#dontbearuiner

[scribefindegil]

We got a new kitten and I named it Magnus Burnsides and I just thought you'd like to know. I hope you have an easy move! <3

I am having a deeply stressful few days and this knowledge makes everything a little better. Thank you for telling me!!

[jheselbraum]

Ah jeez, I watched ATLA after its run and missed the fandom completely. I want to be surprised, but I'm not.

I watched ATLA but wasn’t involved in the fandom until years later, it was pretty common. But I guess the fandom isn’t active/moved on to Legend of Korra stuff? Maybe? I know I still see posts but everyone loves Katara now

[bomberqueen17]

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I have a lot of feels about 'functional singing'...

Your music feels are my music feels. I’m always taken aback when I find out someone I know has a good voice but never uses it except for the odd karaoke or campfire. People used to be just good at stuff like art and music without it being capitalized on or a demand of it being for others’ enjoyment.

And like, the counterpoint I guess-- if you’re good at it, people get all weird when you do it. I sometimes sing purposely badly-- not like, obnoxiously so, but like, no support and quietly and throttled back and unobtrusive, not like in a choir but like, just trying not to sound like much-- when called upon for things like the birthday song etc., because if you really sing out and you’re good at it, people are like “oh you’re really good and should be professional” and then they treat it like you’re performing and sit and watch you and hush each other and like... that wasn’t... what I was trying... to do either... It even happens to me at singing sessions. I stopped going to the one I liked, because of a couple little incidents where I feel like I made not-very-good singers self-conscious-- joining in to sing along with a song I know is not me trying to upstage someone, that’s not how sessions work, right?-- and in the end, the woman who wanted to be in charge of the session did some extremely standard I Liked It Better When I Was The Only Girl moves on me, and I just didn’t have the patience to do more than blithely pretend to take her at her word on various things (including whispering to me that I needed to wrap it up after one verse and not take up too much time while I was in the midst of said first verse, and another time, actually flinching at my first note because, as she’d told me, the proper method of performing wasn’t to sing so loud, you see, it’s just not proper, even if you’re in a loud bar and nobody can hear each other-- seriously though who fucking flinches) so that was the end of that.

Just. it’s not like. jealousy, usually. It’s just, oh, you can sing, and everyone gets odd about it. 

[tehnakki]

dontbearuiner replied to your post: What happened to the job in Glasgow? ::sends warm...

Not the correct takeaway but: OMG ROLLER DERBY. You know RollerCon’s in Vegas in July, right? ;)

I DID NOT KNOW THAT. HOLY SHIT. Ummm...  grrrr, I’d only be able to attend in the evenings, and then all day saturday/sunday. Is that worth getting a skating pass for or should I just do a nonskater so i can get in and experience it?

[vaguestblogging]

dontbearuiner replied to your post “I’m still mad?? We’re in the midst of a nascient authoritarian regime,...”

...they what

https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/830131431506485248

[airspaniel]

dontbearuiner replied to your post: Current Status: Drinking to get myself tipsy...

Bottom’s up, eh? *eyebrow waggle*

Sister, you don’t know the half of it.

[scribefindegil]

dontbearuiner replied to your post: Another good old ask meme that I can’t find the...

A guitar, a vial of glitter, a skein of good yarn, good knitting needles, and a fountain pen.

Yes! For best results the yarn should be fluffy and/or sparkly and of a color that could be described as “wine-dark”

[ifeelbetterer]

dontbearuiner reblogged your post:mostlyactorsandfood replied to your post “Hey I...

Albus Dumbledore and the Entire Life of Using Other People as Means to Ends Without Their Knowledge or Consent.

I mean, yes. That is Dumbledore’s great flaw. He IS smarter than everyone else and gave up trying to help them keep up with him years ago. It’s no wonder that he’s only ever actually connected one other person who then went on to be evil. And, let’s be real, Harry is not his equal in terms of intellect or power. McGonagall is not his equal. Hermione WILL BE his equal, but only after a lifetime of catching up in experience points. As much as Voldy is a once-in-a-generation level of power, so is Dumbledore. Everybody’s really lucky (except Ariana) that he had his brush with fate years ago and learned to keep himself away from too much power. 

But, like. He’s also a great role model in different ways. Imagine that level of self knowledge and self control to PURPOSEFULLY keep yourself out of the limelight for an entire life when he admits it’s all he ever wanted. And, yes, he plays his chess game with other people’s lives but he also would be wrong to stay out of it. He HAS to act and this is who he is: he manipulates and he plays the long game. 

I like the fact that Harry ISN’T actually all that powerful or smart. He’s just that GOOD. He wins with Expelliarmus, for goodness sake. His superpower is love.