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"You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them" - Meggie, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Miscellaneous fandom-and-random blog, all welcome :)

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An update commissioned by@sir-skeletal for puppy to receive EVEN MORE PETS

[thestuffedalligator]

It's been a thousand years since I read Percy Jackson or any kind of Rick Riordan product, but I still think about two things from those books:

It's interesting in a landscape of retellings and challenges of myth that Percy Jackson as a series kinda doesn't. You can't swing a stick without hitting a dozen books and movies and games that look at, say, the Minotaur and say, "How human was he really? Was he really a monster? Did the Minotaur deserve to die?" and the Lightning Thief basically opens with "Yep emphatically a monster. He's one of the first ones that Percy kills. Boy I'm happy that the Minotaur is dead." See also the Percy Jackson rendition of Circe, Medusa, and basically every other major villainous or monstrous figure from Greek myth that has been retold and reinterpreted a thousand times and made into a sympathetic figure. And I want to emphasize that this isn't a bad thing, because challenging or retelling that particular kind of myth isn't what Percy Jackson is about. Percy Jackson is about living with absentee parents, and it uses Greek myth as a means to deliver that theme, and it's very effective in doing so. I just think this makes it unique in the field of myth retellings because it refuses to engage with any kind of retelling that would ask us to sympathize with the traditionally monstrous (barring a few exceptions, don't jump up my butt, I know about Tyson and the cyclopes)

Did the Kane Chronicles establish that Moses was just a totally real dude or am I making that up. I swear to god they just have a mural of Moses at one point and go "Ah yes the one magician who ever beat the wizards of the House of Life" and fucking move on like hello

[ants-are-stealing-my-dnd-books]

I've been out of the fandom for so long but might I add:

3. Magnus Chase also established that Jesus was real and that one of the norse gods is pissed because he never showed up to their competition(I think it was either smithing or carpentry) and then moved on

[thestuffedalligator]

Huh??? Huh??? What???

[ants-are-stealing-my-dnd-books]

It's been so long, I don't think I could give you any direction on when but (if I didn't dream it) there was a time when Magnus talked about BC/AD as in before or after christ as a calender system and someone answered that they use a different calender because some god still has beef with Jesus

[connorwyndham]

Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry as Rachel Green and Chandler Bing in F.R.I.EN.D.S (1994-2004)

-You’re a pathetic loser, right? -Oh-ho, yeah! -Sit!

[great-and-small]

christians annoying as fuck. you know bugs don't have thoughts or feeling right

Quite a few strange assumptions here all jumbled in at once

1. That I am christian?

2. That christians are morally opposed to killing insects?

3. That someone would only be opposed to eliminating an entire species because they think it will make bugs sad?

4. That animals only deserve to exist if they think or feel as we do? Fuck all the coral I guess.

5. That we can even know for certain that invertebrates do not think or feel?

This is inferior hate mail with a weak and lazy thesis. I suspect your mind is much sharper than you have presented it here.

[great-and-small]

@quillusquillus you’re probably so right and I literally didn’t even remember that was a thing…

[mudwisard]

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

[maeamian]

Weird to me that Save and Quit has become less and less of a video game industry standard, replaced with "Are you sure? All unsaved progress will be lost."

My cynical assumption for this phenomenon is that it makes the psychological barrier of quitting a bit higher thereby increasing playtime which leads to etc etc etc.

I want to be clear I have no particular insight beyond I miss save and quit, but I'm sick of going 'did I save?' to myself after having just saved and I feel like at minimum tacking on a system that suppresses that warning if there's no unsaved progress isn't an unreasonable ask.

[beingatoaster]

I agree, and I don't understand why it's become so uncommon either.

[bendingsignpost]

What I resoundingly want is a timer that says how long I am from my last save. The Did I Save/Must Save Multiple Times In A Row is just Too Strong. Just:

Do You Want To Save? (It's Been 0:0:02 Since Your Last Save)

with the seconds ticking up.

[jedi-starbird]

Palpatine: My boy, I'm afraid to report that Master Kenobi is very likely sleeping with your wife.

Anakin, who knows for a fact that Obi-Wan is sleeping with his Commander, a good chunk of Ghost company, the Organas and Quinlan Vos: ...where is he finding the fucking time???

Palpatine, oblivious: Oh I've heard from some very reliable sources that-

Anakin: *pulls out a spexcel spreadsheet, the 3rd System Army's shared spoogle calender and a calculator*

Anakin: Your Excellency. That's just. not logistically possible.

[aura-likes-all-the-things]

This. Exactly this.

