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Awkward Penguin Sledding

I feel…bad for laughing so hard.

Perfect. Just perfect. I want this to be a game where you get to pick who your ‘penguin’ is. Bolin is just super pumped to be spending time with Korra that he keeps coughing from all of the snow going down his throat while he’s open-mouthed smiling.

dapatches:

Incredible story. Incredible woman.

RIP NANCY WAKE (30 August 1912 – 7 August 2011)

Ms Wake, who has died in London just before her 99th birthday, was a New Zealander brought up in Australia. She became a nurse, a journalist who interviewed Adolf Hitler, a wealthy French socialite, a British agent and a French resistance leader. She led 7,000 guerrilla fighters in battles against the Nazis in the northern Auvergne, just before the D-Day landings in 1944. On one occasion, she strangled an SS sentry with her bare hands. On another, she cycled 500 miles to replace lost codes. In June 1944, she led her fighters in an attack on the Gestapo headquarters at Montlucon in central France.

Work began earlier this month on a feature film about Nancy Wake’s life. Ms Wake, one of the models for Sebastian Faulks’ fictional heroine, Charlotte Gray, had mixed feelings about previous cinematic efforts to portray her wartime exploits, including a TV mini-series made in 1987.

“It was well-acted but in parts it was extremely stupid,” she said. “At one stage they had me cooking eggs and bacon to feed the men. For goodness’ sake, did the Allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men? There wasn’t an egg to be had for love nor money. Even if there had been why would I be frying it? I had men to do that sort of thing.”

Ms Wake was also furious the TV series suggested she had had a love affair with one of her fellow fighters. She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.

Even before she escaped to Britain, through Spain, in 1943 to train as a guerrilla leader, Nancy had been top of the Gestapo’s French “wanted” list. With her husband, she ran a resistance network which helped to smuggle Jews and allied airmen out of the country.

Nancy recalled later in life that her parachute had snagged in a tree. The French resistance fighter who freed her said he wished all trees bore “such beautiful fruit”. Nancy retorted: “Don’t give me that French shit.”

<3 what a bad ass <3

>She was too busy killing Nazis for amorous entanglements, she said.

>She was too busy killing Nazis

>too busy killing Nazis

BOSS

True Badass Warrior Woman.

Best history.

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cozzybob:

I’ve seen people saying this, that it’s unrealistic… but as a bisexual, that argument rather stings. Personally, I had a blast. I sincerely hope DA2 isn’t the last game to do it, either.

I’m bisexual, too. 
And you know what?
It may be more common than you think.
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/ak-data.html#bisexuality  

Dammit, Had to ruin it with that “It’s not realistic.” comment…

Lol “it’s not realistic”

You know what’s also unrealistic?

The entire world of Thedas

hate to break it to you kiddies but Dragon Age is in fact a video game franchise and is not a real world with real people

I shouldn’t even reblog this trash for the 1000th time, but I’m angry now and I’m actually tearing up over this stupid bullshit.

Bisexual people are real. Bisexual people also hang out together. There is not a good goddamn thing unrealistic about any one of these wonderful characters being bisexual, or about all four of them being in the same social group. 

You know, my whole life, 99% of the bisexual characters I’ve seen portrayed in popular media have been sociopaths and/or promiscuous narcissists. I think at least half of them were serial killers.

I can’t really put into words what it meant to me to see Dragon Age 2 take four such different, fully fleshed out, flawed but also heroic characters and show them as bisexual. And although their sexuality is present, it isn’t apologized for, but neither is it the dominant focus of their characters or their romantic relationships.

So for a vast number of people to be harping on this for a year straight? Frankly, it hurts like hell, it’s exhausting, and I wish you all would just stop. Please. Stop.

to be honest, people say it’s unrealistic (and by people I mean bisexual people as well as non-bisexual people whee!) to cover their own ass. If you say it’s natural, you get a bunch of cis dudes and ladies jumping all over you which sucks major balls, so I’ve got no problem with the confessor covering their ass, even though I wish it wasn’t necessary. 

I think the most obvious thing people who complain about the lack of “realism” with all these bisexual characters in the cast are missing is that this is a world with absolutely no negative stigma surrounding same-sex couples. Is it really that out of line to think that you’d see more people open to the idea of relationships with members of their own sex the whole of society was perfectly okay with it?

I mean, just look at what the “social norm” meant for peoples’ sex lives back in Ancient Egypt and Greece.

How sexuality and sexual identity play out in games is something really interesting to me. Particularly in modern Bioware games where so much of the game is focused how one forms relationships between characters, romantic, platonic, or antagonistic. Representation, and proper representation is so important.

(Source: biowareconfessions)

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Goodnight Tumblr!

added some more stuff to it…

There’s a direct Korra-lation as to why the internet has been broken lately.