Month: July 2014

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doctorwho:

heyimkiara:

30 Days of Doctor Who

Day 25: What’s your favorite Doctor Who art?

It’s not just art but I chose an artist. I am in love with alicexz. The first art I’ve seen from her is the Eleventh Doctor (second last) and just continued from there! She does other things besides Doctor Who like Sherlock, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and even more! 

What’s your favorite Doctor Who art? Make sure to give the artist credit if it’s not yours!

Tags:

#Doctor Who #art #fanart #awesome #pretty things

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homesteadilee:

nambroth:

Last weekend I attended Anthrocon and it was pretty darn awesome. While I don’t consider myself a furry, I do enjoy realistic costumes, so I took the raptor mask I made (base/blank by: http://kierstinlapatka.tumblr.com/ ) and some gloves I put together. I ran out of time to make a tail. I figured I’d raptor around the con incognito, because it’s fun to be anonymous. Unfortunately for my planned secrecy, I was unaware that in the interim my last photoset of the raptor mask managed to accumulate around 3,000 notes on Tumblr, and the internet knew that it was mine, so there was no secrecy or anonymity. OH WELL I had fun anyhow! Let me tell you though, it’s super weird to have people come up and shout “I SAW THIS ON TUMBLR“ in real life. Uhhh. Hi, Internets.

Thus, I raptored around the con and generally acted like a nuisance. The very best reactions were the ‘muggles’… people on the street. They acted like it was Disneyworld and almost everyone really loved it. My friend managed to get a photo of me peeking into a bar window. Check out the enthusiastic lady on the far right.

I even managed to bump into my eagle mask being worn around the con a few times, which was super exciting to me (the Philippines Eagle mask seen above).

All photo credit goes to my friends Byzil and Hypno.

Here is a short video. I didn’t know she was recording at first so I was holding very still so she could take a still photo. Oops. Also ignore my bad anatomy raptor wrists pose. I had just smacked Dark Natasha in the throat with my claws accidentally and was feeling a bit sheepish. (Natasha was fine, but apparently I was going for the kill. Instincts?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJLdFoQOSOg

I am thinking of naming her Kinglet, after the bird that inspired her.

FEATHERED RAPTOR OMG

nellasaur

LOOK

Tags:

#art #cosplay #awesome #dinosaur

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dajo42:

salazar: hey everyone just wanted your opinion on something

helga: shoot

salazar: okay what if we get giant versions of our house symbols

rowena: what

salazar: like godric would have a giant lion chilling out somewhere and rowena would have a big canary

rowena: its an eagle

salazar: okay whatever

godric: i dont think uh

salazar: it cant be too hard to find a huge badger

godric: okay dude no this is ridiculous absolutely no giant house symbols

salazar: oh um okay because i kind of uh

helga:

rowena:

godric:

salazar:

helga: what did you do

salazar: NOTHING

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#Harry Potter #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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soleminisanction:

I think everybody’s missing the point of the new Carlos status quo in WTNV. Having him lost and unable to get home isn’t about adding angst to his relationship with Cecil, not really. It’s about giving Carlos an opportunity to define himself as a character separate from Cecil’s affection.

Think about it. In the first year there were all these hints that Carlos is running around doing the Science Hero thing and trying to figure out Night Vale….but it was only ever hints, and never enough to actually be a character arc, even by the broad definition of character arcs in Year One. His story there was about adjusting enough to Night Vale and its weirdness that he could believably feel at home there and give the relationship with Cecil a shot.

In Year Two (and Condos), his appearances served to advance the relationship subplot. It was all about the two of them learning, together, that love is imperfect, perfectly imperfect, and that that imperfection is worth fighting for — which is in turn a reinforcement of the theme that runs through the entire Strexcorp story-line, a brilliant turn of authorial intent in its own right. 

And all of this is great, don’t get me wrong. But the result is that we only really know Carlos as defined by Cecil and his relationship with Cecil. He’s the Love Interest. Cecil’s boyfriend. “Yer Science Fella.” 

Now, though…now he’s in a situation where there is no Cecil. Here, Carlos will have to stand alone. He will have to define himself. And if it unfolds anything like Dana’s adventures, it’ll do so in his own words, describing his own experience, relayed back occasionally to Cecil and occasionally through Cecil, but still inherently separate from Cecil’s interpretation. For the first time, we’re gonna see Carlos through his own eyes, not his lover’s.

You can see the outline of his character arc to come in his voicemail, like a thesis statement:

…I remembered that I am not from Night Vale. I remembered that as far as the laws of the universe are concerned it is not where I belong.

Cecil… I don’t even remember how I got to Night Vale in the first place. I mean where is Night Vale even?

But I promise, I will find the way back.

It’s all there. His goals, his motivation. What he needs to learn. A hint of the mysteries that are to come.

When she was lost, Dana’s story arc was about finding her way home. Dana belongs in Night Vale. There was never any doubt, for her, and when she returned triumphant it was just confirmation of what she already knew, a reward for never giving up.

