May 2013
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“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– Mary Dickson
[CW: discussion of rape culture and violence]
This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat,...
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lovejoybliss:
Abercrombie & Fitch Refuses To Make Clothes For Large Women vangoghstars:
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thegirlwhocriedfandom:
Abercrombie and Fitch has decided that anyone over a size 10 jean isn’t sexy enough for their clothing line, and doesn’t want them shopping in their stores and sullying their clothes. They decided to only hire good looking people so that only good looking people...
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Why Gandalf Never Married by Terry Pratchett →
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fabledquill:
a BRILLIANT read, and even more incentive for me to make my own wizards trope-defying and excellent.
God it’s fascinating to look at the timestamp on this one and then realize that Pratchett went on to write his Witches Series and Granny Weatherwax, who’s strong and fierce and brilliant and austere and so...
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What is a Quantum?
thatscienceguy:
Today the science world is full of the word quantum - quantum physics, quantum optics, quantum chemistry, quantum gravity, quantum computer, quantum electronics, etc.. Its gotten to the point where it’s rather hard to find a scientific branch in which the word isn’t used!
But do you actually know what the word quantum means?
It’s actually quite simple to understand! Let’s start...
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Fairy tales are NOT all straight white heroes and...
seananmcguire:
I re-blogged a picture of a little girl, dressed as Tiana, hugging the face actress who plays Tiana at one of the Disney Parks, and noted that everyone should have their princess. And a few people have now contacted me basically going “no, only straight white people can have princesses if you stick with the classics.”
Um.
No.
I am a folklorist, and it’s time for some Fun With...
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kylesbogusjourney:
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WHAT IF MY COLORS ARE DIFFERENT THAN YOUR COLORS
They are, because people having varying numbers of Rods and cones in their eyes, it causes people to see colours differently.
Also there is a theory that everyone sees, for example, the colour red differently eg Red=yellow, but because we’ve been taught that, that specific colour is...
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thequeenoftacos:
if ironman and the silver surfer teamed up
they would be alloys
always reblog science jokes
April 2013
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Clara read a book that Amy wrote!
And the typing done in this episode was just like in Sherlock!
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