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hanged shall I be: traditional songs of murder and mayhem (19 songs) | free traditional and folk music playlist

hanged shall I be: traditional songs of murder and mayhem (1hr 51min) by strangebrooch| music tags: traditional, folk, british folk, murder ballads, and ballads | A slightly-less-familiar selection of traditional murder ballads.

hanged shall I be: traditional songs of murder and mayhem (19 songs) | free traditional and folk music playlist

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BUT THE ACTING HERE. BECAUSE HE’S DIGORY. AND HE BUILT THAT WARDROBE. WITH THE WOOD FROM THE TREE HE PLANTED. AND SO HE KNOWS IT’S NARNIA. HE’S WAITED HIS WHOLE LIFE, AND HE’S PROBABLY GIVEN UP AND SHOVED THAT HOPE AWAY IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND AND SUDDENLY THESE FOUR CHILDREN SHOW UP AND THEY FIND IT. 

Fun fact: CS Lewis based the professor on JRR Tolkien. Tolkien in turn based Treebeard on CS Lewis.

that is a very fun fact yes 

C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Frank Hubert (Dune) used to hang out. They were all really good friends.

This is a great post, but I can find nothing that backs up Frank Herbert personally knowing Tolkien or Lewis.

It was a conscious effort to have a diverse cast just to represent our world. I don’t think it’s realistic for the whole cast to be white. I also think when you are developing a show and casting it mostly Caucasian and you get down to the bad guy and the network is like, “You have to have some diversity,” then all of the sudden…that’s why the person of color is always killed. And because we have so much diversity in our cast and we’ve had the freedom to cast our villains and victims however we want, so we can kill as many white people as we want.

Heather Kadin, Producer, Sleepy Hollow  (via bapgeek)

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Don’t Be That Person: A Halloween PSA

One of the many Seasons of Copious Amounts of Sugary Treats (in this case, Halloween) is upon us.

With great amounts of candy comes a a great responsibility that most people don’t even realize is a responsibility.

That responsibility is to not be That Person who makes Halloween related diabetes jokes online or in real life.

It’s not cute.

It’s not funny.

And it’s not anywhere near factual.

Sugar does not cause any type of diabetes, no matter how much people want to use it as a way blame people for a disease that they have little to no control over developing. That’s right, little to no control. Even type 2 diabetes, the kind uninformed and insensitive people just love making fat jokes about, has more to it than just weight.

So this Halloween, don’t be That Person who makes “wise cracks” like “I ate sooo much candy I’m gonna get diabetes” or “I can taste the diabeetus.” Don’t be That Person who posts pictures of candy or other Halloween treats on Tumblr and tags the photos as “diabetes.”

Also, don’t be That Person who posts otherwise cute Halloween-y fandom things (or non-Halloween-y fandom things) and throws diabetes into a discussion of candy or into a discussion of how cute characters are or how cute characters are together.

Don’t do any of these things. They are cute. They aren’t funny. They’re hurtful and harmful and spread misinformation which adds to the stigma and the shame that often follows the word “diabetes.”

Millions of people all over the world deal with this chronic disease. There is no cure for type 1; insulin is only a treatment. Type 2 can sometimes be controlled by diet and exercise, but sometimes that alone is not enough.

People with diabetes are people, not punchlines.

So this Halloween? Don’t be That Person.