense - basically female characters are almost universally less complex and layered than male characters, and the specific way that this really gets to me personally is that they so often lack a humorous/ironic component to their personalities, which is just such an incredibly basic and fundamental part of my own

i don’t mean that they don’t deliver lines that are intended as jokes by the writer or that they aren’t involved in humorous exchanges/scenes in an extranarrative sense, but i mean that within the narrative itself they so incredibly frequently lack a personal, independent, intentional/self-conscious humor and/or sense of irony in their approach to life and to whatever situations arise in the narrative

even major female comedians incredibly frequently play female characters that are hilarious, but in an UNINTENTIONAL way; the joke is so often that whatever character a woman is playing is being absolutely hilariously ridiculous but she is DEAD SERIOUS about it, which is precisely the joke - so in other words, being funny (as an affirmative ability or good quality) is still not a part of the character’s personality

and it makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it, since so many men really don’t see women as funny

commanderbishoujo:

spicyshimmy:

from john scalzi’s blog, the major issue that i take with this whole publish your fanfiction through amazon/alloy with kindle worlds is as follows:

“We will also give the World Licensor a license to use your new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to you.”

i.e., that really cool creative idea you put in your story, or that awesome new character you made? If Alloy Entertainment likes it, they can take it and use it for their own purposes without paying you — which is to say they make money off your idea, lots of money, even, and all you get is the knowledge they liked your idea.

Essentially, this means that all the work in the Kindle Worlds arena is a work for hire that Alloy (and whomever else signs on) can mine with impunity. This is a very good deal for Alloy, et al — they’re getting story ideas! Free! — and less of a good deal for the actual writers themselves. I mean, the official media tie-in writers and script writers are doing work for hire, too, but they get advances and\or at least WGA minimum scale for their work.

like…man, we’re entering into a really cool age. i mean, we’re in the thick of it right now. how fan interaction and social media can drive, inspire, reinvent narratives. we’ve got remakes and reboots and fan presence and fan writers and fans becoming professionals and fan culture as a whole right now is HUGE—and, what’s more, i’m pretty sure we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg in terms of how much this is going to change our concept of ‘original’ works. now, fanfiction has been with us forever, i’d say; it’s only gained recent momentum and notice, even if it’s a human impulse at its core. love a story? you don’t have to leave it. we’ve always been like this. dante wrote freaking self insert fanfiction about himself and his favorite historical writer for god’s sake. we are part of a legacy that only recently has gained the need for some kind of categorization in the face of copyright.

but this whole deal, to me, seems like a really clever and underhanded ploy on alloy’s part to exploit a willing and eager fanbase, to mine them for ideas, and then to screw them out of their rights, take what they like, and reap the benefits.

in the coming years, faster than i think many of us ever could have imagined, the whole dynamic of fan vs creator is going to shift in a major way, because it has already begun to do so. we are watching it happen right before our eyes. and of course there are going to be people who attempt to make a profit on that in an unseemly and greedy way—which, by the looks of it, this foray into monetizing a fanfiction friendly franchise with kindle worlds appears to be. 

also didn’t Alloy pretty much fire the author who actually came up with Vampire Diaries from their own series because they didn’t know they were on a work to hire contract and they wrote a ship Alloy didn’t approve of?

like seriously I don’t trust anyone involved in this

and as someone who puts a serious amount of time and effort in world building for OCs and developing headcanons in the sandboxes I like to play in, I don’t appreciate the notion of a content provider being able to make bank off my ideas to enrich their franchise and retaining all rights to said ideas while thinking giving me a couple of crumbs is a fair deal

nah B

clearly the answer is to publish nothing on kindle worlds but gay smut. let ‘em use that if they want, it’d at least be more representation.

so-treu:

secondlina:

One of my favorite fairy tale figures is Baba Yaga, an old witch who lives in an enchanted forest, rides a mortar instead of a broom, lives in a house with chicken legs and usually has three magical sons. I have an obsession with witches in general, but something about this old Russian spell caster really captures my imagination. 

I think one day i’d like to write about the adventures of her youth. How she became powerful and delightfully evil (although she is good in a couple of tales). So, here you go, young Baba Yaga (who would have a different name, since Baba means old woman. Maybe just Yaga?).

yesssssss

Devushka Yaga? these stories belong to several Slavic cultures, so you could use several different languages, but in Russian “devushka” appears to be both “young woman” as a noun and as a form of address (bear in mind I’m just working off Google)

hey Kelly, what could we call this character in Ukrainian?

heatherbat:

ginandthought:

steampoweredtrainconductor:

fishpun:

prussiastuck:

alpakanaitis:

diet-hola:

strawberrysweetlolita:

ghostbootay:

8ad-jokes:

Who wants to take part in a little experiment for me?

