Happy Fry, Snugglefish...

Early-twenties lowlife grump. Eternal quarter-life crisis. You won't find white dude-led shows here. I've grown to hate this website, but I'm still here, oops.

[bandedshadows]

Sansa’s gonna do alright. That’s what I choose to focus on. 

I mean, Tyrion’s a dumbass and Bran is blegh, but... I’m so glad I stopped getting invested in this show many seasons ago. Misogynist bastards. 

[pattinsonsupremacy]

@cyanwhisky on twitter

gUYS AHDKDJDNSLALDJD

[loonaelipse]

lucy liu deserves the lesbian cult following that cate blanchett has and you can’t change my mind

[bandedshadows]

lol goodbai Voltron. Never trust str8s with LGBT+ content. 

I hate that it took this BS for people to turn around, but people are finally realizing that this show is really fn mediocre. The writing is generic, characters are archetypal, and nothing about it was special at all. They could’ve done so much with the diverse cast of characters, but it just went nowhere. 

I only watched it because I like flashy 2D-style cartoon graphics, but it never once came close to filling the AtLA-shaped hole in my heart. 

The derivative writing was already dissuading me from continuing the show, but as soon as I read the spoilers, I know not to bother any further. Kids’ shows deserve better LGBT rep.

[untitled94191]

PATRICK STEWART IS OFFICIALLY RETURNING TO THE ROLE OF JEAN LUC PICARD!

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[addtothebeauty]

Danai Gurira || Rogue Magazine

[sashamutch]

The Sailor Scout, Fantasy RPG set!

[kateordie]

Well, this is perfect.

[gdfalksen]

Harlan Ellison is gone but not forgotten.

If you want to read his work 

Novels and novellas

Web of the City (1958) (originally published as Rumble)

The Man With Nine Lives (1960) (revised and reprinted in 2011 under the author’s preferred title The Sound of a Scythe)

Spider Kiss (1961) (originally published as Rockabilly)

Doomsman (1967) (re-issued under the author’s preferred title Way of an Assassin in the collection Rough Beasts)

A Boy and His Dog (1969) (made into a film)

The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes (1975) (adaptation by Edward Bryant of Ellison’s TV pilot script)

All the Lies That Are My Life (1980) (later included in the author’s 1980 collection Shatterday)

Run for the Stars (1991) (a 1957 novella here republished in a preferred text edition as part of a Tor Double)

Mefisto in Onyx (1993) (later included in the author’s 1997 collection Slippage)

Short-story collections

A Touch of Infinity (1958)

The Deadly Streets (1958)

Sex Gang (1959) (as by Paul Merchant)

Children of the Streets (1961) (originally published as The Juvies)

Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961)

Ellison Wonderland (1962) (also published as Earthman, Go Home!) Ellison calls his home in Sherman Oaks, California “Ellison Wonderland.”

Paingod and Other Delusions (1965)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)

From the Land of Fear (1967)

Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968)

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)

Over the Edge (1970)

Partners in Wonder (1971) (collaborations with 14 other writers)

Approaching Oblivion (1974)

Deathbird Stories (1975)

No Doors, No Windows (1975)

Strange Wine (1978)

Shatterday (1980) (reissued 2007 by Edgeworks Abbey/Tachyon Publications)

Stalking the Nightmare (1982)

Angry Candy (1988)

Mind Fields (1994) (33 stories inspired by the art of Jacek Yerka)

Slippage (1997)

Troublemakers (2001) (collection produced for the Young Adult market and featuring, for the most part, previously collected material)

Pulling a Train (2012)

Rough Beasts (2012)

Getting in the Wind (2013)

Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013)

Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014, Edgeworks Abbey)

The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014, Subterranean Press)

8 in 80 (2014)

Can & Can'tankerous (2015)

Retrospectives and omnibus collections

Alone Against Tomorrow: a 10-Year Survey (1971) (published in the UK in two volumes as All the Sounds of Fear (1973) and The Time of the Eye (1974))

The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979) (contains “Paingod and Other Delusions” (1965) and “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967))

The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective (1987) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont)

Dreams With Sharp Teeth (1991) (contains “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (1967), Deathbird Stories (1975) and Shatterday (1980))

Edgeworks. 1 (1996) (contains “Over the Edge” (1970) and “An Edge in My Voice” (1985))

Edgeworks. 2 (1996) (contains “Spider Kiss” (1961) and “Stalking the Nightmare” (1982))

Edgeworks. 3 (1997) (contains “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook” (1990) and “Harlan Ellison’s Movie” (1990))

Edgeworks. 4 (1997) (contains Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969))

The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded (2001) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont)

The Glass Teat Omnibus: The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat (2011) (Published by Charnel House, handmade books published in a very limited edition, in June, with an audio recording, dated Feb. 2011, of Ellison reading “Welcome to the Gulag”, a special introduction written just for this new, updated, publication of the essays on and criticism of television).

