Quietly Thinking Aloud

Couson. Lives. No, I don’t know how I ended up in this fandom, either, but COULSON. LIVES.

tifferini:

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D - Official Trailer (x)

(Reblogged from seananmcguire)

May 14

WHEN AMY’S BAKING COMPANY BAKERY BOUTIQUE & BISTRO HAD A MELTDOWN:

whatshouldwecallsocialmedia:

OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN.

Facebook page here.

Article here.

…okay, when I first saw this, I thought, just because someone managed to piss a bunch of redditors off is no reason to point and laugh at them. But then I watched the video linked at the bottom of the article. These people are so unrelentingly awful, they reduced Gordon Ramsay to an adorable broken-hearted woobie.

(Reblogged from ezramadmage)

thegoddamazon:

pharaohhearts:

kyssthis16:

shawarmababy:

It’s a superhero, Agent Ward. We work the cases S.H.I.E.L.D. hasn’t classified. The strange, the unknown. It’s not just spy versus spy anymore. The whole world’s in on the action. [X]

IS THAT LUKE FUCKING CAGE!?!?!??!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT’S LUKE CAGE

I KNOW HIM ONLY AS GUNN BUT THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER

(Reblogged from thegoddamazon)

thebigblackwolfe:

kyssthis16:

shinykari:

ardatli:

shawarmababy:

Seeing a lot of speculation on Richards’s character being Eli

That would make the shield line 300% better

OHHHHHHHHH

I didn’t even

no

NO

yes?

I CAN’T HANDLE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PROCESS WHAT ARE FEELINGS RN

I hadn’t even thought of that, I’d been thinking Luke Cage. He seems a bit old for Eli, but it is television.

Whoever he’s playing, it definitely looks both super and heroic.

(Reblogged from thebigblackwolfe)

deducecanoe:

danschkade:

deafmuslimpunx:

its-salah:

Following his release from Guantanamo Bay, Sami Al-Hajj, a (former) Guantanamo Bay detainee, dashes towards his eight year old son Mohammad and swoops him up in his arms, hugging him and planting tender kisses on his face in their first reunion after seven years.

After being imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for seven years, during which he was repeatedly interrogated and tortured, including being physically, sexually, and psychologically abused, Al Hajj was released without any charges held against him.

Al Hajj, a journalist for the Al Jazeera network, was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 while on his way to do camerawork for the network concerning the war that had recently broken out in Afghanistan. It has been speculated by both Al Hajj’s lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, and Reporters Without Borders that the main reason that he was incarcerated for so long was due to the US Miliary’s desire to make him an informant against Al Jazeera, as most of Al Hajj’s interrogations consisted of American interrogators questioning him about the (Al Jazeera) network.

While in Guantanamo, Al Hajj wrote a poem titled Humiliated in Shackles to his son Mohammad:

When I heard pigeons cooing in the trees,
Hot tears covered my face.

When the lark chirped, my thoughts composed
A message for my son.

Mohammad, I am afflicted.
In my despair, I have no one but Allah for comfort.

The oppressors are playing with me,
As they move freely around the world.

They ask me to spy on my countrymen,
Claiming it would be a good deed.

They offer me money and land,
And freedom to go where I please.

Their temptations seize
My attention like lightning in the sky.

But their gift is an empty snake,
Carrying hypocrisy in its mouth like venom,

They have monuments to liberty
And freedom of opinion, which is well and good.

But I explained to them that
Architecture is not justice.

America, you ride on the backs of orphans,
And terrorize them daily.

Bush, beware.
The world recognizes an arrogant liar.

To Allah I direct my grievance and my tears.
I am homesick and oppressed.

Mohammad, do not forget me.
Support the cause of your father, a God-fearing man.

I was humiliated in the shackles.
How can I now compose verses? How can I now write?

After the shackles and the nights and the suffering and the tears,
How can I write poetry?

My soul is like a roiling sea, stirred by anguish,
Violent with passion.

I am a captive, but the crimes are my captors’.
I am overwhelmed with apprehension.

Lord, unite me with my son Mohammad.
Lord, grant success to the righteous.

And yet, there still remain many more innocent Afghan & Pakistani men imprisoned at Guantanamo.

‘Architecture is not justice.’

Jesus.

A heartbreaking poem. I usually do not understand poetry but for some reason I always understand poetry (or at least get something out of it) when it is written by middle easterners. Even in translation. Even when it is hundreds of years old. I’m not sure why.

And yes, there are still a lot of people separated from their families who have had a lot of things done to them that we should not be doing and then claiming we are the good guys. holding indefinitely, torture, sexual abuse… who the hell do we think we are?

(Reblogged from deducecanoe)

May 13

mechcanuck:

slumberblues:

siphersaysstuff:

WHY WAS THIS NOT IN THE FINAL CUT.

Or even the Special Editions. This is GREAT.

C3PO YOU FUCKER

I have a new favorite Star Wars moment.

3PO’D

(Reblogged from moniquill)

biyuti:

@mocosyamores

been reading/editing your memoir all day

i’d like nothing more in life at this second, to give you a hug.

not just any hug,

the best hug i know how to give

ipit

(Reblogged from biyuti)