[petermorwood]

[gangler]

Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.

Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.

But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”

[mackasaurussex]

Okay but…if someone wants to take me on a date to a Barnes and noble and get me dinner and a drink and then let me peruse the stacks like I’m not saying no. A sandwich, a beer, and 2-5 books on various topics I hope I’ll someday read about? Good night.

[silvysartfulness]

The Swedish equivalent of Blockbuster is now best known for its candy, snacks and sodas.

[thestraggletag]

This is El Ateneo Grand Splendid, an old theatre turned bookstore in Buenos Aires:

The stage itself was turned into a cafe:

You can’t even begin to comprehend the massive amounts of money this place makes, despite the fact that they turned the theatre boxes into reading nooks like this:

I’ve literally spent days holed up in there reading books for free while also consuming massive amounts of coffee and pastries.

Adapt or die, people.

[bexminx]

Take me to Buenos freaking Aires… Leave me in this bookshop… Never look for me, you will not find me again.

[systlin]

If I ever get to Buenos Aires I’mma vanish into this bookshop and live there forever. 

[hyratel]

@petermorwood @dovewithscales [heavy breathing]

[petermorwood]

That looks like a movie set from a film devoted to bookselling as an art form.

[script-a-world]

Anonymous asked:

Would you guys know what would happen if someone/something were to just... push a planet like earth a bit to the side? Or a whole lot, like a proper shove? I'd imagine oceans would just flood towards the side the earth is being pushed but would people even notice? Would they fall over?

Tex: People would most definitely notice, although if they had no prior warning (such as news of the big honkin’ wotsit hurtling toward us in the sky), they might initially assume it’s a very big, very destructive earthquake - which is essentially what a push/shove like this would be. Hit something hard enough and it will break, though it’s unlikely that the planet would crack in half (unless, like, it’s that hard and abrupt). We have had earthquakes in the past that have shifted landmasses and even changed how long our days are, and we’ve gotten things like tsunamis, new landmasses, and a whole lotta destruction of property.

To put it in perspective, the 2011 earthquake in Japan was a 9.0 on the Richter scale, which is the equivalent of 4.7687918 tons of TNT - that’s almost 500 million tons of TNT in a single, pinpointed location. This event alone increased the rotational speed of Earth and shortened our days by 1.8 microseconds. In order to physically move the entire Earth, the kinetic energy of that push or shove would need to be exponentially larger than a 9.0 Richter earthquake. (This would, incidentally, be enough to crack the Earth in half.)

Unless there’s some sort of sentience and thus restraint behind this move - a literal Hand of God or equivalent - this would likely shred the planet apart through sheer gravitational pull before anything impacts it, as well as possibly happening too quickly for anyone to notice. This would likely be proportional in terms of force to smacking a fly with your hand: even if you missed, the burst of wind from a missed strike is enough to cause damage.

If, somehow, Earth was not crushed like a fly, it would careen off like a ball on a pool table, eventually losing momentum that might land it in circulation around a star or else crashing it into another celestial body.

[good-omens-fanart]

[otterlogic]

An anon asked if I could draw some Good Omens stuff, so ta daa! Love these two. 

[cranberry-jam]

[pika-ace]

Sooooo Amazon is making a Good Omens TV series and I’m fuckiiiiiing

Originally posted by purlpehaze

Originally posted by usedpimpa

Originally posted by giantmonster

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant at the Los Angeles Good Omens screening - April 17, 2019
for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post may find you)

[fan-art-ic]

I can’t stop thinking about an au where A. J. Crowley is a consulting detective, dark haired and sharp cheek boned and neurodivergent as fuck, and pines desperately for his longtime flatmate and business partner, Dr. Azira Fell, an ex-army medic who volunteers at the local clinic when not on some detective escapade or too busy pining over Crowley