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Hello, I'm Cate! I'm studying computer science in Vancouver, BC, I have a lot of feelings about stupid television and mediocre webcomics, and I play the banjo. Activism and social justice are extremely important to me, and they show up every once in a while, but I'm generally more of a volunteering-off-the-internet person than a yelling-at-people-online one. I also draw occasionally. I try to stick the more interesting non-reblogged stuff into the my posts tag! My tumblr is nothing special.

movementandlocation:

Traditional Mandolin Meets Modern

-Your mandolin playing reminds me of going to the mall.
-Your mandolin playing reminds me of the time my roommates put all the silverware in the garbage disposal unit. In a good way. Of course.

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Anonymous Asks:

Draw Loki hugging the Hulk's dick.

tanglebuddies Said:

????????!/??/??

Normally I’d be mspainting all over this sort of ask, but I try really hard not to think about the Hulk’s dick because it makes me much less enthused about Mark Ruffalo’s. ALSO WHAT IS THIS WHO ARE YOU WHAT IS HAPPENING???//??

I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.

Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)

(via bettysdryer)

feminism

IN WHICH I RUSH THROUGH WHITEWATER ABOUT 20% FASTER THAN I REALLY HAVE ANY RIGHT TO BE PLAYING IT. WHOOOSH. I am having fun, though, and I did okay beyond the one bit in the middle, BUT THAT WAS A REPEAT ANYWAY SO FUCK IT. Note to self: don’t play banjo in lipstick ever again ever, it just makes the weird things you do with your mouth a million times worse. ALSO WHY IS YOUR ELBOW DOING THAT THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOUR ELBOW TO BE DOING THAT.

Not sure if it’s entirely clear from this video, but I’ve been practicing a ton lately. Movementandlocation said something offhand about that 10,000 hours rule and how practicing for five hours every day for five years would be enough to be an ~*expert~*, and I was like HEY, I SHOULD TOTALLY PRACTICE FOR FIVE HOURS EVERY DAY (despite kind of sideeyeing the dude who wrote that book, whatevs). I am not entirely sure what I was thinking, but it’s been going surprisingly well—my average since I started keeping track at the beginning of the month is four/day, but I’m still really pleased with that. My classes are admittedly kind of suffering, whoops. AM TRYING FOR BALANCE, but it’s increasingly clear that music is one of the few things I’m actually willing to put consistent hard work into, and I want to take advantage of that while it lasts.

I think all of my friends are sort of wondering what the fuck is going on because all I ever talk about is this weird obscure hobby that I really wasn’t serious about for the longest time (i.e. up until about this time last year), and I’m not entirely sure either, but it is what it is, I guess! The more I improve the more I am aware of all the stuff I still need to learn to actually do the sort of things I want to do with music (which is always how it is, alas), but it’s been less discouraging than that sort of thing usually is because I can tell that I’m making steady, consistent progress towards that goal, and I’m still constantly delighted each time I pick up the banjo and realize that I’m comfortable doing something that I used to struggle with.

…WOW, CATE, TUMBLR IS NOT YOUR DIARY, WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING RN. I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN’T MEAN TO DERP ALL OVER THIS POST?

The Saga of My Awkward Attempts to Photograph My Entire Outfit Armed Only with My Laptop Camera

I GIVE UP, GUYS, JUST TAKE ALL OF THEM. ANYWAY, I dressed up fancy for tea with fangirls today! :>

in which i prop my laptop up on every available surface in my room :|

I’ll tell you what, I take notes, in general, so if you’re just specific, thorough and precise, that’ll help.

I know that people say stuff like “ALWAYS REBLOG!1!!!” a lot, but this is the only thing that I will literally never pass up, because it is my world and once I harassed Michelle for months by yelling GATO!!! at her through every available medium at inopportune times.

FAVORITE PART OF FAVORITE MOVIE.

(via iamthespacecadet)

GATO!

iamthespacecadet:

prosodi:

amonitrate:

quigonejinn:

vanillatwist:

Oh, I’m starting to want you to make me.

#i realized that tony was the first one to touch steve #the first to make a friendly sort of gesture #and steve knocks his hand away completely shutting him down #and after that tony’s just like ”fuck this. don’t touch me bro” #even after a fucking explosion and amidst chaos when steve reaches for him tony jerks his arm away #and steve doesn’t bother arguing he just grabs tony a second time #this time with both hands so tony can’t pull away #godfuckingdammit

That hand on the shoulder? Totally not a friendly gesture. I mean, at this point, the friendliest words that Tony and Cap are said to each other are “Captain” and “Mr. Stark” respectively. When you have had that few friendly words with someone? Putting your hand on their shoulder like that, with that expression on your face? It’s you trying to see if you can get away with if. If you can get away with it, you’ve just proved to yourself, and everybody else in the room, that that person has to put up with your shit.

tl;dr: Where you think Tony learned that asshole move? Answer: Obadiah.

I thought that blocking was really, really awkward in the movie BUT IT IS SUCH AN OBIE MOVE, YES. So now it bothers me less.

Yes yes yes oh my god.

Yeaaaaah if you thought that was a friendly gesture as opposed to a condescending assholes gesture, maybe watch it again maybe?