The Finsbury Sparrow Chirps

Finding corners of fandom to belong with.

[littledevils]

Girls don’t want boyfriends. Girls want bookshelves with sliding ladders.

[finsburysparrow]

Trufax.

[shinelikethunder]

gotta love how Philip Pullman got so fucking mad at CS Lewis that he wrote hundreds of thousands of words of spitefic, whose most enduring legacy turned out to be 4890423434 daemon AUs on AO3

[shinelikethunder]

if I had a daemon his name would be Screwtape for the express purpose of fucking with both Philip Pullman and CS Lewis send tweet

[shinelikethunder]

seriously, I need you all to understand that Pullman was so enraged by Lewis’s whole thing about “maybe the real happy ending is to die in the innocence of childhood before you’ve been stained by the sin that inevitably accrues with life experience” that he wrote the entire His Dark Materials trilogy as a monumental fuck you to that idea

the daemons, the Dust, all of it–yeah he had a lot of theological axes to grind in general, but it all crystallized around a primal scream into the void against that one incredibly specific bad take

and hey, you know what? out of that primal scream he created a foundational worldbuilding element that was cool and positive enough for fandom to look at it and go “I’M STEALING THIS AND APPLYING IT TO ALL THE OTHER FICTIONAL UNIVERSES TOO,” which is honestly not a bad legacy for your spitefic to leave behind…

…even if it did create a royal mess for the AO3 tag wranglers. so F to pay respects to the HDM fandom tag and the sacrifices it has endured that your daemon AUs may live.

[finsburysparrow]

I fucking love this.

[liberalsarecool]

[antique-scarecrow]

We live in a society not an economy

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Can it be? An update after 84 years? Yes, it can and it is. 

[noodle555]

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

THIS

IS

WHY

DIVERSITY

IN

MEDIA

IS

IMPORTANT

[justsomeantifas]

[ogrishpuntocom]

-“mommy, the kids at school are mean to me!”

-“OH, WHAT, ARE U #TRIGGERED???, LIFE ISNT UR #SAFE SPACE LMAO”

Stay away from children for the rest of your lives please

[thinster13]

The people who hate this are probably the ones traumatizing their children

[lesbiangender-deactivated201908]

this is a show for 3 - 6 year olds what is WRONG with these monsters???

[lesbiangender-deactivated201908]

Fun fact, sesame street was created to fill the gap in education for children whose families could not afford to send them to preschool. Sesame street taught basic math and phonics as well as interpersonal skills so that children below the poverty line weren’t starting elementary school behind their more privileged classmates.

Here sesame street is trying to fill a gap where supportive adults should be. Where there should be a teacher or a family member or a counselor to help, for whatever reason, there isn’t, so Sesame Street is stepping in.

This breed of person has always hated Sesame Street. They hated it for showing black and white children playing together. They hated it for giving children of color the head start that rich white families were paying for. They hated it for Bert and Ernie for showing two MEN who LIVED TOGETHER, for the married black nurse who lived on sesame street when it was first released, and for them explaining death. I feel like there was a pregnancy at some point in its early days and they would have REALLY hated that.

These days they don’t (usually) say “I’m not letting my kid watch anything with black kids in it” but they sure throw a tantrum in the youtube comments when Sesame Street DARES to show an autistic girl playing with non-autistic children and being treated like shes anyone else. They lose their shit when Sesame Street has to explain incarceration to 5 year olds. And the muppet in south africa with HIV? Hoo boy.

They hate everything Sesame Street stands for and tries to provide. They always have. We just have to ignore them and keep supporting the show. Or tell them to shut the fuck up and keep supporting the show. Either way Sesame Street will outlive them.

[reverseracism]

Sesame Street will outlive them.

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s FINISHED and COMPLETE and DONE! Read the whole thing here...

The wars are done and Gendry is the Lord of Storm’s End. He loves the place. It’s perfect. Almost. 

In Chapter 11 - Resolutions are found. Sort of. Mostly. ‘Almost perfect’ is enough.

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Gendry and Arya eat dinner. Honestly, that’s what happens.

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In which nothing much actually happens but a lot moves on.

Oh, and there’s a sea monster. Sort of. Maybe. Who knows when it’s Arya Stark telling the story?

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A quick snippet o’ filler when everyone is on tenterhooks and nobody knows what to do or say.

[kingiinthenorth]

actual photo of robert and stannis baratheon

[flatbear]

not pictured: Renly Baratheon

[stupidstubbornbull]

Aaaaaand where’s Gendry?

[finsburysparrow]

@lizstargaryen relevant

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Gendry beats the crap out of some stuff, his ship metaphorically comes in and sunset happens. One of those things happens every day, one of them happens quite often and he’s been waiting for the other for nearly two years.

There may be 100% more Arya Stark in this chapter too, but I couldn’t possibly confirm...

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

20 years after the Wars, Gendry tries not to think about how Arya baked Freys into a pie and his daughter deals with tenants... and there’s a Stranger Come To Town...

[heathens-and-kings]

“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.

A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.

I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,

“I am the manager.”

[owawaaa]

a thing for one of my favorite posts on this site

[alwaysbewoke]

always reblog. no matter where i see it, i reblog it!

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Apparently, part of being a Lord is playing at being a giant wot gets slain by mighty Ser Davos. It’s not the worst part of Gendry’s day.

And it sounds like there’s a ship just beyond the horizon somewhere...

[finsburysparrow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Starkbowl (informal, young adult division) comes to Storm’s End. Those who survived the Long Night nearly 20 years before still struggle to deal with some of the lingering pain from those times.