romana03

She/her, cis, lesbian. Fandom dinosaur. Janewayite. All hail the Auburn Queen. Fan of J/7, McGonagall/Hooch, f/f in general. Avid lesbian romance reader, mostly via Kindle Unlimited. Header image shamelessly stolen from the long gone J Team site/forums.

[analytically]

Can astrologers use astrological charts to understand people's character and lives? Our new study put astrologers to the test

Astrology is very popular — both Gallup and YouGov report that about 25% of Americans believe that the position of the stars and planets can

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[intimate-mirror]

[performativezippers]

Some highlights:

Astrologers helped design the study

No one did better than random chance, even though they only included people in the study who are experienced with astrology and stated that they expect themselves to do better than random chance

They gave every astrologer a set of 50 things about a person and 5 birth charts to choose from. They weren’t even coming up with the chart themselves!

After taking the test, most thought they nailed it. Zero out of 152 did better than 5 out of 12. None nailed it

Astrologers who rated themselves highly experienced (“world class experts”) did the same or worse as those who said they have limited experience. Both performed the same as random chance

This is hilarious

[kanna-ophelia]

Please enjoy the Good Omens Script

It's a pretty open secret that I hand out The Good Omens Movie Script (of the never to be made 1990s movie) to anyone who asks nicely or checks my current Dreamwidth. It was published in a small edition, and a pdf of it was very widely circulated in book fandom back in the day.

Someone broke all fan etiquette, and common sense, and the fourth wall and brought it to Neil Gaiman's attention, forcing a situation where people who had already read it would refuse to share it saying it was to respect Neil Gaiman. Me, I never really was very cool with this "I've got mine!" attitude. Incredibly irritatingly, people did circulate out-of-context quotes and used them to portray it as terrible, script!Crowley as abusive, and script!Aziraphale as a doormat. None of these are true: it is an extremely, extremely loose and weirdly Americanised adaptation, but it's fricking adorable, and so are its versions of Crowley and Aziraphale. (The characters who get done badly by are Madam Tracey and Brian, IMO - best to think of them as entirely different characters.) It lacks Terry Pratchett's grace, complex humanity and way with words (see also: GO S2), but it's laugh at loud funny at times and this version of the Ineffable Husbands is a seriously cute grumpy/sunshine couple. Also, it has Business Exec Satan.

All this led to the ridiculous and annoying situation of people who had never read it being derogatory of it, while, despite being published, it was in danger of becoming lost media and a lost opart of GO history. (See also: Revenge of the Old Queen and Rocky Horror.) So I'm sharing the link here. If you want to yell at me, I ask you to first consider why you want to respect Neil Gaiman's wishes on anything and reconsider your priorities. It's a damn pdf of something only eleven people own in hard copy.

Feel free to share, or to archive it yourself. If it gets taken down, let me know and I'll find a new home for it. Just be aware that I'm rarely on Tumblr so it takes me a while.

[55bata6rou]

[romana03]

This looks like it could be a good show, doesn't it? It's a lie. Literally fuck all happens. Most boring thing in the world ever. Godawful nonsense.

[threeofeight]

Star Trek: Voyager - Endgame.  (Otherwise known as that time Admiral Janeway broke the temporal prime directive to save her future wife.)

[zero1infinity]

[tsukiyamas]

why does this have 32k notes? it’s just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. it’s just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain

[diggly]

no one tell him

[analyticalsenshi]

Scheduling this to post on March 15 because it needs to happen.

[cannon-fannon]

March 15 again and here we go…

[hi-im-gay-how-are-you]

ugh damn it now that ive seen this and will def forget about it in the morning i have to stay up another hour to reblog it cuz of stupid timezones

[romana03]

For @kanna-ophelia <3

[untitled94191]

Nyota Uhura | Communications Officer, USS Enterprise

[jollywithyourhair-blog-blog]

[chillimanjaro-deactivated201908]

Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.

[fuckyeahnorsemythology]

Reblogging because we stand against hate.

[sourcherryblossom]

Reblogging because fuck yes

[asynca]

Mainstream media is really important in shaping a popular opinion - this movie (the Sound of Music, for people who don’t recognise it) was the first thing I knew about Nazis and the beginning of the war. I’d never heard about them before, and I remember mum having to explain to me what the symbol meant. This movie showed likable, strong and sympathetic characters tearing up Nazi flags and resisting the Nazis. It showed Nazi-sympathizers as intimidating and unfair. It showed us that normal people (Rolfe) could fall for their propaganda and we could lose them. 

