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julia / 30+ / Germany / she/her / fanfic writing & random storytelling thoughts & fanart / circling through obsessions one show at a time / sideblog for pure fangirling: @warpfeels / also new sideblog for all @taskmasterladyboners

[meredithmcclaren]

April Fools

Description: An illustration on a simple grey background. It features a traditional medieval jester in all red, somberly raising a crown over his head.

[juliairian]

Merlin Fic Update!

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

I've finally begun posting the next looong chapter in my looooooooong Merlin fic WIP. This one is called "Forget me Not", will have 6 parts and is currently at 33k words - phew. It turned out a lot longer than I thought, mostly because of very few time skips.

Nimueh is in Camelot now, and puts the entire castle under a forgetfulness spell - only Merlin knows who he is. Expect magical visions of the future, a hidden Sidhe assassin and a very suspicious Uther Pendragon...

[sixidiotsdavidtennantfan]

Happy Death Day Thomas Thorne!

[cannibalchicken]

[puddox]

I see the original post going around every so often and it saddens me a little that it's never accompanied by this thread explaining why it's completely understandable how a child would arrive at these spellings in accordance with english phonetics

[godlessondheimite]

when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”

[futuristicballoondream-deactiva]

Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and 'getting away with' doing an American accent):

".... because they're much less interested...they don't have that 'Professor Higgins' ear for.... class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by... with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it's such a big country nobody really.... it doesn't bother people so much where you're from or why you sound the way you sound. America's a country that's too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida's got no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it's just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about... every British drama we watch, we're like, well that's High Wycombe, that could never happen because it's a one way system there! whereas America's so mythically grand, it's too big to know itself, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. "

[juliairian]

Bit of a tangent, but accents and locality is also quite a big deal in Germany (and as my English husband never stops pointing out, if you get a group of Germans from different areas together, they will invariably start talking about it much like discussing the weather.)

So when you watch TV here, it's either

• a show from a specific place with 1+ characters speaking the local dialect (Schwäbisch, Sächsisch, Bayrisch, Pfälzisch etc.) more accurately than seems natural

Or

• A dubbed TV show (mostly from US and some UK perhaps) where nobody has even the slightest hint of an accent and instead they all speak jilted and unnatural and also never ask people if they can say Du to them

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[hallowedlore]

this is targeted tumblr content

[not-freyja]

Okay but this is actually a perfect translation into modern slang, with the rhythmic nature if the speech preserved?

[michaelnordeman]

Mountain Hare/skogshare. Värmland, Sweden (August 7, 2021).

[juliairian]

"Enjoy your meal"

"You too!"

[megamindsupremacy]

My take is that if you’re going to break up a happy healthy committed straight ship to make room for a gay one (or vice versa, but lbr the former happens more often in fandom) then you HAVE to keep the characters’ insanity for each other intact. Like ok yes sure we can handwave “it was a different time and we were younger and now that things are settled it’s for the best that we split” sure whatever BUT! I will not accept these guys becoming ambivalent to each other. You MUST maintain the fact that they would absolutely kill someone if the other asks. if you take away the romantic attraction then the years of history and emotion remain and now instead of kissing each other the blorbos just have to be really intense about their ex’s health and safety instead.

[megamindsupremacy]

And hey look at me right now look into my fucking eyes. The next person to break up a healthy happy committed canon relationship with a handwavey “she’s a cheating lying bitch and I hate her now” will die by my blade.

[megamindsupremacy]

POINTS. THANK YOU YOU GET IT!!!

[megamindsupremacy]

I want everybody to know that I’m very proud of us for getting this post to nearly 500 notes without a single person being stupid at me in the reblogs. Maybe there’s hope for tumblr yet.

[nmbrs]

fuck it, i'm curious. reblog and tag with the first fictional death to ever rewrite your brain chemistry and/or make you cry like a baby. mine was ares from the underland chronicles (who, for context, was a giant bat.) to this day i will weep if i think too hard about it. okay, go.

[brightlotusmoon]

[juliairian]

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[loubuttons]

I also want the whale that took this guys leg

[beggars-opera]

Not amab or afab, but a secret third thing. Hmm what could we call it

[knightofleo]

[herpsandbirds]

Common eider

[phynoma]

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[heterokatedison]

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner

[kratt09]

people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

[kratt09]

thats not the word I meant to use

[coldspicyy]

None of these words are in the bible.

[godmodebeginswithlesbians]

au contraire, mon ami

[transarsonist]

dont weird pussy, that's woke stale. penis absolute.

[thedeadskincellsonyourpillow]

this website sometimes

[guy-who-exists]

crybaby learns how to swim - subtitled

[aurasabloom-deactivated20210804]

xD

[thechekhov]

Ok but those subtitles are 100% accurate

[juliairian]

ITS BACK

but no seriously you guys this video had a lasting impact on my marriage

My husband and I still, to this day, will say L'EGG and FIBSH in a plaintive voice to each other when we don't want to do things

[adhd-alien]

Shame is one of the hardest things about ADHD for me. I'm back and the book is finished but instead of feeling proud, I feel ashamed for not having managed to stay active, manage my household better or even shower regularly.

I wasn't sure what comic "would be good to come back with", so I just wrote about what I'm actually dealing with right now.

I’m so happy to be back and hope someone still gets some value from my comics!