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girl-blorbo-polls

Could your top two girl blorbos handle a long journey with each other?

Yes, and it would probably shenanigans free

Yes, lots of shenanigans, detours and vehicle changes but they can handle it

Sort of, it depends

No, they are never getting to their destination

Other/nuance

Voting ended onMay 16

#mmm I'm thinking it could work #but only with some luck #cause one of them might make the other try to kill her #and then the first one would absolutly kill the other #but then #then they might get there as one person and one ghost #that could work

vrabia

ambitious indie project this, surprise box-office hit that, iron lung (production budget: $3mil) is the 'someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying' tweet.

vrabia

set construction: $800

cast & crew wages: $1,200 + uber eats

fake blood (assuming generous discount on bulk purchase): $2,000,000 i am so not kidding i did the math this is nuts

editing: average adult body-weight equivalent in monster energy drinks

vrabia

update when markiplier announced he's producing the dvd/blu-ray himself i was like cool he's personally supervising the process and then he was like no i mean i'm making them myself at my house and i imagined some kind of complicated gargantuan contraption dutifully chugging along 24/7 blowing up this man's electricity bill and then he was like

anyway if you buy an iron lung dvd/blu-ray: it was made on a printer-sized machine. at markiplier's house.

vrabia

since this post unexpectedly blew up i'd like to note that the $2mil. of fake blood thing is unconfirmed and based on some rough calculations i did after googling 'fake blood price per gallon'. i'm sure they were able to get a more significant discount on the kind of bulk purchase that cleared all stock available in the state of wherever this movie was filmed, but i have no source. the rest of those numbers are what we in the industry call a funnypost

the dvd/blu-ray production was confirmed on a livestream i caught accidentally while dicking around on youtube that is now members only (likely this one but idk, i don't have youtube membership money). other things confirmed in that stream: the dvd/blu-ray burner cost $4k and iirc burns 8 blu-rays an hour. markiplier's one concession to productivity is that he might get a second burner so he can make 16 blu-rays an hour, at his house.

#iconic #iron lung

boucicaut

#infographic #knights #knight posting

carbon-ate

#i may be he #but never him 🥺💔#columbo the man that you are #columbo

eisenkrahe

Her name was Judy-Lynn del Rey. And she became the most powerful editor in science fiction history.

Born in 1943 with achondroplastic dwarfism, Judy-Lynn grew up devouring science fiction in New York City's public libraries. At a time when the genre was dismissed as pulp fiction for teenage boys, she saw something else entirely: the future of storytelling.

She started at the bottom—an office assistant at Galaxy, the most prestigious science fiction magazine of the 1960s. Within four years, she was managing editor.

Then Ballantine Books came calling.

When she arrived at Ballantine in 1973, science fiction and fantasy were afterthoughts in publishing. Fantasy in particular was considered unsellable—unless you were Tolkien. Judy-Lynn thought that was nonsense.

Her first major move was audacious: she cut ties with one of Ballantine's bestselling authors, John Norman, whose "Gor" novels were popular but notoriously misogynistic. It was a risk. She didn't care.

Then came the gamble that changed everything.

In 1976, someone brought her an opportunity: the novelization rights to an upcoming space movie by a young director named George Lucas. Hollywood thought the film would bomb. Studio executives were skeptical. Most publishers passed.

Judy-Lynn said yes.

The Star Wars novelization sold 4.5 million copies before the movie even premiered.

She would later call herself the "Mama of Star Wars."

In 1977, she launched Del Rey Books—her own imprint, with her husband Lester editing fantasy while she oversaw everything else. Their first original novel was Terry Brooks's The Sword of Shannara. It became a phenomenon.

She didn't stop there.

Remember The Princess Bride? The original 1973 novel had flopped. It was headed for obscurity. Judy-Lynn rescued it, reissuing it in 1977 with a striking gate-fold cover and an aggressive marketing campaign. Without her intervention, there might never have been a movie.

She published the Star Trek Log series. She championed Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogy—convincing Ballantine to release all three books on the same day from a completely unknown author. Unprecedented.

She published Anne McCaffrey's The White Dragon—the first science fiction novel ever to hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

And she did all of this while competitors called her imprint "Death-Rey Books"—because she was utterly dominant.

Between 1977 and 1990, Del Rey Books had 65 titles reach bestseller lists. That was more than every other science fiction and fantasy publisher combined.

Arthur C. Clarke called her "the most brilliant editor I ever encountered."

Philip K. Dick went further: "The greatest editor since Maxwell Perkins"—the legendary editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

But here's what burns: the science fiction community never nominated her for a Hugo Award while she was alive. Not once. The men who ran the industry praised her in private and overlooked her in public.

