Hi Shmoopy! WHY?

Eclectic fandom meta & whatever cracks me up. Crafty mf, multinerd, generally someone you want for your trivia team.

[beaft]

just had an extremely funny memory of being 9 years old and wondering if i was gay and then deciding i couldn't be because gay people were so rare that it was statistically improbable for me to be one

[beaft]

a while later i came to terms with it and instead of having a breakdown i just became insufferably smug about my perceived uniqueness. walking around like wow.... i must be the only gay person in this entire school, nay, this entire town

[beaft]

was trying to isolate the point at which i actually, verbally came out to my mother (not that i needed to, since she apparently had me pinned as a dyke from the age of 3), and i'm pretty certain it was at a Glee Live concert when i was 12, because i have a dim recollection of turning to her and asking "what would you say if i told you i was a lesbian?" and her replying "i'd tell you to shut up because the concert is about to start"

[hatchan]

#my dad on the other hand i literally forgot to come out to#i came home in tears after getting broken up with and he said 'what's the matter?' and i was like (snottily) My Girlfriend Dumped Me#there was a pause while he processed a lot of things very fast#and the part of my mind that wasn’t howling in adolescent grief was like ah shit. we didn't tell him did we#and to give him grace he didn't make a big thing out of it and was just like (very awkwardly) 'ah well.. plenty of fish in the sea'

please these tags are so funny

[byjove]

men love to make fun of women for overreacting in emergencies when they are, in fact, massively under-reacting

[byjove]

we have this conversation every hurricane season but if your man is refusing to evacuate for a natural disaster or shelter for a tornado because “it’s not that serious”, just leave, stop arguing, let him die. that’s my opinion. don’t die with him. write your number on his arm in permanent so they can call you when/if they find him in the floodwater and go. if he’s right, he’s already shown you his true colors by mocking your concern. if he’s wrong, he’s fucked.

[byjove]

According to the National Weather Service, 65% of direct hurricane victims are men. Not deaths during cleanup efforts, direct hurricane victims. So leave his ass to join that 65% and do not die with him.

[larviformwoman]

What are are you gonna do stay with the dipshit and die too? Are you gonna fight the hurricane with the power of love?

[byjove]

It’s the general consensus from the safety community too, evacuate yourself and your pets and your children even if your spouse is stubbornly refusing to go. Do not kill yourself, other people you love and potentially future rescuers because your spouse thinks he’s stronger than a hurricane.

[bohba13-writing-den]

As a Floridian, and thus having lived through multiple hurricanes, If you are receiving an evacuation order, EVACUATE. no ifs, no ans, no buts. I don't care if you don't think it will be that bad, and neither will the country sized storm that will fuck your shit. And if any loved ones are being stubborn? Then save yourself and everything you can.

These are the strongest storm systems on the planet, and they have wiped cites off of the map in the past. And they're only getting worse.

Do not play chicken with a Hurricane. If you are being told to evacuate, understand that you are being told that because if you don't, you are extremely likely to die.

[darkfyretheumbrawitchisback-dea]

RABBITS! RABBITS! RABBITS!

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[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."

[despazito]

I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter

[despazito]

good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[sakurabraches]

okay i know the point of contrasting glinda walking down the aisle to elphaba walking through the cages of Animals was probably a "lies in the light truth in the darkness" thing but there's a read of that choice that implies that, deep down, glinda finds heterosexual marriage as horrifying as elphaba finds Animals in cages, and that's just very, very funny

[ladyelainehilfur]

real paramedic x golden retriever firefighter AU energy with this

[sphinxofgrease]

the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”

[futzingbarton]

what

[sphinxofgrease]

fucking shit up with a wooden shoe

[futzingbarton]

oh my god

[genderhasnobearingonability-blog]

well wooden shoe look at that

[nerdismyhobby]

I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE 

[metaenira]

Look, I don’t do this ever, but my buddy Beth Andres-Beck (any/all) is running for Congress (MA-06) and we could really use some help getting a trans queer into the halls of power.

They decided to run because Seth Moulton was being a dick about trans kids in sports. As a trans person who did sports as a kid, this offended them.

He fucking understands that shit is fucked up up and we cannot act as if just voting in the midterm elections will save us.

Beth is a senior software engineer and actually knows how the internet works. You want a reliable vote against KOSA and AI fuckery? She’s it.

She signs ASL and uses a cane.

They once bought me two (2) beers in 2016.

Beth does not go in for aggressive needy donation asks. You’re not going to get spammed with emails or texts begging for votes.

Beth is a genuinely cool person and I am so goddamn tired of politics as usual.

Beth Andres-Beck (@beth4ma.bsky.social)

We’re in the lead! A new poll found that after voters are read bios of each candidate, Beth leads the field. This include as a 5-point lea

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[kitchen1]

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

[arrghigiveup]

[source: https://twitter.com/nasacertified/status/1273798595314167814]

[bisexuhowl]

#watching this monkey peel of the stringy bits#drop them on the baby’s head#meticulously remove them#and clean off the stump#then wolf down that banana#is just really great#like a fussy little person

[turquoisedata]

How very depressing that Neil Gaiman had trended not even a tiny bit for demonstrating what a fucking horrific person he is.

As a reminder, he's suing Caroline Wallner, one of his accusers, for breaking her NDA. Not for libel. He's saying she shouldn't have told anyone about it, not that she lied.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says Wallner broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine.

He doesn't need the money. He's risking the Streisand effect. He is punishing Caroline, he's trying to intimidate other victims who have signed NDAs to scare them into continued silence.

He is no friend to women, to the LGBTQIA+ community, to anyone quite frankly unless he thinks they are of value to him.

Share the story. Put it on Facebook and bluesky and whatever else you're on. Make it clear what a horrifying person he is. Tell your friends. He's paying Edendale a fortune to try and cover this up. Make this hard for him. Make it cost him money.

[turquoisedata]

I thought this post would get 150 notes maybe. 300 at the absolute outside.

It's got more than that in the last few hours.

I'm really glad to know how much people hate him.

To the Friends of Calliope — Kitty Kendall, MA, LCMHC

Thank you all so much for your love and support. If you are a survivor reading this, know that you also deserve to be believed, beloved, and

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[swarnpert]

they are starving the children of boston right now

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[deepspacepirate]

One of my favorite tropes is post apocalyptic towns being named after dilapidated signs with missing letters, like Novac (no vacancy) and Eaden (dead end). There’s something inexplicable about it

[togepipi]

catch me in the city of fre shavaca do