Anonymous asked: C and F for the fandom meme? (I hope you're having a good day!)
C: A pairing you wish you shipped, but just can’t
Oh, wow, sit tight, all of these are entirely predicated on God my life would be easier if I shipped the most popular ship in the fandom.
Charles Xavier/Erik Lensherr: I got committed to the tragic friendship way too young to change my mind, but I have nothing against the ship.
Any configuration at all of Jim Kirk/Spock/Bones McCoy: I just…struggle? I concur that Spock/Kirk is pretty gay in TOS and I want to ship it, and honestly Kirk/Bones should be my exact shit, but I just–look, Kirk is too in love with the Enterprise for anyone else to have a claim.
Buffy Summers/Spike: nope, nope, nope, nope, can’t do it. Too rapey, too much sexual assault, even if I didn’t like Angel I wouldn’t be able to handle it.
Doc Holliday/Wynonna Earp: the show clearly really wants me to care about that pairing and like…I guess there’s nothing wrong with it, but I raise you Doc Holliday/Wyatt Earp and Wynonna/Dolls because Dolls is wonderful and Doc is so blindingly obviously in love with Wyatt and trying to work his issues out by fucking Wynonna, which, no judgement, because Wynonna is clearly trying to work out her own adequacy issues by fucking Doc.
Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter: I want to ship it just so I could stop feeling this level of seething wrath about it, I feel similarly about almost EVERY ship that the HP fandom likes, including literally anything that includes Severus Snape.
F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?
I mean…I was a late-comer to the concept of internet fandom (the last…four or five years?) because of various reasons, but I’ve been a devoted consumer of any X-Men content I could afford to get my hands on since I was 7 and I’ve been collecting Animorphs books about as long, so there’s those.
Anonymous asked: you are making me seriously consider going back and reading the animorphs books we have at my house
DO IT.
DO IT AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM.
ALL THESE YEARS MY BLOG HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A RUSE TO SUCK YOU ALL IN AND CONVERT YOU TO ANIMORPHS.
HERE IS A LINK IN CASE YOU DON’T HAVE A FULL COLLECTION.
Anonymous asked: *Finishes Book 13* *screams* OH GOSH I LOVE THIS BOOK VERY VERY MUCH. Like the Hork-Bajir plotline AND THAT ENDING!!!!!!! So good! I'm pretty sure this is my favourite book so far. AHHHH. I'm sorry I can't contain mY EMOTIONS BECAUSE THIS IS A GOOD BOOK AND I LOVE HAWK BOY TOBIAS. I LOVE PAIN. 1/2
And like the Hork-Bajir??? I… love them???? Bless them and all good wishes to them in their little Eden. Oh god and again another battle they won, and with like a damn good strategy rather than you know everything falling apart at the last minute. AND ALL THANKS TO MY BOY TOBIAS. And I really love how this book gave so much insight into his character. Sorry for the rant.
DO NOT BE SORRY I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH, I’M??? I LOVE IT? TOBIAS GETS TO BE A HERO AND THE HORK BAJIR GET THEIR LITTLE EDEN AND RACHEL AND TOBIAS GET TO JUMP OFF A CLIFF TOGETHER, WHICH IS JUST THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN A NUTSHELL TBH.
AND HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LIKE THE SCENE OF THESE SIX TERRIFIED CHILDREN AND THESE TWO REFUGEE ALIENS STANDING IN THE FOREST AND TAKING A MOMENT OUT OF THEIR BUSY SCHEDULE OF BEING HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS TO SHOUT FREE OR DEAD AT THE TOP OF THEIR DESPERATE LITTLE LUNGS. LIKE, THAT IS THE THESIS OF THESE BOOKS, THAT IS WHAT EVERYONE IN THESE BOOKS BELIEVE, THAT IS THEIR CODE: FREE OR DEAD.
I’M GOING TO START CRYING ABOUT THIS?????