I was seven years old when I first watched this and immediately I knew Nazis were terrible, and because of the power of the story and the warmth of the characters this feeling sunk to my core. 

I worry a lot about kids whose first introduction to world events is a movie like ‘American Sniper’. 

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Fun fact when filming this the guy couldn’t rip the flag quickly enough so they had to make a tiny cut in the flag, which is why he turns it around a few times before tearing it in half

[romana03]

‘The guy’ says you haven’t seen The Sound of Music until you can sing Eidelweiss in the original Klingon.

[romana03]

:(

[obisgirl]

All the OUAT 'ships (AU & Canon)

This was inspired by a tweet by a fan who claimed there’s like 50 ‘ships in the OUAT fandom. I know of the popular ones and then I really thought about it, are there 50? So, I started to compile a list and I actually got to 50.

Note: For a more updated list, please see my Google Document that I update quite frequently. 

Blue Fairy & Archie (Blue Cricket)

Blue Fairy & Captain Hook (Blue Hook)

Blue Fairy & Dr. Whale/Frankenstein (Blue Whale)

August and Neal (Fire Wood)

August and Jefferson (Mad Wood)

August and Henry (Hot Chocolate, Wooden Believer)

Cora & Prince Leopold

Cora & Rumpelstiltskin (Golden Heart)

Cora & Prince Henry, Sr. 

King Leopold & Queen Eva

Snow White & the Huntsman (Snow Hunter)

Snow White & Regina (White Queen, Snow Queen)

Snow White & Rumpelstiltskin (GoldenSnow)

Snow White & Prince Charming (Snowing)

Snow White & Lancelot (White Knight)

Snow White & Red (Red Snow, Snow Wolf)

Snow White & Ariel (White Mermaid)

Snow White & Belle (Snow Beauty)

Snow White & Captain Hook (White Hook, White Hooker)

Snow White & Aurora (Sleeping Snow)

Prince Charming & Red (CharRed, Red Charming, Red Charms)

Prince Charming & Regina (Regal Charming, Evil Charming)

Prince Charming & Rumpelstiltskin (Gold Prince)

Prince Charming & Captain Hook (Charming Hook, Davy Jones, Captain Charming)

Prince Charming & Dr. Frankenstein (Charmed Monster)

Jacqueline “Jack” & Prince James

Emma Swan & Neal (Swan Thief/SwanFire)

Emma Swan & Henry (Swan Believer)

Emma Swan & Graham (Gremma Swan)

Emma Swan & Hook (Captain Swan) * Undetermined

Emma Swan & Regina (Swan Queen)

Emma Swan & Rumpelstiltskin (Golden Swan)

Emma Swan & Ruby (Red Swan)

Emma Swan & Archie (Swan Cricket)

Emma Swan & Ariel (Swan Ariel, Swan Mermaid)

Emma Swan & Prince Eric (Royal Swan)

Emma Swan & August (Wooden Swan)

Emma Swan & Jefferson (Mad Swan)

Emma Swan & Aurora (Sleeping Swan)

Emma Swan & Mulan (Warrior Swan)

Emma Swan & Peter Pan (Swan Pan, Lost Swan)

Emma Swan & Walsh (Monkey Swan)

Emma Swan & Zelena (Wicked Swan)

Henry & Gretal

Henry & Grace

Henry & Cinnabon (Henribon)

Belle & Rumpelstiltskin (Rumbelle)

Belle & Red (Red Beauty)

Belle & Captain Hook (Hooked Beauty)

Belle & Prince Phillip

Belle & Mulan (Warrior Beauty)

Belle & Regina (Beauty Queen)

Belle & Grumpy (Grumpbelle, (Grumbelle)

Red & Peter

Red & Victor Frankenstein (FrankenWolf)

Red & Rumpelstiltskin (Red Rum, Gold Rubies)

Red & Hook (Red Hook)

Red & Archie (Red Cricket, Wolf Bug, Were Cricket)

Red & Pinocchio (Red Wood)

Red & Aurora (Sleeping Wolf)

Red & Little John (Little Wolf, Little Red)

Red & Graham (Red Wolf, Red Hunters)

Red & Pongo (Red Spots)

Red & Gus, the Mouse Red & Regina (Red Queen)

Zelena & Rumpelstiltskin (Wicked Imp)

Zelena & Regina (Wicked Sisters, Wicked Regal)

Zelena & Hook (Captain Wicked, Wicked Hook)

Zelena & Mary Margaret/Snow White (Wicked Snow)

