I Love People That Read. I Think It Screams Humility. When Someone Reads, They Are Essentially Admitting

And so women [in Wakanda] are allowed to realize their full potential … we’re all very specific, very individual, very powerful in our own ways and therefore, very effective and influential.   - Lupita Nyong’o

Happy International Women’s Day (03.08.18)

I should’ve posted this yesterday, whoops. 17/3/2016 || Day 1/100 of productivity I finished my final exams for Winter Quarter on Wednesday; I’m officially on spring break, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be productive. I did some reading and planning for Monday’s UW Math Day planetarium show. Also, I finally organized my desk!

The (Real) Scientific Process

Ask a question: 

Apply for funding

Ask a new question based on funding

Construct a hypothesis

Conduct experiments

Troubleshoot experiments

Conduct even more experiments

Analyze data

Draw conclusions

Communicate results (i.e. PUBLISH)

Repeat, ad infinitum…

Oh my god. This kitten is named LeVar Purrton.

This is both amazing and profoundly irritating - the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do - you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.

i made a college vine compilation b/c Suffering™️

(warning for loud noise in some of them)

me:  the stars are beautiful tonight

you: yeah

me:  you know what else is beautiful

you: (blushing) what?

me:  the moon.  the planets.  the rest of the galaxy.  i fucking love space

“The simple fact is that people who achieve excellence in their fields didn’t just have a dream. They got up at 4:00 am to practice on parallel bars or had to forgo other desirable activities and paths in order to get in six hours of violin practice a day, or stayed off several million absurd writing advice blogs with their overheated little cliques that dispense useless regurgitated maxims and empty praise and decide to actually confront their own thoughts on a page. Or they read Beowulf and Dante carefully and deeply when they didn’t see any point, since all they were interested in was Sylvia Plath, because someone of more experience and wisdom told them to do so. I don’t know whether we’re overly lazy, stupid, or childish these days. But the idea of preparing oneself for excellence has somehow disappeared. So – my advice to dreamers: Don’t just follow your dreams. Earn them. Do what it takes to achieve it. Work for it. Don’t just sit there and dream because if you do, it will never, ever be yours.”

— Harrison Solow, Don’t Follow Your Dream (via crimsun)

I feel so goddamn trapped by revision and I’ve been away from home for so long that every time someone asks me how I am I want to grab them and shout “I WANT TO SEE MOUNTAINS AGAIN, GANDALF. MOUNTAINS!”

I O U: Ten Reasons Why John Watson is Actually Moriarty

(1)   They already told us:

They’ve been telling us since Season 1:

See also:

(2)  Are We Sure That Little Girl is Pointing At Sherlock.  Are we sure.  Are we positive.

(3)  The Storyteller. 

Who’s the storyteller of the Sherlock Holmes canon again?

(4)  Sherlock’s first introduction to John (and his subsequent deductions) is paralleled to his first introduction to Moriarty:

Of course Sherlock’s deductions about Moriarty are totally wrong, manipulated by fake characteristics that were planted to fool Sherlock into dismissing him.

But let’s face it - faking an entirely psychosomatic limp that you can forget about half the time, offering a phone that’s been engraved with “clues,” and loudly declaring “different from back in my day” when you enter the room aren’t much more difficult than irritating one’s own eyes to suggest that you go clubbing and picking up a visible underwear brand.

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