patheticfangirl:

I wrote a post about shipping, and it blew up in a way I never anticipated. Apparently my anger resonated with a lot of people, which is simultaneously amazing and sad. People who are completely outside the Avengers fandom have told me how closely my experience matches…

triasdays:

refinedimperfection:

2/2. Not my work, and unfortunately, I don’t have credits for these. Sorry!

Titans?

renkris:

thefangirlforeverything:

dracanth:

lexxerduglas:

notasenator:

olliethecello:

liamdryden:

This ring features a complete band of Gibeon Meteorite framed and mounted in an 18k gold band. The meteorite has been etched with nitric acid to reveal the characteristic patterns, or Widmanstatten figures, of iron meteorites, and set with 9 gemstones representing the planets of our Solar System. Mercury is represented by a rust colored Sapphire, Venus a golden Sapphire, Earth an irradiated blue Diamond, Mars a Ruby, Jupiter an Opal, Saturn a Cats Eye Chrysoberyl with an inlaid 24k gold ring, Uranus a green Sapphire, Neptune a blue Sapphire and Pluto a black Diamond. What really makes this ring special is that the band of meteorite spins independent of the gold ring, so when it is on, the planets rotate around the wearer’s finger.

TL;DR SPACE RING GIMME

“and set with 9 gemstones representing the planets of our Solar System.”

What.

Shhhh, Brian, shhhhhhhhhh some people don’t care that Pluto was recategorized okay it’s a cool ring shhhhhhhhh /paps

This is the best thing ever.

I need this so much. 

Aww, it has Pluto :)

Tom Hiddleston dancing. Again.

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tacitoz:

tonysboypussy:

lascocks:

carororo:

hils-k:

bringmehsomepie:

patheticfangirl:

This is my letter to angry fanboys.

First, let it be known that I love most fanboys. When I go to a con, most of the guys there are respectful. They share a passion with me, and that’s awesome. We’re all on a rock floating through space with little connection to most of the people who surround us, so anything that allows us to bond is fantastic.

What I don’t love are angry fanboys (I wish there were a different word for them). I don’t love being scoffed at when I jump excitedly at finding a comic. I don’t love being told that, if I didn’t like something, it’s because it wasn’t “meant for chicks.” I don’t love the notion that I’m not a real fan because I have two X chromosomes and like to look at the Avengers cast. And I sure as hell don’t love my online interests (particularly shipping) being looked down on by the people who do this:

(Comment on a negative Rotten Tomatoes review of The Avengers.)

(Message in my inbox. Way to be an anonymous coward.)

(Comment on the the SHH boards.)

That last one’s fairly tame. It followed a (now deleted) comment that went something to the effect of this: “Tumblr is sick. I can’t even browse the Avengers tag because of all the fangirls posting porn.”

Well, you know what? I’m not sorry.

I’m not sorry my enjoyment of fandom is different from yours.

Maybe my time would be better spent bitching at reviewers and complaining that Black Widow made it to film before Ant-Man. But that’s not what I choose to do. I choose to draw. I choose to write fanfic. I choose to share podcasts and make comic book recommendations. I choose to be positive (when I’m not pissed of at people like you anyway).

I’m not sorry you sometimes stumble upon sexualized male characters.

You know why? Because of this:

(Zatanna’s new “costume”)

And this:

(Starfire)

And this:

(Heroes for Hire #13)

And, finally, this:

(Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Hawkeye, and TITS AND ASS!)

You get to ogle comic book characters constantly. You get to ogle movie characters constantly. And you know what? While I have a problem with the double standard in comics, that is your right. Women are sexy.

But if I want to put Iron Man and Captain America on the cover of The Notebook or pose them like Cyclops and Jean Grey, I’m going to do it. And I think I have the right to without being thought of as some sort of freak.

(Shameless self-promotion.)

How is the way I enjoy my hobby less healthy than the way you enjoy yours? How am I the one who’s inappropriate? I think it’s because I sexualize male characters instead of female ones.

