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2012-02-02

Until I have my own pictures to spam you all with….

Iceland! TODAY. I just need to sleep first.

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lettersfromtitan:

cryblainecry:

dinojay:

THE FUNNIEST THING ON BLAINE’S BOOKSHELF.
OKAY, so I’ve been looking through Blaine’s bookshelf as a little break from thesis-ing, and this is by far my favorite thing. (Sorry the photo quality is bad; it’s a lot clearer in the HD version I’ve been unable to screencap as of yet.) This is a book called “What If…You Broke All The Rules”, which is apparently a choose your own adventure book for young teenage girls, (please go back and read that sentence again, because this is priceless.) Here’s the description off Barnes and Noble’s website:
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In What If… You Broke All the Rules, Haley will turn 16 on Valentine’s Day. But there won’t be any big parties or celebrations to mark the occasion—her parents are so distracted by their own lives that they forget her birthday. Haley’s dad is absorbed in finishing his documentary, and Haley’s mom is spending waaaay too much time with a former coworker from San Francisco. With Perry and Joan preoccupied, Haley will suddenly find herself in a world without rules. Will Haley turn into a wild child or do the responsible thing? And how will Haley choose to spend her spring break—with a trip to Paris with Sasha, to Sebastian’s hometown of Seville, making a movie in New Jersey with Irene, or in the Hamptons with Coco, Whitney, and their crew? It’s up to you to choose Haley’s destiny!
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Basically it’s about a teenage girl whose parents are constantly out of town who has to choose which boy she’s going to end up spending Spring Break with. I feel like this says a lot about Blaine as a person, and all of it is hilarious.
And this is on Blaine’s bookshelf, sitting meekly underneath books like “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover”, and an intimidating-looking book on American Theater, and a large white book that has illustrations all over the spine that I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere (I think it’s a history book). AND IT’S A “CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY” BOOK. Dear god, I fucking love the set dressers for this show.

oh my FUCKING GOD THIS IS AMAZING.

You know my shit about Blaine and gender? I WIN. (The Hoover book is just fucking bonus points, too).

Fascinating, reblogging for future reference.

cryblainecry:

dinojay:

THE FUNNIEST THING ON BLAINE’S BOOKSHELF.

OKAY, so I’ve been looking through Blaine’s bookshelf as a little break from thesis-ing, and this is by far my favorite thing. (Sorry the photo quality is bad; it’s a lot clearer in the HD version I’ve been unable to screencap as of yet.) This is a book called “What If…You Broke All The Rules”, which is apparently a choose your own adventure book for young teenage girls, (please go back and read that sentence again, because this is priceless.) Here’s the description off Barnes and Noble’s website:

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In What If… You Broke All the Rules, Haley will turn 16 on Valentine’s Day. But there won’t be any big parties or celebrations to mark the occasion—her parents are so distracted by their own lives that they forget her birthday. Haley’s dad is absorbed in finishing his documentary, and Haley’s mom is spending waaaay too much time with a former coworker from San Francisco. With Perry and Joan preoccupied, Haley will suddenly find herself in a world without rules. Will Haley turn into a wild child or do the responsible thing? And how will Haley choose to spend her spring break—with a trip to Paris with Sasha, to Sebastian’s hometown of Seville, making a movie in New Jersey with Irene, or in the Hamptons with Coco, Whitney, and their crew? It’s up to you to choose Haley’s destiny!

_____________________

Basically it’s about a teenage girl whose parents are constantly out of town who has to choose which boy she’s going to end up spending Spring Break with. I feel like this says a lot about Blaine as a person, and all of it is hilarious.

And this is on Blaine’s bookshelf, sitting meekly underneath books like “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover”, and an intimidating-looking book on American Theater, and a large white book that has illustrations all over the spine that I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere (I think it’s a history book). AND IT’S A “CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY” BOOK. Dear god, I fucking love the set dressers for this show.

oh my FUCKING GOD THIS IS AMAZING.

You know my shit about Blaine and gender? I WIN. (The Hoover book is just fucking bonus points, too).

Fascinating, reblogging for future reference.

Source: dinojay

2012-02-01

popculturebrain:

rillawafers:

Dear tumblr, this is your #LOL page. Three of these videos are the same video. You chose to have unpaid community editors do this for you and this is what it looks like. Please make your tag pages worth looking at and credit original posters vs. HuffPo and Kelly Oxford who came WAY after the fact (seriously, look at those notes). You have to do better than this.

