PassMeABook

primeemeraldheiress

no-this-is-ryan

Saw this tweet and had to collect Ryan Gosling’s best PR quotes for Barbie

no-this-is-ryan

Hey uh brand new addition

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historia-vitae-magistras

Anonymous asked:

Can you give us your headcanons and thoughts on Belgium? What’s she like?

historia-vitae-magistras answered:

A very emotionally intelligent woman who has a track record of being very strongly attracted to whomever the current power is. Spain, Portugal, Venice, England, and America. She’s very good at getting what she needs without much effort in that arena.

She has very sturdy self esteem. Being one of two women in her region (Brighid being the other) made her something of a scarce resource, prized as much as the wealth generated by her territory. She’s beautiful and she knows she’s desirable. Beautiful, intelligent, hilarious witty, scathingly witty, artistic. She’s got that eye for trade and design that Jan has but with much better packaging, an eye for PR, and social skills. As a woman among the empires, she held a bit of a strange spot being just as culpable as anyone else but wielding power slightly less directly. But being in a corset doesn’t make her any less capable or culpable.

She loves her waffles and carbs. She is honestly so much better at making beer than the men around her but gets so little credit for it. She too this day has a love of textile work that belies the very strong leg up it gave her financially for much of her young adulthood. Belgian linen is to this day the conservation standard. She has an eye for making lace, and often makes her own curtains or cuffs well into modernity, probably picking it up again in the past few years.

She’s quite good at managing her dual linguistic communities, despite the grid lock it causes. And speaking from my own experience: I see her also tending to be the least judgmental of the francophonie at least as far as the accents gi. She gets a kick out of listening to people butcher French and Dutch, especially as many learned it in Flanders. She annoys Jan endlessly with her version of Dutch and wishes he’d get his head out of his ass but at the end of the day the big stupid € is who she has for family.

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neil-gaiman

socialjusticeinamerica

theconcealedweapon

Ruby Bridges is 68. This is not ancient history. Not even close.

neil-gaiman

I know Ruby. She's a really nice person. The idea that they would try and write what she did as a girl out of history is shocking to me on so many levels, the simplest of which is just, but don't they know how lovely she is?

jld-az

Ruby was in Tucson, AZ last Thanksgiving. I wasn't able to attend due to illness, but I appreciated the opportunity.

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mckitterick

probablyasocialecologist

‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply

Country suffering its worst drought in 74 years, with government even mixing saltwater into drinking supply

the Guardian

A plan to build a Google data centre that will use millions of litres of water a day has sparked anger in Uruguay, which is suffering its worst drought in 74 years.

Water shortages are so severe in the country that a state of emergency has been declared in Montevideo and the authorities have added salty water to the public drinking water supplies, prompting widespread protests.

Critics claim that the government is prioritising water for transnationals and agribusiness at the expense of its own citizens. Daniel Pena, a researcher at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, said: “Only a tiny proportion of water in Uruguay is used for human consumption. The majority is used for big agro industries, such as soya, rice and wood pulping. Now we have Google planning to use enormous quantities of water.”

mckitterick

the easy solution that would be best for everyone is to require corporations who use water during drought to build desalination plants to supply their water - that way, not only will the corpos not be stealing water necessary for life, but also if they ever back out of the country, the citizens will gain value from the corporation having been there

Source: theguardian.com

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teagrammy

lotrfansaredorcs-the-white

I love that thing in Lord of the Rings where the villains spend so much time obsessing over the character they believe is their Destined Archenemy that they overlook the character who actually defeats them

The Witch-King of Angmar, the Black Rider, seems to be Destined to fight the wizard Gandalf, the White Rider. He doesn’t consider Eowyn a threat right up until she stabs him in the face

Saruman is fixated on defeating Theoden, Aragorn and Gandalf in an Epic Light vs Dark Fantasy Battle at Helm’s Deep. So he completely overlooks the two hobbits and bunch of trees sitting right next door, who proceed to destroy Isengard

Sauron is fixated on defeating Aragorn, the Destined King of the Heroes and descendant of the man who defeated him last time. So he completely overlooks Frodo and Sam, who proceed to actually defeat him

squareallworthy

It’s not just villains. Sam considers Gollum a threat to Frodo’s quest, but in the end it’s Frodo’s decision that almost stops them, and Gollum’s obsession that saves them.

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stirringwinds

jedavu

Beautiful, Dramatic Illustrations Of Ocean Waves And Galaxies In Coffee Mugs

Victoria Siemer, a Brooklyn, New York-based graphic designer behind the heartbreaking ‘Human Error’ series, gives your morning cup of coffee an additional dose of surrealism with her latest project, entitled ‘Coffee Cup Manipulations’.

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