Patrick Star and John Green have the same happy dance

skullcrusher-mountain:

fishingboatproceeds:

hiccupsandteacups:

Also similar overall body shapes…

HEY THAT’S MEAN- oh wait you’re john green

booksandquills:

Crash Course Literatur intro.

OH MY GOD IT’S HERE IT’S FINALLY HERE

teenwolframandhart:

SO EXCITING! But I need to write some more for NaNoWriMo first…

fishingboatproceeds:

I know most tumblypoos aren’t old enough to remember with me, but when I was in high school, this was unimaginable. I mean that literally: I could not imagine it.

The President of the United States did not say the word AIDS in public until 1987, by which time more than 20,000 Americans had died. The chronic under-funding of AIDS research was driven primarily by systemic homophobia. The President himself privately remarked, “Maybe the Lord brought down this plague [because] illicit sex is against the ten commandments.” 

References to homosexuality as a mental illness were not completely removed from the American Psychiatric Society’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Gay sex was a crime in most American states until 1989 (and in many until 2003).

Seventeen years ago, the year I graduated from high school, a classmate posted an anonymous open letter in my school’s paper saying that s/he was gay and found the homophobic language used by his/her classmates offensive. This is embarrassing to admit, but it had never occurred to me that constant use of the word “gay” in pejorative contexts would be offensive to someone I knew, because it never occurred to me that I knew any gay people.

And then for more than a decade, a long string of state constitutional amendments excluded LGBT people from legal marriage and the rights associated with it. It must have been very hurtful, to have voters in state after state after state decide to exclude you from the full rights and protections of citizenship in this country.

Well, change is coming. In 1986, the President thought AIDS was a scourge given to sinners. In 1995, I learned not to use the word “gay” as a pejorative adjective. And on Tuesday, a majority of voters in four very different states in very different parts of the country said NO to the hate, fear, bigotry, and exclusion that have shaped our policy on marital rights in this country.

I know that it’s still hard, that many LGBT people are threatened and bullied and dehumanized by their peers and denied rights by their governments. We have a long way to go. But the young anonymous gay person who wrote that open letter to my high school in 1995? She just oversaw a campaigns to bring marriage equality in Maine. 

And she’s married.

runawaypaintings:

Finished Green Family Portrait.

john green is better than you

Two Liberal Arts Graduates Attempt to Explain the Setting Sun to a 2-Year-Old

fishingboatproceeds:

Henry: “It’s gettin’ darker and darker.”

Me: “The sun goes away every night and then comes back in the morning.”

Sarah: “The sun is always moving, and sometimes it lights up certain parts of the earth, and other times it lights up the other parts. So when it’s nighttime here, it’s daytime somewhere else.”

Me: “Well, I think the earth is actually doing the moving.”

Sarah: “Right, yeah. Well, they’re both moving but the Earth’s movement is the relevant one to this particular issue.”

Henry: “It’s gettin’ darker and darker!”

Me: “The Sun is orbiting? Around what?”

Sarah: “Around the center of the Milky Way. I remember from Astronomy.”

Me: “You’re suggesting that we’re orbiting a sun that is itself orbiting the Milky Way.”

Sarah: “Yes, and in fact there is also a moon orbiting us.”

Henry: “The sun is moving?”

Me: “Well, the earth is moving; that’s why the Sun is going down.”

Henry: “We are moving?”

Sarah: “That’s correct, but the sun is also moving.”

Henry: “It’s gettin’ darker and darker.”

Favourite tweet of all time.

Let this circle be “Asshats” and here are people who get offended when you say no to sex. [x]

fishingboatproceeds:

My friends Meg Liffick and Joe Ball got married yesterday.

When it came time for the couple’s traditional first dance, Joe read prepared remarks explaining that instead of dancing together, they wanted to open the dance floor to their gay and lesbian friends who are still legally denied the right to marry. 

This was a large and very diverse wedding in a state that doesn’t even recognize same-sex civil unions, let alone marriage. And yet the ovation that these people received while dancing to The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was like nothing I’ve ever heard at any wedding. If there were dry eyes, I didn’t see any. 

Change is coming.