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eponymous-rose:

Pros of writing transcripts: Holy crap, look at all these details I never would’ve noticed otherwise! Whoa, I feel 1000% more confident with these character voices! Hey, there’s a fantastic idea for an fic/meta post/audio post! Boy, I sure do love typing things… that’s probably weird isn’t it. Haha. Yeah.

Cons of writing transcripts: Trying to decipher Caboose’s dialogue.

#some… of these are words? probably? #same goes for half of sarge’s sargeisms

If loving typing things is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

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#Red vs Blue #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #one time when I was about nine I decided to transcribe the entirety of The Austere Academy so I could have it with me on my computer #(I’m pretty sure I had no idea ebooks were a thing) #(but I wouldn’t have been able to buy one anyway) #I would type a page or two whenever I was bored #I never completed it #but I still have the partial file #I typed 109 pages out of 221 #(109 pages of a Series of Unfortunate Events book is about 23.5 pages of OpenOffice) #(but still) #(~17.8k words) #tag rambles

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cool-salsa:

Just imagine all the normal people working or living on ds9 when main plot shit happens. They are just enjoying an evening at Quark’s when THE DOMINION IS TAKING OVER THE STATION, EVERYONE EVACUATE or reading a book when THE WHOLE STATION IS LITERALLY FALLING APART or sipping on raktajino when INTERSTELLAR WAR how do you even deal with that

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#Star Trek #DS9 #probably the same way you deal with tsunamis and wildfires and ice storms #every place has got its hazards #though they *really* need better evacuation plans #I was watching ‘The Siege’ yesterday and they were trying to cram everyone into three runabouts #knowing there was no way they were *all* going to fit #maybe somehow other cultures managed to avoid learning the hard way why not having enough lifeboats is a bad idea #but the humans should have taken one look at that set-up when they first got there #flashed back to every time they ever learned about the Titanic #and insisted they get enough ships to evacuate everyone ASAP #(where ASAP is *less* than a year) #tag rambles

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phoenixhobbit:

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freckledtrash:

starberry-cupcake:

Disney’s The Jungle Book cast so far: Neel Sethi as Mowgli, Ben Kingsley as the voice of Bagheera, Lupita Nyong’o as the voice of Rakcha, Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Kaa, and Idris Elba as the voice of Shere Khan (x x x x)

YO, THIS IS A REAL THING THAT IS HAPPENING

And not only is the cast amazing, but the film is going to be a mixture of live-action and animation (a-la Mary Poppins). Neel Seth (Mowgli), is going to be the only live-action actor and everyone else’s characters will be animated AND I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED.

Directed by Jon Favreau. This whole thing feels like a dream.

YESSSS.

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#The Jungle Book #Disney movies that I somehow managed to never see despite being raised in a time period where they were available #of which there are many #I don’t think we ever deliberately *avoided* Disney movies or anything like that #we just…never got around to a lot of them for some reason #which means I was seventeen by the time I first encountered Kaa #old enough to grasp the full horror that is Kaa being played by Winnie the Pooh #(like it’s recognisably the same voice) #(not just the same actor) #there is *nothing okay* about Kaa sharing a voice with Winnie the Pooh #*nothing* #I will *never feel clean again* #so I’m glad they’re making a version of the Jungle Book that will not scar the next generation of kinky young Winnie the Pooh fans #sexuality and lack thereof #Brin talks about herself for no particular reason #tag rambles

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ircnpatriot:

as the next season of doctor who approaches its time for me to wrestle with the question

does my faith in peter capaldi outweigh my distrust of steven moffat

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#Doctor Who #I’d be tempted to quit #but my mom’s definitely going to watch it #which makes it easy to just watch with her #and anyway I’ve watched worse stuff than S7 in the name of Knowing What People Are Talking About #and I doubt this season will be any worse #I have however explicitly asked that I *not* receive the DVD(s) as presents #because I know if I don’t say that Mom will default to giving them to me #(that’s why I own S6) #and I don’t want them #if she wants them she can ask for them herself #tag rambles

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…fucking hell.

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#eponymous rose #I figure you ought to see this #it is your fault after all #I just finished S6 of Red vs Blue #I was kind of expecting the Big Reveal would be something I’d been spoiled for #especially because I decided to more or less embrace the fandom osmosis and haven’t been savioring #and so when they explained how the AI fragments came to be I was like ‘yeah okay I knew that’ #’I mean that’s an awful thing to do to a sapient being and all but I knew it’ #but then there was more #and I was not prepared #impressively unprepared really considering the lack of spoiler avoidance #(except for ‘when it goes off I’ll be fine’) #(which was the quote on that Alpha fanart I saw) #(I heard that and I was like ‘oh fuck’) #my habit is to watch videos during the hour of 7 PM and only then #and it is 8:06 #and I may have to keep going anyway #Red vs Blue #tag rambles #oh look an original post #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #reactionblogging

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thelandofmaps:

[OC] The US grouped by first two ZIP code digits [1920×828]
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In case you were wondering, Hawaii is part of 96, Alaska is part of 99, and Puerto Rico is part of 00.

