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#reasonstosleep
Caroline. Feminism and stuff. Queer as a 2 dollar bill. Geekery ahoy.
“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it … so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you’re done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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Reblogged from fuck yeah, british comedy
“Oh no, Homo Holmes”
Hah.
And yeah, in agreeance with a comment on the video, he seriously does say ‘bromance’ with such disgust.
/dead
Clive it’s okay you can mispronounce things sometimes calm down
Benedict your voice
They discuss the overlap between Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who and the whole is-he-gay-thing, why are you not listening to this already
Reblogged from Benedict Cumberbatch
Haha, this is great!
Reblogged from [ everybody lies ]
Late to the game on this one but I’ve been drawn into Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” and particularly enjoy this cover by Amanda Palmer with videogame-esque bleeps and tones courtesy of Dot AY at Melbourne’s Blip Festival.
Reblogged from Neil Gaiman
Woman in Comedy: A really scary thing happened to me last night at a comedy show.
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled up inside, but maybe this can start a helpful discussion in terms of women and comedy.
Last night, I was on a stand up show in the East Village. The show started out with a small crowd and the host did an amazing job interacting with them and riling them up. By the time I got on stage, there were about 20 or so more people in the audience and the place had really filled up. The show was still kind of loose because of the back and forth between the host and the audience, so when I got on stage, I riffed a bit about the stuff that had happened before and then talked to one guy on the side of the audience who the host had dubbed “Banana Republic.” All joke-y. All in good fun.
Then, I start my actual set and do my first two jokes, which go pretty okay. I start another joke that is vaguely sexual - not crude, not crass - mainly silly and that goes well too. The next joke I do is about my boyfriend.
At a comedy show, when you’re on stage, usually you can’t see the audience because of the bright lights. So I’m looking into pitch darkness. As I start the joke, someone yells, “Does your boyfriend know?” referring to the sexuality joke I’d just told. I stop, laugh and say that he does because I think it’s just more of the loose environment that’s been going on at this show. I attribute it to an audience member just having fun.
I start to tell the joke about my boyfriend again, and at the midway point, the same voice yells something else derogatory about my boyfriend, homophobic and misogynistic towards me. I stop, confused. I can’t see who is talking to me so I make a HUGE mistake and say, “Sir, if you’re gonna talk to me, you need to come to the front because I can’t see you.” I think calling him out like this will shut him up.
Reblogged from NO FUN GABY DUNN
STEREOTYPES ARE THE VIEWS OF THE SMALL-MINDED.
Reblogged from we make art because life is not enough
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