Excitement!

accras:

Sanaa Lathan, Terrence Howard, Blair Underwood and Harry Lennix to Star in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ set in the Caribbean

William Shakespeare’s most horrific and bloody tragedy, Macbeth, is getting an update via a new all-African American feature film adaptation.

The film, to be titled Macbett, is written and directed by Aleta Chappelle, who is the first African American woman to direct a film version of a Shakespeare play. The film is set to start pre-production in Sept. 2013 on location in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. 

Excited!

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lucifels:

my new years resolution is 1080p

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ineedtothinkofatitle:

#thisisperfect #butactually

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skabritches:

captainamericass:

vriskaranea:

vriskaranea:

It should not have taken me that long to draw a bunch of bras.

Anyway, yup, the things I do with my time…

reblogging this for those of you who didn’t see it at 4 am last night

i’d wear the fuck out of all of them

HULK BRA

GET ON MY TORSO

Hulk and Thor yessssss

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impishtubist:

the avengers | victorian au

When the future of England, her colonies, and basically the entire world is jeopardised by a secret order of radical scientific geniuses who call themselves ‘Advanced Idea Mechanics’, the Queen herself establishes a covert league of extraordinary gentlemen (and women) to foil the A.I.M.’s nefarious intentions and restore peace and order in the Realm.

This is all kinds of awesome.

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toriandrelativedimensionsinspace:

silverlynxcat:

the-deviations:

asparklethatisblue:

with Loki that’s a legit concern, he’s got knocked up by less…

#A LITTLE BIT OF RODGERS IN MY WOMB #A LITTLE BIT OF IRON MAN IN THERE TOO #A LITTLE BIT OF THOR THERE THAT’S ALL RIGHT #A GREAT BIG CHUNK OF BANNER FROM THE FIGHT

A little bit of Coulson’s cannon blast
Got hit by Hawkeye’s arrow, super fast
A little bit of Fury’s lack of hair
A little bit of me makes me your mare.

BA DAH BA DAH BA DAH, DAAAAAAAAA DAH DUH…

I am legit dying.

I’m actually weeping. Weeping. That was perfect. I think I’m just going to give up on ever being humorous ever again.

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kchanholmestheconsultingninja:

I want the Loki and Iron Man ones… like right fucking now.

I want the loki and Thor, please!

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israelfacts:

Israel to put thousands of Africans in detention camp

(AFP) JERUSALEM — Israel’s interior minister said on Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a planned “tent city.”

An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after ruling that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai told public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights.

“There are still about 15,000 from north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea,” he said. “I am not allowed to get them out at the moment.”

He said he expected legal obstacles would be removed and that the government was also offering a grant to those prepared to leave voluntarily.

“They are close to being expelled either willingly or against their will,” he said. “This is a number that threatens the Jewish identity.”

As a first step, he said, illegals would be rounded up and moved to a detention centre being built in southern Israel at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($6.7 million, 5.4 million euros).

“As soon as the facility is completed, which could be in a few months — and alongside it we plan to put up a tent city with all the accepted conditions — then we shall start moving migrants from south Tel Aviv, from (the Red Sea town of) Eilat … wherever they are.”

The rising number of Africans in Israel has hit the headlines in recent weeks, after a spike in racial tensions led to a riot in southern Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands of migrants live.

Interior ministry statistics show that approximately 60,000 African immigrants have entered Israel illegally, the vast majority of them from Sudan and Eritrea.

Some are refugees fleeing persecution in their home nations, but others are economic migrants.

Yishai said he estimated a further 6,000 may have sneaked across the border from Egypt undetected.

“I hope that in the coming months we shall be able to move all the infiltrators to detention facilities and allow Israeli citizens in south Tel Aviv and others to live in a proper way … in quiet and security,” he added.

Israel is building a giant, hi-tech security barrier along its 240-kilometre (150-mile) border with the Egyptian Sinai.

So far 170 kilometres have been erected and the project is due to be completed later this year.

Photo: An Eritrean woman stands with her daughter outside an apartment which is home to African migrants after unknown attackers, thought to be right-wing Israelis, set it ablaze overnight in Jerusalem on July 4, 2012. (Getty Images)

Not that I am pro-Israel in any way, but note that Eli Yishai is a fringe voice. He is the leader of the Shas party, which is more conservative than the tea party and virulently anti-immigrant. The general public of israel HATES HIS GUTS and is protesting this move like crazy. I hate him, I hate his actions, but I don’t think this is Israel’s fault. It’s a right-wing nutjob’s and the current administration’s. In all honesty, I am sickened by this current ruling, but I would like this to be put in context. The reason this is happening is because the current structure of the government is SO flawed that one nut can control way too much.

