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manjolras:

f-rea-k:

manjolras:

“i was in the sherlock fandom once” is the new embarrassing twilight phase

DON’T YOU DARE COMPARE SHERLOCK TO TWILIGHT

apologies to all twilight fans

Having recently read the post highlighted in yellow on this page*, this actually sounds about right. They’re both situations where the canon is pretty mediocre, but its existence is still worthwhile because it’s inspired other people to write stuff that’s actually good. (And also Fifty Shades, but that’s not my point here.)

Mind you, it sounds less right when you consider the OP said specifically being in the Sherlock fandom. The fandom’s pretty good, in my experience (though I do seem to have a knack for avoiding the bad parts of fandoms). It’s just the canon that’s bad.

*Sorry, person who linked to this on their Tumblr a few days ago. I’d link you if I could remember who you were.

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#Sherlock #Twilight #fandom #’Invisible Bonds’ and ‘Not Yet Dead’ got me through the Stomach Bug from Hell #I pretty much only ever see the crappy parts of fandoms second-hand through the complaining of people in the good parts #and I wonder how come they know when shit is going down and I don’t #but I suppose I’m probably better off

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{{not completely certain that the first and second posters are actually different people}}

hoodsos-aus:

 

magconbabe-matt:

This shit better work

 

sansaspark:

HAH I REBLOGGED THIS LAST NIGHT AND LOOK WHAT I GOT FROM MY DAD TODAY OUT OF THE BLUE

 

hellabitcoins:

what if we all got paper lol

 

tokitoide:

TOO DAMN SUPERSTITIOUS WHEEEEEEE

 

plantmandotexeretired:

Wow…wtf, I hadn’t noticed this month had 5 weekends O3O

 

verilidaine:

(All this requires to happen is a month with 31 days to start on a Friday.  This will happen May 2015, January 2016… and on and on.)

 

justice-turtle:

*backreads post notes* Ooh, thanks for the math, verilidaine. I figured there had to be some kind of “it won’t happen again in August till blah de blah” thing going on, but couldn’t quite figure out the specifics.

I also figured it was specifically August, but even that has a next-occurrence date of merely 2025. (Source: my computer’s calendar function. It has a “move forward one year” button, which I clicked repeatedly until I found an August ending on Sunday. Feel free to find a calendar program with the same button if you want to double-check.)

(I feel a little bad about reblogging this, because I recently saw someone make a blog comment along the lines of “look, this total-bullshit Tumblr post has 20,000 notes, lol stupid teenagers” and reblogging this is providing more fodder for that sort of thing (it wasn’t the first time I’ve seen that type of post, and I doubt it will be the last). I’m trying to tell myself it’s their own fault for basing their ageist insults on a critical misunderstanding of how the note system works. Not sure how much it’s helping.)

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#reply via reblog #Orientalism #ageism #lying bastards

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jtotheizzoe:

skunkbear:

Can you survive in space without a spacesuit?

Guardians of the Galaxy has re-ignited the age-old question. Or this slightly different question, asked by Adam Frank, how do you die in space? Here’s some answers.

You know the answer to the question “what happens in space if you aren’t wearing a spacesuit” is going to be “very bad things”, but just what those bad things are is the interesting part.

Also, hi Eric! 

(that’s my friend Eric in the video)

I think we’ve learned a valuable lesson today: if you are about to be exposed to vacuum, expel as much of the air in your lungs as possible.

(“Don’t be exposed to vacuum at all” is also a valuable lesson, but I feel confident we all knew that one already.)

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#I actually knew the one about not having air in your lungs too #but I expect a lot of people don’t #space #the power of science #the more you know

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hapfairy:

WHO WROTE WHAT BIT?
Ah. Another tricky one. As the official Keeper of the One True Copy, Terry physically wrote more of Draft 1 than Neil. But if 2,000 words are written down after a lot of excited shouting, it’s a moot point whose words they are. And, in any case, as a matter of honor both of them rewrote and footnoted the other guy’s stuff, and both can write passably in the other guy’s style. The Agnes Nutter scenes and the kids mostly originated with Terry, the Four Horsemen and anything with maggots started with Neil. Neil had the most influence on the opening, Terry on the ending. Apart from that, they just shouted excitedly a lot.

The point they both realised the text had wandered into its own world was in the basement of the old Gollancz books, where they’d got together to proofread the final copy, and Neil congratulated Terry on a line that Terry knew he hadn’t written, and Neil was certain that he hadn’t written either. They both privately suspect that at some point the book had started to generate text on its own, but neither of them will actually admit this publicly for fear of being thought odd.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (2006 edition) – appendix by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
 

#Good Omens #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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lirchildofworf:

remember when i made up that thing about sex pollen giving asexuals hiccups

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#Star Trek #DS9 #Tora Ziyal #asexuality #I don’t remember because I wasn’t there #but anyway #I think the Tumblr blogs-you-might-like thing had a point with this one