I’m not sorry that makes you uncomfortable.

(“Leave the Avengers aloooonnneeeee!”)

(Wasp would never say this.)

I’m not sorry you’re a homophobe.

Actually, I kind of am. Exploring alternate sexual orientations isn’t “defamation of character.” It’s 2012, for crying out loud. I’m not a lesbian (or curious for that matter) but I can appreciate the Spider-Woman/Ms.Marvel pairing and the occasional Pepper/Natasha fic. The world of internet fandom has a lot to offer you if you let it.

I’m not sorry for shipping.

Shipping is glorious. I ship because it’s nice to think that these epic heroes have equally epic romances. Some of the fanfic out there is better written than a lot of comic books. Some of the fanart is better than real comic book art (looking at you, Rob Liefeld). Some of the things I ship are canon (Spider-Man/MJ). Others aren’t.

(Not canon.)

There’s a misconception that fangirls are only interested in male/male pairings. Some of them are, and who cares? That’s their right. But the assumption just isn’t true. There’s a reason Natasha/Clint is popular among movie fans. There’s a reason Tony/Pepper is popular. Those characters have boatloads of chemistry.

Then again, so do Loki/Thor, Tony/Bruce, and Tony/Steve. Don’t want ladies to overwhelmingly ship male characters together? Make a movie with more than one female lead. We can’t help it that The Avengers is a sausage party.

We are going to ship. We are going to ship loudly and proudly and there’s nothing you can do about it. I suggest you stop complaining and jump on the bandwagon. You might be surprised at how much you enjoy fangirls when you get to know us. We have a sense of humor. We have a sense of fun. We just happen to also have a strong sense of romance and a thing for attractive men.

So sue us.

*STANDING OVATION*

Bless this post

So much this

Oh, I’m sorry, are people sexualizing your gender and then putting it on the internet in a way that makes you uncomfortable?  Welcome to every single day for women.

^^

i like it when the boys kiss

i absolutely fucking love this, god bless the hell out of you. 

it’s okay when woman are sexually objectified in comics, but when women start doing it, it’s wrong? good job boys, good job.

(I’m sorry but “hey if they’re doing it to us we can do it to them, even though we don’t like it being done to us” just sounds like hypocrisy to me somewhat :/ though there is a difference in fanwork and original work. Or could we start discussing about the extreme mysognism in hentai because of all the rape, objectification and all the other things? 8D ‘cumtoilet’ pretty much sums up the attitude on women in A LOT of hentais)

But oh god, so much agreed on especially the last part. If you don’t want us to ship m/m stuff, make some female characters we can actually care about or make their relationships interesting, dammit! (I mean a lot of female characters are ONLY there to be love interests and have nothing else interesting going on. That just reeks of ‘women are only there to be with their man’. Not necessarily talking about comics here btw)

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Idris Elba reveals the story behind the name of his production company ‘Green Door’ [x]

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monstermanga:

…make me wanna cry

 ねぇねぇ、by 追川うそ

Tina Fey talking about her daughter Alice.

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gokuma:

 #chris omfg #chris you dick #that is so australian oh my god

So now we know why in “Thor” there are two people with eyepatches

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pacify-eris:

How much does Saudi Arabia hate women? So much so that 15 girls died in a school fire in Mecca in 2002, after “morality police” barred them from fleeing the burning building — and kept firefighters from rescuing them — because the girls were not wearing headscarves and cloaks required in public. And nothing happened. No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced. 

from Mona Eltahawy’s Why Do They Hate Us? 

marielikestodraw:

fuck-it-fire-everything:

d’awwww

THEY ARE LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN LABRADOR PUPPIES, POLAR BEARS, AND SEALS.

I CAN NOT HOLD ALL OF THOSE FEELS RIGHT NOW.

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ikilledlordvoldemortonce:

That amazing moment when you realize

you

are

the

grinch

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