Oh, God, I can hear something scrabbling around my room but I can’t find anything because it’s all a mess from my moving process, and I just REALLY hope it’s not coming from one of the boxes I already taped up.

thesanityclause:

Dear whoever makes movie things, make more discworld movie things. Specifically witch ones. But you could do the watch if you want. I am amenable to that.

Love,
Cassidy

(Source: sandandglass)

theonion:

Yahoo Back On Top After Purchasing Millions Of 13-Year-Old Girls’ Blogs: Full Report

cepelia:

Quick sketch of Mai (ATLA) and Ran Fan (FMA) 

screenburned:

the five stages of grief

gigifoundatardis:

I always forget about how much I love libraries until I walk into one.

Then suddenly, it hits me like a beautiful, inky wave: I love libraries.

I mean, let’s talk about how you can get  nonfiction books, magazines, newspapers, movies, TV shows, audio books, braille books, novels, art, and CDs all form one place… FOR FREE. It literally costs NOTHING for you— or anyone!— to go here and get this awesome stuff!

And you can even use the computer, print things, do research, do work, heck… you can probably play on tumblr there, too. And printing things is SUPER cheap. I printed my sister’s invitations for her party there and twenty copies only cost ten cents. That’s half a cent per invite! Where else can you do that?

And they do awesome stuff for the community. I walked into the library today and saw this….

They also have movie events, summer camps for kids, clubs for women, kids, men, gardeners, photographers, etc…. They have special guest speakers, and celebrations for books coming out, and animal adoption days. They do such wonderful stuff for our community. I love the library.

Besides this, they randomly have book sales! I just got a Psychology Today magazine, two steampunk novels, and a HUUUUGE Clive Barker book, all for forty cents!

And all the people, patrons and workers alike, are super nice. I was standing in front of the copy machine, trying to figure out how to get something to print, and a random person came up and helped me out. It was awesome. And the guy at the computer next to me kept an eye on my computer when I had to get up and go across the library to another printer.

Libraries are awesome.

Librarians are awesome.

Go to your local library today. (:

Also, Neil Gaiman thinks librarians are the best, so there’s that.

turdlewexler:

I just love this panel because here is Solf J. Kimblee — mass-murderer, amoral magnificent bastard, bomber, terrorist, and all around Bad Guy — and he’s like WHOA WHOA WHOA KID, YOU’VE GOT THIS ALL WRONG. I AM A LOT OF TERRIBLE THINGS, BUT EVEN SOMEONE AS EVIL AS ME WOULDN’T BE SEXUALLY INTERESTED IN A TEENAGER, HONESTLY!

For pete’s sake, even the evilest bad guy in this series has moral standards that draw the line at children. 

thegrandstonedblood:

mybluedecember:

princess-munchkin:

How the fuck does Bill Nye expect this to happen? What do you want to do, force women to enroll in science courses, regardless of whether or not they want to do it? Just for the sake of having “enough” women? Why the fuck do these fractions matter so much? It’s not like people are holding guns to our head and threatening to kill us if we become interested in science.

Maybe, just maybe, a lot of us DON’T FUCKING WANT to be scientists. Is that a crime?

Hi there, princess-munchkin. Female engineering student here. 

Bill Nye is not saying that you HAVE to be a scientist, and you are right that no one is holding a gun to my head because I am interested in science, but let me tell you some of the struggles of being a woman in the STEM fields. 

1) Because I am a woman, I am not expected these fields. I first fully realized this when I was in high school, on my robotics team. See, although my robotics team was about 50% female, most of the women were part of the “business administration” side of things: finance, marketting, PR, membership, etc. Was this a problem? Absolutely not. But I was there to be an engineer, and specifically, to be the robot programmer. This was met with a lot of hesitation at first from some of the other students (all of whom happened to be male. This is not necessarily a bad thing.) You see, all of the robot programmers before me were guys. Computer programming is just a thing that guys do, or so they thought. Even after I had proved myself to the mentors on the team, many of the students still underestimated my abilities. There were rumors going around that I wouldn’t have been able to program the robot at all if the lead software mentor wasn’t there to help me. This was just flat-out false, but it wasn’t until I won an award for the team that the other students actually saw my merit. 

2) There is not a lot of encouragement for women to go into these fields. I first noticed this when I was in elementary school. I was always interested in math, science, you name it, but many of my teachers and family members pushed that to the side for a long time. When I asked for legos for christmas, I would get ballet slippers. In fact, for a long time, I was training to be a professional dancer. I loved to dance. I loved math more, but no one seemed to notice that about me. It wasn’t until I had a long conversation with one particular teacher in high school that I decided to look into engineering. I had never even considered it as an option before, because no one decided to encourage me to pursue my interest in science. If it hadn’t been for that teacher, I would probably not be at the school I am at right now. 

3) For a long time, Engineering/Science/Math WAS a “boys only” club. Let me tell you when some of the top technical schools and societies started letting women in:

• RPI, The oldest tech school in the country, founded in 1824. Started admitting women in 1942 to “replace men called to war.” Campus housing for women wasn’t constructed until 1966. 
• Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honors Society - Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1968.
• Caltech - Currently rated #3 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1891. Started admitting women in 1970. 
• Georgia Tech - Currently rated #5 in undergraduate engineering. Founded in 1885. Started admitting women in 1952. 

Do you see the implications of this? Engineering has been a part of our society since around the late 1800s (in the case of RPI, since the 1820s), but women weren’t even allowed in for the most part until the 1950s, regardless of their merit. 

4) Because of the fact that it was a “boys only” club for such a long time, there are not a lot of women engineers and scientists to look up to. When you’re reading your physics, chemistry, and math text books, the majority of those theories were came up with by men. It is true that much of our history was written by White Men, but this does not mean that the fact that there are few women scientists to look up does not matter. 

So, as you can hopefully see, princess-munckin, or anyone else that shares the opinions of princess-munchkin, Bill Nye was not arguing that women that are not interested in STEM should go into those fields anyway. But he IS arguing against all of the systematic barriers set up against women who ARE interested in engineering and science. There are several women out there who are just as good as the boys at math and science, but will never pursue their interests because it just doesn’t seem like an option. That was me for a long time. I am super grateful for the fact that I fought against that, and that I ended up where I am. 

if you don’t like science, fine. Don’t be a scientist. But if one day you have a daughter and she shows interest in being a scientist, PLEASE encourage her. Because Bill Nye is right, there need to be more women scientists in the world. 

bless u female engineering student, and fuck you princess munchkin. Honestly “I CANT BELIEVE BILL NYE IS SAYING WE SHOULD ALL HAVE TO BE SCIENTISTS GAH THE PATRIARCHY”

shut the fuck up

(Source: scienceing)