#all in good fun and stuff

[twooboomoomoo]

The Poll™️ is Over!! Results Momence!! This is a longer post so it's under a read more.

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With 30% of the votes, or about 6,593 votes total, is Ernest Hemingway!! Pretty much a landslide victory, I seriously didn't think this many people wanted to punch him.

The only person even close to votes, with 25% or 5,494 votes total, was Lord Byron. Which. Yea.

The rest of the numbers are:

9% or 1,978 to Percy Shelley.

6% or 1318 to Oscar Wilde.

5% or 1098 each to both Victor Hugo and Walt Whitman

3% of 659 to Bram Stoker

2% or 439 to RL Stevenson

And 1% or 219 to Mary Shelley

Of course there's also the 14% or 3,076 people who had other nominations. From what I saw in the notes, most are:

Henry David Thoreau. A lot of you wanna beat him up. Same with F Scott Fitzgerald, who fun fact was almost in the list but was switched out for Ernest Hemingway.

Leo Tolstoy. A whole lot for him too. Same with Nathaniel Hawthorne. I also almost included him but I didn't. Same with James Joyce, he was taken out last minute in place of Whitman.

Charles Dickens was also nominated a bunch. Completely forgot he existed tbh.

CS Lewis. What the fuck happens in the end of Narnia like holy shit.

A main point of the list was to include "Tumblr Popular Authors™️" to try and pit them against eachother. For example Stoker because of Dracula Daily, Hugo due to Les Mis, Mary Shelley because she's Mary Shelley, etc etc.

I wasn't expecting such a Hemingway/Byron sweep, I thought the results would be a little bit more spread out. However I gained some insight into some thoughts through the tags:

Too many of you want to fuck these people. I'm sorry to the one person who wants insane unethical sex with Hugo, but that sentence is now part of my vocabulary. To the rest of you, please stop wanting to fuck Wilde. I am begging you.

On the topic of Oscar, more if you should have picked him. Personally. Between him and Mary I got a lot of "OP why are they on the list???" and again this is a lighthearted list. But like. Please. Shout-out to the one tag calling Alfred Douglas an "evil twink" though I will also be thinking about that forever. Top favorite tag.

There is a reason I didn't put Lovecraft and people still nominated him. Even when I make a rule violence prevails 💛.

Thank you all for informing me on the ending of Narnia. What the fuck happens in Narnia.

Probably one of my favorite tags by far has to go to:

New gate crimes against Ernest Hemingway is another favorite phrase. I have literally a whole folder of tags I gathered throughout the week but if I put all my favorites on here this post would be a nightmare.

In all, thank you for the most insane week of my life, I never want a popular poll post again 💛

[angelofdumpsterfires]

how i feel about all the changes in s3

[ink-the-artist]

Video game I saw in a dream. It was in this low poly style like an older video game. You play as this character I think was meant to be a lamb, or maybe a weird mix of a lamb a mouse and a rabbit, (while not really looking like any of those things) and you’re running away from a wolf. Your objective is to last as long as possible before the wolf catches and eats you.

The house you’re running in is endless and bizarrely put together like most building interiors in dreams are (like the infinite toilet dream dimension on Reddit lol) the layout of the house is pretty detailed, you can stop and hide in places like closets or bins while the wolf looks for you, you can go up and down stairs and into rooms etc.

You never actually know where the wolf is or how close it is to you until it appears in your line of sight, it makes no noise and the game gives you no way of knowing where it is, and it’s pretty unpredictable it doesnt move at a consistent pace. When the wolf catches you there’s an animation showing it eating your character

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[hinamie]

i'm exactly as normal about him as I thought I'd be

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[alch-emi]

Shoutout to Linked Universe for bringing back my Skyward Sword obsession

[daily-odile]

various heavypaint odiles

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of Rivals - with David Tennant & friends

Excerpt from Caitlin Moran's The Time Magazine article (Sept 2024)

David Tennant — wearing a lavish, gold, silken man-blouse and sucking on a cigar — is furious. He is savaging a roomful of party people, all looking stricken — and all, incongruously, wearing swimwear. “How the f*** has this happened?” Tennant screams, as all the tits and legs fidget, gaudy piña coladas abandoned. “Get the f*** out there and sort this out! And why are you all wearing bikinis?” Tennant storms from the room, apoplectic with rage — and then sees me. “Oh, hello, darling,” he says, all sweetness and light. “CUT!” the director calls. Today, David Tennant isn’t, of course, David Tennant. He’s Tony Baddingham, the infamous, nominative-determinist baddie of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. “So, is this fun?” I ask him. The last time I saw him on set, he was being the Doctor in Doctor Who, in a floor-length coat, trying to save the world from being exploded. Again. In the rain. In Wales. At 1am. “Oh yes,” Tennant says. “I mean, look at my blouse. It’s like my aunt’s! Actually, I think it might be hers — it closes right to left. Don’t men’s buttons close left to right? Am I wearing,” he asks the room at large, “a woman’s blouse?” “We need to go again, David,” the director says. “Back in a tick,” Tennant says, running back on set, sucking on his cigar. Getting ready to be really evil, and Eighties, again.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[sporeclan]

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Just a buncha really cute and sweet interactions this time around <3 They all care for eachother soooo much :')

[linterteatime]

Some hyper light drifter and utdr doodles...and also the other little guys that snuck in

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

yeehaw

transcript:

JENNIFER: Don't get me wrong, this dress is nice and all, but- JENNIFER: ...it'll be real hard running around and stuff in it, don't you think? JENNIFER: Especially with. Whatever this is. (ass cage??) MARTY: I, uh... MARTY: Yeah, huh. MARTY: How- JENNIFER: (noticing the pants Marty's holding) Bingo. JENNIFER: Sorry, Marty, gonna hafta borrow this- MARTY: Wha- Hey!

everyone was making such good jennifer in 1885 posts so i nicked a couple for the gist of this one

[aethersea]

I've always wanted to learn bookbinding, ever since I was a wee little nerd, but there are a lot of things I've always wanted to learn, and this one has both a daunting upfront materials cost and a daunting upfront research cost. however, my sister is a jewel among siblings and gave me for christmas last year a handy dandy bookbinding manual, a block of good paper, and a little bag of tools.

but I still didn't have a suitable workspace, nor any of the many important tools and materials that she didn't include in her gift. so I just read the manual and pined. until maybe a month ago I got fed up with pining, flattened a cardboard box for a cutting mat, and went to town.

and I'm real proud of myself, so here's me rambling, plus photos!

I went to the thrift store and got glue + some fabric to bind the cover, went to Michaels for a paintbrush (and later went back for a metal ruler lmao it's amazing how useful it is to have a straightedge for cutting the paper), and...could not find material for the cover boards. so I went home and pined some more. but the urges were too strong, so after a couple hours of moping I got a stack of printer paper at the grocery store (I could not bring myself to use the good paper for my first, inevitably weak attempts, I just couldn't do it) and started making a little booklet. which was a great idea, it turned out, since it makes for good practice with cutting the paper, measuring things, punching holes in the signatures, etc.

I have a big box of greeting cards from Michaels, which I used for the covers. it didn't feel like I was making a Real Book, so I got some colored paper from the stationery store and used that for end papers.

so fancy~

galvanized by this success, I ordered a stack of chipboard online to use for cover boards; and once I was confident that I could cut paper without making it look too stupid (getting that straightedge ruler sure helped lol), I made signatures out of the good paper, left them under some heavy books overnight since I don't have a book press, and then punched holes in them! (huzzah for this nice video on getting the holes right)

my sister's gift included good linen thread. it's unwaxed, but after some poking around on r/bookbinding it looks like that just means I'll have to be more careful to avoid tangles and keep good tension. I am fine with this. I can be extra attentive. (I considered just running it over a beeswax candle, but one commenter said if your wax has paraffin in it, it could melt in a hot car, ruining the spine. I can't guarantee my candle is 100% beeswax, I didn't make it, so maybe we just move on.)

I don't have good linen fabric to use for the tapes, but the important part there is that the fabric be thin, sturdy, and not stretchy. the probably-cotton I got from the thrift store fits the bill, so it'll do!

this is a french link stitch, which I got from this exceedingly good tutorial. apparently it's strong enough on its own that for a book of this size, I don't actually need tapes, but I'd already cut the things so eh here we are. and tapes plus french link will make it a stronger binding still (according to a friendly redditor on r/bookbinding), so we carry on.

specifically we carry on to the gluing step. now as I mentioned, I do not have a book press, and you....kinda need one for this step. you need to hold the book block in place with the signatures facing upwards, pressed together hard enough that the glue won't run down between them and stick the pages together (though you do want the glue to get between them just a little, just for like a 16th of an inch). you at least need some clamps and a couple boards to sandwich the book block with.

but you know what? I'm not a professional, this is my first ever book, if it's a little bit off it'll be fine. so we grab all the heaviest books off the bookshelf and improvise.

it's fine! I'm sure it's fine! and just in case it's not, I've tucked a bit of cardboard underneath to catch any glue that drips down so it won't land on the floor. see? I'm prepared! I'm acing this.

and actually, it really was fine. I used clear elmer's glue, applied with a flat paintbrush from the art supplies aisle at Michael's, and frankly I liked the way the flat paintbrush let me slip glue in between the signatures. I did poke around on a couple bookbinding sites to see what kind of glue I should use, and the gist is that although there are better options than this, elmer's glue is perfectly serviceable, and the main downside is it's not archival grade. but I don't need my first bookbinding attempts to last 200 years, that's fine.

the next step is to add the mull. mull is a specific type of fabric – extremely loose-weave linen – and the idea is to paste it down over the spine to essentially hold the tapes and signatures all in place in relation to each other.

but I don't have mull! so I'm using more of the thrift store probably-cotton, because it's thin enough and not really stretchy at all. I'm sure this will be fine too. I painted a layer of glue onto the spine, then left it to dry a bit while I measured and cut the fabric, then painted a generous stripe of glue down the center, where it'll affix onto the spine. then I added a bit more glue to the spine, just to be sure, and pressed the mull into place, rubbing it thoroughly to make sure it's firmly affixed to every signature, with no creases in the fabric or air bubbles beneath it.

honestly I might have overdone it on the glue. I've never done this before, I don't know! I think it's okay, though – I tried not to ever let it become a thick layer, just a slight coating, since the danger of too much glue is that it might crack once dry and weaken the spine.

and now we leave it in the press overnight to dry, and pick up the next step in the morning!

[goosterbold]

cinderella

[rhondafromhr]

People say Richie couldn’t have felt the worst about Max’s death like Jon said because of “I don’t think we’ll have to worry about Max ever again 🥳” but to be fair, feeling the worst about Max’s death was, like, a really low bar. Like maybe he didn’t feel that bad, but he felt worse than Grace “it’s an act of God” Chasity, Peter “everything is objectively better” Spankoffski, Kyle “fuck that guy” Clauger and all the people skipping and singing through the hallway by a small marigin.