I have somehow found myself involved in a controversy surrounding Star Trek Into Darkness. Shocking, right? Well, the nature of the controvery is surprising to me - I’ve found myself fending off Twitter attacks from people who think I’m the guy who started the whole ‘Alice Eve in her underwear is sexist’ debate. ComicBookMovie.com even ran an article about me, declaring my ‘man card’ null and void.
Nice to see a geek guy who gets it.
Social media is weird.
There is a young woman on the other side of the country, who I’ve never met in person and barely interacted with online, but she’s awesome. She’s also having a tough time lately. She’s in a lot of emotional pain and I just want to offer her a hug, except I know that might come off as creepy or intrusive or presumptuous or whatever. And I can’t actually hug her from thousands of miles away so the offer would be kind of empty beyond the (possibly selfish) expression of wanting to make her feel better.
So instead I sit here feeling all these feelings and typing into the void and keeping an eye on her feeds in the hope that something will get better for her, because I think that’s the best thing I can do right now. I know that she is loved, and I know that she has actual friends and family to look out for her. If there comes a time when I can add my voice to theirs in support without it being weird, I will do that. Until then I hold her in my thoughts and quietly hope.
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Men Journal’s Interview with Mark Ruffalo [June 2013]
Such a lovely read, Mark is an adorable man.
IM SCREAMING
<3<3<3
And this is why he was the right guy to play Bruce Banner. Fantastic.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9f491b811b62ca57eeba05e2c81c70e/tumblr_mm4telpwtZ1qb7unno1_500.png)
Men Journal’s Interview with Mark Ruffalo [June 2013]
Such a lovely read, Mark is an adorable man.
IM SCREAMING
<3<3<3
And this is why he was the right guy to play Bruce Banner. Fantastic.
| — | Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via seraphmachine) |
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I grew up in a fairly rural suburb, so there was a lot of tree climbing in my youth. I learned pretty early that the tradeoff for the pine trees’ flexible, closely spaced branches was ending up covered in sticky pitch, and that sometimes it was worth it. Also, birches tend to be slippery.
One of the most recent times I climbed, I got yelled at. It turns out that the proprietors of the more upscale pick-your-own apple orchards around here don’t like rambunctious thirty-somethings scrambling up their trees to get at the fruit on the higher branches. (Though he seemed less concerned for my safety or his insurance liability than the fact that I hadn’t paid the three bucks to rent an ineffectual plastic-cup-on-a-stick picking device.) After he walked away, we just went further into the orchard and resumed climbing. You can’t tell me what to do, fascist apple guy.
i fell in love with him like ketchup falls out of a bottle: slowly, and then all at once.
oh my god you managed to one up john green.
Except you left out the part where you had to shove a knife in him and jiggle it around before anything happened.
#I don’t think that’s falling in love #I think that’s homicide
Oh, god. CRYING with laughter.
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My favorite bicycling experience happened a few summers ago. A bunch of us went down to Block Island for a long weekend to celebrate a friend’s birthday. It’s not a very big place, so most visitors take the ferry and bring or rent bikes. We spent our days lying on the beach, playing in the ocean, and riding from one end of the island to the other.
(Well, and eating good food and drinking. We were celebrating, okay?)
Despite being a smallish island, it has some surprisingly steep hills. We felt accomplished when we made it to the tops and delighted in flying back down. At the end of every day, we were tired and sandy and usually a little tipsy. It was pretty darn great.
This scene just kills me.
He’s trying to be all nonchalant about it, but he’s clearly feeling so nervous and insecure and he really really really needs to hear her say out loud that he wasn’t delusional for asking her out all those months ago. That she liked him before everything went to hell. That her affections are true and not only based on “recent events”. This kind of joy has been so infrequent in his life he doesn’t quite trust that it’s real until he gets confirmation from somebody else that he’s right to feel it.
Fighting back that smile and admitting that he’s “very” happy? If he weren’t Darcy, he would have been jumping around the room and whooping.
And damn if she doesn’t get a kick out of being able to give him that.
Almost two months later and I still can’t help smiling when I see these two smush their faces together.
