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myjetpack: My new book of cartoons “You’re All Just Jealous...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:18:00 -0400

myjetpack:

My new book of cartoons “You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack” is out now. Details are here.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 08:49:39 -0400

keeps happening to me.. :)

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:32:30 -0400

keeps happening to me.. :)

burritos are earth's gold: Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson May NOT Return for "The Avengers 2"

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:02:34 -0400

burritos are earth's gold: Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson May NOT Return for "The Avengers 2":

dduane:

thomaswh-loki:

Posted: May 8th, 2013 by WorstPreviews.com Staff

We just reported that Robert Downey Jr is in talks with Marvel to return for “The Avengers 2” and “The Avengers 3.” But the actor isn’t even discussing “Iron Man 4,” and we may now know why.

Downey earned somewhere between $50 million and $80 million on “The Avengers,” and has already earned over $35 million for his work on “Iron Man 3,” but his “The Avengers” co-stars aren’t making anything close to that. In fact, most of the actors are being paid around $200,000, far less than they would earn on any other movie.

Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth received only a $500,000 pay increase for returning for the “Captain America” and “Thor” sequels. And unlike Downey, the actors will earn only $500,000 more if their movies break the $500 million mark at the box office.

Despite having a contract, Hemsworth considered backing out of “Thor 2,” because he earned $5 million working on “Snow White and the Huntsman” and Marvel isn’t offering anywhere near that, despite the fact that “Thor” and “The Avengers” are massive franchises. Scarlett Johansson is also fed up and isn’t willing to take a pay-cut to return for “The Avengers 2.”

Marvel is known for low salaries and replacing any actor who doesn’t accept the company’s way of doing business. In fact, the studio has already threatened to replace Hemsworth. But Marvel doesn’t want to replace Downey at this point and it seems that the actor is using that leverage to fight for his co-stars by threatening not to return for “Iron Man4” and possibly any other Marvel film unless they all get appropriate pay raises.

Source: Deadline

Bloody cheapskates.

misterjuantastic: Adam Thompson’s “Heroic Words Of...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:32:41 -0400

misterjuantastic:

Adam Thompson’s “Heroic Words Of Wisdom”

Need to read more DC…

"“All right,” said Susan, “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need … fantasies to make life..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:25:15 -0400

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“All right,” said Susan, “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need … fantasies to make life bearable.”

NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

“Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?”

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

“So we can believe the big ones?”

YES. JUSTICE. DUTY. MERCY. THAT SORT OF THING.

“They’re not the same at all!”

REALLY? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT, LIKE THERE WAS SOME SORT OF RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

“Yes. But people have got to believe that or what’s the point?”

MY POINT EXACTLY.

”

- Death, Susan, Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (1996)

makingfists: nerdshaveallthefun: gruntledandhinged: ALL of...

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:21:00 -0400

makingfists:

nerdshaveallthefun:

gruntledandhinged:

ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.

Also, don’t be a jerk.

AMEN SISTAH. PREACh

Thank you.

The mispronouncing words thing has happened to me so many times. Still does… :)

tastefullyoffensive: [via]

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:14:37 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

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Pers Books: Reblog if you think reading is cool.

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:36:23 -0400

Pers Books: Reblog if you think reading is cool.:

aroundthesunlikeateddybear:

My little sister is having a little trouble with a person at her school because she likes reading and this person deems it ‘not cool’.

I want to prove to her that there are lots of people who love reading and think it is very much cool :D

A little reblog would…

Reading is great.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 07:27:11 -0400

Iron Man. That’s kind of catchy. It’s got a nice ring to it. I...

Mon, 06 May 2013 07:26:13 -0400

Iron Man. That’s kind of catchy. It’s got a nice ring to it. I mean it’s not technically accurate. The suit’s a gold titanium alloy, but it’s kind of provocative, the imagery anyway.

therealfoxxcub: This is the greatest thing I’ve ever...

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:57:28 -0400

therealfoxxcub:

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

OTPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

More crochet gloves!

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Sat, 04 May 2013 09:53:41 -0400

durnesque-esque: I don’t know why… I just wanted to make this a...

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:53:07 -0400

durnesque-esque:

I don’t know why… I just wanted to make this a thing.

dduane: l0stkeys: Live Moss Carpet is a soft grass carpet...

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:10:26 -0400

dduane:

l0stkeys:

Live Moss Carpet is a soft grass carpet that thrives from the few drops of water you leave behind when stepping out of the shower or bath.

Wow!

*wants*

dduane: okayadventurer: This has to be useful for...

Sat, 04 May 2013 07:05:24 -0400

dduane:

okayadventurer:

This has to be useful for someone

Don’t want to lose this… it’d work well with scarves.

dduane: thebritishteapot: Rebloggable by request! (original...

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:53:22 -0400

dduane:

thebritishteapot:

Rebloggable by request!

(original meme)

I can get behind that. :)

dduane: petermorwood: gothiccharmschool: Happy birthday, Sir...

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:26:19 -0400

dduane:

petermorwood:

gothiccharmschool:

Happy birthday, Sir Terry. You are an inspiration to me.

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 28 April

Happy Birthday, Terry Pratchett, born 28 April 1948

12 Quotes On Writing

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team’ - if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

And one more on life: I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.

Pratchett is an English author of fantasy novels who was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010. He is best known for the Discworld series. Pratchett has sold more than 70 million books in 37 languages. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. Pratchett announced that he was suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2007.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

Terry Pratchett, one of the only writers whose books I always buy in hardback. Paperbacks don’t last.

One of the nicest people I know.

tonytoggles: fuck the gender binary

Sat, 04 May 2013 06:12:21 -0400

tonytoggles:

fuck the gender binary

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Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:53:55 -0400