[planetofsnarfs]

A.I. tried to recreate gymnastics and gave us a Lovecraftian nightmare of unimaginable terror

ALL HAIL OCTOBUTT!

[myothertardisisonthemun]

This is the ideal gymnast body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like...

[so-much-to-read-deactivated2025]

Natalie M’phylgwnth from Carcosa just finished her beam routine, which has left another judge screaming and blind. We’re going to take a break as they look for another volunteer.

[atalana]

[strangenewclassrooms]

@elodieunderglass

[elodieunderglass]

Oh I can’t do ANY of that

[benoitblanc]

leia organa truly has one of the best bait-and-switch character introductions of all time because when you meet her she's this brave, stoic picture of elegance and justice and always knows just what to say to vader and tarkin and is clad in white like an angel and is this perfect two-dimensional archetype of pureness of heart. and then approximately half an hour later into the film she meets luke and han and she IMMEDIATELY shows her true colors as a sarcastic, bitchy control freak with a massive impulsive streak and a deep mine of hyperspecific insults. 10/10 character design i'm obsessed with her

[penny-anna]

further Star Wars positivity post: the whole wampa sublot at the beginning of ESB doesn't add anything to the plot but it does serve to convey how close Luke, Han & Leia have all got since the previous movie; we see Han being willing to risk freezing to death to save Luke & Leia's genuine devastation when she's forced to order them locked out of the base overnight. this is all very important given that they're about the spend the rest of the movie split up into separate plot threads but w their friendship being absolutely vital to the climax.

[lenin-it-to-win-it]

[penny-anna]

anyway sound off. at what stage do ppl think Han figured out the Force was real. the boring answer is after seeing Obi-wan vanish but i think he could rationalise that away as his eyes playing tricks on him. what do we think.

[my-last-brain-cell-is-socrates]

Let me demonstrate my answer for you:

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Please just take a look at Han's face right after witnessing 3po float. The man just had his entire worldview blown to smithereens.

[whetstonefires]

that's so funny. that means he accepted Vader deflecting a blaster bolt with his hand as just something freaky government cyborgs can do, and stuck by Luke for multiple years as he tried to figure this Force stuff out, and just treated it like your friend getting really really into neopaganism to cope with a loss.

like yeah kid good job with the witching. i'm certain it will be more useful against your enemies than your sharpshooting. no i do not think your witchcraft is supplementing your aim but i'm not gonna argue about it.

[penny-anna]

yeah Luke was like 'I heard Ben Kenobi's voice in my head telling me how to blow up the Death Star :)' and Han was like 'kind of an unusual coping mechanism but I'm not gonna argue with him'

[regexkind]

I could strip the flesh from a cow in 30 seconds too just give me some 30% peroxide and some sulfuric acid. Piranhas are not special

[kwarrtz]

> tries to one up piranhas

> uses piranha solution

curious

[regexkind]

screaming and crying and throwing up because I just wanted to be a hater and I can't even do that right

[teaboot]

Okay this is extremely funny

[ofide]

why is this picture of garlic from wikipedia so erotic i feel like i need to avert my gaze

[hemoloaf]

This image looks like it was pulled directly from the mind of someone that is happier than all of us.

[iosonomer-blog]

[alex51324]

You know how Bertie Wooster is always complaining about the time when Biffy or Boko or some other chap with a silly name bet him that he couldn't swing across the rings over the swimming bath at the Drones club, but looped back the last ring, causing him to drop into said swimming bath in full evening costume?

Anyway, skill issue, apparently. As this woman shows, he could have just gone back.

[werewolfetone]

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

[laerugo]

#even if they share your values they would phrase things differently. ‘​I hate to see a man hanged for it’ vs ‘love is love’ (via @aurpiment)

[anjing-jam]

You can research what people actually said in history!

In 1726, when William Brown was on trial for attempted sodomy in London, he didn't say "I was born this way", he said, "“I think there is no crime in making what use I please of my own body”.

In the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen didn't say, "A woman can do anything a man can do!", she said, God created men and women with different humours and having too much of the male elements will throw society out of balance.

In the 1860s, Millicent Garrett Fawcett didn't say, "Women are just as smart as men", she said, Men get to vote no matter how dumb they are.

In the 1850s, William Craft didn't say, "Africans are just as smart as Europeans and it's bigoted to say otherwise", he said that Africans have thick skulls “to defend the brain from the tropical climate in which he lived. If God had not given them thick skulls their brains would probably have become very much like those of many scientific gentlemen of the present day”

[deathsmallcaps]

I genuinely like how all of those examples are killer quotes but also represent something that may be considered unkind or overly religious or oddly phrased or straight up untrue today. Excellent job picking them out @sourjen .