It’s my first Tumblr theme (I mean like my VERY FIRST BB) and like IDK. But it’s ugly as fuq and ohmygod don’t get me started on the code kk, like it’s before I knew how to organize (wtf is that?). I wanna get rid of it but at the same time keep it for posterity. Prbly not getting rid of it.
straight people can never understand how important it is for queer people to see queer characters and be represented in media because straight people are represented in literally e v e r y t h i n g
Maybe there’s actually a whole lot of gay characters but the fact isn’t drawn attention to because its not important ?
uh. then why is so much attention drawn to straight. romance.
is that so much more important that it has to be in 99% of media
Maybe there’s actually a whole lot of gay characters but the fact isn’t drawn attention to because its not important ?
What are you saying b/c I legit don’t understand like gay couples aren’t important? Because STFU they are. There’s a problem when my OTP has to be a real couple (in this case my bf’s mother and gf).
Like my favorite gay pairings aren’t canon ok (Javert x Valjean, Naruto x Sasuke, Light x L). Call me greedy but I WANT A FAVE REAL GAY FICTIONAL CANON!
Can I just say I can only name 1 (yes ONE) canon gay pairing? Sherlock and Watson. Others I’m just not certain about. Like Pumba and Timon; and House and Wilson. Ok I lied there’s also RENT. Can’t forget that.
I mean no, it doesn’t have to be in 99% of the media (b/c then my fave straight pairing would be left out) but like it’s not really in the media AT ALL! Yeah there’s Milk and Black Swan, Lovelace, The Runaways but last time I checked those films didn’t get nearly as much attention as the other films (Twighlight uh god no-and not just b/c it promotes abusive boyfriends and submissive women, Avengers, Hunger Games). And when you see interviews it’s always like Yo GIRL what’s it like smooching your co-star GUY.
And in general, when you see a romance film or a film about straight couples, them being straight isn’t the main point b/c that’s how well society accepts straight couples. But like when there’s gay people in a film, they’re 1. usually minor characters and 2. we really only see them as gay.
While we’re on media, have you read GQ, Seventeen, Vogue, Glamour or any other of those types of magazines? They’re geared towards heterosexuals (I mean they mention gay people once in a while like Zachary Quinto-Star Trek).
I mean to read about gay couples, you have to read gay magazines (like OUT). Like they’re LITERALLY in SEPARATE magazines. That makes it VERY clear that they’re not accepted by mainstream media.
Also the fact that there’s no gay equivalent to The Notebook. Now I’m not a Nicholas Sparks fan, but I think there exists gay couples that are like the straight couples in that guy’s novels.
Here’s a super challenge for ya, name one (yes just ONE) gay couple that’s just as universally recognized as Romeo and Juliet.
this collection can be found on jmusicals. this has just been assembled for the sake of a tumblr post (and because i keep getting asked about it so HERE I PUT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE ON TUMBLR i don’t know how much easier it is BUT HERE YOU GO ANYWAY). for movie-related items see this masterpost by tumblr user euneirophrenial.
1980 Original French Concept | 1985 Original London Cast | 1987 Broadway Cast | 1987 Israeli Cast | 1988 Hungarian Cast | 1988 Complete Symphonic Recording | 1990 Swedish Cast | 1991 Dutch Cast | 1991 French Cast | 1992 Czech Cast | 1992 Danish Cast | 1993 Korean Cast | 1993 Spanish Cast | 1994 Japanese Red Cast | 1995 10th Anniversary Concert Cast | 1996 German Cast | 1996 Swedish Cast | 1998 Belgian Cast | 1998 Karaoke Album | 2000 Argentinian Cast | 2003 Berlin Cast | 2003 Japanese Green Cast | 2003 Japanese Orange Cast | 2003 Japanese Violet Cast | 2004 Karaoke Album | 2006 21st Anniversary Cast | 2008 Dutch Cast | 2008 Quebec Cast | 2010 UK Tour Cast | 2010 Polish Cast | 2010 Spanish Cast
This is a great start to the new day.
