March 2012
February 2012
Of course “with all this snow” the news have reports from the field, schools are preemptively closing for tomorrow and meteorologists have probably pulled double shifts
“Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end—no apologies, no regrets.”
—Clark Moustakas (via gaywrites)
Flame Nebula
This is the Flame Nebula. It is located in the Orion Molecular Cloud. It is heavily occupied with stars, but to our eyes the hydrogen clouds glow because of the light from Alnitak, one of the stars in Orion’s belt. It is approximately 1.5 thousand light years away from Earth.
Pretty.
Valid reasons to be annoyed with CBS right now:
° Watson is no longer the accomplished and decorated war hero and army doctor, two aspects of the character which have always, in some way or another, coloured the way the character behaves and the decisions they make. Not only does it change the character, but it sends a message that women aren’t capable of fighting for their country.
° Related to the above, Watson has no longer been invalided home from anywhere. Again, this is not only important to the character, but sends a message that war wounds are only sexy on men and that women are too weak to go through that.
° She’s a disgraced surgeon who’s lost her license. Oh. Not only has she had the military career erased, but she’s incompetent as well? Fabulous. There are so many other reasons for her to be able to be Jonny Lee Miller’s Boswell without also taking away the one thing that does make her successful. This is completely unnecessary, and once again sends the message that women can’t cope in fields that are predominately male-dominated.
°Joan Three Continents Watson will never fly. As much as I’d love to see this aspect remain intact, I strongly doubt it will. And I think this will be the biggest disappointment of the lot.
Poor reasons to be annoyed with CBS right now:
° Watson is a woman, so all the gay will be erased. What gay, exactly? The only Holmes I can ever recall as being canonically stated as gay was from the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and Watson was horrified to learn this. All other adaptations where homosexuality is mentioned have been rife with ‘lol they said “gay”’ jokes.
° Watson being a woman will kill the ship. Yes, because heterosexuals are so disgusting. Oh wait…
° I prefer to look at manmeat in my porn. … I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. I can’t even begin to articulate how ridiculous this is.
TL;DR: Yes. it is fine and dandy to be upset for CBS, but a lot of people are being upset for the WAY wrong reasons.
Looks like I picked a good night to go to the gym because there are lots of girls here. (but they’re probably all straight and I won’t talk to any of them)
“Rick, I’m sorry that hearing that JFK speech on religion makes you throw up, but if it makes you feel any better, knowing that you were running for President would make him shit his pants.”
—JON STEWART, on Rick Santorum saying JFK’s historic speech on the separation of church and state makes him want to “throw up,” on The Daily Show (via ohvegeta)
It felt good helping my mom with her resume. Maybe I can get excited about the job search if it’s not my own!
