this is where we landed

mainly photos of british lately, irish actors , with a side of anything else NSFW

[catasters]

[leepacey]

burning man 2023 explained

burning man is a festival for rich white people who want to smoke weed and trip acid in the nevada desert and pretend they're one with the earth. it's not a music festival or anything that serves any purpose, it's just vibes

a hundred year flash flood just hit nevada, including where burning man is being held this very weekend

dry desert ground can't suddenly absorb water, let alone that much water all at once, so now burning man is a giant mud pit with THICK deep mud

nobody can get in or out, so they closed all the roads

FEMA just told the *73,000 PEOPLE* stranded at burning man to shelter in place, ration food and water, and essentially "you're on your own, good luck"

the port-o-potties are overflowing into the mud they're all walking around in

the official CDC twitter account tweeted (and then deleted) that there's a confirmed ebola outbreak at burning man, but people are pretty sure it's just trench illnesses. like actual WWI trench illnesses

earlier this week, climate activists protested against burning man, and all the attendees drove right past them (and yelled at them, and tried to get them arrested, etc)

there's a private jet at burning man where people can join the mile high club. it just takes off and lands all day and lets people fuck in it. no word yet on the fuck plane's current status/location

and lastly: when the ground here gets wet, the sea monkeys hatch

[othersideofforty]

Shouldn't they just call it "drowning man"??

[charliejaneanders]

At last I can talk about my story in the wonderful new #StarWars anthology #FromaCertainPOVReturns! I'm writing about the almighty Sarlacc: a vegetarian who's really sick of being force-fed random meat people.

[ktempestbradford]

only you could have come up with this. only you could have written this story. it is one of the several thousand reasons i'm glad you exist.

[crazy-languages]

I found this online and I love it.

[othersideofforty]

Accurate.

[othersideofforty]

How to tell you‘re „Also a geek“

1) Learn that Wil Wheaton has a new book out, an annotated version of „Just a Geek“

2) Excitedly go and buy the ebook (yes, it still gives the idiot money, but ebooks are the only thing I buy on amazon. At least no warehouse/delivery workers are abused for that)

3) Read on to the official page 1, where there are some blacked out lyrics with a footnote about copyright laws

4) Get up from the sofa, walk into the next room with the wildly unorganised ten bookshelves, but THIS book you’re searching was shelved when those bookshelves were first put up, so, go straight to the shelve beneath the Neil Gaiman shelves (stuffed to overflowing, by now)

5) Pull out your paperback copy of „Just a Geek“

(how to tell you‘re now an OLD geek: 6) Take of your near sighted glasses to be able to read the song lyrics in the original book, bc you‘re apparently now old age near sighted in addition to your -9 dioptrin, so, great. Try not to get too worked up about it.)

6) Feel very smug about being able to outwit the copyright lawyers

7) Continue reading after you had the sudden urge to make a post about this.

[everkings]

oh god I have zero points, I am pointless and ancient and gentle 

[dduane]

1 point. The AOL email addy.

[neil-gaiman]

Two points. Never had an AOL address (although I was sort of on AOL after they bought Compuserve) and never had a MySpace account because the aesthetics of MySpace were like all the fingernails meeting all the blackboards.

[othersideofforty]

the day you have something in common with neil :) *preens HARD*

[everkings]

oh god I have zero points, I am pointless and ancient and gentle 

[virgulesmith]

ZERO points. And all of them more than once. Except MySpace. I only had one MySpace account.

[nadiasna7]

I actually don’t know if anyone besides people born in the Post-Soviet countries can relate to watching filmstrip cartoons (диафильмы)

I was also OBSESSED with diapositives. They were really cool, they had famous paintings, interesting buildings, just fun stuff in general. And you could also make your own.

[bunny--manders]

OMG you unearthed a memory, I used to have a slide viewer toy too. And my mom was a professor and let me sort/play with her slides all the time.

[mckitterick]

I suspect anyone over 20 will only score a few points or less… maybe we need a poll that includes things like these last two

[othersideofforty]

whatdoyamean „owned an encyclopedia“ ? i still have several, and am particulary proud of my 1902 edition.

[sirfrogsworth]

This is Nicole. She is an amazing Canadian wood-splitting machine.

I have a huge pet peeve about people swinging axes and sledgehammers without using the kinetic chain. You have to use your entire body to get real power in your swing. And in so many movies you see actors just trying to chop things with only their arms. But Nicole has perfect form. And cute pajamas.

I'm not sure if she is technically a lumberjill. I think she just refers to herself as a wood splitter. Either way, she is badass.

[thefrogman]

I am astonished to see that people are enjoying this post for other reasons than perfect axe-swinging form using the kinetic chain.

