Thing that happened today which was not bad ( Read more... )

Look, I don't want to piss on your party (I am not here for that kind of party, if I was I'd have brought more clear fluids an hour ago) but not everyone in fandom is a lady. Some of us, shockingly, spent a long time in fandom writing male characters because it allowed us to Be A Dude for a bit without anyone pointing and shrieking BUT MABEL THAT ( Read more... )

derek: history tumblr, why did the industrial revolution happen in europe & not somewhere else?

little-ray-of-gabi: basically europe was the only continent not getting invaded by europeans at the time. I guess europeans would like to think they had a more “advanced” or “progressive” culture open to modern ideas and such whereas other cultures were ( Read more... )

I don't know that words can do justice to the scale of my delight at how vicious and horrible the Hannibal finale was. Sort of a blurring of Bryan Fuller's gleeful cruelty as a writer and Hannibal's ( mild spoiler? Large spoiler. )

I voted today. I also picked up my train tickets to go to Brighton tomorrow, and wrote a reasonable amount of fanfic, did a little editing, and worked myself up to a towering hate rage about fucking Tumblr again.

So instead of being annoyed by the world, here is:


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No internet it really IS incredibly difficult to be nice to people. I am very impressed when people do it and mean it.

Also Hannibal got renewed so I don't need to find out if other television exists that I won't hate.

fall out boy titles are the new, old, and current black:

parasitism is survival, not living
(but i don't have it in me to live)

Oh internet, people saying things you agree with is not "comedy" it's just affirmation.

Jess: HANNIBAL IS A CAT: HE IS VAIN AND PETTY AND WELL GROOMED AND PLAYS WITH HIS FOOD CRUELLY BEFORE HE EATS IT ( Read more... )

So this one poet Tumblr is wildly in love with who ISN'T Richard Siken or Charles Bukowski somehow, threw a preciousness fit because someone liked her work enough to get it tattooed! But they were the WRONG PERSON and they like it the WRONG WAY: et voila. Now, I dislike her poetry anyway and am sick of seeing it everywhere, but it does amuse me ( Read more... )

One of my favourite moments of last night was Nick Doody not completing a punchline because everyone had already got there, and then saying "I love this kind of crowd because you all know what I mean. WE ARE ALL AWARE OF REGRESSION TO THE MEAN, THANKS." Which I suspect you don't often get to say ( Read more... )

Tumblr on racism/appropriation in animation ( Read more... )