L.R.G.Carter

you're laughing. charles dickens had a son named plorn and you're laughing

HE HAD A SON NAMED

WHAT

Plorn

NICK I LOOKED IT UP AND SAW NOTHING OF THE SORT IS THIS A PRANK

technically his name was edward but everyone called him plorn

Edward “Plorn” Dickens. my god.

I have something worse

oh???

imagine getting stuck with the nickname Plorn

imagine getting sent to live in the Australian outback when you were sixteen

WHY WERE THEY SO CRUEL TO MY BOY PLORN

I have an answer to that one too

cogentranting

The face of a man whose father nicknamed him Plorn.

elodieunderglass

Born without a groove 😔

linguisticparadox

telomeke

With each addition to this, I find myself nodding and murmuring, "Mm hm. The Plorn Dickens."

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sarahreesbrennan

justice for Plorn

Was ‘Dickens’ not burden enough

#no #not like that #you people I swear

The nickname could have been shortened to Goon'er, so he got off lucky.

wowhead

straight up why is it yellow outside

wowhead

ohhhh ok its because there is a yellow alert

It's like the old saying goes: "Red sky at night, that's a red alert. Red sky in the morning, that's still a red alert, time isn't the variable factor here."

duckbunny

I do think it's important, not just to know in the abstract, but to make part of your understanding of the world, that all of the land in Britain has been stolen.

duckbunny

how do you get a mobile workforce who can be coerced into the mines and the mills? how do you get your peasantry to take work digging canals through the rock of the hills? how do you create factory girls and all the slum children you can eat to keep your weaving frames clean?

how do you make your people willing to work at starvation wages in crippling conditions when the great god Industry needs bodies to feed on?

well, one place you might start is to take away their land.

The first place The British colonised was Britain.

salsadragon-art

A quiet moment 🦖

Primal is a good show and Fang is an iconic queen. Super proud of how this little family turned out!!

@ultharkitty

cruisercrusher

trying to figure this freak out

At least I know what her alt mode looks like

@ultharkitty

nudityandnerdery

"[Y]our Harry Potter games are Cybertrucks" is such a good way to put it.

The power of the small but networked UK transphobe brigade is super powerful in the UK, precisely because people like Rowling have 'pay to play' access to the political sphere. The leader of our current opposition party has stated on record that her fellow transphobes stacked positions of power with like-minded bigots, and the current Labour party has followed through continuing the hate they put in place. Rowling in the past has been heavily linked to this party.

Rowling *is* an Elon. Both dick with our politics, both pour your money into hate.

The only thing stopping Rowling becoming Elon is scale.

Rowling influences a sad island group of some seventy million people because she once wrote some children's books.

Elon influences a nation of some three and a half hundred million people, plus vassal states (which arguably includes the UK), and does so through his control of various infrastructure systems that include satellites that can screw over the course of wars and the like.

What I'm saying is, I agree with this post in everything except the tense. Rowling isn't a hypothetical future danger. She is a very real present danger.

Out PM and government *are* for sale. And, as various examples in the past decade have shown, it's for sale for ridiculously small amounts. There have been multiple recent cases of really depressingly small bribes. Like, the queer people in need run fund-raisers that make more money scale of bribes. And Rowling is definitely feeding money into the system to get her way. Her hate lobbying have been cited in USA government places as a reason to discriminate against trans people.

Which is to say, yeah, her books and games and tv shows are like teslas. Stop buying them.

Case in point: The UK transphobes have got to Amnesty International and had them walk back and take down a report on transphobia.

AMNESTY International has expressed its "regret" over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as "anti-rights"…

Anyway, here's the report:

And just in case people were thinking "wait, are they just using Rowling's image to get clicks? Was she actually directly involved with this?" (a fair thing to ask), she's made the following tweet linking herself firmly to the goings on.

I've put it under a cut because this is transphobia all the way down.

The point is, as discussed in the original post, she is an Elon, her earnings fund hate, her influence is material and heavy, please stop buying her books, watching her tv shows, playing her games, buying her toys, etc.

When I was a kid I was pissed off that Jurassic Park 2 was about Ian Malcom.

Not just because he died in the book; though, yes, I was the sort of kid that didn't like that even though he survived in the film.

But because it should have been about Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler. Because they were the main characters. Ian Malcom was a loser. He wasn't even a paleontologist.

Anyway, Jurassic Park 3 corrected the Alan Grant issue. Could have done with more Sattler though. And even the first film needed closure on the Triceratops plot by having her figure out that, while the Triceratops avoided the poisonous berries, they got hoovered up by accident alongside gizzard stones. But this isn't about how Jurassic Park unfairly sidelined Sattler's presence.

It's about how Sam Neil was awesome, and will be missed. He's riding velociraptors through the skies above us.

nudityandnerdery

"[Y]our Harry Potter games are Cybertrucks" is such a good way to put it.

