You know that you have been awake and cooking for too long when you carefully measure out 1/4 cup of milk and then, with grace and forethought,  miss the bowl and pour it all over the counter. 

warpsbyherself:

“Jim No”, the title of a new autobiography by Spock.

Best read alongside Leonard “Bones” McCoy’s acclaimed memoir, “Dammit Jim”.

_{I give you a thing}

On sci-fi and social progress

I think one of the greatest strengths but also the greatest weaknesses of sci-fi is that it gives you space (punintended) to solve all the of the societal problems that you’re not interested in so that you can focus on the ones that you want to write about. 

The wonderful part of this is the fact that you can really bring your issue to the forefront without having to derail it or spend half the plot solving other problems, you can just say, “Now there are replicators, now no one ever has to starve, now there’s no slave labor, now there’s no inequality.”

But the flip side of this is that all of your hidden prejudices, the ones that are buried so deep in your psyche that you couldn’t conceptualize solutions to them because you don’t think of them as problematic, become blindingly obvious to the people that you’re marginalizing. I think that might be why so many works of sci-fi started to feel dated or irrelevant so quickly; they hyperfocus on some major issue of their time, and then that issue becomes less relevant and suddenly all of the glaring racism or sexism or ableism or homophobia or transphobia that you weren’t thinking about is just sitting there and staring you in the face. 

whenyoureathirdculturekid:

How you view everyone else in the security line at the airport

In other news my dogs are giant lovable doofuses who always sleep in stacks

fotojournalismus:

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a “very closed, very dark time.” To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.

And yet, she says, “I felt lucky compared to other women at that time.” Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an “underground school” with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul.

When U.S.-led forces ended Taliban rule in 2001, Wahidy was able to attend high school. A friend encouraged her to apply for a photojournalism program, knowing that she had hopes of sharing her experiences with the world.

“Day by day, as I started learning about photography, I fell more in love with it,” she says. “There was a huge need for women photographers in Afghanistan.”

Wahidy became the first Afghan female photographer to work for the AFP and later AP, two leading wire agencies, and eventually received a scholarship to continue studies in a photojournalism program in Canada. In 2010, Wahidy returned home to Afghanistan.

“I try to show the bigger image, not just show we have problems,” she says. “And we do have a lot of problems, but I do want to show normal daily life.”

Wahidy focuses on women. “This subject was important to me because I am a woman,” she says, recognizing an advantage that gives her. When she wants to document their lives, “it’s easier for a woman to get access,” she says.

Her photos of daily life range from men selling balloons on the streets to the secret lives of female prostitutes. And Wahidy was not the only one to recognize the need for this type of photography in Afghanistan. She is now part of the recently created Afghan Photography Network.

“Many Afghan photographers are not well-connected,” she explains. “We hope it will create a better connection and show Afghanistan by Afghan photographers.”

It is a young website, still in development, but the Afghan Photography Network is already bringing increased visibility to the work of Afghan photographers.

Of the eight women in her original photojournalism program, Wahidy is the only one working as a full-time photographer. Some got married, and others stopped working for reasons unknown to Wahidy. Wahidy, meanwhile, plans to continue for a very long time.

“When I shoot and I get a good photo,” she says, “that is a beautiful day.”

Wow, look, for the low price of only $14.62 you can be the proud owner of 128 pages of heteronormative bullshit straight out of the 1950s!

triplash:

pluvialmetropolis:

A perfect evening, finally done with the semester and lounging at my parents’ bizarre but awesome house.

i have such a mighty need

Tumblr party on my weird roof-deck-patio thing, everyone’s invited! I’ll bring the drinks if y’all bring your fine selves and possibly some finger foods.

A perfect evening, finally done with the semester and lounging at my parents’ bizarre but awesome house.

theotherjax:

theragnarokd:

When you swim by the reef

And see horror-film teeth

That’s a mo-raaaaay

When you’re deep in the sea

And a fish bites your knee

That’s a moooooo-ray~

When you see a big eel

Thinking “You’re my next meal”

That’s a mo-raaay

fuck-it-fire-everything:

fairytalemood:

“The Grimm Project: Little Red & the Wolf” by Trish Laver

oh my god