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My name is Natasha. 20, female, gamer, feminist, atheist, humanist, asexual, certified Tall Person. College sophomore residing within spitting distance of Atlanta, Georgia. I heart Mass Effect. Sometimes I write stuff.
Fuck Yeah, Tali! | SIGNAL BOOSTS
Fuck Yeah, Tali! | SIGNAL BOOSTS
~ Wednesday, May 22 ~
kindle worlds????
wait so i woke up this morning into bizarro world in which amazon’s latest business move is ‘publish your fanfiction on here for cash dollars!’ in what i can only assume is an attempt to capitalize on the success of 50 shades by asking people to pay for fanfiction only the fanfiction can’t even be explicit? thereby revealing
- a fundamental misunderstanding of why many people read fanfiction in the first place
- because if they were looking to read about the characters they wanted to bang not banging, they could just buy, idk, books
- nobody knows what’s going on in publishing anymore
- the points are made up and they don’t really matter anyway
- all current executive meetings probably involve multiple board members bringing up powerpoints that read THE INTERNET: NOT GOING AWAY? and WHAT THE YOUTH OF TODAY LIKES followed by a bunch of memes and question marks
- ending in a final slide that simply reads ONE DIRECTION. HEART SYMBOL. VIDEO GAMING. THANK??? LIL BUB. FANS FICTION.
who the fuck would pay for fanfiction I mean really
I just copy-paste fics into Word, publish them as PDFs, and put them on my nook anyway.
idk if you know this already, but AO3 has an option to download fics in various formats (including PDFs) for e-book reading. I don’t have a dedicated e-reader myself, but I download fics sometimes to read on the ebook app on my iPod (Stanza).
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THERE IS A FUCKING COW TRYING TO GET INSIDE MY HOUSE
I AM HOME ALONE
WHAT DO I DO THERE IS A COW PRESSING ITS FACE AGAINST THE WINDOW
tell it to mooove
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stop supporting the myth that poor people don’t deserve to have “nice” things. because that sort of narrative continues to ignore the complexities of capitalism and struggle and takes us away from examining why it’s easier for someone living below the poverty line to get a smart phone than to get sustainable support for housing, employment at a livable wage, healthcare services, etc.
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shush, girl. shut yo lips. do the helen keller and become an author and political activist.
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“ Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.
—
Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)
I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.
(via notational)
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The Fukang Meteorite
Back in the year 2000, an incredible meteorite weighing 2,211 pounds was discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. Named the Funkang meteorite, it was identified as a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite. With 4.5 billion years in the making, its golden olivine mixed with silvery nickel-iron to create a stunningly beautiful mosaic effect.
Pallasites are extremely rare even among meteorites (only about 1% of all meteorites are this type) and Fukang has been hailed as one of the greatest meteorite discoveries of the 21st century.It has since been divided into slices which give the effect of stained glass when the sun shines through them. It is so valuable that even tiny chunks sell in the region for $40 to $60 a gram. An anonymous collector holds the largest portion, which weighs 925 pounds.
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Let's do a thing: reblog and add your city and country. If it's already there, don't add it again. Let's take a look at tumblr's diversity.
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Shanghai, China
- Pisa, Italy
- Longkou, China
- Brisbane, Australia
- University Place, USA
- Salamanca, Spain
- Cambridge, England
- London, England
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- Edinburg, USA
- Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Dubai, UAE
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- Paris, France
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- Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Warner Robins, USA
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- Edmonton, Canada
- Porto, Portugal
- Ipswich, England
- Rome, Italy
- Dickson, USA
- Vienna, USA
- Philadelphia, USA
- New York, USA
- Columbus, USA
- Atlanta, USA
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quick sketch. femshep suits up! or something.
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