Ya'll thristy as heck.

[digitaldiscipline]

I just want to swing an axe and split wood recreationally.

[othersideofforty]

if you can afford the plane ticket, you‘re very welcome to help with my parents wood supply each fall!

(i can split wood quite effectivly, but I neither look as cute as Nicole doing it nor do I enjoy it particulary)

[homunculus-argument]

Not to get all It's Not That Deep Oh My God, but I think living in apartments truly hones you as a person. I feel like the people online who argue "nobody fucking does that" have never lived wall-to-wall with strangers, to their detriment.

If life in apartment buildings teaches you anything, it teaches you to naturally, instinctively respond to the question "who the hell lives like that?" with "well, someone does, apparently". Nothing teaches you that there are completely normal people living normal lives, but make choices that you personally never would, like knowing you have neighbours who regularly, habitually do things like vaccuum their home at 9 pm, or listen to Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat on a loop from 7:30 to 9 am.

[rincewitch]

shout-out to whoever it was who regularly dribbled a basketball for hours on end immediately above my bedroom

[knockednautilus]

In college my roommate was, literally, pounding meat to tenderize it. Apartment of dudes on the floor below us came to ask us if we were okay lmao

[jellymish-reblogblog]

Shoutout to my neighbor who seemingly makes a whole brass band tumble down the stairs every night at 11:30pm.

[terriwriting]

Shoutout to my former neighbours who would make popcorn and then have sex at the same time every day.

[elliquinn]

Shoutout to the upstairs neighbor who listens to 'Africa' by Toto at top volume every Friday afternoon at 3pm.

[mckitterick]

shoutout to the Seattle 6-plex neighbor who came home after his professional dance gig almost every night at 2:30am to host cocaine-fueled raves that shook the light fixtures. when I'd go to ask him to turn down the music he'd answer the door in nothing but stylish underwear and apologize, and things would get quieter but continue until sunrise. several times a week.

if he's still alive he deserves some kind of recognition

[othersideofforty]

I am fifty. My hearing is not what is has been. Still, a shout out to the hipsters in the flat below us. From their Zoom meetings, i know the relationship troubles of Matthew from canada and the stalling career of Anna in Liverpool. At what point do i Go down to not complain about the noise but offer sage elder advice?

*names changed

[femaledaily]

MICHELLE YEOH on The Graham Norton Show, 2023

[othersideofforty]

Same procedure as every year: the lapsed catholics panicked "omg tomorrow is the first Advent" advent wreath (Approximation) .

Since it's all about the candles, it sure counts!

[licensedtoill1986-deactivated20]

Gwendoline Christie as LUCIFER MORNINGSTAR ↳ The Sandman, 1.03; A Hope in Hell

[othersideofforty]

My issues with Sandman, in ascending order

I mostly like it (we‘re at episode four, because the Diner episode gives me the creeps in the comics and the audio book already, so I need a breather before takling that.) But somehow I am not as excited as I was after the first episode of Good Omens, and I think I can put it down to a few things.

1) Cheek Bones. Would it have hurt to put a little bit of contouring on Tom Sturridge (who is amazing) to make him look a little bit more like Dream from the comics?

2) The Ravens. I am no expert on corvids AT ALL, but Jessamy was a magpie? And from the scale, Mathew is more a crow then a raven?

3) My very own expectation on an adaption of a beloved … thing. With Good Omens, it was a book, and the TV series provided me with an visual adaption of the story. With Sandman … I am not so sure. I already had a visual for that, because it was a freaking comic, and so far whatever the real life film presented me with was just the exact same story (changing Lucien for Lucienne is just a casting choice; and Lucifer doesn‘t has a gender all along, soo … Constantine being female is an interesting choice but not story changing) … I don‘t know, I am not saying I wanted a complete new story, but … to excite me, it should offer me something new? I like that they‘re trying to do a faithful visualisation of the comic. I maybe would have liked it even more if they tried a new interpretation of the story.

[mckitterick]

Nichelle Nichols has died.

Hailing frequencies closed.

story: X

her site has been updated, Uhura.com: X

[othersideofforty]

Guess the artist...

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Dirty Dancing | Ms Marvel

[valtsv]

[historicalfightingguide]

Happy pride month to all!

Find a historical fencing club near you, read this and become a sword lesbian.

Remember  it’s also effectively wrath month for various reasons

Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym

Also here’s a few pride-themed things to check out getting as well as a few related topics

And stay safe

And if you can consider donating to any of these causes.

Consider getting this rashguard or this one or something from here

We need change and justice for all.

This may be a useful link as well.

For anyone unclear on this Black Lives Matter.

Good luck everyone.