Every Angel is Terrifying, Alas! I Sing to You

Page title from Rainer Maria Rilke . Assorted fandoms: ASOIAF, GOT, Les Miserables, Marvel, Star Trek: The Original Series

[stastrodome]

70s ICONS. Linda Ronstadt and The Gorn sing "You're No Good" on an episode of The Sonny & Cher Show in 1974.

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[abigailspinach]

[sarahwestcott]

Information about the two new tests:

Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

Endometriosis Diagnosis Testing Device | EndoSure Inc.

EndoSure offers the only Tier 1, non-invasive diagnostic test for endometriosis with 99% accuracy in under 30 minutes, helping to improve wo

NICE recommends non-invasive tests that could speed up endometriosis diagnoses

Two diagnostic technologies that could speed up NHS diagnoses of endometriosis in primary care have been recommended by the National Institu

Apparently you can do a saliva test kit at home:

A saliva test for endometriosis providing a reliable diagnosis within just a few days. A new era in the diagnosis of endometriosis, marked b

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[sadclowncentral]

the only real difference between an academic paper and scrap booking - two forms of expression which let you contrast and connect primary material in a form that presents a new conclusion - is that they will not let you use crayons in the former. an oppressive policy that must end NOW

[luxlightly]

The idea of two people having sex and it creating another, smaller person who has a combination of their traits sounds like it was made up for fan fiction but alas I've heard tale that it's really happened

[meyerlansky]

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

[infiniteeight8]

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

[amnesiaguy]

all my haters become tomaters in my lovely summer garden

[eebie]

[xoxoemynn]

some people could stand all alone in the middle of a house of mirrors and STILL be utterly incapable of self-reflection.

[aslutsdiiiary]

Me this weekend

[what-is-what-minor]

Strong earthquake in Colombia as officials report deaths, injuries and collapsed buildings

The 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit about 250 miles west of Bogotá resulted in serious damage with people trapped inside some of the build

Hi everyone. Some of you might not know, but today August 10 at 7:34 am , a 7.4 Earthquake hit Colombia.

To my knowledge, the more affected areas have been Chocó and Pereira, but I guess we'll know more as more time passes

These are some of the donstion links that I've managed to find.

SOS Chocó - Fundación Plan

La situación que atraviesan miles de familias en el departamento del Chocó es grave, urgente y exige nuestra respuesta humanitaria. Desde fi

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

ABACO- Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia Unidos por nuestro país. 2026

And ciricearts on twitter has a thread with emergency numbers, missing persons, missing pets and anything that other colombians can add as it goes.

As a venezuelan, my heart goes to my colombian neighbors. I unfortunately know from experience how devastating a disaster like this can be.

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[iphigeniacomplex]

if everything is going to gradually become outrage marketing can we at least have some fun with it and do the movie remakes with all-women casts again

[canarylemon]

“I promise you nothing. How can I? I’ve told you what lies ahead.”

“I don’t care. I’ll go towards it with you.”

- Queen of the Damned, ch. 4

Things to look for:

Gladioli and wisteria from the illusion of the Villa

The heart framing

Armand’s ring (obligatory. i’m looking at you, amc)

Daniel’s amulet

Prints & more

Original pencil sketch

[serratedpens]

But it just happens, every so often, that something very ordinary seems beautiful to me and I’d like it to be eternal. I’d like this bistro, and that dusty light bulb, and that dog dreaming on the marble, and even this night—to be eternal. And their essential quality is precisely that they aren’t.

Raymond Queneau, Witch Grass

[killxbunnyyy]

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and im losing sense of time

[disregardcanon]

Many years ago I had the idea to make an iron throne out of pencils. I finally got that shit done

Ned Stark voice: school is coming