there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

THE BOY

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

Gentleman, if I might add:

yes you may add this

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

Determined to fits

I think one of Pratchett's great skills in writing was being able to make silly things serious, in different ways. Like, there's a fairy godmother forcing everyone into fairystales, how fun! Except in the process, she has stopped seeing them as people. She's forcing people to live lives they don't want to because she decides that's how it has to be. Sometimes she goes so far as to violate her victim's minds and deform and puppet their bodies so they'll play their part right, and anyone who doesn't do their job gets mercilessly killed. And there's a zombie activist named Reg Shoe who buries himself every year out of solidarity for the dead, how funny! Except he is filled with a genuine passion for justice and improvement in the world, and that's why he literally refuses to die. And he buries himself on a holiday that happens to be the anniversery of his own death, and he does it next to the bodies of the friends and strangers he fought alongside, the ones who didn't get to come back, so he spends one day with them. There is still a lot of silliness in discworld, a lot that's wacky and funny, but a lot of it, when you think about it, is oddly beautiful or touching or disturbing or something else entirely.

Discworld Heritage Post

yeah okay, ill reblog that

A bit of British fan history for you. This might bring back memories @dianeduane (hopefully good ones). Follycon in Liverpool, 1988. This is fandom as it used to be, for charity, with one payment to register (no extra costs for photos, talks or signings), one payment to the hotel, all profits for charity. Me and my future husband were at this one.

(laughter) It was a gentler time.

(Still amazed that they let me get away with that seriously innuendo-ridden

...intro.) 😏

Michael W. Kaluta

...THIS.

Between this and Delenn's BE SOMEWHERE ELSE speech, I get the feeling JMS was like "dudes have been hogging the bad-ass speeches in scifi for far too long. Let's try to fix the balance a tad, give the ladies some kick-ass lines!"

No question whatsoever. 😏. …She’s an example to us all.

In this clip, her business starts around 1:10.

the thing about the mummy movies is that you really spend most of the time thinking "wow brendan fraser's character is so cool" or "man oded fehr is so mysterious and heroic" when the fact of the matter is that these two

are the absolute most batshit insane heroes in the entire franchise

these two are intellectual loner siblings with archeology backgrounds who read and speak ancient egyptian, hire a dude directly out of prison to take them to a lost city of gold, and fight mummies literally with their bare hands. twice.

no one in these movies stands a chance against the carnahans. frankly they're lethal in how willing they are to make the absolute and most undeniably deranged decisions. jonathan pickpockets a dude on fire. evy's resurrected from the dead and immediately remembers how to use sai. they're racking shotguns from a cliff in this scene and then proceed to blow away half the antagonists.

rick and ardeth should be so lucky

why are dudes in fanfic always getting hit with freight train orgasms. why not an orient express orgasm, classy and romantic. where are the shinkansen train orgasms? his orgasm hit him like the TGV atlantique breaking the passenger rail speed record. like the shanghai maglev, his orgasm was a feat of engineering but something of a commercial disappointment.

Don’t tell me delayed orgasms aren’t a thing

learning new things about the german rail system today

ok but the way i've made this exact joke in a fic--

USS Indiana shaving mug, razor, & ledger. circa 1900

cc: @petermorwood

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

「出荷待つおみかんたち」 “Oranges waiting for shipment”

black mackerel tabby with moderate white spotting

kinda funny that there's no tariffs on the vatican but at least 10% on all other microstates in EU

italy about to invent levels of catholic corruption never seen since the 17th century

Gonna be fascinating to watch how they justify it. :)

A little find

Hey @dduane look what I found in a drawer! Got this at Waldenbooks (now defunct US bookshop) and wore it on my purse for yeeeeears. But I don't think anybody ever asked me.

One of these days I gotta write up the "Why the Young Wizards books are amazing and you should all read them" post but they're amazing for so many reasons I'm not sure where to start. And my list of posts I gotta write up one of these days is... it's a long list.

(smiling) It's always great to see these when they turn up! I've got one too.

This batch of merch (buttons, bookmarks, themed fiberboard book dumps—like this one, if you're not familiar with the terminology—and various other stuff) came out to coincide with the publication of/publicity push for The Wizard's Dilemma in 2001.

The first four books had been in print from Harcourt starting in the mid-90s, and with the release of the new book, the publisher used the opportunity to recover So You Want To Be A Wizard, Deep Wizardry, High Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad with new art from Cliff Nielsen (who's been doing all the "mainstream edition" covers ever since). It was nice to get everything into matching covers for a change.*

Meanwhile, my button lives on the bulletin board in the front hall, next to the printouts of the household appointment calendar. (Peter tells me he's seen some of the bookmarks around: must go looking...) :)

Anyway, enjoy yours! It's a bit of a collector's item now. :)

*This reissue of SYWTBAW has occasionally caused a little confusion in some quarters among people unclear on earlier editions' pub dates, who got the idea that the Young Wizards series was (re)launched in an attempt to "coattail" another writer's popularity. However, the publication dates don't support this construction, as the first Harcourt edition of SYW.... came out in May of 1996, a year before the first book in the series YW’s usually being compared to. (On being told this, I've actually had people say "But they were only a year apart, there has to be some connection...!" All I can say then is "Well, the first time the book came out was 1983. Is that 'unconnected' enough for you?" ...Honestly, there's just no pleasing some people.) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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