I want to see how people measure up to the Kinsey scale, it’s a rating for sexuality.

http://vistriai.com/kinseyscaletest/

Fill in these (okay maybe somewhat weird) questions and add your result?

ohhhhh i got a 2 and i always thought i was 3

maybe im not even on the scale

X the first time changed an answer and got a 3

I got a 3, I always knew I was a 3

i got a 3,

X. 

i got a 3 too. not that i’m surprised.

I got a 6.

Huh.

LOL I Failed… How? I guess I’m an unusual person?? 

3 though that honestly doesn’t clarify anything about my sexuality, just that i’m pretty ambivalent about the genitals and perceived/identified gender of the person or persons in bed with me.

wow what the fuck i remember being 16 and all “i like boys i like girls i am bisexual”

now it’s like, “well, gender is sort of a tricky thing to begin with, i mean do you want to start with my own gender or..? and then while we’re at it, are you wanting to know who i want to have SEX with or who i want romantic attachments to? honestly? you should probably get a snack and have a seat…”

okay, so the test refused to register my answers for some reason (browser?), but I have some problems with the questions

like, why ask whether I’m sexually submissive

why a question about orgies AND one about threesomes

why ask about assigned birth gender (and why not make clear up front that this scale can’t really take non-binary gender into account, it’s better to acknowledge flaws in the metric than to pretend they don’t exist)

why two near-identical questions about sex drive

why ask if I “avoid” lesbian pornography when it could be that I avoid all pornography, thus rendering any response meaningless (do I say “no” because I don’t avoid it in favor of straight porn, or “yes” because I do avoid it along with straight porn, or what)

honestly I think it would make more sense to just look at the scale and pick a number based on what sorts of people you’ve been attracted to and who you’ve had enjoyable sexual experiences with (because lots of people have had straight sex without liking it)

ragingbitchfest:

peachsss:

odinsblog:

A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the New York Post reports.

The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.

Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.

“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” reports Giove.“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”

The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.

The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.

The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.

The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.” [emphasis mine]

This is a byproduct of class warfare. “Lets make people poor through unjust tax codes and a racist war on drugs, then we can dehumanize them for a profit”. I’m disgusted.

I’d shoot them. Seriously. Fuck these pieces of shit.

Hahaha, yeah, Europeans, you don’t have any problems with poverty or racism, so it’s totally cool for you to come laugh at ours and feel superior! I mean, we invented ghettos, right? And we’re the only country ever to use political and economic power to keep minorities segregated and subjugated so I can understand why you’re so fascinated with the results. It must be so foreign to you in your land of prosperity and harmony.

princessnijireiki:

fuckyeahdiomedes replied to your post: Have you ever read…

wait, it’s been confirmed that JJ’s ignoring all the Star Wars EU stuff that happens after RotJ?

from what I’ve heard secondhand, yeah; most anything Abrams doesn’t like post-RotJ is going to be scrapped, a lot of fan consensus seems to be that the post-RotJ EU is going to be an AU, Disney’s already shut down LucasArts and cancelled Clone Wars (to inevitably come up with a weaker marketing tie-in TV show, tbh; w. their acquisition of Marvel, Wolverine and the X-Men was tossed entirely [because why advertise for a movie ‘verse you don’t have rights to, amirite?], and Spectacular Spider-Man got tossed in favor of the far weaker Ultimate Spider-Man, complete with the omnipresent fan-favorite Agent Coulson).

and, honestly, given Lucas’s contempt for his own fandom (he apparently “ranks” EU materials in a canon hierarchy, none of which are considered as canon as his movies despite his still, you know, making money off of them just the same; the issues around remastering and editing the original trilogy after the fact; the existence of thinly-veiled racial-caricature characters like Jar-Jar Binks et al; etc.), I wouldn’t put it past him to handwave 20+ years of fanworks, licensed works, and fandom worldbuilding/gatekeeping in favor of a shinier, glitzier, superficial new trilogy.

I very much enjoyed the original movies, and I’ve just been turned on to the EU, tbh, but given Lucas’s other projects, the SW prequel trilogy, and those damn edits, I can say with confidence that despite being a techonological pioneer and a truly gifted storyteller, Lucas is as self-serving and masturbatory an artist and filmmaker as any art-school freshman or Star Trek rebooter out there. signs point to suck, unfortunately.

EU stuff falls into two main categories for me:

1. utter bullshit that no one should pay any attention to or even mention
2. awesome stuff that Abrams is not allowed to touch ever ever ever

so I’m okay with this tbh

not that I’m planning on giving any of it the time of day at this point because I am too mad at all of these people and also very much done with white men and their man pain, which is inevitably what the new stuff will be about