GNU Terry Pratchett

In my roaring twenties (but not for long). quite often improves on acquaintance.

[lizardsfromspace]

Checking in periodically that the Ianto shrine still exists, and usually finding evidence via posts by people in Cardiff confused at learning it's a memorial to a fictional character who died sixteen years ago and not like, a memorial to a real person who drowned. It's a testament to the Power of Stories blahblahblah but is also such a preposterous thing to exist. That loser Sherlock Holmes only has one plaque at Reichenbach Falls so I think it's clear Who won Superwholock

[lizardsfromspace]

A 17-Year-Old 'Torchwood' Shrine Is Being Torn Down For Good

The famous memorial to Gareth David-Lloyd's fallen 'Torchwood' character Ianto Jones in Cardiff Bay will be no more as of next month.

RIP Ianto. Again

[oldpaintings]

La Sorcière, 1897 by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865–1953)  

[higgsbison]

you and your bestie [incomprehensible]

[aomitois]

rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean

[breadandm]

somebody posted this Calvin and Hobbes strip and i cannot overstate just how topical this fuckin thing is

[narcissistcookbook]

"i've got no qualms about it" meanwhile i'm over here making qualm chowder

[thepromisedbride]

can we talk about how funny it is that tennyson just decided that he shipped two different people to what was generally accepted as canon so he just. changed it. just changed the couple in his arthuriana texts. knew no one could stop him and went for it.

[thepromisedbride]

and he was right too for the record gareth/lynette is far superior

[thepromisedbride]

rip alfred lord tennyson you would have done numbers on ao3

[olga-lavina]

[yviisxo]

rest in peace to this diva

[pgwodewose]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Thomas Malory is not and should not be treated as the be-all and end-all of medieval Arthurian literature.

[pgwodewose]

I feel like I ought to elaborate (in part because I swore to myself a while back that I wouldn't do these sorts of snappy, "hot take" type posts ever again, but here we are). So:

I am not saying you can't or shouldn't enjoy Malory, nor I am saying there is no literary value or fascination in Le Morte d'Arthur, nor am I saying we should ignore Malory altogether.

What am I saying is that Malory shouldn't be treated as The Arthurian Author, and Le Morte d'Arthur shouldn't be treated as The Bible of Medieval Arthurian Literature.

It should go without saying that the Arthurian literary tradition is vast (to say the very least), and it would be a mistake to treat any single text as The Authoritative Text.

[annabelle--cane]

gothic horror is when there's a location. cosmic horror is when there's an unauthorized fucking Thing. folk horror is when you're outside.

[guerrillatech]

[onemonthintheatlantic]

SAM REID CALLING OMEGAVERSE "VERY URSULA LE GUIN"

[onemonthintheatlantic]

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

your life is not an optimization problem

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[kuttithevangu]

The thing I dislike about alt histories where real life monarchs have been made both gay and unproblematic is that it seems to imply that gay monarchs have not existed in history but if they did they would be cool. Which isn’t true. They have existed and they were just as bad as straight people. And I think it is disrespectful to real queer history to pretend that queer people have never been absolute bastards