Producers: Relationships need drama! If couples are just happy all the time the audience will get bored!
Me: I would literally watch these two idiots do laundry and make toast and be domestic and smiley for the rest of my trash life.
Me: If you won’t give me domestic fluff, I’m gonna write it myself and spend the rest of my life on AO3.
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So…like…question for the void. I wrote about 20 pages of original fiction for a class I’m taking. It’s not like this is exactly a first, as anyone who was following me around New Year’s is probably aware–I write so much original fiction, like hundreds of thousands of words, like whole novels–but it is a first that this is a short story I wrote that I’m going to have to share with a bunch of people for editing. And I kind of figured that, hey, in for a penny and all that shit, so as long as I’m having a panic attack about my class reading this thing, I could ask the internet if they wanted to read this thing. Sooooo…anybody want to read 12K of some poor dude named Jack dealing with a city populated of every polytheistic pantheon in human history?
Due to the evolution of bacteria with respect to our bodies natural defense mechanisms, traveling forward in time could kill you, and traveling back in time could kill everyone.
I never thought about this but it makes perfect sense.
epidemiology fascinates me and this post is just so cool to me
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I was tagged by @kinshula
Rules: Tag 10 bloggers you want to get to know better.
Birthday: March 12th
Gender: Female
Relationship status: Single and too goddamn busy to mingle.
Zodiac sign: The most un-Pisces to ever Pisces, or at least so I’ve been told
Siblings: Not a one, nay, not a one.
Favorite color: Um, bright red and black, with an option on royal purple.
Pets: Two dogs, one of whom loves everyone and the other one of whom barely deigns to like my parents.
Wake-up and sleep time: Well, I’m in college, so I wake up 7-8 on class days, barring crippling exhaustion. I actually hate sleeping, it kind of bores me to tears and I rarely sleep well, so I do sleep later than that on weekends but it makes me irritable as hell. Sleep? Ahaha…what’s that again? I try to get to sleep around midnight at the latest, but also…college is sort of what happens when you’re making plans, so.
Coke or pepsi: None of the above
Day or night: I am a ‘consciousness’ person. Six in the morning, two in the afternoon, midnight, if I’m awake I’m happy, if I’m asleep or going to sleep I’m not. But I guess night.
Text or call: Phones freak me right the fuck out. No. I always text when I can get away with it, except with my parents and my best friend.
Make up or natural: I usually can’t be bothered with makeup, but even when I take the time I only end up wearing this blood-of-my-enemies shade of lipstick I enjoy.
Met a celebrity: Nope.
Smile or eyes: On others? I generally go with ‘both.’ A good, honest smile should make someone’s eyes light up. On me? Um…my smile is kind of strange-looking, too many teeth, and my eyes are nice, but fairly unremarkable.
Light or dark hair: I ended up with dark brown hair. On other people I generally go for darker hair as well.
Shorter or taller: I’m five goddamn feet tall and I will fight your tall ass.
intelligence or attraction: Both, come at me, I don’t have to choose shit.
Chapstick or lipstick: Depends on how much attention I’m willing to pay.
City or country: CITY. God, I moved out of the Twin Cities when I was a kid and I’ve lived in small towns ever since and all I want from life is an apartment in a city of >1 million people.
Edit: it’s been about…many months since I did this and I totally thought I’d done the thing but apparently I forgot to post it. It’s like 1:30 in the morning so I’m not able to think of 10 people to tag so I’ll go with…uh…okay, let’s see, @bonehandledknife, @amusewithaview, @allgreymatters, and what the hell, my own dear platonic wife, @twistedangelsays. Yeah, that’s four people, I’m dead tired or I’d be able to think of more, sorry, guys.
SWEET TRINITY.
IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THERE IS A (VERY SMALL BUT APPARENTLY EXTANT) FAN BASE ON TUMBLR FOR THE KENCYRATH CHRONICLES.
