fun fact about the next avengers film being filmed in edinburgh: they’ve blocked off certain areas which is disrupting one specific postal van’s delivery route which is in turn leading to an awkward stand-off at the police station because Marvel Studios might be a billion dollar company but this man really wants to do his job and apparently interfering with the course of the Royal Mail technically counts as treason so they’re at a stalemate

this is the best thing i’ve heard all day

Scotland, everybody.

Who would win in a fight: a billion dollar superhero film franchise at the top of its game or one (1) Scottish mailman.

HOLY SHIT

I will never get over the fact you’ve never seen lightning bugs. Or heard cicadas. We used to catch them as kids. How do people not experience this???

But also I’m not sure my toddler has seen them because he’s usually asleep before they come out.

I will take you all over the east coast we will see them at Charleston and Savannah and Nashville and Clingman’s Dome.

I have never ever heard of Clingman’s Dome and nope, never heard a cicada, but ok I’ll follow you anywhere, boo. @alchemistc can come on pretty bug murder road trip and our husbands will stay home and watch our toddlers? Dare to dream.

You don’t have cicadas, either?! This whole exchange blows my mind. Come east in the summer. Go to Georgia or South Carolina. Stop at a little roadside farm stand and buy a fresh peach (so much better than store bought or peaches from anywhere else). Eat said peach while watching fireflies and listening to cicadas. Lots of people hate summer in the South because it’s so hot, but it’s one of my favorite seasons for all these reasons.

I am fortunate to have access to incredible fruit because I’m in the bay area and our farmers’ markets are insane. I buy stone fruit, especially nectarines, which are my favorite, from Kashiwase https://cuesa.org/seller/kashiwase-farms.

That said, I’m 10000% down to eat a meal of fresh Georgia peaches in a summer evening while watching fireflies from the porch. Aren’t cicadas hella annoying though?

I mean, the cicadas are loud, but I don't think they're annoying. They're just the sound of summer. And when they molt, they leave creepy shells behind that you can stick on people's clothing, because yes, children do chase each other around with cicada shells. Or at least my brother and I did.

I will never get over the fact you’ve never seen lightning bugs. Or heard cicadas. We used to catch them as kids. How do people not experience this???

But also I’m not sure my toddler has seen them because he’s usually asleep before they come out.

I will take you all over the east coast we will see them at Charleston and Savannah and Nashville and Clingman’s Dome.

I have never ever heard of Clingman’s Dome and nope, never heard a cicada, but ok I’ll follow you anywhere, boo. @alchemistc can come on pretty bug murder road trip and our husbands will stay home and watch our toddlers? Dare to dream.

You don't have cicadas, either?! This whole exchange blows my mind. Come east in the summer. Go to Georgia or South Carolina. Stop at a little roadside farm stand and buy a fresh peach (so much better than store bought or peaches from anywhere else). Eat said peach while watching fireflies and listening to cicadas. Lots of people hate summer in the South because it's so hot, but it's one of my favorite seasons for all these reasons.

To all of my california friends who can’t miss fireflies because they haven’t ever seen them.

^ what? do they not have fireflies in CA??????????

Nope! They don’t really live west of the rockies.  The first time I saw them in Ohio, I thought I was hallucinating.

I didn’t realize they weren’t out west. They’re so iconic

No…none in the Desert Southwest. The idea of them is enchanting. The only time I’ve ever “seen” them was at the Blue Bayou restaurant in Disneyland. It’s an effect in the background of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

Solo Lando: A Star Wars Story (2018)

#even if literally everything about this movie is terrible     #I am glad that someone on set remembered that lando is the best-dressed man in the entire galaxy far far away     #and this person sat down with donald glover and said “listen the entire character concept here is ‘what if you were so charming & beautiful     #& ultimately deeply earnest that no one minded being conned by you?”’     #I appreciate that anonymous soul     #they understand me and I them     #star wars     #solo a star wars story     

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chapter one ♕ two ♕ three ♕ four ♕ five ♕ six ♕ seven ♕ eight ♕ nine ♕ ten ♕ eleven ♕ twelve ♕ thirteen ♕ fourteen ♕ fifteen ♕ sixteen ♕ seventeen ♕ eighteen ♕ nineteen ♕ twenty ♕ twenty-one ♕ twenty-two ♕ twenty-three

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So I have never read a Star Wars novel. There’s a ton of references in this fic that I am not fully appreciating. I feel like a tourist, kind of. And as you may recall, I definitely did not start out shipping them.

But.

This fic is fantastic. FANTASTIC. I am enjoying it immensely.

Consider joining me in this dumpster, my friends. Turns out that it’s delightfully angsty and far more nuanced and complicated that when I was indifferent or anti this ship. I have been completely converted through fic, including this piece of brilliance.

for the next Reboot That Makes Men Angry I’d like to submit for your consideration Lupita Nyong'o as Indiana Jones

and she steals artifacts from museums and returns them to their rightful cultures

Oh my god, imagine the Indiana Jones temple-robbing scenes in reverse! She walks through the Scorpion pit, she ducks under the swinging axe, she jumps the spike trap… She pulls the idol from her bag and gently places it back on the altar. Then she walks out without looking back while all around her, the temple settles back down into tranquility.

The beginning of the movie would start with a heist to rob the museum which would make it a double adventure heist movie.