Abigail Wylie

flloom-galaxy: DC Icons by Melissa Smith

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:27:09 -0400

flloom-galaxy:

DC Icons by Melissa Smith

ssk0rne: Adam Thompson - Heroic Words of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:26:36 -0400

ssk0rne:

Adam Thompson - Heroic Words of Wisdom

superherooooooooooooooes

pellmellblog: bradofarrell: This year at E3 during the Xbox...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:58:09 -0400

pellmellblog:

bradofarrell:

This year at E3 during the Xbox panel during a scripted “trash talk” bit someone made a scripted rape joke (male gamer to girl gamer who sucks at a game: “just wait, it’ll all be over soon.”) and then they acted like it wasn’t a big deal and then they released an expensive, anti-consumer (DRM on physical games) piece of hardware. And then Sony just released the PS4 which is just the PS3 but better graphics and $100 cheaper than the Xbox. So THAT happened.

But then Nintendo just quietly released a bunch of great looking sequels for all of it’s major franchises (Mario, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, and Smash Bros.) and every single one of those games interestingly features playable female characters who haven’t been seen in decades like Dixie Kong and Princess Peach - and Pikmin now has a new female hero.

One of my favorite things about Peach in the new Mario game is that one of the power ups is a literal “cat suit” and Peach’s “cat suit” doesn’t sexualize her at ALL. You can’t even see her boobs. She just looks like she’s wearing over-sized footie pajamas it’s so cute. Also they added a pink letter to the Mario logo just to accommodate Peach’s re-inclusion into the franchise as a character with actual agency!

So at the end of the presentation they tell you to go to the Smash Bros website to find out about new characters. And then they announced this character, Wii Fit Trainer, on the site. And in an interview the director said he gets thousands of requests for almost every video game character under the sun and he’s gotten absolutely zero requests for this character and he put her in the game to be funny and defy fan expectation. This character is literally “hey fuck you we’re the ones making the games around here, and we’ll be goofy and funny if we want to and also check it out another female character in Smash.”

Also the inclusion of the Animal Crossing villager is interesting because Animal Crossing is VERY popular with girls and even though the villager is male I’m 100% certain his alternate costumes will include the girl default villager character. So that’s neat. The three Smash characters they announced were two girl(ish) characters from two girl(ish) games and then Mega Man.

Also in the new Animal Crossing game boys are allowed to cross dress and all of the animals are explicitly genderqueer in the dialog. Characters say stuff like “Boys can ware make up if they want to, I mean, it’s 2013, who cares?” and just today a jock rhino was looking deeply into my eyes and asking me to hike a football and I asked him if he loved me (which was one of the option out of other options about sports) and he was like “Oh I guess a lot can happen when you look into someone else’s eyes like that, huh?” He didn’t even care that we’re both guys. Also in the new Pokemon game you can be black.

Basically what I’m saying is Nintendo is quietly and systematically making their games more socially progressive and Microsoft made a rape joke and then said “what? it was a joke.”

Also, every one of Nintendo’s games looked like I would have actual fun playing them.

Also: colors. Remember colors?

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: The strange universe of laura...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:50:39 -0400

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

The strange universe of laura makabresku

This 25 year-old Polish artist based in Krakow has her own universe. According to her, it’s a beautiful but cruel fairy tales, haunted by death and supernatural elements. Her works are gloomy, sometimes disturbing. An impressive work on the atmosphere is done for each shot. Notice also the regular use of animals or animal masks. Discover more photos on her blog, her Facebook page and her Flickr.

Dan Savage talks to Stephen Colbert.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:33:30 -0400

SAVAGE: You know who has a single-payer (health insurance) model? Vatican City.
STEPHEN: Oh, yeah. This is it right there. (Makes the Sign of the Cross.)
SAVAGE: It covers everything but birth control because altar boys can't get pregnant. When altar boys start getting pregnant, it'll cover birth control too.
STEPHEN (sardonically): We're gonna gloss over that for a second.
SAVAGE: As the Catholic Church has done.

This reminds me of Trailer Park Boys…

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:31:30 -0400

This reminds me of Trailer Park Boys…

Photo

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:44:27 -0400

dope.

