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Deeply crazy about @diffidentalice she/her, trying not to take this place very seriously and just enjoy literary critique

[markrosewater]

Seeing Marvel spoilers, as a draft player, I am a bit concerned at how virtually every creature, even uncommons, are legendary. How can a draft function if most of the creatures kill themselves?

None of the common creatures are legendary. You don’t often get multiple uncommons, but when you do the set has things like connive and extra scry to help adjust for it. The set was built with the knowledge that legendary had a higher as-fan.

[pitaenigma]

I remember this concern when the first kamigawa set released. The more things change....

[pitaenigma]

Lawrence Fishburne as Regis is casting that seems impossibly good, like there is no way he could live up to my image of how good that should be.

He does. He's wonderful. Loving it. Thanks Witcher Netflix for this one.

[pitaenigma]

Marvel have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and have Sacha Baron Cohen in the new Spiderman movie, using his character to reconnect Peter Parker and his friends.

[ahotknife]

i’m choosing to take this personally

[pitaenigma]

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

Everyone wish my good friend Jonathan luck, he's studying to pass the bar rn and apparently has a big work trip/promotion thingy coming up 🥺

[pitaenigma]

Not only are these three characters in the same show, they are in fact in the same scene.

Also apparently all I was missing in my life for joy was Rosamund Pike in a terrible hat. This hat has brought me so much joy. It is so bad. It's wonderful.

[pitaenigma]

There's going to be a Whedon-less Buffy revival and honestly the Whedon project I want to see redone without him is Dollhouse. Buffy is such an intersection of Whedon but Dollhouse has so much amazing potential that's just untouched because the show was very rarely as good as it could be.

[glumshoe]

my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

[mantis-lizbian]

…i did read some of the novels, but i couldn’t get through them entirely…

…and so i genuinely have no idea whether or not this is serious. coz i mean, obviously, it could be a joke. but it could also have legitimately happened. people who have only seen the films underestimate the amount of random things that happen in the books that could come off as utterly silly and ridiculous if removed from their context.

[glumshoe]

Haha, well, it is pretty much what happens. Sam is looking for Frodo in the tower of Cirith Ungol and is despairing that he will ever find him. He sits down and does what any self-respecting Tolkien character does during their moments of hopelessness and bursts into song.

It’s a really good song (ten year old Ship had it memorized) and as he begins the refrain a second time, he hears Frodo’s voice answering weakly from above. Frodo is poisoned and despairing and beaten but he is still a Hobbit and cannot resist a singalong even while on the brink of death.

[glowingghosty]

[maedhrosrussandol]

I just have to reblog because it makes me laugh EVERY TIME

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

listening to one of my little book podcasts and the girlies are LOSING IT because they read Parable of the Sower and don't know what to make of the #problematic relationship between the teenage protag and a man older than her father. literally out here talking about how it's a weird oversight in a book that's otherwise so brilliant and progressive, like it's some kind of mistake that Butler made. I genuinely like this show and mean no disrespect to the host but some bitches are not cut out for Octavia Butler, that's like the most normal relationship she ever wrote.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

at risk of being pretentious I've long suspected that a fair number of people who hype Octavia Butler up for being a Black Woman Science Fiction Writer not only not haven't actually read much of her work but would throw up if they did

[pitaenigma]

So I wrote my thesis paper about Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, even though it didn't really focus on Bankole (though I dipped into slight analysis of patriarchal systems and fatherhood and I think there's pretty fruitful analysis of examining Bankole from that lens), so I feel like this is somewhere where I have some authority, so from that place of authority, I would like to say

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO IS LAUREN AND BANKOLE PROBLEMATIC LMAO GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS DISCOURSE HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE BOOK YOU'RE READING OMFG

[thefuturewithoutus]

[karmajam]

inspired by prev tags

[frightfullytreeish]

[iorweth]

checking up on former mutuals and friends

[tennant]

You miss him? He was good company. He was my best friend in the whole world.

