Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook in Pushing Daisies (2007—2009)

If the reboot goes ahead, and SMG plays an older, wiser Buffy who shows up a few times to give advice and encouragement to the new Buffy (named after her, of course), I hope they keep her romantic life as vague as possible. The original Buffy didn't want to know too much (if anything) about Giles' dating history, or her own mother's, and why should the new one?

I hope the most we get about the last twenty years of our Buffy's life are some scattered hints that she's in a long-term relationship with somebody who used to be a vampire -- "a vampire with a soul?" the show's new Buffy can scoff -- but who became human again "decades ago" after fulfilling the terms of an ancient prophecy. I hope they have the original Buffy let slip that she met her partner when she was a high school student, but it took her a while to realize that they were the one. That they used to be evil but have since reformed and help her fight against evil and save the world. That they're the most important person in her life after her sister and her nieces. I hope the Bangel and Spuffy fans spend hours refighting old wars about which character Buffy is "meant to be with", both convinced that the show is building up a cameo by their preferred (now older and in-universe human) leading man.

I hope that, in the last episode of the first season of the new show, our Buffy's phone rings during a key bit of exposition -- in the library, ideally, because it won't be Buffy without one of those -- and she apologizes, saying that she has to take it because "that's my wife". I hope as she walks out of shot, phone in hand, we see her smile and we hear her say "hey, Harmony". And I hope the show never, ever expands on any of that again.

S O O N

I love how this post illustrates so well the way the meme has been simplified multiple times in a way that it's still perfectly legible IF you know the original and the other simplified version. For everyone else, it's a fucking hieroglyph.

Like, I feel like I'm witnessing the same process as the A evolving from a bull's head into the A we know today.

every year the Ides of March feels like a fun little meme, but this year it actually feels more like trying to cast a spell

(It’s that time of year again!)

“They have called this day the eleventh of March! And whomsoever of you gets through this day, unless you are shot in the head or somehow slain, you will stand at tiptoe when e’er you hear the name again.  And you will get excited at the name March the eleventh! We happy few, we few, we band of brothers… our names will be as like… household names!  And those who are not here… be they sleeping or doing something else, they will feel themselves sort of crappy!  Because they are not here to join the fight on this day the eleventh of March!

Move out.”

-Sgt. Buck Frobisher, March 11, 1999

Due South finale “Call of the Wild”

i have so many mutuals left over from my MCU days*, and want to bring them into a New Annoying Fandom by getting them to read The Locked Tomb.

how do i Sell It?

*i still have a toe in that fandom, be nice

6. all the genders

7. not happily ever after lesbians or kill your gays but a secret third thing

8. so. Many. Skeletons.

an idea from @hrair-metal

Kills off lots of important female characters! Gay yearning, but not precisely any direct gay physical contact - an MCU favorite. Absurdly overpowered antagonist kills literally billions of people, yet remains highly sympathetic and important as a paternal figure throughout the story. Scary woman with artificial arm. Multiple characters that can be solid foundations for the google document that will become a callout post for problematic behavior! Ianthe alone should give dozens of fans excuses to call out more trans people. Join in on the endless speculation about book four now, while it's still being written, and get a chance to send the author death threats if you're wrong!

yes good*

*bad, actually. don't listen to her....hey wait, we're already doing it!

anyway, tony stark would actually be 6th house

disagree! fourth house, where child prodigies feed the war machine

(also. seventh house steve. I’m right about this.)

Happy International Women’s Day!

Look, if you're having a bad day, here's a 6,000 year old pig-shaped pottery pot.

My day's been fine can I still have the pig pot?

Have a row of them

Good morning Baltimore

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

I love that and want to add my own.

The 20 Minutes Late with Starbucks hypothesis: They noticed us and want to meet us! But since they are several million light-years away and don't have FTL travel, they're just gonna take a while.

Personally I lean towards the First One At The Party Theory. Yeah, the universe is 13 billion years old, but our own life-supporting solar system is 4.6 billion and the majority of known exoplanets are younger than us.

It took about a billion years for life to arise, once our planet existed. If our galactic neighbors are operating on a similar timescale, there might just not be anyone out there yet who’s technologically advanced enough to make contact. Right now, the best we can hope for might be people at similar levels of development to us, looking out at the stars and wondering if anyone else is out there.

Dale Cooper, Benton Fraser, Corporal Carrot, and The Tick are the same guy reacting to different genres. Thanks for coming to my TinyTedTalk.

Thank you to all the good people putting Due South on my dash, it really is that good

finally understand what all the Paul Gross fuss is about

Things I have discovered:

Shoes by Philips Shoes

c. 1925-1935

The National Museum of Norway

Worth evening dress ca. 1898

From Whitaker Auctions

WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN HOBBY LOBBY

Because JoAnn's was bought by private equity, and private equity's business model is take a company, load it with debt, declare it bankrupt, and strip it for parts.

They did it with Toys R Us, they did it with Red Lobster, and they're doing it with JoAnn's Fabrics