Even the Orchestra Is Beautiful.: Archive

eddplant:

I haven’t done this yet but I intend to. The main arguments are:

Star Wars is Luke’s story, not Anakin’s

Nobody wants to watch backstory before they have a basic grasp of the story, nor after the story has been resolved

Episode I has a completely different tone to the rest of the saga

Jar Jar Binks

This is a fantastic idea. Who’s up for a Machete-Order viewing of the Star Wars…Pentalogy?!

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“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.” —Neil Gaiman (via rookiemag)

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#nerdfighteria #evolution #john green #your dreams can come true #Barack Obama #POTUS

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This is the text conversation that my father and I just had.

Daddy: I hope you didn't plan on going to school on Wednesday.
Me: Well I kind of did. Why?
Daddy: I found the pod racing game for the Nintendo 64 and I feel as though I need to kick your ass across the sands of Tatooine.
Me: Nothing important is happening at school on Wednesday so we'll see about that.
Daddy: May the force be with you.

Apr 30, 20126 notes

#I want to be this cool as a Dad #but srsly stay in school

i might make soup tomorrow and eat nothing but pig.

Apr 30, 2012

so instead of studying for finals...

stinkycollegekid:

I have been spending my time today watching 24 and planning how I’m going to propose to my girlfriend…in 2 years…she will be blown away <3

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#doin it rite

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msdistress:

linguafandom:

Just a few things:

All languages and all dialects, standard and vernacular alike, have “grammar.” Grammar is just a word that means “the order and patterns that we see happening in the language.” Saying “I only like people who use grammar correctly” is like saying “I only like dinosaurs who are dinosaurs.” No dinosaur is more or less dinosaur-y than another, unless we’re talking pterodactyls, which are technically flying lizards, not dinosaurs.

Linguists, generally, believe that all languages are created equal. Speaking one dialect and not another doesn’t make you inferior or superior to another person. That’s just who you are, baby. It makes you you. In my opinion, it’s okay to simply dislike a dialect because it doesn’t appeal to your sensibilities, but judging people based on how they sound is dumb. It’s like saying you prefer Tyrannosaurus Rexes, and because of that, Triceratops is totally the worst dinosaur and they’re so dumb because they’re not T-Rex. It’s okay to like T-Rex better. It’s not okay to dis on Triceratops because of that.

The formal standards we have that get taught in school and that we all learn are the best way to speak!!!!!! are standards because people in power made them so. Who wrote dictionaries? White dudes with access to printing presses and money. Who decided how we spell words? Those same white dudes (and sometimes, a white chick who, because she had $$$, got to proofread a white dude’s dictionary). Telling everyone who doesn’t speak the formal standard as a native dialect that their language is wrong or stupid sucks. Don’t do it. It’s like telling the Velociraptors that because they didn’t grow up acting like Deinonychuses, they’re never going to be as awesome as Deinonychus. Which is wrong, because I guess you never saw Jurassic Park.

Yes. A million times yes. Amen.

I feel like I shouldn’t have to to reblog this kind of thing again, but the dinosaur similes are too good.

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#avpm #bath #bubbles #joey richter #starkid #team starkid #Zac Efron

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The Doctor: I know you're team players and everything, but she'll definitely kill at least the first three of you.
River: Oh the first seven, easily.
The Doctor: Seven. Really?
River: Oh, eight for you, honey.
The Doctor: Stop it.
River: Make me.
The Doctor: Yeah well, maybe I will.

Apr 30, 201230 notes

#I just ship them hard and stuff

In Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope, Admiral Motti goes as far as to tell Darth Vadar “Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fort-“ His lack of faith in the Force is unnerving to Vadar who actually posses immense power, which he then uses to Force Choke Motti. In this era of the Star Wars universe there are very few people left with faith in the Force and those who have no faith in the Force laugh and slander those who do. The Jedi order had long since been dead (although it had only been roughly nineteen years, it was still called an ancient religion). In reality the Force was real and it was very powerful. This is a good example of what it is to be a Christian in the world today. We know the Truth about the immense power of Christ, His power and love beyond our wildest dreams, but those who do not believe the Truth, think of us as fools and slander our beliefs. Now we won’t go as far as to choke them out (most of the time) but because of our faith in the Truth of Christ we can rest assured that we are not the fools and that when our Savior comes back, like Luke in Star Wars, that the world will be amazed.

Once i saw where it was going, I was like

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