reblog this if you think the toggle for tumblr live should be permanent instead of a 7-day snooze

trying to prove something to @staff

User hostile UI design is why I left Instagram for tumblr, don’t let the UI become awful here too

There is no reason "don't show me this thing" should be temporary, for any aspect of the UI.

Tumblr Live should be no different. People who don't want it, should not have to keep saying so.

AND when the toggle switch says "snooze," it should be OFF. You shouldn't have to turn it ON and then BACK OFF to snooze it.

im not active on twitter at all anymore but this tweet of mine is pretty funny i think

WAIT WAIT IM NOT FINISHED:

alright since summers comin up what do u call these guys

(reblogs appreciated)

anyone else ever daydream for 6 hours straight and then after ur just like nah let’s scrap that and do it all again but slightly to the left

my brain: *out of breath* Was that good?!

Me in a beret, taking a long draft from a cigarette and leaning back in my director’s chair: once again, from the top, this time with feeling

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Friendly reminder that Brom has NUT-BROWN SKIN so Eragon should not be white, and if he is he’s mixed, and unless Eragon’s even stupider than we thought, Roran’s the same way as Eragon thought that they were brothers and that’s part of why Garrow decided that their family was outcasts, either that or Palancar was a huge melting pot and diverse ethnicities were very common, this is a hill I’ll die on and if anyone makes a show I will fight them and the sun to ensure this reality.

I would like to add to this that the Annabeth and Grover casting for Percy Jackson are something I’m super happy and excited about, but there’s the difference here that in the original Eragon movies Everyone in Eragon’s family was made white, and all of the characters are at an age where it’s a lot easier to find good, practiced actors. Additionally, with Percy Jackson it’s giving more people, and specifically kids and young teens, an opportunity to see themselves as brave heroes, while with inheritance they whitewashed the whole main family, even though you might be able to get a Lot more out of The Inheritance Cycle with a book accurate casting, similarly to Annabeth being underestimated because she’s a black girl making more sense and a better story than Annabeth being underestimated because she’s a blonde girl.

For example, Sloane might not have liked Roran as a potential son-in-law not just because his family lived outside the town and Garrow thought it wasn’t worth teaching the boys how to read, but because Roran looked different too. And we already know Sloane is a bit Xenaphobic from the way he treats the elves when they’re taking care of him, so it wouldn’t really be surprising to find out he’s racist too. Thankfully Katrina’s a bit nicer.

Roran rising into leadership after the Ra’zac destroy Carvahall, being seen as the kind but dangerous warrior and leader but also essentially sassing everyone he fights, I dunno whether or not that’d be a big thing from what I’ve seen of Bollywood (which admittedly isn’t much, just posts from other folks) but it isn’t the typical American depiction, and also he’d totally vibe with Percy. Like imagine if the super powered but untrained twelve year old who’s primary weapon is a pen met this untrained seventeen year old who chose his weapon, a hammer, based on a legend because the guy in the legend got to retire- sorry that’s way off topic, but seriously it’d be so full of sass. Also they’ve both fought monsters and won despite their minimal training(Ra’zac, everything that Percy has dealt with)

Nasuada might have favored Roran(in a “uh your bride doesn’t have a dowry and she feels ashamed for it? She can have mine she’s clearly important to you if you’re marrying her, she doesn’t deserve that guilt” kinda way) not only because he’s an insanely powerful warrior and brother of Eragon, the only free dragon rider she knew of, but also because she saw right of they had a similar difference from most of the humans in their region, her being black and him being brown. It would also explain further Eragon’s own interest in Nasuada in opposition to a recoil at something that would seem strange and foreign if Allegaesia were mostly white(which I’m not sure it is, I’m just going off what I know of of Carvahall’s demographic and scaling up), instead he’s just really interested because, “hey, look, she’s colored too!! Maybe she’s not brown like me, but she’s not white like everyone else.”

It might also be the case that Eragon went to Brom when he had free time not only because he’s the old storyteller, but he’s the old storyteller who looks like Eragon and has similar cultural differences as Garrow, and therefore Eragon and Roran. It’s stated clearly when Eragon is training with Ormoris that Brom was made fun of because he acted differently than the other dragon riders he trained with, so if Garrow had similar cultural differences and passed them down to his son and nephew, then Eragon might have picked up on Brom’s similar differences and gotten more attached to him because of that.

Idk, it’s just really cool to think about how Carvahall is mainly white and how characters who by their descriptions or their relations to others aren’t white and how that might affect them and how they interact, and the movies from way back kinda messed that up. It also provides tons more representation and an element of realism if they relate it to the plot, which they wouldn’t have to for Eragon’s family, but the books already did for Nasuada with the Trial of the Long Knives.

Please let me know if I’ve said anything offensive or rude, these are just my opinions and speculations but if there is anything rude about them, let me know, I’m always trying to grow and I could’ve messed up in a ton of ways while writing this as a white person.

I find this really interesting. I haven’t thought of character descriptions in the series for awhile. I only remember that Eragon has brown hair and eyes, Roran favoured him but has grey eyes, and Murtagh has brown hair, so dark it was basically black, and grey eyes. Since Selena was shown to have brown eyes, I always figured the grey eyes were recessive. 🤷‍♀️ I can’t recall what Brom was described as so I’ll take your word for it! Lol (Brown dye did come off his hand when he revealed his Gedwey Ignasia, didn’t it?)

In any case, in terms of diversity, I do remember in Eldest that there was this argument where someone insisted one of Horsts and Elaine’s sons had committed a crime because “no one looks like [him].” And Roran internally noted this was true because Elaine wasn’t from Carvahall originally and had blonde hair and passed this to her son. Most people in Carvahall had dark hair. This does go to show that these kinds of things were distinctly noticeable, if not relevant to the villages. Most people in Carvahall are dark-haired; I don’t know about skin tone.

