December 2010
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I am vast; I contain multitudes.
On the one hand, I’m not all that distressed by the frequency with which I end up resembling my own characters, because my own characters are by and large awesome, and so it would seem to follow that I am at least to some degree awesome, which I know some of you hold as self-evident but it is nice to have the reassurance when you are the sort of person who regularly finds themself trying to...
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This was supposed to be a much longer post, but...
kiriamaya:
Basically, the people I like are people who are more interested in becoming right than they are in just demanding everyone see them as right. Those who prioritize learning and self-improvement can still cause harm, of course, but what matters most to me is that they’re constantly trying not to.
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AN ANXIOUS NOCTURNE
ANOTHER NIGHT OF POINTLESS BROODING WORRY AND EXHAUSTION FEUDING MY THOUGHTS WHIRL ‘ROUND MY HEAD. I SIT,
WRAPPED IN BLANKETS AND CONVINCED THAT MY BEHAVIOUR HAS EVINCED SOME BRAIN-CONSUMING GLITCH I CAN’T EVICT.
I started this and then I realized it was inevitably going to be more worrying than funny and I should probably stop being stubborn and go to sleep, but these two stanzas...
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Plan for tonight:
Stay up as late as is physically possible.
Sleep until it’s time for my train home.
Discover a way to get free room, board, and tuition for the next two and a half years.
Never have to deal with my mother ever again.
sententiola replied to your post: I am starting to get really irritated with the way some of these CDs label their tracks.
I agree but also I sympathize with whoever makes those decisions because the whole thing is set up for pop music. Like, who is the ‘album artist’? If a single piece is split into tracks, how do you name them so it’s clear they’re the same thing?
Yeah - it’s all just...
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I am starting to get really irritated with the way...
YES, I KNOW THIS PIECE IS BY CHOPIN. THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS PIECES BY CHOPIN. YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY HAVE TO STICK HIS NAME IN FRONT OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
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Today at dinner my mum told me her favourite part...
Really? Really?
Your favourite part of Sherlock is that queers can’t have nice things?
Your favourite part of Sherlock is that a perfectly valid theory with simply acres of fannish analysis and justification behind it can never get any screen time because it is simply a fact at this point that if anyone actually made John and Sherlock kiss in front of a sizeable, unsuspecting audience they...
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Classical music
My mother is the child of professional musicians and has been a semi-professional musician herself, and my sister is a soprano and music minor, so my family’s house has been filled with classical music since pretty much forever. I, however, am a middle child and harbour a deep instinctual revulsion of most things held dear by the older members of my family, so I have not had a fantastic...
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TOO SOON! DON'T DO IT! READ SOME LITER! ATURE ON...
tranzient:
respectmyqueendom:
I’ve noticed that when people get their hearts broken, they immediately run to others for healing. No. Stop.
Spend time with yourself for a while.
Find out your strengths and weaknesses. BY YOURSELF.
Find out what makes you happy. BY YOURSELF.
Find out who YOU are. BY YOURSELF.
Then get up and try again.
How can you expect to have a healthy relationship...
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I really hate it when bisexuals think that being...
silverfuck:
holliham:
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holliham:
Oh, you need to “explore your sexuality?” No.
You think gay/straight people have never wanted to sleep with someone other than their boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife?
People like you are the reason I hate associating myself with the word “bisexual.”
I’m not saying if someone is incapable of having a monogamous...
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Adventures in Typography
So I have a bunch of random books in Japanese.
Because I am a packrat and I’m going to be able to read them SOMEDAY.
And in the meantime, sometimes when I’m bored I try to translate them out manually, with online dictionaries and a grammar guide.
Some of them have interviews in them.
Which is a little frustrating for the purpose of transcription because the interviewer, in...
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Watch[Video: Alan sits in front of the computer with a blank expression and a cat on his lap. Abruptly, he shrieks “KITTY”, ruffles the cat’s ears, and goes back to what he was doing.]
