Life is a dream ...

Colin at OUAT con NJ

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I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. People parted like I was Charlton Heston.

I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible.

My husband and I were walking home from Harvard Square, down the sidewalk. Another couple was walking the other way, so Adam and I compressed so that we were taking up exactly half the sidewalk, like you do.The other couple - didn’t. Tall white dude on my side, walking right at me, clearly expecting me to move. Expecting the tiny female-shaped person to step aside so he could take up the entire sidewalk.

Which I do not do. Because this. Because this. Because your penis does not entitle you to more space in this world. We each get half a sidewalk, just like we each get one seat on the subway. I have consciously stopped stepping aside and automatically making more space for men. 

So this dude got within inches of me. And I would have body-checked him. I have done it before. But he dramatically veered at the last second.And then he turned back after he’d passed us and yelled “FINE, I’ll move for YOU, then!”

I paused for like a fraction of a second, then whirled around and yelled back at full theatre-training volume “YEAH, YOU FUCKIN’ SHOULD!”

At which point poor Adam was like “Jesus Christ honey” and I was like “WHAT that was MISOGYNY” and he was like “I KNOW but he is much bigger than you” and I was like “I CAN TAKE HIM” and he was like “Yes. Yes. You are very fierce.”

(There is a scene in the Josie and the Pussycats movie where delicate Melody has just beaten the crap out of someone and she turns to the other two guys and is like “WHO WANTS SOME” and I can’t find a gif of it, y’all, but that was me.)

Look, y’all. For those who have not met me: I am 4’11”. I weigh 112 pounds. I am a tiny human.

I AM NOT GOING TO MAKE MYSELF EVEN SMALLER FOR SOME RANDOM WHITE DUDE ON THE STREET.

Me: “He was playing chicken with me!”

Adam: “He didn’t think of it as playing chicken, honey. Because he’s never lost.”

Me: “WELL HE LOST TONIGHT.”

And that’s the thing. I will collide with you. I will push back if your leg is in my seat on the subway. (Note: If you are a larger person and you need the space, I will not do this, but if you are just an entitled asshole, I will.) I. Will. Not. Move. Aside. to smooth your passage through this world. I will not contort myself to make random dudes more comfortable. I have been colliding with men for about a year now.

I’m not stopping.

She kissed him first (twice)

She asked him out first

She said I love you first (Lol @ Dark Hook “I always had to say it first” um honey no you didn’t)

She asked him to move in first (and it was only delayed because Savior Shit, not because she didn’t want to)

He may of gave up his ship for her but she gave up her magic for him

She practically jumped his butt to propose

She went full dark one to save his life

She was very game to see if they were true love

She was determined as hell to get him back from hell

She was the first to really look at their relationship, and where they were and say “Hey look at us, I’m so happy with you making out in our kitchen” etc

I was thinking about it and I think this is one of the reasons she locked him up on a beanstalk, because she felt a draw to him and knew if she let him in she’d want these things with him (once they had a much stronger trust LOL), and then he could potentially break her heart. 

But he didn’t, and pirate babies happened wooo!

Its called RECAPTCHA! The creator of CAPTCHA (Luis von Ahn) realised a lot of time was being wasted with CAPTCHA (worldwide we spend about 500,000 hours doing CAPTCHA every day)

So he wanted to put it to good use

The reason why CAPTCHA uses wonky letters is because computers can’t read them, but we can!

But when trying to automatically digitalise old books and documents this becomes a hindrance because computers often cant read the faded old letters. So the digitalising is done by humans (very costly and time consuming)

Anyway Ahn found out about these a integraded into captcha creating RECAPTCHA.

Everyday about 150 (sorry i meant 150 not 250) old books get digitalized this way. They are currently using it to digitalize the whole archive of The New York Times (since 1851)

reCAPTCHA Founded 2007. Overview reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

In particular, three people who have been condemned to hell are trapped eternally in a room together. And at first they think they got off easy without any pitchforks or fiery lakes or anything. But over the course of the play they discover that they have been chosen very specifically to have neuroses and character flaws that interact with and torment each other.

