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hinathesexygorilla: Music Station: Maruyama is falling down,...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:05:20 -0400

Music Station: Maruyama is falling down, falling down, falling down~

what will he do if music station get rid of them stairsssssss

We Got Married Global Ep 11: 사랑 사랑 사랑~

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:03:47 -0400

We Got Married Global Ep 11: 사랑 사랑 사랑~

We Got Married Global Ep 11: Just because you can redeem your...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:49:52 -0400

We Got Married Global Ep 11: Just because you can redeem your Mina Coupon for a massage, it doesn’t mean you should. XD

trifectaofje: Ryo went to this sukiyaki place in January and...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:37:15 -0400

trifectaofje:

Ryo went to this sukiyaki place in January and left a signboard. The text next to his autograph reads: “it was so-so”

R Y O

immigrantstories: mresundance: reckonedrightly: indypendenthis...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:17:27 -0400

immigrantstories:

mresundance:

reckonedrightly:

indypendenthistory:

On Sep 13, 1944, a princess from India lay dead at Dachau concentration camp. She had been tortured by the Nazis, then shot in the head. Her name was Noor Inayat Khan. The Germans knew her only as Nora Baker, a British spy who had gone into occupied France using the code name Madeline. She carried her transmitter from safe house to safe house with the Gestapo trailing her, providing communications for her Resistance unit.

Oh my God, yes. Let’s talk about Noor Inayat Khan.

Wireless operators in France had a life expectancy of six weeks. Noor was actively transmitting for over three times as long.

While she was in France, every other wireless operator in her network was slowly picked off until she was the last radio link between London and Paris. It was “the most dangerous and important post in France”.

She was offered a way back to Britain and refused.

In fact, in her transmissions to London, she once said that she was having the time of her life, and thanked them for giving her the opportunity to do this.

She was captured by the Gestapo, but never gave up: she made three attempt escapes. One involved asking to take a bath, insisting on being allowed to close the door to preserve her modesty, and then clambering onto the roof of the Gestapo HQ in Paris.

Her last word before being shot was, “Liberté!”

The term BAMF was coined for such persons.

She was of royal Indian descent through her father, Hazrat Inayat Khan, who was born to nobility and came from a princely Indian Muslim family.^[He lived in Europe as a musician and a teacher of Sufism. Her mother, Ora Meena Ray Baker (Ameena Begum), was an American from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who met Inayat Khan during his travels in the United States. Ora Baker was the half-sister of American yogi and scholar Pierre Bernard, her guardian at the time she met Hazrat Inayat Khan.Noor’s brother, Vilayat Inayat Khan, later became head of the Sufi Order International.

Although Noor Inayat Khan was deeply influenced by the pacifist teachings of her father, she and her brother Vilayat decided to help defeat Nazi tyranny: “I wish some Indians would win high military distinction in this war. If one or two could do something in the Allied service which was very brave and which everybody admired it would help to make a bridge between the English people and the Indians.”

When she was captured, as the prison director testified after the war, Inayat Khan remained uncooperative and continued to refuse to give any information on her work or her fellow operatives.

puriinn: Haha so apparently, during the break between...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:42:13 -0400

puriinn:

Haha so apparently, during the break between rehearsals for LIVE MONSTER, K8 sang Horie Jun’s Memory Glass (x). Someone started singing ♪水割りをくださ～い～ then the other members joined in, til it becomes like a rehearsal for Memory Glass instead XD

I desperately wish they would let me watch more band rehearsals somehow.

Thank you for the translation! ♥

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:24:00 -0400

We Got Married Global Eps 4 & 5: music + comfort + hands

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:12:52 -0400

We Got Married Global Eps 4 & 5: music + comfort + hands

He’s such a weird old man. ♥♥ I’m kind of imagining,...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:49:19 -0400

He’s such a weird old man. ♥♥ I’m kind of imagining, like… him and Nino and Joshima and Ohno all living in the same neighborhood. Just nodding to each other on the street and going to their own houses for some quiet introversion time and then meeting for a beer. Like a very casual artists’ colony.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:39:33 -0400

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:39:08 -0400

So, I started watching Teen Wolf, after what seems like an...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:39:02 -0400

So, I started watching Teen Wolf, after what seems like an eternity of being purposefully Teen Wolf resistant and I have to say, I am having a lot of fun! :DD So far one of my main thoughts is “Oh, my sweet summer child Scott McCall! ♥♥” XD I am a sucker for genuinely nice people, for sweethearts, for the sometimes obtuse but always good-hearted heroes. He does just want people to be okay!

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:27:00 -0400

ffrenchtoast: “PEPPER KNOWS EVERYTHING”Iron Man Screen Tests...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:02:00 -0400

ffrenchtoast:

“PEPPER KNOWS EVERYTHING”
Iron Man Screen Tests (x)

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:21 -0400

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.”

- Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via realityraincheck)

mykpopipod: 이효리 (Lee Hyori) - Bad Girls (배드 걸스) MV I’m...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:20:30 -0400

mykpopipod:

이효리 (Lee Hyori) - Bad Girls (배드 걸스) MV

I’m so in for this bad/baddest/rude girl summer, omg. :DD If there was one trend in kpop I’d want everyone to jump on, it would be that one. I love all feminist underpinings I’ve been seeing recently.

I really rec watching this MV if you haven’t because it’s awesome~

thesakanasan: From behind-the-scenes of How’s it going concert...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:20:00 -0400

thesakanasan:

From behind-the-scenes of How’s it going concert DVD

(btw Jun’s the one holding the camera)

penpalfriendsarah: Sae: “Well Sayaka, well?”…. “What do you...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:26:41 -0400

penpalfriendsarah:

Sae: “Well Sayaka, well?”…. “What do you think about Sae??!”
Sayaka: ……….
Sae: *shakes the hell outta Sayaka* “Well!?”
Sayaka: “YES I LIKE YOU.” <3

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:33:00 -0400

We Got Married Global Ep 5 (making of): She is SO CUTE. I feel...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 14:31:36 -0400

We Got Married Global Ep 5 (making of): She is SO CUTE. I feel like taken out of context, this will seem annoyingly people-bringing-weight-into-things-unnecessarily but in the context of the show, she is just looking for every opportunity to tease him. And it’s extra impressive, since joking around effectively is so much harder in a second language. But she does it so well. She gives him a hard time. ♥

Also, those “~”s are totally deserved this time because Hongki was doing some really adorable whining in protest here. :DD