Life and Other Trifles

known to write on occasion.

[oftenoffler]

NO.

“What?”

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.

- Mort (1987), Sir Terry Pratchett

[datsderbunnyblog]

I love the underlying feeling I get in any given Discworld novel that it's not quite playing by the rules, even though there isn't really any substantial reason to feel that their should have been rules in the first place

[she-wrote]

If you like your hetero romance to be gay, and if you think history can be complete bullshit and manipulated by those in power -- you need to read The Everlasting by Alix E Harrow like yesterday.

[toalwaysbeconfused]

Sometimes you may feel compelled to send a horse though a death timeloop to turn it into God’s perfect killing machine

This is a mistake

[unwillingstars]

GOD I LOVE THEM THE PARALLELS ARE SCRATCHING MY BRAIN

[wordsartkive]

Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

[crookedkingdom]

not enough of you on here are obsessed with the handsome lady knight and her little historian husband who is doomed to watch her die over and over again. disappointing.

[the-wild-built]

I love you anxious nonbinary Frankenstein I love you emotional support spider I love you bossy pixel blind supercomputer trying her best I love you harried robot doctor who's getting a good grade in human interaction I love you werewolf who'll do anything to protect her family (+ her vampire wife) I uhhh well. I really can't support your actions but I appreciate you, colony of alien beetles informally known as "steve"

[sleepdeprivedreads]

Of Monsters and Mainframes finally answers the question - what happens to a werewolf in space without a moon

[speedlimit15]

why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

[speedlimit15]

like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

World's most tense egg and spoon race

[green-great-dragon]

this somehow became the funniest thing on earth in my head and I had to draw it so

[fabfiveunionrep]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i got a fucking. advertisement on youtube. from google ai. saying. without sarcasm and with complete sincerity. "if shakespeare is too hard for you, you can always have our ai explain it to you." im gonna throw up. im gonna throw a molotov cocktail. if i see that ad again im reporting it for hate speech. how fucking dare you. i will kill you with my bare hands. with my exit pursued by a bear hands. i will tear google headquarters down brick by brick. im going to start biting people.

[el-ffej]

[a-thing-for-pixels]

Especially, since Shakespeare is emotionally understandable even if you leave aside all of the nuances and references.

It's drama in the broad daylight, at times obviously comically.

You just have to read it. Open the tiny book and read it. That might end up being beneficial to use one's brain from time to time.

[officialfoxsquadron]

something about leia organa that is still revolutionary in 2025 is that her capability as a leader is never mocked, diminished, or somehow otherwise belittled because of her gender. the narrative and every character around her takes her role as a leader of the alliance completely seriously. no one has to make a qualifier that “she’s a strong leader But….” whereas many stories (including star wars stories!) feel the need to contextualize women leaders as “women in a man’s world” who have to constantly navigate patriarchy, rather than leaders who deal with complex problems and who make decisions that affect those around them. no one ever discounts leia because of her gender. she explodes onto the screen as a capable leader and no one questions it

[officialfoxsquadron]

this scene still feels so incredibly fresh and modern every time i watch it

[writing-prompt-s]

"FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, I LAID DORMANT! WHO DARES TO DISTURB MY-Oh, it's you."

[pokelec]

[no-more-than-reason]

proceeding. Ray

Mm

[aquanutart]

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the women of the gilded age: i've had a complicated past trying to survive in a world made for and by men and this has motivated me to make certain choices that aren't always palatable to men; however, if you could see it from my point of view for a second--

the men of the gilded age: I DUMP YOUR ASS