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#why don’t I have an America tag #I’m certain I’ve reblogged stuff about America before #oh well I can start now #maybe retroactively tag stuff later #should probably be something to go with my Canada tag #I guess that would make it #home of the brave #(which sounds a little less complimentary when you consider what a total coward I am) #(and how I often wonder why people don’t show a little more self-preservation) #anyway I always kind of wondered about this when I was a kid living in 08 #the more you know #tag rambles

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peachcitrus:

Tourist: Could you give us directions to Olive Garden?

New Yorker: No, but I could give you directions to an actual Italian restaurant.

Tourist:

Tourist:

Tourist:

Tourist: I came here to have a good time and honestly I am feeling so attacked right now.

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#I always did feel bad for the tourist in that example chat post #there’s no need to be so judgey #sometimes you just need some goddamn Olive Garden #like that thing I’ve heard people more widely travelled than I am talk about #where you’re in a very foreign place #and start to get overwhelmed by the strangeness and unfamiliarity of everything around you #and what you do #is you go to McDonalds and you buy some Chicken McNuggets #even if you don’t really *like* McDonalds #because a Chicken McNugget is always a Chicken McNugget #and once you have steadied yourself on that touchstone #you will be able to go out and bear the barrage of newness again #(and even if you are not feeling overwhelmed) #(sometimes you just want some Chicken McNuggets and that is okay) #tag rambles

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thelandofmaps:

The effect of ocean currents: Latitudinal comparison of the United Kingdom and Minnesota [1801×2343]
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#it always seemed very telling to me #that in the Christmas Invasion episode of Doctor Who #people are worried about the blood-controlled people’s lives only because they think the Sycorax might kill them #it never seems to cross anyone’s mind #that those people could die or suffer permanent damage just from standing on those rooftops #for hours on end #in late December #while too out of it to put on protective gear #…let’s just say it was a *very* fridge-horror-y episode #tag rambles

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Tagged by cakehorse.

Rules:

  1. your name
  2. your username
  3. your blog title
  4. your favourite colour
  5. the name of your current crush
  6. CAPSLOCK ABOUT SOMETHING
  7. your favourite band
  8. your favourite number
  9. your favourite drink
  10. tag someone!

You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to! Bonus points if you write something in a different language.

(P.S. If you are having any trouble with it, the image is much easier to make out if you click on it.)

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#oh look an original post #eponymous rose #cosmic llin #there’s been so many people doing this meme it’s hard to keep track of who’s done it already #I hope I at least got someone right #the blotches on the corners are to force my scanner’s overzealous auto-trimming to let me scan the whole thing #(I don’t own a camera) #(not even a phone with a camera function) #my thought process on the capslock went like this: ‘What’s written in all-caps? …Latin!’ #’What’s the Latin-y-est Latin phrase I can think of?’ #I am told by people who have experienced both crushes and perseverations that they feel very similar #meme #handwriting meme #tag rambles

[Annual Reblog] I didn’t go to Mass this morning, so I made my Unitarian Universalist boyfriend tell me the story of Easter.

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shayvaalski:

Boyfriend: And then they buried him, and the women were very sad because he had a rockin’ bod.

Boyfriend: And then there was much mourning, and Judas, his ex, was sad, because he had a rockin’ bod.

Boyfriend: And thus three days and nights had passed, and the Romans partied pretty hard, but everyone else had some regrets.

Boyfriend: And on the third day, they did say unto the Lord’s Angel, Where the hell is this dude’s corpse?

Boyfriend: And the Angel said, He is not here. He has risen.

Boyfriend: And the women were like, Fuck you, dude, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Boyfriend: And Jesus did come back from the dead, and He said, Eat of this bread, it is my body. And He said, This man shall wear a funny hat and be infallible, and he will be called the Pope.

Boyfriend: And He saw what He had done.

Boyfriend: And it was good.

Boyfriend: And then He said, Fuck you guys, I am taking my ball and going home.

Boyfriend: And He ascended into Heaven.

Boyfriend: And then Mary said to the angel, Man, you look familiar.

Boyfriend: And the Angel said, No, dude, we all look alike, I have never seen you before, and he did ascend into the sky, and Mary yelled, You owe me a LOT of child support.

Boyfriend: And that is why we have Easter. The eggs represent the ball Jesus took with him because he didn’t want to play anymore.

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Easter #I actually kind of like Easter #it feels… #(and I know this might not actually be true) #(because there is that whole Easter Bunny thing) #but it feels very un-hegemonic to me #I get the impression that Easter-celebraters are generally very aware that not everyone does it and are accepting of that #I’ve seen a couple segments about Easter celebrations on TV news while channel-surfing #and they kind of had that tone of ‘now now be *respectful* of what the weird people are doing’ #and told us basic facts about the religious significance of Easter #as if we didn’t already know about the whole Jesus-resurrection thing #they othered the Christians *exactly* as much as they would other anyone else #treated them exactly as they would treat anyone else #it was great #Easter is what Christmas should be like #Easter is what *Christianity* should be like #one religion among many #on equal footing #tag rambles