Happy Monday y’all
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I’m so fucking glad.
Like you can’t understand.
And I like her fashion style.
There is nothing wrong with being skeptical.
If someone says that South Carolina is advocating for Creationsim and all that BS in their school curriculum there is nothing wrong with calling out their shit and doing some damn Googling.
Having divorced parents means constantly being forced to play this annoying game of telephone.
The only difference is NO ONE IS EVER HAVING FUN.
And in the end you realize for them it seems like a contest of child ownership. Two adults having a superiority contest.
Next year I’m living on campus.
Finally
Okay but Tumblr can we stop pretending like we’re fact elitists.
/fuck the media, they lie/ as you go around spreading lies.
On March 20, 2013, the US Senate passed the Coburn amendment, an initiative which prohibits the National Science Foundation from funding political science research that does not explicitly promote “national security or the economic interests of the United States”.
As a result, the NSF - which currently funds 61 percent of American political science research - will retract nearly all its support. “It’s going to be hard for big political science to continue,” says John McIver, who ran NSF’s Political Science Program in the mid-1990s. Topics the NSF funded in the past included political participation, voting patterns and public culture.
This is HORRIBLE and yet the writer is correct. Most Americans don’t understand the significance of political science. I’ve seen many of my fellow students call is fodder and that’s just horrible.
The problem can’t be just academia-incomprehensible jargon (otherwise many science would not be funded).
This seems like another example of short sighted ness.
Anyways-excuse me while I go barf.
which they will be, I will be the first one to take out a billion dollar loan and waste away all my inheritance to go to outer space.
“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”-Carl Sagan
It’s odd when people say “I want to go to space”. Well, we’re in space. We are space. Yet this desire to be off this tiny blue dot is just so immense.
It doesn’t matter if it was only for five minutes (but if I’m spending a billion, I’d hope it’d be longer). or if we had to stay in a space shuttle and were not allowed to walk on the moon. Just being there…
I thought about how to answer this question for a while, anon. I thought about scratch-resistant glasses, and how their coating was first developed by NASA to protect astronaut helmet visors. I thought about ear thermometers, and how NASA’s Jet Propulsion lab…
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navaudio replied to your post: finally saw the Hobbit…
You mean younger audience, right? I figure that an older audience would prefer more character development and fewer fight scenes…No. The book was originally meant for children. Only…
Popping in a tiny bit, since the Hobbit is one of my all time fave books and I really enjoyed the movie.
I love the book, I really do. And thanks to it being such a limited POV from Bilbo’s perspective, I’ve got to say the movie actually DOES introduce a lot more character development for the dwarves than the book ever did. Thorin is more fleshed out than any of the others, and he’s really just presented as a bit of an asshole who ends up being not so bad in the end. The others? You know Fili and Kili are the youngest and Bombur is the fat one and that is seriously all you ever really know about the dwarves. They’re total ciphers. So, coming from that, I was really pleasantly surprised at how they managed to make them all memorable to me with quirks and different personalities.
So it’s interesting to me that you didn’t see that and found the character development lacking.
Hrm. Well, I can’t say I share the same adoration for the book, seeing as how I read it as a wee lass and don’t remember much detail.
But yes, I do understand this. I remember not being able to keep up with the dwarves at all in the book so having a visual reference in the movie was helpful - but I guess I’m very alone in the fact that I found the fight scenes to be boring, tedious and dragged out and just wanted to see more… characters…or uh… explanation?? I admit, we get a good Bilbo and Thorin, but the movie was clearly aimed at those familiar with the book and the Lord of the Rings series. Unlike the avengers where one may just pop in and truly appreciate all the characters and the storyline just for what they are, for one not having any knowledge of the world…..it was just kinda one big what even was that? Who are these people - ok theyer elves - what about the dude at the beginning was that the old elf I thought they didnt age that fast who are these peeps??