[pitaenigma]

Sometimes family is a guy, his daughter, and his psychopathic friend he spent a few weeks on a rampage through space with and calls his best friend in the world.

[heyitschartic]

Might start smoking again. Like at this point, who cares

[pitaenigma]

Tumblr trying to kill my friends

[markrosewater]

Do you think trying to design for all of standard, modern, commander, and limited [and trying not to break legacy/vintage along the way] is sustainable? Not that the community hasn't been fractured to some extent since at least the 90's when I started playing, but coming back to the game after a break from it, it really feels like no matter what you do, at this point, it upsets at least one format, often several, even if the format it was done for is happy about it?

We’ve been doing it for thirty plus years, so yes, I’d call it sustainable.

[pitaenigma]

Everyone knows year 31 is the tough one

[1-jar-of-stars]

On Friendship.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

HAVE Z AND ALPHA NOT BEEN MADE AWARE? HAVE WE FAILED AT CONTINUING TO MEME THE HELL OUT OF IT? ARE WE, IN FACT, THE GRANDMAS BECAUSE WE ARE THE ANCIENT KEEPERS OF THE INCEST COFFEE KNOWLEDGE???

[fatsexybitch]

[lizardbeths]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A fandom since 2011 guys

[quarra]

[marzipanandminutiae]

(If anybody is wondering “how could they write that and not anticipate the reaction?“ It’s because the sister was supposed to be much younger in the original draft. Like. An actual child. But they aged her up and never bothered changing the dialogue, so…)

[wemblingfool]

It’s honestly not the writing or the age, or even the acting that screams “incest.”

It’s the directing and camera work. It’s specifically the long lingering gazes.

[adulthoodisokay]

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad

The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.

I’m begging you to read the oral history of this commercial. It features some banger quotes and also Timothy Simons, aka Jonah from Veep, who worked the camera for the auditions and callbacks.

[mylittleredgirl]

let’s not skip over the wildest part of that delightful article, which is the fanfic writers who chose to not only be interviewed but put their whole government names next to links to their incest fanfiction in a respectable normie online magazine. respect.

[notaplaceofhonour]

going back to the original tweet, there is an actual reason for it being seen as “grandma coffee”, and that’s because grocery store coffee aisles like this?

didn’t used to exist.

there were specialty coffees, sure, but this phenomenon of like 40 brands with 80 different flavors of $8-15 bags of artisanal coffees in nicely pre-packaged little bags (not to mention Nespresso, K-Cup, etc.) taking up entire aisles at your local supermarket? multiple major coffeeshop franchises and nice local coffeeshops everywhere? that happened within my lifetime—and I’m on the younger end of being a Millennial.

I remember a time as a teen and young adult when the idea of Millennials caring about coffee at all was one of the Old Man Yells At Cloud things Millennials got shit for. even my Gen X father having an espresso machine at all was like an impressive “wow you’re fancy” thing (having spent my 20s around low wage baristas with their own rigs… not really the case anymore). but the attitude I’ve heard from a lot of people from my parents and grandparents’ generations is essentially “I don’t need any of that fancy Italian crap; I put the Folgers in the machine and it fills the pot with the brown stuff that helps me wake up”.

they grew up with tins/buckets of brands like folgers and maxwell house, and that’s about it. it’s what they’re used to, so unless they broadened their horizons (and some of them do), that’s the coffee your grandma uses

[shinraalpha]

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

[elodieunderglass]

The mileage on this one is totally normal Elrond. Hey speaking of can I park him here for a while

[the-birth-of-art]

h/t to @namasteinside for the lol

[zinjanthropusboisei]

In "Unfinished Tales" there's a section where the Fellowship gets Gandalf to tell his side of the story about how he recommended Bilbo to Thorin's company and this is literally how it went down:

[carsen-daily]

There were just so many great additions to this post that I had to put them all in one place.