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Obligatory reference to sample size.

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cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

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everyone always sayin to me "not to be weird" you have to be weird. you have to be weird for your health

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i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

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THE GOLDEN GIRLS (1985-1992) A Little Romance (S01E13)

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Betty White as “The Happy Homemaker” Sue Ann Nivens, Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards and Gavin MacLeod as Murray Slaughter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode entitled Not Another Christmas Story, originally broadcast by CBS on November 9th, 1974.

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forgor his pants. how embarrassing

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I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

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Ellie

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Tattoo!

I feel like Delia would get this tattoo after being on the cover of "Pokémon Pals" to commemorate the moment

[All comics in order here]

From Takeshi Shudo's Pocket Monsters: The Animation!

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"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "lazily inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

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I actually don’t mind that “dead dove” has become conversational shorthand for “fics with heavy themes where you REALLY need to pay attention to the warnings”. such is the nature of language. what i do mind is when people tag their actual fics with dead dove and then give no indication of what they’re actually warning about. that is useless. that helps no one. that is completely against the spirit of the meme. i will not be reading that