Three Feathers

Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.

[mouse-doubleo100]

the more i watch star trek tos, the more it becomes abundantly clear that the reason why modern trek doesnt get kirk at all is because they dont utilise mccoy nearly as much anymore

in modern trek, they always present the idea of logic vs emotion, with spock being logic and kirk being emotion, but thats not how tos has it. in tos, the logic vs emption debate is spock vs mccoy. kirk is supposed to be the mediator between the two, sometimes siding with one side over the other, sometimes finding a middle ground between the two. thats why hes the captain, hes able to see all angles and pick the best course

when you make kirk the emotional one, it completely breaks the format, because 9 time out of 10, it means kirk has to be correct. theres no more balance

mccoy is just as important to tos as spock is, and while i do understand why spock is as popular as he is, without mccoy, the show doesnt work. you need them both. kirk spock and mccoy are the three leads of the show, and removing one requires you to change the others, which is whats happened to kirk

[trek-tracks]

I have been saying this for approximately 400 years, thank you.

When I teach rhetoric in my college essay writing/analysis course, it's always with the example of Kirk, Spock, AND McCoy. Ethos, Logos, Pathos--you need all three. Kirk isn't the counterweight to Spock; he's the fulcrum that balances Spock and McCoy.

Kirk isn't emotion. Kirk is ethos: credibility, authority. Spock and McCoy are there to stop him from damaging that credibility by falling back on an authority he doesn't actually have in the situation, to remind him of the logic or compassion that's lacking when an abuse of power would be the easy or basely satisfying thing to do.

What keeps Kirk credible is that he usually chooses the most ethical thing to do based on the information he has; what makes him a good leader, outside of his own innate abilities, is his understanding that he requires these two trusted advisors to keep him on an even keel. When Kirk says "I need you" to both Spock AND Bones, he means it.

[unamccormack]

I endorse this message

[unamccormack]

Here’s how the Spock book ends. Together forever in the greenwood.

And here’s how it starts, because I learned everything I know about TOS from Vonda McIntyre.

[sparklecryptid]

Meanwhile, those In The Know about Companions are /watching/ Luche like she's an unexploded bomb because she's got freaking VANYEL as a Companion. (Luche thinks that this is disturbingly familiar.)

Herald Mage Vanyel makes his Companion debut as Companion Vanel!

Luche is devastatingly oblivious!

Literally everyone who knows The Know about Companions are staring at Luche and Vanyel like ‘please don’t be an omen please don’t be an omen pleaseeee’.

Luche: this is familiar and I don’t like it

[hamelin-born]

@sparklecryptid

I think I once read a proverb in the Valdemar books that basically implied that the Powers That Be endowed individuals with Gifts when there was a needs for said Gifts. Laven Firestorm's talent with fire was needed to fend off an entire army, Vanyel's mage-Gift was needed to fend off an incarnation of Ma'ar, etc.

If that's the case, then yes, the reincarnation of one of the most powerful mages in History is definitely An Omen.

(On a side note, Ardyn is totally wiling to throw hands - well, hooves - on his niece's behalf.)

[hamelin-born]

@sparklecryptid

I was thinking about this a bit and idly amusing myself with mental images of Valdemar+Companion’s reactions to learning about Dark Lady Seer Luche (aka broken ice!Luche’s) background/history, and I thought I’d do my civic duty and infect you with the Mental Images as well.

[professorsparklepants]

I saw a Skyrim video last night and was reminded of how funny I find "RPG game but I replace the blank slate protagonist with isekai'd Susan Pevensie." And then as I was falling asleep my brain was like "you know what would be even funnier than Susan Pevensie in Skyrim? Susan AND Boromir in Skyrim." And my brain is right, that would be fucking hilarious.

[professorsparklepants]

Boromir: good, you're finally awake.

Susan: where the bloody hell am I????

Boromir: that's a very good question that I wish I had the answer to.

[professorsparklepants]

Actually I think it's the other way around. Boromir wakes up from what he thought was a deathbed hallucination of a beautiful woman telling him to live to find himself in a cart being taken to prison. Susan, who has had several hours to freak out and is now mostly adjusted, is like "Yeah this (finding yourself in a different world for no discernable reason) happens to me sometimes. First time?"

[professorsparklepants]

which one is the dragonborn

Susan

Boromir

A secret, third thing (both)

Voting ended onMay 3

[professorsparklepants]

Very amused by the idea that Susan and Boromir are making "DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON" faces at each other during the execution prologue/tutorial, and then when they have time they both realize that neither of them have any clue and pair bond with each other. And that's BEFORE they kill a dragon and Susan absorbs its soul by accident and turns out to be some god chosen hero destined to kill things despite being 50% a pacifist. She is never getting rid of Boromir now he's her bodyguard forever. Good luck trying to fire him.

