All aboard the S.S. Korrasami, setting sail to the land of ridiculous head canons.
When Asami used this very thinly veiled excuse to tend to Korra:
When even Mako was able to pick up on the sexual tension:
MAKO, of all people!
17 Times "The Legend Of Korra" Totally Hinted At Korrasami
21 Weird Side Effects Of Being A Person Of Color Raised By White People
I love you, family. But this was weird.
When you're out and about, no one will believe that your parents are actually your parents.
"So how do you two know each other?"
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Or that your siblings are actually your siblings.
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You're intimately acquainted with searching "where are you from?" questions from strangers.
"But like...before that, where did your parents come from?"
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You're thoroughly confused as to why the world makes such a big deal out of interracial relationships.
It's just been your reality from the get-go.
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Sally Draper's Side-Eye Is The One Side-Eye To Rule Them All
Sally has no time for your BS.
On last night's episode of Mad Men, Don takes daughter Sally out to dinner with some of her fellow ~teens~ before she departs on a summer ~teen tour~.
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But then Don and one of the girls start getting a little too flirty, and Sally hits them with this Grade-A side-eye.
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When your roommate asks you to take out the trash.
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11 Beautiful Junot Díaz Quotes To Live By
The author spoke at St. Francis College in Brooklyn on April 16 and had some incredible pieces of advice.
"Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight."
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"If you can't see women — half the species — as human, you can't see yourself as human."
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"I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'"
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"The question isn't ‘Do we have the writers?’ — it's 'Who's deciding who gets rewarded, who gets the power?'"
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How To Turn Off Facebook Message Read Receipts
You have been waiting your WHOLE LIFE for this.
Let's get real: the "seen" feature on Facebook messages is ruining your life.
When someone messages you, they can see if you read their message. And you can see if they've read yours! This is fun for no one.
1. Download the Facebook Unseen extension on Chrome.
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17 T-Shirts Every Stoner Needs
Get high, stay fly.
Smoking is a sport.
Get it here for $24.80.
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Snoop def thinks so.
Get it here for $26.87.
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And obviously James Franco agrees.
Get it here for $24.80.
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So do these ~high princesses~.
Get it here for $24.16.
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A Dad Did An Amazing Photo Series Of His Son "Flying" To Raise Awareness For Down Syndrome
Alan Lawrence told BuzzFeed News he wants to show that his 18-month-old son Wil can do anything.
A dad in Utah has created a beautiful photo series of his 18-month-old son "flying" to show that his Down syndrome doesn't hold him back from spectacular things.
Alan Lawrence told BuzzFeed News he began creating the pictures of his 18-month-old son, Wil, last year. Wil is the youngest of his six children, though the family is expecting a baby boy this September.
Lawrence said that he and his wife Nikki didn't know their son had Down syndrome before he was born. While his wife handled the news "really, really well," Lawrence said he struggled with it at first. "I was a little more selfish about it," he said.
However, Lawrence said he quickly grew to understand what a blessing Wil was to his family. "Wil is going to be able to do anything he took his mind to," he said.
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27 Times Jessica Lange Was Our One True Supreme
Happy birthday to the baddest witch around.
When she transitioned from modeling to acting and was adorably excited for the future.
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When she was a young Hollywood dream promoting King Kong in the '70s.
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When she stunned us to the point of paralysis during this scene in Frances.
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And proved long before American Horror Story that she could handle the most intense of roles.
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Blake Lively Was The Definition Of Flawless At The "Age Of Adaline" Premiere
The queen is back.
Last night Blake Lively made a rare and magical appearance by walking the red carpet for her new film Age of Adaline — and, unsurprisingly, the new mom looked as flawless as ever.
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She was really excited to be there.
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Like, really excited.
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And she had a right to be, because she was the actual definition of perfection in her Dancing Girl Emoji-inspired gown, and hella cute clutch.
???
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22 Very Important Questions Muggles Have For Wizards
What you got under dem robes?
