If You Want A Picture Of The Future, Imagine A Boot Stamping On A Human Face-forever.

In Defense of Holden Caulfield

I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever understand why exactly people hate Holden Caulfield from “The Catcher in the Rye”.

I mean, sure, you could defend your dislike with a classic gem such as, “Oh, he’s just a whiny, pretentious f***boy! He’s so boring, all he does is complain!”

But at that I’m just like

okay, wow, I’m sorry the incredibly depressed mentally ill teenager who has no true friends and is constantly being ignored by the people he tries to reach out to and is constantly being told he’s useless and a bad influence by his peers and has alluded to being sexually molested by multiple people as a little kid and has to deal with the pain and hardship of growing up in a world he can’t help but see as superficial and hypocritical and WHOSE CLASSMATE FRICKIN’ COMMITTED SUICIDE IN FRONT OF HIM isn’t a conventionally cheerful or likeable protagonist????

I don’t understand why that’s so hard for people to grasp; it just straight up BAFFLES me. I mean, people eke out all sorts of ways to like downright villains like Alex (DeLarge) or Loki or Ramsay Snow/Bolton, or antiheros like Jaime/Cersei Lannister, Sherlock Holmes, etc.

Why is it so hard to dole out a little sympathy for Holden, who, ultimately, just wants to protect children from the evils of the world—arguably one of the noblest and most heartbreakingly tender aspirations of all?

Crying xD <3 

The Husbands of River Song…Doctor Who 9X13

Play Doctor Who [S9E13]     : The Husbands of River Song Here!!!

This is the second series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. Jenna Coleman will return as the Doctor’s companion Clara Oswald.

And More

>>Play [S9E12] : Hell Bent (2)

>>Play S9E11: Heaven Sent (1)

>>Play S9E10: Face the Raven

>>Play S9E9: Sleep No More

>>Play S9E8: The Zygon Inversion (2)

>>Play S9E7 : The Zygon Invasion (1)

>>Play S9E6: The Woman Who Lived (2)

>>Play S9E5 : The Girl Who Died (1)

>>Play S9E4: Before the Flood (2)

>>Play S9E3 : Under the Lake (1)

>>Play S9E2: The Witch’s Familiar (2)

>>Play S9E1: The Magician’s Apprentice (1)

The loneliest man.

STS-41B, February 12, 1984

Mission Specialist Bruce McCandless II, is seen further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut has ever been. This space first was made possible by the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU, a nitrogen jet propelled backpack. After a series of test maneuvers inside and above Challenger’s payload bay, McCandless went “free-flying” to a distance of 320 feet away from the Orbiter. This stunning orbital panorama view shows McCandless out there amongst the black and blue of Earth and space.

Image: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001087.jpg

(Credit: NASA-JSC)

The roughest week in space history. Saw this on a Facebook group I am a member of RIP Commander Scobee, and the rest of the crew.