There are no fish in my pond

Beth, she/her. Multi-fandom blog, mostly Stargate SG-1, Dragon Age and CW's Nancy Drew. Header image by Bethany, actually. [x]

[houndmother]

is it a natural and innate part of humanity or is it some shit they made up in europe

[houndmother]

this is about the colonial enforcement of gender among many other things

[sandmandaddy69]

[taffywabbit]

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

[unthrifty--loveliness-deactivat]

You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?

[lokaror]

GOUGAR CLAIMS COOL ROCK

[ubersaur]

God forbid women do anything

[justpastsaturn]

She had a good time, too

[kiskeronation]

having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.

[buffygifs]

Buffy Summers & Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2x14 | "Innocence"

bonus:

[hypokeimena]

all those posts that are like "why am i researching currency debasement in the 1860s for a fanfiction no one is going to care" are full of shit, i just DNFd a fic for being obviously incorrect about the history of plumbing

[hypokeimena]

my people have found me.

[hypokeimena]

#i think the underpinning perception to me re: this kind of thing #is that it’s what convinces you on a gut level that the author doesnt know what theyre doing and is not thinking seriously about their story #whether this is true slash accurate or not varies #but supposedly ‘ little ‘ things can be strong & clear indicators that an author didnt think through their scene and just wanted a specific #aesthetic or moment that accidentally hurls the reader out of immersion in the story #forex - an example from some prev tags - horses being tacked up in the middle of the night #just in riding gear for no reason like theyre cars that can be parked in a garage and just be ready to drive #a ‘ little ‘ thing but it’s like. fully immersion breaking. like oh thats not a real horse. these characters arent interacting with real #horses. they are Means of Transportationing With Aesthetic. and from there it’s such a quick slide into oh these characters arent real arent #engaging arent compelling #bc theyve accidentally fallen thru a hole where the author forgot to put down story (via @silentwalrus1)

[have-you-been-here]

Energylandia, Zator, Poland

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

[onceuponawhine]

Your maternal grandfather:

Fuck that dude

Meh (leaning negative)

Meh (leaning positive)

Love that dude

I don't know her

Another nuance

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

[onceuponawhine]

Your paternal grandfather

Fuck that dude

Meh (leaning negative)

Meh (leaning positive)

Love that dude

I don't know her

Another nuance

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

everyone is one sickness or bad fall away from being disabled and almost everyone is 1-3 missed paycheques from being homeless. be nicer.

[persianmom]

a perfectly ripe mango could change the trajectory of my life

[what-even-is-thiss]

Gets stuck in the past and makes a random village get way smarter and less violent in a generational sense because I keep smacking people over the head with a stick and telling them that it’s the devil’s metal whenever they try to use lead for something in my presence and there develops a very niche regionalized superstition that an angry warlock will jump out of a tree and beat the shit out of you if you touch lead with your bare hands

[what-even-is-thiss]

Gets excommunicated by the Catholic Church for telling people that they can banish the devil from their water if they boil it therefore saving hundreds of people from a cholera outbreak but I don’t care and keep trying to convince the locals to use soap more often

[what-even-is-thiss]

Meets another iseksied person in the far past and beats the shit out of them for participating in the slave trade and eating moldy bread

[what-even-is-thiss]

Gets seen as crazy when I say I’m distilling peppermint oil to banish the miasma but people start asking to have some real quick when the Black Death comes to town and I am unaffected due to my constantly minty fresh house repelling rodents and fleas alike

[finleythecatperson]

You’re not at all worried about being labeled a witch and burned at the stake?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Witch burnings were very specifically a mid 1500s to mid 1600s phenomenon and I went back further than that so I’m fine as long as I don’t try to convince people that the earth revolves around the sun.

[finleythecatperson]

You’ve thought this out thoroughly and I appreciate that

[m-b-w]

I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this, but Keiko is NOT going to be the emotionally intelligent/mature one in the ds9 polycule. this is a woman who called of her own wedding because she panicked. not only that she made DATA tell her fiance that she was calling off the wedding. on the day of the wedding. the fun thing about the ds9 polycule is that none of them have the emotional intelligence and maturity to be in a polycule like that. embrace the chaos.

[evergreen-femme]

had to share this

[wizardshark]

In every way this is set up to be a joke like any other short video, it even uses the trope of main character in a wig to represent their mom, but it isn't funny at all. It's just sweet and nice

[mumblesplash]

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

[mumblesplash]

like what do you MEAN the number 1 sexiest character trait of all time is just kind of offputting and bad for you in real life. next you'll tell me smoking has consequences other than looking like a mysterious badass

[whatdoesthevixensay]

correct

[foldingfittedsheets]

My beloved came up with our ballots and said, “Time to vote! It’s a mitzvah!”

“Filling in bubbles is a mitzvah…?” I asked in tired perplexity.

“No, taking part in the democratic process is.”

“That makes more sense.”

As I filled in my bubbles Korben kept coming up and trying to paw and interrupt what I was doing and I had to keep telling him, “Stop interrupting my mitzvah!”

Eventually my wife came and picked him up to distract him while I finished and I mused, “I know theres no devil in Judaism but if there were it would be Korben because he really wanted to prevent this mitzvah.”

He failed. We have successfully voted this day.

^ A demon who wants anarchy to reign.