Standard procedure.
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nonisland replied to your post: ALAN. I was just going back through your archives looking for Your Explanations On Why “Crazy” Is Ableist…
I found what I was looking for (the things about “insane” villains and the other thing about the Salvation Army), but links on how it’s specifically ableist instead of generally wrong would be quite nice.
Mkay. Well, if I can go on about my own Thoughts...
nonisland asked: ALAN. I was just going back through your archives looking for Your Explanations On Why "Crazy" Is Ableist and I ran across the picture of your melted potato steamer. I AM PRETTY SURE THE POT YOU MELTED IS IDENTICAL TO THE POT I BOILED DRY A FEW DAYS AGO. o_O #conspiracyofcookware?
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That awkward moment when you discover "I Kissed A...
Uh.
Okay.
cumbersuffix-deactivated2011062 asked: I am so happy that you continued what I mentioned about WALL-E and Eve! That is exactly what I was thinking, and it is ALSO one of my favourite things. I don't consider myself butch, because while I live in jeans, plaid shirts, and sweatervests, my mannerisms are fairly butch. I'm still a boy, but I am a FEMME boy, and... I don't know where I was going with this....
“Butch and Femme are sexy dance steps with unlimited variations. Butch is...”
– Kate Bornstein
(via fuckyeahfemmes)
This was on a post about Wall-E and Eve! I remember it. It was talking about how we can assign whatever gender we like to them, because they aren’t a “girl robot” and a “boy robot,” they are a butch robot and a femme robot.
Great stuff. :D
(via tchy)
Which...
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FACT
THE END OF SANDMAN IS HORRIFICALLY DEPRESSING.
I am pretty sure I am not supposed to be having these sorts of feelings on Christmas!
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OH AND CUFFLINKS
Turquoise cufflinks from New Mexico.
I find it hilarious that I now have two sets of cufflinks and I can’t really wear either of them with confidence because the only shirt I have with French cuffs is violently pink.
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Obligatory Christmas post is obligatory
Full gongfu tea set (already pictured)
Two copies of Gender Outlaws (because dad forgot he’d already bought the first one)
Two movies about trans folk from my aunt
Happenstance (Rachel Yamagata) and Fantasies (Metric)
Stories of Your Life And Others by Ted Chiang
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
standard assortment of Christmas chocolates
There were also two. entire. volumes. of...
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WatchPRONUNCIATION MEME (via several people on my dash)
Your name and/or username
Where you’re from
The words “roof”, “aunt”, “direction”, and “naturally”
Your favorite song
Your favorite character
A word in a different language
I tried to post this last night but Tumblr decided it VIOLENTLY DISLIKED ME. So, here you are.
Transcript: All right, so, everyone’s been doing this, and...
Trying to compose an explanation of the exam...
I feel like a hack. I didn’t actually have a traumatic flashback myself and the anxiety attack was compounded by several other personal factors. Trying to explain it calmly just makes me feel like I’m overreacting. Or just plain mansplaining.
I hate this. I hate that my professor felt the need to throw in a casual reference to rape culture when it was not even relevant to the...
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So there's this game.
It’s IF (in a rather loose sense of the term) and it’s called You Find Yourself In A Room and it’s probably supposed to make you ~uncomfortable~ and think about ~life~ and suchlike but it’s actually kind of adorable because the AI is trying so unbearably hard.
There are long sequences where it doesn’t actually matter what commands you put in, nothing will happen and...
sententiola replied to your post: I just failed my English exam.
Meherclé. Who set this paper? Can you appeal, or complain, or something? That’s horrible. I’m so sorry.
I have no idea. I feel like I should file a complaint but I have exactly zero confidence in my ability to make anyone listen.
I’m just imagining the meeting. “This question was inappropriate.” “It’s...
I just failed my English exam.
