One Smitten Kitten.

Anonymous: ”Fallen!Cas misses his wings so Dean makes him really shitty paper ones and gives them to Cas all embarrassed and Cas absolutely loves them and wears them everywhere.”

thank you for the best request ever

boazpriestly: ibeggedformercytwice: sherlockandmoriar-tea: boazpriestly: I don’t understand why...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:50:40 -0400

boazpriestly:

ibeggedformercytwice:

sherlockandmoriar-tea:

boazpriestly:

I don’t understand why Dean and Sam don’t just set their ringtones to the exorcism chant and just call each other when they’re near a demon.

Why aren’t you directing the show

That is fucking genius. Hula hoops with salt in them. Ringtones to banish demons. Iron rings for punching ghosts would be good too, you know.

Dude, we would be lethal hunters, y’all. Dean and Sam could learn from us.

dexterlaboratory90: Hitchcock

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:53:05 -0400

dexterlaboratory90:

Hitchcock

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:55:32 -0400

You know Misha would answer differently.

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:57:59 -0400

You know Misha would answer differently.

dryadgurrl: himapapaftw: finally, it has appeared on my...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:02:31 -0400

dryadgurrl:

himapapaftw:

finally, it has appeared on my dash

Well that was unexpected.

anindoorkitty: Lovely Benedict ascending x

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:05:04 -0400

anindoorkitty:

Lovely Benedict ascending x

castiel-counts-deans-freckles: princessofallasgard: Tumblr: A...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:37 -0400

castiel-counts-deans-freckles:

princessofallasgard:

Tumblr: A summary

the misha one is perfectly timed though.

earthrevolvesaroundben: cumberbatchweb: Photo from the The...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:09:56 -0400

earthrevolvesaroundben:

cumberbatchweb:

Photo from the The Times accompanying Caitlin’s piece.

Caitlin Moran - What’s not to love about Benedict Cumberbatch

Caitlin Moran’s article in The Times (magazine on sale tomorrow, well later today!)

Read More →

… a lovely article …

dusknoirs: my life is an endless black hole of unfinished video games

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:12:24 -0400

dusknoirs:

my life is an endless black hole of unfinished video games

overnight-shipping: turntechtier: 2good2bdrew: My 3 best...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:14:54 -0400

overnight-shipping:

turntechtier:

2good2bdrew:

My 3 best friends

I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND THIS

penny, please escort him to the door.

deduce-you-fools: cumberbatchcoffeeklatch: sporadic-random-thou...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:31 -0400

deduce-you-fools:

cumberbatchcoffeeklatch:

sporadic-random-thoughts:

Benedict Cumberbatch on Jimmy Fallon

Btw this impression of Bruce Lee…loved it.

(x)

This photoset makes me very happy.

I’m in a committed relationship with his left eyebrow.

onceuponafandom: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:50:10 -0400

onceuponafandom:

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

amygloriouspond: forsciencejohn: John Watson +...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39:00 -0400

amygloriouspond:

forsciencejohn:

John Watson + his notebooks

#handy dandy notebook

i wonder what we would find in john’s handy dandy notebook

I just-

Yahoo’s got to be rethinking its purchase right about now…

costume design community service: 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:38:07 -0400

costume design community service: 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative:

prettyarbitrary:

costumecommunityservice:

eschergirls:

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley â A Dribble of Ink

I often tell people that I’m the biggest self-aware misogynist I know.

I was writing a scene last night between a woman general and the man she helped put on the throne. I started writing in some romantic tension, and realized how lazy that was. There are other kinds of tension.

I made a passing reference to sexual slavery, which I had to cut. I nearly had him use a gendered slur against her. I growled at the screen. He wanted to help save her child… no. Her brother? Ok. She was going to betray him. OK. He had some wives who died… ug. No. Close advisors? Friends? Maybe somebody just… left him?

Even writing about societies where there is very little sexual violence, or no sexual violence against women, I find myself writing in the same tired tropes and motivations. “Well, this is a bad guy, and I need something traumatic to happen to this heroine, so I’ll have him rape her.” That was an actual thing I did in the first draft of my first book, which features a violent society where women outnumber men 25-1. Because, of course, it’s What You Do.

I actually watched a TV show recently that was supposedly about this traumatic experience a young girl went through, but was, in fact, simply tossed in so that the two male characters in the show could fight over it, and argue about which of them was at fault because of what happened to her. It was the most flagrant erasure of a female character and her experiences that I’d seen in some time. She’s literally in the room with them while they fight about it, revealing all these character things about them while she sort of fades into the background.

We forget what the story’s about. We erase women in our stories who, in our own lives, are powerful, forthright, intelligent, terrifying people. Women stab and maim and kill and lead and manage and own and run. We know that. We experience it every day. We see it.

But this is our narrative: two men fighting loudly in a room, and a woman snuffling in a corner.

This is a really interesting article about the way media, fiction and narratives repeated in society shape the way we see and assume reality to be, specifically (in this case) about how narratives about women being victims, or supporting men, but not being fighters or soldiers create the idea that women never did that, and it’s only a modern new thing that we think they could, when in fact that’s not true at all.

Also, specifically relevant to this blog are the parts about how that affects us when we create stories ourselves, and can end up adding to this narrative consciously and subconsciously. It’s the same with how women are depicted in illustrated fiction. I honestly don’t think a lot of the boobs and butt poses, or women in bikini armor, are drawn by people consciously thinking sexist thoughts, I think they’re just doing What You Do. This is a female character, this is just the pose we’re used to seeing women in. We don’t think twice about drawing her like that, because it’s just how we’ve become conditioned to seeing women pose in the medium. Same with stuff like this. It’s how we’re used to seeing female armor, and when we think “female warrior”, our imagination just instinctively runs in the direction of what we’re used to seeing. It’s just What You Do with female armor, and female characters, and female poses.

Since starting Escher Girls, I’ve gotten quite a lot of mail from people telling me that they never realized just how often they put their female characters in boobs and butt poses, or gave them bikini armor, just because that’s how they saw women drawn in video games and comics and never thought twice about it. It’s just what seemed “right” to them, and that they’re now a lot more conscious of it and try to have more variety in the way they depict women, and often in ways that make more sense to the story. :)

I think it’s just important to catch ourselves sometimes and think are we creating something because this fits what we’re doing, and this makes sense, or are we just doing What You Do? (This applies to all sorts of tropes and stereotypes too.)

Ah good. I was going to post this article but someone got there first, with commentary! Thanks. :)

Not a strictly costume design related read, but definitely an exploration of factors that might contribute to some of our least favorite costume designs for female characters.

Thoughtful stuff!

jerk-and-bitch: wonderfloniumandfezzes: a-bookworm-in-221b: su...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:09 -0400

jerk-and-bitch:

wonderfloniumandfezzes:

a-bookworm-in-221b:

superblys:

starkiddestiel221b:

JUST IN TIME.

JUST IN TIME FANDOM.

ALWAYS REBLOG ON TUESDAY

IT’S A LAW

EVERY.SINGLE.TUESDAY.