Zelena & Emma Swan (Wicked Swan)

Zelena & Jefferson (Wicked Hatter)

Regina & King Leopold

Regina & Daniel (Stable Queen/Princess)

Regina & Graham (Evil Hunter, Hunting Queen)

Regina & Henry (Regal Believer, Evil Believer)

Regina & Jefferson (Mad Queen, Evil Hatter)

Regina & Dr. Frankenstein(Whale Queen)

Regina & Neal (Queen Fire, Fire Queen, Thief Queen, Evil Fire)

Regina & Hook (Hooked Queen)

Regina & Archie (Regal Cricket)

Regina & Kathryn

Regina & Red (Red Queen, Red Regal, Red Queen, Wolf Queen)

Regina & Sidney (Evil Glass)

Regina & Felix (Regal Cat)

Regina & Tinkerbell (Fairy Queen, TinkerQueen)

Regina & Maleficent (Dragon Queen)

Regina & Her Horse (Regal Hoof)

Regina & Her Apples (Rapple, Regal Apple, Apple Queen, Queen Apple, Evil Apple)

Robin Hood & Marian

Robin Hood & Belle (Thieving Beauty)

Robin Hood & Regina (Outlaw Queen, Regal Hood, Regal Arrow)

Robin Hood & Roland (Dimple Brigade)

Robin Hood & Charming (Outlaw Charming, Charming Hood, Charming Thief)

Robin Hood & Captain Hook (Outlaw Hook, Merry Hookers)

Robin Hood & Emma Swan Hooded Swan, Robin Swan)

Robin Hood & Peter Pan (Lost Thief)

Roland & Regina (Dimples Queen)

Roland & Henry 

Rumpelstiltskin & Regina (Golden Queen, Queen of Gold, Dark Regal)

Rumpelstiltskin & Milah

Rumpelstiltskin & Archie (Golden Cricket)

Rumpelstiltskin & Jefferson (Mad Imp)

Rumpelstiltskin & Dwarves (Gold Miners)

Rumpelstiltskin & Grumpy (Grumpy Gold)

Baelfire & Morraine

Baelfire & Wendy Darling (Darling Fire)

Neal/Baelfire & Ariel (Fire Mermaid)

Neal/Baelfire & Red (Bae-o-Wolf, Braeves, Red Fire)

Neal/Baelfire & Mulan (MuFire, Warrior Fire, Ninja Fire)

Neal/Baelfire & Tamara

Neal/Baelfire & Cinderella (CinderFire, FireAsh, AshFire)

Neal/Baelfire & Granny (GranFire, Widow Fire)

Neal/Baelfire & Belle (BelleFire)

Neal/Baelfire & Archie/Jiminy Cricket (FireBug)

Neal/Baelfire & Tinkerbell (TinkerFire)

Neal/Baelfire & Peter Pan (Panfire) 

Neal/Baelfire & Felix (Baelix)

Neal & his coconut (CocoFire, FireNuts)

Wendy Darling & Felix (Darling Cat)

Peter Pan & Ariel (Pan Ariel, Pariel)

Peter Pan & Wendy Darling (Pendy, Pandy)

Peter Pan & Captain Hook (Captain Pan, Panix)

Killian Jones & Milah (Millian)

Captain Hook & Cora (Captain of Hearts)

Captain Hook & Aurora (Sleeping Hook)

Captain Hook & Baelfire (Hookfire, Captain Fire)

Captain Hook & Ariel (Hookriel, FishHook)

Captain Hook & Jefferson (Mad Hook)

Captain Hook & Rumpelstiltskin (Gold Hook)

Captain Hook & The Floor (Flook, crack ‘ship)

Captain Hook & Jello (Hello)

Captain Hook & Archie (Hooked Cricket)

Captain Hook & Tinkerbell (TinkerHook)

Captain Hook & Sheriff Graham (Hooked Huntsman)

Captain Hook & Felix (Felian)

Captain Hook & Grumpy (Captain Grumpy, Grumpy Hook, Grumpy Pirate)

Prince Eric & Ariel

Prince Eric & Regina

Aurora & Phillip (Sleeping Pill, Sleepless Love)

Aurora & Neal (Sleeping Fire, Fire Princess)

Aurora & Mulan (Mulara, Sleeping Warrior)

Mulan & Phillip

Victor Frankenstein & Archie Hopper (Monster Cricket)

Victor Frankenstein & Jefferson (Mad Monster)

Victor Frankenstein & Captain Hook (Hooked Monster)

