tim-official:

demi-ro-demi:

tim-official:

impostor syndrome is a common problem in academia. For example my colleagues keep putting me in the airlock and ejecting me into space

Uh.. if you’re not the imposter how do you keep coming back?

tenure

explorerrowan:

shahmeran:

a compilation of my favorite pride & prejudice posts 😌

Y'all understand that this was absolutely a thing, especially among young women of the time, right? Like, Jane Austen was writing those books with her friends in mind. All the young ladies loved cheap little fiction serials, and they’d write letters back and forth to each other about Fitzwilliam Darcy or Sherlock Holmes or whoever. They’d have reading circles, where they’d all bring a copy of the same book and read together and laugh or swoon or cry together as appropriate. Novel-reading was the hobby chauvinist men mocked them for, said it rotted their minds, and made them prone to independence, subversive politics, and lesbianism. (Which wasn’t entirely untrue, because a lot those old serials were absolutely socialist and queer. In some cases, women went to pretty absurd lengths to make sure that no men were ever interested enough to find out what was between the pages.)

If their favorite serial novel stopped being printed for some reason, or ended in a way they didn’t like, they would engage in MASSIVE letter writing campaigns to the publishers and newspapers to bring it back. They’d write spin-offs and tie-ins and such if they felt like it, and sent their fanfic manuscripts off to the newspaper to be published, because this was before copyright was really a thing for intellectual property.

Fandom doesn’t change. It’s always been passionate, creative, borderline obsessive, full of shenanigans, and women-led.

moonymango:

nunyabizni:

thank goodness for honest people

Bank director when receiving the letter:

Bank director when someone actually appears in the vault:

shaelit:

dancinginthesetrees:

nicollekidman:

natalie portman radiates such a terrifying energy i can’t describe it….. it’s not exactly evil but it’s not warm either…. i feel like she could unhinge her jaw and drag me into the ocean like a kraken but she wouldn’t bc it’s undignified 

Wanna know why?

“Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman told the crowd at Saturday’s Women’s March in downtown Los Angeles that she experienced what she calls “sexual terrorism” as a 13-year-old after the release of the film The Professional.

Portman described her pride and excitement in releasing the film, only to encounter sexually explicit messages both directed toward her and made about her.

”I excitedly opened my first fan mail to read a rape fantasy that a man had written me,” she recalled. “A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday, euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with. Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews.”

The experience, she said, changed the way she expressed herself publicly, in order to limit the ways she could be objectified by others.

”I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe,” she said. “And that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort. So I quickly adjusted my behavior. I rejected any role that even had a kissing scene and talked about that choice deliberately in interviews. I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was. And I cultivated an elegant way of dressing. I built a reputation for basically being prudish, conservative, nerdy, serious, in an attempt to feel that my body was safe and that my voice would be listened to.”

Video of the speech here: https://www.vox.com/2018/1/21/16917130/natalie-portman-womens-march

I support Natalie Portman unhinging her jaw and dragging every last man who made her feel this way into the deep like a kraken.

ninjakittenarmy:

akinaw:

the-mighty-birdy:

jaubaius:

Hummingbird mom with her babies

I know the size of the chicks SHOULDN’T surprise me, given the size of the adults, but by God it still does.

silima:

ALT

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they think they’re absolutely hilarious

marisatomay:

marisatomay:

we were all sitting around in a post-present haze when my brother blurts out “shit I need to take my meds” and all of us get up because all of us collectively forgot to take our meds

merry christmas take your meds

peroxider:

darkwebdad:

listening to phil collins

I hope that all internet content is obliterated except for this video

transliquidsnake:

donutsandsamurai:

Had me going for a sec

jonrkennex:

merry christmas to everyone who didn’t get presents today because their family couldn’t afford it and merry christmas to everyone who couldn’t make it home for the holidays and merry christmas to everyone spending it alone i want you all to know that i hope you all have a great great end of the year and i love you all and even if your holidays weren’t how you pictured them i hope you still have a good rest of the holidays and year