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The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

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Happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes day to those who celebrate.

I found him an audience while I was hunting my collection for the best bricks.

Please enjoy and reblog this little Lego build.

If anyone wants a parts list, I will deconstruct and take progress photos .

Bang out those tunes forever little rat. I think it's 18 years today.

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I uh… have some headcanons…

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cmyk test pages r like angels to me

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most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

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I'm making Traffic as Pokemon gym leaders! I need help figuring out Martyn!!

Everyone is based off their Secret Life characters. Martyn and the rest of the previous winners are the Elite Four, who have themes based off their winning season.

Vote based off Martyn.

Everyone else is there to show how things would be shuffled based on Martyn's type specialty. Any suggestions on teams or types are welcomed in the reblogs 👍

#I'm glad you like my lil rambles :3 #lemmie give you some more #i can't believe i didn't think of ice type for ren bc of red winter #i think bc a friend has been giving me lots of empires s1 brainrot i was thinking scott #plus he looks kinda icy #but i do like psychic type scott #i'm also not sure what the full gym order would be #like you said order of deaths but i don't know if its average placement or not #like scott is part of your elite four (elite 5?) but in third life he died 5th out of 14 players #hmm if its average placement after jimmy it would probably be mumbo #wait brb making a chart to figure out average death placements or something #marble league rankings don't fail me now #an hour later i came up with jimmy. mumbo. lizzie. skizz. tango. cleo. bigb. etho. joel. bdubs. ren. impulse. gem #you might have a completely different way to rank it #but whatever. doesn't even matter. jimmy's the only one i looked at gym structure for team stuff #assuming that option 2 keeps winning jimmy gets rock #first gym usually has 2 mons. so along with rolycoly give him an archen #its a rock bird so thats the best canary connection other than coal #jokingly suggesting probopass for mumbo just bc of the mustache #but then also quickly saying don't do that bc there's already the issues with the mc villager designs and antisemitic connections #and i know probopass is a moai but comparisons have been made #aaaanyway steel mumbo is hard tbh. maybe magnemite line bc also electric? #Orthworm has spoon vibes. Perrserker has facial hair i guess. Klinklang feels like a default option #only idea i have for an ace for lizzie is grimmsnarl #you see a cute pastel girlie pop gymleader and she sends out the ogreish pokemon her boyf/husband got her #i say boyf bc it was totally one he got her when they were dating and it was still an impidimp then #again assuming option 2 wins. skizz can have that palafin but i'dd change to alomomola instead of just luvdisc #tango feels like armarouge or ceruledge depending on which fire color you give him #but also potentially camerupt since its the most ravager looking fire type #I know cleo has that stitched together design most of the time so i was thinking bannette

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“KOSA wont pass, it got rejected the last two times!��

It wasn’t passed because people spoke out against it. People called and emailed their senators. So, CALL / EMAIL YOUR SENATORS. MAKE IT KNOWN THAT WE DO NOT WANT THIS BILL TO PASS!

“But its unconstitutional-“ There’ve been multiple bills passed before that are unconstitutional. This will not be any different to them, they do not care.

STOP KOSA!!!

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Amazing forced perspective mosaic siding.

Photo via Jamie's Garden Shop

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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.

This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…

Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of  Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint. 

S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf. 

Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.” 

Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well. 

The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons. 

Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Day Before by Liana Brooks

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell

Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai

Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books

TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers. 

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i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways

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just saying it now bc the post has gotten over 20k+ notes in less than a day but if you followed me bc of the phone calls post I’m so sorry to inform you all that I’m an mcyt blog. you can unfollow me it’s ok.

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