Addicted to Fictional Worlds

Sophie, 24, England. Your average fangirl who just can't seem to help getting overly emotionally invested in tv shows, books and movies.

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Character Conversations: John Cho Never Wants to Feel This Way Again (X)

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I learned recently that at least some tribes of early Britons (in particular the Silures and Picts) were actually dark-skinned people with curly black hair. Contemporary sources compared them to Iberians and even Africans.

This supposedly has to do with the fact that the original Celts were Iberian and their ancestors migrated across the strait of Gibraltar from Africa. The red-haired and pale look typically associated with Celtic identity likely comes from admixture from Germanic peoples. Remember that everyone’s ancestors came from Africa if you go far back enough.

Evidence of this phenotype can still be seen in some people today, particularly those from Wales and other western coastal regions. For example:

Welsh presenter Alex Jones

Welsh footballer Chris Coleman

Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones who can notably pass for Hispanic.

English actor Ian McShane

It’s important to note that none of these people are immigrants or descended from immigrants. They all come from families native to the British Isles.

The take-home message here is A) don’t ever let anyone tell you British = pale and B) this

may actually be one of the most accurate versions of Guinevere we’ve seen so far.

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This post is hard to find because Tumblr hates links so I’m giving it a boost.

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one time i got a sample from the tea store at the mall and as i walked away the guy said “tea you later” and then his coworker smacked him

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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

[fayriequeene]

[bostoneris]

This depends STATE BY STATE (or town by town), so check out your own state's rules. As for everywhere, only poll workers are banned from this, and people holding up signs for candidates have to be a certain distance from the building.

[ace-aro-queerplatonic-positivity]

[Image Description:

A Screenshot of a public Facebook-Textpost by “Sandy and Richard Riccardi”.

This word of caution is from someone who has worked the polls a lot in the past: More and more I’m seeing women announcing they will be voting with shirts, buttons, masks or hats that say “Ruth Send Me”, or something similar. [Transcriptor Annotation: the late Supremecourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. /End of Annotation.] Remember: political messages aren’t allowed in the polling place (that could include [Black Lives Matter] shirts, unfortunately.) Also unfortunately, messages can be interpreted by whoever is in charge. It could mean, in some cases, that a voter wearing a shirt they believe is political can be denied the right to vote after waiting in line for hours. Approach this election strategically and vote smarter and cleaner than ever have before. Understand that the other side will do what it takes to advance their agenda. We need to vote in record numbers. But we need to vote smart. We can wear that wonderful “Ruth send me” shirt or mask when we get home, and raise a glass in her memory. Please copy, or paraphrase, and share with the groups you are members of, as appropriate. Help spread the word so that every vote counts! We all know what’s at stake. Do not throw away your shot. [Transcriptor Annotation: four emojis follow the text, the Peace-Symbol, a red heart, a rooster, paw prints. /End Annotation. /End of Image Transcription.]

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Thank you for the image description!

[knottahooker]

I remember a story of someone having trouble at the polls because they were wearing a Stark/Rogers (as in Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, the very fictional people) so BE CAREFUL. 

[gharibajameel]

lions are like transgendering lol

[shayhammowolf]

Explain

[gharibajameel]

LOL theyre just transgedering :)

[sonic-wildfire]

Game over, Republicans

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Oh!!!! I got to see the first one in person, actually! She’s Mmamoriri from Mombo in Botswana! She was beautiful! And her pride is the group of lions often featured in nature documentaries since their main prey is cape buffalo, a huge and incredibly dangerous animal, resulting in some truly incredible battles between the species.

According to my guide, it was likely she had internal testes along with her external female genitalia, resulting in an increased testosterone level! It’s especially interesting just how dark her mane is, as black manes tend to only present in males with high testosterone. Fascinatingly, it presents not just as a mix of male and female physical traits, but also behaviors! 

Here’s a picture I took of Mmamoriri (left) with a male from her pride. As you can see, she’s got the full striking mane, but her face and body are much smaller than the male’s.

Apparently this mix of traits has made her EXTREMELY popular within the pride. She hunts and cares for the young with the lionesses, which helps greatly since her larger stature is a major asset in taking down the formidable buffalo they feed on, but also roars and has a mane, and is therefore able to chase off hyenas (which tend to be stronger than female lions and harass them/steal food/kill cubs) with the males. Mmamoriri has fully diversified her portfolio!

So she’s a kickass intersex lion who says fuck no to gender roles and in doing so has become a major asset to her pride!

It is, unfortunately, probably the result of inbreeding in her pride, which is cut off from wider populations by virtue of living on an island in the Okavango. She is infertile, like the previous maned lioness in the pride, Martina. 

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Just to try and avoid intersex erasure, for emphasis, this is an intersex lioness.

