A Curious Night at the Theatre
The cast of the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will be joined by star-studded guests, for an evening of comedy, theatre and entertainment.
This fundraising event will be held in aid of Ambitious about Autism and The National Autistic Society.
Apollo Theatre, London, July 1st 2013 - all on one stage (according to Simon Stephens Twitter): Ben Whishaw, Andrew Scott, Matt Smith, Dame Helen Mirren and Simon Amstell (who may well explode all over Ben Whishaw).
This is extraordinary.
I literally started looking for flights to book but then I remembered why I don’t fucking go to London.
184 euros, and that’s just low cost. That’s what I get for living in the middle of nowhere. The ticket to get there costs more than the ticket to the play. Oh well, my life in a nutshell
I have a great and mighty need.
If anyone ever wants to RP Mystrade, 00Q, or anyone from Cabin Pressure, I’m totally up for it. Please? I have nothing to do all summer.
Feel free to add me on skype, I’m magicranberries there as well.
And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?
We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men they know.
The truth is that I am someone’s wife. I am also someone’s mother. I am someone’s daughter, and someone’s sister. But those are not the things that define me, or make me valuable in this world. Those are not the reasons that I should be able to live a life free from rape, sexual assault or any kind of violent crime.
I have value because I am a person. Full stop. End of argument. This isn’t even a discussion that we should be having.
So please, let’s start teaching that fact to the young women in our lives. Teach them that you love, honour and value them because of who they are. Teach them that they should expect to be treated with integrity because it’s a basic human right. Teach them that they do not deserve to be raped because no one ever, ever, ever deserves to be raped.
Above all, teach them that they are people, too. —
I Am Not Your Wife, Sister, or Daughter. I Am a Person
This post is soooo good at articulating why it’s so harmful to have to relate women to men through their relationships with men
(via wretchedoftheearth)
(via zwischendenstuehlen)
The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.
unphotogenic? these are my favorite pictures of any bird ever
my spirit animal
I think I found my new favourite animal.
Move over, mantis shrimp.I am this bird and this bird is me.
(via linpatootie)
I got dressed today and everything, which obviously means that I should take gratuitous selfies. While my hair is still wet. Yes.
Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone
I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently
Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it
(via thedoctorsherlock)
HI
I am the potoo
I spend most of my time sitting on the edges of tree branches,
pretending to be a stick or dead leaf
it’s not as easy as it looks
I sing virtually exclusively around the period of the full moon
because, according to legend,
I am a mournful spirit in love with the spirit of the moon
I approve of this so much.
(via areyoutryingtodeduceme)
