Can I plant my roots in your life?

I'm Kimmi. They/them. Non-binary. Ace. 32. Scifigeek14 on AO3. @kimmimarie_storyteller Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/kimmi0075 Main Fandoms: Audiodrama/podcasts, Loki, Hazbin, Starkid, + misc ... subject to change.

[scifikimmi]

She isn't that coordinated.

[delyth88]

I saw PHM in theaters 3 times and just picked up a physical copy of the book to read (cus they pulled the audiobook from Spotify and Libby to make it an audible exclusive and I'm mad about it). but all that is to say that I would love to gush to you about PHM. :)

(this showed as failed the first time so I might get this ask twice)

Ooh yay! :) I'm glad you sent this again, cause this seems to be the first message to come through.

I've also seen it several times and I'm honestly considering going to see it again since it's still in a few theatres here, albeit at fairly awful times of day. It's been such a long time since a film was this enjoyable, so its been actually really fun to remember why I like going to movie theatres. (There are too many distractions in a living room. :p ) I can't wait for the DVD to come out, and I hope they do some sort of special edition.

I've also just ordered the book, although a friend was kind enough to give me the ebook before I went to see it, but after reading it twice I felt they'd earned my money for a copy. :D

Did you see the movie first? Or did you get part way through the audiobook before seeing it?

I managed to do a sort of half and half thing. My friend (@firedancerlily - I blame you for this obsession!) warned me against seeing the trailer and so I got a few days before we went to read as much as I could. I love that it meant that Grace seeing an alien ship was a complete surprise! I thought I was in one kind of story and then suddenly, nope! XD Brilliant! I got to a point where it felt like things were going so well that the next chapter was going to turn really, really bad, and then saw the movie. Which meant, I had no idea if Rocky getting injured was fatal or not! And given the shift earlier, I wouldn't have put it past them for this to revert to a one man against the odds story by killing off the alien he'd just met, so that was pretty tense. lol Sooo glad they didn't go down that route!

[scifikimmi]

I didnt manage to snag a copy before i saw it so i still havent read it (but im looking forward to it).

I went in very blind to the plot no trailer no synopsis no posters. but unfortunately some tumblr fan art scrolling across my dash spoiled that there was going to be a Little Rock Guy TM. But it was still lovely to get to know rocky and discover how they meant and developed their relationship. Also it meant i didnt know if both, one, or neither of them would survive so i too was on the edge of my seat for the dramatic moments.

My friend said the audiobook is really good because it has thee singing melodies of rocky's voice which is awesome. But tbh now that ive seen the movie so many times i have the movie actors voices in my head for the characters so im ok with read the paper copy since i already have a different idea in my brain what they sound like.

Im just really in awe of how PRETTY the movie is. Physical puppets, physical sets, amazing greebling on the orange screens cockpit room, the color grading, the color pallette in general, the acting, the special effects, the acting, the voice acting, the soundtrack and the ost both are amazing!!!!!, the swapping between aspect ratios for flashbacks... its just a really well made peice of art.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[1000-life-hacks]

[archeologist-prophet]

Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!

[bigdipper24]

I use Libby all the time. Highly recommend it as a way to support your local library.

[scifikimmi]

love Libby, love librivox, love all of these,

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.)

he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like.

he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

happy pride, family. i love every single one of you

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

when i wrote this post, i didn't expect very many people to read it. i figured it wasn't the kind of thing people liked to read and reblog, but it was late at night, and i was remembering this person, and i was crying, and i had to write it out. so i did.

to this day no other post gets sent to me so often by friends who have encountered it as a repost on some other site. the idea that more than one hundred thousand people have read these words, and know this story now, and maybe feel as i did, is tremendously humbling and unbearably beautiful to me. even by accident, even just passing on a story that is not my own, i often think that it is the best thing i have ever done.

happy pride, family.

[stackslip]

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

[scifikimmi]

posts that made me think of Loki instantly

[number-one-castiel-apologist]

“Why are you watching it again? You already know what happens.” Because The Character is in there, bro. THE CHARACTER

[json-derulo]

mitochondria: well honestly I work pretty hard to try to make it feel like a powerhome. not that anyone cares

[spyderschaos]

Im so normal about this movie guys

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[avadaniels]

"Scrooge learns the true meaning of Bisexual Awareness Week" Make Some Noise Season 3 Episode 11

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[avatarmerida]

Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

[futurakid]

[leg-stealing-bee]

[closetedguyy]

[knitordeath]

This hands down the best comment in the notes, I will not be taking criticism.

[song-of-sea-and-sky]

happy pride month 2021 I ain’t quittin’ you…

[msue0027]

[maxstarfall]

[gengaritez]

[pumpkin--rabbit]

[minyicho]

[bossymarmalade]

Decades before the New York City subway cars were lined with advertisements for niche dating apps, personal injury lawyers, prescription weight loss medicines, and alternative internet browsers, the interiors of many of the city’s trains were adorned with editions of the two-toned mock newspaper known as The Subway Sun. Primarily produced between 1936 and 1965 under the artistic direction of late cartoonists Fred Cooper and Amelia Opdyke Jones, the imitation periodical campaign by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) fulfilled a variety of purposes in the subway system for over five decades. It encouraged polite passenger etiquette, but also promoted local attractions as a way to entice New Yorkers to use public transit — from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.