27 1 / 2012
So Smooth Criminal is a song about a man doing violence to a woman In this performance Sebastian essentially becomes the ‘smooth criminal’ himself while Santana becomes Annie However instead of allowing the smooth criminal to dominate her this Annie fights back She decries him and matches him This is an empowerment song in Naya and Santana’s hands This is about a woman who won’t allow a predatory man to dominate her As an aside: the Spanish name Santana translates to Saint Anne in English So Santana is literally Annie The more you know Fuck yeah Santana! This is a Smooth Criminal obsession blog
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27 1 / 2012
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Fan Art of the Day: ”Fashion Princesses” by budding Ukrainian artist Victoria “Viria” Ridzel provides Disney’s princesses (and Anastasia) with a long-overdue makeover.
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Fan Art of the Day: ”Fashion Princesses” by budding Ukrainian artist Victoria “Viria” Ridzel provides Disney’s princesses (and Anastasia) with a long-overdue makeover.
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26 1 / 2012
Y’all. Nicole is our queen.
Things like this ABSOLUTELY PISS ME OFF!!! We are lucky that our followers are amazing people but I want to put these people on blast and they can come after me if they seem fit.
These are blogs, they are intended for personal use. If you don’t like what someone has to say they UNFOLLOW or grow up. 5 bucks say both of them wouldn’t have the balls to say this to anyone for saying “Life is a Bitch” is real life.
Guess what, life is a bitch. Life sucks and I think that saying is freakin hilarious. If you think you are a slut and are offended by it, stop being a slut. Problem solved. I really don’t care if I lose followers because of this post because I would rather have the cool people around.
I absolutely love the ladies at Life With Auto-Immune and they are doing a service by finding information and putting it in one place.
xoxo Nicole
PS- That saying is a joke and if you don’t get that than you need to figure out another place to take out your issues.
PSS - I would just like to point out that her name is brat-grrrl and she is complaining about slut shame.
PSSS - Don’t EVER pick on my friends(RL or cyber) and expect me to leave you alone.
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26 1 / 2012
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When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put my poems up. They put my stories up. They put my stuff up on the web. I had this belief, which was completely erroneous, that if people put your stuff up on the web and you didn’t tell them to take it down, you would lose your copyright, which actually, is simply not true.
And I also got very grumpy because I felt like they were pirating my stuff, that it was bad. And then I started to notice that two things seemed much more significant. One of which was… places where I was being pirated, particularly Russia where people were translating my stuff into Russian and spreading around into the world, I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. Then they were going out and buying the real books, and when a new book would come out in Russia, it would sell more and more copies. I thought this was fascinating, and I tried a few experiments. Some of them are quite hard, you know, persuading my publisher for example to take one of my books and put it out for free. We took “American Gods,” a book that was still selling and selling very well, and for a month they put it up completely free on their website. You could read it and you could download it. What happened was sales of my books, through independent bookstores, because that’s all we were measuring it through, went up the following month three hundred percent
I started to realize that actually, you’re not losing books. You’re not losing sales by having stuff out there. When I give a big talk now on these kinds of subjects and people say, “Well, what about the sales that I’m losing through having stuff copied, through having stuff floating out there?” I started asking audiences to just raise their hands for one question. Which is, I’d say, “Okay, do you have a favorite author?” They’d say, “Yes.” and I’d say, “Good. What I want is for everybody who discovered their favorite author by being lent a book, put up your hands.” And then, “Anybody who discovered your favorite author by walking into a bookstore and buying a book raise your hands.” And it’s probably about five, ten percent of the people who actually discovered an author who’s their favorite author, who is the person who they buy everything of. They buy the hardbacks and they treasure the fact that they got this author. Very few of them bought the book. They were lent it. They were given it. They did not pay for it, and that’s how they found their favorite author. And I thought, “You know, that’s really all this is. It’s people lending books. And you can’t look on that as a loss of sale. It’s not a lost sale, nobody who would have bought your book is not buying it because they can find it for free.”
What you’re actually doing is advertising. You’re reaching more people, you’re raising awareness. Understanding that gave me a whole new idea of the shape of copyright and of what the web was doing. Because the biggest thing the web is doing is allowing people to hear things. Allowing people to read things. Allowing people to see things that they would never have otherwise seen. And I think, basically, that’s an incredibly good thing.
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Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web (X)
I went to one of the talks he gave on this, it was pretty damn inspiring.
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18 1 / 2012
REBLOG THIS IF YOU ARE A PART OF TUMBLEDORE’S ARMY.
STOP SOPA, START SELF EXPRESSION.
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18 1 / 2012
Seriously. I watched the original in preparation, and Glee’s version was such a good tribute!
Summer Nights
↳ Grease vs. Glee
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11 1 / 2012
The Smurfette Principle
I know it’s long, but please watch this.
And of course she’s piiiiiiiiiiiiiiink.
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10 1 / 2012
Kinda want this dress… Let’s pretend I don’t have a closet of LBDs already…
As luck would have it, our apartment in San Francisco is literally the floor above a particularly enormous H&M store (if you’ve been following Fashion of Glee for a while, you’ll know that I’m something of an H&M fangirl - so to say the least, I’m elated!)
So this morning, armed with the latest issue of TV Guide, I made a beeline for this dress, which I’d seen on a mannequin in the store, days ago, and promptly snapped this picture in the dressing room. You can’t tell from either photo, but it has the most delicious cut-out back!
H&M Pleated Cut-out Back Dress - $34.95
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09 1 / 2012
With sallygator! And then John blogged our gift to him, no biggie.
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09 1 / 2012
One of the guest rooms has to be like a fairy tale room, with twinkly lights, a window seat with fluffy pillows, and a stack of books & journals to inspire my spirit animal, the beautiful sallygator, whenever she comes to visit.
PLEASE NOTE about the secret passages: I’d tell my architects “Surprise me.” and let them put them where they want without telling me. I’d give them a number of how many secret places there should be and have them vary in difficulty to find!
Another thing I will surely have is themed guest rooms! So when guests come over to stay, I can ask them “Do you want to stay in the Science Fiction guest room or the Aquarium room? How about in the Tree House?”
I need that ballroom right now, man. You could skid across the floor and it would shoot sparkles and ripples behind you like on a big touch-screen!
I will also abuse my fabulous, obviously impending wealth to feud with my brothers. I will hire Mike Meyers to follow them around in-character as Shrek, never allowing him to break character, even to apologize.
So, Tumblr, tell me all about YOUR cool mansions! Maybe we will be neighbors!
This + a stellar library fit for hosting 1920s murder mystery parties = perfection!
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