"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets."
Accurate.
A black and white picture of Christopher Reeve. Top caption: “SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF …” Bottom caption: “REEVES”
AT ONE GODDAMN AM LAST NIGHT, THIS IS WHAT MY BRAIN DID TO ME
IT CREATED A MOST GEN X MEME
If we had internet in the 80s the way we do now? This would ABSOLUTELY have been a thing. (Sorry it’s off center.)
"The good guys won."
Photos!
The main reason booksellers (and librarians, and and and) shelve SF and fantasy together is that the same people buy both. Experiments in separating them have usually resulted in confusion and lower sales. (To say nothing of endless tiresome arguments about which category any given work belongs in.)
An actual guilty verdict in the prosecution of a police officer for killing someone while on the job.
No doubt he will appeal, but for now, he's guilty.
gothamist.com/news/former-...?
People in comics & the British fantasy scene! If you were around in the 80s-90s & are willing to speak on or off the record about Gaiman, please DM me or reach out on email. I will put you in touch with someone working on a longform piece. They are wondering why no one, so far, is willing to talk.
I have tiny, unphotographable mushrooms in my front yard. The Fae at work?
I like to say that all fiction is alternate history. (Except for the kind of historical fiction that hews as closely as possible to the known historical facts, that is.)
This is a fantastic summary of the Avignon Papacy, and also hilariously put in places.
The book is great.
The Mamdani administration today announced its own click to cancel rule, to make sure that every subscription transaction in the city is as easy to end as it is to start.
The FTC did this in 2023, it was challenged in court & Trump's FTC wouldn't defend it. NYC is doing it themselves.
Fascinating thread!
Oh.
I love that people are always like “real men used to dress like MEN.” You know what, I agree. Let’s see you strap a sword to some pumpkin hose short shorts.
Tarmac, aka tarmacadam, is named after engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) of Ayr, Scotland.
Macadamia nuts are named after chemist, doctor and politician John Macadam (1827–1865) of Glasgow, Scotland.
It is important not to confuse the two. Dry roasted, salted tarmac makes a poor snack.
Why do I suddenly want to pronounce that to rhyme with Antigone?
Three 3D printed dragonish creatures themed after pikachu, vaporeon, and evee from Pokemon, lined up on an old porch railing
A small 3D printed dragonish creature themed after a pikachu
A 3D printed cupcake themed ankylosaurus. It is brown with pink “frosting” and bright pink sprinkles
A chunky dragon-ish 3D printed creature on a keychain. It is purple-gold color shift with a white belly and feet
Would you like some CHONKS because I have some and their side-eye game is impeccable ☺️ #bsnm #smallbusiness
measuredandslow.studio/shop/chonks
I nearly fainted at least once. And not the first time, either.
signal boosting
"'Our humans are sleeping in bunk beds and we have to share the space under' is one of the three most popular fanfiction premises in monster AO3" "There's only one under-the-bed"
Sometimes you see something that you were not expecting or aware of in the least and it strikes you as being so perfect that Plato himself would have said, "Damn, good one, I need to add that to my Theory of Forms."
Apparently the dairy has agreed to recall the contaminated items “under protest” which is an objectively bonkers way to respond to putting a toddler in the ICU
front view of a blobby plush toy made of Dalmatian fur. it is spherical, with floppy ears on the sides, two little paws at the bottom, brown eyes and a black plastic nose.
side view of a blobby plush toy made of Dalmatian fur. it is spherical, with a triangular tail on the back, two little paws in the front, and white and black felt spines running down its back and tail. there is a floppy ear on the side, but it's very hard to distinguish it from the background fur.
Jurassic Bark
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
oh look: wholesomeness
And now he has pleaded guilty to murderering eight women (including Karen Vergata, killed in 1996 but not IDed till 2023) and will receive 7 life sentences without parole.
ME: the opposite of antibiotic is unclebiotic
PHARMACIST: the opposite of probiotic is amateurbiotic
*we kiss*
A tiny black and white pomsky with a knife plushie
Murder? What murder?
This might be my fave picture of Pan so far 😂
governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)