am i considering spending $70 on all 21 volumes of a childrens book series just so i can prove one of the characters was trans? am i that petty? the answer is yes
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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
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my coworker, who is turning 50, said the best thing to me today..... he was talking about how he remembers when lewis was the first driver to really be a "celebrity" and get in on the fashion trends, celeb girlfriends, met gala, etc etc. and i'm thinking he's gonna say something uncool abt the young drivers or something but then he goes "and i'm just so glad that this new generation of drivers are all..... really weird." and he is so right. they are so weird and it rocks
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Writing Apollo-as-a-young-deity is fun because sometimes it involves completely making shit up based on the loose outline of a story told through old poems, prayers and plays and other times it involves researching the totally legit and well documented ancient art of studying sheep livers to make sure your statesmen don't accidentally piss off Jupiter.
In completely unrelated news, if anyone has any recommendations for books about bird augury, that'd be wonderful.
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Tim n some chickens
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The sad thing about being a George fan is like, I want to read about the brotherhood of the Beatles and stuff and how much they loved each other but the more I read even from biased sources who are clearly John or Paul fans the more I realize that George was clearly wasting away and the Beatles literally didn’t deserve his time. He was so good and they treated him like shit like John and Paul literally should’ve been worshiping the ground he walked on but they were such arrogant assholes. You know?
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on my third rewatch and just got through ep 3 and man. the devlin house is such a strong fucking episode. like quality-wise. acting-wise. plot-wise. etc. that’s not to say the first two episodes weren’t strong, but the devlin house hits noticeably harder and hits different. like it’s the precise turning point episode where you realize oh. this show isn’t just gonna be campy with a dash of angst. we’re addressing some serious heavy ass trauma. and not just magical unreal trauma either like. just straight up abuse. and the boy who’s been unserious and silly this whole time isn’t just like that for shallow comic relief reasons. there is so much more there lurking under the surface. oh man it’s good
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he may not be young but he is dumb and in love with his boybestfriend.
old man yaoi!!
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"rhaenys could have ended the war by dracarysing all the greens right there" yes because a distant relation to the throne deciding to barbecue an anointed and publicly positively hailed king and his entire family who is well loved within the city and in multiple other parts of the country for the sake of the succession of a far-away princess no one was ever on board with who hasn't been seen by the populace in literal years, her psycho husband, her three obvious bastards, and two toddlers from the psycho husband would go over super well with westeros and especially in king's landing where scores of the still-cheering population were killed for no reason by that same dragon who would do the barbecuing, because when targaryens act unilaterally without thinking of how the people would react there's never any problem, which is why the storming of the dragonpit and robert's rebellion were actually just collective delusions dreamed up by readers who hate rhaenyra and not key parts of the story and house targaryen's history that directly contributed to their demise and are intrinsic to the plot
truly team black stans are made up of only the most genius and media literate amongst us
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Poor George just wants to be the eccentric genius of a homey-but-stable agency where he is the far end of the insane spectrum, and instead he got Lucy “I stole a source twice” Carlyle and Anthony “I can take on the mob” Lockwood fucking up his curve. This boy stole and experimented on a skull and yet he has to be the reasonable one now and he hates it.
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"The Average Kaibacorp Employee buys 200 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies every spring" factiod is just a statistical error. The average kaibacorp employee buys 2-3 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies per year, because they're hella good. Seto "Thin Mints Georg" Kaiba, who is a teenager with growing pains, billions of dollars and no impulse control so he buys 10,000 boxes every spring, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted.
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