Fan and Sword

Fandoms (mostly Star Wars and Good Omens) and kitties. 

[tsilvy]

aziraphale: you can't kill me! there will be paperwork!

the paperwork:

[gabe-dasha]

It's been almost 48 hours. I have processed the finale. I'm past my grievances. I've ran out of the conventional stages of grief and I'm currently on the secret 6th one. It's time for memes

[gabe-dasha]

Alternatively

:)

[catasters]

[gallusrostromegalus]

tags by @ultramarineblues: #deeply curious about how this person discovered the cat liked this game

[enthusiasteditor]

Just a little thank you to every Good Omens fanfiction writer out there. Whether it’s for the laughs, the heartbreak, the comfort, the escapism, the smut, the softness, or the “just one more chapter at 2am” moments, you’ve done, you’re doing, and I’m sure you’ll keep doing an amazing job. This fandom wouldn’t feel like home without you ❤️

[enthusiasteditor]

I was thinking about how so many creation myths are born from war or chaos... The idea that an entire world could come into existence through an act of love might genuinely be one of the softest, kindest, most heartbreakingly beautiful origin stories ever conceived.

[slightlyartist]

The former Son of God splitting the G with the former Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Prince of this World and Lord of Darkness 🍻

[crowley-anthony]

The Beginning | The End

[hgedits]

Your love for him was the messiest, silliest, most predictable thing in the universe. And it always made me smile.

[great-and-small]

One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

[illustoryart]

Turning poison into positivity 🎉

It’s impossible to express all the feelings about this episode 🥹

It was a moment of pure queer joy and everything was perfect ❤️‍🔥

(Why can’t we stay in this moment forever? 😭)

[gnawu]

ilya + scanning

[gremlinnddraws]

He got off lucky (this time)

[shanerozanov]

heated rivalry + text posts // part five.

[hrgifs]

ILYA ROZANOV Heated Rivalry — 1.02 Olympians

[thisfeebleheart]

"It's a long story."

Shane and Ilya through the years

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

So Anne Bonny is unironically right about Stede being a heartbreaker, like just look at how he interacts with Hellcat Maggie, Anne herself, Ed. This man just goes around dropping utterly cheesy lines without even a hint of awareness that he's flirting. I know there's some random saleswoman in the republic of pirates who fell madly in love with him because he was the first man to ever treat her like a lady and then she saw him and Ed on a date and now she's sobbing to her friends like "I can't believe he was gay the whole time"

Stede "why are all the good ones gay" Bonnet. Stede "the first man to bother to treat Blackbeard like a gentleman" Bonnet. Stede "got taught how to treat a lady of good breeding in etiquette class when he was 15 and autistically applied it to every woman he ever met regardless of social class for the rest of his life" Bonnet

[latestqueeries]

no cuz it’s the way that ilya covers his laughter after shane tells him he hired a stylist and shane’s all embarrassed because he thinks ilya’s laughing *at* him but really ilya just went through every single stage of grief three times over in under a minute and now physically cannot contain his joy and utter *relief*, not to mention the sheer preposterousness of what he was expecting shane to say vs what shane actually said AND IT’S REALLY JUST SUCH A SWEET MOMENT BECAUSE WE NEVER GET TO SEE ILYA’S WHOLE ENTIRE FACE LIGHT UP LIKE THAT AND I JUST