[crackyfanfic]

[grumpy-old-fandommom]

Link

A reminder that this is what censorship leads to and that it wasn’t all that long ago when purity culture was going after ships that antis would consider to be “normal” today.

Also I thought Fiction Alley was that one archive that Msscribe got shut down with her shitstirring

[thatswhywelovegermany]

[islieb]

Besser einschlafen.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

As your brain, I really advise you URGENTLY to fall asleep ASAP, half the night is over, how do you imagine tomorrow to be like, you will be overtired, but tomorow is a particularly important day, so why don’t you SLEEP ALREADY, don’t lay around like that, HALLO, sleep faster, time is sleep, AAAAH, what are you waiting for, the clock is ticking, day is breaking, CHOP-CHOP!!

[terrypratchettappreciation]

[frei-rancken]

And so like this on a joyous occasion, a friend moving a continent away to Vancouver toma better job and more opportunities, I am left crying only when amongst the books I was gifted I found the face of yet another friend, who I never got to meet. With his kind eyes and his hat, and very much still alive when this book of 501 Must-read books was published.

GNU Sir Terry

[theothersideofthechair]

[the-last-hair-bender]

Me: so it says on the computer you’re looking to get foils done today?

Client: Well I wanted to talk to you about that. What do you think?

Me: Well. Summer is coming and people tend to lighten their hair for the summer.

Client: I know but like…. What do you think?

Me: I think we’ll just do your roots today and next time you come in we can discuss getting foils.

Client: So you don’t think I should get foils.

Me: Would you like to add some blonde to your hair?

Client: I don’t know. What do you think?

Me: I think that today we should just do your roots.

Client turning to her daughter: what do you think?

Daughter of client: Just do your roots and get your haircut.

Client turning back to me: So what do you think?

Me: I’m going to get the colour book so we can do your roots. I don’t think we’re gonna do foils today.

Client: If that’s what you think.

Me: That’s what I think.

[spaceaesthetical]

[starry-jules]

FTM Tip

I haven’t seen this going around but it’s a great tip if you can’t afford a binder.

If you email GC2B and explain your situation they will send you a donated binder for free in discreet packaging. I did this last summer and they were extremely helpful.

I haven’t seen anyone mention it, it’s amazing and I’d like more people to know so reblog if you can.

[cosmictuesdays]

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

Kore Conversations: John Cho & John M. Chu

[tokyo-fashion]

20-year-old Japanese aspiring pop idol Namitexin on the street in Harajuku wearing a matching fugu print sweatshirt and shorts set by Punyus with a WEGO sackpack and Punyus platform shoes. Full Look

[tealin]

Lt. Harry Pennell

Officially the ship’s navigator, Pennell is interested in everything, learns quickly, and lends a hand in every capacity. He finds happiness in work, and works all but the four hours a day he cedes to sleep, so being “happy as the day is long” he is very happy indeed.

I only got to know Pennell very recently, as he stayed with the ship instead of landing in Antarctica and therefore gets left out of most published accounts, aside from people praising him in passing.  Having now read a fistful of his witty and observant letters, he is now one of my favourites, and I can see why everyone loved him so much.  I can’t change history to have him around more in my adaptation, but darn it, you’re going to remember who he is.

Saturday, May 4th is Free Comic Book Day, and I will be sharing the prologue to my graphic novel about the Terra Nova Expedition then.  In the run-up to that, I am introducing you to some of the main characters – a new one every day until then! 

[yedrindax]

Where the South Downs thing comes from:

[irisbleufic]