Do British wizards and witches eat anything other than British food?
Like, do you ever go to a local Indian for a cheeky curry?
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Doesn't drinking pumpkin juice all the time give you the shits?
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Do you get paranoid about ghosts coming in the bathroom while you have a poo?
Or a wank...
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Is it frowned upon to have a muggle job?
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This New "Jurassic World" Trailer Is Everything You Need
“She was designed to be bigger than the T. rex.”
Friends, Romans, dinosaurs, lend me your ears: There's a NEW Jurassic World trailer, and it's everything you need to get you through the week.
First of all, we're going back to the island we all know so well...
WELCOME TO JURASSIC WORLD!
Where Chris Pratt is the dino wrangler (aka CAN I HAVE YOUR JOB?!).
... And is also wearing an amazing leather vest.
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A High Schooler Asked A Girl To Prom In The Most 4/20 Way Ever
This is one promposal that didn’t go up in smoke.
Lots of high school kids pop the prom question in elaborate, over-the-top ways.
Reddit user LegalizeOtt had a creative plan that was far more mellow. He posted this photo of the epic idea last week with the caption "Wish me luck."
"For the dance itself me and my friend planned to get an half oz to smoke before the dance, and my date is probably bringing some tree too so we'll be really high," LegalizeOtt told The Daily Dot.
The Reddit user did not return BuzzFeed News' request for comment.
It's a 4/20 love story for the ages.
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Kim Jong Un "Scales North Korea's Highest Peak" In Leather Shoes And An Overcoat
The North Korean leader has been photographed smiling, having apparently climbed to the top of Mt. Paektu, the country’s state-run news agency said.
North Korea's state news agency released new pictures of leader Kim Jong Un claiming to show him after climbing to the top of the country's highest peak — the 2,744 meter-high Mt. Paektu — at dawn on Saturday.
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Given past dubious propaganda claims and the fact that Kim is wearing little more than a thin overcoat and leather shoes in the pictures, the authenticity of the claim is doubtful.
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Korea Central News Agency described Kim as having a "broad smile on his face" at the summit. Mt. Paektu plays a key role in the cult of personality surrounding his regime, and the party says it was the birthplace of Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il.
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The looks of Mt. Paektu is impressive and the sunrise over Mt. Paektu is a charming and beautiful sight rare to be seen. ...
Mt. Paektu is the ancestral mountain and the sacred mountain of revolution associated with the soul of the Korean nation and suggesting the spirit of Songun Korea, and it is the cradle of the Korean revolution, the symbol of victory and the eternal beacon of the Songun (army-first) revolution.
When one climbs snow-stormy Mt. Paektu and undergoes the blizzards over it, one can experience its real spirit and harden the resolution to accomplish the Korean revolution. Climbing Mt. Paektu provides precious mental pabulum more powerful than any kind of nuclear weapon and it is the way for carrying forward the revolutionary traditions of Paektu and giving steady continuity to the glorious Korean revolution.
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13 Things Only Guys With An Extremely Mediocre Dick Will Understand
Not big. Not small. Just, mediocre.
It seems like all people want in life is a big dick, which you can't offer :(
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You've spend a lot of time researching ~random facts~.
You're extremely jel of Michael Fassbender.
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Fuck you, Fassbender.
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We Met The People Standing Outside The Hospital Waiting For The Royal Baby
“We can’t camp outside the hospital this time, so we’re staying nearby and coming down every day.”
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You've probably heard, but there's a rather ~special~ baby due to be born very soon in England. Any day now, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will become parents for a second time (although the due date has not officially been revealed).
So, as the country and press prepare to go into royal baby meltdown, I went along to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, to see what the scene was like outside the private Lindo Wing.
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21 Times Basset Hounds Were Total Freakin' Dweebs
NERD ALERT.
When this dork was the life of the party.
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And when this smooth operator was chilling out in his bathrobe.
When this guy tried to put on his best smile but just ended up looking dorky.
When this lady believed she was killing the selfie game.
