Music In 6/8

Old and terrible at social media. An undead hedge witch in a gratuitous shark-filled striptease.

[wilwheaton]

Dear Mom,

This is how I know you have always lied about how you and Dad treated me. I didn’t make it up.

-Wil

[luulapants]

What if they kissed

[musicin68]

That’s it. That’s every Expanse fic I write.

[reginasbread]

I just wanted them in one place

[bizarrelittlemew]

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">

Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">

nth kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">

yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

[the-roci]

[pajamasecrets]

Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode 4x10.

[fyperrymason]

[danidraws]

In an effort to share a little black and queer history during this turbulent Pride month, here’s a comic about one of my favorite musicians, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

https://www.everythingisgoingtobeokcomic.com/sister-rosetta-tharpe/

[nasa]

What is the weirdest thing you had to account for when building the perseverance rover?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[insinirate]

[musicin68]

A plate of food is labeled “trope where half of the ship gets injured or kidnapped and the other goes absolutely ballistic”. A cat is labeled “me”.

I read this wrong.

“Yeah, they always do one of those. Mmm, Janeway kicking virus ass...wait...’ship not ship...”

[whosafraidofvirginiawoolf]

Once Upon a Time: Shattered Sight (4.11)

that’s it, that’s the show

[musicin68]

So much missed potential in this show *cough swanqueen cough*, but then there are scenes like this. How can I not love it?

[musicin68]

I promised myself I would stay off tumblr to avoid spoilers as I’ve only watched 2 episodes so far (so that’s a fail), but I just wanted to say I’m kind of sad they recast Arjun. Sure, they probably had a good reason, but I’m old, set in my ways, and I liked Brian George in season 1.

[musicin68]

Amos: How’d she look?

Holden: Fine.

Amos: No. I mean, like, what was she wearing?

—Discussing Avasarala on The Expanse, Season 4, Episode 1

[languages-georg-blog]

So I used to have a Russian friend who had a pretty thick accent and like a lot of Russians tended to eschew articles. She would say things like “Get in car.” And stuff.

Well one day this asshole who had been kind of tagging along with us asks her why she talks like that because it makes her sound dumb and I still remember her response word for word.

“Me? Dumb? Maybe in America you have to say get in THE car because you are so stupid that people might just get in random car, but in Russia we don’t need to say that. We just fucking know because we are not stupid.”

[annarcho-nicolesmith]

One time I was proof reading a paper for a Russian student. As I was correcting her paper with her, the many mistakes in her grammar started weighing on her. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, almost sobbing,

“In Russian I am so intelligent and clear. In English I am like [an] idiot”

Respect to anyone trying to master a foreign language. I get so sad thinking about that student.

[pomme-poire-peche]

[lady-byleth]

Full offense but people who make fun of someone else’s accent or belittle their limited vocabulary when they’re speaking a language not native to them are fucking disgusting and are just begging to be punched.

They’re speaking your language because you don’t know theirs. That’s not something they should be made fun of, it’s something that should be commended because learning a language is hard fucking work.

I hate people who do this so much.

[nasa]

Say hello to spiral galaxy NGC 7331👋

Happy National Twin Day! 

The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is almost like a long lost twin to our very own Milky Way. In this close-up, the galaxy’s magnificent spiral arms feature dark, obscuring dust lanes, bright bluish clusters of massive young stars and the telltale reddish glow of active star-forming regions. The yellowish central region harbors populations of older, cooler stars. Like in the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole lies at the galaxy’s core.

Our Hubble Space Telescope took this image while observing a supernova explosion — the fiery death of a massive star — within NGC 7331. Astronomers noted that the supernova, called SN 2014C, experienced a dramatic, hasty transformation that involved a significant upsurge in hydrogen content. This observation provided a rare chance to gain insight into the final stages of massive stars.

NGC 7331 was discovered in 1784 by famed astronomer William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus. It was originally classified as a nebula, which is an interstellar cloud of gas and dust, because no one knew that other galaxies existed until the 20th century. It turns out that NGC 7331 and the Milky Way are among billions and billions of galaxies in the universe!

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[ao3commentoftheday]

trying to write a comment on an awesome fic is really hard