Ok, wait, has anyone in the Play Choices fandom heard of Choice of Games??? They’re a company that specializes in choose your own adventure games. They’re not visual novels but just straight up novels you can play. And the best part is, these amazing games cost like $3 to $5 for an infinite amount of replays and you don’t have to pay for premium stuff. They also let people use the script to make their own games, and the user made games are just amazing.
All I ever hear about is true love’s kiss.
Never mind that. Bring me something more.
Give me true love’s backrub, offered without asking because you saw the tension in my face, my shoulders.
Or true love’s foot massage, because my feet are sore, even though it’s the end of the day and my feet stink and there’s nothing in it for you but a tired smile.
Offer me true love’s shoulder to wipe my snotty tear-stained face on when it all goes wrong and you told me so. Even more: offer me true love’s patience when I screw it up again a month later.
Give me true love’s refusal to take my shit, true enough to ignore my excuses and send me back out there one more time.
True love’s kiss is easy. It doesn’t give me anything real.
Bring me true love’s reality, ugly and hard and honest and true.
Actress Teri Garr, who began her career as a background go-go dancer in such 60s cinematic classics as Pajama Party and Clambake, got her big break with “Assignment: Earth.” However, she hesitates to discuss her time on Star Trek to this day.
The reason: the skirt she wore.
According to Herb Solow and Robert Justman’s Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, the costume designed by William Ware Theiss for Garr’s Roberta Lincoln was originally more modest. It was, after all, supposed to be our introduction to a character that would co-star in the Gary Seven spinoff.
However, Gene Roddenberry, perhaps fearing that the show wouldn’t come back for a third season, was more hands-on than usual with the production. One of the things he was focused on: Roberta’s skirt. The Star Trek creator was repeatedly insistent that the hemline be raised, and what began as a thoroughly modern miniskirt became what amounted to a micro.
In her autobiography Speedbumps: Floor It Through Hollywood, the actress was circumspect about the whole situation, only writing the following about filming the role that got her career off the ground floor:
In Assignment: Earth Kirk and Spock travel back to Earth in the ‘60s in order to prevent World War III. I played Roberta Lincoln, a dippy secretary in a pink and orange costume in a very short skirt. Had the spin-off succeeded, I would have continued on as an earthling agent, working to preserve humanity. In a very short skirt. But it was not to be.
The transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun, illustrated in Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas by Ludwig Preyssinger, 1855.
hades isn’t a badass. hades named his three-headed-guard-of-the-underworld-dog spot. hades whispers to his flowers to make them grow. hades grows fruit. there’s no sun in the underworld.
hades isn’t a badass. stop saying this false thing
In myth, Hades’ most remarked upon traits are 1) how responsible/reliable he is, 2)how sober-minded he is, 3)how dedicated, implacable, and long-remembering he is, and 4)how boring and grim most of the other Olympians think he is to be around. Oh and notably, that if you play him a song he likes, he’ll basically give you anything you ask for(though not without conditions).
Hades is, canonically, a gigantic nerd. If they’d had trainsets, he’d have been the Olympian who collected trainsets, meticulously corrected with exacto knife and hobby-paints the errors toy-makers introduced to those trainsets, and then endlessly talked about those trainsets to anyone sat next to him at Thanksgiving Dinner :| When he wasn’t trying to rope them into an interminable discussion about gardening or divine law, that is :| :| He’s the sort of god who frequently handed out punishment like giving someone a million-piece puzzle where every piece is shaped the same, that resets itself at the start of every day if you don’t complete it, and then he keeps the last piece on his person at all times as a secret private joke for eternity because he finds you personally distasteful(not even because he’s mad at you or hates you particularly; he just doesn’t like you as a person) :| :| :| He is. A Gigantic. Nerd.
He’s also like one of the only gods who is faithful to his wife. And he listens to her like when she asks for a soul to be released and he’s like “But honey, the rules.” And she just gives him that look and he goes “Yes dear,” and lets the soul go with the easiest freaking instructions ever in a myth. And the human still fucks it up. Not his fault Persephone, not Hades’ fault this time. Essentially, Hades is sorta like the accountant suburban dad who collects really specific figurines and gets really grumpy when people mess up his lawn. Do you know how hard his wife worked on those roses? He is calling his attorney. Oh wait, he is also an attorney.
Filed under: Favorite Myths
Everybody knows it’s Persephone that you’ve got to watch out for.
I love this post every time I see it.
Rainbow Colored Apartment Is Your Childhood Dream
Amina Mucciolo, also known as Studio Mucci, is not shy or subtle when it comes to reflecting her personality through the interiors of her unicorn themed apartment.
:))))
This is how you adult.
When I was seven years old, I was given a piece of sugar candy. And I was led by a Cardassian into a room where my father was sitting. And he looked at me with eyes I’d never seen. The Cardassian began to ask him questions. And during the next two hours - as I was forced to watch - my father was tortured until he died. And I remember feeling… so ashamed of him as he begged for mercy. I was ashamed of him for being weak. I was ashamed of being Bajoran. Later I began to understand how misguided those feelings were, and… and yet somehow, they have remained a part of me. I don’t want to be ashamed of my heritage any longer, Captain. I serve the Federation. But I am Bajoran. A Starfleet admiral presented me with an opportunity to help my people in their fight against the Cardassians. I had to accept it.
Slow your scroll. It’s time for Fandometrics.
Congratulations are in order
- (K-Pop) Red Velvet makes winning look like a cake walk. They’re up four to No. 4.
- (Music) Kesha answers our prayers, returns at No. 2.
- (Web Stuff) 17776, a web…experience by SB Nation that details what football will be like in thousands of years, debuts at No. 3. It’s a must-see, even if you don’t like sports.
- (TV Shows) It’s only a miracle in title alone. Ever popular Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir jumps eleven spots to No. 2.
- (Movies) Spider-Man: Homecoming swings into No. 2…and our hearts.
People and things who will do better next time:
- (Video Games) Fire Emblem Heroes has nearly been extinguished after falling eight spots to No. 17.
- (Web Stuff) Thomas Sanders also fell five, but it brings him all the way down to No. 16. That’s not a good story time.
- (Music) After the hype of 4:44’s new release died down, Jay-Z falls fourteen spots to No. 16. Somehow we think he’s gonna be okay.
- (Anime and Manga) Mob Psycho 100 may have been created by ONE, but it fell FIVE to No. 17 this week.
- (Celebrities) Cole Sprouse fell five, but he’s still at No. 9. Support him. Cherish him.
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