Carelessly growing up and growing old

Scotland-based fan of many, many things! I totally gave up tagging, but if I can do something to make your dashes safer/more comfortable, please let me know and I will start tagging for that immediately!

[ellakas]

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

[achillesinhighheels]

[cognitohazardous]

my luminous mama

[ratsoupee]

Happy international women's day :)

[falliblefabrial]

[falliblefabrial]

I realized this evening it had been ten years since pterry died and my heart skipped a beat. GNU.

[ill-intentioned]

[lagowings]

But what if it was all a dream

[7ft-tall-shadow-creature]

This is more unsettling. I know it's there. I know it should be there. I know this pristine landscape is hiding its horrors like teeth.

[lemondoddle]

[I.D. an edited version of the "children's hospital" meme photo where the splattering red pattern on the hall floor has been removed. End I.D.]

[platypik]

Well duh. It’s just color theory

[michael-the-rouge]

Do I have to say it?

[kissthefuture]

[allstartstofade]

#’watson you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you’ #’you pierce my soul. i am half agony half hope.’

[astroprojection]

#my dear watson #for that is what you’ve always been #if i loved you less i  might be able to talk about it more

[robertmorehouse]

#and u cry and ur tears are bees

[reelbrains]

screaming at all the tags

[e-the-village-cryptid]

seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of. I never for a second doubted the existence of a russian mafia movie set in italy with massive numbers of bizarrely named characters and no cohesive understanding of the movie’s themes or plot until I saw a post saying to tag it as unreality. this is tumblr. this happens daily. not one thought crossed my mind except “ha, looks like a few of my mutuals have a new hyperfixation.” this is what tumblr has done to me. you could tell me there’s a new tv show about dolphins with french accents living as royalty in victorian england while secretly starting a cult to renew the worship of the greek gods and the shipping discourse is intense and I would simply think “sounds legit” and keep scrolling

[g-l-o-w-y-l-i-g-h-t-s]

This idiot hasn’t seen The Dolphin Court

[garaks-padded-bra]

I hate when there's no toilet paper coming out the bottom of these gentlemen and you have to tickle its nutsack to de-piss yourself

[garaks-padded-bra]

what sicko blazed this

[draconym]

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

[draconym]

[queenklu]

#overthinking how casting works in real life#internal pieces of an essay about directors' choices and interpretation and whatnot#But imagine casting your actors and daemons as a set--what it says about the characters they're playing#It says something if you cast Julius Caesar with a pigeon daemon#Imagine what it would do to the Eulogy speech! How could Caesar have been ambitious! His daemon was a common pigeon!#(or do you argue that historians were embarrassed by the betrayal and “lionized” his daemon after the fact to make him seem more regal?)#It would make typecasting and casting against type absolutely fascinating when you thrown in daemons.

absolutely fire tags from @afamiliarroomba

[impossibletruths]

#i bet in some cases of really iconic daemons they keep the actor's daemon offstage #and use puppets or something #also opens up a world of new possibilities for child actors (via @pigeonhawk)

[tosailuponthesea]

#I had to preserve these. the bit about child actors made me go ''oh fuuuuck'' out loud #there must be some majorly significant coming-of-age plays that have to do with daemons settling #and like. at least one instance of a daemon /actually/ settling during a performance #the reviews! the doctoral dissertations! #also love the idea of daemons-as-puppetry #something something the facsimile of theater while daemons skitter along under the stage like matched magnets #distinct schools of theatrical production and history based on live-action or puppetry daemons and mixed-form shows trying to make a point (@impossibletruths)

[beggars-opera]

I know this exists somewhere on tumblr but I can't find it so it's coming back for Halloween

[blueandbluer]

WOW how have I never seen this? Someone in the comments quoted how magnificently leggy this performer is, and this is very true, but more impressive than that is how he nails the physicality of the role. He doesn’t just look like Jack and sound like Jack, he moves exactly like the cartoon, which is mind-blowingly difficult to do when you’re imitating a world that doesn’t contain gravity! Unbelievable! Thank you for sharing this!

[wizardarchetypes]

very strange phenomenon now that many people have learned online not to pet service dogs is that they walk by little bird and me, wave their hands at little bird, and say in a baby voice "oooohh you're so cute! you're so cute! i'm not going to pet you because i know you're working! ooohhhh puppy puppy puppy, i want to pet you but i'm not allowed~" and i have to tell them what they're doing is literally as distracting as petting her. this happens almost every single time i'm out with her.

[tuulikki]

I’m really grateful you made this post because I don’t think I’d considered how this would be just as distracting. I don’t think I’ve done this, but I wouldn’t have known it was important not to do.

Reblogging for everybody else who maybe never thought this through fully

[everythingfox]

He is actually a deer

[thirtysixsavefiles]

few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

[the-space-narwhal]

[thehappyfangirl]

Someone mentioned on another tumblr post about how nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder.

Write your story. Write it again. And again.

[sashaforthewin]

Okay but do you understand the TREASURE TROVE of reading a fic you enjoy and then looking at the author's page and discovering they have written multiple just like it?! That is the ultimate score!

[the-bar-sinister]

Nobody complained that Agatha Christie wrote ANOTHER book about murder

☝️☝️☝️

[doctors-star]

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

[doctors-star]

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

[doctors-star]

me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?

me: YES ALRIGHT FINE

[doggosource]

[doggosource]

great minds:

[shittierpost]

Me: *strapped to a chair in a cold interrogation room with a middle aged man pacing back and forth*

Him: *projects a picture of Sam and Frodo on to the wall* What is their relationship?

Me: Their ship is valid and very cute, but we should also consider the idea that their admiration and respect for one another is a deep, platonic bond. Love doesn't always have to be romantic, and it is important for men to be able to express their platonic care for one another in a way that toxic masculinity doesn't currently allow.

Him: Okay *projects a picture of Legolas and Gimli* what's their relatio-

Me: They're fucking.