#true article

[cadillacjohnf1]

Guys I'm crying at this drivers' dinner drama pls:

[phantomsofmyformerself]

why is lestat's turn of events more truthful than louis'?? like, no doubt about it that louis is an unreliable narrator. which he also does admit to himself, he is very aware that he is speaking from his perspective and he doesn't know everything and time does change memories and views of those memories.

but why do so many people in the fandom believe lestat over louis? why is he automatically more reliable and truthful than louis?

[wejustvibing]

Every day's been exciting. I literally wake up with excitement every day. I genuinely have loved every single day that I've been here. It's a place that you don't really wanna leave during the day. Everything's here... even my motorhome is here so I don't ever leave. - Lewis

[crypticarchivist]

My opinion on Neil Gaiman remains the same.

If you think he did it, don’t give him your money

If you think he didn’t do it, don’t be weird

Don’t harass people on the internet over it

Don’t try to twist this into a “all men are untrustworthy pigs” talking point because that’s TERF shit

Don’t try to twist this into a “all rape accusations are false” talking point because thats incel shit

Don’t demand that people pick a side.

Be sane.

If you come to this post trying to call me a misogynist for not wanting to participate in this bullshit I will block you. Basic reading comprehension I’m not defending him I’m telling y’all not to talk about him to me and be decent human beings to each other because I don’t have the fucking energy.

[frnkiebby]

give the poor guy his soda damnit~🎃

[irelandseyeonmythology]

The Old Irish text of Longes mac nUislenn alongside the Modern Irish and English translations.

I often talk about how different Modern Irish is from Old Irish, but I find it easier to understand with a visualization.

Credit: iso.ucc.ie

[not-the-coffee-machine4]

Me: *tries to see what the Queen fans on TikTok have to say*

*Jim hate*

*”facts” that may or not be actually true*

*”Freddie Mercury was bisexual-“*

*Using Barbara Valentin as evidence*

*thinking things that happened in the movie actually happened irl*

*general misinformation about everyone and everything*

Me: aaaaand back to Tumblr I go

(open tags at your own risk, there’s a whole essay in there)

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

That other guy would fuck it up so that you made macaroons instead of macrons

They're approaching menacingly with a bag of shreaded coconut

now see that would be quite interesting, and definitely be making the most out of the use of time travel

also if someone goes that far, then they absolutely deserve the chance to ruin my macarons lol

[kimio7]

F1 driver and his scandalously young gf is my favourite strollonso trope

[aclickbaittitle]

What do Fiction Podcasts have to say about the future?

Whenever you write a story set years from now, how you construct the world around it creates a new way to see the future, a fictional image to a reality we could be headed towards.

Fiction podcasts love to play within the sci-fi genre, and the thousands of audio dramas they have given us new pictures of what our world could look like in the next century (or a few years closer).

In this article I want to analyze the settings in the following shows: Hello from the Hallowoods, Desperado and The Strange Case of Starship Iris.

Hello From the Hallowoods

Hello From the Hallowoods welcomes us to a world ravaged by black rains and capitalism’s greed. After a natural (but man-made) disaster involving acid rain and flooding the world’s successions gave birth to two different types of beings: those who prefer to dream in a company’s “Prime Dream” and those who stay awake to continue living.

Even though the world is post-apocalyptic on paper, it never feels like it. Rather it is enchanted, there are woods where gods, revenants, devils, giants and zombies fall in love with themselves and with each other, places where community is found.

This, I attribute this to the fact that most characters don’t lament a nebulous “end of the world”, since this is the world they have always been living in and they are going to make the best of it: find family, friends, lovers, build homes and destroy bigots.

You leave the world of Hello From the Hallowoods knowing that even a doomed world is worthy of being awake for.

Desperado Podcast

Desperado Podcast also takes us to a world that was looted, but this time mainly by religious colonialism. 

Neo-colionalism has made itself tangible through genocides and direct targeting to believers that worship other than the “Old man in the Sky”.  In its first episode a community in México which revere La Catrina (a goddess in the show inspired by a popular figure in mexican art) is wiped out by the crusaders. 

From there our protagonist Elio is the sole survivor of his people, however all is not lost as he teams up with Talia (the chosen of Baron Samedi) and Shinji (whom I believe is a death kami?).

Elio now literally carries the memories of his community as the vessel for her goddess. Likewise in Desperado, the magic of the characters is the legacy their ancestors gave them, and it is what keeps them alive in the violent world. 

Though if we are ever to worry that our protagonist could fall into its clutches, the structure of the world soothes our preoccupations. You see, it is the characters within the story that are narrating their own experiences to the audience so we know that after all the pain, they ended up safe.

What Desperado tells us about the future is that, even with the ongoing genocides, white-washing of our culture, and neo-colonialism in general we will end up victorious in the end, and that our history will be forever within our memory.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

The Strange Case of Starship Iris, is the most sci-fi audio drama out of the bunch. It follows the crew of the Rumour, a smuggler's ship, as they try to uncover the dark secrets of the Federation and evade persecution.

As with the other two properties, the future is not an easy world, but our characters are making the most of it.

In a post-war galaxy, the crew of the Rumour is smuggling space-ship parts, medicine, and erotic magazines until they find a help alarm coming from the Starship Iris and rescue biologist Violet Liu. From there they are involved in a mystery which, if the truth comes to life, they could be charged with treason against the Intergalactic Republic. 

Throughout the two seasons of the podcast, Violet Liu and company heal together the scars that the war and its result: the Intergalactic Republic left them. They fight against the government not only through robberies, infiltration, and coordinated efforts with rebel groups but also by eating latkes, drinking, singing shanties, and getting gay jewish married.

To conclude

if queer podcasts are telling us something about the future, it is that it may be equally messed up as the present but that queer, disabled people of color will exist beyond the end of the world and that even in the bleakest of futures we will continue to love and thrive.

[lobotomy-lady]

I support radfems but some of u need to stop posting like paranoid schizophrenics abt the pronoun people like I'm sorry but WHAT is this

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Reichsminister of spin and smirking and snarling and snarking and slutting and simping and limping

[guinea-pig-enthusiast]

"Robin won’t be appearing because he appeared later on in Batman’s career, so this is comic accurate" Screw comic accuracy, I want Dick Grayson in these movies and I want him NOW

[cocksley-and-catapult]

I personally don’t understand the idea that these guys hate each other this is like the most accurate depiction of a friendship I’ve ever seen and I really get the sense they care about each other dispite the maiming.

Also I think we should print this comic in a newspaper but the whole newspaper is lime green and all the articles are in red and written like social media rant posts

[wonder-worker]

"Administratively, too, [...] queens were considered the legal lords of their landholdings. [...] Grants noted that the queen's officials had administrative autonomy without being subject to the king or anyone else, and evidence of the same assumption can be gleaned from court rolls that were recorded with headings indicating the lord of the manor whose court proceedings were being enrolled. As an example, some court rolls for the manor of Haveringatte-Bower specified that it was the court of [Margaret of Anjou] that was in session, while later rolls recorded Elizabeth Woodville as the lord of the manor court."

— Michele Seah, "My Lady Queen, the Lord of the Manor': The Economic Roles of Late Medieval Queens", Parergon, Volume 37, Number 2, 2020.

[third-king-of-salmonids]

i think you guys should unionize

OH WE ALREADY HAVE WE’RE BIG ON UNIONS HERE LIKE THATS WHY THE GRILLERS NEVER GO TO UNDERTOW SPILLWAY THE GRILLER UNION WAS SUPER AGAINST IT