#published: 2006

[harry-potter-archive]

The Hush of Waiting by victoria_p (musesfool)

Description: Complete (1 Chapter)

Summary: He wants to make this moment last, and he wants to remember it forever.

Published: Archive of Our Own; 2006 Last Updated: Jan. 1, 2006

[feralchaton]

“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and toward the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the machine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differently, which is why art has moral force.”

— Jeanette Winterson (Winterson, 2006)

[anniflamma]

Reading some poetry by Rumi that he wrote to/about Shams… Remember, guys! All that gay stuff is just metaphors!

"I became his flute and started crying when his lips touched me. I was blindly searching for his hand while all the while he was holding mine."

Like I said… It's just a metaphor for friendship!

[laurelnose]

here’s a speculative idea that has me in a HEADLOCK. first, infectious cancers are a thing: clonal cancers which can be transmitted from individual to individual without the aid of an infectious agent like a virus. best known are the canine venereal tumor and the Tasmanian devil facial tumors, both of which spread through direct contact with mucosal tissue. in the case of dogs, fucking, and in the case of Tasmanian devils, biting the shit out of each other’s faces. a handful more exist in clams, and the clam cancer cells are known to be able to survive in seawater and spread without direct contact.

modern bony fishes (teleosts) evolved in and still mostly live in seawater; they’re entirely covered in mucosal tissues, their skin having no layer of dead epithelial cells on top; and many species live in groups and engage in cannibalism. the major histocompatibility complex is what mediates tissue/allograft rejection. It’s possible that the ancestral condition of hugely diversified MHC class I alleles in teleosts is because an elevated risk of transmissible cancers exerted a selection pressure that’s just absent in mammals.

we’ve never found a transmissible cancer in teleosts so this remains fully hypothetical (but have we looked? I do not know) but god damn is it cool. bony fishes might have rearranged their whole fucking immune systems against the threat of infectious cancers. I really do need to reread Xenogenesis sooo bad

[things-ford-pines-missed]

Things Ford Missed #73: The Twilight Saga.

yeah. he missed a lot.

also, while we’re here:

Thing Ford Missed #74: The First Four Twilight Movies.

(at least he gets to see breaking dawn part two with everyone!)

[elibean]

is black butler STILL being written!????????

[onedegreeofsoniccomics]

Family Guy #1

Writer: Matt Fleckenstein

Pencils*: Ben Phillips & Rich Koslowski

Inks: Clayton Brown & Robert Grabe

Colors: Yesflat & Rudy Hall

Letters: Brian Crowley

[machtwehr]

i can't help but think that the most romantic organ Nigel could accidentally pull out of Alex would be the liver, not the heart. moreover, Nigel, with his precision, can do it. the liver is the most important gland of the body, without it you cannot live long; on the other hand, this organ is damn beautiful, but is easily mechanically injured. moreover, the liver is the hottest organ.

the opportunity to touch the warmest place in a person seems like a very romantic opportunity

the greater element of the forbidden and secret will take over the act of eating the liver. this, although usually part of a negative context, in a romantic light can be perceived as an act of deep connection between two people, in which the secret plays an important role. but this is already very dark romanticism.

[rabbitcruiser]

The first installment of Hans Christian Andersen “Fairy Tales” published by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 8, 1835.

[mii-makes-art]

im scribbling fanart for something i used to draw a very long time ago and i have the artbook for said piece of media and. man. perhaps im just sensitive but its making me emotional lol

[ceaseless-rambler]

Phrases that are always in my head no matter how hard I try to get rid of them

You're telling me a gar licked this bread?

Very not poggers indeed [in the Jarchivist voice]

We cannot SEE! We cannot HEAR! We cannot THINK! And that is why … She has come! Amid no fanfare whatsoever! A woman! Grilling a cheese sandwich!

The first two paragraphs of the leitner rant I'm not typing it all

Do they really only go one way in time? ...poor fuckers

Rotimsserie chicken :)

[roobylavender]

wait omg i didn’t know you were an aftg fan ,,, do tell me ur thoughts on it

idek what i would say really.. it's a terrible series.. highly unrealistic.. several health code violations.. minimal understanding of how a psychiatric hospital probably actually works.. there's a flirtatious bordering on sexual harassment gay stereotype.. the only characters of color are likely also written with some racial stereotypes in mind.. the ableism displayed by the mc is insane in retrospect.. you could probably argue it's trauma porn.. i don't think the love anyone has for aftg can be even remotely rational like we all live knowing this is garbage and that we ate it up anyway bc the characters were so straight up bitchy every moment felt nothing short of exhilarating

[thornsnvultures]

tell me why we're still writing books with female protagonists wearing long jean skirts in 2023. who keeps letting the mormons get away with this???

[hongkongtaxi]

rereading the percy jackson series bc they have most of the books at work and i checked rick riordans catalog and there’s so many spin offs??

[kraniumet]

oh and because i'm talking about nge. one thing i do like about the manga is that it ends with winter... no brainer

[phanthief]

no but really. stephen king tweeting "im not paying 20$, i should be paid to be here instead" and all these people being like "oh so you can't afford 20$ ?". are you missing the point on purpose