No, brain, come on, there are so many interesting-looking things to read in fanfiction alone that we haven’t even read once yet, stop telling me to re-read “Not Yet Dead”.
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#Sherlock #fanfic #come on brain #remember how after finishing it #(and abandoning all our other plans for the evening once we got to the climax in *order* to finish it) #you got so worked up over how awesome it was you actually aggravated the lingering traces of our stomach bug #nearly making us too ill to go out trick-or-treating the following evening #(but then again I’m not sick at the moment)
It was easier to make the words come out once I tried it in the second-most-secluded place in my house rather than going to the third-most-secluded. (The most secluded place is the Death Trap Room, a part of the attic whose door can only be opened from the outside. No way in hell am I setting more than one foot in there without use of the buddy system, and since the point was to make sure my family couldn’t hear me (so I wouldn’t have that awkwardness)…)
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Choose a book and read a passage from it.
Do you think you have an accent?
Be a wizard or a vampire?
Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?
End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
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#eponymous rose #oh look an original post #can you tell I read this from a script I wrote up last night? #(I can) #(I’m significantly more coherent than usual) #but it was still an accomplishment that I got up enough nerve at all #and once I’d made sure the mic on my MP3 player could pick me up I did it in one take #(I could’ve sworn I was better at L’s than this) #(‘misweading statistics’) #(the following category tags were added retroactively:) #accents #fun wif forn fronting
You can’t use complementary colours. They need to be blendable so you can show Canada as a blend. (Maybe other places too, but I haven’t been to any of them so I don’t know.) My thermostat reads in Fahrenheit by default. My oven doesn’t even have a Celsius option. (If you watch Canadian cooking shows and read Canadian cookbooks and food package instructions, you’ll see that Celsius being an afterthought or ignored entirely is the norm when discussing cooking. Occasionally you see Celsius get front-and-centre and Fahrenheit get the parenthetical, but not usually.)
You can get away with not knowing French, but you need to be Celsius/Fahrenheit bilingual.
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#our home and cherished land #interestingly this doesn’t appear to be true with metric/American in general #I’ve noticed that the Daily Planet people don’t expect their audience to understand figures given in miles #when they show Americans using miles they give the kilometre translation in voiceover or on the screen #I’m pretty sure they only do that with Fahrenheit when it falls outside the range used in weather and cookery
My thoughts exactly, Mr. Herrmann. My thoughts exactly.
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#prosopagnosia #thirded #every time I see a picture of Brad Pitt I think it’s Chris Hemsworth #and that’s with the context of ‘this is some celebrity or other’
Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a clump of active galactic cores that stretch 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a light quasar group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous Galactic Nulcei powered by supermassive central black holes.
So that’s cool and everything, but maybe some of you would be interested to know why this is a significant find? Beyond just its record-setting bigness.
Since Einstein, physicists have accepted something called the Cosmological Principle, which states that the universe looks the same everywhere if you view it on a large enough scale. You might find some weird shit over here, and some other freaky shit over there, but if you pull back the camera far enough, you’ll find that same weird and/or freaky shit cropping up over and over again in a fairly regular distribution. This is because the universe is (probably) infinite in size and (we are pretty darn sure) has, and has always had, the same forces acting on it everywhere.
So why is this new LQG so radical? (It stands for ‘Large Quasar Group,’ btw, not ‘Light Quasar Group.’)
Well, let’s try to comprehend the scale we’re dealing with. A ‘megaparsec,’ written Mpc, is about 3.2 million light years long. The Milky Way is about 0.03 Mpc across (or 100,000 light years). The distance between our galaxy and Andromeda, our closest galactic neighbor, is 0.75 Mpc, or 2.5 million light years. LQGs are usually about 200 Mpc across. Assuming a logarithmic distribution of weird shit outliers (if you don’t know how logarithmic distribution curves work, don’t worry about it), cosmologists predicted that nothing in the universe should be more than 370 Mpc across.
This new LQG is 1200 Mpc long. That’s four billion light years. Four BILLION LIGHT YEARS. Just to travel from one side to the other of this one thing. I mean for fuck’s sake, the universe is only about 14 billion years old! How many of these things could there be?
Right now it looks like the Cosmological Principle might be out the window, unless physicists can find some way to make the existence of this new LQG work with the math (and boy, are they trying). And that’s totally baffling. It would mean—well, we don’t have any idea what it would mean. That the universe isn’t essentially uniform? That some ‘special’ physics apply/applied in some places but not in others? That Something Happened that is totally outside our current ability to understand or quantify stuff happening?
By the way, no one lives there. The radiation from so many quasars would sterilize rock.
Apparently, the Great Lakes are under there somewhere, but it’s hard to see anything through the icy white in this NASA satellite image from the afternoon of Jan. 6.
If you host an Asexual meetup, or are looking for one in your area, this new site might be of interest to you. I know that for North America it already has a pretty long list of groups.
So, I was going to put up a list of some ace websites I’d like to see people make. Now a site like this doesn’t have to be on it!
And it looks to be more complete than the other such sites I’ve seen. (Nobody else ever told me there’s been K/W meetups for nearly two years.)