I’ve awakened to a lot of posts on the tag wherein people are wondering where this assumption originated, and it’s a fairly straightforward story.  Back in early 2005, Neil made this post on his blog.  I wasn’t the only person who was idly curious as to what Neil and Terry had decided Aziraphale and Crowley were up to “on the South Downs” (see linked entry), so, given I knew both of them would be doing readings/signings within a week of each other in Cambridge, MA that autumn and that I planned on attending both events if I could, I was determined to ask both of them the same question if I was fortunate enough to be called on at both events (which I highly doubted would happen; I’m not good at making myself stand out in a crowd).  I had no particular motive.  I just wanted to know, and so did a number of my friends (both online and offline) at the time.  Terry’s event was first, and he did, in fact, call on me at the Q&A.  I explained that I’d read a reference on Neil’s blog to a conversation between the two of them regarding what Aziraphale and Crowley were doing on the South Downs, but that Neil hadn’t said precisely what.  Strangely, Terry’s answer had everything to do with the sequel-that-was-not-to-be and nothing to do with what I actually asked, so, while it was an entertaining answer regarding the rest of the conversation they’d had that day about the ill-fated sequel, he wasn’t forthcoming.  At Neil’s event a week later, which was held in a much bigger venue and attended by at least three times as many people, the Q&A had got down to the wire; I hadn’t been called on, and they could only take two or three more questions.  I don’t really know what happened, but I ended up being the second-to-last person called on.  I asked him the same question I’d asked Terry, almost verbatim.  Neil’s answer started out very much like Terry’s: how they’d been catching up with each other, reminiscing about the idea of a sequel (that’s where the whole pornography joke came up, which somebody did badly misremember in how they represented it on Wikipedia, and, actually, I have no bloody idea why somebody felt the need to put any of the information from his answer in a Wikipedia entry on Aziraphale in the first place), and generally chatting about the novel.  This is where Neil’s answer finally diverged from Terry’s, for which I was pretty grateful, because I was beginning to get the sense that neither one of them really wanted to fess up to what they’d decided.  Neil ended his answer with, “Well, what they’re doing on the South Downs is sharing a cottage.  Next question?"  I don’t even remember what the last question was at this point, because I couldn’t get it through my head that the answer was something so simple, yet so momentous.  I understand that it annoys the authors that it’s broadly interpreted as support for slash in canon, but that’s the domain of fandom: interpreting information in such a way that results in further exploration and character growth (just perhaps not in the way that the original creators intended).

[yedrindax]

@assssziraphale

[bmouse]

[heartbeatemoji]

i legitimately cannot describe the feeling i get when i see like a 150k kickstarter for a fandom project or like ao3’s monthly fundraiser being filled within a week while people have to beg for money to buy medicine and housing and stuff and that shit is like 10k and it wont get funded ever or if it does it takes YEARS

like it makes me want to die lol it’s such a visible difference

[glitterandgoo]

yeah like it’s cute and all that critical role raised a ton of money but at this point they need to stop taking people’s money, period, and encourage them to donate to worthy causes.

[solacekames]

I think posts like the OP’s are well-intentioned but missing a huge point:

Fundraisers for medicine and housing are profoundly immoral as an institution. We shouldn’t be having them at all. We shouldn’t accept them as the new normal and asking people to accommodate to them. They’re a way for us to shift blame for social conditions onto individuals. And of course individuals are going to be terrible at judging when to give money to other individuals because we’re making decisions based on such limited information. We never give money based on pure need. We give it based on factors like a) is the person related to me b) is this person my friend c) did this person have enough education and internet savvy to tell their story effectively using the correct language d) is this person hot e) does giving money to this person make me feel guilty f) does not giving money to this person make me feel guilty, on and on etcetera.

Fandom stuff is just commercialized fleeting entertainment. It’s not life or death. So the informational imbalance and shallowness of decision making doesn’t matter. 

The two things shouldn’t ever be compared to each other. It’s like comparing dying people on a list to get the next kidney transplants to a side bet on a game of dominos. 

I’ve reblogged some medical fundraisers in the past, and donated to them, but I’m never going to stop screaming about how fucked up they are. The answer is not to accept their existence and tell people to give more money to them, the answer is to reverse and destroy their existence entirely by collectively creating rational compassionate social safety nets. We can’t rely on individual people who happen to be in a generous mood voluntarily tossing e-money into poor people’s begging bowls. That’s just libertarian technofeudalist bullshit.

[forest-of-stories]

All of this! And also, as I have said before? Unless you are willing to never spend money on entertainment again - including movies, games, leisure reading, streaming services like Netflix, and so on - stop implying that it’s morally wrong for other people to do so.