#gnu alice

[seananmcguire]

I know I periodically ask people to look at Alice, but I would like to explain why.

That, above, is Alice when she was just ten days old. It was December 2008, and I had gone to Seattle to prepare to die. I was tired, I was dealing with a massive disruption in my social circle, and I was done. So I went to see friends, and to say my goodbyes before I went home and politely made my exit. I had a fully articulated plan, and no desire to tell people about it, which is not a good place to be.

Then we went to visit Betsy, who had recently ushered a litter of kittens into the world. And she put this little blue tabby potato in my hand and said "That's the girl."

And just like that, I decided to live. "Do you take checks?" I replied, and Alice entered my life.

(That makes it sound much easier than it was. Betsy was intending to keep Alice, who was without flaw by Maine Coon breed standards. Seriously, she was the kind of cat breeders work to produce for their entire careers. I spent two months wearing Betsy down before she agreed to let me have her.)

Alice was my first Maine Coon. Alice was my heart and soul somehow walking around outside of my body. She was without flaw. She was everything I wanted in this world, and she loved me as much as I loved her, and I would happily trade a year of my life for another hour with her in my arms.

In 2017, I went to Australia as a convention guest, and when I came home, Alice wasn't right. She was always food-motivated, and she was refusing to eat. I made a vet appointment immediately, and we started the necessary tests to find out what was wrong. Roughly a month later, while I was at another convention, my vet called me.

"I am so so sorry," she said, and the world ended.

Alice had large-cell feline lymphoma. It wasn't a surgically treatable cancer; we were going to have to go through chemo, and hope. So we did. And we did everything it was possible to do. Thanks to my Patreon, there was never a point where I had to decline treatment due to money, and I know what an incredible gift that was. Bit by bit, she faded, but she was still my Alice, and we were still fighting.

Then, on February 13th, 2018, I woke up and she was stretched out along my side from hip to knee, making the worst sound I have ever heard every time she took a breath. I didn't want to let her go. I could no longer make her stay. We left for the vet immediately, and my oncologist agreed that she was done; she was ready to go, and the last gift she gave me was staying by my side, not running and hiding like most cats would.

I held her. I sang "Beautiful Beast" for her. And she went ahead of me to the clearing at the end of the path, to the place she stopped me from going.

I miss her more than I knew I could miss anything in this world. She was my best friend and my favorite thing, and my mother told people I'd lost a child to explain why I would just wander around, dead-eyed and sobbing. Alice saved me when I didn't think it was possible, and I'm grateful; I have no such plans at this point.

But fuck my poor, broken heart, I just want her to come home. And in the absence of that as an option, I want everyone to look at Alice.

Please look at my poor girl.

#pet death #cat death #suicidal ideation #gnu alice #baby please come home #i don't care if you come back wrong #just come back #feline lymphoma

[prodigaldaughteralice]

So, I was tipped off a while ago by a post that’s probably still in my queue (I have a long reblog queue u_u;; ) that a few words were changed in the US edition of Monstrous Regiment. As it’s my favourite Discworld book, and I’d only ever read the US edition, I tracked down a second-hand UK first edition online and had a re-read as soon as it came, with my battered old US edition next to me so I could check when anything pinged me as ‘off’. Here’s what I found, not counting minor UK->US spelling changes like turning “girlie” into “girly”.

(There may be more that I missed, I didn’t have both copies open the whole time, but I’m pretty familiar with this book. As my sister teased me about when I mentioned I’d done this comparison, I did have it in my bed for several years as a teenager so I could reread it whenever my insomnia was hitting particularly hard.)

Spoilers from here on out, of course.

The first two are just kind of pointless? Changing “coprolite” to “coprolith”, which is just a less common word for the exact same thing, and changing “riff-riff-raff” to “riffraff” feels like they forgot Jackrum was playing drunk in that scene. Whatever. These don’t bother me.

There are a few UK->US type changes in the next one (“wooly vest” to “woolen undershirt”) which similarly feel pointless to me, but what really gets my goat is the last word. “The man’s bare chests,” plural, being changed to “the man’s bare chest”. Because that’s foreshadowing, but it’s not a giveaway, because on a heavier (cis) guy they do hang separate. It’s a nice little touch, and they took it out.

The next one is the one I’d been tipped off to, and it’s the change I’m the most annoyed about. “Turned her chair to the fire/around him the kitchen worked” -> “turned her chair to the fire/around her the kitchen worked.” I’m sure whatever editor changed it didn’t do so with any kind of malice or agenda, they just weren’t paying enough attention and thought they were fixing a continuity mistake, but it’s just such beautiful writing that they removed.

Because they’ve just had this incredible, delicate, vulnerable conversation about the girl Jackrum left behind him, and that that girl was him, and that he has a son out in Scratz and he doesn’t know what to do now that he’s leaving the army. Polly cries. And it’s Polly who suggests that he really can remain Jack Jackrum, he can go back to his son in medals and braid and be his father, and Jack gets to really settle in to the idea that he can be happy that way. Both those pronouns being “her” doesn’t feel wrong, necessarily; I always read it as Polly processing. But the switch between the two sentences is so beautiful. It’s a gentle closing of the conversation, it’s that girl being fully put behind him, and Sergeant Major Jack Jackrum (retired) getting to go on with his life.