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Hillary Clinton 2.0: Low-Key Now, Exciting Later
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Last Saturday, a few days before the event, Brendan Comito showed the Secret Service the warehouse in Norwalk, Iowa, where he packages fresh-picked produce. Later in the week, he dragged out the empty boxes he keeps near the back door.
That was about all Comito had to do to prepare for Hillary Clinton’s visit.
There were no “H” signs to be hung from the pallet shelving. There was no candidate literature. No ropeline. Barely even an audience, just 12 people seated nearby. Clinton’s “roundtable” with Comito and other small business owners — the fifth of six such discussions she hosted in Iowa last week — was more like a think-tank policy panel: Hand-picked voters played experts, offering comment on healthcare and immigration, and Clinton played moderator, wielding more questions than proposals of her own.
The event had few of the trappings of a presidential campaign from the beginning to the very end — when, from the rabble of reporters, an unmistakeable voice rang out:
“Mrs. Clinton!” yelled NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
“Can you tell us… Mrs. Clinton!?”
“Can you tell us why you decided to endorse a Supreme Court ruling…”
“Ma’am!?”
“Can you tell us…?”
Mitchell’s cameraman gave it one last try.
“Madame Secretary,” he said. “Can we get some questions?”
Clinton ignored the reporters. But she did take questions.
Comito, her host at the warehouse, recalled in an interview this weekend that the candidate made it a point, even after the hour-long roundtable, to make herself available to the participants in private.
“Is there anything you want to ask?” she said to Comito on their way out.
The appearance at Capital City Fruit, just outside Des Moines, was typical in look, size, and feel of Clinton’s first week on the campaign trail. Each event followed a simple rubric: a wonky roundtable or discussion at a diner or coffee shop; a tiny audience or none at all; no giant rallies; and few questions from the press — with a premium placed squarely on people like Comito, not a national audience.
Clinton will continue this approach for the first month, aides say.
She’ll take the roundtables to New Hampshire this week, and is expected to hold more soon in South Carolina and Nevada. Until sometime in May, when Clinton plans to “deliver the speech to kick off her campaign,” the roundtable will be her main venue.
The launch is being cast by officials as everything her failed 2008 bid was not.
It’s low-key and voter-focused — solid, but not exciting. And according to Democrats close to Clinton and her team, that was more or less the point for phase one. Excitement can wait, they said in interviews last week, so long as she proves — as her campaign aides have repeated again and again — that this time, she is taking “nothing for granted.”
“There’s a rhythm. She’s starting off like Beethoven, with melodies and chords that people understand. But she’s got to end up like Beyoncé,” said Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist who worked on both of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaigns.
“She doesn’t have to do it overnight. She has time. She has nothing but time.”
The strategy does feel somewhat at odds with the sense of anticipation that preceded this campaign.
After leaving the State Department in 2013, Clinton moved about private life in public as if nudged on, if not at times pushed forward, by the expectancy of her fans and supporters. At nearly every appearance, no matter the venue, Clinton received questions about 2016. And often, to the delight of those crowds, she played along, making coy reference to the big “decision” before her. All the while, a group called Ready for Hillary was gathering widespread support: In two years, they built a nationwide network of 4 million members.
Clinton’s supporters argue that the soft launch won’t break the momentum of those efforts. Her team has referred to this first leg of the race as a necessary “ramp-up period.” (Aides also characterize it in passing as a “listening tour” — modeled in part after the “listening sessions” Clinton held at the start of her 2000 U.S. Senate campaign in New York, when she ran as a sitting first lady in a state where she had never lived.)
Many attribute the idea for a small-scale “ramp-up” to Clinton directly. More than one friend used the phrase, “doing it her way,” to describe her approach to a second bid. (A Clinton aide also described the strategy as “how Hillary wanted to start.”)
“This was her idea,” said Minyon Moore, a former senior Clinton White House aide and longtime adviser to both Clintons. “After a while, she’s going to be running fast and furious. And while she can, she wants to be as close to the voters as possible.”