[archatlas]

Mini Gardens on the Move: Japanese Landscapers Transform Truck Beds Into Bucolic Worlds 

Once a year, landscape artists from across Japan gather to transform the beds of their miniature trucks into tiny, bucolic worlds.The Kei Tora is a type of small truck which takes its roots in japan, but can be found throughout Asia. As the practical vehicle is used primarily in the agricultural industry, the ‘Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors’ designated it as a canvas for its annual Kei truck garden contest.

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good night to people with daddy issues, girls under 5'2", those who project onto fictional characters an unhealthy amount, sexy bitches, anyone who has under $20 in their bank account, unemployed bastards, people who miss going to the library, anyone who read warriors cats books in their youth, people who identified with jack from the magic tree house series as a kid, el gee bee tees, girls with no ass, anyone who had an obsession with orlando bloom as a preteen, lipgloss wearers, and people that desperately want to get railed

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I’ve always found it interesting how the Doctor drops Sarah Jane’s hand, clenches his fist and does his awkward-neck-rub tell as soon as Rose shows up. Add Sarah Jane’s snarkiness to his whoops-I’m-busted behavior and it’s really not that strange that Rose was jealous.

[rynne]

This reminds me of that one comic with all the versions of the Doctor, each with some companions, and Rose at the end yelling at Ten that she thought she was special. That comic always struck me as frustrating and unfair, because you know, Rose is not actually familiar with the show’s format and forty years of history with the Doctor having people travel with him.

I hear some people claim that she should have just figured she wasn’t the first, but why would she do that? She doesn’t know about the Doctor’s history of traveling with friends, but you know what part of his history she does know? The Time War. The Doctor being the Last of the Time Lords. If I were Rose, I wouldn’t assume that the Doctor had spent his life traveling with human friends, especially if he’s never mentioned such a thing. I would assume that he spent his life with his own people (who, remember, he hasn’t told her anything about, so she wouldn’t know how badly he fit in with them), and then the Time War happened, and he lost everyone, and THAT’S when he needed a friend. That’s why he wanted someone to travel with him. That’s when he met her.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable for Rose not to know/realize that she wasn’t the first, and perfectly reasonable to get jealous when she sees that’s not the case — especially when, as this gifset shows, the Doctor actually acts shifty and guilty when Rose first meets Sarah Jane.

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he’s fucking 900 years old, why in the world does she assume she’s so SOOOO SPECIAL that she would be the first human he would ever hang out with? especially when she meets him in a shop? on earth? where all the humans live? why in the world would you EVER assume someone had no friends who were different than them before they met you? that would be like if someone assumed that since no black people were around when they met me, that I’ve never had a black friend. It’s fucking stupid.

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1. She meets him in a shop on Earth where humans live, because he’s there to save the day. He’s not there socialising.

2. She soon learns that stopping alien threats is something he does with regularity. Not just on Earth, though. No, on many different planets. Planets where aliens live and shop, yet he doesn’t invite lifeforms when he travels with her. However, she does—and he reluctantly goes along with it.

3. He tells her he’s alone. “I’m a Time Lord. I’m the last of the Time Lords. They’re all gone. I’m the only survivor. I’m left travelling on my own ‘cos there’s no one else.“ It wouldn’t be strange of her to assume he’s been travelling with his people up until the Time War. Since that is basically what he says.

4. He repeatedly calls humans “stupid apes” and shows a certain contempt that would have most people assuming that maybe he’s not too fond of humans.

5. She’s really more concerned about learning that he just leaves people behind and picks up someone new. She’s scared of being replaceable, because he means the world to her and she thought it was mutual. And you know what? Most people don’t like feeling as though they’re replaceable. I’m sure you wouldn’t like it either—regardless of the nature of your relationship (platonic, romantic, sexual or familial).

6. Also. It’s completely normal to think that the love of your life, who loves you back, thinks you’re special. I’d say, if you think your significant other doesn’t find you special at all, there’s something a bit off.

[dailybuffysummers]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer ✦ The Gift

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Trixie wins the universe reel, Lucifer seasons 1-4

August 6, 2020, 21 Days of Lucifer Countdown

Obviously, this is not a comprehensive list of all of Trixie Espinoza’s finest moments throughout LUCIFER, just my top favorites with a brief explanation of why I am endeared to Scarlett Estevez for life. While is pains me deeply to dethrone any other cast member in the ensemble that I adore, including Tom Ellis, Trixie is my favorite.

School smackdown / Introducing Beatrice: “There’s no smoking in here, my mommy could arrest you. - I kicked [the mean girl] in the no-no touch touch square - what’s a hooker? - bye Lucifer, it was nice meeting you.” The whole scene from start to finish is blessed, especially when she sticks her fingers in her ears when Chloe and Dan star fighting. We get such a clear picture of precisely who Trix is from page one that it is impossible not to fall hard for her.

