At this point in 2020 I’m willing to try anything

The greatest video since “The History of Japan”

#this goes through so many stages of sounding like#the speaker has#anything from#an italian accent to a spanish accent to a german accent to a swedish accent to an icelandic accent xD#to my ears at least#aka how english would sound if it made sense like the rest of us#english can’t even blame it on ‘having a lot of vowel sounds’ cause swedish has a similar amount (or arguably more)#the difference is that swedish has a proper system and Rules#for when the letter becomes a different sound#in swedish how it’s written is what you get it’s straight forward#english is just put together with duct tape and a prayer (via @erasedcitizen2)

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This sounds like a Welsh person taking the piss out of English for being stupid.

They would be justified.

I mean a lot of those vowel sounds did previously exist in those words and just faded from use over time. As he progresses he sounds a lot closer to Middle and Old English.

“My Chemical Romance @ Santiago, Chile” (1, 2) by F de Falso  (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) [Edited]

February 24th, 2008

Wow, that whole album is nice - but no Frank? 

just checked and frank’s absence might be explained with a family situation after which he dropped out of the tour in late 2007, but who knows really. good eye, though!

Oh, perhaps! I just though the photographer could only see the members they liked lol

They didn’t even take one of matt if he was there in Frank’s place.

Fuck.

So. My roommate just told me that the landlord told him, that I’m responsible for a $500 security deposit within the next 15 days. (It wasn’t described that way in the lease - and when I asked about it he said he was almost done paying it off. Apparently they had a weird arrangement where he paid first month’s rent and agreed to give him 90 days to come up with the security deposit?) And nobody addressed this just … previously when I asked about “So, is there a deposit?” Or at all. And I was in the middle of a constant panic attack so it’s just … fuck?

I’m not getting my deposit back on the other place - even though he SAID I would - because idiot spent the money and got very aggressive when I cited the lease and a lot of legal stuff. (Taking him to court would cost $80 and there’s not a lot I can do if he doesn’t have the money.)

*sigh* At least this roommate really just seems … young, and not actively dishonest.

I’m going to … I guess see if I can try ebaying some stuff. If I can get to where I’m in less pain. Fuck.

I hate this I hate this I hate this. I hate being poor. I’m www.paypal.me/jabberwockypie

Dead! and Cemetery Drive by My Chemical Romance

it’s my brand

New photo of James Dewees + Frank Iero of Death Spells. 

Shuri Vol 1 #9 (2019)     //  Marvel Comics

All of Wakandan history and culture is under threat as the Space Lubber that followed Shuri all the way from the depths of space back to Wakanda makes its move! To stop it, Shuri and her allies will have to go deep into the Vibranium mines — which doesn’t sit well with the claustrophobic Storm!

Story: Nnedi Okorafor, art:  Rachael Stott

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Looking for complement creators!

We are still looking for two complement creators for the following fanworks:

A. A mix based on IDKHow’s “Do It All the Time” music video, where Dallon and Ryan are scientists.

B. An intense Fall Out Boy fic where Patrick struggles with mental illness as a result of being stalked.

If either of these looks like something you could create a complement for, head over the claims post and claim a summary. 

And if not, maybe help spread the word with a reblog so these summaries get claimed by someone.

Wishlist of a Fanfic Writer

Small, easy things you can do:

Bigger things you can do, but still pretty easy:

Biggish things you can do that will make an author very happy:

Huge, amazing, omg things you can do to make an author love you forever:

Though I will point out that a lot of this applies to other fanworks: podfic, mixes, art, etc etc etc

Keith Haring “Unfinished Painting” 1989

Of particular note is that this painting was deliberately left unfinished by the artist. A political commentary on the indifference with which the federal government was handling the AIDS epidemic at the time, the painting is left as unfinished as the countless lives that were taken by the disease.  Haring died months later at the age of 31.

