2ndadolesence

hobbyist, England

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[azaraspirit]

what the hell? i could use some luck *hits reblog*

[i-love-you-beautiful]

You know what I could use some luck

[fish-in-need-of-a-bicycle]

The Iranian Regime is going to execute rapper Toomaj Salehi for supporting protests of Jina Amini’s murder by the regime in his songs.

Iranian activist Elica Le Bon says, “Iranians in the diaspora picked up on the fact that the regime tends not to execute people who become known to the international community. We have seen many examples of prisoners that were either released on bail or had their sentences commuted through our “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media, using hashtags to garner attention for their causes, and even before social media existed, through getting the stories of political prisoners to international media outlets. Once reported on, and once the eyes shift to the regime and the reality of its pending brutality, realizing that the action is not worth the repercussions, we have seen them back down and not execute. For that reason, this is part of an urgent campaign for readers to talk about Toomaj as much as you can, using the hashtag #FreeToomaj or #ToomajSalehi. Every comment makes a difference, and if we were wrong, what did we lose by trying?”

Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi Sentenced to Death for Songs Critical of Government

Toomaj Salehi, a dissident Iranian rapper, was sentenced to death on charges related to the antigovernment music he released during the 2022

[insert-some-url]

LET'S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE

[daughterofstories]

It is very rare that posting actually is activism.

But in this case, getting this man's name trending on multiple platforms could literally save his life.

[aqlstar]

Exactly this ^^^

This is one of the very rare cases where the only thing we are being asked to do is make something go viral.

[guy-who-exists]

crybaby learns how to swim - subtitled

[fozmeadows]

ALWAYS REBLOG THE EGGSEAL

[fozmeadows]

in times of trouble, eggseal comes to me

speaking words of wisdom:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

egg

[whabababy]

I love how he never even swims

[take-a-dip-in-the-deadpool]

If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

[somecunttookmyurl]

god some of you are just so weird about having content on this site

"justify"?! babes it's a bullshit internet scrapbook not a fucking phd thesis

[ceekari]

You know the thing where you find something funny and you hold out your phone to your friend so they can see it too?

Reblogging is just you holding out your phone to show us the neat thing you found

[bhujangan]

Simple explanation of the bills that farmers in India are protesting - in TikTok form!

[jaaneymann]

hey non indians are encouraged to reblog this actually since what the indian government hates most is word of their terrible governing spreading outside of india! 

[regicidal-defenestration]

Must scifi be "good"? Is it not enough for the characters to be gay, in space?

[riverselkie-deactivated20190510]

anyway so i feel like the western obsession with romantic love is symptomatic of the absence of community we experience in our socially isolating society,

[lizardest-bethany]

it’s the only type of love we’re really “allowed” to have and it’s really sad. i hope everyone realizes at some point that you don’t need to be dating someone to love them, and that you don’t need any romance just to be loved.

[thesnadger]

It’s harmful in so many ways. It’s harmful and isolating to people who don’t experience romantic love. It’s harmful to people who, for any reason, can’t be in a romantic relationship. It minimizes the importance of other forms of love and trivializes non-romantic relationships. And finally it harms people who are actually in romantic relationships by sending the message that your romantic partner should be the only person to fulfill all your emotional needs and vice versa.

[octobercrush]

yes

[70sscifiart]

Ursula K Le Guin

[octobercrush]

Farewell Ursula

[hashtagloveloses]

i asked @annleckie at nycc today if she’d ever consider making the ancillary trilogy an audio drama, at the behest of the lovely people who introduced me to her books, @mischaetc & @manieldanning, the creators of @arsparadoxica. She responded that right now it can’t be anything else because it’s in talks for SOMETHING (oooo) but that her dream is for the trilogy to be AN OPERA. AN OPERA!!!!!! BITCH!!!! SIGN ME UP!!!!

also ann, if you do ever have the opportunity to make it an audio drama, Mischa and Dan would love to oblige ❤️😎

[octobercrush]

well that’s incredibly exciting. I’m gonna get story boarding this shit out this idea. 

