this came to me in a dream

you watch pride and prejudice to appreciate cinema i to watch pride and prejudice to stay sane.. we are not the same

women with swords. men with swords. everyone with swords . you agree. reblog

Rewatched The Good Place for the first time since s4 dropped and. Oh my god. The Good Place said "people are a result of their environment but we always have a moral responsibility to be better" and The Good Place said "every day the world gets a little more complicated and it gets a little harder to be good" and The Good Place said "even in the face of total nihilism, when nothing you do will matter, you still have to at least try. Because trying is better than the alternative" and The Good Place said "if you have bills to pay and shit to deal with you don't have time or energy to become a better person" and then The Good Place really said "people get better when they get external love and support. How can we hold it against them when they don't " and THEN The Good Place really said "no one is irredeemable. Everyone can try to be better today than they were yesterday" AND THEN! The Good Place said "Heaven is just enough time with the people that you love" OH MY FUCKING GOD.

TIL that Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, in the Princess Bride was so funny that it nearly stopped the production of the movie. One actor bruised a rib from clenching to try not to laugh.

via reddit.com

Fun fact in addition: Cary Elwes wasn’t allowed to be part of that scene because he kept laughing. The Westley on the table was dummy.

This is AFTER he broke a toe riding Andre the Giant’s ATV, and got concussed when he and Christopher Guest tried to make the scene where Count Rugen knocks Wesley out more convincing. Mandy Patinkin busted the rib trying not to laugh, and also accidentally stabbed Guest during their fight scene.  About the only person who didn’t get some form of overenthusiasm-induced injury or illness during filming was Robin Wright, who had to repeatedly get her dress burnt up in the fire swamp scene because Goldman ruined one of the takes by screaming “Oh my god, she’s on fire!”

i swear the princess bride movie was just a bunch of cast and crew deciding to dick around and film it.

it was Jackass before Jackass

The guy in the giant rodent costume got arrested on his way to the set and they had to delay production to go bail him out

robert pattinson, on his consistent lies // david lynch // will wood, on his fake daughter // kurt vonnegut // tumblr user intactics

Keeping this quote to my grave

god i love rating classics on goodreads. this book was published in 46 BC and has been cited in philosophical/historical/religious texts for over 2000 years. entire chapters are lost to history. it has been translated dozens if not hundreds of times with each new edition representing the pinnacle of a scholar’s life’s work. i gave it 3 stars.

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

I am in love with you /p

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

YOU hate JK Rowling!

s is for slug

i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?

The West Wing + The Onion headlines, 1/?

so….do i make a post about other (re: better) magic school/wizard books or what?

because i have strong opinions!

i want to read….

something that pre-dates jkr

something for adults that is darker and edgier

something for middle schoolers

something for young adults

a lot of books in the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey show the young Heralds as students at school

Nsibidi Scripts series (Akata Witch/Warrior/Woman) by Nnedi Okorafor (highly recommend)

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett is about Esk who inherited a wizards staff even tho she’s a girl. it’s an odd one tho, ngl.

the ones below are teacher and apprentice stories rather than off to a school to learn with the masses.

Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy (is old so might be showing its age)

the Mancer books by Don Callander (Pyromancer, Aquamancer, Aeromancer, Geomancer, Marbleheart) might be hard to find but they were cute.

And the Tiffany Aching quintet by Terry Pratchett starting with the Wee Free Men, which has Tiffany being apprenticed with different witches after a big adventure to save her baby brother. (love these books)

The Enchanted Forest series by Patricia C Wrede

More adult-oriented stories;

The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey (500 kingdom series) (has romance)

The Elemental Masters by Mercedes Lackey

Mairelon the Magician by Patricia C. Wrede

The Cecilia and Kate novels by Patricia C Wrede (victorian epistolary books)

the Glamourist Histories by Mary Robinette Kowal (Austenish setting but with magic)

Riddle-Master series by Patricia A McKillip

The Warlock of Gramarye series by Christopher Stasheff (sci-fi with magic, probably hasn’t aged the best but I haven’t read them in ages)

A Wizard in Rhyme series by Christopher Stasheff (old, sci-fi with magic, alternate history)

The Dragon and the George by Gordon R Dickson (again, old)

I’m sure I’ve got more but I can’t remember lol

150% recommend Susan Cooper’s “The Dark Is Rising”. The series is good, but that one—oof—by far my favorite. I re-read it most Decembers, because it’s just so well-written. Don’t be put off by the fact that you’ll find it in the YA/tweens section.

I’d also love to throw Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant series into the mix! It starts with a 12 year old protagonist and follows her into adulthood. modern magic and crime solving with a skeleton detective

Would also seriously recommend the manga Witch Hat Atelier, predominantly for older middle grade/teens but really anyone that age or above would enjoy it. Lots of moral quandaries regarding the gatekeeping of knowledge

i need to know every language immediately

wish list for people who don’t want anything

aka possessions which are just possessions, but which have noticeably improved my quality of life: for when people ask you “what do you want for your birthday/Christmas/graduation” and you instantly transform into St Francis and pledge fealty to Lady Poverty because your mind went blank

A few more things!

