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feed it to a goddamn raccoon

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Morgan. Australia. Aubreyad,ASoIaF,Dragon Age,Star Wars/Trek,Rivers of London,Vorkosigan Saga, Batfam

fun facts

  • Jon Bon Jovi didn't want to include "Livin' on a Prayer" on their album, but his band mates literally got down on their hands and knees and begged him to keep it
  • although Joan Jett and the Blackhearts recorded the most well-known version, "I Love Rock N' Roll" is actually a cover. The band Arrows wrote and released the song in 1975

fun facts

  • "The Final Countdown" was just a keyboard riff for years. Joey Tempest fleshed it out so it could be the opener at their shows. He never expected it to be a hit
  • Survivor were asked to write a song for a training montage in the movie Rocky III. Within 90 minutes of watching an early cut of the film, the band had written the entire song
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PROPAGANDA for Dr Stephen Maturin!!! He is wiry, weird, and covered in blood probably as we speak. That's a man who stomped through 22 novels across oceans, amputating limbs and blood letting, drawing little pictures of aphids, chaperoning sloths, and being best darn 19th century physician any dirty scalpel has ever seen. He is the definitive Dr Sawbones and we all owe him the service of a vote. With all my heart!!!

The man got himself into a duel of honor, got shot, and then designed surgical instruments to operate on himself (on a boat!). He does brain surgery (on boats! Multiple boats!). He discovers new species of plants and animals all the time! He kills French spies! He'll have long conversations in Latin totally unprompted! He uses a diving bell to walk around underwater! The polymath to end all polymaths!

He's ~*~crazy~*~ (affectionate respectful astonished) and I love him.

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the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

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this is the funniest analysis of “Space Seed” I've ever seen

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... Same. :)

I love you "boring" female characters. I love you ingenues. I love you female characters who aren't "modern" enough. I love you female characters who aren't "badass" enough. iI love you female characters who aren't "empowering" enough. I love you quiet female characters. I love you unappreciated female characters. I love you polite female characters. I love you female characters who "can't appeal to modern audiences." I love you frightened female characters. I love you female characters labeled as not complex just for being nice. I love you female characters who get criticism just for not being their tomboy or femme fatale counterpart. I love you silk hiding steel trope.

it’s a trial and annoyance when footnotes are all grouped at the back of a book. put them at the bottom of each page in parallel to the text like god intended. do you think i have TWO bookmarks to spare? sometimes i don’t even have one

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Love my grandparents.... on the phone just now my papa was dead serious like “i just think it’s so terrible to kick your child out for being gay . This is a union family and the ONLY thing i’d ever kick any of you out for is crossing a picket line.” okay working class hero!

does anyone have that picture of the mlm couple kissing with a wlw couple kissing on their shoulders I can’t find it

never mind I found it and it’s still adorable

if anyone else wants to see this