GildingTheLele

Reblogs a lot about artistic, fannish, and feminist things.  Looks at any given canon and is pretty sure we can fit some more seats at that table.  she/her pronouns 

[sleepynegress]

Okay... so this is right up my alley. More weird whimsy and quirk in the romance genre... and more jaded suffer-no-fools women, instead of the creepy age-gaps, please and thank you

[umber-cinders]

I WILL WATCH THE FUCK OUT OF THIS! Monster romance books prepared me for thiissss!

[elizmanderson]

just FYI it's based on a short story called The Wicker Husband which I read here despite the small print because I could only find the opening elsewhere (the place it was originally published online is gone, but the author, Ursula Wills-Jones, says she hopes to see it in print soon!)

[writing-relatedactivities]

Oooooooh, this is why I saw a social media post yesterday that was just a picture of the local all-wicker-everything store on the corner of Cretin and Marshall with just the caption, "This store is about to become incredibly popular."

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have to dress in this style for the rest of your life!

(you do not have to follow the beliefs associated with the style if that style has associated beliefs. The wheel curse does not affect anything like that.)

Do you like it?

yes!!

it's okay I guess

no

NO.

I dress like this already

results/other/unsure

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[lucylehane]

Trung Le Nguyen's epic Pride & Prejudice thread was so magnificent I had to gif it.

Trung Le Nguyen (@trungles.com)

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

[trungles]

OMG these are incredible 🤣🤣🤣

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[hincithur]

— problematic texture gap

[falseknees]

Lake-Side Gallery

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

564 and 565.3

little weirdos (re: fossil molluscs and trilobites)

[omtai]

Making coffee at home is so great because sometimes it tastes like gorgeous actual coffee youd get for $12 & other times it tastes like ashtray water and you never know what youre doing different to make it so

[gildingthelele]

I have been curious about the door thing for ages.

In multiple cases with entirely different walking companions, a man in the group allowed everyone else to go ahead through a door that I was holding and then moved behind me to take hold of the door for me to go through. Like, reached up and easily grabbed the door above me (which is not difficult since I am generally the shortest adult in the group)

I have on one such occasion known a guy well enough to ask why he felt compelled to wait me out for the role of last one through the door. I believed him when he said he knew it was silly but could not shake the lingering influence of being told so consistently while growing up that he should always hold the door for women. He seemed to imply having been scolded for failure to do so

I don't want to assume that is universal. Can every guy really be reaching for that door and thinking "this is pointless but [childhood authority figure] would be mad if I just walk through a door held by a short woman"?

In the future should I:

suggest they get the next door without relinquishing my post

stand around and wait for a guy to catch up and open the door

open the door and go through it without holding it for anyone

obviously do a secret other option (to be explained in tags or whatever)

say "first person to the door holds the door"

Remaining time: 11 hours 1 minute

[zdr-77]

Kira, her goofriend and the homoerotic tension between him and his archnemesis

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you get a breath weapon like a dragon, and the options go from fire to things like gravel or bees

you have this breath weapon! (also you're a dragon)

are you happy with it?

yes!!!!!

a little

it's okay I guess

no.

NO.

result/other

Voting ended onAug 2

[an-drom-eda]

the mental images this produces are... something, to say the least

[nitewrighter]

Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."

"Yo."

[nitewrighter]

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.

"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"

"You've got a problem with Andrew?"

[notebooks-and-laptops]

[boringkate]

Anything you do while wearing a sports bra is technically a sport. Scrolling through tumblr might not seem like a sport to you, but it is to your boobs! They're locked in! They're focused! They're competing! They're playing to win!

[fipindustries]

i really im absolutely astounded at the phenomenal job that MIB did not to be racist against aliens, despite being a movie about secret agents chasing evil aliens. that scene where jay helps an alien mother to give birth is probably one of the most humanizing moments for an Other ive seen in a movie ever.

[fipindustries]

like it grabs the body snatcher trope from the cold war "aliens are all around you, hidden in diguzise, they could be any one of us!" and then it says "and theyre just people, theyre literally just people trying to live their lives and thats fine"

[fipindustries]

you literally have a whooe scene where a cop stands out because he says "i dont care how menacibg or threatning someone looks im not going to shoot them if there is a reasonable explination for what theyre doing, one is sneezing and one is just doing excercise", and that is the guy that gets aproved to join MIB.

[phaeton-flier]

The movie has a real love for NYC and immigrant culture as a part of that. The opening scene where K welcomes the undocumented immigrants to the United States. One alien greets another and says he's ordered him pierogi. A lot of them are refugees from their home worlds who just want to survive.

[bottleshark]

I can't stop reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

[viralfrog]

[gildingthelele]

Really trying to be better about actually using sunscreen, but today is testing me

Like, ok. I misapplied or sweated too much or rubbed too near my eye and that set up an enemies to enemies situation between my eye and the sunscreen. Sometimes it goes like that

But now it is some six hours later and my eye is still intermittently giving me grief. I doubt I have ever cried this much in one day, not from anger or midnight despair or reading the most angsty of whump fics. Surely I have cried enough to flush out this eye

There are so many other things going on right now, but this is the one small enough for me to grumble about today

It must be getting a little better, right? I can see well enough to post about it and that is arguably something

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.