#reblog with commentary

[undercovercannibal]

The Daily Show | Nov. 6 2024

[edwardbonnets]

how to ask the demon you've been smitten over for 6000 years to dance: an angel's guide

bonus:

[alchemicalterror]

[haruka89]

Actually, there are less fun things around that cater to adults. Unless you're a parent or 60+ years old. I'm literally looking around my neighborhood and what regularly scheduled activities there are, are usually for kids with or without their parents, for parents with or without their kids, or for older people.

My church? Stuff for kids, stuff for old people, church music or bible things.

The sports/fitness initiative? Things for kids, things for families (read: for kids and their parents), for old people.

The neighborhood initiative? Things for kids, things for parents, things for old people.

Maybe 10% of the offered activities are aimed at adults without kids.

So, only some of this can be put down to 'you have to schedule your own fun as an adult'.

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

[bananamaxpng]

Mary of Tulpar

[macbethz]

what i think REALLY works about dot and bubble is it plays with the genre conventions of doctor who itself. We've seen doctor lite episodes like this, we know how they work. There's person who needs to be saved who gets indirect help from the doctor, maybe they're flawed and learn a lesson at the end, maybe they're part of some flawed society that is just kind of set dressing or ends up being torn down at the end without examination. About halfway through the episode I was ready to brush this off as a fun but predictable classic rtd ep that wasn't really anything special. Then from the the betrayal of ricky September on its like watching a house of cards that has been built the entire episode without us noticing collapse into a perfect stack

“Oh well of course you could see them being racist the whole time” the thing is sometimes doctor who is just like that. RTD EPISODES have historically just been like that, either in that they are microagressions in themselves or have bigoted characters/worlds that go unexamined. And I think this episode performed an absolutely insane self aware slight of hand that relies on both you and the writers knowing that doctor who and sci fi in general has a racism problem. The ending recontextualizes things in the episode you may initially have brushed off as an unfortunate BBC or science fiction moment (all white cast, manifest destiny language) as symptomatic of larger societal issues, thus in turn recontextualizing missed moments of bigotry in the shows own history

[braisedhoney]

between chapters of a book you love

[punk-raphaelite]

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

[stark-lord]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES (2024)

1.05 - The Case of the Two Dead Dragons

[torao-chan]

And you're never truly gone As long as a part of you in me lives on - 🎶 Immortal by Reinaeiry

[thcbolter]

(No "see results" option because I find that more non-gifmakers than actual gifmakers will engage with the poll if there's an option like that. If you aren't a gifmaker, this poll is not for you.)

[ao3bushwah]

128 chapters now, plus four more for patrons, but yeah, basically. this will power blast your boredom guaranteed (if it doesn't work you get your money back) (not your patreon money. the $0 you paid for the first 128 chapters or however many there are when you're reading this)

side effects may include staying up too late, saying "what the fuck derin" to an empty room, and knowing what day of the week it is.

so really what do you have to lose? click the link. read chapter 1. no harm in reading 1 chapter. it's 2500 words. at the average fiction reading speed for native english speakers that will take you ten minutes. you have ten minutes right? hop to it. here's the link again

001: JAVELIN

Did I do the meme right

88 chapters of space mystery

[mysterygrl20]

Jack & Joker Ep 2 | YinWar

[kyouka-supremacy]

Anyways can we please shut up about s oukoku and talk about the actually important parts of the last interview

[anakindoodles]

The Path to the Dark Side

Click for better quality!! and reblog to help artists <3

[haruka89]

from what I remember, the original version published in the newspaper/magazine/whatever it was, was obvious enough that oscar wilde had to put in a several chapters with, I think it was a murder subplot?, to get it published as a book. I also seem to remember something about the drafts having even more gay in it, but that was too much to get the story published. and what was subtle about the painter crushing on the pretty but selfish asshole?

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of when its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...