When you ask a casting director to find a 6-foot half-Polynesian, the response is usually one of stunned silence, like, ‘Really?’ And we were like, ‘Yeah, really.’ We’ve been very conscious about maintaining the ethnic identity of the characters in the book as much as humanly possible. And we were really intent on doing that with Bobbie.

We actually looked in the U.K., Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Hawaii, and New Zealand. And when [co-author] Ty Franck saw the first casting tape on her, he said, “That’s her, that’s her,” right away. She’s a professional boxer, as well as being a model and so she had the physicality and a very interesting, unusual kind of face you rarely see on television. She’s awesome and we couldn’t be more delighted to have her on the show.

THIS ISN’T GOING TO BE A BOMB!!! IT’S GOING TO BE A NUKE!!!

ARE YOU SERIOUS, BURNETT?!!! (x)

United Arab Emirates want to build a manmade mountain to alter the weather

The United Arab Emirates are no longer content to live in a desert and they’re looking to build themselves a mountain to fix the problem. Why a mountain? It’s a matter of rainfall and how clouds are made. Here’s how the geological undertaking could change the entire country’s climate forever.

All I could think about today was how much I need Gillian to star in a political thriller as the British PM and it’s all this stupid photo’s fault. It looks like a political portrait and it won’t let me live. Someone please write this.

Disclaimer: Fake magazine cover from a fake film that only exists in my head. The photo of GA is real (x).

Captain America: Civil War New Promo

God is real

well thank fuck

NASA’s Most Shocking Image

This image is a 1.5… *BILLION* pixel photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy.

To view the image in all its glory go here.

NASA is the coolest thing that’s ever happened.

alltogetherterrible oh gosh

I zoomed in and I was like “yeah right” while it loaded and then my jaw actually dropped 

holy shit

i mean i knew theoretically what this was supposed to look like, but i didn’t actually expect to see it

but then when i zoomed in, all the noise turned into ACTUAL STARS, that you can see individually

good job, NASA

This makes me feel so insignificant

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