All the Joy That Could Be

i want to belong to the living
animalstalkinginallcaps: COME WITH ME ALICE. YOU’RE TOO WILD, TOO BEAUTIFUL, TO LIVE IN CHAINS. YOU BELONG OUT HERE. A ROSE IN A VASE IS NOT A ROSE IN THE FIELD. IT WITHERS. WHERE WOULD WE GO, LUKE? WHAT WOULD WE EAT? ANYWHERE WE WANT, MY LOVE, AND ANYTHING WE CAN CATCH OR FIND IN DUMPSTERS. YOU THINK YOU HAVE SECURITY BUT YOU HAVE SHACKLES. YOU THINK YOU ARE LOVED BUT YOU ARE A TOY FOR OTHERS’ AMUSEMENT. I WILL SHOW YOU FREEDOM. TOGETHER WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE. WE WILL SET THE WORLD AFLAME. I DON’T KNOW, LUKE. YOU’RE JUST TOO DAMNED HANDSOME TO TRUST. I CAN’T HELP THAT, ALICE. I WAS BORN THIS WAY. THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW IS OPEN. DON’T PACK A BAG.  I want a fucking pet raccoon NAO.

animalstalkinginallcaps:

COME WITH ME ALICE. YOU’RE TOO WILD, TOO BEAUTIFUL, TO LIVE IN CHAINS. YOU BELONG OUT HERE. A ROSE IN A VASE IS NOT A ROSE IN THE FIELD. IT WITHERS.

WHERE WOULD WE GO, LUKE? WHAT WOULD WE EAT?

ANYWHERE WE WANT, MY LOVE, AND ANYTHING WE CAN CATCH OR FIND IN DUMPSTERS. YOU THINK YOU HAVE SECURITY BUT YOU HAVE SHACKLES. YOU THINK YOU ARE LOVED BUT YOU ARE A TOY FOR OTHERS’ AMUSEMENT. I WILL SHOW YOU FREEDOM. TOGETHER WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE. WE WILL SET THE WORLD AFLAME.

I DON’T KNOW, LUKE. YOU’RE JUST TOO DAMNED HANDSOME TO TRUST.

I CAN’T HELP THAT, ALICE. I WAS BORN THIS WAY. THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW IS OPEN. DON’T PACK A BAG. 

I want a fucking pet raccoon NAO.

xtremecaffeine: athenasaurus: geekquality: Our latest guest contributor, Miranda, was inspired by her apprehension about watching Firefly to write her post. She laments the way Western pop culture often paints Asian characters and cultures in broad strokes, seemingly without caring about unique backgrounds or attentive characterization. Read her post on our site. One million times word: In fact, Western pop culture doesn’t truly love “Asian culture,” which is an entirely simplistic and misguided phrase. What it loves is a stereotypical pan-Oriental culture where all of Asia looks like China Town. All the men are kung-fu masters, triad members or shy nerds with small penises. All the women are dragon ladies or demure geisha girls who want to love you long time. Western pop culture cares about Bollywood dancers and Chinese acrobats. It cares about giggly Japanese school girls and brooding Yakuza members. It cares about pandas and Hello Kitty. It does not care about me. I have to admit, the fact that the show has this conceit of “the only superpowers who colonised space were the US and China” and uses Chinese iconography, costume, and the language EXTENSIVELY, and without having even one vaguely East-Asian character? Jarring. Very jarring, very disappointing, and although I enjoyed the show and I’m hanging on to it (until I need the hard drive space) I wouldn’t watch it again. I love Firefly, but nobody else I know who likes it ever talks about this. Great post.

xtremecaffeine:

athenasaurus:

geekquality:

Our latest guest contributor, Miranda, was inspired by her apprehension about watching Firefly to write her post. She laments the way Western pop culture often paints Asian characters and cultures in broad strokes, seemingly without caring about unique backgrounds or attentive characterization. Read her post on our site.

One million times word:

In fact, Western pop culture doesn’t truly love “Asian culture,” which is an entirely simplistic and misguided phrase. What it loves is a stereotypical pan-Oriental culture where all of Asia looks like China Town. All the men are kung-fu masters, triad members or shy nerds with small penises. All the women are dragon ladies or demure geisha girls who want to love you long time. Western pop culture cares about Bollywood dancers and Chinese acrobats. It cares about giggly Japanese school girls and brooding Yakuza members. It cares about pandas and Hello Kitty. It does not care about me.

I have to admit, the fact that the show has this conceit of “the only superpowers who colonised space were the US and China” and uses Chinese iconography, costume, and the language EXTENSIVELY, and without having even one vaguely East-Asian character? Jarring. Very jarring, very disappointing, and although I enjoyed the show and I’m hanging on to it (until I need the hard drive space) I wouldn’t watch it again.

I love Firefly, but nobody else I know who likes it ever talks about this. Great post.

(via racemash)

fuckyeahweddingideas: As only a man would… So uh, call me pervy, but when you enlarge this pic it gets a little… um… o_0

fuckyeahweddingideas:

As only a man would…

So uh, call me pervy, but when you enlarge this pic it gets a little… um… o_0

wilwheaton: YES, TUMBLR, I UNDER-FUCKING-STAND.  WE ALL UNDER-FUCKING-STAND. WHY DON’T YOU UNDER-FUCKING-STAND, TUMBLR, THAT WE USE MISSING E BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME? STOP MAKING ME TELL YOU THAT I UNDERSTAND, AND WORK ON DEVELOPMENT SO I DON’T NEED MISSING E.

wilwheaton:

YES, TUMBLR, I UNDER-FUCKING-STAND. 

WE ALL UNDER-FUCKING-STAND.

WHY DON’T YOU UNDER-FUCKING-STAND, TUMBLR, THAT WE USE MISSING E BECAUSE IT IS AWESOME?

STOP MAKING ME TELL YOU THAT I UNDERSTAND, AND WORK ON DEVELOPMENT SO I DON’T NEED MISSING E.

FCC Chairman Says It’s Okay to Be Charged for the Amount of Broadband You Use

wilwheaton:

Mr. Genachowski said tiered pricing, will “increase consumer choice and competition” and yield in “lower prices for people who consume less broadband.” Although, as Electronista notes, “he did not clarify what mechanism would drive prices down.”

Public interest groups have decried the potential impact broadband data caps will have on the market and innovation, not to mention the biases baked in the plans. Comcast, for example, counts Netflix video into its data plan, but lets its own XFinity service stream away.

 …“increase consumer choice and competition”… yeah, that’s exactly what will happen. I mean, except for how that’s not what’s going to happen, at all.