a hill i WILL die on: books of translated poetry should always include the originals with the translation, EVEN if the langauge is a so-called obscure or non-western one and the target audience of the translations is assumed not to read it. the basic format of the poem even can change a lot with translation, and a sharp-eyed reader who doesn’t understand the original language can still notice patterns in the original
I still think one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen an internet celebrity do was Brian David Gilbert changing his appearance and nicely saying “You’re not my friend and you have no say over what I do with my body.”
It wasn’t mean spirited or a long video, just a clear statement and recognition that parasocial relationships isn’t friendship. I deeply respect that and seeing other internet celebrities use that frame/gif towards nosey fans is great
I want to share a little animation that James made as an anniversary gift. It’s what we wish we could do in Animal Crossing New Horizon when we play together.💕
This tiktoker is a homophobe, and the content is just a lip-syncing of a comedy routine by Sofia Niño de Rivera. Here’s the original; this particular joke starts at 16:42:
written by Nadira Jamerson art by Brittney Williams & Andrew Dalhouse
This is so important. There are literal studies proving white doctors don’t think black patients (especially black woman) feel pain the same way white people do. Please advocate for yourself and stay safe.
To this house. Not a contemporary house, and the pentagons of those two windows on the left are a little unusual, but not particularly notable.
The sides of the steps to the front entrances are painted purple. That’s a little interesting.
Oh?
OHHHH YEEEESSSSSSS
POUR THAT PURPLE CARPET ON ME BABY (also that fireplace FUCKS)
You thought you’d bring your own furniture to this house? No. Only built-in seating covered with orange-pattered carpet in the purple living room.
This is where things start to get a little surreal to me. This house was built in 1975. But look how bright and new that carpet looks! It still matches the light fixture! And it’s in the kitchen! It looks like it was never used (weird), or that it was REPLACED recently (WEIRDER BY FAR).
This is actually a lovely bright dining space, if you can ignore the purple carpet of the living room running up against the blue carpet of the kitchen. As sometimes happens in a house.
That’s a new toilet. And that’s purple carpet in the bathroom. And a pink sink where the material reminds me of tiny independent movie theaters or hole-in the wall restaurants.
The only way to move between the three floors of this house, friends and foes. I have one drink and I’m sleeping on the orange built-in seating for my safety.
And now…pink. (And some sliding doors which I hope open onto a balcony but I don’t SEE anything like a balcony railing.)
Stepping back, I’m still having trouble interpreting this room. My best guess is that it’s the main bedroom, with a semi-public area at the top of the stairs and then this is the more private area where the bed would go. But it’s not actually walled off. The decorative light switch cover shaped like a regular house is a nice touch.
Friends…
This is a lot. I genuinely now start to think that this house was inhabited by beings that DID NOT USE BATHROOMS nor did they UNDERSTAND what bathrooms were used for. That carpet is so bright! So fluffy! It shouldn’t look that way if it’s original, and WHO WOULD HAVE MADE THIS DECISION MORE THAN ONCE??? And it. It doesn’t even match the shade of pink around the tub. And the blue tile in the tub doesn’t match anything. Th…the shower head. Is there. But there is no place to hang a curtain around the tub. IN A CARPETED BATHROOM. There are so many signs of remodeling, and yet…the bathroom is still…this.
Non-Euclidian closet. First non-carpeted room we have seen.
I run from the non-Euclidean closet to face the stairs, which I fall down headfirst, dying instantly.
Ah, the lower level. There’s another sink in another carpeted area, but at least the built-in furniture isn’t carpeted. It’s fine.
IT’S FINE
This bedroom makes me think of dorm rooms, but from a bad alternate timeline.
This bedroom doesn’t have carpet, but rather a portal to a different alternate universe.
Your best chance for normality in this house.
At least the children’s toilet room isn’t carpeted? I’ve gotta count this as a win at this point. I’m blocking the sink and counter from my mind. I do not see it.
It’s fine. Oh THERE’S the balcony. …it has no railing. Friends and foes, I really think I’d need my balcony to have railings in this house. But I guess if you’re an incorporeal being from another dimension who loves carpet, it wouldn’t really matter.
a fundamental of destiel herstory! with all the following classic ingredients: people being weird about gay people on twitter, everyone from minor actors to actual WB executives feeling that they need to weigh in, misha collins being comparatively normal about gay people. as important context, 9x03 aired in late 2013 aka when destiel was THE cultural boiling point whenever tumblr spilled over into like. real perceivable life. also this was the halcyon days of only 15,000 destiel fics on ao3
basically 9x03 was the episode when dean kicked cas out of the bunker because of the whole gadreel plotline mess. it was read as pretty anti-destiel and after it aired, a tv executive, chad kennedy, made a bunch of tweets about how queerness was “not our intention for these chars” and then after a back and forth promptly deleted his entire twitter. the kinds of people brave enough to tweet directly at tv executives about destiel proceeded to do that. everyone was like you fucking gay people bullied chad kennedy off the internet :( a director, guy bee, tweeted “what’s a ship?” THEN. misha collins with the steel chair. tweets “you’re not crazy” (implied that he is talking to destiel fans here) and presumably turns off his phone. fan adoration explodes. this man KNOWS how to operate the destiel economy
(7 years later, the night that 15x18 airs and cas gets to come out, misha goes back and likes his “you’re not crazy” tweet. talk about a longcon. delicious.)
anyways it’s mostly summarised in this daily dot article by aja “summarises tumblr events for vox writer clout and profit” romano, which is inexplicably accompanied by a credit deviantart destiel manip. essentially, time is a flat circle
