hi. So it’s been about 12 days since the thing started and yesterday we hit the crazy number. One million dollars. That’s a lot of money. Really too much money. I’ve never had a million dollars all of a sudden. and since we’re all sharing this experience and since it’s really your…
People always think that when you sleep together, there’s always something that is happening in between the sheets and the bed. But let me tell you, It’s not always like that. The feeling of actually hugging each other until you fall asleep, the warmth of each other’s breath, and the total happiness in the morning when you wake up right beside them. Everything may sound so good to be true, but sometimes it takes a lot of responsibility and love to be able to be as wholesome as possible. Sleeping with your special someone is one of the most heartwarming experiences you’ll ever have. No nothing, simply hugging and smiling yourself to sleep.
THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS.
I just want to be close and cuddle. Sleeping with someone is actually more pleasurable to me than other stuff.
Reblogged before, reblogged again. Also, because the lady is right.
Worth reblogging again for the text. Yes yes yes yes yes yes. Want so much.
Winter break is this and video games.
Yep, pretty much. They only left out one thing: earplugs (I’m a snorer).
The Maya did not predict the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012. That date simply happens to be 13.0.0.0.0 on the Long Count calendar, marking the end of the 13th “baktun” (a calendar unit that is 144,000 days long) and starts the beginning of the next baktun. The ending of such a…
Pretty much exactly what I’ve been saying about this for years.
I think it’s worth noting that 13.0.0.0.0 is especially significant to the Maya, but not for any doomsday-related reason. According to the Popol Vuh, a text containing many important Maya myths and stories, the current world is the fourth one created by the gods. All three previous world were destroyed for various failures, but this fourth world was a success, so it was here that they placed human beings. And it just so happened that the longest-lasting of these previous worlds ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19, one day before the start of the fourteenth b’ak’tun. Reaching 13.0.0.0.0 isn’t just like any other calendar turn: it’s the date that proves the success of this world where the others failed. I imagine that if anyone still holds to the beliefs of the Popol Vuh, they’ll be having a hell of a celebration.
(Incidentally, the farthest-future date mentioned in any surviving Maya texts corresponds to 13 October 4772. So much for that “why didn’t they keep making more dates after 2012?” argument.)
Wow. so 4772. I wonder why so far forward?
One major Palenque ruler was very proactive in scheduling his anniversary celebrations.
(And it was 21 October, not 13, my mistake. 13 October is still significant, though, since it marks the day 1.0.0.0.0.0, the start of the second piktun (the next calendar measure longer than the b’ak’tun).
The Maya did not predict the “end of the world” on December 21, 2012. That date simply happens to be 13.0.0.0.0 on the Long Count calendar, marking the end of the 13th “baktun” (a calendar unit that is 144,000 days long) and starts the beginning of the next baktun. The ending of such a…
Pretty much exactly what I’ve been saying about this for years.
I think it’s worth noting that 13.0.0.0.0 is especially significant to the Maya, but not for any doomsday-related reason. According to the Popol Vuh, a text containing many important Maya myths and stories, the current world is the fourth one created by the gods. All three previous world were destroyed for various failures, but this fourth world was a success, so it was here that they placed human beings. And it just so happened that the longest-lasting of these previous worlds ended on a long count of 12.19.19.17.19, one day before the start of the fourteenth b’ak’tun. Reaching 13.0.0.0.0 isn’t just like any other calendar turn: it’s the date that proves the success of this world where the others failed. I imagine that if anyone still holds to the beliefs of the Popol Vuh, they’ll be having a hell of a celebration.
(Incidentally, the farthest-future date mentioned in any surviving Maya texts corresponds to 13 October 4772. So much for that “why didn’t they keep making more dates after 2012?” argument.)
geys9iokjndsxgoih AHAHAH
-snort-
I scared the cat.
I’m sorry, cat.
That’s just what I sound like when something is hilariously right.
Oh god my sides
How Occupy Was Forced From Lawful Protest Into Civil Disobedience (And Why The Difference Matters)
I heard a snippet of something on NPR last night about Occupy that struck me as strange. The woman being interviewed (I didn’t catch her name) said she had a problem with how Occupy was practicing civil disobedience. She said that civil disobedience works as a form of protest because it specifically violates laws one thinks are unjust. According to her, since there’s no law against camping in tents in a public park (not so true anymore, but I’ll get to that in a moment), Occupy’s civil disobedience is at best “irrelevant”, and that Occupy is the 1% preventing the other 99% of us from enjoying those parks as they were intended.
