The Sunshine Sanctuary

There's probably going to be a lot of Discworld. Do it for the Vimes.

[nedlittle]

if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently

[nedlittle]

another one bites the dust

[boomvagynamite]

List of other people who also suck for this reason:

Bill Nighy

Hugh Laurie

James McAvoy

John Lithgow

Katherine Parkinson

Keira Knightley

Kit Harrington

Leo Woodall

Mackenzie Crook

Mathew MacFadyen

Matt Berry

Nick Frost

Paul Whitehouse

Peter Serafinowicz

Riz Ahmed

Shirley Bassey

Simon Armitage

Simon Pegg

Stephen Fry

Stephen Mangan

Warwick Davis

[traycakes]

'Black Mirror' director turns down offer to work on 'Harry Potter' series: "Absolutely fucking not"

Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw rejected an opportunity to work on HBO's Harry Potter series because of J.K. Rowling's views on gender. 

"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"

[thesunshinesanctuary]

Welp, guess that means I can skip watching the rest of The Great. Might have to watch Black Mirror, though. Haven’t gotten around to it yet.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Help I made dinner that's too tasty. Now I have eaten too much.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I made like 3 days' worth so this problem will be ongoing

[admiral-crow-is-watching]

Is that 3 day's worth before discovering it's too tasty, or 3 day's worth accounting for the eating too much?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I ate one third of it

[impossiblepackage]

simply make more

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Opposite of helping

[myth-myth-yeth]

pretty sure you demonstrated that 1/3 was a helping

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv]

when i find myself in times of trouble

terry pratchett comes to me

whispering sam vimes once arrested a motherfucking dragon

you are capable of literally anything

[worfsgoldspeedo]

Sam Vimes once arrested two opposing armies to end a war.

[pasiphile]

x

[mage-pie]

Sam Vimes fought an ancient mind-controlling spirit and won. Sam Vimes killed a werewolf with his bare hands. Sam Vimes happily wears the awful lumpy itchy socks his wife knits him. Sam Vimes causes traffic jams in order to be home in time to read his baby a bedtime story. Sam Vimes fought at the barricades— twice. Sam Vimes waited until his interviewee had left and then put his coat over his head so no one could hear him laughing hysterically at her silly name. Sam Vimes is my hero.

[witchylana]

Sam Vimes overcame a crippling alcohol dependency. Sam Vimes examines and confronts his internal prejudices. Sam Vimes lived in poverty because he was giving his salary to the widows and orphans of fellow officers. Sam Vimes cleaned up a corrupt police force and made it inclusive of the different ethnicities in his city.

Sam Vimes is my hero too.

[cosmictuesdays]

He turned to leave, then seemed to have a thought. “Sergeant Dorfl!” he said, turning back. “D’you think you’ll believe in gods now?”

Every eye in the Watch House turned to the golem sergeant. “Not Gods, Yet.” said Sergeant Dorfl. “But Always Sam Vimes.”

- Mister Vimes’d Go Spare

[kiss-my-aspergers]

do it for the vimes

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[terracotta7]

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

Your shitty children's series isn't more important than people's lives.

[yellowistheraddest]

OH YEAH IF YOURE EUROPEAN PLEASE REMEMBER:

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE ON AUGUST 12TH ~(8PM IN CENTRAL EUROPE) !!!!

THE COVERAGE IS GONNA BE LARGER IN THE WESTERN SIDE WITH TOTAL COVERAGE IN SPAIN!

[yellowistheraddest]

SOLAR ECLIPSE TOMORROW!!!

[sandersstudies]

There are multiple pregnant people in my family right now and I really like seeing how different families navigate pronoun use for a baby that has an unknown gender.

I’m grateful for the takeoff of acceptance in singular they/them pronouns (and my sister-in-law is having twins, therefore using “they/them” in the plural way). But it still doesn’t come naturally to some people.

Some people are comfortable using “it/its” pronouns, and other people feel like that’s dehumanizing.

“He or she” is a safe bet if you don’t know the vibe of the parents. Don’t “it” a fetus until the parents do it first.

My favorite though is when “baby” is just always used. Just no pronouns for Baby. Baby is too small to have pronouns yet.