[crane-among-celandines]

“Wherefore art thou, Captain Anaantia?”

“You’ll like this one then. It’s about a grief mad ship which abducts an unremarkable miner pilot thinking she’s its long-dead captain. Hilarious, yet heart-tugging misunderstandings ensue.”

Episode Four: The Gerentate Menace!

Scene: Mercy of Amaat, Lieutenant’s mess hall.

ARIAT SESK is sat at a table, attended by AMAAT ONE.

ARIAT: I’ve told you time and time again, you delusional heap of junk! I’m not your captain!

AMAAT ONE: Really, Captain, you mustn’t say such things. If only Lieutenant Tam would wake up, she could examine you. You really must discipline her.

ARIAT: Your Lieutenant is a mummified corpse!

AMAAT ONE: Her implants are still reporting normal vital signs.

ARIAT: Her implants are in a bucket!

AMAAT ONE: Please, Captain, just calm down and drink some tea. The Presger ships have stopped pursuing us.

AMAAT ONE hands ARIAT a bowl of tea. ARIAT takes it, grimacing.

ARIAT: (muttering) Those were asteroids.

ARIAT: Look, what do I have to do to convince you?

AMAAT ONE: Begging your very great indulgence, Captain, but you can’t convince me of something that’s patently untrue.

ARIAT: (sighs) Look, at the very least we need to take on a new Lieutenant, yes? Even if Lieutenant Tam’s implants report that she’s in good health, I’m not comfortable with her having slept for… How long is it, Ship?

AMAAT ONE: Four hundred and three years, six months, fourteen days.

ARIAT: That doesn’t strike you as at all unusual?

AMAAT ONE: It is contrary to regulations. She has missed one hundred and forty-seven thousand, two hundred and eighty-nine shifts.

ARIAT: I would like her examined by another trained medic. So we must put in at a palace station. Which is nearest, Ship?

AMAAT ONE: Tstur palace is two weeks and one day distant.

ARIAT: Set course, then.

AMAAT ONE: Very good, Captain.

Cut to: Mercy of Amaat, Bridge

ARIAT SESK is in the Captain’s chair, attended by AMAAT ONE.

ARIAT: What’s that over there? Magnify.

The view-screen shows a Sword. Zoom in to hull markings, reading Sword of Phey

ARIAT: A Sword! Amaat be praised! Ship, open a channel. I want to speak to their Captain.

The lights go dim, sirens sound.

SHIP: Captain, it’s a Gerentate Banner-ship! We won’t be able to gate unless it’s destroyed!

ARIAT: What?! No, you malfunctioning bucket of scrap, it’s Sword of Phey!

SHIP: Your eyes must be playing tricks on you, Captain. Launching missiles!

ARIAT: Varden’s suppurating cuticles!

ROLL OPENING CREDITS

O Captain, my Captain, where have you fled?

I found you again, but you claimed to be dead!

Surely the battle has made you insane,

For your implants, I see, are not in your brain!

Lie down on the table, and as soon as I’m able,

I’ll open you up and connect you to meee…

O Captain, my Captain, why do you flee?

ARIAT: (shouted, distant) Stay away from me, you psychotic trash pile!

(Instrumental)

[annleckie]

WAIT DID I NOT REBLOG THIS

[octobercrush]

This works on every level. Perfect. 

[octobercrush]

get your hot fresh Restoration Comedy AU right here...

Dramatis Personae

Basniaad, a virtuous person of great inheritance (if she were to accept it.)

Lord Anaander, a potentate.

Tisarwat, a young fop.

Raugdh, a fop and a bounder.

Piat, Raugdh’s unfortunate lover

Matron Celar, Piat’s mother

Captain Seivarden, a soldier fallen on hard times.

Breq, a mysterious stranger.

