Prowling In The Moonlight

The Worst Fanfic Ever

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:32 -0700

rustedpantheress:

idaman008:

The final crossover, as described and role played out by The Rag-NERD-rok Crew, was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic meets Zoobilee Zoo meets Les Miserables meets Quantum Leap meets Dead Space.

It was as good as you’d imagine it would be.

Stay tuned for the episode next Wednesday to listen for yourselves

Do I even want to know?

No, I don’t. Is it even worse than My Immortal?

For the latest episode of Rag-NERD-rok, we decided that we would each pick a movie / TV series / video game / book / etc. and brainstorm the plot of a massive five-way crossover fanfic. We recorded the brainstorming session, which ended up turning into a bit of a roleplay. Some of us did voices and one of us sang some improvised lyrics to the songs from Les Mis.

We are going to put this online for people to hear next week. I’ll probably post the audio up here, too.

EDIT: I think my favorite part was when Monsieur Thenardier teamed up with Bravo Fox to swindle the King of the Necromorphs out of Zoobilee Zoo money.

Oh damn.

And that part does sound fucking awesome.

asilookatthemoon: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:43:48 -0700

asilookatthemoon:

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog.
I feel like I’ve been preparing for this image all my life.

The internet is over, everyone can go home

It’s just as beautiful as I always imagined.

My life is complete.

stuckinabucket: mrsbenevolent: omfg simon pegg omg Damn you,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:43:21 -0700

stuckinabucket:

mrsbenevolent:

omfg simon pegg omg

Damn you, Simon Pegg.

0rdinarykid: I forgot to cat

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:41:53 -0700

0rdinarykid:

I forgot to cat

in the spring i'll watch my step: pickmanslovelymodel: “it could be that this is some degree of sexism ....

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:40:48 -0700

in the spring i'll watch my step: pickmanslovelymodel: “it could be that this is some degree of sexism ....:

pickmanslovelymodel:

“it could be that this is some degree of sexism . m.i.a. had to deal with this with the respected website pitchfork.com where they assumed that diplo had produced all of her kala album without reading any credit list or nothing , it just had to be , it couldn´t have…

The Worst Fanfic Ever

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:55 -0700

idaman008:

The final crossover, as described and role played out by The Rag-NERD-rok Crew, was My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic meets Zoobilee Zoo meets Les Miserables meets Quantum Leap meets Dead Space.

It was as good as you’d imagine it would be.

Stay tuned for the episode next Wednesday to listen for yourselves

Do I even want to know?

No, I don’t. Is it even worse than My Immortal?

"Jason Richwine’s dissertation is an example of scientific racism - the use of science or social..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:36:40 -0700

“

Jason Richwine’s dissertation is an example of scientific racism - the use of science or social science to explain the inferiority of a racialized group. Scientific racism has no place in twenty-first century academia.

In 2009, Jason Richwine successfully defended a dissertation at Harvard University where he wrote that Hispanic immigrants have a substantially lower I.Q. than the white native-born population and that, because of the hereditary nature of I.Q., this fact should be taken into consideration when designing immigration policy. In May 2013, Richwine’s views became public as part of his role in writing an immigration policy report for the Heritage Foundation. …

As academics, we find it appalling that, in 2009, three professors at Harvard University were willing to guide and approve a dissertation in this academic tradition. There are two central problems with Richwine’s work that should not pass muster in any dissertation committee: 1) the argument that I.Q. scores are an indication of intelligence; and 2) the idea that I.Q. is a genetic trait. Both ideas have been discredited and both are linked to an unfortunate history of scientific racism. …

Dean Ellwood at Harvard Kennedy School takes the position that this dissertation is part of an academic debate. However, there is no academic debate on whether or not Hispanics as a group are less intelligent than native-born whites. There are debates on whether or not Hispanic is a pan-ethnic, ethnic, or racialized category. There are debates on how and whether or why we should measure intelligence. There are debates on the extent to which intelligence is a heritable trait. But, there are no debates on whether or not Latino immigrants have the intellectual caliber to be part of the United States. Those kinds of debates happen in nativist and white supremacist circles, which have no place in academia, which prizes arguments and debates based on valid constructs and scientific evidence.

”

- ASA Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities

academia has come so far, but still has so far to go
(via feministsociology)

"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:35:42 -0700

“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign.””

- Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)

trashfemme: miss—mystique: dorkly: The Sims Career Ladder I...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:34:33 -0700

trashfemme:

miss—mystique:

dorkly:

The Sims Career Ladder

I am crying

tartanfics: teamponytail: Literally screamed and then slammed...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:33:59 -0700

tartanfics:

teamponytail:

Literally screamed and then slammed my forehead on the table. I WAS GONNA GO UP THIS MORNING TOO.

Man, I used to go to NaNo write-ins at Wayward.

"Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:31:15 -0700

“Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”

- Terry Pratchett, Snuff (via bibliophilemartini)

worthlessvegetable: karenweston: chema madoz is a surrealist...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:30:49 -0700

worthlessvegetable:

karenweston:

chema madoz is a surrealist photographer whose work i’ve seen floating around the interwebs but never knew who was behind them. his work stoof out to me because it was funny and clever, which is a unique quality for surrealism.

I *love* these

art-of-swords: Dagger Set Unknown Artist / Maker Dated: circa...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:29:55 -0700

art-of-swords:

Dagger Set

Unknown Artist / Maker

Dated: circa 1600

Culture: German

Mediul: Steel, silver, gold and antler, false-damascened and inlaid

Measurements: Length: 23.7 cm, blade; width: 2 cm; weight: 0.225 kg

Inscription: ‘I I H I N I N’

Source & Copyright: The Wallace Collection

Argument I heard on the bus

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:29:30 -0700

Guy 1: no, niggah, gay bros can raise babies. Look at that warthog motherfucker and that ferret thing that raised Simba. And that niggah became king of motherfucking Africa.

chocobo-strider: the-disney-words: SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR! -...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:05:08 -0700

chocobo-strider:

the-disney-words:

SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!

- Let’s try and get 100k notes

True shit

A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:

“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features. One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market. By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users. Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way. It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community. With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users. Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily. A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated. By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.

To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger. I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed. No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users. Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil

As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility. I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.

We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.

Favorite Looks of the 2013 Grammy Awards Janelle Monáe

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:40 -0700

Favorite Looks of the 2013 Grammy Awards

Janelle Monáe

Let me make this clear

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:25 -0700

rai-redemption:

This is cosplay

this is fun

this is expressing yourself and the chracter

for all fandoms to enjoy

no matter what YOU look like

or what gender you are

as long as you are having fun

that is cosplay

toni-tan: It’s good to see that you dont have to stop posting...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:02:51 -0700

toni-tan:

It’s good to see that you dont have to stop posting stuff like this when you get famous

kingcheddarxvii: YOU CAN’T DEFY “READ” SIGNS AND THAT’S...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:48:29 -0700

kingcheddarxvii:

YOU CAN’T DEFY “READ” SIGNS AND THAT’S TERRIFYING

zyoteofalbion: a-cumberbatch-of-cookies: AND WITH THIS GIFSET...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:48:11 -0700

zyoteofalbion:

a-cumberbatch-of-cookies:

AND WITH THIS GIFSET MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE.

A king has to know these kinds of things.