Oh man. My dash is brilliant today.
whats the difference between Long Island and Staten Island
they are two completely different islands. long island is the big long island sticking out of New York. Staten Island is the tiny island in New York City between the west coast of Long Island and the mainland
long island is where you go to experience total ego destruction over a period of decades. staten island is where you go to get stabbed by a clown
Accurate.
They’re both horrible places. But a lot of your favorite writers came from Long Island so there’s that.
iZombie - First Look
I’ve been looking forward to this show for ages so I hope it lives up to expectations. It feels like a cross between Pushing Daisies (which I loved) and Warm Bodies (which I also loved - though the book was better). Please be good!
benedictcumberbatchsgirlfriend:
Sophie Hunters engagement ring cost $450,000 im going to pass out
but benedict DEFINITELY doesn’t love her and the marriage is a sham
didn’t you know harvey weinstein bought it for the publicity
did you also know Sophie is an high class escort too
Sophie doesn’t even exist,she’s a robot
actually, sophie is martin dressed up in drag.
Okay. Shit. This really made me laugh. God bless all of yall.
January 15th 1929: Martin Luther King Jr. born
On this day in 1929, the future civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Born as Martin King, he and his father changed their names in honour of Protestant reformer Martin Luther. King entered the ministry in his twenties and first came to national attention for his leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. This event is considered by many the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, which saw a national fight against discrimination suffered by African-Americans. King was one of many leaders, but became the face of the movement for his nonviolent tactics and powerful oratory. In 1963, during the March on Washington, King delivered the crowning speech of the struggle - the ‘I have a dream’ speech. Beyond his role in combating racial inequality, King also focused on tackling poverty and advocating peace, especially during the Vietnam War. On April 4th 1968, King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. He lived to see the legislative achievements of the movement - the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act - but tragically was unable to continue the push for full equality. The movement King set in motion continues to be fought today; the United States is still not a completely equal society and systemic discrimination persists. However thanks to Martin Luther King, America is closer to fulfilling King’s dream of a truly free and equal society. Since 1986, a national Martin Luther King Day is celebrated on the third Monday of January.
Today would have been his 86th birthday
Get to Know Me Meme: [2/10] Favorite Actors: Idris Elba
Isn’t 007 supposed to handsome? Glad you think I’ve got a shot!
I was wondering. Cause I legit did try to buy some and it didn’t go through and I was so upset.
Sherlock fandom over time, on AO3
Fandom culture is a magical river of creation and creators. As some of you might have seen in destinationtoast's slides for Sherlock Seattle (#106), Series 3 did not destroy the Sherlock Fandom, at least in terms of works archived. Since Toasty shared the easy-to-read works per month graph, above is the much spikier works per day, according to data I scrapped in mid December (interact with it here). The grey vertical lines mark year boundaries, the years are confusing centred under June 30th of each.
The works posted per day are in blue, creators posting per day in red. The red is always very close to the blue as there are only ever a few people posting mutiple works in one day! The yellow line shows the number of pseudos posting to the Sherlock fandom for the first time ever, and the green line is the number of final works per day, meaning that day is the last time a creator posted a Sherlock work before December, 17th, 2014. So the green creeping upwards at the end doesn’t mean people were leaving fandom in droves, it’s just an artifact of, well, the present.
The most productive day ever is Valentines day, 2014! That’s the tallest spike with the little dots at the tip, showing that nearly 200 works were posted by more than 180 creators, which is around three times the average for that month. This probably has something to do with the content of series 3…
Creator Accrual and Creator Attrition
Despite substantial bumps and dips in works posted, the rate of new creators is very steady (plot here): around 30% of contributors per week are new to the fandom.
But series three has had some negative impact: the six month that followed the initial airing showed more creator attrition (last works by contributors) than creator accrual (first works) for the first time since the show began. The difference in rates is small but statistically significant (sampled by week.) Note: this calculation presumes that if a contributor hasn’t posted since July 1st, 2014, they have left the fandom, which future analyses may challenge.
Sherlock Works per creator
The 65000+ AO3 works in the Sherlock fandom have been posted under some 15000+ pseudos, so that averages to about 4 works per creator. But it is hardly that simple (plot here). As might be expected with such a high rate of new contributors, nearly half of the Sherlock creators only contribute 1 work, and the distribution plummets from there. Less than 10% of creators contributed over 10 or more works, less than 1% have posted more than 45.
The next stats post gets into the question of who is dropping off when, as related to a question raised by @ficklepig about how many pre-series3 contributors fell away with the new material of series 3.
I just don’t understand what people want Taylor Swift to write songs about? Cats? Ikea? Biochemistry?
cats learning biochemistry in an ikea
I’d buy that album.
Please make her find the thing and then write the song and then put it on iTunes and everyone will buy it and make it number one.
Patricia Cronin, Monument to a Marriage (installed at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY), 2006
In Monument to a Marriage, Patricia Cronin disrupts the cemetery. Installed ‘for eternity’ in New York’s necropolis, Cronin and her partner lie entwined upon a modern mattress among the memorials to the partners in and products of state sanctioned heterosexuality. By taking anticipatory revenge, Cronin out-manouevres the reality that she and her partner, Deborah Kass, could not be recognized as a family in the eyes of the American state at the time the work was made. “If I can’t have it in life,” says Cronin, “I’m going to have it in death.”
a gay man portraying a straight man forcing a bisexual actress playing a lesbian to focus on a hot dude’s dick
Queerception
my fav gif is still the one where the two dudes are at a sports game and one guy randomly shows up and aggressively starts to make out with one of the first two people and then the camera zooms in to the other guy, whose face shows complete confusion and terror at the gay that just went down
for all those who have no idea what he’s talking about
THATS THE ONE
Sadly In the Flesh won’t be returning for a third series, but we’d like to say a massive thank you to all the fans for their incredible support of the show.
FUCK YOU BBC3
You’re shitting me.
y’all can fuck the BBC as much as you want, but these things go on ratings, so it’s down to viewers to keep a show alive
if not enough people are watching it then it’s not financially viable to continue
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That sucks, I know the director, and he’s just been directing The Casual Vacancy thing for the BBC, maybe that is relevant? (not seen the show, too scared of zombies)
It’s a shame. I totally understand why but it’s a shame. Also is that the same director guy from doctor who?
thegingerbatch reblogged your photoset and added:
#Amber why haven’t you commented on this yet?????
I LITERALLY JUST SAW IT OH MY GOD APRIL OH MY GOD aslkdfjoiwrefkksdlkfowio
Yay. I was like ‘oh my God if Amber doesn’t like it then it’s utter crap’. YAY.