Ahead of the campaign, Moore said, Clinton hoped to prioritize settings that would generate a true give-and-take: “How does she put herself in a position where, whoever she comes in contact with, they will understand that she is really trying to hear first,” said Moore. “Her struggle was to make sure she could get in that environment.”
Clinton has also said she wants to “embed” ideas from the roundtables directly into her platform. She was struck in Norwalk, for instance, by a participant whose student loans were making it difficult to secure credit for his business, according to an aide.
Clinton does not have a member of her policy team traveling with her, but is said to be in regular touch with the team about her events on the campaign trail.
Voters shouldn’t expect a detailed policy agenda until summer or fall, aides have said. Senior officials are also weighing to what extent Clinton can, without a clear idea of the likely Republican nominee, begin to stake out positions that could hurt her in a general election, according to two people familiar with discussions in the Clinton camp.
The roundtables have given Clinton a chance to frame her candidacy around what she called the “four big fights” of her campaign: rebuilding the economy, strengthening families, fixing “dysfunctional” government, and protecting the country. Her campaign has said that she will focus on the first at her New Hampshire events this week.
In Iowa, to keep the size of the events small, none of Clinton’s six roundtable-style events were actually open to the “everyday” Americans and Iowans referred to frequently in campaign statements and memos. The participants, selected by the campaign, included business owners, students, and local activists and officials — several of whom did not support Clinton in 2008. At some locations, the atmosphere was more relaxed: In Marshalltown, at the Tremont Grille diner, Clinton led a discussion as customers ate breakfast in booths nearby. Real people (“RPs” by national campaign parlance) were free to approach.
The roundtables still drew criticism as inaccessible. At most events, the pool of reporters allowed in were escorted out after the first 10 minutes or so. And unlike most of the Republicans who attended a forum in New Hampshire this weekend, Clinton did not hold a Q&A. (She took about two questions at her first event in Monticello.)
Clinton’s aides didn’t seem to need, or particularly want, the massive national media attention. The roundtables have provided the campaign with their own content.
Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist who worked in the Clinton White House, said the small settings are better suited for repackaging on digital media than traditional campaign events. “People aren’t sitting in their living rooms watching the big rallies in a package on the nightly news,” said Lehane. “That’s not how people engage anymore.”
An official campaign photographer, Barbara Kinney, has already uploaded dozens of behind-the-scenes photos to a Flickr page, following Obama’s example. His campaign in 2012 often drew material from White House photographer Peter Souza. Clinton’s ad man, Jim Margolis, could be seen at most of the events last week, filming just a few paces away. Some of the video has already been edited and posted on Clinton’s Facebook page.
And most important: Inside local Democratic circles, the roundtables hit the campaign’s intended mark — animating Iowa’s network of party activists in a personal way.
One longtime activist in Des Moines, Peggy Huppert, didn’t get the chance to see Clinton herself. But a lot of her friends did. One was Linda Nelson, who participated in a discussion in Council Bluffs; another was Sara Sedlacek, who attended a coffee shop roundtable in Le Claire; yet another was Comito, the produce distributor in Norwalk; and several more were state legislators — a large group of whom met Clinton on Wednesday at the capitol in Des Moines.
Every one of them, said Huppert, posted pictures and feedback on Facebook.
Huppert noticed that Comito, for instance, wrote in a lengthy thread just how surprised he’d been when, before his roundtable, a campaign aide told him and the other participants that they should feel free to ask Clinton whatever they liked.
“To be at these ‘tell me what you think’ discussions — they were just thrilled,” said Huppert, summarizing what she’s seen online. “She has cachet. It’s not just meeting with anybody. It’s Hillary. It’s a big deal for a Democratic activist to sit down at a coffee shop and meet her. This is what the campaign wanted — this kind of buzz.”
“I can’t get into her mind,” Comito said. “I don’t know if she’s genuine or not. But I know she heard us. She didn’t talk very much at the roundtable. She listened.”
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