February 2012
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bobies:
sometimes i forget im not lying anymore when i click “yes i am over 18
I had to confirm I was over 21 the other day. And it startled me I wasn’t lying. It also startled me because 21 is an odd age barrier.
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My Snail Shell: To certain bronies →
lileclaire:
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persisting:
nikiya:
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snailchimera:
It has come to my attention that a certain segment of the “brony” community has some complaints about their favorite show; not the entire brony population, which has many cool people in it, but enough of a portion to have a visible internet presence. Namely, they are upset that My Little Pony: Friendship is...
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Theoden King and other tautologies
Kassie: I was amused to find the exact phrase "the lord of the rings" in Beowulf the other day
Kassie: I mean, it is specifically talking about rings of chainmail but the words are right there
Kassie: "hringa thengel"! It is in the bit I quoted on tumblr the other day actually
Kassie: I knew "Theoden" meant "lord"
Kassie: but also
Kassie: "Edoras" means "buildings"
Kassie: "Mearas" means "horses"
Em: lololol
Kassie: "Ent" means "giant/barbarian (?)"
Kassie: etc
Em: you do find yourself wondering how the Rohirrim name things
Em: 'This is our capital! We call it... Buildings.'
Kassie: hsdgfg yes
Em: 'And these are our magic horses! We call them Horses.'
Kassie: "Here is our king, his name is King."
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“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose,
or topaz, or the arrow of...”
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Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII (via Secreted Sins)
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You know what I want?
cloudspanties:
I want Mark Gatiss to read me Neil Gaiman poems as bedtime stories.
OR OR OR
For Benedict Cumberbatch to read Howl’s Moving Castle as a bedtime story.
Those fuckers could lull me to sleep in two paragraphs.
This. Though mostly because Howl’s Moving Castle is just generally awesome and because I am kind of amazed Neil Gaiman and Mark Gatiss aren’t BFFs and geek out...
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haffurupafu:
Asexuality and other asexual-spectrum identities are not so much about saying goodbye to sex and romance as they are about saying hello to a lot more confusion concerning those ideas.
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Democracy is fun!
Filling out the New Zealand election review submission form like it’s an exam. Because I’m awkward like that and with questions phrased like “Should the 5% threshold be kept or changed? Why? If you recommend change, what should it be and why?” it’s really hard not to. Although some questions are poorly worded, such as “Is this a problem, and what should be done...
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London: a port city with no port close by →
It makes me a little sad that one of the greatest port cities in the world apparently has no port in the city. Instead it has one several miles away and the industry it supports glossed over.
Maybe it’s because I live in a harbour city and when you drive in from the north, the first thing you see are the goods yards and the trains waiting to take the containers to other places. It’s a...
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It’s 1892, and Wilde is the toast of London, riding high on the success of his play Lady Windermere’s Fan and celebrating with friends at a dinner party where he conjures up a game called “murder” that begs the question: Who would you kill, if you had no chance of being caught? Wilde and friends, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, and poet Robert Sherard (the...
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Ramblings of a Nerd: What I picture when people... →
minionier:
ACENTRIC:
So, the heterosexuals are on the swingset, swinging back and forth like most people do.
And then there are the homosexuals swinging, like, side to side or something.
The bisexuals are sort of alternating between the two, and the pansexuals are just twisting their swing up in a knot and crashing into everyone like “fuck the police i do what i want”
And then the asexuals...
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Reading Hurts
treesquirrrel:
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
It’s even worse on public transport - I just want to pass the book to a likely looking person and share my pain with them. It doesn’t even have to be at the end of a book...
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