sockdrawerdemon:

licensetocannibalize:

backtosmallthings:

first of all none of us could afford hannibal’s therapy

unaired episode where hannibal accepts medicaid

Hannibal is independently wealthy and deeply invested in fucking with people who are interesting enough. Show up with a good story about how you are trying very hard to not give in to the urge to make tiny statues out of people’s teeth and he’ll see you for free.

calicostitches:

drchucktingle:

thudworm:

I keep forgetting to share a photo of my writing journal cover, so here it is!

The quote is from a @drchucktingle post in reply to someone asking his opinion about fanfic. I don’t know why, but the wording really spoke to me, and I wanted to keep it in some way.

LOVE IS REAL

crazy-brazilian:

the-home-kvetch:

commie-cosmo:

trickstertime:

tenebristpunk:

wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….

“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”

This was in place till 1973.

Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy

The stereotype of “the Irish are drunks” is English propaganda used to justify paternalism and controlling the Irish. It’s bullshit.

schrodingerspenis:

brightlotusmoon:

man-door-hand-hook-car-doorsblog:

touhouweed:

popping my back isnt enough i need to be picked up and slammed against the wall like a wet trout

You know how when you use a bendy straw you pull the bendy part up before you bend it? I want someone to do that to my spine.

unshrimp me back please

tobacconist:

fandomsandfeminism:

Thinking about the Library of Alexandria.

Or at least the *myth* of the Library of Alexandria. You know, the greatest Library in the world, a monument of learning and reading and culture, cataclysmically destroyed in one terrible fire, knowledge lost forever, etc etc. It feels like this great tragedy of history, this terrible loss to humanity.

And it’s not…true.

We actually have a lot of sources that show that the library had been in decline for a few centuries before then. Between some scholars getting exiled, a general diaspora of the scholars who remained, lack of funding, and diminishing prestige, it seems that the library’s collection and scholarship was already greatly diminished, moved elsewhere.

It’s true that Caesars troops did set fire to some ships in the harbor in 48BCE, and that fire did spread through the city. The Library was likely damaged, and some of its materials likely destroyed… but not completely. And it was repaired or rebuilt not long after. (One source even hints that it wasn’t the library proper, but some warehouses owned by the library near the docks that burned.)

And the Library continued to exist for at least a few more centuries. Never at the same scale and prestige as it has at its height, but still there as a resource to scholars until at least the 270s CE.

But that’s less exciting I guess. Less tragic, maybe. Less dramatic. That instead of it being a terrible accident, an act of the Gods, a perfect symbol at how the folly of war can tumble great monuments- Instead its just…about how underfunded Institutions and lack of support from the government towards academics will rot these great institutions slowly but surely.

And I wonder what it says about us that we find one of those stories more emotionally compelling and evocative than the other.

ms-musers:

Clark Kent, trying to leave a gala he’s covering: Ope, just gonna squeeze right past you.

Bruce Wayne, who heard Superman say the same thing at a Justice League meeting that morning: No fucking way

pillsburysoyboy:

pillsburysoyboy:

“Why are you so upset about adult content bans? You don’t even post that stuff. can’t you just look at porn somewhere else?”

Well, you see, I have this small problem where my very existence is considered adult content by a small but very powerful group of people and I actually rather enjoy being able to exist in public without restriction so uhhhh put that in your bong and smoke it kiddo.

Extremely good point

gothiccharmschool:

prismatic-bell:

raisin-rye:

prismatic-bell:

books-read-in-nooks:

When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:

This is why if you want people to know your character has long raven-black hair with red streaks and eyes like limpid tears, you need to make sure you say so in your first paragraph. Christ. Imagine someone thinking your character’s a prep.

Holy shit I’m dying.

That. That literally explains the opening paragraph of My Immortal I was making a joke but this person came out here with receipts holy hell

NEVER forget the wild ride that is the first page of The Vampire Lestat.

mysharona1987:

Well, Fire fighter dude certainly didn’t hold back on his thoughts.

zegalba:

Devon Aoki for Ellen von Unwerth (2001)

sule-skerry:

thefurriestofchows:

teathattast:

oh,

oh this is absolutely beautiful

I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.