And diadems. Not coronets, though.

Dammit, George!

I was in Barnes and Noble the other day and saw this enormity.

Look. I get it. Clare and Martin are both published by the same publisher, Simon and Shuster, and both write in the same broadly similar genre. Given how huge Martin is you imagine they pester him a lot of cover blurbs, and he says yes to a lot of them because that’s professionally courteous to up-and-comers. And he can’t know about every ancient skeleton in everyone’s closet.

But it still grinds my gears that noted plagiarist and gaslighter Cassie Claire is big enough these days she can get cover quotes (and do events with alongside UGH) from George friggin’ Martin. This doesn’t elevate Clare’s work in my eyes, it diminishes Martin’s standing.

wongbal:

laughing my ass off at the thought of the Sarek family. Sarek is one of the UFP’s top diplomats. he marries Amanda, a human, which makes a lot of the worst kinds of people very upset. they have three (3) children: Sybok, Amanda’s stepson from Sarek knocking up a Vulcan princess; Spock, their one-of-a-kind hybrid baby; and Michael, the severely traumatized human girl Sarek brought home from work one day. racist hate groups try to blow him and his family up multiple times. he seems way more bothered by Michael & Spock running off to join Starfleet than by his oldest becoming an anti-establishment criminal mastermind. and then there’s that one novel where Amanda tells the press he has a huge cock.

Michael becomes Starfleet’s first ever mutineer, saves the Federation from a war many people think was her fault and then vanishes under mysterious circumstances in a highly classified incident involving a rogue AI, an experimental starship and several tachyon bursts that appeared across the galaxy like a sign from god

Sybok adopts a 2edgy4u fake name and hooks up with a hot space pirate for awhile, then finds religion and starts his own cult. he takes an entire colonial government hostage, sparking a diplomatic incident between three major superpowers, all so he can hijack his half-brother’s ship to the galactic core to look for the Vulcan Garden of Eden, where he dies fighting god himself

Spock becomes so famous his arranged marriage falls apart, resulting in him publicly strangling his own captain to death (though this turns out to not be the case), invents time travel, saves Earth a few times, dies and comes back to life, negotiates peace with the Klingons, disappears for a bit and reappears on Romulus (heart of the most paranoid totalitarian state in the quadrant) doing extremely dangerous activist work to unify their two peoples who have hated each other for over a thousand years (and it eventually works, even if he isn’t around to see it). then he flies off with the Vulcan Science Academy’s high-speed prototype starship full of the most dangerous substance known to science, creates a black hole and gets sucked into it, never to be seen again

I just know that someone, somewhere in Star Trek universe, has definitely made a doozy of a documentary about them

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hopeful-trekkie:

I love this show so much, it’s hilarious

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dagny-hashtaggart:

dagny-hashtaggart:

I feel like J.K. Rowling did a real double whammy of incalculable damage to the discourse by becoming a vocal TERF. On the more obvious side, she introduced a bunch of her followers to TERFism, and has served as a prominent (if often inarticulate and self-important) voice for transphobia. On the other, she’s created the perfect storm of “actually what media you consume and enjoy is the most important determinant of your moral standing, much more so than how you treat the people around you or who you vote for”-flavor magical thinking among her opponents. I feel like we were just getting over all the consumption-as-morality shitstorms of the mid-20teens and then we relapsed hard over her bullshit.

I don’t even like Harry Potter and it still creeps me out.

Also, as a point of clarification, since tumblr’s vaunted reading comprehension skills tend to fizzle out a bit around statements about the morally permissible and the morally obligatory: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with people getting soured on Rowling’s writing because of her politics. Frankly, I think that’s pretty reasonable. What I’m saying is that regarding disliking her work as a moral obligation incumbent on every decent person is creepy and fucked up.

There’s also an amount of weird hypocrisy involved.

Like, I have encountered “giving money to Rowling makes you complicit in her transphobia” arguments from people who are giving fairly large amounts of money to Disney, which continues to funnel money to some of the vilest transphobes on the planet.

Is it because Rowling has a face and is a person? Does that make “giving money to Warner Brothers, which gives it to Rowling” hit different than “giving money to Disney, which gives it to a diffuse collection of Republican transphobes you’ve never heard of?”

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tsukuyomiland:

She doesn’t want to be there

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cryptotheism:

The closer a language is to yours, the easier it is to understand, the further it is from you, the harder it is to understand. But there’s a sort of uncanny valley right in the middle that makes a language sound silly.

I’m an English speaker. German sounds similar, I can even find cognates sometimes. Mandarin Chinese sounds completely alien, but I can understand that it is a language.

But Dutch, Dutch sounds hilarious. Dutch sounds like a clown version of English. I wonder why that is.

I’ve heard Spanish speakers say similar things about Portuguese, which makes me think there’s some sort of linguistic Silly Zone.

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abigailnussbaum:

walker-scobell:

#I have never felt more represented

I realize this is not the takeaway I’m meant to have, but I feel such tremendous relief at the fact that Depression!Barbie - despite being around the right age to think otherwise - does not consider the execrable 2005 movie to be the definitive, comfort-watch version of Pride and Prejudice, and instead recognizes the infinite superiority of the 1995 BBC miniseries.

nudityandnerdery:

dungeonmalcontent:

its-your-mind:

felagund-fiollaigean:

wizards thinking of clerics as hacks cause we spent years of study learning the secrets of the universe they cheated and got a god to do their magic for them

clerics thinking of wizards as hacks cause we spent years serving and cultivating a deeply personal relationship with a god they copied down some cheat codes to make stuff blow up

And sorcerers are like “no wait, hold on. This is basically a curse. I’ve been *experiencing* magic against my will since I was born and it’s hurt a lot of people.”

… and then everyone glares at the warlock in the corner. Their response: “Yeah, no. That’s fair. I blew Cthulhu in the parking lot behind the McDonald’s and now I can do magic. Best deal ever. You all can (and should) suck it.”

Then the bard is like, “Anyway, here’s Wonderwall.”

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normal-horoscopes:

hombredeflorida:

normal-horoscopes:

TEEN HORSE GIRL MOVIE WHERE THE HORSE DIES AN HOUR IN AND THE SECOND HALF IS THE GIRL LEARNING OCCULT SCIENCE TO REANIMATE IT SO SHE CAN WIN THE BIG DERBY

Necroprancer

TAGLINE: YOU CANT BEAT THIS DEAD HORSE

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