There is only one thing worth seeing this week on the Internet, and it is Sia’s music video tribute to the 49 children (this video makes it so obvious that they were just CHILDREN, having fun and being dumb and maybe reckless, but children nonetheless) who were murdered in the Orlando club.
Maybe you’ll be able to get through this without crying, but I sure couldn’t.
THIS IS EVERYTHING. Thor hanging out with Darryl in Australia, unhappily “not caring” about Tony Stark and Steve Rogers fighting without him, making nonsense mystery boards about the Infinity Stones…PERFECT.
“Dude? Don’t you get it?? Here at Lambda Alpha Lambda, we keep toxic masculinity in check!”
Let’s make this man our next vice president!
I have a new obsession: Dubsmash! This app has provided me with HOURS of gleeful giggling at my face, which is honestly one of my favorite pastimes. I think I’ll try to put together some compilations like this one so that everyone else can have a good laugh (and perhaps join the app yourself! and friend me so we can send dumb videos to each other!).
The Palace of Knossos is remarkable and beautiful and everyone should visit it while in Crete…but you won’t see much of that in this video. Instead, there are time travel references, screaming Indiana Jones, and a valley girl who almost definitely existed thousands of years ago too.
A few months ago I recommended some of my favorite podcasts (and received some great recommendations back!), because there is rarely a time when I don’t have a podcast playing in the background. While all of my previous recommendations (especially Dear Hank and John, Overinvested, and The Liturgists Podcast) are still high on my priority list, I have since added some new ones to my queue!
Big thanks to blogger Jesse for recommending this one to me. Sofie Hagen and Deborah Frances-White are European comedians who record their shows about “the feminist ideals we hold and the insecurities and hypocrisies that undermine them.” They start each show with a series of “I’m a feminist, but…” confessions that create a safe place to laugh about all the ways we fail to be as body positive and self-confident as we profess to be. They’ve done shows about exercise, apologizing, femininity, and many more, and I look forward to each new episode every week.
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This is a new podcast that I only just discovered, but I LOVE it. Continue reading
It’s been a while since I made a #same post (parts one and two), a kind of series I made to celebrate the ways tumblr posts unite us in our weirdnesses!
That’s it for this round of #SAME!
Until next time…
Always the land of diversity, we here in the US have not one but TWO wizarding schools (one official, one made up in the wonderful world of the Internet, which is…very American): Ilvermorny and Eaglecrest. I wanted to sort myself in both and see what happened!
On Pottermore, J.K. Rowling recently announced that the United States has its own wizarding school, Ilvermorny. While it is AMAZING to have a Hogwarts of our own, the school has been pretty controversial. Each house is represented by Native American legends, which could be cool if it were coherent or based in a narrative where Native Americans created the school. Instead, Irish wizards created Ilvermorny and adapted Native American culture as they saw fit, which is…pretty problematic. Continue reading
The only way I can stand to keep up with American politics (and I am SO thankful that I’m not living in the US right now and having to hear all this nonsense on a daily basis) is through late night talk shows hosts. So imagine my UTTER DELIGHT when Stephen Colbert went to Jon Stewart for help in this time of political crisis (their spit takes of surprise when hearing that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee are WONDERFUL) and came back with “Stephen Colbert” the most egotistic conservative until, well, Trump. MY SOUL IS SO HAPPY, even if our nation is not. But that’s what the Internet is for, right?
Of course “Stephen Colbert” would return in a chariot pulled by topless Uncle Sams, omg, I love him (which is why, like, I GET why people are all about Donald Trump, because spectacle is entertaining, but only for TELEVISION, people, NOT THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN OUR COUNTRY).
And here, one more! Stephen Colbert singing is always great, and this one is particularly absurd and delightful.
This should be in a Sunday Summary post, but HOLY COW, while watching this I had waves upon waves of goosebumps running up and down my arms.
This scene with added flashbacks is just…everything that makes Star Wars so compelling. The tragedy, the high drama, the surface story concealing so much history…
JUST WATCH THIS.
Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that I named my foster kitty Hans Harrison. I’ve got a bit of a Star Wars revival going on in my heart!
Just some videos this week, but BOY are they great videos spanning my range of interests.
First we’ve got a beautifully created video about Learning a New Language. This girl is a powerhouse creator, and I LOVE how she captures the struggle of learning a language that is not your own – not so much the mental struggle, but the emotional struggle of not being able to express yourself or even BE yourself in another language.
Then we’ve got Lin-Manuel Miranda talking about his last performance as Alexander Hamilton, and AGH, the end of an era.
Finally, we have the Buzzfeed Try Guys getting photoshopped again, but this time according to female photoshop standards. I LIVE for their cultural awareness and female positivity while also being absolutely hilarious.
I’ve never really grown out of my 14-year-old self’s love of personal surveys, and since this one is Greek themed and I lived in Greece, well…that’s a good enough excuse for me!
Aphrodite: what you find attractive in a person
Intelligence and humor. Also eyebrows, ankles, and laugh lines around his eyes.
Apollo: favourite piece of music
Ooo! I could go with “the entire Hamilton soundtrack” but that is a recent favorite that has yet to withstand the test of time. Oh gosh, I’ve sat here scrolling through my iTunes for ten minutes now, and I cannot decide whether to go with something instrumental or emotional or artistic and whatever, I’m just going to choose “After the Storm” by Mumford and Sons because it’s beautiful.
Ares: opinion on war
Not a fan of it. I can get into the emotional fervor of it in fantasy movies, but I dunno. I think life is sacred and violence is easy and Ares is my least favorite Olympian.
Artemis: favourite animal and why
Cheetahs! I loved them when I was a kid because they were pretty and fast and could be tamed enough to be in movies. Then I grew up and found out that they have social anxiety and often need dog-companions to calm them, and my love grew even deeper.
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