GOD OKAY I LOVE IT. PLEASE, GUYS, IF YOU KNOW OF ANY ART OF THIS GIVE IT TO ME SO I CAN WEEP SOFTLY OVER MY F A V O R I T E SCENE IN THIS SERIES.
Anonymous asked: P for the fandom meme? :)
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom
Here are several arbitrary universe mash-up AUs I’ve been thinking about lately.
Mediator AU of Jessica Jones/Luke Cage
Jessica is basically Susannah Simon (from the Mediator series, which I read as a kid and am rereading) all grown up with an alcohol problem, so this is the universe in which Jessica can see, talk to, and punch ghosts. This can either be a straight up nothing-is-the-same AU where the entire plot is Jessica moving into a new apartment haunted by a beautiful guy from (help) maybe the 20′s who just never left for reasons that are unclear, or it can basically be canon, except that Jessica could always talk to ghosts and then acquired superstrength and *gasp* TRISH KNOWS EVERYTHING. Clearly that is the superior AU. But so then Jessica moves into her new office/apartment at the start of her show and it’s already haunted by a kinda grumpy recently dead guy who…possibly she murdered his wife still, that would be debatable. Regardless, Luke (after about an hour of arguing about this is my goddamn apartment– excuse you, you can’t just kick me out, I was here first, she finally does get a name out of him) has the strongest telekinetic powers she’s ever seen, and Jess can still lift cars. Stuff proceeds apace, but with more Luke and maybe Kilgrave is an evil mediator or an extra-solid and terrible ghost or maybe he’s just Kilgrave, and I have no idea what the plot would look like or how Luke’s show would happen. But it would have Luke appearing in Trish’s apartment to push something heavy over and yell “JESS IS GETTING HERSELF KILLED” until Trish woke up and went to help Luke deal with the situation.
Rogue One AU of Animorphs
Obviously. I’ve seen a couple casual comments about a Star Wars AU of Animorphs where people are Jedi or whatever, but listen. No. The Animorphs are Rogue One. Jake is Cassian, obviously, and Rachel is Jyn but less intensely disillusioned and more Ready To Go To War (both for the cause and for the war). The major difference here is that it’s Jake who delivers the stirring speech, while Rachel is the one who recruits a small force of mutineers to back them up. And no sexual tension. I feel like Ax is Chirrut but like a baby, like he was really REALLY young when the war went down, and Tobias is Baze (ditto) and Rachel is like “…nice shoulder cannon” the first time they meet. Instead of being gay married space warrior priests, Ax and Tobias are best friend space warrior priests. Elfangor was definitely the older priest initiate who survived the massacre on Jedha and raised the two of them in the old ways and then dies tragically during Rogue One’s attempt to reach…Naomi? I’m not sure who Saw would be in this argument. CHAPMAN MAYBE. Because Naomi has to be an engineer rather than a lawyer so that the plot can progress.
Wait, actually, no, Eva is the engineer, they don’t have to go on a hunt to find Rachel for the contact information because Marco already has it and MARCO IS K2 except he’s not a robot, he’s still a human and Jake’s best friend. They go pull Rachel off an undercover op on Jedha because they need reinforcements, and Ax and Tobias basically just invite themselves along, and CASSIE IS THE PERSON WHO IS DRIVEN TO RISK HER LIFE BY REBELLING AGAINST THE EMPIRE WITH WORLD-SAVING INFORMATION.
This story would be like 95% Cousin Feelings with an additional 5% Ship Feelings, but the point of it all would be that Jake and Rachel die sitting on the beach shoulder-to-shoulder like they did when they were little kids, and Rachel says that Jake’s brother would have been proud of him and Jake smiles and it’s all terrible.
Mrs. and Mrs. Smith AU of Atomic Blonde
No, that’s it. That’s literally it. AU where Delphine and Lorraine have been married for five years and spend a few days trying to murder each other as couple’s counseling/the complications of the job and have wall sex in their destroyed kitchen. Alternatively, Good Omens AU of Atomic Blonde, where Delphine is a sweet-natured demon who loves music and dancing and photography and Lorraine is a rather embittered angel.
