March 2012
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URGENT: Google privacy policy change
brofisting:
fuckyeahfeminists:
Just got this in an email
In just a few hours, new policies will take effect at Google, endangering your privacy.
Tech publication Gizmodo reports, “things you could do in relative anonymity today [like your web searches], will be explicitly associated with your name, your face, your phone number come March 1st.” And this applies retro-actively if you don’t...
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February 2012
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beautifulbrwn:
“On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered. It...
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fake gay but actually straight white men: the most...
@anygoddamnedcolleen: wouldn't it be amazing if sherlock fandom put as much energy into protesting real racism in their sources as they do hypothetical homophobia
@anygoddamnedcolleen: of course... that might require them to a) not also be real racist in said protests and b) disown those sources' inherent real homophobia
@anygoddamnedcolleen: but anyway. REAL RACISM. is a thing that i have heard lots of tell of in both modern sherlock adaptations. tumblr, so silent on this issue.
@anygoddamnedcolleen: real misogyny + real biphobia as well, woo hoo
@anygoddamnedcolleen: i guess there is a hierarchy of oppressions and the one that affects hypothetically gay yet really str8 white men is indeed the worst of all
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puertoricanjane:
WHAT IF THEY DON’T GENDERSWAP MARY IN ELEMENTARY
AND THEN THEIR ROMANCE PLAYS OUT AND IT’S ALL SOFT AND SWEET AND ROMANTIC
AND THEN COMES THE MOMENT WHERE LUCY LIU!WATSON AND THE LADY PLAYING MARY KISS
AND I CLAW AT MY EYES AND CLUTCH AT MY HEART
BECAUSE I WANT TO GO TO THERE
SO
INCREDIBLY
BAD
BECAUSE LUCY LIU
LUCY LIUUUUUUUUUUU
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So, to review...
skywarrior108:
Gay male characters:
Kurt Hummel
Sandy Ryerson
Hiram Berry
Leroy Berry
Blaine Anderson
Dave Karofsky
Jeremiah
Sebastian Smythe
Chandler
Gay female characters:
Santana Lopez
Bisexual characters:
Brittany Pierce
Pings my gaydar really hard but Glee doesn’t have the balls to “go there” because they already have “too many lesbians”:
Quinn Fabray
This show is...
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10 things
lovewallace:
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glamaphonic:
1) There are endless, ENDLESS things that could go wrong with a CBS drama about Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Rule 63 Dr. Watson. From all the things that usually plague female characters and, especially, WoC characters in western entertainment to the show just being plain shitty.
2) None of these things is how now there won’t be...
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mankey23:
theres nothing like buying a new book when you have 8183920188281 other books to read
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“I think people sometimes get the wrong impression when they’re like, ‘Oh, well,...”
– Lucy Liu to Jane Magazine in 2003 (via itsinthetrees)
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manzanasverdes asked: omg, it's with embarrassing honesty that I admit to you that it took me this long to get your tag. It's finally clicked, tho. watDAUGHTER. ::hangs head in shame::
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ala-away asked: Dearest Rawles. I am 85% (or so kindle tells me) through Cold Magic and I just want to say fuuuuuuuuu because it is so good and I can't stop reading and THIS IS A PROBLEM because I know I will have to read the second book and I HAVE THINGS TO DO, INCLUDING BEING SOCIAL. MAYBE. So thanks a lot. Jerk.
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Sometimes (a lot of times) I hate American TV.
amazonziti:
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singingtomysoul:
I sometimes wonder what executives actually are thinking with their brains.
“HEY GUYS. HEY, YOU KNOW THAT CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE? LET’S UPDATE IT AND SET IT IN AMERICA.
…I MEAN, WE ALREADY DID THAT LIKE TWICE OR SOMETHING, BUT.
AND YOU KNOW HOW IT HAS THAT GAY SUBTEXT THING ALL THE KIDS ARE TALKING ABOUT
WHERE...
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oh karp
so you can make tracked tags needlessly hide and shit when there are no new posts
but you can’t make tracked tags stop lying to me about there being new posts when there aren’t any
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slapface replied to your post: does anyone have a link to that note-eraser thing?
userscripts.org/scripts…
aamalie replied to your post: does anyone have a link to that note-eraser thing?
boom userscripts.org/scripts…
my angels without wings
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does anyone have a link to that note-eraser thing?
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Miscommunication
Me: Everyone is quite right that literally everything might very well be wrong with Elementary, but Lucy Liu being Watson and thus ruling out white dudeslash Holmes/Watson is not a wrong thing. So shut up and stop being gross about that.
