I just found out that Peter Dinklage is from New Jersey.

NEW 

JERSEY

As a transgender person, I’m in awe of Peter Dinklage. He didn’t have to grow an inch and he is intimidating, swaggering, charming, basically a Bond villain, and he was the 5th highest paid actor on GOT while being about the 10th least important character.

Now I find out he’s not even British, he’s just. Fucking swagger.

If Peter Dinklage can be 6 feet tall, British, and have a massive dick with swagger, I can be a man with hormones and stubbornness.

celebratingamazingwomen: “Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) was one of the most famous and successful female painters of her time. She was a Rococo painter who specialised in portrait miniatures. Born in Venice, she started her career by painting...

celebratingamazingwomen:

Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757) was one of the most famous and successful female painters of her time. She was a Rococo painter who specialised in portrait miniatures.

Born in Venice, she started her career by painting miniatures on snuff boxes, but her talent soon led to diplomats and nobility commissioning their portraits with her. She travelled to Paris and Vienna, where she painted for the Emperor. Today, a large collection of her work can be admired in the Alte Meister Gallery in Dresden, Germany.

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otterlogic:

HEY GUYS! Phew, I’m a little overdue on this, but here’s the Annual Carlos Redraw, finished just 3 hrs before 2018 ends. I think I’ll probably go back and do some editing to it later, but I just wanna get this posted before 2018 is out ;-) 

Things I did this past year: LEARNED A LOT, illustrated a lot for my school’s newspaper, realized my true love for editorial and kid/YA illustration, tabled at a con for the first time, wrote and drew a good chunk of a webcomic I’m VERY excited about… 

Things to focus on in the next year: streamline creative process, get faster, develop stylistic consistency, work cleaner, keep up the webcomic, get better at twitter, post more often! 

Thanks for keeping up with me and supporting my art all this time. Happy New Year! <3

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npr: “ Three-quarters of Americans say the government shutdown, now tied for the longest in U.S. history, is “embarrassing for the country,” including a majority of Republicans, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds. If no deal is struck by midnight Friday,...

npr:

Three-quarters of Americans say the government shutdown, now tied for the longest in U.S. history, is “embarrassing for the country,” including a majority of Republicans, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds.

If no deal is struck by midnight Friday, this partial shutdown will be the longest ever. From late 1995 to early 1996, the government was shut down for 21 days. Friday is the 21st day of this current shutdown. Neither side appears ready to budge, and this polling and others make Democrats feel they have the upper hand.

And they have reason to feel that way — about 7 in 10 in the NPR/Ipsos poll also say the government shutdown is going to hurt the country, that it will hurt the economy and that Congress should pass a bill to reopen the government now while budget talks continue. Just 3 in 10 believe the government should remain closed until there is funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Most Americans Call Shutdown ‘Embarrassing’ As It’s Set To Become Longest In History

Graphic: Alyson Hurt/NPR
Source: Source: NPR/Ipsos poll of 1,003 U.S. adults conducted Jan. 9-10. The poll has a credibility interval of +/- 5 percentage points for all respondents, +/- 6.3 percentage points for Democrats, +/- 5.8 percentage points for Republicans and +/- 7.9 percentage points for independents.

how about those 3 in 10 people start cleaning bathrooms in federal buildings and give up their paycheck for the hundreds of thousands of workers who aren’t receiving theirs this week?

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