Tumbles in the Aether

virtuouslyvindicated: beaucoupjolie: journalisticjoe: knowledg...

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:57:16 -0600

beaucoupjolie:

journalisticjoe:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

kronosinasuit:

Kerry Washington being amazing as always.

Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.

And get it while the, gettin is good.

Holy cow, just seeing this today and the notes! Congrats Kronos! #Gladiators swinging it out of the park day in and day out

And this is why I love Kerry—because she’s beauty AND brains.

"The film never takes the time to consider how little thought Khan would’ve given to killing Pike, a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:59:28 -0600

“The film never takes the time to consider how little thought Khan would’ve given to killing Pike, a disabled person. Khan likely believes that all disabled people deserve to die for the good of humanity. Hell, he probably had an extermination program against disabled people during his heyday. By ignoring Khan’s eugenicist ableism, the film loses a good deal of the moral complexity found in Star Trek.

We never see Admiral Marcus weigh the options of aligning with a genocidal murderer in the name of Federation security. If Khan advised him to implement a eugenics policy to save the Federation, would Marcus do it? Who would Marcus kill to protect the many? Would he go for Pike, one of his own officers?

We also never see Kirk truly consider the ethical implications of teaming up with Khan for the infiltration of Marcus’ starship. Is Kirk just as bad as Marcus now? By partnering with a man who would want Pike exterminated, does Kirk betray his memory? Is stopping Marcus worth the risk of Khan escaping and conquering Earth again?

But none of these kind of questions get asked in the film because the J.J. Abrams version of Star Trek is more interested in gunfights and girls in their underwear than the hard questions that need to be debated to build a better future for life on this planet and far beyond.”

- Star Trek Into Darkness: Able-Bodied Angst and Abrams’ Anti-Intellectualism (via spacecrip)

Some of these are good questions, but teaming up with Khan is the correct thing to do in that situation. Pike wants to save the Federation, he wants to protect the innocent, he’s the classic “good guy”. If teaming up with a guy that wants bad things helps you save the day without actually doing much or any of those bad things in the process, then that’s what you do. Then you turn around and arrest him once you’re done with the current crisis. Pike is a ship’s captain, and he knows how to make hard decisions. Doing what he would have done doesn’t betray his memory at all.

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey: natreidess: hypohumper: just when you think chris pine’s eyes...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:19 -0600

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

natreidess:

hypohumper:

just when you think

chris pine’s eyes can’t squint any further

you see this

i m p o s s i b l e

At this point I think he’s just taking mini-naps

or he’s a member of brock’s family

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starksexual: i was at the bus stop with my sister the other day and for no apparent reason, she...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:41:53 -0600

starksexual:

i was at the bus stop with my sister the other day and for no apparent reason, she says: ‘dude, there are more dead people in the world than living people’ and the woman standing beside me whispered ‘holy shit’ and i fucking lost it

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:19 -0600

ryu-gemini: whenever anyone draws anything for me i just

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:08 -0600

ryu-gemini:

whenever anyone draws anything for me i just

wake-up-kid: runwhenisayrunfightwhenisayfight: ahorsecalledhono...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:13 -0600

wake-up-kid:

runwhenisayrunfightwhenisayfight:

ahorsecalledhonour:

fixthefisherking:

banjaxed:

nightlifemingus:

nosdrinker:

hypnotiqradiance:

If you don’t get this reference, you’re too young for tumblr.

are you fucking kidding me pixar puts out a movie ever year a baby would get this reference

it’s not pixar it’s a reference to that time in 1994 when lamps became sentient humanoids

many were lost that day

It was a grim day for mankind. My parents took refuge in a cave and thus saved us from certain death; we lived close to a lamp factory at the time and the surrounding region was utterly devastated in the conflict.

My brother fought one off using only an egg whisk and a pogo stick.

Only 90s kids remember the Lampocalypse

My father still has the scars from where one stole his kidney

Ironically, it was a dark time.

"I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them."

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:30:26 -0600

“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”

- Uma Thurman (via vomitpink)

tinyccc: catbountry: cumaeansibyl: Ruby Rhod is one of my...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:00:36 -0600

tinyccc:

catbountry:

cumaeansibyl:

Ruby Rhod is one of my favorite characters in sci-fi ever because he is Luc Besson’s vision of the hetero sex symbol of the future: a flamboyant, emotionally labile man who wears skin-tight leopard print or decks himself in roses, a man who accessorizes with big jewelry and dabbles in cosmetics. And the ladies love him. Everything about him screams “gay” according to our stereotypes, but he’s portrayed as a 100% straight sexual dynamo.

Besson is one of the few directors I’ve seen who actually recognizes that our ideas of sexuality and gender performance might have changed drastically in the future.

He also has one of the most jarring entrances in a movie. Like the entire movie screeches to a halt because he bursts onto the scene well into the second act and it’s so strange and arresting and Bruce Willis is just like “what the fuck is even going on anymore?”

It’s p. great.

Super Green

petewanks: coincidentally

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:30:26 -0600

petewanks:

coincidentally

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:00:28 -0600

sodacansculptures: Epoch From “Chrono Trigger”

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:30:30 -0600

sodacansculptures:

Epoch

From “Chrono Trigger”

Call of Duty got a playable dog character before it got any playable women characters

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:46:17 -0600

sage-kun:

weeaboo-chan:

brotherentropy:

tsunderisse:

geoomega:

because it’s marketed more to men than to women

you’re a misogynist.

i like the implication that men find it easier to emotionally connect to a dog than a woman and that that’s for some reason not an extremely fucked up thing about our culture

who wants to fund my kickstarter for a device that will let me directly piss on the entire video game industry

I still find this utterly fascinating like so many other video games have female leads and yet this franchise doesn’t????

disgusting as fuck, of course, but still fascinating

malcolmsex: just got that brand new xbox one

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:45:15 -0600

malcolmsex:

just got that brand new xbox one

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Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:56 -0600

as usual, Sailor Jupiter is the best.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:18:04 -0600

as usual, Sailor Jupiter is the best.