“Forgive me Father for I have sinned” and “Sorry Daddy I’ve been bad” both mean very similar things but have wildly different connotations
New favourite example of linguistic register.
(via patroclvss)
- if you call someone to witness and they refused to show up, you are legally entitled to stand outside their house and scream, but only every third day
- you can sell your son into slavery once or twice, but after the third time he doesn’t have to put up with that shit anymore
- no wailing allowed at funerals
- also you can only have ONE funeral per person, don’t get greedy
- if your neighbor’s tree has a branch hanging into your yard, you can legally cut down the entire fucking tree
- however, if some of your neighbor’s fruit from his dumb tree falls into your yard, he can legally come into your yard to
snoop aroundget it- if you call someone to witness and they’re too sick or old to get to court themselves, you have to provide a cart for them to come in, but it doesn’t have to be, like, a nice cart if you don’t want it to
With the exception of the second one, I wouldn’t change any of these. They’re already perfect.
Confused about the 3rd one bc there’s literally a Latin verb for wailing and beating your chest out of grief, which I explicitly remember seeing in several funeral scenes.
However, I’ve only heard that word to describe the professional wailers (yes, they had those) hired at funerals.
So if that’s true that means people couldn’t wail so they hired outsiders to do it instead.
Can’t believe we killed the wailing market.a lot of people have actually been confused about this point so i’ll go ahead and explain it!
the law against wailing (as well as lacerating yourself) at a funeral falls kind of into the category of sumptuary laws- not exactly, because that’s a specific term, but it’s the same concept of preventing excess. there are several laws designed to prevent people from getting too extravagant with their funerals.
the thing is, you have to keep two things in mind when looking at the twelve tables. the first is, we aren’t exactly sure of the extent to which some of these laws were actually enforced. some of them entail pretty brutal punishments that we don’t think were necessarily carried out; for example, if a patrician was condemned to death, there was frequently enough time allowed for him to quickly pack up and go into exile. so while technically the twelve tables don’t allow hugely extravagant funerals, we know that people didn’t really heed that, especially in the case of public heroes.
the second thing is that these laws are really, really old, and not all of them stick around. probably the most famous example is that the law prohibiting marriage between plebeians and patricians was repealed after only a few years by the lex canuleia.
so yes, the twelve tables does outlaw excessive funerary practices, including wailing. but does that mean that anybody listened to that or that it remained a law? not at all.
Sacajawea: If Not For Her, We Could Be Saluting the British Flag
Few women in U.S. history have had more influence on the nation’s history than the young Lemhi Shoshone woman, Sacajawea. It’s very likely that Lewis and Clark would never have reached the Pacific Ocean had it not been for her help. White settlement would have been different. Indian wars throughout the western half of the country would have been altered. We might even be saluting the British flag rather than the American flag. Sacajawea’s role was gigantic.
MY GIRL. She is of our tribe and we are so proud of her out in Inyo County. The Lewis and Clark thing was just a small part of her epic life.
She was actually born with the name Poi Naipi (Little Grass Maiden). She and two of her friends (Nai Nukkwi, Patsu Naipi) were kidnapped by a hostile band of Hidatsa, who had a strange practice of replacing their own dead children with the children of other tribes.
Poi Naipi’s “adopted” parents didn’t like her much so instead of sending her home they freaking sold her to a drunken French guy named Charbonneau. This man was bastard incarnate. To put this into perspective: He had once been stabbed in the face in Manitoba when he was caught raping a young girl there. At this time, being forced to marry him, Poi Naipi was about 9 years old. And, he already had one other child bride.
He was very abusive, he drank a lot, and at some point Poi Naipi started calling herself Tsaikka Tsa Wea. It means in our language, “One Who Carries a Burden.” You see how this got corrupted to Sacajawea over time.
