listen to a daffodil tell their tale

Taylor saying her own name on Clara Bow felt hauntingly strange. It almost felt unnatural.

I've finally found the perfect, concise words to explain how SNW Spock is fundamentally different from TOS Spock. Spock always reminds me of a cat in mannerism and characterization.

In TOS he's a black cat and in SNW he's an orange cat.

I will not elaborate. Change my mind.

My good sir I had a mortgage before any of those characters were published 💀

I know who exactly three of these people are. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Herald of Valdemar.

I wanted to be Menolly with her entire Faire of fire lizards.

I wanted to be a Starfleet officer.

I wanted to be Dirk Pitt.

i wanted to be indiana jones

I wanted to be Han Solo.

I wanted to be Vesper Holly most of all.

Sticking with the literary theme: Meg Murry. If we're doing movies/TV, Princess Leia or Laura Holt.

I wanted to be Alanna

Also Meg Murry, and the kid who lived in the tree in My Side of the Mountain.

Harry from the Blue Sword in middle school, Heralds of Valdemar not until high school

That smart kid from The Westing Game who figured out all the clues

I wanted to be Claudia Kishi with a side of Meg Murry.

Cimorene.

I wanted to be Nancy Drew

Cimorene, Claudia (while knowing in my heart I was really a Mallory) and Meg Murray, yep.

Meg Murry ofc, but Keladry of Mindelan and Beka Cooper

Most of these are pretty recent, but Tuck Everlasting came out in 1975. (The book, anyway.)

seconding Alanna and adding Darren Shan!

Sorry but it's 2024, if you're not pro kink you should fuck off until you reevaluate your miserable fucking life.

Oh you think what I'm jerking off to is gross and immoral? Should we tell everyone? Should we call the Vatican?

You don't have to be personally into any kink to be pro-kink btw, if this is something anyone is stuck on. You just have to understand any personal distaste or disgust you experience toward kink ('kink' meaning anything performed between actual adults capable of and giving informed consent to each other for anything and everything they are doing of course) is not the same as any kind of moral standpoint. What disgusts you and what is wrong are not mutually inclusive and you need to learn to identify the difference between the two when they in fact do not overlap.

looks like someone is purring while sleeping

anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

like imagine you're the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who've barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others' guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

Spock & the Romulan Commander about Kirk

(Killing Time by Della Van Hise)

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

Thinking about that description again, comparing Temeraire’s wings to a lady’s fan.

to put it succinctly, the tortured poets department is the definition of “sharp pen, thin skin, open heart”

nowhere else

Great news everyone. There was a kitten wandering in the drive thru at work and my inner warrior cats kid tried to be a hero and capture him.

I have now suffered multiple puncture wounds and have to go to the emergency room.

Me: I shall become his mother and gain his trust

Me talking to an animal control officer five minutes later: he is a nasty horrid little boy and I am bleeding heavily

Animal control officer on the phone: So he’s in your car with you?

Me: Um. It’s his car now and he’s very mad at me.

Second animal control officer: oh you captured him and got him in your car? He’s friendly?

Me, my right hand completely wrapped in paper towels: wouldn’t say that

Urgent Care Nurse: Wow it’s strange he managed to get you so many times.

Me: I uh. Did not let go.

You vibe as someone prone to toxic relationships

People on tumblr will just say anything huh.

Oh cmon, "he hurt me a lot cause i couldn't let go" absolutely has double interpretation.

Me, holding a cat (of unknown gender) as it repeatedly digs its little teeth deep into my flesh: Is this… too… yuri?

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can’t argue with that

The Temeraire series has really raised my standards for how many dragon characters a book needs to be about dragons. No more of this “the dragons are all gone except the last egg” nonsense, now I need there to be not just dragon flocks but also dragon businesses and dragon universities and dragon retirement homes.