Just Me. Being Me.

38 | They/She/He | Queer | Ace

[lady-averie]

So while doing some pirate research for the play I’m writing I stumbled upon one of the most amazing things I’ve ever read. In the 5th century A.D. there was a Scandinavian princess called Alwilda who’s father tried to set her up to marry Alf, the Prince of Denmark. Alwilda wasn’t cool with this so she and some female companions dressed as men, stole a ship, and sailed away. Eventually they met a company of pirates who were in need of a new captain and they were so captivated by her that they elected her as their new leader. Her crew became so infamous that Prince Alf was sent out to stop them. When their ships met he took Alwilda prisoner and she was so impressed by Alf’s skill that she agreed to marry him after all and eventually became the Queen of Denmark.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I stopped caring whether this was factually accurate about halfway through because it’s completely AWESOME.

[oldshrewsburyian]

Medievalist here for triumphant fact-checking: this story is, if not true, at least true according to the history of the Danes (Gesta Danorum) written in the 12th century by Saxo Grammaticus. You can read his account of Alwilda’s story in the original Latin here, or in English translation here. Highlights include:

She exchanged woman’s for man’s attire, and, no longer the most modest of maidens, began the life of a warlike rover. Enrolling in her service many maidens who were of the same mind, she happened to come to a spot where a band of rovers were lamenting the death of their captain, who had been lost in war; they made her their rover captain.

I love the implication that there were lots of Danish maidens just WAITING for the opportunity of a life of piracy…

[lady-averie]

Reblogging my old post for this A+ addition to it

[victusinveritas]

[daggers-drawn]

All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

[mrloveballad]

^^^^^^ read it. say it out loud. keep repeating it until you understand.

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[voxtechhh]

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING MEEEEEEEE

[somnyfandomssolittletime]

I NEEEEEED IT!

[scarcosuchus]

happy slightly belated new year everyone!!!!! have a shok.wav

[somnyfandomssolittletime]

Ok but where’s all the shok.wav merch? I have needs too.

[mihai-florescu]

[ivvyela]

nothing on this god's green earth can convince me that peter parker doesn't have an ao3 account where he is elbows deep in a 'rise of skywalker' fix-it fic. like, fully invested in it, been writing it pre-spider bite with ned, who is just as enthusiastic about it. but the thing is, it's really hard to do updates when you are literally spider-man.

every three months he'll post and in the author's note there's some shit like "sorry this took a while, i got shot seven times :/" or "i know it's been a minute, i literally got hit by a bus and then stabbed in the leg, but i'm all good!" or sometimes ned would log in and post with a note "hey i'm a friend posting on the author's behalf, they're healing from severe hypothermia but promised an update, so here it is!"

and the fic just gets increasingly more popular for the author notes alone. a good handful of the comments are something along the lines of "i'm not even in the star wars fandom, i'm just here to see if the author is good" or "every update i cheer for another day the author gets to live at this point"

and any reader who is a native new yorker kind of pieces together that holy shit the author might be spider-man because the timeline adds up, and they just fully embrace it. spider-man will stop a robbery and the guy behind the counter will ask when the next chapter will be up. spider-man returns a stolen backpack to a girl and she'll tell him that he "really got poe's voice down so well, it's really impressive."

ned thinks it is hilarious. mj finds out about the fic from twitter, to peter's absolute horror, and changes peter's contact name to "friendly neighborhood ao3 author". but the worst thing to happen is after an avengers battle where peter took a pretty big hit and ends up in med-bay. and during a press conference, when someone asks how spider-man is healing, tony just drops "spidey won't be down for too long. the star wars fic will be updated within the week, probably."

ao3 goes down for two days.

[smolavidreader]

Op your brain. You are 1 million percent correct. This is canon.

[calliopechild]

We all like to think we can handle change gracefully, and then someone rearranges our grocery store.

[juniper-petunia]

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

[the-mighty-upside-down-pyramid]

I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isn’t a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses

[neonthebright]

He punched the lycanthropy right out of wolfman

[wackd-archive]

did he just throw ygor out a window

[drbtinglecannon]

You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up

[bemusedlybespectacled]

anyone who's always wanted to watch leverage but couldn't afford it and couldn't find it to pirate it, or just prefers watching things on youtube instead of futzing with unofficial sites:

the first three seasons are on youtube, in full, uploaded by the creators, in the correct order (the first season was aired out of order by the network)

(ETA: it's apparently geolocked to only the US and its territories, but THAT'S WHAT A VPN'S FOR BAYBEEEEE)

[sorryimnotditto]

ALL 5 SEASONS ARE AVAILABLE!!

(Please note: only in the states. Remember kids, VPNs are your best friend)

[quietwingsinthesky]

​sorry the doctor pinwheeling between ‘ace -> not ace -> ace again’ between regenerations will never not be funny to me.

[quietwingsinthesky]

the master and the doctor have never had sex not for lack of trying but because every time they meet up, one of them has regenerated sex-repulsed again and so instead they just have to kill each other with rocks. so it goes.

[knitmeapony]

I like to think there's a Gallifreyan word for this exact situation, where no matter how many times you regenerate you are somehow never in sync with the person who would otherwise be your soul mate. Some kind of compound, german-esque word that roughly translates to "person whom I really ought to be partnered with to except our genders, sexual preferences, and various other related alignments never align" or even just "incompatable companion"

Most folks who know about that planet's culture think this sort of thing only happens in books. What a silly, almost childishly romantic notion! Except then they meet these ding dongs and suddenly it's like oh! Oh yes I see.

[theconcealedweapon]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]