Good luggage. Whether it’s a suitcase or a duffel bag or even just packing cubes, it’s all helpful!

Good art. If it’s someone you trust, you can ask them to surprise you with a piece they like, otherwise you can have a few back up suggestions of ideas (I saw a framed piece of just the hands from Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Man and have not forgot about it since)

Good good pillows or fluffy blankets to go along with those nice new sheets from above

Office supplies. Pens, markers, sharpies. All the sharpies.

Coffee travel mugs (can one have too many?). If they say they still want more ideas, also ask for a bag of their favorite beans/tea

Look around your house, what do you have that is still from college? Ask for a better one of those.

And for the future planning, especially if you’re me and forget things: make a document of “things I’d like but don’t want to buy for myself frivolously” and then select items from that for a wishlist.

Why do my interests in canning, couponing, and homesteading overlap so often with blogs with titles like ‘The Obedient Housewife’? 

Like, I’m like, “I want to learn to make soap and farm,” and suddenly I see 500 “traditional family” motherfuckers like no you are mistaken. I am just a simple lesbian anticapitalist looking to limit my consumerism as much as possible.

‘these fun crafts will keep your kids occupied until your husband gets home!’ no i want a clothespin crown for me

As a nerd who homesteads, let me share the data I have gathered!

First is my megalist of homesteading-related links I’ve gathered over the years. I’m a mod over at r/homesteading and this is where I’ve put a lot of good sources (not all, admittedly some are still sitting in my bookmark folder waiting to be added). The search function at reddit is wretched, but there’s also been lots of good things I’ve shared there too. Please note that many of these sources are not actual webpages, but PDFs. That’s not an accident, PDFs are where you find the really good in-depth stuff.

Many of my sources are from the Extension Service. They won’t try to relate to you based on your lifestyle or sexual identity or religion or whatever, but due to that, they also won’t be alienating you either.

The Cooperative Extension Service (US only) exists in all 50 states and in most counties. It is taxpayer funded. The Extension Service exists to help people become more self sufficient, for farmers to be more successful, for people to be healthier, for kids to be well adjusted, to figure out how to grow the best plants in your area, etc. Some county offices even offer cheap classes in things like gardening, canning, soap making, and they’re taught by people with training in these areas (I once heard a great talk on composting from a soil scientist that way). Do you want to know what type of plant something is? Do you need help figuring out a plant disease or pest issue? You can now contact them online and get great info.

I HIGHLY recommend checking out your state’s extension service website, because they do offer different types of information, depending on what is grown/raised where you are (and how well funded they are). My county extension puts out a monthly gardening newsletter, which includes a helpful ‘this is the time of the year to do —-’ part.

Here’s an example from North Carolina - check out that left sidebar

Here’s an example from California - this website is HUGE so dig around

Here’s an example from New York - they have a calendar at the bottom, showing how they have things like hydroponic and urban agriculture workshops coming up.

Interested in raising animals? Penn State Extension is really really good. They have tons of free materials and courses available online, some I pulled for my megalist at the top of this.

National Center for Home Food Preservation - they cover the important aspects of food safety, and also have some recipes. Many state Extension Service websites will have lots more recipes.

If you have kids, check out 4-H programs for them. It’s part of the local public school system here. If you’re homeschooling, you can also purchase their science-filled educational and self sufficiency materials (materials are divided by age ranges - Cloverbud Member: ages 5-8, Junior Member: ages 9-13, Senior Member: ages 14-19). One of my coworkers is in 4-H, she’s still in high school, and last year she raised an award-winning heifer.

Congress grants the money for funding these programs, and they’re connected with various universities. There’s a level of cutting edge scientific knowledge and academic rigor you don’t find in blogs or even most books. There’s LOTS of homesteading books filled with outdated information like ‘till the earth every year’ hell I still have older coworkers who do it and I’m trying to figure out how to gently tell them that they’re destroying their soil that way, and that there’s better methods now, methods grounded in science.

Knitting - try this youtube series

DIY Crown - here’s a youtube video on how to make a mermaid crown

Hope this is helpful to someone out there.

Violence is an Appropriate Response

Plenty of Politicians are already going out and saying ‘violence isn’t the answer” and to protest peacefully.

The flip-side of that is that they know that isn’t true. The Government’s default response to EVERYTHING is violence. Police and the military is nigh on the governments single largest expense. it has constantly defunded all other avenues of solutions to fuel its ability to increase the violence it inflicts.

They beg you for non-violence because that can be ignored. A whole apparatus has been constructed to make non-violence yield absolutely no tangible results.

Violence now stands as perhaps the only answer that remains, and they are working overtime to keep you from realizing it.

girl help i’m seeing wildly inaccurate characterization of my faves via the incorrect quote format