tee hee hee [lays in barrow nook]

hope is a skill

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

favourite additions

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

hey so what the fuck was this about

are these not, basically, wedding vows

the circle mage origin is so wild like you can prove yourself completely untrustworthy to any authority and duncan will be like "you know what? i like that. shows initiative. also blood magic isn't even that bad you're all pussies."

#the duncan hustle is out of this world#love that urge to make the sketchiest recruiting choices thank you king <3#antisocial and criminally inclined? welcome aboard!#awakening is of course so beautiful for putting you in the driver's seat of assembling the worst squad in ferelden#duncan passed the torch who am I to let him down this is what he'd want (via @outeremissary)

i just choked on my tea you're so right busting a dude out of your own prison and handing him a cup of darkspawn blood like if you're so motivated apply some of that energy to the blight <3 is just honoring duncan's memory

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread

I finally get context and it's way funnier than the way people use it as a meme.

on a serious note regarding the wga strike and (as of 1:50 AM PST 7/13) upcoming sag-aftra strike, dsa-la has a fundraiser called The Snacklist which provides snacks and water on the picket lines here in LA. right now the funds they have will not last through the end of the summer, especially given the current and upcoming heatwaves necessitating more supplies. if you have a couple of dollars to spare it's a great way to directly support the writers (and potentially the actors) during this difficult time!

happy first sag-aftra strike in 60 years to all who celebrate.

if you are an enjoyer of media (which i will guess based on your presence on tumblr that you are) please consider donating to the snacklist (linked above) or to any of the following mutual aid funds that directly support striking actors/writers, IATSE and teamster union members who are also out of work and by and large refusing to cross the picket lines, and nonunion PAs and assistants (like yours truly) who are directly impacted by the work stoppage. everyone in this industry works unbelievably hard to bring you the shows, movies, webseries, and variety programs that you enjoy and every worker deserves a fair contract. any support you can give is extremely meaningful.

The Entertainment Community Fund provides emergency financial assistance to anyone in the entertainment industry who is unable to pay their immediate basic living expenses such as housing, food, bills, and healthcare.

The Union Solidarity Coalition has been formed by members of the wga, sag, and the dga to help cover the cost of healthcare for IATSE and teamsters who will not get enough work hours to qualify for their coverage this year due to their refusal to cross a picket line.

The Hollywood Support Staff Relief Fund (also run by the Entertainment Community Fund but separate from the above link which supports all film and tv workers) offers assistance to tv and film support staff and assistants who are not protected by a union and have been displaced from low or entry level positions.

Drive 4 Solidarity is an IATSE organized event in August raising funds for all union and guild members. Tickets are available for those in socal but donations are being taken as well.

Humanitas Groceries for Writers fund provides WGA members with grocery gift cards.

Green Envelope Grocery is a grocery fund for all workers in the entertainment industry regardless of union status.

I'm going to need y'all to preemptively chill out because the actor's strike is going to mean a lot of things including shows and movies we've been anticipating being pushed way back, and absolutely minimal press tours for the next however long this lasts.

The effects of the writer's strike are months down the road which made it a whole lot easier to support because as third parties we weren't really being affected (yet), the effect of the actor's strike is going to be immediate and we're going to get a lot more propaganda of "these people are overpaid to begin with."

Remember our desire for content does not supersede these people's rights to live.

Support unions, support the strikes.

As always, I feel the need to point out that SAG-AFTRA does not just cover the Reese Witherspoons and Margot Robbies of the world, who could, from a financial perspective, walk away forever tomorrow and be just fine (although let’s be clear: they should not have to do that, they honed that skill and should be allowed to use it).

It also covers Joe Q. Public who makes his living being Man In Background #4. And Jane Doe who works two other jobs because maybe three or four times a year she’ll be cast to say a single line as a waitress or receptionist. And the work of Devoted Cat Owner Jones, whose cat knows how to do things that are desirable onscreen and will do them on command in exchange for treats.

These people are not rich. These people are possibly closer to homelessness than most of us.

And the current strike also revolves around the use of AI. Whether this is acceptable or not comes down to this: do you think a person has the right to decide what to do with their own body? Let’s say an actor says he’s not comfortable appearing naked on camera—so the studio whips out an AI version of him rather than work around him not wanting his dick immortalized on film. Or perhaps it’s a trans actor, and now the entire press junket is going to be focused on his junk and why it was created by AI. Is that the world we want to live in? One where you can sign a contract, the studio can say “by the way we’ve changed the role to include this thing you 100% didn’t agree to,” and if you refuse they can just deepfake you? I can tell you happens in that world, because we already saw it, in 1980. Brooke Shields, then 14 years old, was cast in The Blue Lagoon. Neither main character in the movie wears clothes. So they glued her hair to her breasts for most scenes and for the rest they had a 32-year-old play her character and spliced the film together, so they could have a 14-year-old “topless.” This was how they responded to the criticism of actually-Brooke-Shields being shown three years earlier in Pretty Baby as a baby prostitute: rather than have her character in Blue Lagoon, I dunno, wear clothes, they decided swapping in an adult body would make it acceptable. Shields has indicated she still has trauma from making the film, and her costar—who was 18–has agreed that filming with someone so young was uncomfortable for him.

