This Is Bat

Woman with a battitude. Connoisseur of cheeses and breakfast foods, lover of gin and tonic, writer of words, addicted to coffee and ao3, theatre queer, holding on to fandom community building with superglue and spite. Forever in love with Serena Campbell and Bernie Wolfe, struck in the heart by Dulcie Collins in Deadloch. Guess work competent women with messy hair and private lives are my fan bait. (she/her, at the beginning of her fifties)

[sophsun1]

Happy Pride 🌈 | The Golden Girls (1985-1992)

[batnbreakfast]

My US colleague just said “Oh, US ice cream is absolutely superior to everything you can get in Europe.” and I’m definitely side eyeing him in Italian.

[julcheninred]

Jules's Carle Butterfly Art Mini-Fest

So. Y’all hear about the children’s book illustrator who spent last week fulminating against Eric Carle?

You will not be surprised that she has fashy opinions about art. She is absolutely incensed that Carle's books are enduringly popular, which she says is only because they're foisted upon us by "an insalubrious culture." She says Carle's work is objectively ugly and bad, and that children exposed to bad art will grow to be bad people who lack morality, thinking skills, and the ability to perceive true beauty in the world. Yea, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and invective like "deformity," "chaos," "vulgarity," "indoctrination," and "disease." She further deplores Klimt, Pollock, all of modern art, the Bauhaus art movement, gay marriage, and Crayola (for making children's art products with unnaturally vivid colors). She blames it all on "Marxists," of course. She used the R word and a racial slur, of course. Since I am the patron saint of so-called bad art on Tumblr, and I'm delighted to help annoy fascists, I'm here to throw a little party to celebrate Carle's brightly-colored, asymmetrical, disproportionate, "nefarious" butterfly. Grab the nearest box of outrageous Crayolas and make an extravagantly, riotously shaped and colored butterfly. Tag your post #butterflyparty2026 . Tag me, @julcheninred, in the body of your post so I don’t miss it. Tag your pals so they'll jump in. Looking forward to seeing everyone's magnificent butterflies! 🦋🌹

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[artofdoubt]

Deborah and Ava + Ava's hands

[80slesbiab]

We have certainly earned some time to ourselves.

[batnbreakfast]

I’m just not build to stay out and about after 2am anymore.

[cleolinda]

Oscar-winning ‘Star Wars’ editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80

She was also part of the editing team for Martin Scorsese’s 1970s films “Taxi Driver,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “New York, New

Marcia Lucas was the editor on 1983’s "Return of the Jedi" and the pre-"Star Wars" George Lucas-directed films "THX 1138" and "American Graffiti."

She was also part of the editing team for director Martin Scorsese’s 1970s films "Taxi Driver," "Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore" and "New York, New York."

Marcia Lucas was often called the unsung hero of "Star Wars," the original film that after sequels, prequels and spinoffs has come to be known by its subtitle, "A New Hope."

She convinced husband George that he should have Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, in his light saber battle with Darth Vader and become a spirit guide to Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker.

And she had to make sense of the raw footage that could’ve been a mess in the wrong hands, including the climactic rebel attack on the Death Star.

[....]

"Her influence on film is indelible, but those who knew her best will remember the way she made life feel more vivid, more beautiful, more fun, and more full of love," a family statement said. "Her work was known for its emotional intelligence, rhythm, and humanity — a rare ability to find the truth of a scene and bring heart, momentum, and clarity to the screen."

[kettlequills]

borgswapped janeway and seven is hilarious though.

you are annika "seven shots" hansen, brand new science ensign aboard the uss voyager, just graduated, ready to run as far from earth as space can take you. in pursuit of the maquis, you end up in the delta quadrant, marooned on said maquis' ship and awkwardly folding into their crew along with the rest of yours. your new captain, chakotay, is struggling to unite the starfleet and maquis crews. you yourself are not impressed, but over time, he wins your respect and your crew begins to work together to get back to the alpha quadrant.

you remain to the side of the crew, not ostracised, but a little alone. you pick up some shifts in the improvised medbay. occasionally, other crewmembers try to befriend you, or flirt with you, but that stops after you broke a crewman's wrist in a panic. b'elanna, at least, grudgingly approves. you have breakfast once a week with her and passive aggressively snipe at each other the whole time. it's the highlight of your social calendar.

then you meet the borg. based off your parents' crackpot notes, you strongarm chakotay into making a pact with the borg and you two liberate yourselves the only human drone you've met - one of the many starfleet lost in action, former chief science officer kathryn janeway, who is reckless, insane, angry, and bitterly driven to destroy the borg and protect her new crew with everything she has.

she's been assimilated for as long as you've been alive and had traumas that predate your conception. the joint funeral for her old ship was highly attended. she was the dead bestfriend of the turncoat security officer chakotay is still mad about having trusted. her every plan is an abstract suicide attempt and she does things to the ship's engines to get it going faster that makes your heart faint and b'elanna's hair grey. she has screaming arguments with the captain in the Mess Hall and insists on patching noxiously brewed coffee that make her borg-stomach sick into an iv line. she is absolutely petrified to be close to you in case she assimilates you by accident.

you still haven't beaten her at Velocity.

and what do you think to yourself then, annika "seven shots" hansen, thinly-masked neurodivergent who prefers machines to people and is openly scornful of the social rules everyone else seems to know (while also, desperately wishing you understood them yourself)?

"I bet I can fix her."

[batnbreakfast]

Hi friends, just a reminder that there won’t be a Zoom tomorrow! We’ll see each other again on 6th June. 😊

[batnbreakfast]

I just received a CV that listed the following languages:

German (native speaker)

English (fluent)

Latin (basic knowledge)

Might be me, but I’m guessing we’re a bit late to receive orders in Latin.

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[batnbreakfast]

A dog and a bat!

[vintage-every-day]

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

[julesnichols]

#welcome to the gun show

Merry Christmas @ray-green-wicked4good!

[tremendous-dream-horizon]

(I couldn't help adding Emma Swan to the collection)

[julesnichols]

Okay everyone add your favorite lady arms to this post NOW!

[ray-green-wicked4good]

Sameen Shaw everyone

[dirtyrobber70]

[c0untry-mouse]

[batnbreakfast]

Hello, yes, did someone say Rebecca Welton?

[penny-anna]

Hot (ha) take but I think everyone needs to stop with 'oh heat in Britain is extra bad bcos we don't have the infrastructure' and 'oh it's the humidity'. We could upgrade all our infrastructure and 100% of people in Britain could be having a lovely time in the sun and the apocalyptic climate change induced heat waves would still be a problem.

[welcomingdisaster]

what level of skin care do you perform regularly*?

none

just sunscreen

just lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion/chapstick

sunscreen + lotion + exfolliant

sunscreen + lotion + exfoliant + serum/toner/primer

several different kinds of the above/more than the option above

Voting ended onMay 28

*by this I mean genuinely a part of your routine, not just once in a blue moon -- things you're doing at least half the time.

[angelbabyspice]

Almost 30% of you have absolutely no skincare routine? Not a drop of moisture outside of water touches your body? I need you to know that isn’t normal actually 💔