I am so angry I can barely breathe. There was a question about rape culture on it. A question about rape culture. For which I was expected to write five paragraphs with neat citations back to our essay and examples from real life.
The essay was about the pervasiveness of anger in popular culture, and it cited ethnic hatreds in South Korea as evidence that we are an angry culture. I am not even...
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My loathing for Paul Ballard cannot be contained...
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emilyswash replied to your post: Dammit, Satah.
VICTORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. if you are not finished it and happen to be in town, we should watch a couple of episodes togetha! OR SOMETHIN’
OR SOMETHIN’.
It’s quite probable I won’t be finished, given my aforestated track record (oh my god shut up Chrome ‘aforestated’ is DEFINITELY A WORD) so yeah! Also...
you guys
deviltrombones:
You guys know I own two pairs of shoes from Dollhouse, right?
As in, a pair of shoes that Adelle wore and a pair of shoes that Mellie wore?
On their feet?
On the teevee?
Yeah, it was a good investment.
WHAT
WHAT
WHAT
…….
have you worn them?
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Dammit, Satah.
I just went onto Pirate Bay to see how much space I’d be sacrificing for both seasons and then all of a sudden I was downloading ALL THE TORRENTS.
YOUR. FAULT.
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emilyswash replied to your post: I kind of want to re-watch Dollhouse.
plz make a .gif of every single scene with topher in so i can put them all on loop on my screen, great thx bye
There will be SO MANY TOPHER GIFS. (Whenever I get around to that.) And Enver gifs, and Sierra gifs, and probably Adelle gifs but honestly more like just a billion random screencaps with keyboard smashing in the...
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I kind of want to re-watch Dollhouse.
I’m two episodes into Pushing Daisies, five episodes into Fringe, and I’ve still got four seasons of QI sitting on my hard drive from months ago.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.
OKAY.
Walter might have just demanded that Peter stop being a smartass, listen to his damn father, and fetch him a root beer float while he was at it. FRINGE, I, I’M STILL NARROWING MY EYES AT YOU, BUT YOU KNOW, LESS SO.
zenami replied to your post: Can I just say
The thing with Walter… his state of being goes a lot deeper than they really let on at the beginning. So I guess they’re just trying to hint at that but failing? It’s really complicated. o.o; But I can’t really say a lot without spewing the plot.
Mnh. That helps to know. It’s just so clumsily done, if that’s the case, and I’m still...
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Can I just say
how VIOLENTLY uncomfortable I am with Fringe’s treatment of Walter Bishop?
From the start I just assumed that sticking him in an asylum 17 years ago was more about political expediency than any genuine illness - certainly no one’s ever named any kind of diagnosis, beyond the exceptionally vague and useless “mentally disturbed”. All of the behaviour that the show uses as...
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Anonymous asked: This would, er, be a really terrible time to admit I also used to fancy you and probably could very very easily start again if (accidentally) encouraged, wouldn't it.
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cumbersuffix-deactivated2011062 asked: You need to hook me up with some of those jokergifs.
(also i too rather fancy you, js. <3)
(also i too rather fancy you, js. <3)
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Anonymous asked: I um. Have a crush on you. I think you're very charming and intelligent and... you just make me smile.
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“You love secrets! You want to marry secrets and have little half-secret,...”
– Chuck, Pushing Daisies
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revelationk replied to your post: Nonsensical fear of the day:
Might one say that you have a sudden and terrible CONVECTION eeehhhh? eeehhhhhhhhh? (…. I’m sorry. really. the puns. they take over my brain.)
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Nonsensical fear of the day:
The sudden and terrible conviction that I have managed to leave my book in the oven.
I tried to write a post about slash pairings and...
There are two incidents that stick in my mind. The first happened when she let me and my sister watch Buffy. I would have been around eleven or twelve at this point, so my sister was thirteen or fourteen, and you have to remember that this is Buffy. This is a show where practically everything that happens in the first few seasons is a metaphor for something unfortunate you could do as a teenager....