BRIEF DOCTOR WHO TANGENT:

Why is Clara “born to save the Doctor” when in theory her sacrifice was a choice she freely made? I understand that the echoes of her were born to save the Doctor, but the original 21st century Clara was most definitely not. It’s just been nagging at me ever since the finale - there are so many problems with various female Moffat characters that I won’t write them out again, but this really irritated me.

burntlikethesun:

positive lady characters meme: Sarah Jane Smith + powerful/feminist moment

Sarah Jane for ever.

Track Title: Oceans

Artist: Coasts

Album: Oceans

Oceans | Coasts

We fell in love right by the ocean
Made all our plans down on the sand

delphes:

☙ Literature Meme | Epic 1/1
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil’s Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.
The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton’s purpose, stated in Book I, is to “justify the ways of God to men”. (More +)

chemicaltribe:

Oh my god, old Irish proverbs are the best

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"

Again, the endless northern rain between us
like a veil. Tonight, I know exactly where you are,
which row, which seat. I stand at my back door.
The light pollution blindfolds every star.

I hold my hand out to the rain, simply to feel it, wet
and literal. It spills and tumbles in my palm,
a broken rosary. Devotion to you lets me see
the concert hall, lit up, on the other side of town,

then see you leave there, one of hundreds in the dark,
your black umbrella raised, If rain were words, could talk,
somehow, against your skin, I’d look up, let it utter
on your face. Now hear my love for you. Now walk.

"
— Bridgewater Hall, Carol Ann Duffy. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

zenpencils:

- The Fire Within : .
SOPHIE SCHOLL.

Have  reblogged this? I’m reblogging again anyway. Even more pertinent now with #OccupyGezi. Hope everyone stays safe.

triffintum: “Afterwards he said to me, ‘I am just thankful that I knew her at all. If we had not met, or if we had met and just passed each other by, all the great literature of the world, all the poets, all the great love stories would have been meaningless to me. You cannot understand what you have not experienced.’” - The real David Jones (Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife)

triffintum:

“Afterwards he said to me, ‘I am just thankful that I knew her at all. If we had not met, or if we had met and just passed each other by, all the great literature of the world, all the poets, all the great love stories would have been meaningless to me. You cannot understand what you have not experienced.’”

- The real David Jones (Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife)

Doctor Who Series 7 Part 2 Opening

When this first came on in “The Snowmen” my first reaction was to say “They totally made this just for the tumblr GIFs.” Forgot my family were in the same room and had to pause it for five minutes to explain the concept of  a GIF to them. Looks just as great as I thought it would though!

eternallyambivalent: wordscanbesexy: heatherbat: callmebliss: hellotailor: rubdown: lovelymoonbeams: stunningpicture: ‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen.  she was also the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts. and history remembers her as pretty. \o/ and history remembers her as pretty. and history remembers her as pretty. and history remembers her as pretty. FUCKING YES!!

eternallyambivalent:

wordscanbesexy:

heatherbat:

callmebliss:

hellotailor:

rubdown:

lovelymoonbeams:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn

this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older

I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen. 

she was also the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts.

and history remembers her as pretty.

\o/

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

FUCKING YES!!

So while I was listening to a song from the Doctor Who soundtrack on Youtube today an advert came up at the side for “Geek2Geek” dating. I’m only joining if it comes with a faux-ironic t-shirt.

jaminthetardis:

It bewilders me that that they didn’t give the Hogwarts first years maps

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have fun navigating an ancient castle full of shit that could literally kill you by yourselves suckers

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Those of you who make it out of this year alive, SPOILERS - next year there’ll be a giant snake and then we’re going to fill the place with soul suckers and dragons. Welcome to Hogwarts!

dear 98% of the people that follow me that dont talk to me

syupon:

tamaraldbrennan:

Who are you

Whats your favorite color

Favorite ship

Favorite ice cream flavor

Do you have a cat or dog

Hogwarts house

Thank

reblogging again bc I already got some from really cute people, but it makes me unreasonably happy to read these from you SO KEEP ON SENDING THEM image

Music by Laura Marling for the RSC production of As You Like It (sung by Maz O’Connor, with Nicholas Lee on guitar).  

 

It’s just…so…perfect :’)

ai-yo: agramisbetterthanadamn: maebugrunswithlions: anarcho-queer: Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police. Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night. The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body. The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police. Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm. Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”. In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “widely respected member of the community” and “much-loved”. For just a minute, can we talk about how fucking broadcasted this would be if it was a Christian walking out of church? The dictionary definition of terrorism states it is “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.” So why aren’t anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant attacks ever referred to as terrorist attacks? They seem to fit the dictionary definition perfectly. thank you This is the direct result of the media coverage of events like the Woolwich killing and countless other atrocities. What happened in Woolwich was viscerally more terrible perhaps, but the situations are almost identical: a man was killed brutally for no other reason than his beliefs. When countless broadcasters immediately term something a “terrorist attack” and don’t qualify their statements, they take an direct part in encouraging reactions like this. Muslims do not kill people; extremists of any religion might. Honestly, I can’t see the difference between this and what happened in Woolwich; both are unjustifiable brutal killings in the name of a flawed justice. Neither is acceptable and the irony is that both killers would believe themselves morally superior to the other when actually, they are brothers under the skin.

ai-yo:

agramisbetterthanadamn:

maebugrunswithlions:

anarcho-queer:

Elderly Pakistani Man Stabbed To Death After Leaving Mosque In Birmingham

A 75-year-old man stabbed to death yards from his home may have been targeted in a racially motivated attack, according to police.

Mohammed Saleem, who used a walking stick, was stabbed three times in the back as he returned home from prayers at his local mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, on Monday night.

The blows were struck with such violence they penetrated to the front of his body.

The father of seven also had no defensive wounds in what has been described as a swift, vicious and cowardly attack by the man leading the murder investigation, Detective Superintendent Mark Payne of West Midlands police.

Officers want to trace a white man, aged 25-32, of medium height and build, spotted on CCTV footage running near the scene of the attack around the time it happened, just before 10.30pm.

Police also want to trace a seven-seat people carrier captured on CCTV, driving near the mosque with the two male occupants, both white and in their 30s, who are considered “significant witnesses”.

In an emotional family appeal on Thursday, two of Saleem’s daughters, Shazia Khan, 45, and Nazia Maqsood, 44, called for the attackers to hand themselves in. They tearfully described their father as a “widely respected member of the community” and “much-loved”.


For just a minute, can we talk about how fucking broadcasted this would be if it was a Christian walking out of church?

The dictionary definition of terrorism states it is “The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.”

So why aren’t anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant attacks ever referred to as terrorist attacks? They seem to fit the dictionary definition perfectly.

thank you

This is the direct result of the media coverage of events like the Woolwich killing and countless other atrocities. What happened in Woolwich was viscerally more terrible perhaps, but the situations are almost identical: a man was killed brutally for no other reason than his beliefs. When countless broadcasters immediately term something a “terrorist attack” and don’t qualify their statements, they take an direct part in encouraging reactions like this. Muslims do not kill people; extremists of any religion might.

Honestly, I can’t see the difference between this and what happened in Woolwich; both are unjustifiable brutal killings in the name of a flawed justice. Neither is acceptable and the irony is that both killers would believe themselves morally superior to the other when actually, they are brothers under the skin.