Victor Frankenstein & Granny (GrannStein)

Cinderella & Prince Thomas

Martin & Myrna (Jiminy’s parents)

Granny & Gepetto (Granpetto)

Greg & Tamara (Gregmara)

Grumpy & Nova (Dwarf Star)

Abigail & Frederick (Golden Hearts)

Zelena and the Huntsman (Witch Hunter)

Zelena & Rumple (Wicked Imp)

Zelena & Regina (Wicked Sisters)

Alice & the Red Queen Alice & the Knave (Alice of Hearts)

Red Queen & Jafar (Red Sorcerer, Red Cobra)

Red Queen/Anastasia & the Knave, Will Scarlett (Red Knave, Red Heart, Scarlett Queen)

Alice & Jafar Mad Hatter/Jefferson & Alice (Mad Alice, Malice)

Mad Hatter/Jefferson & Red Queen/Anastasia (Red Hat)

Liz, the Lizard & Will, the knave (Wiz, Wizard)

If there’s any ‘ship I left out or forgot, let me know. I purposely did not include the cursed personalities. Characters with multiple identities (Neal) I listed only once because he and Emma Swan are portrayed by the same actor & actress. https://twitter.com/_obisgirl/status/360143981679624194

Spoiler 'ships will not be posted until the new season starts.  

[doyouknowyoudothatoutloud]

The shipnames 👌😂MonsterCricket👌😂😂😂😂😂 GrumpyPirate😝😝😝

MonkeySwan OMG I FORGOT THAT 😂😂😂😂😂🙌🙌

[romana03]

I am curious about this, because it specifies in the fandom, and then the linked list colour codes according to canon status.

Swanqueen listed as 'non-romantic' is so fucking funny. I've read more than one published lesbian romance novel based on Swanqueen fanfic.

[romana03]

I spent far too much of my weekend on a thing.

[guerrillatech]

[kanna-ophelia]

So, for like a year or more, I've been bashing myself up over my failure to finish my first space opera novel.

Opened up the file today for reasons, and apparently I did finish it? I have no memory of this. And... Okay, I really like the ending. Which I don't remember writing.

I guess my bisexual selectively-amnesiac secret police/spy/princess/starship captain is going to have her book after all.

[romana03]

So excited for this! OMG.

[jollywithyourhair-blog-blog]

[chillimanjaro-deactivated201908]

Reblogging again because you can never have enough Nazi flag ripping on your blog.

[fuckyeahnorsemythology]

Reblogging because we stand against hate.

[sourcherryblossom]

Reblogging because fuck yes

[asynca]

Mainstream media is really important in shaping a popular opinion - this movie (the Sound of Music, for people who don’t recognise it) was the first thing I knew about Nazis and the beginning of the war. I’d never heard about them before, and I remember mum having to explain to me what the symbol meant. This movie showed likable, strong and sympathetic characters tearing up Nazi flags and resisting the Nazis. It showed Nazi-sympathizers as intimidating and unfair. It showed us that normal people (Rolfe) could fall for their propaganda and we could lose them. 

I was seven years old when I first watched this and immediately I knew Nazis were terrible, and because of the power of the story and the warmth of the characters this feeling sunk to my core. 

I worry a lot about kids whose first introduction to world events is a movie like ‘American Sniper’. 

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Fun fact when filming this the guy couldn’t rip the flag quickly enough so they had to make a tiny cut in the flag, which is why he turns it around a few times before tearing it in half

[romana03]

‘The guy’ says you haven’t seen The Sound of Music until you can sing Eidelweiss in the original Klingon.

[beggars-opera]

Hi this is absolutely killing me, could someone please point me in the direction of that video of the guy in like a train station who’s pretending to be a street preacher but he’s reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar like it’s the book of Genesis

[boba-femme]

[actualhumancryptid]

Hahaha of course it’s Australia. Well done Adelaidians.

[romana03]

@kanna-ophelia, I'm not sure if this undermines or reinforces the 'there's bugger all to do in Adelaide' rhetoric...

[romana03]

Can you believe what we DINO-SAW? 👀 🦖 These two have been spotted playing the Jurrasic Park theme down the River Avon 😂😂😂

[romana03]

Selection Demarchy | Australia Forward

"Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!"

"We take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the week [...] but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting [...] by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs [...] but by a two thirds majority in the case of more..."

