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Chrono Trigger: Lucca and Robo by TylerEdlinArt

gnuterrypratchett.com

GNU Terry Pratchett

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU Terry Pratchett.

[alicat54c]

In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages “at the speed of light” using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:

G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again
When Dearheart’s son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John’s name into the overhead of the clacks with a “GNU” in front of it as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)

“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
- Going Postal, Chapter 4 prologue

[refinery29]

These Women Are Proof That Colorful Hair Has No Age Limit

[voidbat]

if i make it to elderly, ima be these people.

[strikercorbie]

I cant wait until my hair turns white it’ll be SO MUCH EASIER TO DYE!!

[nightmareloki]

^^^^^^ SAME

[godshideouscreation]

@erizuhbreath US

[xxcookievampiressxx]

they look like the grand high leader of a magical realm *__* so cooool!!  

[purpletangyvaginas]

Parveen Sadiq being interviewed by Assed Baig for Channel 4 News regarding Prime Minister David Cameron’s English language policy. The screenshots are by Buzzfeed.

Buzzfeed article – Channel 4 News YouTube video

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dailydot.com

Hikaru Sulu is gay in 'Star Trek Beyond'

John Cho has confirmed that in the upcoming Star Trek movie, Sulu is gay.

[hellotailor]

During a promotional event in Australia, John Cho confirmed that beloved Star Trek character Hikaru Sulu is gay.

Sulu was originally played by George Takei, who in later life has become a prominent activist for LGBT rights. In a tribute to his ongoing legacy as an icon of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek Beyond writer Simon Pegg and director Justin Lin decided make Sulu canonically gay in the upcoming movie.

“I liked [Pegg and Lin’s] approach, which was not to make a big thing out of it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one’s personal orientations,” Cho said.

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[frickdun]

[slides nasa $20] so, tell me about the aliens

[nightcoremoon]

aliens: [slide nasa $40]

nasa: lmao what aliens

[candy5hark11]

nasa, with $60, holding back tears: we can finally afford some more space rocks

[auroralynches]

me: honestly i probably won’t bother seeing star trek beyond, it just really doesn’t look that good and i’m not–

star trek: *makes sulu gay*

me: 

vulture.com

As an Homage to George Takei, John Cho’s Sulu Is Gay in Star Trek Beyond

Boldly going where no franchise has gone before.

[treksource]

It’s a whole new world for Hikaru Sulu. John Cho, the actor who plays Sulu in the J.J. Abrams film reboots of Star Trek, says the helmsman will be revealed as gay in the upcoming Star Trek Beyond. “I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one’s personal orientations,” Cho told Australia’s Herald Sun. The paper reports that the decision to give Sulu a husband and a daughter was a nod to George Takei, who played the original Hikaru Sulu.

John Cho’s Sulu will be the first gay canonical Star Trek character.

[quangst]

welp. ok. ferengi linguistic headcanons post #1 out of who the fuck knows how many

ferengi has tonal differences that many humanoid races cannot actually hear the difference in

theres five tonal groups

neutral, prey, predatory, cringe, and addressing female

each tonal group contains

neutral, sexual, and violent tones

so for example you could have predatory neutral or predatory violent or predatory sexual

this works with all the groups but let me tell you - cringe sexual is such a weird tone and like no one ever uses it except in weird foreplay and it’s not really ok for public use at all (and if you cant do something sexual in public on ferenginar you know it’s gotta be bad)

anyway predatory violent is mostly used by eliminators, and for the most part when brunt talks to quark he uses predatory sexual, which like. makes everything he ever says to quark a thousand times worse

after body parts, theres a big tonal shift with how brunt talks to quark too, and he starts using the entire range of the “addressing female” tonal group to speak to quark which as eri @death-star510 brought up last night, is why nog was so bristly and angry when brunt showed up in the magnificent ferengi. he didnt know the specifics of how much brunt has fucked with quark, but he could tell by his tone it wasn’t good

also fun fact or w/e - nog uses true neutral tone with everyone except his starfleet superiors, and with that he uses prey neutral, but as a sign of respect, even though they cant tell the difference.

rom is the first nagus to ever use true neutral tone with other ferengi instead of predatory neutral

when quark is upset he defaults to prey tone because of a ton of trauma he’s been through and his life is terrible someone please help quark