At one point on the L&C expedition Clark caught Charbonneau beating Tsaikka Tsa Wea and her newborn son. Well, Clark and Lewis beat the crap out of Charbonneau and told him to knock it off. Later, after the expedition, Clark paid for Tsaikka Tsa Wea’s son to go to school and live in his home.
That’s not even the cool part though. As an older woman Tsaikka Tsa Wea said “To hell with this, I’m going home.” This was a pretty big thing to do, understand that she had practically been raised by her abusive scumbag husband and it is very hard for women who have been systematically abused since childhood to learn to stand up for themselves, especially against their aggressors. But, she did it. Traveling all by herself, she found the Northern Shoshone encampment on Wind River, where Chief Wusik-He was with some Eastern Shoshone (and some Western at the time) (this would later go on to be the permanent Eastern settlement, those guys are still out there today). She was reunited with her brother, who by that point had been named Daigwani of the Northern Shoshone. Everybody welcomed her home, her friends, her family, and she broke down crying to hear them call her their “Lost Woman” (Wadze Waipu). For her resilience and cunning she was appointed the personal advisor to Wusik-He. As a very old woman was buried with the name “Chief Woman,” later her son and her nephew were buried on either side of her. Those graves are still there on Wind River today.
Poi Naipi and the Wide Ridge Clan, never forget you, your story is always being told. Miikwa katukan, tunna wunupuhantu tung’atiwan naangwunupuhantu
Wow. What an amazing woman.
*tears*
pilayayame tȟáŋtaŋhaŋ wičhówoyake
rebloging for haiweewicci:’s comment.
Unexpected feelings. That’s some powerful stuff, and not something I was ever taught in school.
(Source: nativeamericannews, via windbladess)
“Trust me, if you hurt my friend, I’m gonna hurt you. Worse.” — Rachel, probably (via incorrectmorpherquotes)
severus-snape-is-a-butt-trumpet:
is there a word for “i was instantly good at a lot of things as a quote-unquote gifted child, and, as a result, i was able to skate by without ever being taught how to actually learn a new skill, and now that i’m an adult trying to learn new things that i can’t be good at instantaneously, i don’t have the patience or knowledge to improve on them, because skills that don’t come naturally to me just make me angry because i lived off instant gratification my whole childhood due to not ever being challenged intellectually or taught basic learning skills?” asking for a friend
(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
pinkpuffballdude asked: Wait, so could it be VCD if it feels like your throat immediately dries out and it hurts to breath when you exercise for too long/too strenuously? Or would that be something else? (I just read your post and I've never heard of this before so I wouldn't know where else to look..)
It’s not so much it dries out or that it happens if you exercise too long. It’s pretty much an instant sensation of everything tightening up and closing due to muscle dysfunction. So while someone with say, asthma might be able to run up and down the stairs three times with no problem before they start to feel like they need to stop, for VCD it’s as soon as your activity level spikes that your airway just shuts off and you’re left halfway up the stairs trying to breathe while the muscles unclench. It can be quite scary, especially if like myself you throw up a lot from other health problems, and then you wind up choking and wondering if you remeber how to do the self Heimlich maneuver :/
I’m really sorry to butt in, but @pinkpuffballdude I HAVE THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WITH THAT PROBLEM FOR TWENTY YEARS. I’ve been diagnosed with asthma twice before my current doctor heard my description and went “No, that’s definitely not asthma, no wonder your inhaler doesn’t work”. But I still can’t run for more than a couple dozen yards without having to stop and try not to cry–I just assumed that was what being out of breath felt like, for years and years.
UNFORTUNATELY, I have no answers despite the amount of research I’ve done. I’ve had a small fistful of tests done and there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with the function of my lungs, so the standing theory is that the seven years of nonstop respiratory infections I had as a little kid did permanent damage…but no one knows what kind of damage it could be because the necessary tests would be incredibly expensive and probably inconclusive.
AGAIN, SO SORRY TO HIJACK THIS POST, BUT HOLY SHIT. *POINTS* I’M NOT A FUCKING FREAK OF NATURE.