So, yes. I’m speaking from a point of view as someone who really doesn’t remember the book well, and didnt fancy the LotR series enough to pay too much attention….(I blame Frodo) and big books quite scarred me as a child and still do. I can quite see how a fan of the world and the characters would enjoy it much more though. So I am very glad you liked it.
Despite the lack in the book though, I just really wanted - NEEDED some sort of connection to these other characters…besides Bilbo and Thorin….even Gandolf was unimpressive to me…
However, I know I should handle this movie differently, because it is a series movie. I’m sure they plan to flush everything out more as they go alone, which is why with movies like this I cant just take one and take it seriously i need to see them all in a row and make my judgement.
(But I am still under the opinion that even a series movie should hold its ground individually. Such as Narnia and the Golden compass…though they never continued those…well fuck, everything I like it seems no one else really does so dont take my opinions to heart they are quite not looked well upon generally….)
I loved the Golden Compass (ok I haven’t actually read the entire His Dark Materials, but yeah the first book is amazing and God, I just love the names like Lyra). It’s really upsetting that the series isn’t being continued with more movies. The first one was great. Very accurate to the book-but it’s a complete different thing then LotR. Phillip Pullman presents great depth in the back stories and development of the characters.
Actually, you might be glad to know that Narnia is being continued http://www.narniaweb.com/2012/05/gresham-shares-plans-for-next-narnia-film/ ,the only thing that’s holding the series back is creative ownership issues. But Narnia wasn’t meant to be a full on series like LotR, only the first 2 really are. The rest are short stories about characters from the world of Narnia so they don’t actually have to be read in chronological order. The main characters from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Peter, Susan and Edmund) pop up later in the series but are more in the background.
I’ve never read The Hobbit or LotR, but thought the movies were amazing. But then again, I’m a huge fan of epic stories (stories that go on forever and go over the worlds in great detail). It’s a really long movie (2:45) so unless you’ve read the book or have a super long attention span for those types of movies I doubt you’d really enjoy it. The rest of the series will probably be like the first movie. All the LotR movies were VERY similar and I agree with you, there’s not really that much character development going on (EVER-well ok there’s Bilbo and in LotR, Sam, Merry, and Pippin (two silly cute hobbits) grew a lot, they’re my fave next to Smeagol).
Frodo was such an ass-and so was Bilbo. They are (in my opinion) the worst protagonists. Frodo was such a douche with all these anger management problems (he was like Emma Watson’s portrayal of Hermione in HP 3-7, overly depressed and annoying). He has really no redeeming qualities. In The Fellowship of the Rings, when he finally had the chance to destroy that sucker-he didn’t. If it weren’t for Smeagol, he would STILL have the ring.
The fighting scenes in The Hobbit weren’t very epic…and unless Kili and Fili were in danger, I really didn’t care. And it does have a lot to do with reason.
In the Avengers, they were fighting to save AMERICA from evil Norse creatures and it’s just “they have to win for FREEDOM!”. The symbolism for all the heroes were pretty straightforward which allowed for good understanding of the characters, and they all had unique easily to differentiate personalities. And we can get all this in the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, so we cared about the characters when they were fighting.
A lot of the characters in The Hobbit, even though they were unique from each other, weren’t that unique. So Thorin has a thing against Elves because they didn’t help him when he needed him. Moody but in a not-like-able way. Fili and Kili are like Merry and Pippin, which means they’re cool. Gandalf is this old wise wizard that disappears and re-appears in the movie whenever he feels like it (and he’s got good humor). And yeah, who are the other dwarves? It’s hard to care about them.
Your opinions are awesome and you know what? If you see the entire series and still don’t like it, that’s ok. Why do you have to like it? It’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no moreyou juST HAD TO FIND A WAY OF MAKING THIS QUOTE/SONG EVEN MORE PAINFUL, DIDN’T YOU TUMBLR
GODDAMN IT TUMBLR
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