In October 1985, Judy-Lynn suffered a brain hemorrhage. She died four months later, at 42.

Only then did the Hugo committee vote to give her the Best Professional Editor award.

Her husband Lester refused to accept it.

He said Judy-Lynn would have objected—that it was given only because she had just died. That it came too late.

He was right.

Judy-Lynn del Rey transformed science fiction from a niche hobby into a cultural force. She made fantasy into a mainstream publishing category. She bet on Star Wars when no one else would. She saved The Princess Bride from oblivion. She published the first #1 New York Times science fiction bestseller.

She did all of this standing 4'1" tall in an industry run by men who underestimated her at every turn.

The next time you pick up a fantasy novel, or watch a Star Wars movie, or quote The Princess Bride—

Now you know who made it possible.

#educational read

zoinyoi

creation//ruination (spell referenced from chromatic_flare on x)

#this is so good #like damn!!#that's some hella creative art

skyrimhusbandmaterial

GOOOOOOOOD MORNING TAMRIEL

#i feel this in my bones

nondelphic

editing is just you vs. past-you in a duel of questionable comma placement and emotional instability

#I feel like im good at it #but every time i come back to a sentence #the comma haunts me #like even now #did i need three commas?#who knows?

the-horned-helmet

#this is so cool!!#art #the Dark Sun

plastidecor

“CUM IN MY BUTT BOYS IM DONE HERE”

#this one is for u #u know who u are 😌#memes

twilightofthesandwiches

Hey! Spin this Wheel of all Pokemon Abilities!

You now have this Ability in your real life!

How do you feel?

HELL YEAH THIS IS AWESOME

This is extremely great!

This is very good!

This is… pretty good

This… could be worse?

I feel utterly neutral about this

This has very strong upsides and downsides, feel conflicted

This is basically useless to me!

This… isn’t great

This sucks…

This is really bad, actually!

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

Voting ended onApr 11

#innards out??? heLP #Send help please this is terrefying wdym i become a bomb if i get knocked out 😭#and here i was thinking it could only be fun times or a best an ability you'd never use because it's an attack move #but no #i was humbled at the behest of hubris

everythingnowshow

what if American Psycho was wet?

#this is honestly a masterwork

spicyvampire

Btw keep reblogging my post with fun tags and keep using your tagging system as it was intended, idc what that fuckass update say, we gonna make tumblr roll that shit back

spicyvampire

But let's be clear, this is clearly some corporate speak for "we gonna force that bullshit on you someway somehow anyways" we will have to be more vigilant about tumblr constantly fucking with the reblog feature, them adding a goddamn menu button for reblogs on desktop was only the start, it genuinely feels like these people don't use tumblr or their main social media is twitter because they are constantly trying to shit all over the best tumblr features to make it more like fucking twitter, the battle might have been won but the war continues

spicyvampire

When I told you the battle has been won but the war continues this is what I meant, tumblr has rolled out once again this very exact same updated but this time it only affects the least protected users of this website aka the gifmakers, edits makers, artists and creators of all sorts, because not only is every reblog of a gifset it's own post, but now every reblog of a gifset can get flagged without OP even being aware of it

They get flagged on your blog AND in your queue, and sometimes you can't even tell what the fuck was even in the post so you can give a justification for asking an appeal

And if you aren't scrolling your own blog or queue constantly like a maniac, you won't even know the reblog is flagged cuz they get put in your Review Flagged Posts section of your app and website, somewhere NOBODY even checks, and has no number next to it to tell you how many posts are in there

I got reblogs flagged all the way to 2017 in there, and the only way to know is to SCROLL DOWN

And the cherry on that bullshit Sunday is that some of these reblogs can be flagged without you even being able to appeal them like I have a bunch of them which are simply impossible to appeal, even if yet again the post is completely innocent

Tumblr seemingly continues to find new and original ways to make this place absolutely worst for creators by taking any & all agency you got on your creation away, and they fucking hiding it behind their April fools green cat

#fuck this site

twilightofthesandwiches

Alright, you know what? You’ve just been Isekai’d into the 5E D&D world! Spin this Wheel to find out your Class and, to make it more interesting, your Subclass!

How are you feeling?

HELL YEAH THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME

This class is perfect for me! (complimentary)

This is pretty cool!

Not bad but… could better

Some parts of this are GREAT and some are TERRIBLE and it kinda evens out

I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m gonna die but at least I’ll be cool as hell

Well, I’m gonna hate being this Class but at least I’m gonna survive

I feel utterly indifferent about my Class

This class is perfect for me… (derogatory)

This isn’t good for me, but… could be worse

Yeah, this sucks