I was meant for the stage.

womanofletters on AO3 (commenter, not writer) The heavens at my birth intended me for stardom. Rays of light shone down on me and all my sins were pardoned. - The Decemberists

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

bedford borough council's soc med person has had it with maggie tyers

[elodieunderglass]

I’m not going to get over this easily. Among the responsibilities of the Bedford Borough Council are

rubbish bins,

parking permits,

council tax, and

the placement of foster children

Within the county of Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Not listed among their responsibilities:

the creation, positioning, professional conduct, ongoing maintenance and estate costs, and scheduling of the fucking Moon

[gallusrostromegalus]

Yeah if someone wants to complain about the effects of the moon on the Christian Calendar, your best bet is taking it up with the Archbishop of Orlando, Florida and also The Moon* *Due to a canon law that says "any newly discovered territory would fall under the bishopric** from whence the discovering expedition departed." ** The current Archbishop John Noonan probably isn't going to be much help because he "Does not consider himself archbishop of the moon", but the paperwork still says he is, and also technically in charge of the International Space Station***, which also launched from his Diocese. ***I don't think the astronauts are going to assist this individual much either.

[cinemapix]

SET IT UP (2018) dir. Claire Scanlon

[wajb]

in these times of extreme surveillance, tumblr’s nonfunctional search engine stands in solidarity with the revolutionary

[mysharona1987]

[allpinkandgoldandglittering]

I know I only really post about Agents of Shield but Agent Carter is an absolute gem of a show as well. There's Peggy looking fabulous while beating men up with jazz music playing in the background. There's Jarvis being Jarvis and his rivalry with a flamingo. There's Sousa. Chad Michael Murray is there getting roasted at least once an episode. There's a sapphic Russian assassin. There's even a musical dance sequence.

[formulaonedirection]

To be loved is to be known or wtv

[heatedrivalrysource]

'Heated Rivalry's' Intimacy Coordinator Breaks Down Shane & Ilya's Chemi...

[undead-moth]

I do love that when the Heated Rivalry’s show runner was asked about casting queer actors to play queer characters he ignored the bait and was just straight up like “You can’t ask that. That’s illegal.” lmao because yeah. It is. Weird how a lot of discourse on this subject acts like this is not a factor.

[dduane]

Remembering this today. And the final ROAR of astonishment and delight as a dance form is suddenly reinvented…

[nwmo]

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.

[ninjakittenarmy]

Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

We made a whole-ass fish.

[ospreyonthemoon]

The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.

[ospreyonthemoon]

Oh i forgot to add

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.

the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!

[cipheramnesia]

It clearly wasn't a fluke. This is a fluke.

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶Accidental fish get! Sturgeon power!🎵

[shadowen]

Here's a fun story of malicious compliance to brighten your day:

Until recently, a few people in my office had these desk shades to combat the obnoxious fluorescent lights, which is very helpful for people (like me) with migraines or other light-sensitivity issues.

A few days ago, everyone who has them was told to take them down. Different people were given different reasons - It violates fire code (it doesn't) / It blocks line of sight (sort of?). Since this goes against the existing status quo, the union reps (my beloved) jumped on it. Someone jokingly suggested using umbrella hats instead, since hats are allowed in the dress code. Today, the union reps are passing out these ridiculous things in protest:

If the rules are absurd, the resistance should match.

[teathattast]

💯🙏💛🟨👍

[teathattast]

Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is

[teathattast]

Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis

[wizardysseus]

the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

[wizardysseus]

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

you don't get to do that and bury the things that made you famous. as an individual, as a human being, she is capable of change and any other good qualities you may want to ascribe. but she built her career on lies. professionally, i don't understand why she gets to move on.

[toppingilyarozanov]

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

this was just the beginning of the harassment, though. CC additionally used her friend heidi, a lawyer, to send cease & desist letters and other forms of legal harassment against ppl. none of it would hold up in court and these sort of things weren't even heidi's area of expertise as a lawyer, but it still happened.

CC was such a terrible serial harasser that people started to leave her alone about the plagiarism stuff after a while because it was just not worth her blowing up your entire spot. not just with her lawyer, but with her minions who harassed targets on her behalf. getting a deluge of harassment is a horrible experience that hurts people, so of course people tried to avoid it.

i hate CC because she hurt lots of people. she did it intentionally, repeatedly, and with singular focus on covering her own ass no matter who she hurt.

she has the career she has now because of her harassment of fandom as much as the plagiarism.

[shopsoftcore]

I was inspired to make this collage because of the unfortunate way the left sometimes focuses on fascists who happen to be fat, as if that is their worst trait. This is a reminder that fatness is not the enemy and that anti-fatness is tied to fascism. I was also inspired by the amazing Porco Rosso and other artists making reference to “better (blank) than a fascist”. 🐷🐳🐮 Featuring the painting Judith slaying Holofernes. 5% of all sales from this design will be donated to NAAFA. Receipts will be shared via newsletter and social media. 🧾 Click the link above to shop the design.

[knithacker]

Designer Spotlight: These Crochet Dogs Look So Real! And Yes, There Are Patterns To Make 'Em! 👉 https://buff.ly/3rYb7La 🐶

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Considering that most of the comments in the notes of poll #510 “Umbrella” mentioned this performance in addition to all the messages sent to me to add it on the reveal, it’s only suitable to have it posted here too 😍 In case someone still hasn’t had the joy of experiencing this video. 💖

[racketghost]

every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

[racketghost]

thank you to tumblr for this very important message commemorating 10 reblogs on my post that has 56k reblogs 🙏 what a working site

[meantforthestage]

11 now!