The Mona Lisa of Dumpster Fires

Cis, bi, white, middle-aged woman. I blog things that I think are interesting. Lots of Benedict Cumberbatch, which I try to tag, so it can be avoided; Doctor Who, Sherlolly...

[awkwardexxodus]

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

[awkwardexxodus]

the specific build in question btw

[parchmentengineer]

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

[lmmunitys]

there's nothing like the freedom of 'matching someone's weirdness.' finding that person where you don't have to filter your thoughts, tone down your excitement, or hide your odd sense of humor because they are right there matching your exact energy.

[quinnandersonwrites]

By complete happenstance, I was struggling to work on my book today and--having dived down a deep Wikipedia rabbit hole, as one does--I ended up killing my imposter syndrome stone dead. I found out that Shakespeare published approximately 880,000 words in his lifetime. I've published more words than that--not including the fanfiction--and personally, holy fuck. I will never feel like I haven't written enough again!

Reblog if you've written (or plan to write; dream big, my baby fic authors) more than Shakespeare. This is the official "kill your imposter syndrome about not writing enough" post.

[stjohnstarling]

The social forces that prevent you from being able to admit to your own desires in the safety of your own mind are far more evil than any desire you could have.

[stjohnstarling]

Unacted desires are fundamentally neutral, and you can't decide what to do about the things you want unless you can admit to yourself what they are in the first place. Everyone has desires that would hurt other people if they acted on them, but most people would not actually go out and do anything they know would cause harm. Far more harm is done in this world by people who are trying to pretend they can't possibly want anything they think is bad than people running around going "ehehehe I love hurting people!"

[stjohnstarling]

Providing people with a way of exploring the dark parts of ourselves in a way that cannot hurt anyone is one of the purposes of both fiction and kink.

[stjohnstarling]

All of us have a hungry, horny, angry, scared animal inside ourselves. You do not need to excuse or justify what that animal wants, it simply is. You cannot escape it. Lying to yourself about the animal that you are will only give you less control over it, not more.

[unthinkablearchives]

Delphine Lecompte, Belgian poet

[iamafanofcartoons]

What was this? RWBY Tweet Official, what are you saying?!

[whiterose-fans-blog]

A decade long tease towards White Rose.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

i'll never stop holding the opinion that systemic subjugation of women and children under patriarchy is not a result of degenerate sexuality or "urges" out of control btw. there's a reason ted bundy (yes, the serial killer) jumped at the opportunity to tell the religious right in an interview that he was corrupted by pornographic magazines. in fact i've seen the right increasingly cling to this perspective precisely because they feel it absolves them

[sapphic-machine]

This is like lingerie for electronics

[virtualgirladvance]

my first love...

[kosmicpowers]

Everything I learn about Peter Capaldi makes him infinitely cooler. He's a Scottish independent, he's a gutarist-director-actor, he met Tom Baker as a teen and got in a newspaper, he likes the theater and pantomime, he's a punk, people make asexuality pride gifs of him as Malcolm Tucker here, his main companion in his run of DW is now an immortal oil lesbian

he's been in both Paddington and Suicide Squad

[demonprince26]

The silly’s™️

[doomtemparts]

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.

[blazehedgehog]

What do you think made Darth Vader such a cool and interesting villain? Was it the design? The character? Both? Something else?

Signature look, signature voice, signature gimmick (the labored, electronic breathing). He was ruthless, scary, and his costume was not over-designed, silly, or too alien looking.

Darth Vader is, basically, a space samurai. He wields a katana made out of lasers. That's already cool enough by itself. And when you combine that with the commanding voice of James Earl Jones, who at once could sound all-powerful and also extremely gentle, you have something unforgettable.

That, combined with just... the look of Star Wars. Not every movie in 1977 looked like Star Wars. I don't mean just special effects. I mean shot composition. Cinematography. Camera positions.

Go watch Flash Gordon from 1980 and compare it to Star Wars. Go watch The Black Hole. Go watch Richard Donner's 1978 Superman. There's something about Star Wars that looks and sounds like almost nothing of that era. The art direction, the audio design, the way it was shot and put together...

There was only one Star Wars, only one Darth Vader, and it's hard to pinpoint anything beyond that without knowing intricately the film history leading up to that point. It was just a total paradigm shift.

[charlesoberonn]

There're 1.4 trillion reasons to hate Elon Musk, but if you love science and space exploration you should hate Musk more.

His siphoning of public and private investments into his failure of a space company pushed space exploration back by years or decades.

Every failure of his "Starship" to even reach orbit is time, money, labor, fuel, etc. that could've gone to a much better cause with NASA or even a different private space company.

[penny-anna]

Everyone needs to stop saying death of the author when what they mean is separating the art from the artist. Like FR stop it.

[penny-anna]

I know it's mainly just ignorance of what the term means but I do wonder if this happens in part bcos 'death of the author' sounds so dramatic like oh this author is dead to me, I don't care about them anymore. Whereas 'separating the art from the artist' is a lot more neutral and well. In CERTAIN CASES it is kind of immediately apparent that you cannot.

[penny-anna]

TO REITERATE:

Death of the Author is a term coined by Roland Barthes for his essay of the same name in 1967.

In brief: death of the author is the concept that analysis of a work of art should not be focused on the artist's intent; the artist's intended reading of their own work is just A reading and no more valid than anyone else's.

A good straightforward example of this in practice is the response to Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary. Weir is adamant that his work contains no politics but I would say that PHM is pretty clearly a story about climate change.

You can apply death of the author to any work of fiction and it has nothing to do with whether the author is a good or bad person.

[escapismsworld]

Weeping willow trees

[myfootyrthroat]

I think some of y'all would really benefit from learning the scope of power of various political offices.

[smegorl]

Are you trying to tell me my local schoolboard doesn't have the ability to declare a unilateral ceasefire with iran?

[myfootyrthroat]

If they try hard enough and are pure of heart... still no.

[shamesonlydaughter]

it doesn’t have to be good it just has to be done

[fiyero3305]

The phrase "They don't want it perfect, they want it Friday" does wonders for my productivity.

[blueindeed]

I tell this story all the time but I'll tell it again! When I taught kindergarten full time, we had a working bee one weekend where we did a bunch of gardening/landscaping in the outdoor area. One of the dads put up a bit of fencing, then stood back and had a look, kind of frowning like he wasn't sure. His wife then came along, and the following conversation ensued:

Wife: GETMO? Husband: (after a moment, with a sigh) Yeah, GETMO. Me: GETMO? Wife and husband, in perfect unison: Good Enough To Move On

Absolutely LIFE CHANGING acronym, friends and enemies.

[catchymemes]