The power of the small but networked UK transphobe brigade is super powerful in the UK, precisely because people like Rowling have 'pay to play' access to the political sphere. The leader of our current opposition party has stated on record that her fellow transphobes stacked positions of power with like-minded bigots, and the current Labour party has followed through continuing the hate they put in place. Rowling in the past has been heavily linked to this party.

Rowling *is* an Elon. Both dick with our politics, both pour your money into hate.

The only thing stopping Rowling becoming Elon is scale.

Rowling influences a sad island group of some seventy million people because she once wrote some children's books.

Elon influences a nation of some three and a half hundred million people, plus vassal states (which arguably includes the UK), and does so through his control of various infrastructure systems that include satellites that can screw over the course of wars and the like.

What I'm saying is, I agree with this post in everything except the tense. Rowling isn't a hypothetical future danger. She is a very real present danger.

Out PM and government *are* for sale. And, as various examples in the past decade have shown, it's for sale for ridiculously small amounts. There have been multiple recent cases of really depressingly small bribes. Like, the queer people in need run fund-raisers that make more money scale of bribes. And Rowling is definitely feeding money into the system to get her way. Her hate lobbying have been cited in USA government places as a reason to discriminate against trans people.

Which is to say, yeah, her books and games and tv shows are like teslas. Stop buying them.

Case in point: The UK transphobes have got to Amnesty International and had them walk back and take down a report on transphobia.

AMNESTY International has expressed its "regret" over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as "anti-rights"…

Anyway, here's the report:

I don't want to piss on people's fun, but for me any BBC comedy writer is assumed transphobic until they prove themselves otherwise.

I've just reached the end of season 5 in my Steven Universe re-watch.

Remembering the critiques of this at the time, I am amazed at how many full grown adults were happy to proudly proclaim their media illiteracy to the world.

alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

sarostheghostcat

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

wafflebloggies

moon day is 20th July!!!

silly-jellyghoty

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

sashaforthewin

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

kitsuneofthemist

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

inkyrainstorms

MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!

rhube

Can we get Moon Moon in on this?

It should be an international holiday. The whole world contributed to the work.

64mpg

“my friend is ALWAYS sick and cancelling our plans” it sounds like your friends life suuucks and you should check on them

lottafeelingsinhere

One of the worst parts of being chronically ill is how lonely it gets. You need a community to help you but you realize just how conditional your friendships are on you being able bodied.

rhube

Please keep inviting your friends out even if they keep saying no. It isn't that we don't want to go. We really want to be asked on the occasions when we can!

I've started playing Pokopia.

For those who don't know: You play a Ditto in a post apocalyptic pokemon world, working with other pokemon to rebuild. All the humans have gone. It's just you and the other pokemon.

And then there's this guy:

This guy is the dictionary definition of assimilationist. He wants the humans to come back so hard. He wants us to rebuild the world so that it's good for humans. He wants pokemon to behave in a way that's good for humans. He's such a little Pick-Me.

I'm only a short way in, so no spoilers please, but Pokopia seems to be a tragic tale of survivors of climate change and human mismanagement being given the chance to rebuild the world into something radical and new ...

But this little quisling seems hell-bent on making us repeat all the previous mistakes. Making us go hard on the industry and light pollution and noise pollution.

Fuck this guy.

It's a good game! Something new from the franchise that turns out to be good, just like Pokemon Arceus. Fancy that!

Can't wait to see how they fuck up the sequel like they did with Pokemon ZA!

#pokemon #pokopia

rubyjones

Confession time: I am so exhausted by all the things you're supposed to do as a self-pubbed author that I cannot do because I am permanently ill.

I've not managed to get my books on Itch.io

I have not managed to update the entry for An Unexpected Attachment on D2D to say that it's part of a series.

I started setting up a website, but stalled. Again.

I was going to transfer all the stories that are on Medium to my Patreon. Guess what I have not done.

I regularly fail to partake of the various social media hashtags games in which I partake because I don't have the spoons to do better kinds of engagement.

I have failed to set up an author mailing list (requires website - not strictly, but actually yes it does).

I am not adequately promoting my sales periods (psst, all my novellas are half price in the Smashwords July sale).

I'm not creating new graphic images for social media with fun stuff like quotes in them so people don't just scroll past the same promo they have seen before.

Nor am I adequately promoting my Redbubble store.

Or approaching people for guest blog posts (I would not have the spoons).

Or recording audio versions of my books.

Or doing anything to get my books reviewed.

And you'll notice that none of these things are actually writing or editing.

I just... can't do it all. Which is a bummer, because if I don't find ways to tell people about my books, no one will ever see them.

I really, really wish I could do all this, but I can't. I'm just too sick.

If you've read and liked my books, please review them. Please tell your friends.

I feels ya, being in the same boat.

storm-of-feathers

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

emeraldspiral

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

dante-macabre

These weren’t even the biggest sacrifices. CN basically gave her an ultimatum and canceled the show for it. She knew this would likely happen and that’s why season 5 is paced so fast. She could have had 2 more seasons but that wouldn’t be worth it without ruby and sapphire

vaspider

Yeah, they were given an ultimatum and they lost their show over this.

And they have said they stand by it.