For Carlos, there is doubt. The Universe, apparently, believes that he does not belong in the place he feels to be home. He will have to fight, not just to get back to Cecil, not just to get back to Night Vale, but to prove that he belongs in Night Vale, with Cecil. And to do that, he’ll have to figure out how he got to Night Vale in the first place. He’ll have to show us who he was before, what led him there, why he came. He’ll have to show what’s different this time, how Night Vale changed him, how being lost will change him. 

And if it’s anything like the other character arcs we’ve seen, it’s going to be glorious. 

So…don’t worry, Night Vale. He’ll be home, and his story — their story, their romance — will be all the better for it because we’ll finally have both sides. And yes, it may take a while, because this little romance of theirs is just one part of the greater Night Vale story and they are not, despite what you may think, the main characters. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, studying Night Vale from a writer’s perspective, it’s that pacing and pay-off are everything. These guys know what they’re doing. It’ll be a roller coaster, and it’ll be worth it.

— Overthinker out

Tags:

#Welcome to Night Vale #Old Oak Doors B #wtnv spoilers #excellent points

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{{Original metadata:2014-07-15 - The 600-Year-Old Butt Song from Hell}}

feliscorvus:

lunar-lavender:

rayvenloaf:

chaoscontrolled123:

Luke and I were looking at Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights and discovered, much to our amusement, music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens of the rightmost panel of the painting which is intended to represent Hell. I decided to transcribe it into modern notation, assuming the second line of the staff is C, as is common for chants of this era.

so yes this is LITERALLY the 600-years-old butt song from hell

I can’t NOT reblog a 600 year old butt song from Hell.

The 600 year old butt song from Hell is back on my dash! Happy day!

HEEEE.

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#Hieronymus Bosch #music #interesting

Giant List of Asexuality and Aromantic Blogs

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house-of-ace:

Since Asexual Awareness Week is coming up, I figured I’d make a rebloggable version of this blog’s links page for those who want to find new blogs to suggest to people!

Notes:

  • Included on this list are: Asexuality Tumblrs, Aromantic Tumblrs, Advice Tumblrs, Non-Tumblr Sites and Useful Links!
  • If you know any other blogs, sites, or other links that aren’t on here, let me know, and I’ll be sure to add it! Also, if you run one of these blogs and I’ve messed something up, let me know and I’ll fix it for you.
  • Please assume that on this list, the words ‘asexual’ and ‘aromantic’ stand for asexual-spectrum and aromantic-spectrum respectively, unless otherwise indicated.
  • This post doesn’t always update itself when reblogged for some reason. You can always find the most up-to-date rebloggable version here and the permanent version here!

Asexuality Tumblr Blogs

Aromantic Tumblr Blogs

Tumblr Blogs That Offer Advice (both aromantic and asexuality blogs listed)
many also post other things in addition to advice and have useful lists of resources, links and faqs!

Non-Tumblr Sites (both aromantic and asexuality sites listed)

  • Acebook: an asexual dating and social networking site!
  • Ace Fet: a forum for asexual and aromantic fetishists. Also has a tumblr.
  • ace_fic: a livejournal asexuality fanfiction comm!
  • Ace Ideas: a youtube vlogging channel about asexuality! also has a tumblr.
  • Acetronauts: a youtube vlogging channel about asexuality! They also have a tumblr.
  • are:UK: a UK organization for asexuality education, media representation and providing resources. Also has a tumblr.
  • Arocalypse: an aromantic forum! They also have a tumblr here.
  • Aroplane: a forum for aromantic-spectrum people!
  • Aromantic Asexuals: a forum for aro aces!
  • Asexualitic: an asexual dating site!
  • The Asexual Agenda: a blog which promotes asexual blogs, shares links and discusses a deeper wide variety of asexual-related concepts. Also the home of the monthly Carnival of Aces!
  • Asexual Archive: another very comprehensive blog about ‘all things ace’!
  • Asexual Awareness Week: the official website for Asexual Awareness Week! They also have a tumblr!
  • Asexual Explorations: a site which promotes the academic study of asexuality! It provides many good links and resources to this end.
  • Asexual Groups: a reference blog to find asexuality meet-ups and communities!
  • Asexuality Meetup: list of asexuality meetups!
  • Asexual News: a site for asexuality news and opinions. Includes a huge list of links and resources, and also merchandise.
  • The Asexual Stories Project: a place for any asexual-spectrum person to submit their stories about their experiences with any aspect of their asexuality!
  • AVEN: probably the best-known asexual site on the Internet. I’ve heard some not-so-great things about the forums, but the rest of the site has a large list of links, news, a wiki and other things to check out! They also have a tumblr.
  • Card House: an asexuality forum!
  • Kik Messenger group: not really a site per se, but directions for how to join a Kik Messenger network/group for asexuals who would like to chat! According to the post: “Kik Messenger is a free anonymous messaging app that is available on multiple smartphone platforms.”
  • Partnership for Asexual Visibility and Education: an organization focusing on asexual activism!

Other Useful Links

Ace Fet is gone. I checked in one morning a few weeks ago and found only GoDaddy offering to sell me the URL.

I tried sending an ask to crepuscularnocturnal (founder and co-moderator of Ace Fet) about it, but they haven’t responded, and they haven’t made any posts on their Tumblr since before Ace Fet vanished. Still wondering what happened to it.

