#absolute banger of a word

[flannelepicurean]

You know what? I love some internet slang I've picked up. LOVE IT. I love how language has evolved because of stupid video apps and hellsites and all sorts.

That fucks severely. Absolute banger. String of emojis (and yes, I know "emoji" is technically plural, too, but see above re: evolving language).

I will be having literal discourse (literally) with folks about beautiful words we love, because we WRITE, and be like, "'Mellifluous!' MMM! Yes! Absolute banger of a word! Don't sleep on 'lilt,' though. Love onomatopoeia, too. Sound-words fuck so hard."

We need all of this. We need quill pens and bling and graffiti. We need basketball hoops and breakdancing circles and brocade curtains. We need velvet and vinyl and catboys and babygirls and dad jokes and nonbinary queer platonic furry discourse and ace writers telling us why their favorite words fuck severely OR however else ANYONE wants to communicate (verbal, written, sign, whatever) about the fact that communication is amazing.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[flannelepicurean]

Okay, so... I ran the dollar amounts through an inflation calculator, and...Now I am picturing an American farmer, played by Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, just...appearing in some eatery in the fanciest track suit he could buy and being like, "Gimme seven hundred bucks' worth of ham and eggs, and make it snappy."

And them being like, "...wut."

And he's like, "I HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY, OKAY? I GOT SHIT TO DO. My old man gave me thirty-five grand and I'm the master of my own fuckin' dentistry, so get me seven hundred bucks' worth of ham and eggs and then fuck off."

And the manager is like, "Sir, this is a Denny's," and then catches a ketchup bottle upside the dome while our farmer hollers, "WELL, GO GET FUCKIN' DENNY, THEN, AND TELL HIM TO GET ME MY GODDAMN HAM AND EGGS!"

Later, at the station, it's all, "Yeah, David Terry, 50 years old, Woodbury. Yeah. Bury a lotta wood up there, I can tell ya that...The fuck's an occupation? Oh, a JOB? Uh, trailer park supervisor...Just send the bill to my cousin Randy, he's good for it. He'll be mad as fuck when he gets here, though, that fat fuck's gonna be hungry when he gets off the wagon in this one-horse town, and Denny can't run a restaurant for shit. You guys gotta get your act together."

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1904

[oraclenthusiast]

FUCK Red Hood: Lost Days you know what I want?? Cassandra Cain's lost days. hg ran away from David Cain at nine and popped up during No Man's Land at 19. genuinely what was she doing for the TEN years before we got to meet her??

[pokemonbattletournament]

I'm not going to reveal who's in but there are two round 1 matchups in particular I'm really looking forward to because I personally find them unreasonably funny.

[adamnablelittledevil]

BTW, my new user is a reference to the "it was not differentiated or defined this love, but only love" quote from The Vampire Chronicles books because I love it so much.

[seeking-elsewhither]

"This is my Father's world" and "Days of Elijah" you could never let me down

"Let all mortal flesh keep silence" will forever be famous

Maybe I was just tired, but I nearly cried to "Deliver Us"

[pintsizeninja]

Well, the Talented Voice rewrite has taken on a life of its own; not only have I expanded the original two chapters by about 2500 words (likely close to 3000 words once all is said and done), but I also decided to add a prologue chapter that is close to 4,000 words and I am very excited to share that with y'all.

... in other words, the original fic was 5300 words and this draft is sitting at 11600 words. 🤣 I hope to finish up the writing/editing process tomorrow, with the goal of sharing the revised version on Thursday or Friday.

While this is absolutely distracting me from writing the sequel, I'm so glad I decided to revisit this fic (and thank you @rangerzath for encouraging me to do so!) There is a bit of a philosophical argument to be had about whether or not you should go back and significantly edit an old fic, but seeing how heavily invested I am in this series, and in telling their stories, I want the first fic in the series to be especially strong and serve as a proper introduction.

[opqrstuv04]

Still thinking about Hozier and am currently feeling incredulous about the “fairy goblin gentle bog man” perception so many people have of him. WHERE did that all come from??? Solely from Wasteland, Baby???? Listening back to self titled is insane because nearly all of the songs are overtly or subtextually sexual or political, or both! Take Me to Church goes straight into Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene, there’s a brief upbeat interlude with Someone New but goes right back into it with To Be Alone. It Will Come Back. Foreigner’s God!! The “goblin”est songs off this album as far as I can pick are In a Week and Like Real People Do, and even those are so much richer than -core ing them enables them to be. For 2014 I’d say this is music that borders on gritty and morbid, it’s not designed to be palatable. AND YET!! The complexity of Hozier’s music being boiled down to an easily accessible aesthetic makes me want to 💥💥💥‼️

[eroticcannibal]

People who are cowards about taboo topics are honestly missing out on some peak comedy

[5-pp-man]

ron was crazy good this week but like. screenshots dont rlly do it justice. the silent acting and emotional beats were done rlly well.

Ron's darkened, blurry vision getting sharper as he realises he can pass on his beloved sleuthing to Toto? the light coming back into Ron's eyes as he looks at Toto trying to earnestly crack this case? cinema.

[coldhands-sunkeneyes]

Category 5 fall out boy moment

[manicali]

Now this may seem deranged but wait til you know that ive had this video on loop. And it's played fully through three times. Today.

[anonyanonymouse]

I'm so disappointed I won't be able to immediately tune in on the twst update like usual 😭 I'm pretty sure this is the first time I won't be watching it right after it's up, and not only that, but my early morning obligation preventing me from enjoying the update is going to last FIVE hours 😭😭😭

[unproduciblesmackdown]

maybe bsol is that time jen tepper mentions when she was so upset about a review of a show of joe's that she broke a glass (&/or threw it out a window)

[jumping-jackalope]

HATERS WILL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP ME DOWN.

[greenishness]

Olds has never been comfortable saying definitively, as metaphors do, that something is something else. She ascribes this to her terrifying childhood experience of religion, the idea that blood was wine, that body was bread. To this day, she clings to the comforting distance of that “like.” Blood is like wine, yes; body is like bread, sure — in the same way that a poem is like a real experience but not the thing itself. In the same way that death is like birth, sorrow is like joy, a poet is like a host, an ending is like a beginning. To have a simile brain, as Olds does, is to live in a world of radical interconnection, a world in which nothing stands alone, nothing is ever only itself. And yet everything, in that vast network of mutual meanings, is allowed to remain exactly itself.

Sex, Death, Family: Sharon Olds Is Still Shockingly Intimate by Sam Anderson