The No-Crime Dairy Queen

Alanna, 32, bi, she/her. A Song of Ice and Fire, Classics, McElroys, Better Call Saul, Red Vs Blue. Doctor Who sideblog @besidesitstoowarm.

[madqueenalanna]

ranking characters reddit wants to cast henry ashton as:

joshua york (fevre dream): this is so perfectly choice it actually makes want to pass out. I’ve read fevre dream a few times now and would really be interested in an adaptation and there’s no better york imo

dickie greenleaf (the talented mr ripley): they don’t need to remake this movie but if they did ooooooh

the vampire lestat (iwtv): I don’t go here and I see no reason to recast sam reid. they look a lot alike though

james bond (james bond): idk if he can pull off action hero but he would be so hot in a tux and he radiates charisma

rhaegar targaryen (asoiaf): I begrudgingly admit he has the right look and would love to see a more daeron-esque pathetic loser take on rhaegar but also I hate him and don’t want to see him

lucius malfoy (harry potter): he’s literally just blonde and has great bone structure

severus snape (harry potter): the person who said this is lucky I didn’t report them for terrorism

[utopians]

Car problems are great bc I can finally get that disgusting $600 that I hated out of my bank account

[lopata-four]

Meria Martell "looks" at the crown of Rhaenys Targaryen

[opiates]

cats will be like please i need you to watch me wiggle around on this carpet please hey look look please look at me i’m wiggling

[madqueenalanna]

I’ll say this the bad thing about wegovy is that it reactivated my eating disorder almost immediately but the worse thing is that I’m delighted bc I’ve been trying to forcibly reactivate my eating disorder for over a year but I was too alcoholic to commit to it. yes I know this is objectively harmful both physically and mentally. no I have absolutely no intention of stopping and I’m not interested in recovery

[sinsear-aisteach]

and another thing: no child should ever be made fun of for things they love especially by their parents

[sinsear-aisteach]

it should go without saying but apparently it needs to be said over and over and over again because every time i hear my mom tease my sister for playing wolfquest, every time i hear a teacher tease a kid for doodling, every time i hear a babysitter laugh at a kid explaining the plot of a show they like, it drives a fuckin stake through my heart because i was that kid once.

i was made fun of enough times by adults, by peers, for liking something and wanting to share it that i just. didn’t. anymore. 

dont fucking tease kids for liking things. even if you think its cringe. ESPECIALLY. if you think its cringe. because the way you speak and act towards them when they are sharing themselves with you STICKS and they will think of it years down the line.

BE NICE TO KIDS. BE NICE TO KIDS. LISTEN WHEN THEY SPEAK TO YOU. BE. FUCKING. NICE. TO. KIDS.

[corollarytower]

I was a substitute teacher for a little while between grad schools, and one day I had a middle school math class for the morning. The work they were assigned wasn’t *especially* hard, and one little girl knocked it out in 20 minutes. She started drawing what was very obviously Sans Undertale, and when I noticed I wanted to be supportive, and had the following exchange:

“What’s that you’re drawing?”

*panicking* “It’s nothing, I’m sorry, I’ll put it away.”

“No it’s okay, I was just curious about it.”

“It’s nothing. I don’t want to get in trouble.”

“You’re not in trouble, I just thought it looked like a character from a video game I like.”

Her face *lit up* the second I gave her the smallest bit of approval. She started asking me if I’d heard of various AUs for Undertale, and I tried to follow along as she explained her favorites. I obviously had to keep an eye on the rest of the class, answering questions and helping with algebra, but each time I passed her desk she had more things to tell me.

Anyway, it was very cute, but also a little sad how obviously starved she was for someone kind to talk about her stories with. Kids deserve to have someone in their corner, and it takes no effort at all to smile and listen if they have something they want to share. Preserve the earnestness you want to see in the world.

[despazito]

[christianstepmoms]

till the room stinks

[christianstepmoms]

nobody wants to see me prosper

[socialmaya]

[madqueenalanna]

today is my 10th day after starting wegovy and it fuckin rulessssss

the food noise is just. gone. i don't have cravings. i don't obsess over ordering takeout or constantly snacking. i've stayed sober, and haven't really been tempted to drink. i'm drinking water, i'm eating vegetables, i'm cooking meals, i'm going for walks w my husband in the mornings, i'm reading books, i'm writing. i've lost about 5lb. when i sleep, i don't wake up constantly, and i actually feel rested after. honestly i hate going to sleep bc there's so much stuff i want to keep doing!!

being hydrated and eating real food and exercising makes me feel good. being sober is what's fixed my sleep and it means my antidepressants can actually work again, so my mood is stable and i can focus on things. i actually didn't realize how not-alive i felt until i started enjoying living again

[lakevida]

harry styles should be beaten with metal implements for what he has forced the public to listen to over grocery store speakers and then i also need something inflicted on the creative forces involved in that photoshoot where hes dressed like a mayflower pilgrim who fell asleep first at the slumber party and all the other colonial settlers drew terrible tattoos on him in sharpie

[segamascott]

[dogpuppy]

[madqueenalanna]

finally got around to reading emily wilson's translation of the odyssey. i liked it well enough, i think her insistence on keeping the number of lines the same and the use of iambic pentameter kept a nice pace and flow, everything did feel snappy and dynamic. it's obviously very readable, very understandable, so it's an easy recommendation for someone who wants to read it for the first time, especially if they're less familiar with the poem. i think she did a great job at varying her translations of certain phrases to not feel so terribly repetitive (particularly rosy-fingered dawn). i appreciate that unlike fagles especially she doesn't lean into misogynistic translation that the text doesn't insist on (no use of sluts or bitch) and the repeated reminder of "slave" over "servant" or "maid" was welcome

at the same time i do think it loses some beauty translated this way. outside of a few similes and the proem, it has a casualness about it that can be off-putting in dialogue especially. admittedly that might be quite faithful, i didn't study greek for very long, and i don't expect it to sound like shakespeare "just because"

[madqueenalanna]

the things i do to commas and semicolons should be banned by the geneva conventions

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[cocoloveyume]