fandomsandhappiness

pies are nice but also manta rays

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[librarycards]

just got kicked out of the omelas DEI office for asking why there are no former torture kids on the board

[librarycards]

they told me they had a "lived experience" subcommittee but it was just the torture kids' parents. tf.

[graysbullshit]

I'm watching farscape for the first time ever and... had they always planned to put John Crichton in the torture blender or did they see Ben Browder tear up in the pilot and were like "damn you're a pretty crier... you're going to have to do that in every single episode now, man"?

[demonsee2]

Farscape Magazine - May 2003

[sharongoodnow]

[foxglovedforest]

The kids are aight

[sharongoodnow]

i made some bad impressions of the farscape characters and midway through making this my power went out for like three hours and i think that was a sign that i shouldn’t post this. luckily, however, i am dumb. so i am posting it anyway

[makadragontamer]

he really puts the "battle" into "custody battle"

[stardustinthesky]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[cloverchameleon]

[kaworin]

[surfdog2000]

what th

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

I’VE BEEN TRYING TO find this again for THREE YEARS but once Free! came out I couldn’t google ANIME SWIMMING CLIP ANYMORE

[tierradelatrasero]

This is such a god damn amazing piece of animation

[justatechnowizard]

[chazzfox]

Oh myfdb c

[crownquill]

I have a cryptic need to reblog this as much as possible

[kwermaid28]

Are we gonna ignore the sounds this man is making

[marumicore]

The transition at the end is SENDING ME

[tsunflowers]

I’m reading this book about the changing arctic and the author stayed with the Nunamiut people of inland alaska for a while and talked to this high school kid who was like “ugh I hate going to school in the spring I wish I was hunting caribou” and I thought that was charming. you often hear about people who are devoted to preserving their traditional culture and knowledge but it’s rare to hear about someone who’s invested in the old ways out of pure teenage selfishness. school is lame and hunting caribou is awesome

[days-of-reading]

“Not fabulous.”

Sophocles, Elektra (trans. by Anne Carson)

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[mens-rights-activia]

[mens-rights-activia]

1 reblog = 1 solidarity with Luigi

[depsidase]

[trench-knife]

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

[portland-sunshine]

Not a sin at all!

This is what's called a poetic epithet, and it happens all the time in writing. Consider, for example, Homer and his wine-dark sea, or Shakespeare and his death-mark'd love.

If you were then to start using them instead of the word they're describing, you'd be making a kenning. For example, if instead of describing the sun as honey-bright, you said "the honey-drop in the sky". Kennings are best known from Norse writings, like "the path of serpents" for gold, or "Grímnir's lip-streams" for poetry itself.

So you're not sinning, you're participating in an ancient literary tradition!

[i-scan-your-poems]

Scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – The sun / was ho/ney-bright / that af/ternoon

Metrical form: iambic pentameter