Raggedy Man.. Goodnight

hullo! my name's Iris and this is... a multifandom blog / sherlock arrived at 28/10/14

[odairry]

Tumblr feels different. Everything looks weird. Help.

[odairry]

Ngl, I just logged in to find a Larry fic someone sent me in 2015. Do with that what you will

[odairry]

Oh hey. I remembered my password. Hi, I'm alive !

[weaver-z]

You know what. Screw people who don't like dog-earing their books. "Nooo you're ruining the pristine Literature Paper, heathen!" For whom am I ruining it, girl? For the sum total of one person, or maybe 2-4 if I let friends borrow it? I'm going to come into your house and make origami out of all of your precious widdle hardbacks

[hiqueenmabs-deactivated20220819]

Chaotic evil

[weaver-z]

"Chaotic evil" my ass, dog-earing is true neutral at absolute worst. Chaotic evil would be marking my page with an envelope filled with anthrax and leaving it on a park bench

[weaver-z]

I want to have carnal relations with the person who left this tag

[glossynympheteyes]

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

[dumpster-king]

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

[porcelainandgold]

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

[whatpunkin]

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

[hematite2]

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

[petrichormeraki]

[feyariel]

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

[neil-gaiman]

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

[space-trash-princess]

This website can be toxic at times, but the fact that people can just tag Neil Gaiman to get his input, like a sorcerer invoking a benevolent spirit, is definitely a bright spot.

[userscully]

Simu Liu and the donut: a saga

[smiledog15578]

I really enjoyed this episode cause I just love Internet culture and I love it when it goes wrong so this was a treat😌✨

🕹Reblogs are appreciated!🕹

[hostilemuppet]

i dont know what any of your icons are i just notice the vague colour patterns and thats it

[hostilemuppet]

oh fuck predominantly green with orange and white accents just posted i love them

[pleasereturntoheaven]

*gets dressed up to spend time in the woods alone*

[benchowmein]

once at dawn i dressed up in my regency suit and went for a walk in the woods where i heard someone go “oh” (a little like a moan) and i got terrified i’d interrupted someone dogging or something so i immediately tried to walk away before i saw the person in question, who was just walking their dog (dogging in a sense!) and i got even more scared because they were wearing black skinny jeans and a black hoodie so they looked like they had very long slender arms and legs, and both of us were really shaken so i quickly tried to get out of sight. anyway i forgot i was wearing full 1810s regencywear complete with hat and probably looked significantly more like a ghost than they did. remember you’re never alone in the woods

[bowling-with-skulls]

imagine walking your dog in the woods and seeing an obvious Regency-era ghost notice you and bolt out of sight, visibly shaken

[a-humble-waffle]

I'm CRYING this is hilarious

[daggerfall]

Back pain? Have you tried:

[daggerfall]

Of all the communities for one of my posts to circulate in, the chronic pain community was not expected but honestly that’s even funnier than this as an elder scrolls shitpost

[aturnoftheearth]

WAIT THAT LAST TWEET WASN’T AN EDIT??

NO IT’S REAL AND DELETED SKDJKSJFKS

[prismatic-bell]

Can someone who’s into SPN PLEASE explain this? Preferably on this post so my inbox/dms aren’t getting blown up for the next three days?

This has been all over my dash tonight and I’m so confused.

[ariasune]

@prismatic-bell​ I don’t know if I have the lay of the land accurate - though I might have followers who do! But this is my very rough understanding of things:

Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles co-star in Supernatural for 15 years, during which time Jared Padalecki was generally and increasingly unpleasant, including:  physical assault (up to and including, arrest), bribery, racism. He owns a MLM, and I can’t find a better citation, but there’s community rumblings about inappropriate touching of other cast members.

The tl;dr I’m reaching here is he seems like a pretty meh colleague.

Supernatural finishes abruptly and speculatively because Padalecki is interested in a reboot of the Texas Walker. 

Jensen Ackles states he would have happily continued playing his character and after the series concludes, states intentions to work further in the Supernatural universe.

Jensen Ackles turned down offers from Padalecki to star in the Texas Walker reboot, as well as offers to appear as a guest or direct an episode.

Padalecki starts working on Texas Walker, cast as lead. Its previews and premieres go attrociously and it is not well-received.

Jensen Ackles announces a prequel series to Supernatural right before something happens with the Texas Walker show. This is a project he planned in discussions other members of the various team involved in Supernatural, notably including: Robbie Thompson, Eric Kripke, Misha Collins. These people congratulate and hype Ackles.

The prequel series is not well-received by the fandom, because it centers a disliked character, theme and honestly, just,, nah.

Jared Padalecki proceeds to tweet that he is happy for Ackles’ project, but wishes he could have found out about it not through public sources. He further adds his dismay that his character was not included in this prequel. He says that he is gutted.

