open up your eyes

Somewhere in a quiet little nook of this city Slipping into something that's a little less like a disguise, You are not alone, here. Open up your eyes. - "Two Strangers", Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Hi, I'm Liz. Here's where I make note of things that have caught my attention in my little nook of the world.

[bartdontlie]

Sometimes I accidentally receive email intended for other people. 

I try to be helpful. 

(Meanwhile I haven’t replied to like the last six emails from actual family members. I’m the worst.) 

[bartdontlie]

UPDATES! 

Jules replied to thank me for pointing out her error. She regrets to inform me that they already have an officiant: 

Then while attempting to send the wedding weekend accommodations email to the correct Ed she sent the original email to me again. 

I’m still trying to help: 

I haven’t heard from Jules since Friday so I suspect this is the end of our correspondence, but I’ll keep everyone posted. 

[bartdontlie]

UPDATE! Pete and Jules’s big day is almost here! 

It seemed like the right thing to do for all the joy they’ve brought us. 

[bartdontlie]

Oh my god oh my god oh my god! 

Pete and Jules sent me a thank you note! 

Complete with a very nice note: 

Aren’t they just the best? I should probably send them a thank you note to say thank you for the thank you note, shouldn’t I? 

Of course I should. 

[bookoisseur]

God I fucking love the internet.

[likeadisguise]

There's a woman in England (near Warwickshire, I believe) who shares my name, and my Gmail address (which is firstnamelastname@gmail) with a "13" added at the end. She was President of her golf club for a while, and she's active in a choir.

We "met" when they misprinted her email in her golf club's newsletter for an event that people had to RSVP for. She wrote to to me to explain and apologize, and I passed on all the emails I received meant for her.

I tend to get one or two emails a year meant for her, and we have a nice correspondence. I always sign my emails "US Name," and she signs hers "UK Name." Maybe one day we'll meet IRL!

[lovejaredpadalecki]

[sephiraallen]

THIS IS NOT A DRILL…

Kushiel’s Legacy fans, rejoice! The Publishers Marketplace newsletter has announced that the rights for all nine (yes, you’re reading that correctly!) books in Jacqueline Carey’s three-trilogy epic have been sold to Lionsgate. But there’s an open question as to whether this means a Kushiel’s Dart film or a more involved, perhaps Outlander-esque, TV series. Or both?

According to the listing, Dan Hadl, the studio’s Executive Vice President of Television Business Affairs, will serve as producer.

Although the deal was filed under the “Film” category, it’s not clear whether the adaptation will ultimately end up as a movie, TV show, or both. Nine epic books with a story spanning more than a century is a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings-esque undertaking. In addition, the Kushiel book series deals with eroticism and the balance between sex and power with a depth that would almost certainly call for an R rating, whereas television would allow far more flexibility.

And considering all the upcoming fantasy adaptations competing to fill our Game of Thrones-shaped void, like Amazon Prime’s The Wheel of Time, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, and BBC’s The Watch, it would make a lot more sense if Lionsgate threw an adaptation in the ring, as well.

The author Jacqueline Carey thought so, too, back in 2014. In an update on her website, Carey wrote:

“After having watched three seasons of Game of Thrones (I don’t have HBO, so I catch up by binge-watching DVDs), I will say this. I now believe that Kushiel’s Legacy could be made into a pretty damn awesome series, one that gets the delicious nuance of the intrigue, the epic scope of the plot(s), the pageantry of the battles, and that confronts the erotic aspect head-on.”

As for casting choices, Carey suggested “wildly talented unknowns” (as the Game of Thrones cast largely were before the show began) in the key roles, with Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany as Phèdre.

No word yet on a cast, crew, or a production start date for this possible adaptation. In the meantime, check out our re-read of the Phèdre Trilogy, as well as our primer to the world of Kushiel’s Legacy. (source: tor.com/2019/10/18/jacqueline-careys-kushiels-legacy-series-optioned-by-lionsgate-but-should-we-get-a-movie-or-tv-show/)

[bilosan]

Q: Do you consider yourselves brothers in real life? Jensen: I recently had a really cool conversation with an actor that I admire. Guess you know Luke Perry. And he was talking about how unique this situation is to work with a friend, and a dear friend and a best friend. And how special that is. And he told me, he’s like, “I still live down the street from Jason.” As in Jason Priestley. And he’s like, “He’s still one of my best friends in my life and will forever be.” And so I took kind of- I took solace in that. Knowing that, you know, that’s probably what this yahoo and I will be like in years to come. [NJCON 2016]

[astrhae]

“I’m not half as good at – at anything as I am when I’m doing it next to you. And that’s the truth.”

steve and tony + walking together

[jaredandjensen]

15x20 - Carry On

[keikomivra]

Thank You Supernatural for 15 Years

[donnajosh]

THE WEST WING 2.16 – “Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail”

[jaredandjensen]

1x01 // 15x20

[michaeldean]

15x18 - Despair

[bustedbernie]

[politishaun-deactivated20230409]

Okay. That was the one. That did it. Here come the tears.