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:30:10 -0400

dope.

demidieux: Dali forming a skull entitled In Voluptas Mors...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:29:49 -0400

demidieux:

Dali forming a skull entitled In Voluptas Mors (Photography by Philippe Halsman) - 1951.

darksilenceinsuburbia: Felicia Olin. Fertility.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:20:29 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Felicia Olin. Fertility.

mica-universe: Anna Pavlova, with her pet swan Anna Pavlova is...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:18:22 -0400

mica-universe:

Anna Pavlova, with her pet swan

Anna Pavlova is my idol <3

“…those first few days are actually the easiest because the pain is so raw and real....

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:18:26 -0400

“…those first few days are actually the easiest because the pain is so raw and real. Sobbing feels cathartic. That’s at least a release. I can no longer control my self so I will sob. Cause. Reaction. But when you can control is when it gets worse. When the wound goes from fresh to scabbed. Then the numbness is insufferable. That becomes part of the story too. At least a small detail.”

andross: Jay Pharaoh imitates Stephen A. Smith on SNL Dead on.

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:40:31 -0400

andross:

Jay Pharaoh imitates Stephen A. Smith on SNL

Dead on.

“For the past few days, peaceful Turkish citizens have been...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:33:10 -0400

“For the past few days, peaceful Turkish citizens have been protesting the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park, one of the few green areas left in the center of Istanbul. The plan by the Erdogan-run AKP government is to build a large shopping center instead, benefitting his own interests and filling his own pockets.

What started with a mere 100 protestors turned into tens of thousands over the course of a few days. People camped out in the park, sang songs, read books, danced. I was there yesterday and it was heartwarming.

Prime Minister Erdogan made a public announcement two days ago stating, ‘We have made up our minds’, and that nothing will stop his plans to destroy the park.

He subsequently ordered his police forces to attack protestors in the park using water cannons and tear gas without warning in the early hours of the morning. This has been happening for the past two days, and continues as I write these words. Tents were burned as people slept in them, innocent citizens were dragged away and had tear gas sprayed directly into their faces, kicked and punched where they were on the ground. Bystanders on their way to work also got sprayed. The center of Istanbul is now a war-zone.

Innocent people are being attacked, injured and hospitalised There are unofficial reports of one person being dead with his ID confiscated by officials (an eerie replay of the May 1 attacks when an innocent young girl was put into a coma due to tear gas attacks. This girl was later labeled by the government as a terrorist)

This has become a matter about more than just saving trees. This has always been about more than that. This is an ‘I can do whatever I damn well want’, fascist mentality that not only heavily suppresses but openly attacks its own people.

To make matters worse, media channels are being censored so as not to display the news.

#direngeziparki is now the 2nd worldwide trending topic on Twitter.

As our friends overseas, we need your help. Send this message to everyone you know. Amnesty International has already announced it condemns the use of excessive force against the protestors, and has called on the Turkish police to stop the use of violence, and to respect the protestors’ rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. But it hasn’t helped.

The protests have and will continue despite the abuse but it needs all the attention it can get, especially considering Turkish news channels heavily alter and misrepresent the nature of what is actually occurring in the heart of Istanbul.

Please create awareness internationally about our plight, or matters are going to get much, much worse. We want all international media channels - soclal and mass - to report this news.

Please help us to share this message and stop Erdogan’s ruthless, inhumane acts. In a never-ending series of human rights abuses that have occurred under his leadership, this is the last straw.”

dynamicafrica: “The white man is very clever. He came quietly...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:30:20 -0400

dynamicafrica:

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

absolutely love this book sooo sooo much.

fygr: Experience Grand Rapids | Pure Michigan (by...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:21:00 -0400

fygr:

Experience Grand Rapids | Pure Michigan (by GrandRapidsCVB)

Te echare de menos, Higuain!

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:19:53 -0400

Te echare de menos, Higuain!

norwegianshieldmaiden: lavablizzaga: openlayla64: littleteashi...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:01:22 -0400

norwegianshieldmaiden:

lavablizzaga:

openlayla64:

littleteashi:

You should have heard by now from the news and at twitter about what happened in my country…

Just terrible.

Fucked.

I dont understand how the first pic turned out to be a thing that was deadly for people? What was the trigger that caused the police to do this? It has to be more than people showing them books?

If people showing the police books at a protest is enough for them to act like this, its unbelieveable :| And ofc im reblogging.

Photo

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:57:23 -0400

"He blessed you with the same intelligence as others,but your intelligence has been so warped, so..."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:53:15 -0400

““He blessed you with the same intelligence as others,but your intelligence has been so warped, so abused as to make you almost the slave of those who thought more of life and know how to husband it, so as to get the best out of it.””

- (Marcus Garvey)