Hwæt!

No longer on hiatus but ehhh

[and-fishing-equipment]

sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????

[talesfromthecrypts]

I don't want you to die. Don't kill him. Let him live.

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

[milquetoaast]

source

[yanguang]

[draconym]

I'm at a convention for the game of Go with a friend who is almost 84 years old, and he is constantly being accosted by elementary schoolers who want to play him because every year there is a prize for whoever plays a game with the biggest age difference between players.

So every time I go to look for him, I see this:

[draconym]

People in the tags pointing out that this is a great way to get communities to interact: you are extremely correct. There were a lot of kids at this year's go congress (many of them extremely strong players) and it's very funny to watch them roving in packs looking for old people to challenge. At one point when my friends and I were sitting in one of the side rooms, a trio of elementary schoolers marched in and shouted "IS ANYONE HERE OVER FIFTY?"

Presumably so that they could compete for the Elder Slayer award:

[annabelle--cane]

"rocky would hate stratt because she hurt his bestie" plausible, even likely. "rocky wouldn't hate stratt because he understands the stakes of needing to save the actual world" nuanced, intellectually stimulating. "stratt would hate rocky because her ex wife whom she killed is happier with him" intriguing, avant-garde.

[manyblinkinglights]

#7 billion fucking people on earth weren't enough but you'll die for the alien. sure. no yeah. sure.

[animentality]

[easel-eisel]

favourite rpg trope is the merchants in incredibly hostile environments. we are at the evil curse mountain and youre just selling me items normal style

[cheeky-orchid]

Essential worker during covid

[hail-the-villainess]

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

[hail-the-villainess]

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

[iraffiruse]

[furaffinity]

i’m so fucking pissed off at this picture

[stargh0st-deactivated20131025]

wwhat the fuck….

[tubaplaysmatt]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

oh my god thank you for the second perspective, it honestly makes me feel way less stressed about this image, you have no idea

[smimon]

Here’s the second image again since it somehow disappeared in reblogs

[hangsawoman]

shirley jackson casually asking the pharmacist how much arsenic would be necessary to kill a family

from on fans and fanmail, a lecture by shirley jackson

[lakecountylibrary]

[ID: a page in a book reading: For instance, I went the other day into our local drugstore and asked them how I would go about getting enough arsenic to poison a family of six. I had expected that they would behave as people would in any proper Agatha Christie book; one of them, I thought, would engage me in conversation in the front of the store, while someone else sneaked out back to call the cops, and I was ready with a perfectly truthful explanation about how the character in my book had to buy arsenic and I needed to find out how to go about it. Instead, though, no one really paid any attention to me. They were very nice about it; they didn't have any arsenic, actually, and would I consider potassium cyanide or an overdose of sleeping pills in-... The last sentence is cut off. /ID]

You can read more of the lecture in the book Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (link goes to our catalog). The New Yorker also has a 3-part series on Shirley Jackson's lectures! This is excerpt is covered in part 2 (link goes to The New Yorker).

[evilwizard]

he breasted the boulder boobily up the hill…

[evilwizard]

one must imagine sisyphus big naturals

[kyoshi-lesbians]

Book 1 Gaang - Children's work by Dessa

ID: an amv of Sokka, Katara, Aang, and Yue set to Children's Work by Dessa. It focuses on the gaang’s early relationships with each other and the heavy responsibilities they carry. Detailed description under the cut. 

Intro: clips of Katara and Sokka arguing over their roles in the village and early disagreements about Aang. 

Verse 1 & chorus 1 follows Sokka's POV. Clips include young Sokka hugging Hakoda goodbye, Katara crying before the tree in The Swamp that she thought was Kya, Aang at the Southern Air Temple, and Sokka sleeping with his weapons in his bedroll. On “Heard my mother … wonder what she did to get such a serious kid”: Sequence cuts to Kya's face, her killer's face, back to Kya, then fades into Sokka's face, crying in the Day of Black Sun when Azula taunts him about Suki's safety. “I've learned how to paint my face”: Sokka applying his traditional warrior tribal makeup fades into Sokka in Kyoshi Warrior makeup. “Earn my keep… clean my kill” includes Sokka fighting Zuko for the first time and again after training with the Warriors.  “Sometimes the past rolls back” Sokka tending a fire fades into young-Sokka and young-Katara playing before black snow falls. “You've learned how to hold your own” shows Katara: Fighting Pakku, speaking to the Earthbender prisoners, Katara with her mother's necklace. “Children aren't as simple as we like to think” Bato applying the marks of the wise, mark of the brave, and mark of the trusted to Sokka, Katara, and Aang

Verse 2 & chorus 2 follows Katara's POV. Clips show Katara waterbending and Katara and Sokka meeting Aang for the first time. “Mom said it was serious, dad said you’d be fine” shows first Sokka telling Aang to get out of their village, then Kanna telling Katara and Sokka that their fates are intertwined with the Avatar’s now. “I thought you were the prophet of 1989” shows Aang standing on a cliff during the series opening credits.  “You were so tender… so patient” shows Aang playing in the village and Sokka’s disapproval. Then clips of Aang in the avatar state and as Avatar Roku, Aang having his dramatic fortune read by Aunt Wu. Through “And I made you a library…but smiled”. Katara gives Aang an acorn to show how the burned oak forest will regrow and Aang smiles. “Taught me how to quiet down my mind” Katara laughs as Aang imitates a penguin. “I’ve learned how to paint my face, how to earn my keep, how to clean my kill” shows: Katara healing herself with waterbending for the first time, Katara successfully defending herself with the waterwhip bending technique, Katara waterbending dangerously thin sheet of ice at Pakku. “The past rolls back” shows Hanna's memory of Southern Water Tribe benders freezing a fire navy ship into ice; the image fades into the present-day ship Katara and Aang explore. “I can see us, still” shows the Southern Water Tribe benders fighting off fire nation raids. Kanna stands fighting at the center until she is the last one left. “You’ve learned how to hold your own… but the history’s thick” shows Aang fighting with Zhao, protecting a village from a volcano, Aang finding Monk Gyatso’s remains at the Southern Air Temple. “Children aren’t as simple”shows the monks telling Aang he is the Avatar. 