Is that a world you want to return to? One where the child actress could say no and the studio could say “lol yes actually” and decide to put her in a sex scene against her will, using AI? Because it’s not a world I want to return to.

Actors have the right to decide what projects they will do. Actors have the right to be fairly paid for their work. Period.

“some people don’t deserve redemption” redemption isn’t something that’s deserved, it’s something someone does. it’s making the choice to change the way you live your life, to be better, to do good things instead of bad things and try to make up for the bad things. and everyone can and should do that, at any time, no matter what they’ve done. we can’t change the past, but we can choose what kind of person to be now and in the future. we have the responsibility to do so. it is so completely not about “deserving.”

some twin peaks shit happening on my poem

libby app guide

aka how to support libraries and get books and audiobooks for free without pirating them.

disclaimer: this is so easy. it is also really fun.

one: download the libby app. you'll open it and it'll ask you to add a library.

two: get a library card. don't have one? good news, it's really easy and i am saying this as the laziest person on earth. it varies what you need to have to get a card library to library but almost all libraries will let you get one online. i have a card for my home town and for the town i moved to. sometimes you only need an email address, sometimes you need an area code. to get mine it took me about 5 minutes of lying on the couch aimlessly tapping on my phone. follow your heart. you can get cards for places you don't currently live. i will leave the ethics of that up to you but it's probably better than pirating and either way you're creating traffic for libraries which is what they need to exist.

three: add your card. you can add multiple cards for multiple libraries. you need the number. i have never had libby fail to recognize a valid account.

four: search for your book! some will be ready to borrow right away. others have an estimated delivery time. libby will always pick the one that's the fastest from the options available at all the libraries you have cards at. you can borrow audiobooks and ebooks. libby will send you a notification when you're book is ready to borrow. in my experience it's a lot faster than the estimate. if you aren't ready to read it, you can ask to be skipped over in line so you keep your place at the front but let someone else read it first.

five: read it!!! kindle is the most common way to do this. you can go to your loan and click read with kindle. it'll download it to all your devices where you have kindle. as long as you have the loan, it'll act like your book. when the loan ends, if the device is connected to the internet, it'll automatically be returned. it will save all your notes and highlights. (if you disconnect your device from the internet, it won't return the book. weewoo.)

anyway in case anyone else has been wondering about it, i really love it. is a nice surprise to see what i'm going to get and it's cut my reading costs down big time! it's also neat because i get to synch my books between devices unlike downloading books through cough cough other means. good luck!

Reblogging again to say that you do not need Kindle, the app or the device, to read ebooks on Libby!! You can read any book you borrow WITHIN the Libby app, and you can change the font and dark/light mode for accessibility too.

please be aware the libby app does NOT let you read or listen offline so the app itself is unusable for me for actual reading unfortunately! you guys who have access to the internet steadily can use it but be aware. you can't use it on a plane, for example, but if you download to kindle you can.

You should actually be able to use libby app offline (for those allergic to kindle like I am lmao). You just have to change your download permissions in settings. The web browser version of libby is online only though.

Go to Settings > Change Download Rules > toggle to “Everything” (and recommended to “Download only on Wi-fi” if you are worried about your data)

Then Settings > Read Books With… > Libby, so that it downloads to the correct app. You should be able to change your preferences on the main page by clicking the cloud icon to see where you’ve downloaded it too.

Libby also has a feature called Notify Me--if you search for a book and Libby can find it in their database but it's not available to borrow from your library, hit Notify Me. Not only will you be notified if the book becomes available, but your library will be notified that there is A Reader who is looking for this book, so that they can buy it if that's possible for them--without you having to make a direct request!

You can also change your preferences so you only see results in the medium you want so you only see audiobooks if that is what you use Libby for (like me) or to exclude audio if you only want eBooks

audiobooks are SO expensive, and i listen to them almost every night. libby has saved me thousands of dollars by now, no joke. support your local library. if you’re not american, you can still try to apply for a library card at the brooklyn library!

Four year old beekeeper distracted by a roly-poly.

Best picture in the world

#im rollin the polies im keepin the bees

#i holy the molies and do as i please

#i’ve circled the sun about four times or so

#the earth gets more lovely the more that i know

(tags via @orcboxer)

i could never be american because whenever I get a big drink I'm like oh great now I have to drink this big drink. i have to take care of this big drink they gave me. everything is terrible in the world

too many upset americans in the notes of this post. why don't you come over and take care of that big ass drink for me then. why don't you carry it around for me. you must've built up a lot of muscle dragging those drinks around every day. why don't you help me drink it since you're oh so experienced at drinking big drinks. two straws. one cup. why don't you tenderly look into my eyes over the styrofoam rim. we could share a moment and a drink together, feel the intimacy of experiencing the same thing at the same time. at the end of the day my opinion on big drinks will have shifted. it's not the sugar on my lips that changed my mind. i love you but I'll never say. you mistake my fear for indifference and we break each other's hearts. I'm resentful towards big drinks again but it's for a far more complicated reason than just my being European. not that anyone would ever notice the difference. well, except for you, I suppose. funny to think that the only person who knows that about me is a complete stranger. who said that

lmao

@bigpeepee

Why does every drawing of Jesus being crucified make him so hairless and smooth like an oiled seal. Are you telling me he had time to shave his pussy before he got sentenced to death ? No fucking way . I know Judas went down on him au naturel the night before he got him arrested