He continues to be an iconic figure in the LGBTQ+ gay rights community and is remembered by many as a symbol of late 80s / early 90s Nickelodeon aesthetic.

hey since louis tomlinson admitted that larries made him and harry’s friendship fall apart and dan howell said phannies digging into his relationship w phil made him experience ptsd symptoms and brought him to a terrible place, can u all stop w the shipping bullshit now

psa: shipping real people is not only harmful to their mental state, but also harmful to their personal relationships, and writing sexually explicit fanfiction about people that exist in real life is creepy as well, and needs to stop. celebrities do not exist for your fetishization of them, and we need to start realizing that. you would not be comfortable if someone wrote a sexually explicit story about you, so why would a celebrity be comfortable with it? just because they’re famous does not mean you’re allowed to sexualize them and violate their privacy. 

No. What you’re referring to is fan behavior and celebrity engagement, not shipping. Those are different. People can ship what they want. People should maybe not harass members of One Direction with conspiracy theories about how they’re really dating but The Management won’t let them come out. Just because there is an intersection of those two things does not make them equivalent.

RPF is a genre. RPF is a form. It is a way of  using a shared language to tell a story. RPF is about using archetypes to model relationships. It’s about to compulsion to tell a story based on what we see.

Ok, let’s say yeah I decided to write David Tennant/Michael Sheen. I’m not a tabloid claiming they’re together. I’m certainly not direct messaging them the link.

Maybe I like werewolves and I want to imagine the actors who I’ve just seen in this fun show as werewolves.  Maybe I went Neil Gaiman to be a voyeur watching them. Maybe I want the voyeur stuff and for all three of them to be pirates. (Actually that sounds amazing.) I’m not saying it’s true. I’m not saying I want it to be true. RPF is exploring a dynamic based on what we get to see of public and performance. Based on what is presented to us. That’s a story.

A lot has changed with Twitter and Tumblr and a clear path directly from individual fan to celebrity. Also some clearly wild stuff happened in some of those RPF fandoms. But that’s not what shipping is. It’s important to make a distinction between people who are shippers and people who push past what is generally accepted as OK behavior.

I do think part of this confusion has arisen from the discourse that shipping your fictional couple means you want them to become canon, and so therefore if you write RPF, you want your RPF couple to be come IRL canon. That is not at heart the definition of shipping. (There was a fan survey that went around recently to about what shipping means, so when I have a moment I’m going to go dig that up because I’m curious about the results.)

I’m going to use the word ‘archetype’ again. A symbol, a shared understanding of what kind of “character” David Tennant is and what role he’d assume in a trope, what kind of story you as a reader can expect based on narrative mechanics. Who’s in Hufflepuff? Who’s the shifter? Who’s a hopeless romantic, who’s a control freak, who’s the Duke, who’s the Rake?

I’m being too structural, I know, but that’s where the argument breaks down for me. Storytelling is storytelling. Your audience matters, and fandom is an audience with a generally shared set of expectations. In the end, this is one of those things where if you feel like it’s wrong, you’re likely going to keep believing it’s wrong, and, fine, that’s the end of our conversation. But I’m writing it for some other fan; I want to grant someone the gift of their own imaginings. I want to embolden you to write what you want to write. To read and squee and ship to your heart’s content because shipping is a celebration of love, of relationships, of what we as people mean to one another. And we really need that right now.

Write what you want to write. Create from what inspires you. Choose joy. Stop policing fandom. (Watch Good Omens. ((Somebody write me that pirate AU.))

This.

Shipping =/= fans interacting with celebrities.

I ship the hell outta Frank and Gerard, but for fuck’s sake, I don’t want them to be together in real life. They married the people they did for reasons, including they are perfect together (fight me on this).

As much as I love reading a good story about werewolves Frank and Gerard pining and then sharing beds and then boning like weasels while being bakers, I am very very very happy that Frank is married to Jamia, and Gerard to Lindsey.

A Finn Resistance recruitment poster commissioned by @errrbodylovesfinn !

Commission info

me irl

One time I legit cried because I felt like none of my friends liked me and then I ate sushi and was fine

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

Draw your own conclusions. 

I hope y'all know that this is common knowledge to everyone of every other country

“FANART IS NOT REAL ART!!!”

Do we need to talk about the relationship between the Renaissance and the Bible

I never laughed so hard.

also the renaissance and classical mythology. also classical art and classical mythology. also 19th century art and… well, literature of all kinds.