Areas like Carvahall are fairly isolated so being wary of anything “other” makes sense, especially under Galbatorix. They’re skeptical of outsiders.

(I also wonder how narrow is the gene pool. Everyone’s probably a third cousin or something. My mom came from a remote village and, since doing genealogy, we have failed to find any random neighbour who isn’t at most a fifth cousin!)

Speaking of Horst and Elaine, maybe they are close to Garrow and family, because they know what it feels like to be seen as an outsider? Roran and Eragon don’t seem to have any friends outside of Horst’s sons.

However, it may not be (only) a race thing; it could be exacerbated by the scandal of Eragon’s birth coming out. Or both. As I recall, it was only after Marian died, and Eragon was discovered not to be Garrow’s son, that they move out of the main part of the village. That kind of thing could be seen to ruin an entire family’s reputation. Could be another reason Sloan doesn’t like Roran too.

Nonetheless, as I wrote in more detail in this post, I do think Carvahall, way back before the Rider’s fall, was likely much larger and had a more diverse population. Utgard mountain was one of the first dragon rider bases once humans were brought in. That’s going to attract all sorts to the area. I do remember Brom telling Eragon that, only a couple generations ago or so, a lot of people in Carvahall weren’t from there originally. As the Riders fell, that naturally changed, I think.

In my og post, I speculated Marian’s family, (and many others), left on account of the fall of the Order and the accompanying hardship. This would explain why no maternal relations. It could also be her family was one of those “outsiders” that came to Carvahall because of the riders initially, if we assume Roran is biracial. iirc, though, Garrow is born and bred of Palancar Valley stock. These families were likely the ones that stuck around longest when the riders fell imho.

I finally got polls!

Since posts can run for a full week I wanted to see how this spreads

For it to spread, it needs reblogged. Reblog for science yall! Let's help OP!

#jesus.#orpheus and eurydice#as a poem#using a poll#this is probably the greatest exploitation of mediums i have ever seen op#every reader has the chance to become part of the text by voting#not the subtext#the TEXT#and i love me some ephemeral works in concept#you had to be here for this one week#and then the text is locked#(barring any edits to the original post of course)#and i just think that's so beautiful#beauty springs from the simplest things viewed askew#and all you need is a poll that accepts long enough strings (via couchcrusader)

Reblog to come play this stupid homemade board game we're all making.

Me, an author, side eyeing my WIP: you're not going to do anything weird, are you? We've discussed this. There's a plan. We're going to stick to the plan, aren't we?

The WIP: *presents subplot, presents additional conflicts, presents character development, laughs in my fucking face*

Hearing Whispers

After spending so many years with humans and dwarves, Arya sometimes forgets other elves can hear her barely mutter under her breath. 

Glenwing nearly gets whiplash the first time that, during a meeting, he hears Arya growl barely at a whisper “Yeah, fuck around and find out, dumbass. I’ll be waiting to drag you and yours out of the fire again and you still won’t listen.”

It happens on rare occasion in Du Weldenvarden, but Arya has her guard up there moreso than she does on the battlefront. Still, it takes quite a bit of getting used to Eragon and Saphira’s 12 guards (not including Glen). Suddenly having people who can pick up on everything around all the time is…frustrating…when you’re used to picking and choosing what you reveal. 

This is unnecessarily long, but: I was just thinking about Wickham's predation on fifteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy and then, almost exactly a year later, Wickham's predation on sixteen-year-old Lydia Bennet.

There are obvious parallels between the two incidents. In fact, they're so obvious that I think the incidents are sometimes treated as equivalent, with the consequences only differing by happenstance. I don't think that's true, personally.

There are some mechanistic sort of differences—Wickham put a lot more effort and planning into the Georgiana situation. He wanted to marry her for her money and to make her brother suffer. She had to be isolated from people who would look out for her interests, he had Mrs Younge in place, he had known Georgiana as a child and was able to exploit his own previous kindness to her as her father's godson, etc.

And Georgiana, despite all of this, and despite being swept away by a teenage infatuation with an extremely attractive man, was still uncomfortable with it. She was worried about disappointing a brother who raised her and whom she deeply loves and admires. When her brother actually showed up by surprise, she decided to tell him everything; Darcy takes pains to give her credit for this. Adaptations generally downplay Georgiana's active decision-making here, but the only element of chance is Darcy deciding to go to Ramsgate at all. He insists that he was only able to act because Georgiana chose to tell him what was going on.

This isn't meant to be an indictment of Lydia, though. Does she admire the parents who raised her? No. But why would she? Especially why would she admire a father who treats her mother and sisters and herself with profound contempt and no sense of responsibility? Why would she ever confide in him?

No offense but where are the male porn bots

..and where are all the gods?

Isn’t there a white guy to clutter up my feed?

Late at night I scroll and I block and I dream of what I need

I need a manwhore! 💥💥💥💥

Can someone PLEASE answer my question

I really don't know where to start with this, or if I have the energy to, but I would like to know if there's any place Star Trek Fandom has been obsessively archived.

I'm talking, mailing lists for newsletters. Convention operations. Those kinds of receipts.

My goal here is, my grandmother who recently passed away was the biggest Star Trek fan I ever knew, she had entire bookshelves full of star trek trade paperbacks and the like. I don't know what connections, if any, she had to the greater fandom, and I would just be curious to see if she was on any old mailing lists or the like over the years.

I have her first and last name and her old address, although i'm not just gonna say it out in public like that. But if anyone has any inklings as to where to go, like a star trek historical society type of place, I'd be intrigued. thanks