[fanonical]

hey do you think you could expand a bit on separating the art from the artist? clearly you’ve done it with jk rowling but what are your thoughts on it as a general idea?

okay, but you’re not going to like the answer.

here’s the truth: you can’t separate the art from the artist. not entirely. HP Lovecraft was an incredibly talented, but much more incredibly racist man. It would nice to say you don’t agree with his views but you can enjoy his works without that leaking in but…. well, I’m afraid that would be misunderstanding his books entirely.

Consider, for a second, that Lovecraft’s works were horror stories about extradimensional alien monsters having mutant children with humans, they were about invasions from distant monsters, they were about the purity of quaint European towns being tainted. Consider how this may have all been inflicted by the fact that he just simply despised anybody who wasn’t white. Consider how is opinions on “mixing the races” might fight into this; consider why being unable to maintain the “purity” of white Europe was the scariest thing of all to him.

This extends to Rowling too.

I would love to say we can just acknowledge that she is an awful, racist, antisemitic, transphobic person and then say “but at least her books are good,” because, well, they are, aren’t they? I would say so, for sure. But to suggest that one can separate her from them is…. ridiculous.

Consider why an antisemitic woman wrote about a species of goblins who live among us, but who for the most part keep to themselvesand are maybe a little bit oppressed by the institution, but also hold all the cards, all the money, run the banks.

Consider why a racist woman would write about a species of slaves who loved being enslaved, who enjoyed working for no pay, and cleaning up after humans, with the only small caveat of that they didn’t want to be beaten. Imagine that only the most radical of their species wanted to be free, and he still spent the rest of his life working for no pay and helping out a little white boy and his friends wherever he could. Consider why the only person in the story who thought they should be free, that they should have rights, was treated as an overzealous joke, who was acting against the wishes of those slaves who really LOVE being enslaved. Consider that Rowling went on to say that she kind of considers that girl to be black, now.

Consider why JK Rowling, an open and proud transphobe, wrote Rita Skeeter as having a large square jaw, thick “manly” hands, and dressing incredibly gaudily with the most obvious fake nails and fake teeth and fake hair and fake everything. Consider why a woman who tweets about how trans women are “foxes pretending to be hens to get in the hen house” might write this Rita Skeeter to then illegally transform her body in order to spy on children.

Harry Potter is full of Rowling’s bigotry, start to finish. Not even tangentially, like, “oh the goblins are bad, Rita Skeeter is bad, the house elves are bad, but most of it’s good!” because the deeper you dig and the longer you think the more you realise the entire story is based on her prejudices.

Harry Potter pretends to be an aracial story about found family, but if that were true, why are Harry’s distant ancestors important to who he is today even in the seventh book? Why does Harry have to live with his cousin and aunt and uncle? Because magic inherently prefers blood ties. Whilst Rowling was writing a story that seemed to say, “your heritage is not that important and doesn’t make you better than others” she was still writing a story about a boy who got all of his money through his bloodline, who was protected by living with his bloodline, no matter how evil, who was uniquely able to stop Voldemort because his bloodline passed down the invisibility cloak for generations and generations. Any step Harry takes he is compared to his perfect parents who were exactly like him — he looks just like his father, but he has his mother’s eyes, you know! — consider WHY a woman who is racist might’ve written a story like this. A story that on its surface, condemns a blood caste, but still in every step it takes, validates the idea that blood is thicker than water, and your geneological origin is what makes you special.

You can enjoy Harry Pottwr, of course you can. There are fantastic parts. I love a small group of teenagers deciding to become anarchies rebels and train to fight against fascism in secret. I love the murder mystery plots, I love how the series tells kids that it’s a good thing to be brave, and a good thing to fight injustice, and a good thing to challenge the government. But I cannot separate it from its author because it is such a product of its author. All of the structures of the world, the way things work in the universe, and drenched in Rowling’s beliefs, her bigotries. Of course they are: she made them.

Again. This doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy it. But I think we are past the day where we can pretend that disavowing a bigoted author is enough, and that that somehow separates the text from its bigotry. I think we are past the day where we can pretend that Harry Potter isn’t a deeply, inherently bigoted piece of media. Even the bits we love. I think we are beyond the day where we can truthfully pretend to separate it from her, because she is present through all of it. We MUST recognise its flaws. We MUST admit that she is in every part of it.

[banrions]

#this is a brilliant post that sets up an answer the anon’s question#which is that separating art from the artist isn’t about ignoring who the author was#but rather ignoring what the author tells you their work means#rowling will never say her work contains the things rightful pointed out here#but she doesn’t get to make that call#we all have eyes and can look for ourselves#and who she is is part of what we must look at (via @ratherembarrassing)