Dewey Decimal's twin

this is how spending a really fun day with your friends feels like

Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999

Alex Kapranos on fan fiction in conversation with Canadian online review magazine Chart Attack in November 2004:

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

[...]"It’s what we do in songs as well," he says. "I mean, we take characters who are around us and write stories, write songs about events that have happened in their lives. Of course, when you tell any story, you make it dramatic, you use the tools of drama to make an exciting story. All they’re doing is an extreme example of what we do."

I thought they meant they were writing fanfiction about the archduke

And when they said "they see it" I thought they meant the dead archduke would see it, but using they/them pronouns

collecting tweets

#vessel alert

that's right

I thought this was clickbait but no turns out a looted Olmec artifact depicting the mouth of Tepeyollotlicuhti, and symbolically marking an entrance to the underworld, was recovered in Denver and returned to Mexico.

Its called "Portal al Inframundo" look how cool this thing is.

slime monster obama: my jello americans

Composite sword with yatagan blade and schiavona hilt, Malta, 17th-18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

It’s so weird, yet so beautiful!

Putrid

4 day flu has me in this exact predicament

basya

Armadillidium vulgare

Looks like the zeon radiator is busted.. and on top of that, your quartz reflectors are completely fogged up. It's gonna cost you at least 300k credits to get this thing running, without including aesthetic work. Not that you'll need it to run the marshes of Crax... but looking good never hurts.