I'm In A Nutshell

heyhowiee:

insanekirby:

itwillriseinperfectlight:

urulokid:

millika:

Who’s Alex?

Billboard demonstrating gender stereotypes as most people automatically assume that Alex is the boy.

Actually, I’ve studied design and advertising, and I can tell you that the reason people would look at this and immediately assume Alex is the boy is because, quite simply, the boy is the focal point of the ad.

English-speaking readers’ line of sight goes from left to right and up to down. This ad leads the viewer from the words MEET ALEX etc straight to the boy and then over and down to the girl. I didn’t even notice there was a set of parenthesis with words in them in the ad until I looked the fourth time. 

This is a fallacious confirmation bias, as anyone looking at it will assume Alex is the focal point (i.e. The Boy) and then if they’re perceptive they’ll notice the words at the bottom. Aha! Those damn gender stereotypes gotcha again! Except no, because the ad literally forces you to read it as “Alex is the boy” by the visual language and lines of sight. 

A better ad would have been structured from top to bottom instead of left to right, and wouldn’t have pushed the girl, the real subject of the ad (who, by the way, has been VISUALLY PUSHED OUT OF HER RIGHTFUL SPACE ON THE AD BY HER BROTHER) off to the corner as far away from her identifiers as possible. 

Here, I’ll make you a better ad.

Bam. Shitty stock photo but you get the point. If anyone sees this and assumes Alex is the boy, they don’t have the the ad layout to use as an excuse for their internalized gender shittery. Likewise, the ad isn’t actively trying to make you read it a certain way and THEN making you feel guilty for interpreting it the way they designed it to be. 

Thank you. With only Art Appreciation 101 to fall back on, I could still tell you that everything about that billboard was set up to make the boy the focal point.

When I read this, it reminded me of an xkcd comic.

Design is important.

vogelbird:

THINGS I LIKE

• when people use my name in conversation
• when people say “this reminded me of you!”
• when people remember little things i say/do
• when people genuinely thank me for things i’ve done for them
• when i think of the same thing at the same time as someone else and you give each other the look

snow-fallen-angel:

imjustablipintime-a-fallen-angel:

fallen-fallen-angel:

yearofthedreams:

emmaontheice:

toothian-a:

guardianhiccup:

fawksman:

starksmash:

OMG REBLOG THIS & LOOK AT UR BLOG ITS COMPLETELY DIFERENT

Me

iM  CHIR YING BC THE WAY IT LOOKS ON YOUR BLOG SEND HELP

oh my

i dunt see it

EDIT***:

WHATTHE HELL.

im scared

uh can someone please explain???? i don’t get it at all…

i don’t either…..nothing changes……

Check on your blog from other people’s view.
Like, go to your address bar and type in your url up there for it to work, off a mobile device, I’d assume.

(Source: jesscookie)

• me: what are taxes and how do I pay them?
• school system: worry not
• school system: mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

getsherlock:

lbgt+ rights should not be controversial 

elijahhasnolife:

Oops. 

fragilegifts:

Sometimes recovery is waking up early to write in coffee shops and practicing yoga and eating lots of fruit and chocolate and sometimes it’s staying in bed all day and hiding from the world until you can stop crying. All of this is okay. What’s important is that you take care of yourself no matter what kind of day you’re having.

partyintheurl:

acceptance of those with different beliefs. beautiful.

faygobrosofhomestuck:

tarukai788:

thatonechick42:

littlecupcakenymph:

Oh.My.God. 

There ARE ACTUAL REAL MEN OUT THERE??!

THAT RESPECT WOMEN?

THAT ACCEPT “no” FOR AN ANSWER?

What.is.happening.

Quick, reblog this everywhere so we can learn and grow as a species!

the fact that this is shocking is saddening.

yes there are but we should still slaughter the rest ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Why do we need feminism?

tidily-oakdizzle:

this 

is 

why 

we 

need 

feminism 

you 

fucking 

dickweeds 

Women are not objects! I am a 16 year old girl who feels the need to cover my body in public because of perverted assholes like this. I am completely disgusted by that video and the comments on it.

alabasterbones:

i envy people that come up with witty comebacks on the spot because i’m gonna need at least a 3 day notice 

thetattooedmezzosoprano:

lokielizabethdragomir:

Cats, man. Just. Cats

What are cats even.

(Source: iraffiruse)

tastefullyoffensive:

Animals Using Other Animals as Pillows [boredpanda]

Previously: Animals Wearing Dinosaur Costumes

snowcaines:

skeletondan:

eridanxroxy:

deepthroatmom:

ratak-monodosico:

article here>

cool lol

"cool lol" tHEYRE ACTUALLY TESTING TO FIND OUT IF WE’RE LIVING INSIDE A COMPUTER SIMULATION AND YOUR RESPONSE TO THAT IS

"COOL LOL"

They’ve done the tests, and have evidence that our universe may actually be a simulation: http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

It’s less that we may be living within a computer simulation, but more like the foundations of our universe ( the laws of physics) are written on a lower dimensional plane, and the observable universe that we see is a projection (simulation) up onto a higher dimension.

Here’s some background: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/#comments

wait
are you telling me that
we’re in someones fucking sims game

(Source: fencehopping)

solarsenpai:

generally:

im fuckin dying 

"all she wanted was to eat her chicken nuggets in peace…"

I am fucking screaming