[thestuffedalligator]

O Brother Where Art Thou’s “Odyssey but in 1930s America” is a fantastic take, and I wish that more movies jumped on the “epic poem but make it period piece” train

Dante’s Inferno, but make it Old West

Iliad, but make it New York streetgangs

Beowulf, but make it 1980s monster movie

[ghostamongsttheliving]

YES, i need to see Beowulf as a gothic horror 

[hamelin-born]

...I’m pretty sure the latter actually exists. 

Featuring: A leather-clad Connor McCloud (aka Christopher Lambert) battles evil (also coincidentally wearing leather) side-by-side with a Warrior Woman (who, you guessed it, wears a lot of leather) in what one critic called a “post-apocalyptic, techno-feudal future that owes more to Mad Max than Beowulf." Until I looked up the release date, I was absolutely convinced that this was an 80′s monster movie. 

@elenothar​ 

[1five1two]

J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible."

Stephen R. Lawhead

[barbarian15]

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."

-C.S. Lewis

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Annual reblog of Freddie and his magnificent cats.

[tumbalendar]

happy Pride Eve!

[nocek]

the best part of field trip experiments is a chance to become THE experiment yourself ;)

[lalulutres]

I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

[dewitty1]

Inner Mongolian Child

The little girl’s name is Butedmaa and she was just 5 when this picture was taken in 2003 by Han Chengli.

(I used to have a printout of this at my desk at work because I just loved looking at it so much.)

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s dangerous to go alone; take this:

[fandomsandfeminism]

As we barrel into another Pride Month, we will inevitably all see the stupidest, coldest, most reductive, exclusionary, assimilationist nonsense discourse simmer to the surface of social media again like scum foaming up on a long simmering soup.

And when that happens, whether it's garbage takes about trans people, or ace people, or nonbinary people, or neopronouns, or he/him lesbians, or bi women with boyfriends, or furries, or *what the fuck ever*- remember-

You do not need to quibble over the details. You do not need verbally spar on every hill that dipshits want to die on.

Just stop and ask- hey, does this fucking matter?

Does it matter if some queer people do _____? Does it cause any actual, measurable, material harm? Is this *actually* a problem? Be specific. Beyond just 'it makes me uncomfortable' and 'but that doesn't make sense' - does it actually *matter*?

Because if the answer is no, then who the fuck cares?

I don't care if something is confusing, or illogical, or weird, or makes you uncomfortable. Does it actually harm anyone? No? Then mind your fucking business.

Its not your responsibility to Lincoln-Douglass debate every overzealous puritan and under-informed tween on the complex nuance and inherent political context of the queer experience. Focus on what matters . Ask them what, if any, harm does ____ actually do, and THAT is all you need to address. (Oh you wanna defend ___ spaces? Which spaces specifically? What are you worried about happening? Oh is ____ normalizing ____? Does it? Does that...matter?)

Because even if other people dont like it, Queer People will continue to be weird, messy, confusing, contradictory, illogical, and strange as we all do our fucking best to be ourselves as best we can be. The way we survive and grow and thrive is by giving each other the grace and space to do so, whether or not we deeply, logically resonate with whatever others have going on.

And we don't talk shit about each other. We don't take pot shots at the queers who are queerer than we are. Throwing other queer people under the bus has never made things better.

So. Circle the wagons, close the ranks, and get comfortable rubbing elbows with people who are, you know, freaks and weirdos.

Happy Pride.

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[stormwaterwitch]

Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits

Reblog this on the first of the month for good luck all month long!

[dumbbbunnnyy-deactivated2021021]

[ingravinoveritas]

"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."

Happy Pride, everyone...

[magnhild]

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[orcboxer]

honestly "oracle that nobody believes" is such a solid trope. imagine trying to convince anybody in 2006 what the next two decades was gonna look like

[hil-arrr-y]

Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

[curliestofcrowns]

useful

[blownfromthesunintothesurf-blog]

Alison Green’s advice works. 

[sw-or-gtfo-deactivated20211219]

Alison Green got me all my interviews from 2012 onward, I am reasonably sure.

[vanitycats-deactivated20170527]

Alison Green is basically my life guide.

[intentandinvention]

Mine too - she was my most visited website for the first few years of my working career, and I cannot emphasise enough how much her advice helped me navigate how to behave in a work environment. You name it, she has an answer for it. Definitely a life hack.