old lies and fireflies

i'm not a writer; i just drink a lot about it. anna, 24. fandom blog. electrumqueen @ ao3.

[incurablenecromantic]

“Old friend” either means an elderly dog or an individual of the same gender with whom you have been secretly in love for more than a decade. There are no other possible interpretations.

[reasonably-annoyed-fog]

This is blatant archenemy erasure and I won’t stand for it

[jagarsjora]

Bold of you to assume the archenemy isn’t the individual of the same gender you’ve been secretly in love with for more than a decade

[lifeinpoetry]

in huichol, the word is iyari - the memory of a heart. a priest will tell you that you were born into this memory. this memory is what mothers you. soon i smooth the tousled hair of a dactyl careless against the aberration of my tongue. coddle. repeat. this memory is what murders you.

— Scherezade Siobhan, from “Graveyard Shift,” published in DIAGRAM

[sometimesyouhearthebullet]

[knitmeapony]

Millennials should really rediscover MASH en masse. It’s dead on aesthetic for this generation.

[heredayembracesnight]

Please rediscover M*A*S*H fellow millennials. It’s wonderful.

[berlynn-wohl]

[mazarin221b]

You’ve never experienced sarcasm and rebellion against the System like Hawkeye and Trapper and BJ’s sarcasm and rebellion against the System.

[literally-a-piece-of-trash]

Do yourselves a favour and go watch this show

[thealmightyprincess]

[therejectkat]

I’ve watched M*A*S*H pretty much my whole life and it’s the best. Everyone should watch it, seriously.

[irefactoredmyself]

I feel like James Neal was an incredibly awkward teenager.

Proof:

Then he turned 20, dyed his hair pink, and became hotter.

Then he got into the NHL. The end.

[notaflower]

me, any time a tv show i like is cancelled: but...supernatural has 11 seasons...

[florizels]

What is the holiness of empire? It is to know collapse. Everything can collapse. Houses, bodies and enemies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged.

Anne Carson, Excerpt of The Fall of Rome: A Traveller’s Guide from Glass, Irony and God (via frostborn)

[dailybtvs]

“Buffy stares at him, his words hitting home. She looks exhausted, and terribly sad. She shuts her eyes. He lunges, shooting his arm out, the sword straight at her face. Without opening her eyes she slams her palms together over the blade, stopping it an inch from her face. She opens her eyes, meets his gaze, and realizes what she has is herself.”

[sandandglass]

[cmcdavid]

INJURY UPDATE: Connor McDavid, 9/1/2016.

Reporter: You’d like to play against Jaromir Jagr, obviously?   Connor: I was with Ekblad last night and we were talking, and he said that on Ekblad’s birthday, Jagr scored his 200th goal. So like, Aaron was just born and he had already scored 200 goals. And now they’re teammates, right? So I’m trying to think of how many goals he scored by the time I was born. I think uh, it’s obviously cool to see a real legend still playing in the league and doing so well. And obviously to play against him would have been special.

[margot-terc]

learning to move around discomfort

[thepoliticalnotebook-deactivate]

“YOUR VOTE WAS A HATE CRIME” graffitied on the monument to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia. 

(Steve Helber/AP)

[crescendohowell]

the only millennial headline that matters

[squidbroom]

reblog if you want dinner more than sex

[allthingslinguistic]

An interesting thread about the discursive function of “waslike”.

Technically speaking, I wouldn’t say that this construction is really a compound verb “waslike”, because it still conjugates like you’d normally conjugate the verb “to be”. (I’m like, you’re like, s/he’s like; I was like, you were like, s/he was like - not I waslike, you waslike, s/he waslikes.)

The linguistic term for it is quotative “like” and there have been several academic papers about it, including this early one from 1990 and this extensive survey of functions of “like” by Alexandra D’Arcy.

[chuckjunk]

Leonard Cohen’s “Midnight Run For Cheetos At The Local 7/11″

Photo by Bob Faggen. Photo & caption contributed by Leonard Cohen

[wordsnquotes]

It ends or it doesn’t. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tunnel, the night, the pain, the love. It ends or it doesn’t. If the sun never comes up, you find a way to live without it. If they don’t come back, you sleep in the middle of the bed, learn how to make enough coffee for yourself alone. Adapt. Adjust. It ends or it doesn’t. It ends or it doesn’t. We do not perish.

Caitlyn Siehl (via wordsnquotes)

[dateagirlwhosuggestion]

date a girl who will help you destroy capitalism

[yolowoho]

Brock McGillis overwhelmed by 'emotional' support from hockey community after coming out

Former OHLer Brock McGillis has been inundated by messages – he estimates 10,000 – after coming out publicly as gay to Yahoo Canada Sports.

There’s a short pause while Brock McGillis tries to find the right word.

“Unbelievable,” he finally said.

That’s the word the former Ontario Hockey League goaltender uses to describe the outpouring of support he’s received since publicly coming out as gay in a Yahoo Canada Sports article published last Thursday.

Since the first-person piece detailing his struggle with homophobia in the hockey world was published, he’s been inundated by messages from people via text and social media. He said he had been prepared for negative or no reaction – save for friends and family – so when the messages started pouring in, he was shocked.

“I didn’t expect this,” McGillis said from his hometown of Sudbury, Ont. “This was on a whole different level. On Thursday the amount of messages I received – text messages, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram – I would say was almost in the 10,000 range.”

People he hasn’t heard from in years – including old teachers, friends, and former teammates – have reached out show their support.

“I had former teammates apologize and say, ‘I’m sorry if I ever made you feel uncomfortable.’ Or if they ever used language that offended or hurt me,” said McGillis. “I’ve had people who coach minor hockey say this is going to influence how they talk and the kind of language they allow their players to use.”

McGillis said he’s already met with Hockey Canada about the possibility of working with them to try and make hockey more inclusive at all levels of the sport. The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has also reached out to see if he might be able to talk to their teams about changing a hockey culture that is often rife with toxic masculinity.

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