[rex-luscus]

Hey guys

Remember LJ icons?

They were TINY. 100x100 pixels. That’s, like, digital scrimshaw. And people were obsessed with making good ones - and there were CONTESTS, super cutthroat ones, and trends would sweep the icon-making world every week or so and as soon as you mastered a technique it would be passé, and there were whole communities dedicated to tutorials and icon-making resources, and it was all its own WEIRD LITTLE WORLD.

Is there anything like that now? What do graphics-obsessed people make in the Tumblr era?

[sailorstkwrning]

If there is one thing I miss about LJ it’s the shadow-conversations people used to have in comment threads solely with their icons. Icons had a vocabulary, and a grammar, and you had to learn it.

Gif sets: not quite used the same way.

[rex-luscus]

Right! It was a whole different dynamic because you could choose which icon to post with. So it would be like “I’m wearing my Severus Snape with a Weird Al song quote mask to say this.”

[kdazrael]

FLASHBACK MAAAAAN.

For a year or two I had a paid LJ account and I remember being actively excited about the EXTRA ICON SLOTS. I would be able to express myself with a wider array of Thor and Batman reaction images!

[static-warp-bubble]

Anonymous said: Cardassians: Aamin Marritza or Gul Macet

“Duet” was one of DS9′s strongest earlier episodes. Well worth watching if you haven’t seen it

[thisisforthepixels]

This artist is a genius. Randowis

More art at www.randowis.com

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Tetsuya Nomura Finally Explains His Obsession With Zippers and Belts - Niche Gamer

This is Niche Culture. In this column, we regularly cover anime, geek culture, and things related to video games. Please leave feedback and let us know if there’s something you want us to cover! Tetsuya Nomura is a legendary game designer, known for his work as far back as Final Fantasy V (however he was debugger on…

[tenkenryu]

“At that time, people teased me about zippers and belts and whatnot and I’m the type of person if somebody eggs me on I’m gonna do it more!”

So we finally have an explanation for this nonsense:

And that explanation?  One word:

[dragons-bones]

Well I mean spite is a valid reason to do anything. I am perhaps far less surprised than I could be.

[captainfinishingmove]

A man after my own heart

[badcharacterdesign]

you know what, i respect this man.

[jmesflint]

Horrible Histories S01E03
↳ Slimy Stuarts: Wife swap with the Miserables, a Puritan family, and the Merrys, a Restoration family

~ History ~

Some names such as Joy, Hope, and Mercy are still used today but others such as Silence, Discipline, and ‘If Christ had not died for thee, thou hadst been damned’ were real. Here is a list of more Puritan names

[my-little-yellowbird]

Tag yourself. I’m “Has-Descendents.”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

History is one thousand times more utterly ridiculous than you might think O.O

[arctic-hands]

Faint-not, perfect for the one with syncope

[yesterdaysprint]

The Canton Independent-Sentinel, Pennsylvania, September 10, 1880

The Daily Commonwealth, Topeka, Kansas, June 6, 1883

The Minneapolis Journal, Minnesota, January 2, 1905

Daily Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, April 4, 1916

Bernardsville News, New Jersey, July 14, 1938

The Age, Melbourne, Australia, May 3, 1941

[capncrystal]

@red-th0rn

[kettlesound]

Firefly, smashing tropes. 

[thesecretmichan]

#this is right up there with that one time #when mal left the ship and he was like listen…if i’m not back by a certain time… #and you expect him to say go on without me #but he’s like you get the fuck down here and save my ass do you understand

[radioactivepeasant]

Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.

[lafemmedefandom]

And you’re gonna just leave us there

[radioactivepeasant]

I mean, if you guys wanna hear the story, it is a pretty fun one

[lafemmedefandom]

Originally posted by yourreactiongifs

[radioactivepeasant]

Okay, so this is what happened,

Some years ago (6? 7 years ago, I think?) there was a pirate exhibit at the state museum. We had actual artifacts from the Queen Anne’s Revenge, creepy wax dummies, historical costumes etc, it was awesome.

I was really into Pirates of the Caribbean at the time, because I played the mmorpg with some high school friends of mine (and some of their parents sometimes, who also got addicted to it), so of course when they announced “Pirate Night at the Museum”, in which visitors were encouraged to dress up, I was over the moon. So I’m there with my friends, my parents, and my sisters, running around the exhibits after the museum is technically closed.

They replaced the creepy wax dummies with people in costume at this point, and it was pretty epic.

The highlight of the night would be a showing of The Princess Bride. The movie would play on the big screen while actors would be on a stage below, acting the whole thing out word for word and shot for shot as it happened. Any audience members who knew lines were encouraged to shout them out as they heard them.

Here’s the thing. My parents love that movie. Like you don’t understand they were quoting it to us in its entirety when we were still in highchairs. I could reenact the battle of wits scene before I ever actually watched it. So my family sits in the front row, behind the railing, quoting everything right along with the actors and film.

And then comes the part in the Pit of Despair with the Albino.
And the cast didn’t have anyone on the stage with Wesley. 
I don’t know if the Albino couldn’t make it that night, or if they’d never cast him, but it was really weird to see Wesley just lying on the stage awkwardly while the Albino is supposed to be treating his injuries.

I started twitching. My mom and sister look at me and they’re like “do it.” And one of the ushers is like “you know the part? do it”

So I launch over the railing, run up onto the stage, and take over from there, doing my best impression of the character. Being that I was a 5′2″ blonde girl in a corset and puffy sleeves, Wesley had some trouble keeping a straight face.

Then they got to the scene with Humperdink telling the guard to clear out the Thieves’ Forest, and…they didn’t have the guard either. So my twin sister up in the audience is like “hang on, I got this” and then she launches over the railing to make sure Humperdink isn’t just sitting awkwardly talking to thin air.

This meant that yes, I got bopped on the noggin by Fezzik, and yes, my sister got to do the
“Give us the key.”
“What key?”
“Fezzik, tear his arms off.”
“Oh, you mean this key!” 

They made up stay on stage and take a bow with the cast when it was over, it was hilarious. Then the next year, since they still had the exhibit, the museum called my sister and was like, “So….that was super fun last year. Do you and your sister want to be audience plants and do it again this year?”

The answer, naturally, was heck yes. Since we had new volunteers playing Count Rugen and Inigo this time, this also led to my sister actually choreographing their fight scene herself. Which was awesome.

[esser-z]

My favorite part is that this is entirely in tone  for Princess Bride.  

[tomfooleryprime]

Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, noted 24th century scientist and holo-engineer designed the Emergency Medical Hologram, or EMH. He also designed a holographic iguana named Leonard. If you know anything about scientific types, you know they rarely name things at random. If you know anything about writers, you know they rarely make references on accident. 

I sort of like the idea that Leonard McCoy inspired Dr. Zimmerman in some way, because it would mean a tiny part of that grouchy Southern doctor was with the crew of Voyager in the Delta quadrant more than a 100 years after his original hijinks with Captain Kirk and the rest of the gang. 

[lieutenant-sapphic]

i’m starting to realize that star trek behind the scenes photos are some of my favorite things

[trekcore]

Hi 👋🏻

We like behind the scenes photos too. A lot.