Fandom, Life, and Everything In Between

A life lived slightly out of control. Home to one Manic Pixie Dream Dragon.  I am autistic. This sometimes will cause communication issues. 

[wheeloffortune-design]

my publisher: Good morning! Huh did you advertise for the pre-sale yesterday? Because we launched twelve hours ago and we already made sales!

me: yeah, i posted on tumblr

publisher: .........tumblr?

me: that's where the gays are.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western)

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update

publisher: And what is your marketing strategy on... tumblr?

me: idk, i shitpost at 2am?

publisher: .....and it works?

me: depends on what the gays find funny at that point in time.

publisher: Could I have a link to your tumblr?

me: .......absolutely not.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western where 50 year old women kiss and murder)

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update!

publisher: I've been looking into tumblr, have you thought of using Blaze to promote your book?

me: NO

publisher: But it seems like an efficient way to get this in front of more eyes-

me: people on tumblr hate Blaze.

publisher: There is no algorithm and you can't pay to promote a post? I don't understand how anyone advertises anything on tumblr.

me: That's the best part. They don't. They can't.

(trying to make him understand that we do not control the attention. We just have to show something shiny and gay enough and if people are interested, they'll reblog.)

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a deconstruction of the colonialist cowboy mythos dressed up as a sapphic romance.)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update with picture of a pet!

This is Cosmos, my publisher's dog.

He barks at my publisher's phone notifications. So every time a book is sold, Cosmos barks.

It's been days.

I think you guys would love to know that when you buy a book, a dog barks in Vancouver, Canada.

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a story where women help women bury the body of your abusive husband.)

[n3bulas-and-satelites]

@thebibliosphere @pangur-and-grim

[thebibliosphere]

Well, that’s one book waiting for me when I get back home! Also, please tell your publisher Cosmos is the goodest dog 💖

[prokopetz]

Doug Jones and Danny DeVito in a buddy comedy about a couple of elderly former henchmen unwillingly dragged out of retirement for one last caper. There's a running gag where they claim to be the original duo that the "one of them is short and fat and the other is tall and thin" trope is based on.

[prokopetz]

Playing against the trope's conventions (but to the actors' respective strengths), DeVito's character is the talkative one while Jones' character hardly says a word. The former argues that popular media always has it the other way 'round due to prejudice against short people.

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

I'd watch it.

[ceruleanheaven]

one day i will crack my back in a way that will solve all my life problems

[ccattnipp]

a bit spicy shadowgast, keep scrolling

uncropped: twitter bsky

[masonhawthorne]

I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

[chestercopperpotz]

I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

Polar opposite of the production I saw in college where there just wasn't an actor for the ghost. Hamlet says his lines to nothing.

[questcequecestqueca]

Walter Molino

[roach-works]

this man really woke up every morning and committed to painting the absolute dopest fucking pictures anyone could ever have imagined god bless

[mellaithwen]

Star Wars is to be dubbed into Welsh for the first time as the classic film prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year (x)

Set to broadcast on S4C on Christmas Day, the film, Star Wars; Gobaith Newydd, stars some of Wales' most internationally-recognised actors including;

Matthew Rhys as Han Solo, Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia. Star Wars veteran Mark Lewis Jones takes on the role of Darth Vader, while rising talent Osian Morgan voices Luke Skywalker.

A boed i'r Grym fod gyda chi - May the Force be with you!

S4C; Creative Wales; Lucasfilm

​…..shut the FRONT DOOR this is so fucking cool???!!!!?

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[friendly-asteroid]

Who wants to see my cat totally brave and not at all scared at the vet

[friendly-asteroid]

Excellent. Here she is, being super brave:

[totallyuniquelily]

[therealbeachfox]

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

You know one of the only things I really miss about my lolita fashion phase? Afternoon tea. People that were down to dress up and do afternoon tea on just a random day. It was fun.

[turtles-allthewaydown]

Did you know? That the back is made up of terrible and evil muscles that are only waiting for their chance to betray you

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

And wait until you hear about the spine.

[thebibliosphere]

Holly Mop is never eating her normal food for us ever again, is she?

[thebibliosphere]

Oh, she’s never eating for us again.

Also I don’t think I told Tumblr, but Holly Mop stole my niece’s beanbag chair. We have tried her with lots of different dog beds over the years and she’s been ambivalent about most of them. But my niece’s $50 beanbag chair that lives up at the cabin?

That’s hers now.

My FIL keeps referring to it as Princess Holly’s Throne.

And she cried so much when they tried to leave without it, my MIL brought it home with her for us to keep. The dog stole the wean’s chair and won.

The favoritism is blatant 🤣

[blessedandwholesome]

[highqueenofprydain]

Illustrations for upcoming print of my Castle of Llyr companion fic. To whit: Eilonwy dancing at the Rover camp, encountering the Sea for the first time in memory, and making a really dumb decision without which there would be no story.

[swagophile]

important reminder that most people you follow online are significantly lamer than you think they are including me. and if you feel insecure comparing yourself to someone online: DON'T. theyre probably also lame and weird. most people on the internet are

[most-sane-classicist]

reblog if you're also lame and weird.