Oz and Stranger Bedfellows

A home for my rantings, my ravings, my triumphs, and my failures. It's sure to be a Hell of a ride.

[amaranth-devi1]

[littlemsjane-error]

[witchyautumns]

[heedra]

all cyberpunk stories are like “If you wanna crack open a cybercroissant this nasty, you’re gonna need a real top notch e-driller. i know a guy- Toledo Killswitch- he’s got the frag ordinance you need to grizzle this bocce ball.”

[fuckaspunk]

[prokopetz]

If you’re terribly curious why this is, it’s because William Gibson – the guy whose work is largely synonymous with first-wave literary cyberpunk – spent most of the 1970s bumming around the Toronto drug scene (for many years he claimed he’d moved to Canada in order to avoid the Vietnam draft, though he later admitted that it was mostly for easier access to weed), and much of the distinctive argot of his work is based on the youth counterculture slang he observed during that period of his life. So basically the reason that dialogue in classic cyberpunk sounds Like That is because the characters all talk like teenage Canadian stoners from the 70s.

[eirianerisdar]

POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS ELVEN LEADER??

ELROND??? POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS???

HE WHO REFUSED THE CROWN OVER THE NOLDOR AFTER GIL-GALAD DIED DESPITE BEING HEIR TO ALL THREE HOUSES OF THE SONS OF FINWË BY BIRTH, ADOPTION, AND LATER MARRIAGE????? SPENT AN AGE AS GIL-GALAD’S SECOND WHILE HIS BROTHER’S LINE WERE KINGS??? WHO RAISED A HOMELY HOUSE INSTEAD OF A CITADEL??? WHO CHOSE THE PATH OF HEALING DESPITE GROWING UP IN A SERIES OF WAR CAMPS??? WISE AS A WIZARD?? KIND AS SUMMER????

[synapseoftheark]

friends that get you injected with every disease possible if you look them in the eyes

[vizual-demon]

Tolkien art by Anato Finnstark

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean, sure, whatever at this point.

[razielwriter]

all hail the glow cloud

[wizardpotions]

reblog this to put a silly little wizard hat on the person you reblogged it from

[science-officer-spock]

[flowerkirks-deactivated20140917]

#this is the beginning of a porno oh my god

[altruistech-deactivated20240608]

Eventually some redneck is going to be the reason why an emergency drone wasn't able to provide emergency assistance.

And it's quite possible that they could cost a life.

The internet likes to joke, but there are serious implications to hating on tech constantly and never talking about the good it can do.

These ignorant people are only exposed to drones violating privacy, they don't even consider that there's good being done.. again, because you're too busy making Terminator jokes.

[systlin]

You didn’t have to absolutely deepthroat the boot like that, man.

[miamicommune]

the police: *spy on people using loopholes in surveillance law*

@altruistech: actually theoretically it could have medical implications in the future :/

[pileofknives]

Lady in the back has that shit cocked and ready to fire

[bonerboyy420]

the sequel

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

Unless the drone is flying high enough to be in federal airspace, which is 400 feet, that counts as trespassing. And in ohio you are allowed to use basic force to keep someone off your property (ex beer bottles.) These people have the right to throw their beer bottles at the police drones.

[lastvalyrian]

is an emergency drone gonna give me cpr what does that even mean

[staff]

DREAM TO MEME

We’re past the point of being able to ignore this now. @pixellecutie​’s sleeping brain dreamed a dream of marine biology, and you’ve all really put in the work to make it a meme in its own right. Who knew there were so many benefits to being a marine biologist?

~

The origins:

The Minecraft axolotl version by @queerbeemc​:

The Animporphs version by @jivs-jam​:

Even @theshitpostcalligrapher​ chimed in. Thank you, @theshitpostcalligrapher​, for services rendered to the community:

This kissy fishy by @cryptidcanary​:

A reality check by @anxiety-plus​:

The tired marine biologist by @hustlerose: 

Above all things, sophisticated (@noneedtofearorhope​):

More cons (oh no!) according to @essential-npc​:

A delightfully different perspective, this time from the forest floor, by @bepisdrink​:

A worthy remix by @charlesoberonn​:

[sanacloud-deactivated20211127]

Visit Original Link

[lady-writes]

TODAYS THE DAY

[freyfromthea]

[fairweathermyth]

The costumes for the film are definitely fantasy. There’s no historical accuracy to them, really […] Because there are so many films and TV shows such as ‘Game of Thrones’ that were done so beautifully, I very consciously from the beginning thought of going the opposite way.

I did not want to use any fur or any leather because I felt that would be just terrible [because director David Lowery is a lifelong vegan.] So most of the costumes are completely vegan. We used pineapple leather and we used bark cloth from trees that resembles leather. We just stayed away from anything else. I’ve never used those materials before and I wouldn’t have searched for them if it weren’t for David being a vegan and me trying to find a way around it. That was a good challenge that made me re-imagine the clothes and not, you know, try to outdo ‘Game of Thrones,’ which was perfect.

- ‘The Green Knight’ costume designer Malgosia Turzanska for Insider

[gar-trek]

“James Tiberius Kirk has never seen a salad before and in fact has no idea what a salad even is” is such a GODTIER TAKE thank you for your service

I’m just reporting the facts! 

and since this is actually the most important part of the TOS food document, I’ll reiterate the theory here for those who don’t wanna read the whole thing: 

I think kirk just kinda tried to play it cool after he realized everyone knew what salad was but him, but really eating it with hands is a dead give away (especially considering we have seen him eat his colored food cubes WITH A FORK AND KNIFE) 

[onesmallenby]

i am losing my MIND at how he’s holding the lettuce leaf like a cigar

[therobotmonster]

I think people are greatly underestimating how far James T Kirk will go to fuck with his crew.

There’s exactly one person in the universe that can make James T Kirk do something. There’s a lot of people who can convince him to do things, encourage him to do things, trick him into doing things, sure, but the only one who can make him do anything is Bones. 

If Kirk is eating salad, it’s because Bones is making him do it because the ultimate authority of the ship’s doctor is the only starfleet regulation that Kirk will not break. So when Bones puts him on a diet, he can’t say “no.” The Kirk/Spock/McCoy relationship is a rock/scissors/paper situation, essentially. 

So Kirk asks himself “What would Spock do in this situation?” and the answer is obviously “pretend you’ve never heard of the Earth-thing in question, play it 100% straight, and wait for McCoy’s head to explode.” He’s going to pretend he’s never heard of salad, and eat his lettuce like a cigar in front of McCoy’s face. 

This is malicious compliance.

[vympr]

i need this so bad

[lovecorefem]