swingandswirl: hollahollagettchalla: heckyeahwinterpanther: hollahollagettchalla: I feel like...

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hollahollagettchalla:

I feel like there needs to be some kind of post for MCU fans on How To Write About Africa because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there who want to write about Wakanda and T'Challa but are worried about being problematic and that makes me sad because there’s SO MUCH GREAT meta to be had about T'Challa and Wakanda but at the same time there’s a lot of legitimate concerns about perpetuating racist stereotypes and yeah.

T'Challa and Wakanda could be such a great way to introduce people to amazing sci-fi concepts that people should know

This is SO needed. 

It’s so easy to be like ‘just try it!’ but the problem with this website is that people don’t think its okay for people to make mistakes. I’ve gotten messages from people who want to write about T’Challa/Wakanda but are nervous about how their work will be perceived and its so sad. 

We really need to gather some people who’d be interested in writing a nice little info post!

I’ll start

How to Write About Africa

How to Write About Africa II: The Revenge

Wikipedia - Afrofuturism

An Afrofuturist Reading List

We Are Wakanda

Writing With Color

You Don’t Know Africa 
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You can kill me, just please let me get to  h i m  first. (insp)
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lindseymorqan: #that’s it #that’s the

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#that’s it #that’s the whole show
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alecblushed: doddario: i like how they kinda threw

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i like how they kinda threw continuity out the window for us. “magnus didnt have a beard in s1” fuck it lets do the s1 flasback anyways. “magnus wasnt wearing a jacket in 2.07” fuck it magnus needs something to take off during their first time. “alecs name in magnus’ phone was a. lightwood” fuck that lets make it alexander

#honestly I’m still super fond of my interpretation that the flashbacks are essentially Magnus memories#so they are tinged with the way he experiences things with Alec#the way Alec makes him feel#everything shines golden even if it maybe wasn’t all that golden at all but it shines that way bc it’s his hearts#light burning that bright#Alec’s hair is always messed in each flashback bc Magnus likes it that way when his hands have carded through it for long enough and it’s#all ruffled and gorgeous#Magnus has a goatee in the s1 flashback bc he can feel his own sitting around his mouth as he remembers#and he doesn’t really care if he had one at that time or not or what shirt he wore or what flowers#there were on the tables all that mattered was Alec’s tiny smile and Alec’s words ‘I trust you’#he’s got the jacket on bc he can’t for the love of god remember is he did have it on or not all he remembers is pulling at his layers and#undoing them for Alec and#undoing Alec and kissing him senseless and tasting his laughter in his own mouth like joy grew a taste#like happiness was a thing he could make his own and remember forever#I really like to explain those details like that bc they are Magnus memories and so we see them through his eye (via @dearestalec)
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thattallnerdybean:[clutches my pearls] Trans people in 1921?!??!...

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[clutches my pearls] Trans people in 1921?!??! But I thought trans people were trend of today’s youth!
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"Dear employers, I will have to take the day off today

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Dear employers, I will have to take the day off today because:

☐ It’s December and the streets are papier-mached with wet bronze leaves and it’s so dark outside that the cars have their headlights on at 3pm

☐ I have recently been through a breakup, or I have been through a breakup at any time in my life really, and I woke up today with the absolute conviction that I will never be loved again

☐ A dog looked at me

☐ I got a text from someone for whom I feel a mix of concern and frustration and recognition and longing that is both more and less than romance

☐ Someone made a joke about dead pets meeting you in heaven

☐ Daylight savings time

☐ I passed a knot of flowers that were so bright they glowed through the dim grey water of the day and when was anything in my life last that luminous?

☐ Girls are too pretty

☐ For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is not enough time to have all the lives I wanted

☐ I accidentally listened to Leonard Cohen

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- Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today (via tetraghost)
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phantomwizard13: gingersnapwolves: polytropic-liar: I

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I was thinking today about Leverage–as one does–and about the various grifting styles we see the team employ, and how most of them have a very particular grift strategy that they rarely stray from when they have to be the main one in the spotlight. And what I think is really interesting is how their strategies are often exact opposites.

Eliot’s syle of grifting is to flatten himself, to make himself seem simple. He plays nerds, ‘manipulate-able’ fighters, awkward librarians and accountants and basically people it’s easy to dismiss or to pigeonhole as one thing (whereas in reality he’s anything but that). In direct contrast, Sophie’s entire grift style plays up her mysteriousness. She draws people in because they want to know more about her, because she’s intriguing and fascinating and there’s the suggestion that if only the mark were worthy of her time and attention, she knows things they could only dream of.

Nate’s style is to be incredibly obnoxious. Which, let’s all congratulate him on playing to his strengths, first of all. But second of all, it’s a really interesting grift style, because basically it manipulates people by annoying them. While Sophie draws people in and directs their attention and clouds their judgement by making them want her around, Nate directs people’s attention and clouds their judgement by making them want him to leave. They’re both very effective at getting a person to do exactly what they want!

And while Eliot’s grift style almost always involves him pretending to be bad at something (physically harmless alien nerd, unsophisticated boxer who can’t people good, etc), Hardison’s grifts almost always involve him being an expert at something (Iceman, FBI agent, even conspiracy theorist) and using his expertise to gain access, authority, etc.

And then I was thinking about Parker and trying to pin down her style, and I realized that another reason why she was an excellent choice of leader is that she can kind of do them all. Every grift she does has that tinge of ‘weird’ to it, because that’s who she is, but she’s able to switch between strategies in a way that the others never really employ. She can be unassuming and underestimated (Alice, baby reporter), off-putting and upsetting (that pop star with the duck), an expert who comes in and takes over (FBI agent), or intriguing and enticing (that scene with the diamond necklace, you know the one, we all know the one, you whispered “oh no she’s hot” at the screen don’t lie). I wouldn’t say she’s the best grifter, that’s definitely Sophie, but she might be the most versatile one.

Basically Parker is the best, Leverage is the best, we all knew that, thank you for your time.

let’s all congratulate him on playing to his strengths

this is gorgeous

broken-theory: nubbsgalore: the waitomo limestone caves on new...

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the waitomo limestone caves on new zealand’s northern island are home to an endemic species of bioluminescent fungus gnat (arachnocampa luminosa, or glow worm fly) who in their larval stage produce silk threads from which to hang and, using a blue light emitted from a modified excretory organ in their tails, lure in prey who then become ensnared in sticky droplets of mucus. photos by dylan toh & marianne lim, spellbound tours, martin rietze and z blue polaris

Woah
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