A Bookish Fangirl and Political Princess

(she/her) I am an autistic, twenty-something, ball of contradictions who takes refuge in fiction, fandoms and fantasy, would quite like to be a unicorn (still! not as much or in the same way as when I was a teen but a bit) and/or a princess (because it seems as though it'd be easier, although I suppose princesses aren't immune to my issues), has too many fandoms/obsessions and OTPs and occasional deep crazy crushes, a passion for languages, the past, writing (although I'm not very good at it) and politics, and a burning desire to understand my own quirky mind and differences/difficulties, and those of others, and accordingly my blog is a mess of stuff relating to all of the above and other things too.  (Also, the guy in the picture is Mathew Baynton, he's great) (trying to operate in solidarity with other marginalised people and groups of all kinds, not sure if I am naturally just really lazy or if my depression and anxiety have been around long enough that I don't know/remember what I'm like without them, or both)

[libraford]

Gorgeous spider web today.

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[animations-daily]

Anastasia (1997) dir. Don Bluth & Gary Goldman

[promptsforthesoul]

If you use AI on your book’s cover, people will assume that the inside was created at least in part by AI as well. You will lose readers for it.

Also, it is insulting both to artists, many of whom are perfectly willing to create cover art for considerably cheap or even free, and also to yourself.

Your writing is worth more than that. Your hard work is better than AI in every way shape or form. It may seem the easiest and quickest approach to completing and publishing your manuscript, but it is not worth it.

The easy route is not always the best one.

Please have some pride in your work. Support artists. Support yourself.

[ramalamacreatures]

Voilà! Opossum family sculpture before and after paint, one of my favorite little pieces, hope you like it tooooo (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[danamongden]

We had a Coke machine in the lobby that would never take your first dollar bill. No matter how many times you tried to put it through, it would refuse it. But pull a different dollar bill from your wallet, and it would accept it on the first try.

So one day, as it was refusing my first dollar bill, I opened my wallet to find no other dollar bills. I put the original bill back in my wallet, fiddled around in there for a bit, and pulled it back out. The machine accepted it immediately.

[wishuponastarion]

I miss when technology was primarily benign SCPs.

[deviika]

—Albert Camus

[quantumboogaloo]

Hey, just a quick little note, this blog is decidedly not terf friendly. If you're a terf, fuck off!

[dyk-tv-theme-song]

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Do you recognize this TV theme song? #659

I know this and can name the series

I know this but can't name the series

I might know this

I've never heard this

Remaining time: 23 hours 20 minutes

[tuxankhamun]

Ma'am, we're sorry to have to tell you this, but your husband had an accident at the Pianos, Anvils, and Comically Large Panes of Glass Incorporated factory...

[sunb1eeder]

he was hit by a car in the parking lot

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[capybaralovers]

[enki2]

[rowlfthedog]

[gaybichon]

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

(source)

[gaybichon]

👆 me

[bastart13]

What I’d give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you’re in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you’re not weak if you can’t escape by yourself

I’ve never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into “princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else”, to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she’s a strong female character! (Implying if you’re in a bad situation, it’s because you’re not strong enough to get out)

[amozon28]

Also the concept of the Prince over the course of like… a couple hours hanging out with Cinderella  going from ‘Haha nice I really like you’ to ‘oh fuck i can tell from context clues alone that your home situation is FUCKED UP’   it’s good shit   ‘I have just met you but ON GOD I’m gonna get you out of there beautiful mystery woman’   cinderella  makes desperately yelling into the night ‘how can I find you again!??!’ when she’s taking off that much more poignant really

[hamelin-born]

#okay this is genius#I love this#love at first sight is a tough sell#but ‘I just met you but you are so clearly in desperate need of help that I am already planning where to hide the bodies’#is a trope I absolutely love#going from hello to ride or die in a matter of hours#isn’t a ‘you’re hot’ thing#it’s a ‘my fellow human is trapped and suffering and every instinct I have is screaming its need to help’ thing

[bastart13]

What I’d give for one of the Cinderella remakes to go into how when you’re in an isolated and abusive situation, sometimes you need to be saved and you’re not weak if you can’t escape by yourself

I’ve never been a fan of bad faith reinterpretations of fairy tales, especially ones which flatten the originals into “princesses is saved by a prince and nothing else”, to then go #girlboss. The princess can save herself because she’s a strong female character! (Implying if you’re in a bad situation, it’s because you’re not strong enough to get out)

[amozon28]

Also the concept of the Prince over the course of like… a couple hours hanging out with Cinderella  going from ‘Haha nice I really like you’ to ‘oh fuck i can tell from context clues alone that your home situation is FUCKED UP’   it’s good shit   ‘I have just met you but ON GOD I’m gonna get you out of there beautiful mystery woman’   cinderella  makes desperately yelling into the night ‘how can I find you again!??!’ when she’s taking off that much more poignant really

[hamelin-born]

#okay this is genius#I love this#love at first sight is a tough sell#but ‘I just met you but you are so clearly in desperate need of help that I am already planning where to hide the bodies’#is a trope I absolutely love#going from hello to ride or die in a matter of hours#isn’t a ‘you’re hot’ thing#it’s a ‘my fellow human is trapped and suffering and every instinct I have is screaming its need to help’ thing

[sundew-the-android]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

best cinderella retelling i’ve ever read, highly recommend to anyone interested!