When community editors tag a post it automatically selects the original post, not a reblog. If a post has already been tagged and an editor tries to tag it, it gives you an error message. Triple tagging content is human error and can easily be rectified by editors sporadically checking the tracked tag page.

In this instance, I know for a fact Huff Post TV was the first to post the Kristen Bell video (after it being posted to Ellen’s YouTube page).

Reblogging to echo PCB and also just to point out that the number of notes does not determine originality at all (it just shows that certain posters can viralize something better than others, kudos Oh-rebecca and your followers). Sometimes it is an indicator, but the nature of Tumblr allows a lot of people to have a great idea at the same time to spread content from elsewhere on the web. There is something to be said about fostering the promotion of true original content on Tumblr (aka, content that ONLY lives on Tumblr and isn’t curated from elsewhere) but that’s another discussion. Tag editors have a lot to sort through, but we try our best to check the page and keep it balanced and non-repetitive!

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Everytime someone randomly leaves a comment on Billboard telling my I “shouldn’t use the word Queer”…

I have so many emotions like.

1. Are you new here?

2. Seriously. Have you read anything else I’ve written on Glee?

3. Can you read? Because queer as an academic adjective isn’t the same thing as like, calling the show queer.

4. Which I do, but also that’s a totally different thing. You would probably really enjoy the Glee Gaycap I write for NewNowNext (this week let’s talk about clothes sharing and Roxy Music eyepatch references and What Was Kurt Hummel Wearing?)

5. ALSO DEAR GOD I AM QUEER AND YOU DRIVE ME INSANE.

Ahem. It’s a good thing I’m going to Iceland tomorrow for rest, relaxation and magical things. I will return just in time to see Ricky Martin turn Glee into insanity and have to write about THAT.

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Extremely important Glee blogging about meaning and character motivations and —- OH HI KEVIN AND HARRY.

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popculturebrain:

reblogging this because it’s incorrect. They just placed the rock salt in, as was pointed out last night by some fans:

Rock salt and other salt-based ice melters contain sodium chloride or potassium chloride which can heat up to 175 degrees when exposed to water, ice, and low temperatures. Often these white pellets (crystals) sit on ice and snow surfaces for a long period before penetrating.

Source: popculturebrain

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Blaine Anderson has an eyepatch. Other things happen in these scene, but that’s all you can really notice. Kurt reads Blaine gossip mags, Rachel brings chicken soup and Finn provides various eyepatch themed films for Blaine’s enjoyment. Then Blaine makes everything awkward by pulling champagne glasses out of his drawer to toast Kurt’s NYADA finalist letter. In turn, Finn and Rachel explain that even if Blaine loses an eye he can still be a fine performer. It’s super strange, and they round it off by bringing the Michael Jackson to Blaine, singing “Ben.” Despite being a song about a rat, it’s actually a sweet moment, especially between Kurt and Blaine, since Blaine manages to give heart eyes even with only one eye. - Billboard.

So we have eye injuries and high school boyfriends, something I’m weirdly well aquainted with (warning now, for those who has eye phobias!) My HS boyfriend went for laser surgery back when it was still relatively new, and he asked me to come along for support. Just as they were about to cut his eye for the laser, he fainted. Had it happened a second later than it did, he would have been in the middle of the procedure and been blind in one eye. I don’t know if I can put into words how terrifying that was in that moment. I was watching the whole thing on a terrifying camera with his mother, a close-up on his eye, and then suddenly everything shook and people were scrambling. He took a break, and then he actually let them do it again and made it through okay, but I remember sitting in the recovery room with him, his head in my lap as I stroked his hair, his parents looking at me strangely because suddenly here I was, this person outside of them that he clung to in his trauma. He stayed close to me the whole afternoon, barely caring that we’d never been that affectionate in front of adults before, deferring to me for everything when we went to lunch after. It was weirdly grown up, but also I was so young and it was so long ago and what did I know about being an adult and taking care of this boy anyway?
That is a scene I would have loved to see between Kurt and Blaine. That emergency room moment, interacting with Blaine’s parents, the closeness etc. This isn’t even their first trauma as a couple, and I have faith Kurt Hummel is way better equipped than I am to handle it all.