Bit annoying that you have to sign up for AVEN just to see the post, but okay.
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#asexuality #I was a bit startled when they knew what my icon was #until I realised they’d asked Gravatar if there was an icon associated with my email address #okay then #(turns out when they ask you for favourite dessert in lieu of a CAPTCHA) #(they mean it) #(I figured that was just their way of telling me the password was ‘cake’) #(but you’re allowed to say other things) #(and they go and put it on your profile)
As some of you may know, I have links to other asexual blogs and asexual-identifying individuals on several pages of my blog. However, many of those blogs are no longer active, and I’m looking to replace them.
If you identify as:
asexual
demisexual
grey-asexual
aromantic
demiromantic
grey-romantic
heteroromantic
homoromantic
biromantic
panromantic
any combination of the above, (asexuality-related identity I may have left out)
and are willing to answer questions/be listed as a resource, please let me know! Message me with how you identify, and I’ll add your blog to the appropriate page.
I’d also like to add blogs of individuals on the asexual spectrum with kinks/fetishes. They seem to be few and far between (or, at least, I haven’t come across many) but I’d still like to include some kind of resource for other aces.
Anyways, I’m always looking to update resources, and I’d really appreciate your help!
Thanks a bunch!
Are you checking reblogs, or does it have to be an ask?
>>I’d also like to add blogs of individuals on the asexual spectrum with kinks/fetishes. They seem to be few and far between (or, at least, I haven’t come across many) but I’d still like to include some kind of resource for other aces.<<
I think we generally stay pretty quiet. Fear, maybe, of how people will react. Embarrassment. I know I personally have always had a kind of instinctive sense of privacy about this (ask me about the Girl Scouts and the yo-yo sometime), even before I realised it was a sexual thing. (And I do consider it a sexual thing. I’ve seen several kinky aces say they don’t, but that’s not how I see it. I just don’t think it’s sexual in a way that precludes me being ace. I am not sexually attracted to anyone; what I am attracted to doesn’t matter ace-identity-wise.)
Thing is, it’s…I’m not sure what would be the best word here. Comforting? Powerful? To know you’re not the only one, that there are other people like you out there. And in order to know that, somebody’s got to speak up.
At first, the previous paragraph didn’t quite outweigh the one before it, and I nearly didn’t reblog this. Then I saw a post of that Shel Silverstein poem. I don’t think it was supposed to be a sign–the universe generally doesn’t work that way, in my experience–but I choose to interpret it as one.
So. This is me, being a hypnosis fetishist. I exist.
(I’m also aromantic, but those aren’t very hard to come by.)
#asexuality #kind of nervous about making this post #helps that as it happens this is the third time this week #(not *closeted* exactly) #(just shy) #(also not actually entirely comfortable with the term ‘fetishist’) #(I think L’s got some good points about ‘paraphile’) #(but it’s useful for communication) #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #but it gets lonely being surrounded by them all the time #I do wonder if there are others #surely there must be #(culture tells you what’s restful) #(brain wiring tells you that ‘restful’ and ‘sexually satisfying’ are the same thing) #tag rambles
once i wrote a story in which kira shoots a fresco
So we are more or less doomed, here. I haven’t thought about this much before, but here are my impressions at a first attempt.
Art for Kira is, first, about ruin. About damage, and loss. That is what violent occupations do to art. This is her first concept of art: stolen paintings and sculptures, damaged buildings, a campaign of disinformation about Bajoran achievements in the arts.
Then art must be, later, about recovery, about salvage. What can be restored, recovered, unburied.
Kira doesn’t have much in the way of an aesthetic sensibility, or at least that’s what she would claim. She forms strong attachments to art objects, and articulating why, or what it is about the object’s aesthetic features that draws her to it, is less interesting to her than the fact of the object and the fact of her attachment.
Perhaps she begins with a disdain for ‘pure decoration,’ prizing only art that has a use: prayer mandalas, for example. But perhaps with time she starts to see that the useful/decorative binary doesn’t hold up. What if something is useful because of the feeling it provokes? What if, like her prayer mandala, a useful object is also decorative? These simple questions occur to her relatively late in life, and the result is that she develops a reverence for the very fact of objects that provoke them.
She will never be a collector, but she will learn that to stand before a beautiful thing in contemplation of it is a worthwhile act – and it is an act that demands that the work of art be referred to itself, and not to any gesture of possession or mastery. She will for this reason prefer museums to private possessions, and temples to museums.
That act of contemplation is itself an act of recovery, of restoration and unburial. And for this reason, she will work hard to see that Bajor’s art finds public homes, that art objects are returned to the places that first housed them, and that any space – a temple, a museum, a library archive – devoted to art objects will be freely accessible to anyone, so that those recuperative acts of contemplation belong to anyone, to everyone.
This is a good post, I like this post, the fic you actually linked is new to me and looks interesting, but I would also like to know what fic you intended to link. It doesn’t look to be this one, what with the “Oparu” in the author’s-name section.
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#Star Trek #DS9 #Kira Nerys #I deleted the first version of this post because it was reblogged from Llin #and Sophie is less likely to see and respond to my question if I don’t reblog it directly from her