Each one needs the approval of a second in an unstable RPS cycle so that any time one of them might be satisfied by a second, the third swoops in and ruins it.

And when they figure this out, one of the characters expresses his understanding, that hell isn’t physical torture. “Hell is just—other people.”

So the point isn’t that other people, generically, are hellish; it’s rather that you can build a hell out of other people.

But when I hear people quote it, it’s usually sort of an introvert-pride thing. “Other people are hell; you should spend time alone.” And that’s not the point at all. It’s a statement about how bad unhealthy relationships can be, not a statement about how all relationships are unhealthy!

See also Sartre’s own comment here:

Everyone: What the fuck

*spooky sounds* i am a ghost story

was i even there?

u cant be sure

was that a breeze, or was it me?

here are some A1 quotes from the movie lads

the banter between Tony and Dr. Strange is sO good 

“Did you seriously just say hither to undreamt of?”   “Are you seriously leaning on the cauldron of the cosmos?” 

“I’m going to allow that.”

“What’s your job?”   “Protecting your reality….douchbag.”

“The stone stays with me.”   “Exactly, bye.”

Tony’s lines were flawless

“I’m sorry Earth is closed today.”

“Please get lost Squidward.”

“Dude you’re embarrassing me in front of the wizard.”

“Uh, he’s from space, he came to steal a necklace from a wizard.”

“Wong you’re invited to my wedding.”

“Who saved your magical ass?”

“I dont want to hear another pop culture reference from you for the rest of the trip!”

“You are imitating the god man”

when mantis got so excited over Kevin Bacon

“Earth’s mightiest heroes.”    

“Like Kevin Bacon?!”  

“Ah, he may be on the team I dunno.”

“That’s a made-up word.”    “All words are made up.”

“You got some nerve.”    “You could use some of that.”

“There’s an Antman and a spiderman??”

“Kick names…take ass.”

Peter to the cloak: 

“Oh I don’t think we’ve met yet.”  

Cloak: *flies away*   

Peter: “Ok cool.”

Tony and Peter Quill were too sassy

“What master do you serve?”   “What master? What am i supposed to say Jesus?”

“Are you from Earth?”   “No I’m from Missouri.”   “Yeah that’s Earth dipshit.”

“Don’t call us plucky. We don’t know what it means.”

“I’m half human, so the 50% of me that’s stupid, that’s 100% you.” “Your math is..blowing my mind.”

When Peter was jumping through the portals and kept saying “Magic! More magic! Magic with a kick!”

“You throw another moon at me, and I’m gonna freak.”

“Should we bow?”   “Yeah he’s a king.”   *bows*   “What are you doing?”   “Ah, we don’t do that here.”

Shuri: “I’m sure you did the best you could” ((BABE))

“Oh, I’ll get that arm.”

throughout the movie Tony kept saying these little supportive things to people like

after Dr. Strange comes back from looking at the future possibilities Tony says “You’re back, you’re alright” really softly

before Quill disappears he goes “Steady, Quill”

when Peter says “i dont feel so good” Tony says “you’re alright”

I also hate the way he says that like he just watched 3 people disappear and no he refused to believe that this kid this little teenage kid from Queen is about is disappear before his eyes

“This is a friend of mine, tree.” “I am groot.”    “I am Steve Rogers.”

“It shouldn’t be you, but it is.” OK FIRST OF ALL

They make a dent.  They get one drop of blood out of him. And then he wipes the floor with them like it’s nothing.  Just shakes all of that off like it’s NOTHING. You really get the sense that this is impossible, that Thanos is just a rolling TIDAL WAVE OF DOOM rolling over them all. Nothing can stop him.  He has four Infinity Stones now, he’s more than halfway there, this is impossible. Then he has the Time Stone.  Then he has the Mind Stone.  He’s complete, he’s fully Infinity Stone’d the fuck up. They are all completely fucked. AND THEN. THOR ODINSON, GOD OF THUNDER, KING OF ASGARD:  HOLD MY FUCKIN’ BEER.