Setting aside her tone-deaf appropriation of the terms “1%” and “99%”, it occurred to me after thinking about it that the biggest problem I have with what she said is that she said Occupy was a civil disobedience movement. I don’t disagree with her definition of civil disobedience: while the term’s become somewhat loose, it is definable as breaking a specific law in order to protest that law in particular. Black protestors during the Civil Rights movement sat at the front of buses and held sit-ins in places that were designated as white-only because it was illegal for them to do those specific things. Those protests wouldn’t have been as effective or iconic if they were doing something unrelated to those laws, like blocking traffic.
But what I do disagree with is the assertion that Occupy is about civil disobedience, or at least the assertion that it started out that way. Occupy is a protest movement about many things, and most of these things are attitudes and facts, not laws: the extreme (and growing) inequality between the country’s richest and poorest, the opinion held by some that those in the 99% could pull themselves up if they weren’t so lazy, the climate of greed and corruption endemic to the global financial system, and the ingrained sense of apathy and hopelessness in so many who’ve been wronged by the aforementioned corruption and greed, to give just a few examples. And when you consider the laws that Occupy is protesting, it doesn’t take long to notice that they aren’t laws that anyone who would have reason to protest them are in any position to be able to break. Consider lax campaign finance laws, or low tax rates for corporations, or tax loopholes for millionaires. Some of these are regulatory laws that can’t even technically be broken. In order to break the ones that can, you need far more money than most people will ever have, and they’re written to be so advantageous to the rich that they have no incentive to break them in order to preserve their wealth.
In light of all that, any rational person would come to the conclusion that civil disobedience is not the tactic to use in order to protest these things, so Occupy didn’t use it. That’s the key point here: Occupy is not about civil disobedience. (Or, rather, it was not. Again, more on that later.) The first occupiers didn’t set out to break laws in order to get their points across. They camped out in Zuccotti Park and elsewhere because they had exhausted all other methods of raising their voice and trying to be heard. They didn’t want to break any laws. They simply knew that what they were doing before wasn’t working, and that maintaining a physical presence in front of a symbol of the greed and corruption they were protesting was the next logical step. And as much as their previous efforts failed, this step succeeded. They were protesting peacefully without breaking any laws or civil disobedience of any kind, and their concerns were getting plenty of attention.
But then the story took a strange and unnerving twist. The company that owns Zuccotti Park tried to get them to clear out with the excuse of wanting to clean it. The occupiers responded by cleaning it themselves. Then the city decided to remove the occupiers’ generators and fuel. The occupiers responded by building bicycle rigs to generate clean electricity. Occupiers around the country and the world began to feel pressure from police and local government, despite the fact that what they were doing was not, in fact, illegal. And then came the early morning of November 15th, 2011. The New York City Police Department suddenly and with almost no warning raided Zuccotti Park and violently drove the peaceful, law-abiding protesters out. Batons, pepper spray, and painful LRADs (Long Range Acoustic Devices, sometimes called “sound cannons”) were all employed. Many protesters were injured. The raid was fast and unarguably brutal, and in the face of a host of illegal actions by the police, the people that had started a movement and seen it thrive until then without the use of civil disobedience (as well as all the people around them) were forced to employ it.
Many protesters were arrested; some resisted arrest peacefully. Journalists were blocked from covering the event, sometimes violently, and even in the aftermath, no one without a special NYPD-issued press pass was allowed to report on the situation; some reporters gained access to the barricaded park anyway, and the now reluctantly famous Tim Pool provided live video of what he was told he could not film. They were told that when they came back, tents and sleeping bags would not be allowed in the park, and that a curfew would be instated; when they returned, the protesters brought what shelters they could through the barricades and bag checks, and did not allow themselves to be forced out again.
Some of the actions taken against the occupiers were clearly illegal, and so the response to them can’t truly be called civil disobedience. But others, including the new rules at the park, are now law; the fact that they violate the spirit of the ban on ex post facto law laid out in the Constitution (if not the letter) makes them unjust. Occupy could not perform civil disobedience before because there was no law it could break to prove its point. But now there are laws, unjust laws, that they not only can but must break in order to continue their protest. It wasn’t there at the start, but civil disobedience is now part of the Occupy movement’s tool kit.