[hachama]

This is the one that did me in:

“She was ours, she did her best, she stayed as long as she could.”

[tartymae]

  May her good works and memory bless us in perpetuity

[copperbadge]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn in 1933. She meets Steve Rogers pre- or post-freezing.

OR BOTH!

1942: 

It was nice to be back in New York, Steve thought, after touring the whole country with the Star Spangled Show. Even better, once the show was done here, they were going overseas – not into combat, but at least it was a start. It made him cheer up just to think about it, and he maybe threw a little extra flair into the show every night, took a little extra time at the stage door.

“What’s your name?” he asked, crouching to get on eye-level with the little girl who had been patiently waiting behind several taller, pushier people. 

“Ruth,” she said shyly, offering him her autograph book.

“Lovely name,” he replied. “Did you like the show?”

She nodded. “I liked the dancing.” 

“You gonna be a dancer when you grow up?”

“Nuh uh,” she said. 

“What’re you gonna be?”

“A judge,” she said. 

“Yeah? You gonna make sure justice is done?”

She nodded soberly.

“Well, Ruth, you gotta study hard, you know that, right?” he asked, as he signed her book. “I expect to see you on the bench someday.”

“Thank you,” she murmured, stepping back, and another handful of kids surged around her. Cute kid. 

2012: 

Steve had always liked Civics in school, but when you had to catch up on seventy years between your last history class and the present, it could get a little overwhelming. On the other hand, celebrity was good for something; when he’d been working on memorizing the names and major cases of the Supreme Court justices, Tony had said, “Well, do you want to meet them?”

A couple of long phone calls and a few weeks later, Steve passed through a LOT of security, down a hallway, and into a courtroom; it was early in the morning, ahead of the open public hours, and the room smelled like coffee. A tiny bird of a woman in a black gown was standing in front of the seating box. 

“Captain,” she said, as he shook her hand. 

“Justice Ginsburg, right?” he asked. “It’s an honor, ma’am.”

“I feel the same,” she said, and there was something very familiar about her smile. “I wanted to get here a little earlier than everyone else, to speak to you in private.” 

He was opening his mouth, about to ask why, when she reached into a pocket of the robe and took out a battered leather book, the kind kids used to collect autographs in.

“I don’t suppose you remember, you must have signed a lot of autographs,” she said. “But back in the war, just before you left for overseas, I went to see your bond show.” 

Steve looked down. Scrawled on the page was his clumsy signature and, in slightly better lettering, To Judge Ruth. Study Hard!

He looked up at her, eyes wide. “No, I remember – I asked if you wanted to be a dancer and you said no, you were going to be a judge.”

“You were the first adult outside of my family who didn’t sneer at a girl wanting to be a judge,” she said. 

“Well,” Steve said faintly. “Guess you must have studied.”

“Captain America said he wanted to see me on the bench. Couldn’t very well let him down,” she replied, and Steve laughed. 

[copperbadge]

May your memory be a blessing, Your Honor. 

[em-kellesvig]

::sobs::

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[quidditygenesis]

Gonna try it. Need me some good luck.

[sheryl-lee]

Chris Evans as Steve Rogers in the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[steftastan]

CAN I ADD TO THIS TOO?

IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.

[oniongentleman]

And this is why my students look at me as though I’m the devil when I try to tell them that no i’m not lying this really is a thing

[hermoninee-granger]

IT’S ‘COULDN’T CARE LESS’ NOT ‘COULD CARE LESS’ IF YOU COULD CARE LESS THAT MEANS YOU CARE

[haiku-robot]

it’s ‘couldn’t care less’ not ‘could care less’ if you could care less that means you care

^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!

[miss-malaphor]

Please check out Homophones Weakly.

It’s a treasure trove.

And a goddamn delight.

[spicychestnut]

I laughed so hard

[toopuretobepink]

as a person whose native language isn’t English, I truly appreciate this

[dancinjanssen]

‘AFFECT’ IS THE ACTION. ‘EFFECT’ IS THE RESULT. SOMETHING DOESN’T ‘EFFECT’ YOU; IT ‘AFFECTS’ YOU. HOWEVER IT CAN HAVE AN EFFECT ON YOU.

[headless-horseboy]

It’s not delivery it’s digorno

[jamesbarnesappreciationsociety]

EXTREMELY HELPFUL

[thefanficfaerie]

I literally say E ffect when I want the noun and A ffect for the verb. Only way I can make my brain tell the difference.

[likeadisguise]

UNLESS YOU ARE A SEA LION, YOU ARE NOT WAITING WITH 'BAITED' BREATH, YOU ARE WAITING WITH 'BATED' BREATH!

[padmedala]

if you were wondering what my last two brain cells have been up to since I saw Endgame, wonder no longer

[emisobsessed]

This is the ultimate Endgame meta post. That’s it, you can stop meta-ing about this movie and just move on to the next thing in your life.

[likeadisguise]

Oh look, I'm Shouty Man With Beard.

[616marvel]

Captain America + Mjolnir