airy-m:

valerie-renee:

ablipintime:

valerie-renee:

Maggie Sawyer in a cocktail dress…hmmm…. super dislike.

What I don’t understand is why she’s in a cocktail dress when she wears suits on dates and she wore a tuxedo at the last formal event she went to???

I mean they both complain about the dresses on a latter panel but yeah.

Kate I understand—Chase told her to look like a “rich socialite” and last party she went to as a ~rich socialite~ (during “52”) she wore a red dress. But Maggie had no obligation to???

This whole issue was just… guhdrjksdjhfjsadjdsn

I think the  ”as longs as we’re not in these dresses” was more Kate’s way of saying “I’d rather the dress be on the floor”  (she’s such a hornball)  But Kate gets her femme  on sometimes and it’s fine.

Maggie, though, does not do dresses. I loved her presentation up until now: unapologetically andro-butch, and totally rocking it.  I hope they don’t take that away from her.  There’s so little representation for women like that in ANY form of media!

I can’t say I agree. I’m not saying anyone is right or wrong on any of these points… I’m just saying that I don’t see things the same way. I’m not bothered by seeing Maggie Sawyer in a dress - I’m more bothered by the fan reaction to that.

I’m not one to speak for the “unapologetically andro-butch” populace and I’m not going to attempt to do so. As a personal point of reference, yeah, I know plenty of butch lesbians - my own mother and several of her former girlfriends included. It’s true that they own a majority of non-feminine clothes - everything from jeans to tuxedos (my mom can rock a tuxedo) - but that doesn’t bar them from owning dresses. Although my mom doesn’t prefer dresses like her current girlfriend does (who, yes, can be considered “femme”), it doesn’t mean that Mom can’t wear a great gown from time to time. She can choose to do so. She’s “butch”, but she can wear make up and paint her nails and wear pretty jewelry. There’s no rules against that and, even if there were, Mom would laugh at them. Her choices are personal preferences. Her choices aren’t some outward statement of “this is how we butch women represent ourselves.”

And yes, I know. Comic book characters are different. We put a lot of import on how characters are being represented. Batman shouldn’t shoot guns and if he were to do so, we would jump on that. We care a lot about the details, no matter how big or small. I respect that. Maggie Sawyer is an incredible character who is iconic for her noir detective vibe and we come to expect that hard-boiled edginess from her - especially in her appearance, so yes, it is startling to see her unarmed and wearing a dress at the gala in Batwoman #9.

But as startling as it is… is that any reason to draw some sort of dark insinuation about the representation of a “butch” lesbian in this story? Maggie’s personality and character doesn’t change when she wears the dress - if what follows in that scene proves anything, it is that she is still oh so very much Maggie. She doesn’t have to wear a suit every time she is at a formal event. I find it very believable that she owns a couple of dresses as well and could see fit to wear one at a gala. She can be handsome in a suit and be lovely in a dress, and I really don’t see her as the sort of character who would give a damn what anyone might think of her choice in clothes (other than hoping her date finds her attractive, perhaps).

“Butch” and “femme” can be rather rigid concepts for women who are more complex than that - especially when trying to develop complex characters in comic books. Just because Maggie looks more in-character in a suit does not mean she is any less of who she is by wearing a dress.

It’s one thing to dislike her choice in the color or cut of the dress, but it doesn’t sit very well with me to see fellow fans implying that the creators are trying to imply a negative meaning or trying to lessen her character due to expressing femininity. My assertion is that Maggie wearing a dress won’t take anything away from her being Maggie. The dialogue and writing in this issue holds true to that, I believe.

airy-m:

fuckyeahsherlockfanart:

sergeant-cat:

bored is no longer a word

lol!!!!

My younger brother (who looks a lot like Sherlock, except curlier hair) does this. ALL THE TIME. It’s adorable. And weird.

i can actually imagine your younger brother doing this

rofl

hope he’s doing okay. <3

(Source: softwatsonwarmwatson)

neil-gaiman:

(From Littledogstar’s DeviantArt) A piece of art I was given that still makes me smile…:

How Good Omens Was Not Written

 

At the Neil Gaiman Q&A at Anticipation (Worldcon09) in Montreal, he mentioned something about how people tend to believe that he wrote the plot to Good Omens and Terry Pratchett went after him strewing all the jokes.

