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Went down a rabbit hole of official Australian flags that started with ‘what official flag of the city of Sydney — oh my god it’s got like five thousand components no wonder it’s an obscurity’ and ended up clicking on ‘Bernacchi’s sledge flag’ out of sheer bafflement, wondering if this was a cricketer known for being so dedicated to insulting the opposition on the green that he would run up a little flag in preparation.

Turns out Bernacchi was a scientist and ‘sledge flag’ referred to the flag he used on his sledge(s?) in Antarctica and I had completely the wrong idea.

(In my defence I forgot that Australia keeps laying claim to Antarctica on the basis of being the largest of the developed countries close enough to be able run regular exploratory expeditions. I also forgot that sledge is a synonym for sled but I think that might be a bit dated. Or possibly they are slightly different kinds of dog-powered vehicle.)

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i actually think its incredibly funny that people can just log on to the internet and get in a fight with a guy in another country. what a privileged time we live in. you used to have to go to war to do that

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started reading one of the georgette heyer books and I'm obsessed with the fact that one of the characters in this REGENCY ERA NOVEL is literally a failed fashion influencer

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Me and the girls out for a night on the town

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When you read a book regarding historical figures or events and suddenly you have massive beef with some guy who passed away like three hundred years ago

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?

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in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever

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spin the wheel and assign an animal to prev

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what happens if i flick the brim of a wizards hat?

you're gonna lose that hand

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I straight up do not understand the labubu thing. I thought the stanley cup thing was confusing enough but this really is fucking with my head. Poll, because I'm lost.

a 'no buy' youtuber i follow made a video about why she thinks it makes sense that she bought six labubus and a podcaster i like was talking about how he doesn't understand how they crept into his brain or why he started buying them.

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Look how they’ve Brontëd my girl.

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I truly don’t care about this and I am not going to watch it, but I am annoyed that a story that is so heavily about sibling relationships decided to style five sisters like a pop band created in a lab for maximal engagement in a ‘which Spice Girl Bennet sister are you?’ quiz. This does not look like a family. None of these women look like they’re related to each other.

Look how they’ve Brontëd my girl.

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Rip Sir Walter Elliot, you would have loved the skincare botox filler red-light micro-needling blood transfusion water fast green juice de-aging scene

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Look how they’ve Brontëd my girl.

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All stories are a variation on the quest; love stories are simply quest stories for women.

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The first time you read Daughter of the Forest you’re left with the overwhelming impression that Lord Colum is primarily there to be a neglectful asshole father (he is all those things, both as separate traits and as a single trait). And then you reread, especially the books that focus on Oonagh’s opinions of him (‘what a man’) and Conor and Ciaràn, who are probably the most like him out of his various children, and you go…well, yes, but also no, actually. He’s a Theoden.

(And then you start thinking that you want Colum’s story — a fey little boy who was meant to be a Druid but instead became a feudal lord because all six of his older brothers fall in battle, and then his much-loved wife dies and he can hardly bear to even look at his children, especially the ones who look like her, and then he falls under the sway of a sorceress who sells herself as the ideal mother for the children he knows he’s neglecting, so he marries her and then his seven children up and vanish, leaving him alone with a woman he knows on some level is just straight-up evil and their baby, and then one day she up and vanishes with the baby as well, and he’s left all alone.)