“friends don’t give each other shitty nicknames” javadi have you…. not had friends before? that is. exactly. what they do. constantly all the time they do that.
Here’s the thing, I’m kind of with Javadi here? And this is my own baggage but as a person who was bullied as a kid, a shitty nickname from jump is not for me. The right to give a shitty nickname comes with familiarity and trust.
That said I love that Whitaker loves his shitty nickname.
My abortion was really one the most hated kind of abortion. I wasn't underage. I wasn't raped. I wasn't in medical need.
I got pregnant not through some fluke or 1 in a 100 contraceptive failure. I got pregnant because I was knowingly and willfully having unprotected sex. Out of wedlock too if that matters.
It was my own fault, I was being irresponsible because I knew I could always get an abortion if I got pregnant. My abortion was as close as it comes to 'using abortion as a contraceptive' as anti-choicers love to say.
I didn't abort it because my health was in danger or because I didn't have the ability to care for it or whatever else. I did it purely because I didn't want a child. I wanted sex and I didn't want to deal with any consequences from it.
There's no moral here. I don't feel bad about it whatsoever. I suffered no karmic consequences or punishment from god. My life is amazing. I want to rub this in the face of every conservative and anti-choicer. I did the terrible thing. I had an abortion for the most selfish of reasons and literally nothing happened. Suck it.
Good. I don’t care if all abortions are like this. Literally do not care. Still Pro-choice for life.
Blocking anti-abortion misogynists is self care. 🥰
Fucked up that you have to go to work during the winter. Should be curled up in a little nest with several months' supply of food stocked up right now.
Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????
I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT
i am so so happy to tell you all i found another
someone please tell me how to stop trying to find these. i need to feed my family.
Wonder how many things I have “duck duck went” and just didn’t notice the logo change before seeing this post.
Of course they’ve done Spock.
Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????
I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT
i am so so happy to tell you all i found another
someone please tell me how to stop trying to find these. i need to feed my family.
Wonder how many things I have “duck duck went” and just didn’t notice the logo change before seeing this post.
My abortion was really one the most hated kind of abortion. I wasn't underage. I wasn't raped. I wasn't in medical need.
I got pregnant not through some fluke or 1 in a 100 contraceptive failure. I got pregnant because I was knowingly and willfully having unprotected sex. Out of wedlock too if that matters.
It was my own fault, I was being irresponsible because I knew I could always get an abortion if I got pregnant. My abortion was as close as it comes to 'using abortion as a contraceptive' as anti-choicers love to say.
I didn't abort it because my health was in danger or because I didn't have the ability to care for it or whatever else. I did it purely because I didn't want a child. I wanted sex and I didn't want to deal with any consequences from it.
There's no moral here. I don't feel bad about it whatsoever. I suffered no karmic consequences or punishment from god. My life is amazing. I want to rub this in the face of every conservative and anti-choicer. I did the terrible thing. I had an abortion for the most selfish of reasons and literally nothing happened. Suck it.
Good. I don’t care if all abortions are like this. Literally do not care. Still Pro-choice for life.
WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN HOBBY LOBBY
The shuttle has crashed on a paradise planet!!! This is going to be the best stranded on a planet mission ever!!!! If only Kirk and Spock weren't in comas on the edge of death...
being honest for a moment thank you to everyone who commented and kept this alive, especially @starberry-cupcake who has really kept the home fires burning in a respectful and extremely nice way.
Seeing the subscription email in my inbox was THRILLING. I’m clearing my schedule.
people aren’t wrong when they describe how weird, unhinged, and shitposty The Locked Tomb is- but I don’t see enough mention of how that goes hand-in-hand with how it’s genuinely, earnestly, and effortlessly utterly heartbreaking
like, (massive spoilers) the entire series from Gideon to Nona is about how everything you ever loved is dead and dying, but that doesn’t matter because you can’t take loved away
and it delivers that phrase, which will make me cry for years and has gotten me through personal tragedy in real life, at the end of a bit about a “Free mustache rides” T-shirt
#I think what ppl don’t consider is that it’s obnoxiously silly and memey because it’s supposed to be undeniably human#there’s no aliens in this space opera#even the worst characters are unbearably human.#the earth herself is arguably the most human of them all#and what’s more human than giggling at something stupid while your heart breaks apart?#what’s more human than stopping to feel gleeful about a really fucking dumb joke?
You. You GET it.
The juxtaposition is honestly so, so important and so masterfully executed. It controls and balances the tone. It's far more memorable than most works trying to be entirely serious and Professional. It's frequently used to direct the audience's attention, like in GtN where Harrow quoting Teacher just lays out huge swaths of the plot pretty directly, but on a first read we don't have quite enough context to understand what we're looking at and then immediately get distracted by Gideon's "Surprise, my tenebrous overlord! Ghosts and you might die is my middle name!" Sometimes the humor is used to disguise lines that should garner more suspicion, too, like she's not quite the only one who says it but it's weird they still have a concept of middle names tbh? And of course the infamous None House with Left Grief, which really SHOULD be just as glaring as quoting Annabel Lee, especially with both present rather than just one or the other. So many just don't give the same consideration to "lower" references like memes or modern things that they do to "higher" "classic" art—which is textually acknowledged and played with in the way Blood of Eden names equally preserve both.
And yeah, it's so deeply also how authentic and human it makes everything. It's the way you can feel through every page how much passion Tamsyn Muir has for this story. It's not an unfiltered experience, but it still manages to feel like it in ways that really matter, and that takes so much skill to do with such intention.
It's vital to just how special these books are, and while of course I wished more people who turned up their nose could see that, I'm so grateful for how many people started out with mixed to negative feelings about it only to fall in love and understand by the end. Everyone who found Gideon's jokes jarring and intrusive in early GtN but by this passage was emotional about and grateful for Cheap Mustache Rides. I hope the impact it makes spreads and gives us more works that feel like this in the future, because it really is so wonderful.
sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down
this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard
If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.
“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.
