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October 27, 2020
Sometimes you write 5,000 words in one go. Sometimes you write 300. Tonight was a 300 night. But...
Sometimes you write 5,000 words in one go. Sometimes you write 300. Tonight was a 300 night. But hey, any progress is still progress, right??
Guys, wtf is with these Rayban spam posts? Is this genuine accounts that are being hacked or am I...
Guys, wtf is with these Rayban spam posts? Is this genuine accounts that are being hacked or am I suddenly following a million spambots somehow??? I’ve been tagged in at least 15 of these now!
October 26, 2020
Raw footage of John overtly deliberating how much booze it would...
Raw footage of John overtly deliberating how much booze it would take to convince him to bottom for Sherlock, hypothetically speaking. He’s thinking two at this point. Maybe just one. Maybe none at all. Especially not if Sherlock keeps angling his cheekbones at that provocative slant.
October 25, 2020
girlwiththegreenhat:
sharky857:
moony-f:
just9gag:
When you’re...
When you’re in the 1400’s Florence and your buddy starts coughing
update: when you’re in Milan in 2020
update#2: when you’re anywhere in Italy in 2020
update#3: when you’re anywhere in 2020
update#4: when you’re in 2020
lookataleaf:dankmemeuniversity:sensible business policy Oh, and here I thought the seagulls were...
sensible business policy
Oh, and here I thought the seagulls were your loan sharks (loan gulls?). My bad.
totallysilvergirl:bakingsherlycakes:totallysilvergirl:
@bakingsh...
@bakingsherlycakes @silentauroriamthereal @jobooksncoffee @jolieblack @ben-locked @annecumberbatch
I’ve been off my game but the buttons, the buttons inspired me to make at least an effort
@totallysilvergirl the buttons will always deserve our love and respect
WE HONOR THE BUTTONS IN THIS BAR
*slams reblog* DAMNED RIGHT WE DO!
October 24, 2020
ink-fever:
“For example: A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn’t familiar with the...
“For example: A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn’t familiar with the genre, hasn’t read what’s been written. This is a fairly common situation, because science fiction is known to sell well but, as a subliterary genre, is not supposed to be worth study—what’s to learn? It doesn’t occur to the novice that a genre is a genre because it has a field and focus of its own; its appropriate and particular tools, rules, and techniques for handling the material; its traditions; and its experienced, appreciative readers—that it is, in fact, a literature. Ignoring all this, our novice is just about to reinvent the wheel, the space ship, the space alien, and the mad scientist, with cries of innocent wonder. The cries will not be echoed by the readers. Readers familiar with that genre have met the space ship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does. In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don’t know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it’s coming from, what it’s trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers’ blank ignorance of its genres (children’s fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn’t read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, ‘But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?’”— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love
(via queenofattolia)
This analysis, both of what fanfic is, and the specific roast of Harry Potter and the uninformed twits who reviewed it, simply *chef’s kiss*
dexterousdawdler:silentauroriamthereal:Me: *puts on mittens for the first time since last winter* Oh...
Me: *puts on mittens for the first time since last winter* Oh gross, why is there a nasty brown spot on my mitten?
Me: *buys a coffee on the way to work*
Coffee lid: *immediately leaks all over my mitten as I walk*
Me: Oh yeah, that’s why
This seems like something from years past. Relatable, but not anymore. Going to work. Visiting a coffee shop.
Unfortunately, it’s all too current. My museum closed for three full months, but then it reopened again - well before any of us felt it was time, or safe. Happily (in one sense, at least… ) visitation has dropped to incredibly low numbers since schools reopened and cases started spiking again, which makes for very dull, if slightly less risky days, but yeah. The little café is a struggling independent café/ice cream shop whose business has been hit hard by being new in the first place, and also by winter very suddenly having arrived on the prairies, at least for now. And it’s right on my way to work, so: yes to going to work (for me), masks in the café, which I don’t so much “visit” as “hastily obtain a coffee and then leave again”, mittens on my hands because it’s f*cking cold now, all of a sudden. Boo. I’d definitely rather be working from home, where I have plenty to do, don’t need to wear a mask all day, have very little exposure to other, potentially germy humans, and yeah. Yeah.
October 23, 2020
Me: *puts on mittens for the first time since last winter* Oh gross, why is there a nasty brown spot...
Me: *puts on mittens for the first time since last winter* Oh gross, why is there a nasty brown spot on my mitten?
Me: *buys a coffee on the way to work*
Coffee lid: *immediately leaks all over my mitten as I walk*
Me: Oh yeah, that’s why
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