May 2012
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April 2012
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Upon Encountering Said Link...
- http: //mr-president.tumblr.com/post/22028392533
- mockturtle8: I want a pet doge
- mockturtle8: pleassse
- mockturtle8: I wanna pet it
- imasupermuteant: you'll have one for hogswatch mockturtle8
- mockturtle8: WANT IT
- mockturtle8: RIGHT NOWWWW
- imasupermuteant: A doge is a big responsibility!
- mockturtle8: I will take it for all the walks!
- imasupermuteant: Well see.
- mockturtle8: I will give it all the toys!
- mockturtle8: I will train it!
- imasupermuteant: but will you help it govern?
- mockturtle8: (nod)
- imasupermuteant: I know exactly how this is going to go.
- imasupermuteant: you'll say that you'll take of the doge now, but when we actually have it you'll just want to play with it all day and then *I'll* be the one helping it sign all those documents.
- randompassingninja: and doesn't it need servants and things?
- randompassingninja: palaces?
- imasupermuteant: That can get really expensive
- randompassingninja: that's a *big* commitment, right there
- mockturtle8: I am willing to move to Venice to support my Doge.
- mockturtle8: really.
- mockturtle8: I'll make that leap.
- imasupermuteant: you say that now, but when you're actually *in* venice you'll just want to come right back home.
- imasupermuteant: and then we'll have to put your Doge in a pound.
- mockturtle8: NOO I WON'T
- mockturtle8: I swear!!
- mockturtle8: I'll even get a boat so I can take him for boat rides through the canals and I'll get him a special boating outfit and it'll be super cute and special boat dishes and boat food and boating music and there will be people lining the streets and stuff it will be absolutily darling
- imasupermuteant: why don't we start you off with something a little bit less time consuming? How about a minor magistrate instead?
- imasupermuteant: Maybe some kind of middle-ranking priest.
- mockturtle8: NO!
- mockturtle8: I want a Doge!
- mockturtle8: (angry)
- imasupermuteant: Well, with an attitude like that I don't see you *ever* getting a Doge. Calm down and I'll talk with your father about it.
FACT: When being threatened, aromantic asexuals start to produce a pheromene that turns everything within a 50-metre-radius strictly platonic.
I kind of want to write a story about this.
“We wanted our emotions to read like poetry, even if the poetry we wrote never managed to read like poetry, because we never really figured out how to put the emotions there.”
—“Skipping the Prom,” How They Met, and Other Stories, by David Levithan
Tony/Loki
So I feel like I came upon this sub-fandom when I got lost on the way to the toilets and ended up wandering into an all-you-can-eat buffet of gorgeous, delicious, slightly toxic desserts. I don’t really know what I’m doing and someone more in the know might tell me to put down that five-layer cake laced with cardamom and explosives, but by god, I don’t know any better and I’m going to have a taste.
Let’s be clear—I don’t actually like Tony Stark. And Loki (much as I love him in fiction and myth) is a terrifying loose cannon in the comic-verse. But combine the two and some weird synthesis happens; it’s as if, instead of two rockets tearing apart the world, they’ve locked onto each other and are now spinning in space like a spiral galaxy, giving off sparks.
I don’t know what’s going on here (or perhaps I do) but in any case, my fanfic tastes suddenly expanded outside of the Potterverse. Oh hell.
Intervocalic alveolar-flapping
It happened again tonight.
It’s late, I am strolling around the internet, and I stop to look something up on Wikipedia. One harmless article leads to another, and another, and pretty soon, I’m looking at articles on linguistics again.
The great part about the Intervocalic alveolar-flapping page is that there are a large number of words that you can say which demonstrate the point of the article. So I’m basically sitting around talking to myself and getting really excited about the fact that the word “potent” has “a preglottalized unreleased t or a glottal stop (but not a flap/tap)” while “impotent” has “either an aspirated t or a flap/tap.” IT’S LIKE I’M DOING SCIENCE ON MYSELF. Also this article is the explanation for why it is so hard to sing some words! And it’s also pretty much the definition of my bland Californian non-accent!
Linguistics why are you so awesome I really don’t need this right now
“And I open my eyes and there’s Colleen standing there buck naked screaming and I just had to laugh. And then we went outside and all the frat boys saw us. The take-home message is you can tell how far away an earthquake is by counting.”
-DD, Astronomy
Oh my god I miss my Astro peeps right now.
“I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn’t miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.”
—“Lost Sometimes,” How They Met, and Other Stories, by David Levithan
“Dealing with eternity requires a certain complexity of spirit.”
—
Heartless, by Gail Carriger
Honestly, this is the main reason I am still interested in vampire and werewolf stories. If you live forever, you can’t remain static.
I hope Barack Obama meets death and asks for a invisible cloak, then years later greets death as an old friend.
“I am by nature an inward man, he said silently into the disconnected phone. I have struggled, in my fashion, to find my way towards an appreciation of the high things, towards a small measure of fineness. On good days I felt it was within my grasp, somewhere within me, somewhere within. But it eluded me. I have become embroiled, in things, in the world and its messes, and I cannot resist. The grotesque has me, as before the quotidian had me, in its thrall.”
—The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
