Escapism Time

fromreddittopinterest: Dear BBC, give me more Sherlock!

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:30:18 -0400

Dear BBC, give me more Sherlock!

Live fast, die young. Bad girls do it well. #MEAN...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:02:21 -0400

Live fast, die young. Bad girls do it well.

#MEAN GIRLS #MISFITS #THE DARK KNIGHT RISES #BASIC INSTINCT #KILL BILL #AMERICAN BEAUTY#BLACK SWAN #DEATH PROOF #CRUEL INTENTIONS #GOSSIP GIRL #SKINS #THE VAMPIRE DIARIES#SPRING BREAKERS #PULP FICTION #BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

erikkwakkel: The Chained Library of Zutphen I took these...

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:13:30 -0400

erikkwakkel:

The Chained Library of Zutphen

I took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands. It is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.

More info: http://www.librije-zutphen.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=14&Itemid=111

eatingfireflies: thats-not-victorian: Hey, guys! So, we’re...

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:13:15 -0400

eatingfireflies:

thats-not-victorian:

Hey, guys! So, we’re all familiar with Cyberpunk and Steampunk, but there are so many more alternate histories/speculative science fiction genres out there! I came across this handy-dandy infographic and figured I could share a bit of these punk genres for anyone interested.

Steampunk
Roughly covers the Western world during the mid- to late-19th century (ie: Victorian era, US wild west, etc.), and sometimes up to the Edwardian era.

Dieselpunk
1920s up through WWII, ending at just about the Cold War.

Decopunk
A cleaner, artistic, more “optimistic” version of Dieselpunk (same time period)

Clockpunk
Covers the time of the Renaissance (think da Vinci)

Atompunk
Cold War era, ie: the Space Race

Teslapunk
Derivative of Steampunk, but focuses on electricity rather than steam.

Splatterpunk
Explicit horror and gore

Biopunk
Biotechnology, genetics (part science fiction, part real life)

Nanopunk
Nanotechnology, sometimes overlaps with Biopunk

Cyberpunk
The granddaddy of them all: computer technology, the internet, hackers, etc.

Others not included in the infographic

Elfpunk
Fantasy-based, features creatures like elves and fairies.

Mythpunk
Mythology and folklore, includes urban fantasy.

Seapunk?

Stonepunk, Bronzepunk, Plaguepunk

But mannerpunk also. ;__;

andimprouvaire: manneon: andimprouvaire: somehow I don’t...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:04:46 -0400

andimprouvaire:

manneon:

andimprouvaire:

somehow I don’t think my priorities with this show are the same as other people’s priorities

Wow they literally pulled this out of the depths of their ass

see u say that but never at any point did it actually come into contact with my sphincter, or any other section of my lower digestive tract

have you ever noticed how tumblr caps the shit out of dudes making eye contact, accessorized with comic sans, and fandom receives it like the fucking illuminated manuscript guide to shipping, replete with hosannahs of “canon!” and “GAYYYY!”, instilled with the self-evident superiority of all m/m ships because male desire is threaded with such heavy visibility in the concomitant spheres of modern textual production and reception networks, because male agency is saturated with such cultural weight it bleeds into remix culture, into fucking fandom, which is a predominantly female and non-male space, because it’s not enough that we shift without protest into “queer” spaces—male and cis and always, always whiter than milk—in between dominant narratives that bolster the hero and use women for his betterment, for his growth, for his ultimate stepping stone to glory and redemption and we cheer, we don’t even notice we’re stepping on ourselves because STOP THE WORLD MEN ARE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER THIS IS IT THIS IS THE QUEER WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

and women shake hands, share a glance, an infinitesimal mark in the overarching narrative, subsumed beneath male agency and male drive and male desire and all that we invest therein, male sexuality—something fierce, something sharp and hard and forbidden and women, women are soft (I know, I’ve read femslash) and safe, supportive until they’re not, until they find the wanting in themselves,the desire, the agency,and then they’re usually dead and so

and so

a woman looks at another woman, I didn’t pick up on that, isn’t that funny, such a crack pairing

they literally pulled this out of the depths of their ass

miss-cherie: Les appartements de Madame de Pompadour. (via...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:18:51 -0400

miss-cherie:

Les appartements de Madame de Pompadour. (via Pandora » Versailles Intime.)

saucefactory: morize: Mads Mikkelsen fondly shows us his...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:10:50 -0400

saucefactory:

morize:

Mads Mikkelsen fondly shows us his favorite hiding place from his childhood

THIS GUY PLAYS HANNIBAL.

HOW.