Trixie runs in for a hug: “Lucifer!” / Lucifer: “ah, get back!” The repellent hug reactions and how he rebuffs her like a puppy never gets old.

Maze reveals her true face while trick-or-treating, Trixie says “cool!” and subsequently Maze extorts ever neighbor for candy and cash on Trixie’s behalf like a mob racket.

Amenadiel: “Lucifer asked me to watch over your mom” / Trixie: “Like a guardian angel? - I think you are good.” And I thought Lucifer’s introduction to Trixie was stellar, when she met Amenadiel, it melted my stone cold heart. And she hugged him. An he loved it, as opposed to Lucifer he always looks like he’s about to keel over from toxic levels of fluffy human emotion. Trixie is the celestial pep squad morale captain, and its joyous.

“I missed you dummy.” Maze and Trixie’s reunion is the best.

Trix answers the door for Ella with blades at the ready, and subsequently they bond over a sushi t-shirt. It would surprise me -5% of Trixie grew up to be a lab tech or mortician consultant for a local PD outfit. She’s such a mini-Ella, complete with a PhD in hugs.

“Good, I don’t like you [to Malcolm]” Trixie was just abducted by a corrupt cop and presumably threatened at gunpoint, and she sassed Malcolm straight back to hell. It was unbelievably satisfying.

“You shot someone…again? - If you shot Lucifer, that must mean you really like him.” #TeamTrixie steers the Deckerstar ship

“[To Eve] Are you the kind of friend Lucifer needs right now?” Her level of interrogative intensity - enroll her in a government agency shadow program ASAP

“Wusses don’t get Lollies” Dr. Espinoza says while bandaging Mazikeen and Lucifer and only giving Maze candy. This was so funny to me, she inherited all of Chloe’s deadpan tendencies including calling Lucifer a wuss.

Honorable mentions:

Trixie rampages Lucifer’s penthouse, pirouettes, and claims that Lucifer has stairs up to his bedroom “Like a princess.” Of all the times his eyes could have glowed red, and they missed this golden opportunity!

“Your whips and knives are moving.” Trixie tries to smuggle herself in Maze’s luggage, but settles for “watching her mom” while giving Mazikeen a stuffed alien for her bounty hunting trip to Canada, an exchange completed with secret knuckles handshake and throat slice. She returns the plush toy stained in / blood missing a bottom and Trixie is reverentially awestruck 

Her Morningstar driving lesson

Coloring crime scene photos

Mangling the doll and getting a new one from Lucifer

Trix high-fiving Lucifer when he least expects it after making off with her breakfast sandwich: Lucifer didn’t even know what was happening while he was shielding himself from a tackle hug (what’s a high five and why are there no drugs involved) like he’d just inadvertently taken part in some demonic ritual. (2x07)

Also 2x07 Lucifer takes Trixie’s sandwich claiming that he’s much larger and hungrier, and she is so forgiving when she replies, “That’s okay mommy, he must have really wanted it.”

Maze and Trix asleep on the couch while Chloe tucks them it.

“Is Lucifer a magician?”

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[misto713]

at first i thought the ‘child’ wanted to say twelve… but it’s funnier when you imagine they were going to say twenty

[wildxwired]

How fucking annoying is it when you feel so restless with creative energy but you can’t decide what to do with it and when you finally try to create something it comes out shit so you just give up and sit there being all creatively annoyed and jittery.

[lianabrooks]

1 - Decision Making Fatigue is a thing. --> Make a list of possibilities. --> Use a random number generator to pick something off the list. --> If you hate the idea cross it off and generate a new number. --> Continue until you either find a project or cross off the whole list. --> If you cross off the whole list pick a random short story prompt, write for five minutes, and call it a good work day.

2. Yeah, of course your rough draft sucks. It’s supposed to. --> Let it suck. --> You can fix it in edits. 

3. When you’re stressed you aren’t unbiased about your work. --> Don’t judge your work while your are actively working on it. --> Remember to drink water, take your meds/vitamins, eat something, and get sleep. --> Double-check to make sure the restless creative energy is not displaced emotional worries over something else. If it is, displace with intention and let the worries go into your work. You shouldn’t keep stress in your head, put it on a page, or canvas, or in a carving, or a meal, or something. Get it out and let it go.

4. No work is ever wasted. --> All time spent planning and creating is useful in some way.  --> Failure means you tried, which is good. --> Try again. Fail harder. Fail better. --> Keep going until you like what you’re making.

5. Love yourself enough to allow yourself to not be perfect. --> Seriously.  --> If this is a struggle I highly recommend seeing a doctor or therapist about depression. --> Because you are dang lovable, my friend. You rock. You do great things. I’m proud of you.

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