when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat

how am I ever supposed to leave tumblr when it takes me on journeys like this

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

Sometimes the not knowing is the gift. When my youngest son was getting too big to carry and my back was getting too bad to try and push through the pain, I wanted to cry every time from the bittersweetness of trying to hold on to each precious moment.

Don’t forget we invade the Fire Nation today

Someone captured the solar eclipse on an airplane

imagine: you are chilling in front you your house getting high. along comes an old family friend who you last saw when you were six, you are now in your 50s. after a brief convo where he is kind of a dick to you, he’s like damn you’ve changed :/. and your like yeah bestie it’s been five decades why the fuck are you here. he leaves. later that night a shit ton of people show up and trash your house. just throw and absolute rager. halfway through the family friend from earlier shows up. he announces in full earshot of everyone that he wants you to come with him to rob a bank. you of course say wtf??? one of the people who broke into your house calls you a pussy. another person shoves you a contract which declares if you get shot robbing the bank they will not pay for your funeral. you pass out. when you wake up you find the contract on your table and your house almost completely back to normal. you stare at the contract for a moment and decide, fuck it this is just as a good a midlife crisis than anything.

this is what happened to bilbo baggins

I like to think that at least once, the Avatar cycle seemed to skip the Water Tribe—like people knew it was the water tribe’s turn, everyone was looking for them, the tests are done on all the kids, but like 60-80 years go by and no avatar until some Earth Kingdom kid shows up. People wonder if the cycle skipped a generation or what, but nothing serious was going on at that time so they shrug and move on.

It’s only many many years later that someone is researching Swampbender oral history and someone tells the story of “Ol Stinky Jess, she was a funny one, could light the swamp on fire an’ all sorts o’ shenanigans! Best catfishgator catcher in the tribe, she was” and thats literally it, she just lived a totally chill life in the swamp and nobody knew what an avatar was at the time so they just rolled with that funny gal’s odd bending ways.

So how are we all feeling about the live action Avatar?

(Art by the incredible Melp of @book4air)

I watched 5 episodes so far. I’ll watch the rest tomorrow on stream too.

So far, I feel pretty vindicated with my 6-7/10 review for the premiere episode.

Lemme know your thoughts! Comments or reblogs welcome.

love people referring to the dracula offseason. i can't stop picturing exchanges like "well, we're in the offseason" "the Superbowl is literally this weekend" "no, not football. dracula"

A Dickens December Day 24

Before the establishment of Highgate Cemetery (and others from the Magnificent Seven), most London cemeteries were crowded, unpleasant places—much like the one in which Scrooge found his future grave. However, what distressed him wasn't merely the graveyard being "Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite" (the last point is delicious!). I believe this was the least of his concerns. Instead, it was all the encounters with people's reactions to his death that shocked and shook him.

But Scrooge appears rather sincere and persuasive in his appeals to the Spirit, for his words eventually managed to make the otherwise firm hand of the Ghost shake and then tremble. Thus, the whole scene feels rather climactic. Well done, Scrooge!

Contrast Scrooge’s grave to Tiny Tim’s (overlooking the river, where visitors can see ducks). Bob tells his wife that it would have done her good to see it.

I’ve often wondered where Fred was in all this. He is mentioned by Bob.

Did he mourn his uncle? Why didn’t he try to get Scrooge a better burial situation. The conclusion I’ve come to is that Scrooge had his burial arrangements set in advance, and they were predictably the cheapest he could arrange. He wouldn’t have hired mourners and Fred was excluded from any plans. He may not have even been told of the arrangements since Scrooge seemed antagonistic toward his nephew.

Scrooge’s sorry post-death situation, just like his life, is his own making.

"a group of handsome girls, all hooded and fur-booted, and all chattering at once, tripped lightly off to some near neighbour's house; where, woe upon the single man who saw them enter—artful witches, well they knew it—in a glow!"

Charles Dickens celebrates Hot Girl December