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:49:30 -0400

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!:

thehawkeyeinitiative:

05/15/2013 Update:
BROSIE Goes Viral

Original Post:
I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done;…

nataliemeansnice: this is me trying to saunter towards sexy...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:44 -0400

nataliemeansnice:

this is me trying to saunter towards sexy people.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau for GQ magazine, March 2013 issue

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:41:23 -0400

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau for GQ magazine, March 2013 issue

"Perfectly respectable Victorian women wrote to each other in terms such as these: ‘I hope for you so..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:40:03 -0400

“Perfectly respectable Victorian women wrote to each other in terms such as these: ‘I hope for you so much, and feel so eager for you… that the expectation once more to see your face again, makes me feel hot and feverish.’ They recorded the ‘furnace blast’ of their ‘passionate attachments’ to each other… They carved their initials into trees, set flowers in front of one another’s portraits, danced together, kissed, held hands, and endured intense jealousies over rivals or small slights… Today if a woman died and her son or husband found such diaries or letters in her effects, he would probably destroy them in rage or humiliation. In the nineteenth century, these sentiments were so respectable that surviving relatives often published them in elegies…. [In the 1920s] people’s interpretation of physical contact became extraordinarily ‘privatized and sexualized,’ so that all types of touching, kissing, and holding were seen as sexual foreplay rather than accepted as ordinary means of communication that carried different meanings in different contexts… It is not that homosexuality was acceptable before; but now a wider range of behavior opened a person up to being branded as a homosexual… The romantic friendships that had existed among many unmarried men in the nineteenth century were no longer compatible with heterosexual identity.”

- Stephanie Coontz (via crookedceremonies)

Men may not have been quite this effusive, but as she alludes to at the end of the paragraph, their friendships were also much more overtly emotional - and put in what we’d today consider “romantic” terminology - in the nineteenth century. This leads to all sorts of confused misreading of texts from that period now: I once went to a talk with Doris Kearns Goodwin about Team of Rivals when she had to explain (rather wearily) to somebody that Lincoln ALMOST CERTAINLY WAS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL just because he wrote very emotional letters to his friends.

The way sex and sexuality functioned in the Victorian era is (obviously) totally fascinating because people were not nearly as clueless as we like to think they were about all of these things, but sex was just never up for discussion. So if you read highbrow novels from the period (the Brontës, George Eliot, etc), they can’t actually explicitly discuss sex, but the authors use language that would have said very clearly to any reader with two brain cells to rub together that sex was happening, or had happened, or whatever. But even though people did know about sex, I think it was very much outside the sphere of friendship - or even romance, hence something like Jane Eyre being considered extremely “coarse” and scandalous - and so it would never have occurred to people that two women or men who were extremely close and overtly affectionate were sexually involved in any way. And there was no sense of certain traits that we would today associate with homosexuality being connected to sexuality at all: so Oscar Wilde, who basically created the stereotype of the flamboyant gay man, was enormously popular everywhere until it came out that he was having sex with a man. Then, all of the sudden, all of the characteristics that people had found charming years before became associated with homosexuality - most queer theorists would say that “homosexuality” as such actually has its genesis as an idea/identity in the direct aftermath of the Wilde trial - and therefore become utterly taboo.

I’m not an expert in this stuff (grad school: probably in my future, sigh), but I think it’s fascinating that one event, even one as significant as the Wilde trial, can have such a massive impact not only on the culture but on the fundamental way people interact with each other. It’s a startlingly fast shift - one that you might argue corresponds in a way with the rapid and radical acceptance of gay people in society in the past twenty years or so (in the developed Western world), although that wasn’t sparked by a single event on the scale of the Wilde trial. Obviously homophobia and prejudice are still very real and pervasive, but when you think about what was broadly considered acceptable public speech/debate in the early- to mid-nineties, even amongst the more liberal half of the population, as compared to now, it’s pretty astonishing.

(via morgan-leigh)

absolutely. when it comes to the way men behaved with each other in england, the wilde trial was like a switch being flipped. just look at all those holmeses and watsons strolling around arm-in-arm right up until the 1890s hit.

(via hellotailor)

facts

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:38:19 -0400

facts

freshorphresh: Presenting Horrible Movie Clichés, an...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:13 -0400

freshorphresh:

Presenting Horrible Movie Clichés, an illustrated guide, brought to you by the New York International Latino Film Festival.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:02 -0400

candyassgoth: encores: Completely Rational fears about baby...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:36:27 -0400

candyassgoth:

encores:

Completely Rational fears about baby Steve Rogers

I will always reblog

galactic-kat: wasarahbi: emes: leeantsypantsy: all-aboutqoqo:...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:35:41 -0400

galactic-kat:

wasarahbi:

emes:

leeantsypantsy:

all-aboutqoqo:

“We dressed up as the book Madeline, with six people dressed up as her and me as Ms. Clavel, their teacher. One of the Madelines, however, was the truly special one…the one with the beard, that is. Our experience was hysterical—I’d walk all the girls (and one guy) down the street in two straight lines. Guys would be walking the other way, whistling or hollering at all the pretty ladies. Then, as they got to the back of the line, they’d see my friend Brennan, then they’d see me, and I could tell that they were suddenly wondering if ALL the Madelines were men.”

the last sentence

lmao what

There will never be a time when I don’t reblog this because it is my fave.

Photo

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:21 -0400

FAIREST #17 Cover by ADAM HUGHES

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:32:10 -0400

FAIREST #17

Cover by ADAM HUGHES

annjonsson: books på @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/16cq6ox

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:36:27 -0400

annjonsson:

books på @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/16cq6ox

whenthefirenationattacks: archiemcphee: These awesome photos,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:50 -0400

whenthefirenationattacks:

archiemcphee:

These awesome photos, in which rolling waves appear to be both perfectly frozen in time and miraculously made solid, are the work of French photographer Pierre Carreau.

Carreau “shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses, capturing water shapes that appear more sculptural than liquid.”

Visit his Pierre Carreau’s website to view many more examples of his amazing work. He also offers prints of some of his images via Clic Gallery.

[via Colossal]