A Brief History of Hardly Anything

A 40-year-old Canadian fan of Marvel, Hamilton, LotR, and random shit. May contain smut.

[brucebocchi]

[clytemnestraaa]

honestly when you remember that tlg was meant to be reid’s last book and that she is experiencing a degenerative disease it all totally totally makes sense and i get really defensive of her. she so clearly cares about this, she so clearly considers it an important part of herself, and of course she wanted to end on a positive note. of course she wanted love to save the day. this is her public work and what she has to ultimately say as an author. like i think in a very real way this is about what she wants to publically leave behind and i think that dimension gets missed so often in critique

[ilyapasta]

There’s a blog post on her website pre-tlg where she’s talking to fans about a possible hollanov sequel, and I was struck by how she was unsure who would publish it and if she even could get someone to publish it. And this is a moderately successful author who already had four books. It’s so difficult to be commercially published and hold onto any success or longevity in the current state of affairs. But TLG is already 150 pages longer than a typical romance, even her other books. She clearly wanted to do them justice and loves these characters and their stories. Doesn’t mean you can’t critique her and that there aren’t flaws with her writing. It can also just not be to your taste and that’s fine. But I just think she’s acting in good faith, despite fumbles in many arenas.

[hellenhighwater]

I forgot to eat dinner so I'm having 11 pm corn on the cob. This counts as a meal

... It's possible that I really need to do some grocery shopping

[hellenhighwater]

Okay for those of you living in pitiful ignorance, take a raw ear of corn with the husk on and cut all the way around the base (as pictured: above the point where the husk meets the cob, so that the entire husk is severed but still wrapped around the corn. Do not cut through the cob.) Then, with the husk still on, microwave it for 5-7 minutes. It'll basically steam it inside the husk. Remove from microwave --it will be hot, so use a mitt or a towel--and firmly pull the top of the husk/silk, which should come off easily in one piece, unsheathing a flawless corn on the cob. If it doesn't, you probably need to cut a little higher around the base, so all the leaves are severed. No picking off silk!

[hellenhighwater]

For the nonbelievers (and for me, a second corn)

[hellenhighwater]

This website works so well

[aropride]

ur clothes size doesnt say anything. like it doesnt say anything abt u as a person but it also especially doesnt say anything about what size your clothes are

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[thememedaddy]

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[thesinlesssinner]

My therapist always says “reading is a healthy hobby” and every time I’m like “girl not how I do it.”

[wgm-beautiful-world]

ART NOUVEAU (House, Rue du Lac) BRUXELLES

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[joyandotherstories]

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world

[armandology]

fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this

[armengoldira]

[huddyama]

[fravery]

"Wheatfield". Ed Perkins. Oil, impasto.

[aloyhh]

sorry for how i acted when there were multiple noises happening at the same time

[weird-goodbyes]

the greatest thing about the trolley problem conversation is that it immediately smacks you in the face with the real issue. maybe Tom was willing to do it when it was a woman who is older and who is the last one. But he finds out it’s Evan? No. No way. The trolley problem only works when you don’t love any of the people on the tracks. The greater good means nothing if the person you love most is the sacrificial lamb. But the thing is….almost everyone in the whole world is someone’s Evan. Of course when it’s numbers and hypotheticals, it’s easy. But when it’s your heart? The numbers mean nothing anymore.

[call-me-moby-dick]

[bumblebeebats]

How is it that you can a music library of like 1,200+ absolute bangers but as soon as you put it on shuffle in a group setting it's like. anime opening you added in 2010. homestuck parody song. musical artist who was cancelled last year for kidnapping and eating children in his basement. Hamilton