credit for base goes to Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Viola Davis’ Acceptance Speech
FT. ALL OCTAVIA SPENCER’S EMOTIONS
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WOMEN OF HISTORY | CHING SHIH (1775–1844) (Gong Li)
For ten years, Ching Shih commanded a pirate armada of around four hundred ships and several thousand men. She’d been brought on board by the captain as little more than a spoil but soon married him and with her wits and fearlessness they rarely lost a battle and terrorised the China Sea. She was as strict and ruthless on her own crew as she was on other ships, with punishments of death for looting towns that already provided tribute, for stealing from the pirate treasury, or for raping prisoners.
The Chinese government sent the Imperial fleet to stop her and Ching Shih sailed to meet them head on, not only winning but capture sixty-three of their ships as well. After that, the government gave up on trying to defeat her and instead offered all pirates amnesty if they would give up their ships and arms. Instead Ching Shih brokered her own deal: on top of amnesty they got to keep all their loot and any one of them that wanted to join the navy would be allowed to do so.
She retired at the age of thirty-five, opened a casino/brothel, and lived out the rest of her life in comfort and luxury.
#please tell me there is a novelized version of this woman’s life
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When Kate Winslet is happy to see someone, she’s not shy about it. As soon as Leonardo DiCaprio walked through the door, his “Titanic” costar gave him a full-body hug, then jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist, so that the old buddies looked like a pitcher and catcher who’d just won the world series.- 2005 Oscar Roundtable
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atticusross | stfuconservatives:
Thousands of Americans have gone to Canada over the past few years to get married. As of today, their marriages are nullified, thanks to conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new policy.
Dan Savage is one of the people whose marriage was unceremoniously dissolved last night.
#Dear people who think Canada is a socialist paradise: It’s not
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Castle (AU); reversed roles - If two people believe in something, really believe, anything, even the impossible, is possible.
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So, Jeremy Renner can sing.
Jimmy Fallon’s reaction is just like, “Whoa, wait, what—OH YEAH~”
I was like: HAHAHAHAH THIS IS GONNA BE SOME FUNNY SHIT
and then I was like:
sooooo he also writes songs and plays piano.
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Mackintosh Braun, “The Same”
The song that played during the eye surgery in Grey’s last night.
A amazing campaign about the gendering of children’s toys which is one of the things that always gets me mad. Love this.
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