April 15, 2013
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers — so many caring people in this world."

— Fred Rogers (via thedaddycomplex)

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April 14, 2013
"I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out."

— Roger Ebert (via scout)

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April 7, 2013
"

‘I know what you’re wondering,’ said the Doctor cheerfully. ‘Did he fire that thing six times or only five? Well, to tell you the truth I think I’ve lost count, sorry about that. So you’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do you feel lucky… sir?’

The guard didn’t move. From behind, Sam could tell his look of utter confusion must be giving way to the more familiar what‐are‐you‐on? expression.

The Doctor arched his eyebrow inquisitively. ‘Well, do you?’ The guard just stared at the Doctor’s hand.

‘That’s a banana,’ he said.

The Doctor stared at him, as if wondering why he was stating the obvious. ‘Of course,’ he said, gesturing with the outstretched fruit. ‘But the item my friend just retrieved from your holster isn’t.’

"

—

Doctor Who: Seeing I, Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman.

Yes, the Doctor just (mis)quoted Dirty Harry while waving a banana around. Interpret that as you will.

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March 29, 2013
"I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."

— Franz Kafka; from a diary entry dated 23 March 1914  (via funeral)

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March 10, 2013
"Whether people realize it or not, most of us value, treat, and relate to women and men very differently, although not necessarily in a conscious or malicious way. Rather, like our attitudes about beauty and attraction, these prejudices are practically invisible to us, as they are woven into our social fabric. So when I tell someone that I used to be male, they are often dumbfounded at first, as if they have difficulty reconciling that someone who seems so naturally female to them could have once been something they consider to be so completely different. The fact that a single individual can be both female and male, or ugly and beautiful, at different points in their life challenges the commonly held belief that these classes are mutually exclusive and naturally distinct from one another."

— Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (via disabledbyculture)

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February 24, 2013
"You know, Elisabeth, ” he said as we drove down one Surry street, “We could probably knock on any one of these houses and ask to watch their television.”
I laughed. He was probably right, but I didn’t expect him to try and prove it.
Suddenly, he leapt up and stagged down the aisle towards the driver. The next thing I knew, the coach had pulled over and half a dozen of us were marching up to a random front door.
“Are you sure about this, Tom?” I giggled.
“Oh yes,” he said, his face alive with mischief.
Then he rang the bell and we waited. To this day I will never forget the look on the woman’s face who answered.
“Hello, my dear,” said Tom in his most charming voice. “I’m the Doctor and this is Sarah. We wondered if we might be able to watch ourselves on your television tonight."

— (during the filming of Seeds of Doom)
—Elisabeth Sladen: An Autobiography (via aslanscompass)

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February 23, 2013
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Okay. Here’s my thinking. Peter and Flash were best friends at age @4. Then Peter’s parents died. Flash’s dad was a soldier and then a cop (both dangerous jobs). Young Flash couldn’t deal with being that close to death. He didn’t want to play with Peter anymore. And in his own YOUNG mind he had to find a way to justify/rationalize his decision that wasn’t about his fears. So he convinced himself that Peter was a stuck-up egghead (or somesuch) who deserved to be dumped as a friend.

By the time WE meet Flash and Peter at the beginning of their junior year of high school, Flash’s mindset is fairly well entrenched and the original reason for it is lost to him. Somewhere deep down, he knows better and given enough time and episodes we would have eventually dealt with this objectively in the series. Not to be, I’m afraid…

"

— Greg Weisman (via pepethekingpelipper)

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February 22, 2013
"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."

—

Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, 1996. I saw part of this quotation and thought “that’s fantastic”; some judicious googling turned up both the source (hat tip to here) and more of the original thought.  (via imathers)

As technology pushes society towards some perception of perfection, we find that it is the imperfections for which society becomes nostalgic.

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February 11, 2013

There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality… It’s a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. ARTHUR C. CLARKE

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February 6, 2013
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pagesofharrypotter:

I love how when Harry gets older he becomes such a sarcastic little git.

There are perfectly good reasons not to like Harry Potter as a character, but I’ve never understood the people who insist he’s a bland, generic good-guy type with no discernable personality.

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