It's in the Details

I'm a SoCal girl at the University of Alabama. I'm majoring in Foreign Languages and Linguistics. I'm pansexual, a huge nerd, and a fangirl. Many things will make more sense with reference to The Gentleman Friend.

olenna-redwyne:

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At this rate, Colbert might actually be held accountable in the near future for making transphobic jokes.

Go trigger warn some shit

That’s not transphobic, though. He’s making a point that because the LGBT agenda is “barreling forward at full-speed” that the B and T of LGBT is being left behind. Everyone is focusing on the L and the G that there are people who have no idea what the B and T even stand for. He’s not being transphobic or making a slight meant to make fun of or harm the bi and trans* community. He’s making a point that no one is focusing on them because they’re focusing on the lesbian and gay community.

Mother. Fucking. This.

People really need to realize that EVERYTHING Colbert says while on camera is satire.

Satire: The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the cotext of a play, novel, fiilm or other works.

He is not making a transphobic joke. He is not honestly saying that bi and trans people do not count/matter/exist. He is making humor in order to shed light on the fact that they are forgotten.

He is doing this to raise fucking awareness that there is more to LGBT than LG. He is raising a big flag that says “Hey, don’t forget about these guys. They count. They matter. Why aren’t you doing anything about them? Why aren’t they discussed?” He is not trying to say “They don’t matter.”

So please stop with the self righteous, self pity, “social justice” comments unless you know what you are talking about.

I do appreciate that Bisexual is matched with bacon. I rather enjoy bacon. 

This is why I love the Colbert Show.

Stephen Colbert is basically my hero.

wait, has someone actually taken The Colbert Report seriously?

oh damn, the world is ending

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What doesn’t get off the ground in English is ultimately a TV dinner, with peas in the cherry cobbler and weird-tasting cranberry sauce. What doesn’t get off the ground in Yiddish is…the single most important cultural figure in the history of the Western world, founder of its largest religion and…your god.

Michael Wex - Born To Kvetch (via missworthing)

AnthroGirl: Or as they say: He didn’t die, and he didn’t fly. Nisht gestorbn, nisht gefloygn.

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The version this book gave is nisht geshtoygn un nisht gefloygn. It didn’t climb up and it didn’t fly. I wonder if that’s a regional difference, or if it changed to rhyme in English instead of Yiddish.

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What doesn’t get off the ground in English is ultimately a TV dinner, with peas in the cherry cobbler and weird-tasting cranberry sauce. What doesn’t get off the ground in Yiddish is…the single most important cultural figure in the history of the Western world, founder of its largest religion and…your god.

Michael Wex - Born To Kvetch

sdrake:

Someday I will have to make a lecture in Tumbl-speak, but for now, this one slide will do.

I will also have to save it for all of my future linguistics lectures.

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But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Ursula Le Guin, from “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” (via the-final-sentence)

neil-gaiman:

butcherbilly:

The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends by Butcher Billy

Who are your heroes?

Reblogged purely to make Amanda smile.

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I think most of their paycheck went to fixing the set

the 2nd gif is just great

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lizzyisfalling:

My favorite.

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aeedee:

I would like to take this opportunity to point out one thing.  This is an example of a male-targeted, vaguely ‘sexist’ commercial campaign that is genuinely funny, and clever enough for women to “get the joke”.  These commercials, despite claiming Old Spice was a product for “men” and not ladies, were met with mutual appreciation from men and women, because it is:

A: Not stupid or flat in its humor or message

B: Not degrading to women

C: Genuinely funny

On top of that, these commercials featured a man that was trying to, above all else, make women happy.  He wasn’t trying to be a man because “ew being girly is dumb lol,” he was trying to be a man because “oh ladies I would love to impress you.”  And even though both of those messages are somewhat traditional ways of viewing and reinforcing gender standards and expectations, that fine line between them makes a world of difference.  Many of these pro-men campaigns are too insulting, or too small-minded, or simply not clever enough to make us “get the joke”.  But this campaign has humor that appeals to both men and women at the same time, by neither degrading nor bashing either of them.  Men can want to be like this man, and woman get to appreciate a man that is like this man. But at the same time, this campaign is too light-hearted and whimsical to hurt anyone’s feelings, so you can easily take it for the hilarious joke it is.

This campaign is not only funny, it’s clever, highly creative, intentionally over the top, and entertaining.  Everything that Dr. Pepper’s agonizing “Why don’t women get the joke about our manly soda?” campaign is not.

Yes.

Yep.