The Top of the Volcano: The Award-winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014)

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Hayao Miyazaki on life

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

if you’ve seen the breaking news that trump just signed an executive order today to end the family separation policy here’s some quick info to keep things in perspective

this doesn’t end the “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting anyone who crosses the border “illegally” 

the only thing this changes is that going forward, entire families will be detained together while awaiting prosecution 

this offers no solution for freeing the thousands of children currently held in ICE child prisons or any path to reuniting them with their families 

children will still be detained and treated as criminals

this will likely lead to thousands of families being held in ICE facilities and tent cities that will face the exact same issues of overcrowding, abuse, and inhumane conditions that exist in the child prisons

this is not a victory or a solution. This is the administration trying to cover their asses and avoid any more public outrage. They want people to see this as the end of the news story and go back to their lives. They want people to forget the thousands of children they are still keeping in cages in ICE facilities across the nation. This issue is not over and we cannot stop being outraged until we are given proof that the thousands of kidnapped children are returned to their families, and that the policy of arresting and prosecuting people who cross the border is ended. 

[bandedshadows]

Ever read a book that you so desperately want to rewrite yourself from a completely different perspective?

That’s me with The Wheel of Time series rn. So many characters are capable of being better but they’re not allotted enough depth and development. 

[anarchyisfunandfree]

Notable dumbass Elon Musk doesn’t know when to quit

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[bandedshadows]

Guys, please stop getting caught up on how pretty Justin Trudeau is. Treat him like any other flawed politician, ‘cause if you take the time to read up on him, you’ll find that he’s inflicted his own fair share of damaging policies.

Not saying I don’t side with him and Canada in this particular spat with Trump, but there’s better ways to discuss the issue than swooning over him like teenagers drooling over a J-14 spread.

Crossing over celebrity-obsessed culture with politics is exactly why Trump’s in office. There’s more emphasis placed on persona than merit.

[ohgodshesloose]

And that’s exactly how Trudeau won, too. He went to pride rallies, met with First Nations groups, released photos of him taking his kids trick-or-treating for Halloween, all sorts of things to craft an image that he actually Gave A Shit about the little people and was actually human.

Then the microsecond he won the election it was basically the “It was I, Dio!” meme, except replace “Dio” with “another rich Liberal apathetic to the plights of those I can’t profit off of”

[bandedshadows]

Guys, please stop getting caught up on how pretty Justin Trudeau is. Treat him like any other flawed politician, ‘cause if you take the time to read up on him, you’ll find that he’s inflicted his own fair share of damaging policies.

Not saying I don’t side with him and Canada in this particular spat with Trump, but there’s better ways to discuss the issue than swooning over him like teenagers drooling over a J-14 spread.

Crossing over celebrity-obsessed culture with politics is exactly why Trump’s in office. There’s more emphasis placed on persona than merit.

[bandedshadows]

The Iran episode of Parts Unknown, for me personally, was a transformative piece of documented film. And that’s just one piece of the beautiful legacy Tony left behind.

It’s weird, because a lot of people define their lives by the things they’ve learned, the places they’ve travelled, and how much of the world they get to see and experience. And I find myself subscribing to that idealization. Depression feels like mental imprisonment and it’s easy to beat myself up for being stuck and idle. But whenever I feel despondent, I summon my inclination for escape as a form of solace; in a way that, at some point, there can be better destinations if I keep moving forward. 

And Tony Bourdain championed adventure in the deepest and most humane sense. To think that even he— who exemplified what it meant to have a worldly life and purpose— was ultimately consumed by demons. It’s making everything so uncertain.

I’m taking a break from engaging the Internet and the news cycle. If the news has been taking you to dark places, you can allow yourself to do the same.