We give Victor Hugo a hard time about his tangents, but I don’t think J R R Tolkien gets enough recognition for cold opening The Lord of the Rings – book one, page one – with a 7500-word essay on the history and politics of the Shire, complete with APA-formatted citations of the story’s own appendices, before introducing a single named character.
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Never change, Andy.
Star Trek is queer culture. Happy Pride!!!
ALTfuuuuuuuuck
DO NOT SUPPORT AI
They will not stop unless we refuse to give them money. Do not support ai. Only human made art!
Ok, say you don't care about artists jobs. You suck, but I get some people truly don't care.
Here's why you should still boycott.
Game companies are spending less money and giving you an inferior product *and not charging less*
They are not paying aritsts anynore, but they are pocketing the saving and not reducing the cost to consumers.
So if you don't want to b boycott over artists being screwed, boycott over you being screwed.
Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive
It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.
So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.
#I love the hashtag women in STEM bc at first I thought they meant the rat 🙈 (via @sprotteswelt)
until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”
why are we sleeping on this
Sometimes in the American, capitalist, neurotypical system, you just have to put on the shit eating grin and say you are right and I am wrong, even when that is not the case. That has been one of the hardest things for me to deal with.
A female character being widely hated is a huge green flag.If my experiences with fandoms and critics have taught me anything,it's that if that's how they react to her,that i'm about to meet the most based fictional girl to ever exist