~ The Darkness Has Its Own Light ~

Lady falconer - inspired by Rembrant’s Flemish paintings.

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:48:09 +0100

Lady falconer - inspired by Rembrant’s Flemish paintings.

boromirs: LotR meme: landscape

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:39 +0100

boromirs:

LotR meme: landscape

The Bear and Billet pub, Chester, built in 1664.

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:49:59 +0100

The Bear and Billet pub, Chester, built in 1664.

The underside of a wave.

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:19:44 +0100

The underside of a wave.

This video features a series of time lapse sequences...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:16:06 +0100

This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song “Walking in the Air,” by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays. The sequences are as follows:

:01 — Stars over southern United States
:08 — US west coast to Canada
:21 — Central Europe to the Middle East
:36 — Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
:54 — Storms over Africa
1:08 — Central United States
1:20 — Midwest United States
1:33 — United Kingdom to Baltic Sea
1:46 — Moonset
1:55 — Northern United States to Eastern Canada
2:12 — Aurora Australis over the Indian Ocean
2:32 — Comet Lovejoy
2:53 — Aurora Borealis over Hudson Bay
3:06 — United Kingdom to Central Europe

This is what Yahoo paid $1.3 Billion for.

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:11:13 +0100

castielofasgard:

Narborough Hall, Norfolk, England.

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:06:51 +0100

Narborough Hall, Norfolk, England.

"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:55:58 +0100

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

”

- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)

Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:39:00 +0100

Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?:

Misogyny’s deepest roots are exposed in the endless repetition of stories about capture and rape.

ladyknightley: I love a good history pun…

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:32:21 +0100

ladyknightley:

I love a good history pun…

lndnwlkr: Weymouth, Chesi Beach and Abbotsbury, Dorset, England...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:30:15 +0100

lndnwlkr:

Weymouth, Chesi Beach and Abbotsbury, Dorset, England (by PHOTOGRAPHY By Martin Aldous)

Fan fiction is in a different universe to Kindle Worlds

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:00 +0100

Fan fiction is in a different universe to Kindle Worlds:

Mathilda Gregory: Amazon selling fanfic may sound a great idea, but the whole point of these stories is they go where the powers that be won’t

‘And telling and retelling stories, however we want to, is bigger even than a giant like Amazon. Fanfic existed before the internet and it will still be around when we live in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. After all, it’s created enough of them.’

: I Feel like people need to know more about the suspected terrorist attack in London

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:27:05 +0100

: I Feel like people need to know more about the suspected terrorist attack in London:

thelittlenettles:

A man believed to be a serving soldier has been killed in London.

The man wearing a Help for Hero’s shirt was attacked bye two men who hit him with their car and then proceeded to slash him to death in broad day light in front of a busy street of people just as a school was due to let children…

"Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:05 +0100

“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”

- Anne Carson, Introduction to Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (via filthiestlaugh)

Nigel Farage visits Scotland

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:25:48 +0100

fuckyeahtoryparty:

liberated-fuck: So, the homophobic, racist, sexist man that is...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:25:10 +0100

liberated-fuck:

So, the homophobic, racist, sexist man that is Nigel Farage of the UK Independence Party decides to take a trip to Scotland… and then he’s surprised when he ain’t greeted with a hearty welcome?

You’re in politics, mate. You’re right-wing and you’re comin up north. What d’ya expect?

Then he strikes back at them by calling the protestors ‘fascist, racist anti-english scum’?

Bro, they were telling you to get the fck outta Scotland because of how anti-immigration you are. You ever heard of sumit called irony? Brains or what man. How does it feel to be treated like a ‘dirty foreigner’?

So, no. I think it’s perfectly fair that everyone harassed him. I think it’s perfectly fair that they weren’t kind with their words. I think it’s perfectly fair that the first taxi he tried to escape in wouldn’t move. I think it’s fair that the second taxi wouldn’t stop for him. I think it’s perfectly fair that he had to get coppers to escort him into a pub for protection.

You’re against immigration and it’s about time you got a taste of your own pissin medicine: pure respect to the Scots for doing this.

And, if nothing else: it was great entertainment. My mum and I spent about 20 minutes in a fit of giggles over it.

"I am not yet done."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:24 +0100

“I am not yet done.”

- Itkovian Otanthalian, Shield Anvil of Fener’s Reve. (via cronopio)

effortless-paradise: So this character of mine has an Indian father and a redhead mother and I’m...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:03 +0100

effortless-paradise:

So this character of mine has an Indian father and a redhead mother and I’m trying to figure out what exactly they would look like. Help?

Reblogging as I am sure some-one knows .

kamounke: “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:22:58 +0100

kamounke:

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

― Chinua Achebe, interview with the Paris Review

AMAZON ANNOUNCES FRANCHISE-BASED FANFIC PUBLISHING ENGINE

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:20:37 +0100

AMAZON ANNOUNCES FRANCHISE-BASED FANFIC PUBLISHING ENGINE:

bookshop:

READ THIS Gav wrote it while I screamed at her about Fanlib and franchise tie-ins and flailed a lot on twitter. A great summary of the many many problems with amazon’s new scheme to profit from fans writing fanfic.