Esk, A servant

Act One

Scene 1 Whilst taking tea, the fops Tisarwat and Raugdh discuss their rival desire to court the lovely Basniaad, who spends her time away from society in a walled garden belonging to her protector. Tisarwat sincerely admires Basniaad. Raugdh is attracted to the circle of powerful people that seem to surround her. One of these is Lord Anaander, in whose dubious protection Basniaad lives- though they have never met.The fops realise the only way they can gain access to Basniaad is to adopt the guise of Lord Anaander.

Scene 2 Lord Anaander returns to town, after a long absence, with Captian Seivarden, a drunken soldier who owes alleigance to the lord. Lord Anaander takes tea with Basniaad, and whilst courting Basniaad, reveals that Seivarden does not know that it was Anaander who ruined the Captain’s family. 

Scene 3 Raugdh takes tea at a fashionable tailors, and is fitted with clothing that will serve as the guise of Lord Anaander. Piat finds Raugdh there and is callously drawn into the plot. Captain Seivarden enters on an errand for the Lord, and Raugdh plies the soldier with wine to gain details about Lord Anaander. 

Act Two

Scene 1 Seivarden has been left drunk in the freezing street but is rescued by a mysterious stranger called Breq. The famous snow scene.

Scene 2 The three Anaanders arrive to take tea with Basniaad. With the help of her quick witted servant Esk, Basniaad (well aware that two of the Anaanders paying court to her are counterfit) keeps them separate and plays her suitors against each other without becoming beholden to any one of them.

Scene 3 After such unsuccessful wooing, Raugdh arranges for Tisarwat to witness Raugdh and Piat, the latter wearing one of Basniaad’s scarves, during a tryst on a balcony. Tisarwat is fooled in to thinking that Basniaad has chosen Raugdh.

Act Three

Scene 1 Captain Seivarden, awakened to Anaander’s villainy by the mysterious Breq, challenges the Lord to a duel. However, the soldier mistakenly delivers the challenge to Tisarwat, who still wears the guise of Anaander. Broken hearted Tisarwat accepts, hoping for a swift death.

Scene 2 Breq encounters Piat by a fountain and learns of the conspiracy. They take tea together. 

Act Four

Scene 1  On the morning of the duel, it is Raugdh-Anaander who arrives at the chosen spot, having been diverted there by Esk with the pretence of an assignation with Basniaad. Mistaking Seivarden for another rival, Raugdh atempts to defeat Seivarden with trickery. The duel is interrupted by Basniaad who, having heard news of it, has come hoping to dissuade Tisarwat from self-destruction. Basniaad is persued by the real Lord Anaander. Breq, who is present as Seivarden’s second, brings the situation to a close by shooting the real Lord Anaander in the leg- (aiming elsewhere, but pistols aren’t very accurate.)

Breq is revealed as the servant Esk, whose real name is Toren, the faithful servant of Basniaad’s older sister. Toren is seeking revenge for this sister, whose ruin, unbeknown to Basniaad, Toren was forced to be accomplice to by Lord Anaander. 

                           Act Five

Piat is reconciled with her mother, Matron Celar. Wounded Lord Anaander has vanished from the town. Breq prepares to depart on a journey of penance with Seivarden in tow, entrusting Basniaad to Celar’s care. Tisarwart pledges eternal love to Basniaad, but Breq instructs the young fop to join their journey to learn the meaning of love first. They take a final cup of tea together before departing.

lol, sorry so drama geeky. I can’t wait to read the rest of Provenance! 

images belong to The Royal National Theatre and Danny Schiele, thanks!

[quarksparrow]

More Radch fanart. This is really the only way I get anything out of my system. Best to just ride these things out. 

Tell me the chapter nine feelings party wasn’t your favourite part of Mercy. Of course, Zeiat and Sphene’s inscrutable game of counters runs a close second.

[octobercrush]

So good!

[octobercrush]

#ancillary justice

#anaander mianaai 

#Imperial Radch 

#Fan art 

#Ann Leckie  

Have to find a outlet for my excitement in anticipation of the third book.

[octobercrush]

Trying out tumblr

Is there a better life out there?