a dire quail appears

terminator: dark fate and she-ra. friend of mara. I have faceplanted into the Locked Tomb and Masquerade series fandoms. 18+. also I have fics on AO3.

[trilobutch]

california quails they’re unforgettable. small and round, black feather on top.

[wormsermonizer]

lore accurate beast

[catcrumb]

[aangisdead]

sometimes…….things that are fanon………are worse

[starcatboy]

“I asked chat gpt and”-

Yeah well I asked Count Dooku and he stared off into the distance while giving me some advice that kind of seemed like a metaphor for his own life problems that he created

[errorschacha]

A good use of time and energy right now (as always) is infighting. If people agree on any important points whatsoever, mutual hatred is warranted. Avoid collective action at all costs. Build no coalitions. Instead, start altercations. Create divisions where none exist. Extend no goodwill nor patience nor understanding. Kill and maim over inadvertent insults of minute size. Make accusations wherever you go. Check in on your friends using a chainsaw. If you see someone struggling, take advantage. We are all in this separately.

[zip-bomb-dog]

The beast will run rampant tomorrow... For now, Tired Beast Thursday

[bringcal]

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

[edgar-allan-possum]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: I have no mouth and I must stream /End ID]

[tackminyard]

affirmations for my printer:

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

you’re allowed to print things

[milkyenthusiast]

imagine reverse bimbofication art in the style of the bimbofication brainwashing posts. YOU ARE SO FUCKING SMART, USE YOUR GENIUS MIND, YOU ARE EVERYTHING. YOU CAN MASTER ANY FUCKING SUBJECT IN THE WORLD *flashing hypno spirals interupted by photos of prominent women scientists and graphs from quantum mechanics papers*

[carys-the-ninth]

If I want to get into vorkosigan, what's you're recommended reading order? Thanks!

The good news is that each book is written to stand in it's own, and it's not a series that much relies on big reveals, so the risk of spoilers is lower. That said, there is more of a chronology than, say, Discworld.

General advice is to read them by omnibus edition, which is Cordelia's Honor (Shards of Honor, short story "Afterwords" & Barrayar); Young Miles (The Warrior's Apprentice, "Mountains of Mourning", The Vor Game); Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos, "Labyrinth"); Miles Errant (The Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance); Memory; Miles in Love (Komarr, A Civil Campaign, "Winterfair Gifts"); Miles, Mutants and Microbes (Falling Free, Diplomatic Immunity); Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance; The Flowers of Vashnoi (novella); Cryoburn; Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen. Absolutely no one recommends you read them in publication order, btw.

I started with the two novels in Miles in Love, and then went back to the beginning. I do think the very first book written (Shards of Honor) is notably different in tone than the rest of the series, and for the first two Miles novels (The Warrior's Apprentice & The Vor Game), Bujold is still coming into her own as a writer, so the omnibus order is not necessarily the best foot forward. (Barrayar fucks severely tho.) See what your library has. Miles in Love or Miles, Mystery & Mayhem are good entry points, IMO.

[carys-the-ninth]

Also almost all of them are free to read online if you're a phone or computer reading person, or a download-to-ereader person.

[beroebluejeans]

I’m reading Barrayar now and I just keep thinking damn Barrayar does fuck severely tho

[corazon-en-altamar]

man i love a character who's just filled to the brim with internalized agony

[amvs]

ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me

[amvs]

exactly. it’s not about whether you like it or understand it. it’s about sharing their joy and learning about who they are.

[amvs]

Real and true

[halfcourts]

Loving The Timberwolves When They’re Good (Or Bad) - Hanif Abdurraqib for The New Yorker

[newbromantics]

oh okay thanks

[fuhosh-i]

oh! okay.

[specialagentartemis]

Knightposting does nothing for me but, musing on it, the service/duty-based archetype that really gets me is The Captain.

The Captain is a leader of a smallish group in a bounded environment; spaceship captain is the canonical version to me, here. The Captain has authority, she is undeniably the authority figure in this space and she expects her commands to be obeyed, but that authority is a contract. It comes with the knowledge that she uses that authority for the good of her crew.

The Captain is dutiful: her duty is to her mission second, and her crew first. Everything else, including her own personal feelings and desires, comes third. The Captain takes her duty as commander seriously and has a strong sense of responsibility. She is responsible for what happens to each one of her crew, responsible for their lives and safety, responsible for their failures and deaths. And she takes the weight of that responsibility seriously too.

The Captain is fair: her expectations may be high but she isn’t capricious. She does not ask her crew to do anything she wouldn’t do herself, and in the case of a crisis The Captain is ready to go down with her ship, making sure that everyone else gets out first.

The Captain isn’t so much a fantasy to be, more the fantasy of serving under. The Captain is the fantasy of having a boss who would die for you, rather than your real life boss who would probably sell you to Satan for one corn chip.

[zendayacolemann]

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