Tumblr: HDU YOU TELL US TO SHUT UP ABOUT THE FACT THAT LITERALLY EVERYTHING MIGHT VERY WELL BE WRONG WITH ELEMENTARY
Me: ...
Ambiguous Lucidity: 10 things →
sordidcrayons:
glamaphonic:
glamaphonic:
1) There are endless, ENDLESS things that could go wrong with a CBS drama about Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Rule 63 Dr. Watson. From all the things that usually plague female characters and, especially, WoC characters in western entertainment to the show just being plain…
#ALTHOUGH I GENERALLY AGREE #HOW IS SPECULATING ON THIS ANY DIFFERENT THAN...
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Ambiguous Lucidity: 10 things →
glamaphonic:
1) There are endless, ENDLESS things that could go wrong with a CBS drama about Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Rule 63 Dr. Watson. From all the things that usually plague female characters and, especially, WoC characters in western entertainment to the show just being plain…
#ALTHOUGH I GENERALLY AGREE #HOW IS SPECULATING ON THIS ANY DIFFERENT THAN...
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squintyoureyes:
it’s depressing to realize how often fans’ ability to be nice to people/women/characters of color is conditional. the idea of them is pleasant enough and they’re fine in the background but the minute they hook up with a lead character, or take center stage for too long, or god forbid take a spot that used to be a white persons’, the minute they in any way move out of their...
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1) There are endless, ENDLESS things that could go wrong with a CBS drama about Sherlock Holmes with Lucy Liu as Rule 63 Dr. Watson. From all the things that usually plague female characters and, especially, WoC characters in western entertainment to the show just being plain shitty.
2) None of these things is how now there won’t be pandering queer subtext. Literally none of them. Not a...
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I feel like they’re just fishing for ratings at this point. Why else would they cast a woman as John?
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but guys don’t u see what we’re missing out on?
all that meaningless, pandering gay subtext with no follow-through ever about which the creators can go LOL NO HOMO YOU WEIRD LITTLE GIRLS OF A CERTAIN AGE LOL
truly
a tragedy
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aamalie replied to your post: NO. OH MY GOD. What’s next? Paris Hilton as…
rawles are you looking at the tags
NO
I AM LOOKING AT THE REBLOGS ON MY POST LINKING TO THE NEWS
BECAUSE THEY ARE ON MY DASH
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NO.
OH MY GOD.
What’s next? Paris Hilton as Moriarty?
yes that is clearly taking this to its logical conclusion
congratulations on your rational thought processes
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squintyoureyes:
Further proof they want their show to fail. I mean come on. Casting a woman as Watson is so… American. And I’m not saying that in like a snobby “America sucks” kind of way… it’s more in a “come on American society, are you that ridiculous?” And of course, they cover up the homophobic feel of this decision by making her Asian and therefore having a racial argument for why...
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slightly replied to your post: lolololol
whitelist ‘elementary’?
slapface replied to your post: lolololol
oh hey i forgot about whitelist, yay
quarian replied to your post: lolololol
probably best to just whitelist lucy liu lbr now
squintyoureyes replied to your post: lolololol
yes do both. also i love all the ‘oh no they’re just going to get holmes and watson together now EWWWW’...
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Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock... →
liggytheauthoress:
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction...
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omg
dese reblogs…
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SCARF COMMISSIONS
roxanneritchi:
So, not that I knew it at the time, splurging turned out to have been a bad idea. Work’s cut my hours down yet again and this time by a truly outrageous amount, I did not get that other job, and I’m basically at the end of my rope. I need money for lunch and the bus, I have to pay my phone bill, I owe my mother $100 and I feel like a douche every time I put off paying her back,...
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Reminder!
effyeahgabbydouglas:
Gabby is the alternate for the 2012 American Cup, which will be this Saturday, March 3rd.
As alternate, provided neither Jordyn Wieber or Alexandra Raisman pull out, Gabby will be performing only exhibition routines, though she will still receive scores.
The first 90 minutes of the American Cup will air on Universal Sports both on television and livestreaming at...
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lolololol
i guess i have to de-tumblr savior ‘sherlock’ now
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guys you guys
guys
the thing is
my mom loves sherlock holmes and all sherlockian things
i thus grew up on sherlock holmes and all sherlockian things but unfortunately for me
most sherlockian things are blah blah white dudes blaaahhh gay but not actually omg i am already asleep and/or furious
and my favorite thing of all the things
has always been
watson as a lady
see also: ruse comic of my heart
which...
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LUCY LIU AS WATSON IN ELEMENTARY →
sfjdhgkljsdfhkdjl
fuuuuuuuck
now i have to watch this