Blaine Anderson has an eyepatch. Other things happen in these scene, but that’s all you can really notice. Kurt reads Blaine gossip mags, Rachel brings chicken soup and Finn provides various eyepatch themed films for Blaine’s enjoyment. Then Blaine makes everything awkward by pulling champagne glasses out of his drawer to toast Kurt’s NYADA finalist letter. In turn, Finn and Rachel explain that even if Blaine loses an eye he can still be a fine performer. It’s super strange, and they round it off by bringing the Michael Jackson to Blaine, singing “Ben.” Despite being a song about a rat, it’s actually a sweet moment, especially between Kurt and Blaine, since Blaine manages to give heart eyes even with only one eye. - Billboard.

So we have eye injuries and high school boyfriends, something I’m weirdly well aquainted with (warning now, for those who has eye phobias!) My HS boyfriend went for laser surgery back when it was still relatively new, and he asked me to come along for support. Just as they were about to cut his eye for the laser, he fainted. Had it happened a second later than it did, he would have been in the middle of the procedure and been blind in one eye. I don’t know if I can put into words how terrifying that was in that moment. I was watching the whole thing on a terrifying camera with his mother, a close-up on his eye, and then suddenly everything shook and people were scrambling. He took a break, and then he actually let them do it again and made it through okay, but I remember sitting in the recovery room with him, his head in my lap as I stroked his hair, his parents looking at me strangely because suddenly here I was, this person outside of them that he clung to in his trauma. He stayed close to me the whole afternoon, barely caring that we’d never been that affectionate in front of adults before, deferring to me for everything when we went to lunch after. It was weirdly grown up, but also I was so young and it was so long ago and what did I know about being an adult and taking care of this boy anyway?

That is a scene I would have loved to see between Kurt and Blaine. That emergency room moment, interacting with Blaine’s parents, the closeness etc. This isn’t even their first trauma as a couple, and I have faith Kurt Hummel is way better equipped than I am to handle it all.

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'Glee' Recap: Michael Jackson Tribute Was Bad (As in Good) -- Billboard

While the queer content of Glee is what maybe grabbed my attention first, what keeps it is the theme of ambition and growing up. I could think about ambition all the time, how it plays out for these characters, how they construct their own destinies within their fantasy land and how that crumbles or holds up in the real world. So this week was especially good for that on Glee, with so much fantasy in the performances and so much reality in the consequences.

We have Sebastain, the most intense and harsh villain on Glee so far, who caps off a dance battle with a slushie that sends you to the hospital, flipping on its head the slushie as ridiculous and surreal threat into the real world. We have Rachel’s fear about her future leading her to an engagement that she’s not 100 percent behind. We have Kurt, and his dad, and the utter joy and pride at his bright future.

And the future, it looms. Quinn might be set, and Kurt and Rachel are on a path that will lead both of them to take losses for what they hope to gain. Ryan Murphy has said the end of this season will be heartbreaking, following these more lighthearted episodes. They’re only finalists for their dreams so far, and they likely won’t get an easy road. The others, too, don’t have any clear paths. Santana, Britt and Mercedes haven’t outlined anything yet, Mike might not be good enough to dance like he hopes. Parents, who continue to play a greater role in this season, will have to let go of their children as they become adults. “Glee” payed homage to Michael Jackson this episode, but now it’s time to leave Neverland for the rest of the journey.

We see how Kurt, excited about his future, is able to be mature and take the high road against his enemies, while Rachel grasps for straws to solidify a future for herself even if it’s not the exact one she wanted. They’re both not to safety yet, no one is, but the Great Escape From Lima is barreling ahead full force, and interesting to see Quinn lead the charge on this one. She’s arguably the character that has went through the most hell at McKinley, and so she gets the first prize. Followed by Kurt, who at least gets the next triumphant taste. My bets are on Mike Chang next.

(I’m going to save my eye trauma commentary for another post.)

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I have Glee Thoughts but they all bled out into the recap for Billboard tomorrow, which I am really pleased with this time around. So tomorrow we’ll talk about villains and slushies and eye issues (I have personal high school stories, oh god) and ambition and engagements. But until then I’d just like to stare what what random stuff Kurt suddenly has in his locker. Faeries? Some kind of sketch? More please!

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2012-01-31

huffposttv:

Kristen Bell’s sloth meltdown on “Ellen.”

I AM LAUGHING SO HARD. She is the best.

Source: The Huffington Post