Also

I cannot stand Israel’s human rights record, but when people resort to ad hominem attacks, I get upset. @ the tags of many previous posts.

Good commentary is good! I am always in favor of context. 

futurejournalismproject:

@boonepickens just stunted on me heavy.

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There has never before been a point in history when a young black guy rich off of Canadian soap operas and luxury super-rap could exchange words with a quasi-eccentric super-rich octogenarian who loves wind power. Now they can—in public. And that, simply, is awesome.

Twitter: where world’s collide, and that’s a good thing.

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gyzym:

god, tony stark and his COMPLICATED BEHAVIORAL REWARDS SYSTEM, OH MAN

okay, i promise that one day i will learn to control the tony feelings, but the thing is, i have been trying to put my finger on this one for such a looooong time. because, see, tony stark is weird about stuff, isn’t he? and i don’t mean like, the existential version of stuff, i don’t mean “stuff” in the most general sense (although, let’s be honest, TONY STARK: WEIRD ABOUT STUFF is true in pretty much every context)—i am talking PHYSICAL stuff, INANIMATE stuff, i am talking stuff that a person can possess. i am talking things. i am talking tony in IM springing a lavish personal plane party on rhodey, clearly both because he felt like it and to prove that he could; i am talking tony in IM2 giving pepper the company out of the blue, clearly both because he knew she was the best choice for CEO (UGH PEPPER I LOVE YOU) and because he genuinely wanted her to have it. i am talking tony at the middle of the avengers offering to fly coulson to portland, i am talking tony at the end of the avengers with plans pulled up to build everyone on the team their own FLOOR—you see what i am saying here. tony stark expresses a considerable amount of emotion through gestures like this, and that in and of itself shouldn’t be enough to give me pause. i mean, canonically extraordinarily wealthy emotionally repressed genius expresses affection with cash? it’s not a stretch. fine. done. 

ONLY THE THING IS, it’s…really so much more complicated than that, because there is also the shit in the above gifs, and there’s the thing he has about being handed things (seen in IM2 and in the avengers), and it really came together for me during that scene with bruce and the blueberries. because the thing is that quirks, no matter how random they are, COME from somewhere—even if you don’t remember the impetus of an unusual behavior, you did, at some point, learn to do it/find comfort in it/become dependent on it/get so used to it that you hardly notice it. that’s just how quirks work. and if you’re tony stark, and you put a valuation on everything because that’s been literally your entire life experience, there’s a certain amount of implied cost/benefit analysis that has to go into the way you look at emotional interactions, right? 

so look at what this shit says about the way tony looks at himself. people who tony doesn’t completely, 100% trust emotionally (this is why pepper is the exception) can’t even hand him things, because on some level tony associates the exchange of physical goods with the exchange of emotional response, and he won’t be capable of giving it; people who have showed tony affection or friendship deserve these lavish, over-the-top gifts, because putting up with tony is such a struggle. and tony himself? well, for surviving a kidnapping and the insertion of car battery, and then an arc reactor, in his chest, he has earned an american cheeseburger. for fighting off an invading army and making the sacrifice move neither he nor steve believed he would, he has earned himself some shawarma. because that is totally what he’s doing, when you really think about it—tony stark doles out physical rewards for behavior, without even noticing it, and the best he ever honestly thinks he deserves is something delicious when the carnage is over. 

and this is what makes that blueberry scene with bruce (shut up i know calling it the blueberry scene is ridiculous, I KNOW IT IS IN FACT A SCENE ABOUT THE AVENGERS NOT TRUSTING NICK FURY, i can’t help that i look at the world through stark-tinted glasses) so interesting, in that it’s that behavior-reward system on a much smaller scale. first bruce is offered the blueberries, clearly as a reward for making a point that supported tony’s argument; then steve, clearly as a TEST, is offered those same blueberries along with tony’s admitting to hacking the SHIELD system. and it’s when steve doesn’t even acknowledge the offer that tony goes from “hey look I’m trying to explain this to you and get you onboard” to “who’s in a spangly outfit and not of use?” because he’s got all these emotional cues tangled up with all these physical ones and always has, and because on some level this is just how he does relating to human beings, because stuff is so much easier and everything always has a price and just, augh, tony. 

YES YES YES YES THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OMG

Why is gyzym better than me? Why is gyzym better than EVERYONE?