Robbie Thompson posts a positive tweet about the SPNFamily, very generic. Padalecki replies with et tu brute tweet as above and then deletes it. He also unfollows, refollows, unfollows his former colleagues and stuff like that.

Padalecki’s response to the situation acts as heat sink to the hatred of the prequel project’s announcement, which isn’t even lit for a pilot yet for real. All this over a twinkle in a producer’s eye.

So, my ken of the situation is show ended with Padalecki having alienated most people involved, the rest of the crew and cast started work on other projects and deliberately didn’t involve Padalecki, who is now having a very public reaction to it, which might have something to do with his own failing show, and ironically, helps beat the dead horse.

[prismatic-bell]

……..

………..WOW.

[zetrystan]

Technically true.

[zetrystan]

He got the job.

[zetrystan]

He takes his job seriously.

[internetbt]

[human-dumpster-fire]

[krispytm]

He redeemed himself

[thighetician]

The duality of Manguin

[a3battery]

got obsessed with the penguin drama

his girlfriend’s name is lulu and she doesnt deserve the naughty list for this. :C mac’s gone too far and dragged her down wish him. glad he redeemed himself

also look tux is such a bastard that taking him down = good behavior

[a3battery]

THEY KEEP REFERENCING THE PIER INCIDENT saldkjfah its like his defining moment

im just losing my mind with penguin receipts right now 

and he’s pepper’s bf from above, who got on the good list while they had to call out tux for being lazy sldkjfa

u deserve ur spot in the 2020 poll mr. tux. go call out to UR girlfriend to get her food and maybe u can have a redemption arc too. see how well its working out for mr mac

REDEEMED HIMSELF U EVIL POLLSTERS

(since this started out as me wanting to check up on whether or not the penguins were alive, they ARE and u can meet them virtually BY THE WAY)

[a3battery]

PEPPER IS MR MAC’S DAUGHTER??!??!

this entire family is problematic but lulu was framed and that’s my conclusion 

[the-most-slytherin-hufflepuff]

I’m so invested in the penguin drama

[queen-of-thunder]

[andreablog2-deactivated20220425]

Your sims house is very decadent for someone who hates the rich.

It’s the sims…

[wahbegan]

creating a bare-bones socialist compound for your Sims to live in as radical praxis

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

[gumi-megpoidd]

9:21:21 pm today will be the 21st second of the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the 21st day of the 21st week of the 21st year of the 21st century

[whitepeopletwitter]

[everyfreakingusernameitryistaken]

Tony Hawk’s Twitter is a gold mine honestly

[everyfreakingusernameitryistaken]

[rosslynpaladin]

We Stan this San Diego Man

[sugawara--san]

this

[dooflizard]

C o m e d yy

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

Some recent gems:

[hugtheteadrinkthekitten]

And of course there’s

[theseaissilent]

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

#where is race war tony hawk tweet thats my fav (via @laughingfish​)

I gotchu, bro:

[trilllizardstrikesback]

[abysmallylost23]

i’m wheezgJmf stoP

[assassinregrets]

[blackqueerblog]

[turboalienjesus-deactivated2021]

Still a good precaution. And definitely necessary for everyone for when life has returned to normal in like three years just in case you meet the love of your life and they’re positive.

[chicagosfinest2021]

Couldn’t share this fast enough.

[dragonanon]

Rebloging this to add a little more info because it’s very important:

Antiretroviral therapy when used correctly can cause the user’s “viral load” (your viral load is how much of the virus is in your bloodstream), to drop because the medicine prevents HIV from creating copies of itself.

Regular blood tests are done to monitor your viral load, and after taking the medication long enough, it can drop so low that it becomes “durably undetectable”. This means that the HIV virus in you has become so miniscule that it can’t be detected, and by extension can’t be transmitted either. It’s important to note that in order to be considered durable undetectable, you MUST test as undetectable for at least 6 months after testing as undetectable for the first time.

Also very important, being durably undetectable does NOT mean that you’re cured or that the virus is gone, not by a longshot. The HIV virus is still very much there, but instead of being active, it’s gone dormant in a small number of cells called “viral reservoirs”. This why it’s EXTREMELY important that even after achieving durably undetectable status, you continue to take your Antiretroviral medications correctly. Because if you stop, the HIV virus will reemerge from the viral reservoirs and pick up right where it left off in creating copies of itself, and you will have to start all over again if you want to become durably undetectable again.

[thenightmaregrrl]

This is great advice for people struggling with or know someone who has HIV.

[werevampiwolf]

Clarification: PrEP is for taking beforehand if you think you might get exposed (like you can take it to minimize the risk of transfer if your partner has HIV), and PEP (no r) is for taking after you’ve been exposed. Basically, PrEP is like the birth control pill, and PEP is the Plan B, but for HIV instead of pregnancy.