[sandersstudies]

A lot of people are mentioning historical precedent for it/its pronouns for infants. I wonder if there’s a connection to the historical precedent for all animals being “it/its,” even if their sex is known or if they are talking animals (most animals in the original Alice in Wonderland book are it/its).

Nowadays most people will typically he/she both a baby and a dog as soon as the sex is known to them.

[thesunshinesanctuary]

Baby not having pronouns is also very British/Call The Midwife in a rather delightful way.

[sea-otter148]

In the wake of JK Rowling's *ahem* activities, a just society is one in which Discworld got even half the mainstream attention Harry Potter did in our world. There would be Ankh-Morpork and other Discworld-themed places at Universal, a multi-billion dollar movie franchise about Sam Vimes, several movies based on individual novels like Equal Rites, Soul Music, Small Gods or Going Postal, throngs of fans gathering for an annual Hogswatch celebration on New Year's, and meanwhile people would only really talk about Harry Potter like it's a fun novelty they picked up, like "Oh yeah, that's a great series. Wait, who's J. K. Rowling?" It would definitely be way more inclusive to trans people, for sure (real ones know).

[wagwias-is-gone-deactivated2014]

Two kinds of people:

People who took the news of feathered dinosaurs like this:

And those who took it like this:

[butch-king-frankenstein]

I hate it when people say “science ruined dinosaurs” as though dinosaurs are just some pop culture monster invention and not real things that existed and that we are continuing to make new discoveries about

[quetzalpali]

Amen

[atomic-darth]

Listen I don’t care if you think feathers on a dinosaur look stupid if a 9 ton apex predator is coming at you at 25 mph, you’re not going to laugh at its feathers. YOU’RE GOING TO HAUL ASS

[andygrayselfie]

Most of y’all are afraid of geese and they have feathers.

Imagine a 9 ton goose that’s about to fuck your shit up.

[brunhiddensmusings]

so i heard you dont think someone with feathers can be badass

[yaoibitchnonymous]

Look at monster hunter. They have monsters with feathers. It’s sometimes goofy, but

they run AT you to KILL you and if you’re not strong enough you DIE

When they’re not goofy, they’re MAJESTIC. LIKE. REALLY, REALLY MAJESTIC AND BEAUTIFUL.

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[sufficientlylargen]

One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.

[thesunshinesanctuary]

I do love it, but some small part of me can’t help but feel there should also be 5 additional slots labeled “crab”.

[talayse]

Everybody ready for my most cursed Discworld theory? Brace yourselves:

Nobby Nobbs is a Hobbit.

Evidence: All those jokes about not thinking he's human, he has a signed note from the Patrician saying he is, etc.

He disappears easily and turns up in unexpected places.

Known for making small items of value disappear.

Is shorter than average, I believe he's compared to one of the dwarves at one point.

Enjoys folk dancing.

Anyway, hobbits are the only "fantasy" race that don't appear on the Discworld at all (though a Gollum-like creature does interact with the witches at one point). I'm sure it's because the word is still firmly under copywrite.

But Nobby Nobbs being a hobbit is super funny when you think about it.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your toddler was the Little Art Connoiseur

[catasters]

[viralfrog]

[parentheticalaside]

My mom has told me about this video multiple times. It seems to define parenting for her. I get it now.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Weeeeee

[thesunshinesanctuary]

The adorable little “Deddy” prefacing the imparting of the observations… my heart.

Weeeeeee, indeed!

[luisonte]

Si hombre pero que dise tu

[fireduende]

[lastoneout]

[the-big-mood]

During a high speed car chase pursuit, the FOX 11 Los Angeles helicopter had an unexpected moment when they spotted a rooster and a chicken casually walking down the sidewalk right in the middle of the pursuit.

[reblogmonstah]

The fact that they were walking 1-3mph

His joy and whimsy at seeing this

His acknowledgement of it not being as interesting as the chase

His little "huh" cuz you know they told him to focus

[thesunshinesanctuary]

Turned on sound. Did not regret it.

[beatbizzle]

I overheard a woman at my job say "Your whole personality revolves around what you hate instead of what you love and thats an awful way to live." to the resident vocal Maga in the breakroom.

He was stunned into silence for at least 60 seconds so that was nice.

[thesunshinesanctuary]

Politest murder in history.

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[brightlotusmoon]