the disenchantment of the world

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:05:33 +0900

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.
So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her — boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:28 +0900

Valyria was the last ember, and Valyria is gone. The dragons are no more, the giants are dead, the children of the forest forgotten with all their lore. Sad to say, but magic is gone.

thequeenofscream: beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:10:24 +0900

thequeenofscream:

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

FUCKING THANK YOU.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:09:43 +0900

I’ve missed you.

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:07:48 +0900

_{I’ve missed you.}

Game of Thrones S03: My Understanding so Far

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:45:23 +0900

Game of Thrones S03: My Understanding so Far

friendlypokemonreminders: Friendly reminder that Magical...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:24:09 +0900

friendlypokemonreminders:

Friendly reminder that Magical Pokemon Journey had a chapter about the journey of a senile Quagsire to find the Charmander he’d been friends with in his youth, only to find her grave…and then he promptly forgot all about it and once again tried to find her.

insanity-in-motion: romanticizing-death: sixcatsandtwodogs: gi...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:46:47 +0900

insanity-in-motion:

romanticizing-death:

sixcatsandtwodogs:

gifcraft:

Stop the bullets. Kill the gun.

I held my breath at the last one.

IT WAS COOL AND THEN IT GOT SCARY AS SHIT

i’d say this is a very effective message

thedarklordsay10: priestlyandtish: drunkenspeecheson-sobriety: ...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:46:05 +0900

thedarklordsay10:

priestlyandtish:

drunkenspeecheson-sobriety:

reblogging again because it’s absolutely incredible

important as fuck

can i put this on my refrigerator

The leech was twisting in the king’s grip, trying to attach...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:40:58 +0900

The leech was twisting in the king’s grip, trying to attach itself to one of his fingers.

goldenwallen: 1- The White Hind (The Bride)Stoneware based...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:28 +0900

goldenwallen:

1- The White Hind (The Bride)
Stoneware based mixed media sculpture
68 x 50 x 18 inches | 173 x 127 x 46 cm

2-In Bocca al Lupo
Stoneware based mixed media sculpture
56 x 84 x 24 inches | 142 x 213 x 61 cm

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Mon, 20 May 2013 08:43:08 +0900

As a society, we are fascinated by fictional psychopaths....

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:06:23 +0900

As a society, we are fascinated by fictional psychopaths. Humankind has an ‘ongoing… fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villain. Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and aberrant psychology has proved a fertile source of such material to the novelist and the reader alike. Perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid cultural appeal as psychopathy.

There is no question… that readers feel empathy with and sympathy for fictional characters and other aspects of fictional worlds’, yet it is difficult to see how one can empathise and identify with a character who is himself incapable of empathy. If empathy and identification are both the goal and the reward of reading literature, then we are left with a striking ambivalence which needs to be explored.

theartofanimation: Yutaan

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:41:16 +0900

theartofanimation:

Yutaan

jazzumon: katzmatt: #male bonding omg

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:40:35 +0900

jazzumon:

katzmatt:

#male bonding

omg

riskycuriosity: artemisiumabsinthia: Josephine Baker, later...

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:37:50 +0900

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

yunuen: made rebloggable by request

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:11:03 +0900

yunuen:

made rebloggable by request

7u7: Gintoki is actually the best and this show is way smarter...

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:10:35 +0900

7u7:

Gintoki is actually the best and this show is way smarter than it gets credit for

leupagus: rheagars: Zach and Zoe on The Jonathan Ross Show...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:12:48 +0900

leupagus:

rheagars:

Zach and Zoe on The Jonathan Ross Show (x)

That last image where she laugh and then was like, “no but seriously I’m tapping that ass so much he’s basically a maple tree” kills me every time.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:11:14 +0900