Tags:

#reply via reblog #asexuality #it’s such a shame #at least some of these other links look like they might be useful

chead asked: hey what’s up with the “!” in fandoms? i.e. “fat!” just curious thaxxx <3

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molly-ren:

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

Maybe today will be the day we are both finally enlightened.

 

molly-ren:

woodsgotweird said: man i just jumped on the bandwagon because i am a sheep. i have no idea where it came from and i ask myself this question all the time

Maybe someone made a typo and it just got out of hand?

 

stevita:

I kinda feel like panic!at the disco started the whole exclamation point thing and then it caught on around the internet, but maybe they got it from somewhere else, IDK.

The world may never know…

 

molly-ren:

Maybe it’s something mathematical?

 

michaelblume:

I’ve been in fandom since *about* when Panic! formed and the adjective!character thing was already going strong, pretty sure it predates them.

 

hosekisama:

It’s a way of referring to particular variations of (usually) a character — dark!Will, junkie!Sherlock, et cetera. I have suspected for a while that it originated from some archive system that didn’t accommodate spaces in its tags, so to make common interpretations/versions of the characters searchable, people started jamming the words together with an infix.

(Lately I’ve seen people use the ! notation when the suffix isn’t the full name, but is actually the second part of a common fandom portmanteau. This bothers me a lot but it happens, so it’s worth being aware of.)

 

nentuaby:

“Bang paths” (! is called a “bang”when not used for emphasis) were the first addressing scheme for email, before modern automatic routing was set up. If you wanted to write a mail to the Steve here in Engineering, you just wrote “Steve” in the to: field and the computer sent it to the local account named Steve. But if it was Steve over in the physics department you wrote it to phys!Steve; the computer sent it to the “phys” computer, which sent it in turn to the Steve account. To get Steve in the Art department over at NYU, you wrote NYU!art!Steve- your computer sends it to the NYU gateway computer sends it to the “art” computer sends it to the Steve account. Etc. (“Bang”s were just chosen because they were on the keyboard, not too visually noisy, and not used for a huge lot already).

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So I’m guessing alternate character version tags probably came from that.

 

raincityruckus:

100% born of bang paths. fandom has be floating around on the internet for six seconds longer than there has been an internet so early users just used the jargon associated with the medium and since it’s a handy shorthand, we keep it.

 

xenophonique:

Because I’m in Bitter Old Fangirl Mode today, the fact that it took seven comments before someone explained bang paths upsets me greatly.

 

molly-ren:

Once you pass 1,000 notes, people start to get really annoyed about the fact that no one mentioned bang paths sooner (the above comment is actually one of the nicer ones).

Tags:

#duuuuude #the more you know #language #bang paths #history #it’s always great when stuff that’s ‘just one of those things’ turns out to have a traceable explanation

Firefly Headcanon

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seananmcguire:

animatedamerican:

seananmcguire:

animatedamerican:

villainny:

Zoe and Wash, while deeply forever ridiculously in love, are not drift compatible.

Zoe and Mal are drift compatible.

Kaylee and Wash are drift compatible, and they have the best piloted, sweetest running jaeger ever been seen in the ‘verse – the best piloted, sweetest running jaeger ever to run away from a kaiju.

SECONDED

(also, the sudden thought of River Tam in a jaeger is rutting terrifying)

She hung from the ceiling, a perfect, motionless sculpture of a girl in the process of becoming a fruitbat.  Simon glanced up at her periodically, both checking that she was still present, and reassuring himself that the grind of the machines overhead would keep her from hearing what he had to say.  It wasn’t that he was keeping secrets from her; River knew everything about her condition, sometimes more than he did.  It was that she didn’t like being talked about, and he respected that.

“They weren’t trying to unlock psychic powers or anything like that, no matter what the rumors say,” he said, his voice shaking slightly.  Kaylee shifted her weight from foot to foot, disturbed by that tremor in his words.  Simon Tam was the best K-scientist she’d ever worked with.  For him to sound scared…

“Those people, those monsters…” Simon paused to take a deep breath, relaxing a little at the taste of oil on his tongue.  Enough time spent with Kaylee had turned grime into perfume.  “They were trying to set up a neural bridge inside a single mind.  They wanted to do away with the need for drift compatibility, and privatize the Pilots.  Imagine being able to market Jaegers for domestic and commercial use, because you only needed one Pilot, and that Pilot was so doped and dependent that they could never leave you.”

“That’s horrific,” whispered Kaylee.  “They…they messed up her brain tryin’ to do something as can’t be done?”

“Oh, it can be done,” said Simon grimly.  “They succeeded.

“My sister is in constant Drift with herself.”

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YOU GET ME THE BEST PRESENTS <333

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I hate that moment between “I will write fic to amuse a person” and that person responding because WHAT IF I WROTE IT WRONG.

Tags:

#Firefly #Pacific Rim #crossovers #fanfic #(I’ve never actually seen Pacific Rim) #(and for that matter until last autumn I hadn’t seen Firefly) #(so I know just how far popculture osmosis can get you)