Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Anonymous asked: ANDALITE. AND-A-LIGHT WOULD BE GREAT!!!!!!!! HILARIOUS. TOP QUALITY. I LOVE IT.

AND A LIGHT.  LISTEN I WENT ALMOST TEN YEARS WITHOUG READING THESE BOOKS (long story) AND WHEN I REREAD BOOK 12 I LOOKED AT THE COVER AND THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED INTO MY HEAD WAS “CASSIE I’M SO PROUD OF YOU YOU’RE SO GOOD” LIKE LISTEN THAT LINE STUCK WITH ME COMPLETELY INTACT AND WORD PERFECT FOR A D E C A D E.

Also, if anyone wants to hear my headcanons about ADHD Rachel hit me U P.

Bad TV Romance: Could You Not?

fozmeadows:

Despite the vast quantities of domestic!AU fanfic that exist to the contrary, there’s still a common misconception in TVlandia that romantic relationships are only really interesting when imminent or imperilled; that any sort of emotional contentment or continuity between the characters will be boring to watch. And yet platonic relationships, in which we’re also meant to invest, are just as frequently treated as rock-solid: inviolable except, potentially, at a few plot-critical junctures. And that’s a big problem for romantic pairings – or rather, for our ability to invest in them, because the plain fact is, you can’t successfully threaten to destroy a thing you’ve never committed to building. Not only will nobody care, but there’s literally nothing to tear down except your own expired eviction notices. When you make it your telegraphed aim, week in, week out, year after year, to perpetuate a will-they, won’t-they dynamic, it becomes increasingly hard to give a shit about the won’t-they episodes, because, just like a child threatening to run away to the circus, it doesn’t matter how loudly you scream And this time, I mean it! – we all know you’re bluffing.

 Having gone this route, the writers then wonder why fandom is often far more invested in seeing those platonic (predominantly male/male) relationships become romantic than in their canonical (predominantly male/female) pairings. Which: yes, we want queer representation, and yes, we enjoy our own interpretations of the characters, but at base, the problem - as far as you TV writers are concerned, anyway - is trifold. Firstly, you’re limiting your romantic male/female interactions to fit a preordained narrative, which paradoxically weakens the same relationship they’re meant to promote by shallowing its development. Secondly, because you’re worried portraying a platonic male/female relationship in addition to your romantic one might confuse viewers as to who, in fact, the girl is meant to end up with, you don’t create any extraneous narrative potential between characters of the opposite gender. Which means, third and finally, that your same sex interactions are likely biased towards male-male, as most shows tend to have fewer female characters overall – and when they do appear, as per the first point, you’re usually orienting their participation around a single particular man, instead of letting them talk to each other – which means the most naturally developed, complex relationships portrayed are, overwhelmingly, between men. 

 Thus: having firmly invested your audience in the importance of a romantic relationship, you then proceed to use all the juiciest romantic foundations – which is to say, shared interests, complex histories, mutual respect, in-jokes, magnetic antagonism, slowly kindled alliances and a dozen other things – in male/male scenes, and then affect gaping surprise when your fanbase not only notices, but expresses a preference for it. 

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words-writ-in-starlight asked: OH MY GOD. ARE YOU A FAN OF THE KENCYRATH CHRONICLES? IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? I'M REALLY SORRY FOR THE CAPS LOCK BUT I JUST SHRIEKED IN A COFFEE SHOP AND I'M REALLY EXCITED BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ANOTHER FAN OF THESE GODDAMN GREAT BOOKS SINCE I GOT A TUMBLR.

sursumursa:

They are a chronically underrated treasure and I await the next one with great excitement. Especially now Jame is really getting her act together :)

Other Kencyr fans on Tumblr: there are only, like, four of us, so hit me up, we tiny fandoms have to stick together!

wonderfulworldofmichaelford:

thesylverlining:

twofistin:

menderash:

37q:

did anyone ever actually read animorphs or did we all just glance at the covers and assume it needed no explanation on the way to the goosebumps section in our elementary school library

animorphs is a scifi series about the grey morality of war and child soldiers experiencing trauma, depression, PTSD, being frequently and brutally dismembered, disemboweled, literally tortured to the brink of death, forced to murder their own family members with their bare hands, and on page 22 of the very first book they watch the alien prince who gave them their ~wacky animal morphing powers~ scream while be eaten alive in vivid and gory detail

One dude permanently turned into a bird for a while, forgot how to make facial expressions when he was a human and ate roadkill. And that was one of the tamer things.

You know the starfish cover everyone likes to mock especially? The girl beat someone to death with her own severed arm in that one :) 

What the fuck did I miss out on

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harlizzle:

tropicanaputa:

Y'all do realize that Hitler had similar views about Jewish people that Trump has about Latinxs. Back then nobody thought Hitler would win and somehow he did and then fast forward to all the shit that went down. Y'all need to stop playing and start paying attention to Trump- he’s not kidding.

I’ve actually studied a lot about Hitler and the general formula that goes into the making of a genocide. Someone on my Facebook today said “Trump is just trying to define what it means to be an American” and it sent chills through me. Hitler was just trying to define what it meant to be German. And Turkey in the early 1900s was trying to define what it meant to be Turkish. Which was a large part of the Armenian genocide. Intense nationalism that leads to hatred is fucking scary, and this man is definitely a threat. I’m sure people don’t believe that Trump could order the same things to happen as Hitler did, but here’s the thing: there are two different schools of thought about the Holocaust. And that is that it was premeditated and the other is that it just built up. It was either his plan all along or the atrocities developed with time. Hitler didn’t begin his career with “burn the Jews” he began it with “re-empower Germany and deport the weaker non-Germans who are a threat to us.”

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bleachdalilah:

thtwhitegurrl:

slutdust:

I bought my friend an elephant for their room.

They said “Thank you.”

I said “Don’t mention it.”

Is there a joke here that 15 thousand people get but I don’t?

PLEASE EXPLAIN

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heyimhanny:

feathered-dragoness:

dragonofenergie:

“Why do you flinch so hard?”

Maybe there was a time when someone wasn’t kidding when they swung at me.

yup. right up there with “why do you get so panicky when people raise their voice?” males particularly.

I hate that this is so accurate

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Mark Sheppard - The Man Who Made it Into Nearly Every Fandom

totally-randomfandom:

giandujakiss:

thewestcoastkid:

atleastimnotbrentspiner:

millyzoreen:

winny-chester-the-pooh:

Badger in Firefly

Canton Delaware in Doctor Who

Arnon in Charmed

 Crowley in SupernaturalBenedict Valare in Warehouse 13

And Graham Tanaka in Dollhouse

WHY IS THIS MAN NOT KING OF TUMBLR????

Don’t forget Romo Lampkin in Battlestar Galactica!

are we not going to talk about star trek

And The Director of The Ring from Chuck

Duh, X-Files?  How quickly they forget.

Don’t forget Monk

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vaporware-femme:

rosebays:

hello here is a chrome extension that completely removes music players or stops them from auto playing

hey i know i have a lot of ASD friends for whom autoplay is a really awful thing so here is a really nice option, stay safe friends

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