Bridge: During the instrumental break Katara talks Aang down from the avatar state at the Southern Air Temple. Aang comes down from the air and Katara, Sokka, and Aang hug and stand together. “And if I kept quiet, I could hear all the voices in your head” shows Katara in the hall with statues of past Avatars, the statue’s eyes lighting up when Aang enters the avatar state. 

Verse 3: Follows the events during the siege of the North, starting with Aang entering the spirit world, Katara guarding Aang from Zuko while Aang meditates, and the sky darkening when the Moon Spirit is captured by Zhao. “I asked god to take the damage out on me” shows Sokka, Aang, and Katara readying for battle while the sky is red. “10 years later, he finally gets the memo… knocked out my front teeth” shows clips of baby Yue being saved by the Moon Spirit, then present-day Yue walking away from Sokka as she decides to give the Moon Spirit life back. She lays her hands on the dead Koi fish and collapses into Sokka’s arms. “But you came to… so we decided not to cry” shows Yue returning as a spirit, kissing Sokka goodbye, and the moon reappearing in the sky. “But I won’t pretend… how unusual we were” shows Aang, Katara, and Sokka at night flying on Appa, right in front of a full moon. The silhouettes of Katara and Sokka hug Aang. “The little mystic, and his handler, all some children do is work” shows an ending scene of The Siege of the North, Katara and Aang hugging, then Katara, Aang, Sokka, Appa, and Momo facing the full moon together.

Outro follows Aang's POV: Features scenes of Aang neutral-faced with Koh the Face Stealer, the Ocean spirit taking over Aang in the spirit oasis, and Aang as the giant “Koizilla” Ocean spirit towering above buildings.  “The past rolls back”, as Aang tells Katara a story around a fire, the image fades into a memory of the Southern Air Temple. A younger Aang bows to Gyatzo, who affectionately pats his head. The image fades into present-day Aang bowing before the wooden statue of Gyatzo at the Southern Air Temple. The video fades to black.

[south-africa-official]

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

[clonerightsagenda]

When I was at the natural history museum, the fossil section had stickers on the glass to engage children - things like "Flap your arms like a pterodactyl" or "Measure your hand against the mosasaurus." However the first of these I encountered, which I found alarming and threatening without context, was a sticker reading "Struggle like you are stuck in a tar pit"

[clonerightsagenda]

I feel like more bright colors, an exclamation mark, or a more whimsical font choice would've also helped here to indicate that it is a Fun Activity For Children. Instead it felt like getting instructed in my inevitable fate by a road sign

[as-snow-falls-on-desert-sky]

@ominous-signs i hope you’ve seen this one?

[ominous-signs]

Actually was originally featured on silly signs!

[victusinveritas]

[astercontrol]

My heart is lighter than a feather and my liver is darker than a black coffee because that's what it's marinating in

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Do I need to make a Dunkin Run and see if they have any of these left? (pictures would be posted, of course)

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 5

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Alas - I did go, but they were already sold out and I had content myself with the snacking bacon

[victusinveritas]

From all of us, thanks for trying.

[victusinveritas]

(from Facebook)

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

let's put Scooby and the gang in a genuine horror movie situation, i wanna see what these freaks are truly capable of

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"didn't they already do this with—" no. put them in a slasher film. put them in a BLOODBATH. put this van full of weirdoes in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre scenario i have FAITH in them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

THEY'D DO WELL IN SAW

[batneko]

okay I'm thinking about this

not Saw specifically but a slasher with a legit body count. Summer camp slashers are overplayed but I think it really works because it's the type of thing the Scooby gang WOULD get caught up in.

like some of the counselors didn't show up (got got) so the head counselor calls his younger cousin to see if him and his friends can fill in last minute. They show up and they're a bunch of nerds, one of them even has an anxiety dog, and they don't have a big role at first. It seems like the movie is setting them up as cannon fodder.

and then the deaths start and suddenly the nerds are locked the fuck in. The little one with the glasses actually fixed the phone line and is taking stock of all their supplies in case the vehicles go out. The counselor's cousin who seemed like a himbo has set up a perimeter and made makeshift alarms for all the doors and windows, knows all the entry points. The anxious one and his dog are keeping the mood up with the snacks and activities that were supposed to be for the kids, making sure nobody panics and starts making dumb decisions. Somebody tried to grab the redhead and she flipped him over and had him zip-tied before anybody noticed. Weren't they a D&D group or something? What is happening???

[lizardlicks]

Fuck the slasher movie just effectively becomes Home Alone but with Four Kevin McAllisters

Bro's fucked.

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by Daviddv1202

[dawen]

at one point the kid with the anxiety dog says, "man, why does this keep happening? this is, like, the eighth time thid year!"

it's barely June. abruptly all the normal councilors understand a) why he has an anxiety dog, and b) why the dog has anxiety too.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Reminder that top speed for Shaggy is canonically the same top speed as a fuckin' great dane.

Slasher is flat out chasing after this kid, finally gaining on him, when suddenly he speeds up and starts going 30 miles per hour.

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[helenarth]

one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"

for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"

[itseasytoremember]

I just feel like it's important to post the Sacred Texts