The original now belongs to Neil, thus why I don’t have a proper scan but merely a photograph. 8)


Neil and Terry belong to themselves. >_>

airy-m:

beingevil:

comeatonce:

iamnotzulkarnainsadali:

Dude, if your Singaporean girlfriend has never seen this MRT map before, she’s probably too young for you.

jfc half my (singaporean) tumblr followers probably don’t know this

the worst part is that i can remember the map before they joined the top bit up

HOI

I REMEMBER THIS

/laughs, because I know what that means 

… I can’t remember the map from before the top half was joined, though…

That’s the map I’m most familiar with. When I left for college and came back to visit, I was startled by the new, redesigned map.

*beams at you from ear to ear*

oh tenth. <3 I’m so glad that we can share one more thing. <3

airy-m:

magnacarta13:

I love this picture, truly, but every time I see it I think it looks like a promo shot for some bad American sit com.

“Three Hot Guys with Really Good Elocution and a Couch”

“You Wish You Were Us”

“Where’s My Horse, Dude?”

“Herd of Brothers”

Basically none of the shows would have to have a substantial plot. We’d be happy to just watch them sit around on a couch and talk about stuff.  And eat.  With a shitty laugh track. Seriously.

I can totally see this. I’ve watched enough sit-coms to know exactly how this will go.

First, there is the slick, leather-jacket eldest brother. Kinda like the Fonzie or the Jessie of the family who instigates most of the trouble and mischief with good humor. He does what he wants. He’s usually hanging around with his blonde boyfriend who is built like a brick shithouse and can never seem to find a shirt. The boyfriend is not the cleverest of the bunch - so he gets the prerequisite dumb jokes required in sitcoms.

Then there is the quirky, intelligent middle brother who means well but usually unintentionally says the funniest things on the show. He’s clever but detached and rather odd-ball - a bit like an alien on the wrong planet, the Mork to everyone else’s Mindy. He knows the periodic table by heart but will have to go to his youngest or eldest brother to find out what all of this “dating” business is about and why it’s so important. Hilarity (always) ensues.

And then there is the warm-hearted youngest brother who is the point-of-view character that brings in all of the “d’awww” moments. He’s adorable, innocent, morally-upright, and practical. He’s the one who always says the most reasonable thing in any conversation, deadpans in the face of insanity, and gets to the central moral of the story right before the end of each episode, where they all group hug and the credits roll. 

TENTH

I SALUTE YOU

YOU SOMEHOW MANAGE TO MAKE TOM HIDDLESTON POSTS TWICE AS AWESOME AS THEY ALREADY WERE

HOW DO YOU DO IT

and then chris cries tears of joy because you, airy, are so perfect

I love this story, oh man, I would watch this sitcom,  i would watch this sitcom with you

I love that Tom Hiddleston gets to be the eldest brother. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HIS IDIOT BLOND BUILT-LIKE-A-BRICK-$H!+HOUSE BOYFRIEND. OHGODS.

AND THE GROUP HUG 

LET ME HUG YOU

(Source: irvinedaily)

video-toaster:

also jellybean thori

tenth I thought you might be amused by adorable foul-mouthed jellybean!thori.

I was!

(Source: soufex)

airy-m:

beingevil:

usedkarma:

Mischief Cologne

Possessed of Superhuman strength, Genius-level intelligence, Mystical powers, Telepathy, Flight, Clairvoyance, Therianthropy, and Teleportation … who could blame you for becoming the greatest trickster of them all? So wear your crown of baleful maleficence with pride; let mirth and mayhem stand ready at your side, anticipating your every command. Test their mettle knowing you have nothing to fear; you are Mischief and you were made to rule.

I can’t

tom hiddleston would wear this -

Are you kidding? Tom Hiddleston will be the first to get this. He’ll probably be wearing this at the movie premier. If I played the god of mischief in a movie and then a cologne was made based on the character, that’s EXACTLY what I’d do.

but that’s because you’re epic, Tenth - IS TOM HIDDLESTON AS EPIC AS YOU?!

also

… Tenth

You’re perfect

in every way