Since dwarves got the majority vote, I thought I’d kick things off with a lovely Wildhammer lady. :3
Gorgeous.
Cooking advice from someone who screwed up the chili:
When you look into the cupboard and see an ingredient and think “Oh, now wouldn’t that be interesting,” take your hand away, close the cupboard door and stick to the damn recipe.
On a completely related side note, mesquite bean powder and green chili are not necessarily the complimentary flavors you’d expect, given the geographical co-location of their growing regions.
…as Roberts rightly points out, there’s a significant difference between history as written and history as happened, with a further dissonance between both those states and history as it’s popularly perceived. For instance: female pirates – and, indeed, female pirates of colour – are very much an historical reality. The formidable Ching Shih, a former prostitute, commanded more than 1800 ships and 80,000 pirates, took on the British empire and was successful enough to eventually retire. There were female Muslim pirates and female Irish pirates – female pirates, in fact, from any number of places, times and backgrounds. But because their existence isn’t routinely taught or acknowledged, we assume them to be impossible.
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White man will say anything. ‘Niggas, don’t write on that wall! That’s illegal!’ Then he’ll find a mountain and put his face on it.
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Paul Mooney (via black-culture) not to mention the mountains the white man “finds” are owned by the indigenous (Sioux) people of the Black Hills and are regarded as sacred. but yeah, let a negro decorate a brick wall and whitey starts whipping out his baton (via theblacksupremacist) This amuses me tremendously because 1) I adore well-done graffiti and 2) we’re going to go see Mt. Rushmore this coming weekend. (I occasionally have daydreams of going back in time to around 1300 and setting up a satellite laser system which would first fire a warning shot in front of and then incinerate any European ship getting too close to the Americas.) (Magic, bitches, the world is flat and as far as you’re concerned you just hit the edge.) |
The Green Hills of Earth
Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me As they rove around the girth Of our lovely mother planet Of the cool, green hills of Earth. We rot in the moulds of Venus, We retch at her tainted breath. Foul are her flooded jungles, Crawling with unclean death. [ --- the harsh bright soil of Luna --- --- Saturn's rainbow rings --- --- the frozen night of Titan --- ] We've tried each spinning space mote And reckoned its true worth: Take us back again to the homes of men On the cool, green hills of Earth. The arching sky is calling Spacemen back to their trade. ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING! And the lights below us fade. Out ride the sons of Terra, Far drives the thundering jet, Up leaps a race of Earthmen, Out, far, and onward yet --- We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth; Let us rest our eyes on the friendly skies And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Spuds.
Got a bag of potatoes at the store. Yesterday, had a baked potato with chicken chili and sour cream; today had a baked potato with bacon jam, carrot slices, and bok choi. Tomorrow will be a baked potato with something. Dunno what.
And there’s still half a bag left. Anyone know any interesting, different baked potato recipes?
Lux’s Iron Man Giveaway [lux-laterna.tumblr.com]
The scoop:
So basically, for the release of IM3, I’m doing a giveaway. All you have to do is reblog this, and you’re entered for the grand prize. One person will be randomly chosen for that, and then out of everyone else, 3 others will randomly chosen for those. However, being the comic book nerd I am, I still want to know why you entered. If you get chosen and are just like “because I love RDJ so much omgasldkfjsa he’s just perf,” well, I need more than that. Tony Stark is generally an asshole, so if that’s why you love him, that’s what I want to hear. Why do /you/ love Iron Man, whether it be in the movies, or comic books - this is why you love/love to hate the genius behind the red and gold suit. That’s just for the grand prize though, so don’t worry. If you win one of the other three, knock your socks off. Still want to hear why you love or love to hate Tony Stark, but it won’t determine anything.
Again, reblog, and you’re in.
DEADLINE: JUNE 22nd {and will require 30,000 notes to be closed} GP winner will be contacted by the night of the 24th, and the others by June 30.
Rock on, and good luck, and get rebloggin.
{also, because these are fun, this won’t be the last giveaway I have}update: multiple reblogs are welcome. didn’t really think of this before. if possible though, please keep it down to three a day. i hate spam - i really do.
I did it all for the swag.
The biggest difference between Stark and other superheroes, both in the Marvel universe and elsewhere, is that his goodness is not instinctive. Superman is reflexively good, Spider-Man spends his life making up for one weak moment, and Bruce Wayne often seems to be incidentally wealthy as a byproduct of his efforts to improve life for everyone. Cap was born good, Thor was born good, Bruce Banner was born good. They’re certainly not perfect — crises of conscience arise over whether these guys want to get involved. “With great power comes great responsibility,” and so forth.
But Stark, as Robert Downey Jr. plays him, is a reflexively selfish, self-promoting, ego-driven person with a genuine tendency toward bluster and rudeness. What fascinates about him is that the power comes first and the decision to become good comes later. He was rich and powerful before he was decent, as the opening moments of this film make clear; he gives of himself by conscious choice, by teaching himself a kind of ethics that don’t come naturally. He does it reluctantly, always for a complex combination of selfish and unselfish reasons. Until you hit him close to home, he’d always rather stay out of trouble.
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- Linda Holmes, NPR(via dixiescotch) Oh, how very wonderful a quote. |