And if history is any indication, the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg have handed them their most powerful tool yet, and they have the determination to use it. Civil disobedience is always resisted even more strongly than other forms of protest by those who support the status quo, and so the road will be tougher now that Occupy must use it. But it also creates images that fix themselves in the mind of the public, and opens the way for heroes, villains, and martyrs to emerge. We have already seen a few: Tim Pool, who sacrificed food and sleep and took his body and his batteries to the brink time after time to make sure the events of November 15th wouldn’t go undocumented; Mayor Bloomberg, who ordered illegal actions against the protesters and their camp, then told them that their behavior would cause the park to be closed for longer than anticipated; Scott Olsen, the veteran who suffered a serious head injury inflicted by police action at an Occupy protest in Oakland.
There will undoubtedly be more emergent figures as the movement and the resistance to it continue to mature, and the civil disobedience that will catalyze these changes wouldn’t be possible if police and government hadn’t broken laws first in order to stop the protests. By overstepping their bounds, they have ensured the movement’s survival more surely than if they had simply allowed them to exist. The movement now has a force to act against, photographic evidence of the corruption they oppose, and a captive audience to cheer them on. And the best part is, they’re still only doing what they’ve been doing all along: occupying. The action is the same, but the meaning has been altered, and made more powerful. Their presence in Zuccotti Park is no longer just a sign of unease and dissatisfaction, but one of strength and perseverance in the face of injury, of passion and rage against an indefensible assault. They now have everything they need to effect the change they seek: change that will ultimately benefit everyone, even if the opposition refuses to see how.
lmao
Fairly sure that this is a rip-off of another comic I saw. Can anyone back me up?
This was me and my Yanmega in HeartGold. IT IS DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE A PLANE, WHY CAN’T IT LEARN FLY!?
For FUCK’s sake. And we wonder why our daughters and our sons are so fucking messed up about gender, orientation, sex, and quite frankly, just common human decency.
Oh … My … God …
“Unlock her repressed Malibu Barbie fantasies and buy her a tight tank top with FEMINIST printed on the chest.”
Just when I thought I’d seen it all … MAXIM sets out to teach men a quick, 4-step process to turn a human woman into a mere plasticine homunculus. Also, obviously incredibly transphobic as the images depict a ‘masculine-looking’ woman as BAD (regardless of whether she is a feminist or not), and says the ‘cure’ for what we are to assume is a diseased woman is for men to coerce her into acting in such a way as is deemed sufficiently approximate to the male sex-fantasy.
This is an appropriate reason to hate people.
Things I would break without hesitation:
- This
- The author’s face
- Whoever tries it
The fuck is this?
“…into an actual girl.”
An actual girl.
An actual girl.
An actual girl.
If you are the author of this drivel and are somehow reading this, I would like you to find a cactus. Approach that cactus. Take a good, long look at that cactus, and then I would like you to fuck it.
…I’m sorry, I can’t. Rage taking over.
This can’t actually exist….can it? O_O
Whoever wrote this needs to be punched repeatedly. In the crotch.
What the actual fuck?! Was this supposed to be funny or serious? Either way the author and the editor should both be junk-punched. I can’t believe shit like this still gets published in this millenium.
All of the above reactions.
“Assassin’s Creed Sisterhood Rising“ comes to fruition thanks to artist Jamie Tyndall. Created for the Long Beach Comic Con where 11” x 17” prints will be available. You can also purchase a print from his online store for $15.
Assassin’s Creed Sisterhood by Jamie Tyndall (deviantART) (Twitter)
Wow, that sure is…boobtastic. Never mind the fact that all the cloaked assassins wear full-body clothing and armor regardless of gender in Brotherhood. The first time she grabs a ledge and her chest slams against a wall, those tiny straps will break, her breasts will get scraped to hell, and that Assassin crest will stab her in the neck.
I don’t really like the rest of the costume, either. It suffers from the “too many lines and details” problem a lot of comic book work has. The Assassin crest on her belt gets lost in all the extraneous detail around it; on Ezio it’s the obvious focal point of the whole design. Ezio’s costume is iconic because it’s striking (and decidedly fancy) while still being simple: clean lines between wide pieces of fabric; only two main colors; soft, faded details.
Even if the goal of the piece is sexuality and not practicality or iconic impact (I can’t really tell if it’s trying to be sexy or not), it’s still a weird choice. A simpler costume would show off her figure; this one just distracts from it. The only thing remotely sexual about it is the cleavage window.
(Wow, since when am I an art critic? I blame Aaron Diaz.)
