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[nasaflower]

HELLO

i’ve been gone a long time! rip! i just made a new voltron blog @pidgeyo so if you’re interested in that go ahead and give it a follow! i have a feeling i’ll be very active there and not at all here. thanks!

[boarofthenorth100]

I Hath Listened To Rap Music All Day

[tropicalscream]

That’s great! Any songs you liked the most?

[boarofthenorth100]

Jolene By Dolly Parton

[anniedayenow]

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[cc-videos]

Today is uh, cement awareness month, and I just wanted to shine light on- that is actually styrofoam, believe it or not.  You can never tell these days, cause- ok, that’s real cement

[someone yells off camera]

I almost said semen.. [to other person] Excuse me I’m doing a video for cement- god, come on! 

Anyway, semen- 

[alteridemlynch]

my favorite posts about the TRC TV Show

[soullesstomatoes]

when you’re excited about trc finally getting a tv show but then you remember how horribly wrong it could all go

[aftpynch-deactivated20170825]

TRC TV SHOW

OKAY LISTEN

i am SO fucking excited okay. i am HERE for this like legit my heart is pounding im screeching skin cleared crops watered grades lifted all that like i am LIVING

BUT

am i the only one that’s scared? like i love this series and these children so fucking much and idk if i’d handle it if it got tainted and ruined?

and imagine all the people who freak out over the series but never bothered to read the books (@ fucking all my friends at school)???

things that, if they happen, will break my ducking heart: - all of the gangsey (yes even henry) being played by white actors (we need poc representation PLEASE) - the gangsey being straight (who are you trying to kid???? we all know they’re in love with each other. RAVEN BOYS. SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH. SWEARING POETRY) - adam being not bisexual - excluding gansey’s gansey-ness - 300 fox way not being represented as it should be - if they take out “yee haw” “im being perfectly fucking civil” “hey fuck weasel it’s your girlfriend” - kavinsky being straight (honestly who you tryna kid???)

THERES JUST SO MUCH THAT COULD GO WRONG AND RUIN EVERYTHING

HOWEVER…

there is also so much, that if done correctly, could go amazingly and this will be one of the most beautiful series ever.

let’s hope for the best.

[claryslays]

Ever since discovering five minutes ago that the Raven cycle was being made into a tv show I have nutted in Latin seven times

[queenhelenblackthorn]

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

on a scale of Steve Rogers to Thor how well are you handling unexpectedly facing a friend in a combat scenario?

[krinkshaming-deactivated2017021]

[skypig357]

Lmao

[bigwordsandsharpedges]

modern art

[cuentosallaround]

Okay, at this point there has to be something wrong with me, right? I’ve watched this 20 times in the last half hour, I still don’t know what they are saying half the time, but it doesn’t seem to matter because i’ve been crying my eyes out laughing for the entire last half hour …

[vergak]

what the fuck is this from i gotta know

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

it’s called letterkenny and it’s about a man who gets dumped and then goes on to shirk his pacifism and reclaim and hold his title as the toughest dude in the rural town of letterkenny ontario. every episode cold opens like this in increasingly bizarre ways.

[shiftingpath]

I read the bit about not being able to parse what’s being said and then I read the bit about it being set in this fuckin province, and I thought, like, what kind of accent could they possibly use that was so incomprehensible while still setting it in northern goddamn Ontario? and actually, okay, you know what, despite having lived immersed in it my entire life I’m not sure i’ve ever seen this exact accent on tv before, it is just weird to see actors using it

[labors]

i literally have been so conditioned to believe that i dont deserve nice things that i could be offered unconditional love from someone i love in return and id just be like “fuck i…i gotta go”

[nasaflower]

i

[nevver]

The alphabet fades away

[madlori]

Would you like to read a book in which this happens?

It’s one of my all-time favorite books.  It’s called Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn.  He describes it as an “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable.”

It is written in the form of letters between the citizens of the fictional island of Nollop, an independent nation off the coast of South Carolina and home of Nevin Nollop, who invented the phrase “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.”  That phrase is written in tiles over a statue of Nollop in their town square, and when one night a storm causes one of the tiles to fall, the council decides that it’s a sign from Nollop that they are no longer allowed to use that letter, in speech or writing, on pain of progressive punishments including public beating and up to banishment.

Then another tile falls.  Then another.

The citizens, who are all very attached to their words and writing, mount a campaign to come up with a phrase that uses all 26 letters but is shorter than Nollop’s, thus proving that he was not divine and negating all the edicts.

Because the novel is told in the form of letters the citizens write, and this is the genius part…the author must also stop using the letters as they fall.  So the book gradually stops using letters until at one point I think they’re down to just five.

The resolution literally made me get up and dance around the room.

It’s clever, creative, and a not-really-veiled-at-all parable about monotheistic oligarchy.  It’s not a long book, you can read it in an afternoon.

GO READ IT RIGHT NOW.

WOW I want to read that book

[braingospinny]

Very rarely is there a book that I must read at any cost This is now one of them

[hamstergal]

Note: locate book

[the-hogfather]

I actually bought this book because of this post and let me tell you, it was a fucking great decision. Besides having a brilliant concept, it’s also so well written that in the beginning you don’t even notice when another letter is removed. There was one part I had to re-read because I couldn’t believe that there wasn’t a single ‘d’ in the last five pages. Seriously, this book is fantastic

[ofpagesandink]

I had to read this for high school and I loved it. I have no idea where my copy went though :(

[korakos]

I’ve owned 5 copies of Ella Minnow Pea because the people I’ve loaned it out to have refused to part with it, ha. Ended up investing in a copy for the Kindle where it’ll always be safe. But yes, it is a very cleverly written book!

[hellotybalt-deactivated20190206]

@particolored-socks

[nasaflower]

hey guys i know i'm v inactive but

if u could go follow my new raven cycle blog, @czerniez that would b amazing! i'll actually be active on that blog lmao.

[herhmione]

i’m ready for christmas fuck i want hot chocolate and christmas trees and holiday music playing in stores and the smell of candles shimmering ornaments and christmas lights and a chill in the hair just hEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS JINGLING RING TING TINGLING TOO

[qhio]

[happygoghlucky-deactivated20170]

everything i need to survive the day: my uke, knitting project, and my journal 🌞🌿

[nasaflower]

Get SpOoPeD

i’m aLWAYS SPOooOoOoPppEEeeDdd