dragonfishdreams:

phantoms-lair:

kenobi-and-barnes:

skippyreturns:

miraculousturtle:

miracufic:

outintheblack:

fuckyeahwomenprotesting2:

freedominwickedness:

In medieval culture, an event like a royal christening is not a private party; it’s the public social event of the year. To not invite any person of rank to such an event is a deadly insult.

Maleficent is certainly someone you wouldn’t want at a party, but she’s also someone powerful enough that only a fool would ever dare treat her with such blatant disrespect. The only way the King and Queen could possibly have gotten away with not inviting Maleficent was to not invite any of the fairies at all; inviting the other fairies and excluding her is explicitly taking sides in the conflict between the fairy factions.

Which means they made themselves her sworn enemies, and she responded by treating them as such from then on. If you actually get into analyzing the social dynamics of the scene, it’s very clear that Maleficent was willing to show mercy at first by giving the King and Queen a chance to apologize for their disrespect to her. She doesn’t curse Aurora until after she gives them that chance and they throw it back in her face with further disrespect.

And yeah, if the King and Queen had done the properly respectful thing and invited her, Maleficent would have given Aurora a scary awesome present. Moreover so would the other fairies, because at that point both sides would be using it as an opportunity to show off and one-up each other. What they gave her before Maleficent showed up was basically just trivial party favors by fairy standards.

How do you know so much about the social dynamics of medieval fairies

Because the very first things anyone reading a legit fairy tale will realize right away is
A) there are Rules and
B) ignore them at your peril

…okay, now I just want to see baby Aurora being told by Maleficent that she will be a conqueror and a ruler without peer, the master of all Europe, to whom kings and emperors bow and scrape.

ahhhhhh i need

Sleeping Beauty AU with warrior queen Aurora leading her armies across the country to glory and victory

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

@providentially-demonic

“Not only will you be a powerful ruler,” the next fairy after Maleficent steps up, “You will be just, honorable, and skilled, respected by friend and foe alike. What you take you will keep, and you will be remembered kindly by history.”

“Furthermore,” the second fairy steps up, “Any land you rule will prosper. Under your hand the people will thrive, the crops will flourish, and the stock be in good health. There will be wealth enough for all, with enough left for generosity.”

With this, all eyes turned to the third fairy, wondering what gift she would offer, what favour could be grand enough to follow these wonderous blessings of power, strength, and prosperity. Slowly, the third fairy approached the bassinet, standing before it a moment in contemplation, before finally speaking.

“All dogs with be your friends. Even the wild ones. Wolves too. If it’s a canine, it’s your friend now, yet they will never jump on you, make you smell weird, or get you all covered in fur.”

“Show off,” muttered Maleficent under her breath.

catgirlnora:

morbi:

ericvilas:

darkado:

memecucker:

01101010-01100100:

i hate the future

I love it!

The anonymous user posted this image to prompt a discussion on how little episodes of the 14 episode first season of Haruhi you would have to watch in order to watch them in every possible order, repeats included.

The thread eventually reached a working conclusion by divising a formula that would solve for any “n” length sequence. The thread’s findings were compiled on the mathsci wiki and titled “The Haruhi Problem.”

Last Monday (10/22/18), university mathematician Jay Pantone created a more professional looking assessment of their findings here. This lead to academia learning about 4chan’s unique findings and it’s being widely discussed.

The problem now is about credit. 4chan being an anonymous image board, there’s no one to cite for the findings.

I cannot fucking believe

Necessity truly is the mother of all invention

I can’t believe Haruhi fans made major progress in the field of mathematics before they got season three.

capturedcreations:

tai-chi-guy:

legendaryrebelcollection:

tai-chi-guy:

manwithoutborders:

Throat kick… It’s the NEW throat punch!!

Daaaayum

I don’t know what martial art or the rules, but maybe don’t lead with your face.

True! Especially when she does the international sign for, “I’m about to kick you” a.k.a. adjusting her pants.

But no one’s talking about the judges reaction in the white top which is unfortunate because it is perfect.

glumshoe:

cydril:

glumshoe:

Whenever I talk to kids about archaeology, I ask if they know of any fictional archaeologists from movies or TV. Some of them know Indiana Jones, but I like to mention Ariel from The Little Mermaid because she’s actually seen, like… studying artifacts to learn about the people who made them rather than just. Uh. Acquiring them from other people. She also seems to do a damn fine job of conserving them.

Thats not archaeology its anthropology.

She studies and conserves physical artifacts left behind by humans she cannot observe or speak to in order to learn about them. That is archaeology. Only after she is able to observe and interact with them does it stop being archaeology.

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?

albymangroves:

anosci:

smitethepatriarchy:

tranarchist:

A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain
anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in
the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it
was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September,
shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an
all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the
former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child
pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem
was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.

Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to
make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the
platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just
before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure
out how to better monetize.

On that note-

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose
Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should
focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge,
“Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to
[make] a ton of money.”

Capitalism is disgusting and ruins everything.

cool! unsurprising!

Please read this whole article. If you’re still clinging to the vague hope that it’ll all settle down and it’s gonna be business as usual, it isn’t. It can’t.

When Tumblr bans porn, who loses?