GIFS & Stuff (but mostly just stuff)

I started this blog ages ago as a handy collection of reaction gifs, but now it's just whatever I want it to be ✨✨

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DWJ Reading Project. Part IV

 - I said here, my 2021 2026 resolution is gonna be READING EVERY DIANA WYNNE JONES BOOK I CAN FIND,  and due to my love of making lists and taking notes, I’ve decided  keeping track of this reading project here in this post, which I’ll keep  updated as I make progress. It’s mostly for my own pleasure, but maybe  it helps someone who wants to give it a try to this amazing writer and  doesn’t know where to start.

Part I (1970 - 1976 & The Dalemark Quartet)

Part II (1977 - 1981 & The Chrestomanci Series )

Part III (1984 - 1992 & Land of Ingary Series)

- Hexwood (1993): This book is like a puzzle, and it seems to be made to be re-read several times. I had to start it again a couple times, and at some point I just made a spreadsheet to keep track of things because if I took too long between reading sessions I got lost again. I became obsessed not with the plot or the characters (which are great too), but with the structure. Diana really outdid herself with this one. Once again, I just cant sum up the story, but I'll say it's her classic mix of scifi and fantasy, different characters with different identities, several plot twists, great humor, some drama... Probably one of my faves so far. I also want to share this awesome timeline made by @kattahj, for those who finished the book and, like me, need some extra cleareance about the events (it contains spoilers so dont check it if you havent finished the book)

[simoneashley]

#ideal dynamic Louis and Lestat in Interview With the Vampire 3.06

[urban-homesteading]

Thinking about a girl I grew up with who spun her dog's fur into yarn, then knitted gloves out of the yarn and how all the other kids made fun of her mercilessly for it.

And how she's now used those gloves for over thirty winters and each time she puts them on, she gets to pet her beloved dog's fur even though Ginger is long gone. And how even though her bones have long since been swallowed by the earth, Ginger is still protecting her owner from the cold.

Just an ancient pact, passed down from the earliest dogs that slept beside humans to keep us warm, continuing on for decades after one of their deaths.

[afeelgoodblog]

Why hasn’t this been done before?

[autisticexpression]

You know why.

[petrosapian]

Mind the Gap: a handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Second year medic, Malone Mukwende, has been working with staff members as part of a student-staff partnership project looking at clinical t

[missmixx-a-lot]

Cause racial health disparities…

[xmagnet-o]

I hope this gets published

[algorizmi]

It is available for download as a pdf from their website. www.blackandbrownskin.co.uk/mindthegap

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Hey, if anyone’s curious, this IS making a serious impact — this handbook was taught as standard practice for my EMT license course, as well as several other programs. A lot of new providers are being taught this as a matter of course.

[wolf-aid]

Western journalists feel that there are no consequences for them, so they have started publishing provocative or inhumane statements in this way. I need to help

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An outcome I didnt expect of watching TVL was going back to the Queen of Damned numetal ost. I didnt like the movie that much but I used to be very fond of the music back in my teens, and I hadnt give it a listen since then.

I dont know if I genuinely enjoy it or if it's just nostalgia, but now I cant help but think it would be very cool if they covered some of the songs in the tv show. Like, this but in TVL old school rock n roll mamarracho:

[orangepenguino]

x

[skyrigel]

[anxietyproblem]

[northern-punk-lad]

We killed Marie Antoinette for doing this

[apolloshifts]

Billionaires are wasting millions of dollars on trashy weddings when they're bound to get divorced in a couple of years. Meanwhile I'm googling "jobs that won't make me want to kms" and "how to get a job when I don't have a car or public transportation"

[poetrybykeira]

A sprinkle of Taylor Swift's wedding guest list:

Steven J. Demetriou, Executive Chair of Amentum Services, the sole contractor for an ICE Camp in Texas. (The man literally runs a concentration camp.)

His son, Steven J. Demetriou Jr, a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives (as in, a MAGA politician.)

Brad Pitt, a man who violently attacked his family on a plane, was arrested by the FBI, who recommended he be charged, and whose 5 children have all dropped his surname and gone no contact.

Jason Sudeikis, a man other comedians have called out for undisclosed abuse, who leaked revenge p*rn of his ex-wife. (Naked photos of her when she was pregnant with their daughter).

Sacha Baron Cohen, a proud and loud Zionist.

Taylor, by the way, put out a statement via People Magazine the second the ceremony ended (while the reception was still happening) saying that Blake Lively would have disturbed "Taylor's peace" if present at the wedding.

Meaning, ICE camp executives, MAGA politicians, domestic abusers, revenge p*rn publishers, and Zionists do not disturb Taylor's peace in the least.

Fuck billionaire, MAGA, ICE-lover, domestic abuse apologist, and Zionist Taylor Swift.

And, as always:

[placeinthisworld]

someone tell me who this girlie is i wanna be her friend

[kores-pomegranate]

[alethialia]

At a time when Netflix is getting roundly criticized for forcing its shows to treat the audience like we have all of two brain cells to rub together, The Vampire Lestat is out here volleying everything from 70s gay references to 1700s Dutch Republic references at the speed of light while saying, "You don't get it? Well, that's a fucking you problem."

And I love that for us.

[thevampiregrace]

daughter like father ~ father like daughter

[thelittlemars]

this came to me in a dream