pantyfire:

tomhardyvariations:

Yay, Focus Features has made the TTSS script available ahead of Oscar season. Download PDF here.

AHHH!!!!

This is DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT than the final script, you guys. o.O

blurintofocus:

Nine years ago I came out in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. My journey into gayness (I’m TMing that for an eventual novel, just fyi) wasn’t a terribly fraught one. I’m the child of liberals, I’d always been allowed to be myself, and while I knew when I was younger I wasn’t opposed to kissing…

OMG MY HOLIDAY INCLUDES THISSSSSSSSSSS.

OKAY THIS IS ALSO EQUALLY AWESOME.

forgotaboutche:

i’ve been looking up ‘poem battles’ or ‘flyting’—rap battles before rap. i always like poems that respond to others, but i wasn’t really aware that they’d also happen on the fly, and more often than not just ended up trying to insult one another the best they could. i have a couple that i’ll put…

The 17th century theologian Leo Allatius speculated in his essay De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba that the holy foreskin had ascended into heaven at the same time as Jesus, and had become the rings of Saturn.

I really have nothing to add to this. And I thought my understanding of medieval heresies was already weird enough.

lostgrrrls:

other-side-of-the-universe:

Today I finally stopped trying to pretend that everything is OK.  My relationship with my husband is unhealthy.  He is not physically abusive, but he is emotionally so.  I am here with him in the state of Mississippi.  I am from California.  I need to go home.  I need to be with friends and family, and I need to do it soon.

I am asking for a weird sort of help:  I am going to be doing emergency commissions.  Any amount of money you can spare will be returned with whatever sort of art you want.  I don’t think I would be able to finish most of it until I’m back in California, but it would be a huge priority and I promise to complete each and every one.

I don’t feel comfortable asking for money without giving in return (I barely feel comfortable with asking for commissions under normal conditions), but I’m not going to pretend this isn’t a hand out.  You would be doing me a huge service, and I will be repaying it in the only way I can - drawing things.

These would be watercolor paintings.

Almost all of the money I have made so far has gone into my joint bank account, and I don’t think I can trust him to give any of it back.  So basically all I have to MY name is $30.  A plane ticket from GPT to LAX is $430.

Please, this would mean so much to me.

There is no minimum requirement.  Just whatever you can give = painting from me.

My email is universe-pants@hotmail.com — my paypal is linked to that account..

Signal boost! Her etsy is here (sold items here), if you want to see what kind of watercolors she does usually… I dig it.

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Reading tumbr has become an exercise in masochism… it’s all just full of things like this, which I haven’t seen flagged elsewhere.  Why so much horrible horrible fail, world? .__.

lostgrrrls:

[TRIGGER WARNING for transphobia in some of the links and discussion of it in this post]

ilivesweat:

(Andy’s note: This piece was originally posted on Nathan’s blog, Queering Veganism. Nathan kindly gave me permission to repost it in full here on I Live Sweat. You can check out the…

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lostgrrrls:

hamandheroin:

When it comes to birth control, it’s a lot harder figuring out how to stop a bajillion little sperm than one little egg, but a scientist in India has managed to develop an injection for men that has so far proven to be 100% effective and completely reversible with no side effects. Sign me up.

The injection is called RISUG, which stands for “reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance.” Let’s just get the uncomfortable bit out of the way first: you can’t just be injected anywhere, the doctor has to stick a needle into your scrotum. Twice. Yeah, bad times, but you’ll deal, and here’s why: after two tiny injections taking all of 15 minutes, study after study has shown that the injection is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy. You won’t suffer any side effects at all, it lasts a minimum of 10 years, and it’s completely reversible with another few injections.

Here’s how it works: a non-toxic, positively charged polymer gets injected into the little tube that your sperm pass through on their way from your testicles to, you know, out. The polymer doesn’t actually block the tube, but it stays there, and when sperm (which have a negative charge) pass by, the charge differential from the polymer zaps them. All of them. Every time.

So why is this not available yet? Well, not to go all conspiracy theory on you, but drug companies aren’t especially interested in RISUG because they wouldn’t make any money on it. The injection lasts a decade and the syringe would likely end up costing more than what’s inside, so unlike male hormonal birth control (which they’ve been working on for years), patients wouldn’t need to keep paying for more medication every month.

Luckily, there’s a private foundation that’s working to get RISUG approved here in the US, although they have to start more or less from scratch to do it. The company is called Parsemus, and they recently got $100k from the Gates Foundation to see if RISUG might work on women, too.

In the meantime, Phase III trials are starting up in India, which is basically the last step before RISUG gets approved for use by anyone who wants it (in India, anyway) within the next few years. [via.]

When this first came across my dash I was thinking, “IS THIS REAL LIFE?” I mean, honestly, because we’ve been hearing about this for ages but seen no actual progress to speak of so I wasn’t willing to believe it outright. Checked the source, saw they linked back to Wired, who I personally trust more because I’m more familiar with their journalism, so… Woo! Full article with a TON more info is at that link. I haven’t read it yet but this is making me wish I’d re-upped my Wired subscription already… But I’m lazy.

Anyway, I’m very intrigued, and hoping this starts making waves here in the US once/if trials are done and approved. Birth control that fucks up our bodies, is painful, expensive, inconvenient, etc should no longer be JUST the uterus-bearer’s responsibility.

Fuck yeah progress!!

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thefloatingopera:

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Curious Owl Is Curiouser & Curiouser\

GREATEST THING EVS.

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