The Rose's Grove

Writer, scribbler, graphic artist, amateur everything.

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[dvandom]

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

[waywardmartian]

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

[curvycrip]

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Anthony Head - Sweet Transvestite 

Aka the only song you ever need to listen to. Just listen to that voice. (rly hot wow)

[timeforsomethrillingheroics]

fUCK

[brevity-soul-wit]

Oh. My. God.

[cuppatealove]

Me and a fellow writer lovingly describing our extensive lists of plot bunnies to each other:

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

never be good at your job. it's a trap. they'll just give you more and harder stuff to do and it'll pull you away from your true passion of writing gay fanfiction for people on the internet

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

oh! the space needle is a cute mascot base for seattle’s MLB team! i wonder how they managed to communicate that in a big foam costume?

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[fluffyplushiesworld]

Happy Pride Month Tumblr ✨

[rhube]

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

Really sad news, everyone.

Rupert Giles, you phenomenal character. Anthony Head, you incredible actor, who brought such subtlety to this role. At times dark, at times comedic, always hot.

The watcher we needed and deserved.

[harleycao]

Rip Anthony Stewart Head.

Here's an amazing story about him that I read years ago and never forgot.

I'd hoped to meet him at a convention, myself, one day.

Heartwarming story of Buffy's Giles going out of his way for a young trans fan

Tired: J.K. Rowling supporting a woman with anti-trans views. Wired: Buffy actor Anthony Stewart-Head quietly going above and beyond for his

[slayerbuffy]

I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.

Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)

[desolationlesbian]

my cat is completely obsessed with watching the bathroom sink drain and I have started calling this "her shows." as in when I'm in the bathroom and she meows and runs up I'll be like "oh you want to watch your shows?" and run the faucet for an extra few seconds so it fills a little. she will then sit there at the edge of the sink for ages totally entraptured by the drain. blorbo from her sink

[clawmarks]

New stock patterns of non-arsenical artistic wall and ceiling papers - Wm. Woollams & Co. - 1897 - via Internet Archive

[clawmarks]

Maquettes de papier peint - Archives Isidore Leroy - c.1900-1935 - via via Paris bibliotheques

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Turtle Quilt by Laurraine Yuyama

Tokyo Quilt Festival

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QUILT

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QUILT

[lizardsfromspace]

Penn & Teller: Bullshit was an odd show bc it kept rotating between actual skepticism and libertarian screeds. Probably the most famous episode is the one about how GMOs are good and Norman Borlaug is the greatest man in history and anyway two episodes later they argue that we need to be skeptical of global warming and frame environmentalists as hysterical morons. Show that argued persuasively that vaccines are safe and don't cause autism, and also did an entire episode denying the dangers of second hand smoke and one saying we should get rid of the endangered species act

[lizardsfromspace]

I gave up on the show in its fifth season when they did a episode about how Walmart is good actually where their main evidence was interviewing one person who worked at Wal-Mart, and how she said working there was good and created jobs. It looks like I missed episodes arguing in favor of the right to display female-presenting nipples, supporting nuclear power, and opposing exorcisms & a border wall...and also an entire episode yelling about how handicap parking and the ADA are unnecessary bc businesses will just support disabled people in the name of profit

Obligatory note: Penn Jillette renounced libertarianism in 2020! He called the individualism he promoted an "illusion" and that it's all "rich white guys who don't want to be told what to do". Apparently the moment that made him swap to the left & endorse Biden in 2024 was feeling ashamed when a libertarian group asked him to speak at an anti-mask event. So I doubt he agrees with most of that part of the show anymore (he certainly backtracked on global warming and secondhand smoke back then). Teller is silent on the matter

[lizardsfromspace]

In retrospect the fact that a show that pitched itself as "two funny cynical assholes hold liars accountable" was so fond of using maudlin human interest segments as a core of their arguments is interesting

Wal-Mart is good because one woman says she wouldn't have a job without it. The endangered species act is bad because one person really wants to build a house on endangered bird habitat, but the meanies at the EPA won't let them drive an entire species to extinction in order to not have to have a house built somewhere else

Even when they were saying something that was right they did it; in their episode on 9/11 truthers, which of course finds correctly that Bush didn't do 9/11 & jet fuel can melt steel beams, they profile a first responder who talks about how offensive the theories are, because of how many people died. But that doesn't work, bc truthers still believe the towers collapsed. The only deaths they typically deny are the people on the planes (at least, among the truthers who believe the planes were remote-controlled and/or that the Pentagon wasn't hit by a plane). Hell, they believe they're the only ones who really care about the people who died, so Sad Piano Keys aren't gonna sway them (though it will play well to us, the only people who would watch a show like this, who already know and agree that conspiracy theories are false)

[lizard-of-oz]

I would argue this is a problem with the Skepticism movement more genrrally.

[lizardsfromspace]

Libertarianism? Yeah. It was bad at the time but it only looks worse now how the skeptic movement was so often lead by libertarians. This led them to some odd contrary positions - I mean, James Randi was a climate change denier. Michael Shermer's Skeptic magazine is fully "anti-woke" now (I opened an issue out of curiosity last year, and immediately saw an op-ed by that one anthropologist who was married to a "race scientist" who thinks she has a right to Native remains. Like that's how it started). They really would lurch between being able to write capably about other subjects, and then writing the most uncritical propaganda on libertarian topics. Like their arguments became so much less convincing and so much more reliant on appeals to emotion over facts whenever it became a libertarian show. At least Penn Jillette was the smartest of the bunch