Endlessly Chasing Shiny Things

My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.

[capnperaltiago-deactivated20211]

none of my friends will get both of these references so here is maybe the funniest tweet i’ve ever seen

[tesb]

same energy

[robertpattisons]

tony stark + evolution

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its been 4 years n ‘thats a fine looking high horse’ is still the rawest line in music ever

[wp100]

this is it.

this is the best tweet i’ve seen.

[antheiaa]

i have an announcement

*taps microphone*

*coughs*

i would

Die for Ben and Klaus Hargreeves

that is all. thank you.

[thetrashiestoftrash]

Please, I am begging you, visit the official Captain Marvel website

[annabethisterrified]

I judge how good a book is based on how disoriented I am with my physical surroundings after closing it.

[incorrectbellshellsquotes]

Bohemian Rhapsody + Text Posts (Part 1)

[littlefairylights]

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[zombeesknees]

#YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE?!

[entamewitchlulu]

from your friendly neighborhood librarian:

all books are good books.  you are not a “lesser reader” if you only read manga or comic books or a “better reader” for reading academic heavy texts.

reading is reading no matter what it is, be it a graphic novel, a romance, a classic, an audiobook, a picture book, a cookbook, fanfiction, fucking whatever, read what makes you happy

reading is supposed to be fun and don’t let elitism sap any joy out of it

[princecardan]

some of my favorite quotes from the hating game by sally thorne

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

“She didn’t know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent…or obsessed.”

— Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

[insomniac-arrest]

the disney gay dads triumvirate

Opposites attract dads, bond over show-tunes, their son, and avoiding near death situations

flaming (lol) bisexual Frenchman and uptight British guy who raise their bratty man-child ward and get so annoyed at each other they get married

college roommates that lived together so long it just sort of happened 

raise street urchins for no reason other than seeing them and being like ‘??? you don’t have a place to stay?? that’s fucked up, come home with us’

[sylvester-malone]

Pumba and Timon were my first otp. 6 year old me watched their cartoon show and was like 900% sure they were married.

[lydiduh]

bonus useless gay uncles

[star-kovs]

Superheroes being 197% done with wii music playing

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

people I still want to stab over a decade later:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

[morgynleri]

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

[thebibliosphere]

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.

[vocifersaurus]

neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip

[ladyloveandjustice]

Mac’s stepmom is convinced she’s stuck in the rapture, which makes me flash back horribly to that time I accidentally read one of those “Left Behind: The Kids” books when I was thirteen (I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT IT WAS). Anyway, Mac tries to stop her from shooting herself, and there’s a BANG, and that’s a VERY BAD CLIFFHANGER. but that’s where we have to end it unforutnately, the hour’s up. NEXT TIME LETS SEE WHO GOT SHOT, IF ANYONE. yaaaay!

(btw Looks like the letter section has switched to people telling their stories of their times as newspaper delivery kids, which is cool)