Beloved followers and non-followers alike, let me tell you a thing. The Kencyrath Chronicles are up there as my favorite books ever. Not the way I talk about loving Harry Potter–Hogwarts is my home, to coin a phase–or even the way I love everything Robin McKinley has ever touched–and I love her stuff like I love BREATHING, it’s not always at the forefront of my mind but when I go too long without it I ache, go read all of it immediately. No, no, no. This, my love for the Kencyrath Chronicles, is a WHOLE OTHER CREATURE. Just talking about these books makes my hands shake and my bones feel heavy and my blood become a tangible fizzy thing in my veins. Like, if being in love doesn’t feel this good, I’m honestly not interested.
These books are about grand sweeping battles between good and evil and how those grand ideals become petty and ugly and messy as soon as you look closely enough, and how people fight them anyway because it’s their purpose or because it’s their choice or because it’s their people they’re protecting. Magic is rampant, from the great and hated Three-Faced God of the Kencyr people and its ‘blessed’ chosen ones, the Shanir, who are hated and cherished by their own people and by themselves for how close they are to their meddling deity, to the wandering bands of rathorn (ARMORED FLESH-EATING UNICORNS, PEOPLE, HOW MUCH MORE OF A PITCH DO YOU NEED) and the migratory trees (yes, you read that correctly). The main character is wild and casually vicious and desperate to be gentle, and she is loved by people everywhere she goes but she’s never really one of them, and the running joke in-universe is that you can track her progress across the world by falling buildings and burning cities (”…the Riverlands in ruins and you in the middle of it, looking apologetic” is a personal favorite quote). The writing style fucking breathes with power and imagination and magic. I am not a tough sell on books, really I’m not, but these books. Trinity. The fact that these books are not the most popular things since Lord of the Rings fucking breaks my heart, it really does.
So like. Go read them. Immediately. The first two books, God Stalk and Dark of the Moon, are sold as an omnibus called Dark of the Gods, and please forgive their God-awful covers (why is the canonically very flat-chested lead a D-cup? Don’t know, just kind of relieved I read the older edition with the less awful cover). If you’ve read them and you liked them, please please PLEASE COME INTO MY ASK BOX AND NEVER EVER LEAVE.
(On a somewhat related note, I’ve read more books than I could care to count in my life, so if anyone ever wants a fantasy/sci-fi rec, I got you, hit me up.)
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It makes me so upset that no one’s made a “meet the dolphins/orcas” thing that isn’t exploitative and abusive to animals (IE, like sea world keeping them in basically bathtub sized tanks).
Like it’d be easy??? Set up a big amusement park/center/whatever near the ocean. Create a pool, which is connected to the ocean. One that animals can freely come and go from. Orcas and dolphins are curious and friendly. If you give them food when they show up and play with them, they’ll keep coming back. Instead of keeping them imprisoned in a tiny pool, just let them come and go as they please. Sure, people will have to hang around all day for a chance to meet the animals (who will come and go on their own time) instead of having down-to-the-minute schedule times,,, but that’s a small price to pay in exchange for having interaction with happy and free animals.
It can be a mutually beneficial thing. You provide food, entertainment, and vet care. And in exchange you get the company/entertainment of the animals. Like I’m seeing all this stuff on how we need to end all contact with marine animals and no we don’t, we just need to start connecting with them in ways that are good for everyone instead of one-sided and abusive.
and some people certainly like the challenge. Love bragging about “I waited 5 hours and got to see them” sort of thing.
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“Mad Max: Fury Road. Say anything bad about Fury Road and I will plant you on a fucking spike. This movie is too good for the Oscars. They should have pulled the movie from consideration and set up their own award ceremony for it, complete with tricked-out hot rods and double guitars. If anything, the Oscars will just ruin this movie. If George Miller wins, I want him to mount the statue on the hood of a ZZ Top coupe and drive it over the corpse of Jack Valenti.” — Drew Magary, the 2016 Hater’s Guide to the Oscars. (via wraparoundcurl)
(Source: adequateman.deadspin.com, via fuckyeahisawthat)
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