theprincessonfire:

Monsters, Inc. provides such a good example of social construction. Children aren’t toxic, but the monsters have always been told they are, so they believe it until Sulley proves otherwise. A child coming into their world was their worst nightmare because they were so misinformed, proving that education about and tolerance for those who are different is key in breaking down our oppressive social constructions. 

GUYS

I JUST FOUND THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS TAG

fishingboatproceeds:

thehelixnebula:

fishingboatproceeds:

I made you a video critically analyzing GIFs of animals interrupting sporting events. (Really.)

Insightful, but you pronounced “gif” differently than I do the first two times you used it so we can’t be friends anymore…

I know you are just kidding, thehelixnebula, but many people are up in arms over my use of both pronunciations of gif in this video.

I used them both because they are both correct pronunciations.

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BOTHARECORRECT.GIF

Critical Analysis for the win!

shitmystudentswrite:

Romeo can’t really be blamed for Ophelia’s death.

In a way, you can argue that he can be blamed.  Romeo and Juliet is generally thought to have been produced before Hamlet, meaning that Shakespeare’s success in the theater allowed him to continue writing.  Essentially, Romeo’s presence on stage is what allowed Shakespeare to kill Ophelia. 

Granted, the original sentence is probably talking about the actions of the characters themselves.  BUT YOU NEVER KNOW.  Hamlet left Denmark to go to school!  We never find out what Romeo was up to outside the scope of his text!  Romeo could have been giving Hamlet bad relationship advice!  He’s certainly capable of it.

(via mewithanie)

arrest-the-scarf:

jaredpotterloki:

when i say i like harry potter i don’t mean yeah hp is pretty cool i mean i have literally grown

I up with it surrounding my life i have been reading and rereading the books for as long as i can remember and i can quote the movies word for word and my hogwarts house is a massive part of my identity and it actually physically pains me that i never got my hogwarts letter and i just

#I don’t blog that much hp because it would be like blogging about having feet

I legit had an imaginary conversation today where I was winning some sort of writing award (?) and I was talking about how big an influence Harry Potter had been on my formative years.

I hope someday I’ll actually be able to have this conversation in real life.

(via snh-snh-snh)

at-the-barricades-of-freedom:

Let’s take a look at a few of my favs so far;

Sassy Waterstones worker, I love you,

And well this is true:

Sometimes I do worry about their psyche though:

They make up cool new words;

They’re a sassy little shit.

And best of all, the Holden debacle;

And one more for good luck:

(via jumpingjacktrash)

kalliopestarmist:

diagondaley:

The Magic Begins ϟ Day 8:  Something you really wanted to be in the movies, but wasn’t - Harry’s Sarcasm

Oh god. All of these. Harry. I love you. Never forget that.

davidmalki:

“Oh, sweet, you put your vacation pictures in an album? Share it on Facebook? That’s cool. Me? Oh, I Photoshop them into fake book covers. And sometimes the act of taking the picture suggests the title of the book.”

From the back cover:

The S.S. Manheim Falls has never been seen before in Alaskan waters. No registry or dockmaster has ever heard its name; no sailor knows any member of its crew. Yet the captain and mates of the Manheim Falls know every single person in Prudhoe Bay. Every detail about their lives, every word they every spoke, every petty jealousy they never uttered to another soul. And they do not appear to be leaving anytime soon.

As the cruel, sadistic crewmen of the Manheim Falls begin to toy mercilessly with the lives of the town, a strange thing begins to happen: the residents of Prudhoe Bay begin to understand the speech of the birds. The seagulls, terns and albatrosses suddenly have stories of their own. And one pelican in particular seems to know a secret about the Manheim Falls…

By turns suspenseful, whimsical, mysterious and hilarious, The Blackguard Pelican of Prudhoe Bay deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who’s ever looked into the eyes of an animal, and wondered what secrets might lay locked within.

Behold elusive Time, who sails the border

Seas with hooded Knowledge

Questing for the ever-growing Tree
Of vivid Productivity,
Whose myriad arms of unencumbered grace
Are vis’ble not unto the eyes of Man,
But only ever to the gaze of one
Who has passed through the Fires of Endless Toil,

Seen the shores of Labor and of Love,
And been transmuted. Only after such
Encounters will the Tree unfurl its boughs,
Caress the foamy water’s edge,
And Time admit to its fecund embrace.

We wait upon the bluffs of rocky Purgatory
Lingering, hoping for a glimpse of Time
As she advances, Knowledge at her side
In their coracle, by wind and tide attended.
The sea’s a medium inimical, the sky
Oblivious to our yearning for departure
From that crumbling land, which, as we on it stand,
Decays by breath and heartbeat.
There is no Hope left here, no vivacious Future
To which we can aspire.  Just the sight
Of Time passing, always beyond reach,
The desperation of our unenlightened efforts,
And our demise, as we sink beneath the surface.

………………

©2013 mockturtle8

This poem is dedicated to KalliopeStarmist, because I wrote it instead of talking to her on skype last week.  Sorry it’s not an anonymous 75 pages.

sophisticatedlesbian:

davidtenthofaninch:

needlesslydefiantwithtea:

lookingforjennaushkowitz:

alicedaydreams:

From the brilliant minds of Sarah Enni, Tracey Neithercott, and Erin Bowman, colorful and funny book jackets that tell people your true feelings when reading: GO AWAY. :)

Designed by Erin Bowman (her Tumblr is here)

(Source: http://www.embowman.com/2012/go-away-im-reading)

These are brilliant!

‘Specially the “At Hogwarts, BRB” and the “In the Arena, BRB” ones!

IN FORKS SEND HELP 

IN FORKS SEND HELP

Something nice about Japanese bookstores: they always put a cover on the book (saying where you bought it usually). Now I feel like my books are naked when they don’t have covers. X3 

So these are a thing that I need, in case you were wondering.

(via snh-snh-snh)