The last one is just… odd. Inexplicable, and it’s the hardest to explain as just an editorial accident. They added a word that specifies something that was not previously specified. “One of them was Maladicta, in full uniform” becomes “one of them was Maladicta, in full female uniform.” I was thinking about it on this reread, and Mal is the only member of the squad who wasn’t publically outed at the Keep. Mal wasn’t involved in the actual raid— too busy gibbering and sucking on a sack of coffee beans— and at the trial Mal kind of stood in the back vibrating from caffeine overdose. Even Jackrum said “with vampires, who cares”. Only Polly knows about Maladicta.

And what that means is that Mal is the only member of the squad who could reasonably remain presenting as male in the army. Polly encourages a couple of young recruits in the very end that it’s their choice to enlist as men or as women, with Mal right beside her, and I think the original ambiguity there is really lovely— it doesn’t matter if Mal has an ‘a’ on the end at the moment, because Mal is there to help Polly fuck shit up, and that’s what matters. By adding the specificity, they just… took away a really nice bit of subtext, a really nice effect.

So yeah, I’m ticked off as a queer person about the (minor) subversion of the book’s general gender fuckery, but I’m almost more ticked off as a writer. Pratchett was so talented, and we talk about it a lot on a large scale of themes and motifs and characters, but he was also just so fantastic on a sentence to sentence level. This is craft! This is really beautiful, delicate writing, elegantly put together and perfected, and some US editors just. Took out some of it. And it’s still an incredible book! As I mentioned, I had it in my bed for years as a teenager so I could reread it over and over, it means a ton to me, it’s my favourite of his work and I love his work! But it hurts to see these little places where it was originally even better.

#discworld #terry pratchett #monstrous regiment #gnu terry pratchett #pd alice talks #edit: fixed a couple typoes in the image descriptions whoops

[dimity-lawn]

If Monstrous Regiment ever gets made into a movie, David Tennant could play Lieutenant Blouse.

Me to myself as I type: hehe… LieuTennant.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #good omens #neil gaiman #thought(s) from yours truly #monstrous regiment #lieutenant blouse #polly perks #polly “ozzer” perks #alice goom #alice “wazzer” goom #crowley

[lavenderfables]

Imagine you are Death from Discworld.

Imagine you are in your Domain, minding your anthropomorphic personified business.

Imagine the wizard Alberto 'Albert' Malich suddenly showing up in your house after performing your most hated spell (the Rite of Ashk'Ente) backwards in an attempt to banish you.

Imagine Albert realizing he can't die in your Domain and thus has achieved his goal of immortality.

Imagine you are Death from Discworld and, now, for the very first time in your existence...

You have a roommate.

#and they were roommates #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #novels #alberto malich #death from discworld #death x albert #words from alice #text #y'all can reblog this if you want #[lizzie mcguire voice] this is what romcoms are made off

[tisthekatseason]

songs to dance in the rain, in the living room, in the kitchen with the refrigerator light with Yuji Itadori

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #yuji #yuji itadori #itadori #playlist #taylor swift #fitz and the tantrums #wolf alice #lorde #hozier #lana del rey #gracie abrams #the 1975 #eve #tatsuya kitani #king gnu #hitsujibungaku #anime #concept playlist #husbando #jjk x reader #jjk headcanons #jjk imagines #choso #jjk itadori #itadori x reader #spotify #little sunshine

[dwampyverse-tournaments]

Best (Tertiary) Phineas and Ferb Character Tournament: Round 2

July 28

Mitch vs. Amanda Johnson

Hildegard Johnson vs. Mandy

Steve vs. Karen the Cat

Tristan vs. Admiral Acronym

Sergei the Snail vs. Nana Shapiro

Other Dimension Phineas vs. Super Super Big Doctor's Brother

Other Dimension Vanessa vs. Eliza Fletcher

Meap vs. Biff

July 29

Marty the Rabbit Boy's Musical Blender vs. Beppo Brown

Dennis the Rabbit vs. The Badinkadinks

Other Dimension Candace vs. Adrien Fletcher

Klimpaloon vs. Lorraine

Giant Floating Baby Head vs. Thor

Other Dimension Charlene vs. Hawkeye Johnson

Doofenshmirtz's Evil Date vs. Tiana Webber

Balloony vs. Coltrane

July 30

Django Brown vs. Alice

Phinedroids vs. Lacie

Professor Mystery vs. Newton the Gnu

Talking Zebra vs. Robot Candace

The Farmer vs. Norm's Old Head

Other Dimension Heinz vs. the Brown's Dog

Perry the Platyborg vs. Pele

Lyla Loliberry vs. Mishti Patel

July 31

Marty the Rabbit Boy vs. Dr. Hirano

Ferbots vs. Super Super Big Doctor

Planty the Potted Plant vs. Xavier Johnson

The Lake Nose Monster vs Brigitte

Vlorkel vs. Mr. Tjinder

Other Dimension Ferb vs. Nicolette Johnson

Dr. Diminutive vs. Beckham

Dr. Bloodpudding vs. The Farmer's Wife

#pnf #pnf characters #pnf characters tournament #phineas and ferb #dwampyverse #poll #poll tournament #tournament poll #poll bracket #dwampyverse tournament

[lllx3]

Little intro 4 2023/2024 :3

My name is Liam!!! I'm 16(almost 17 in 1/15!) and I love creating and appreciating art of all kinds. It's been a passion for my entire life ! I love all things cute, horror, anatomy related, or psychological storytelling!! Cats are my very favorite animal and I love my own cat dearly.... I've always gone on tumblr but never made my own personal account, so this is mine now! I'm open to msgs and interacts of all sorts as long as they're not insane.

MEDIA I LUV !

Bleach, Bojack Horseman, CSM, JJBA, EVA, Madoka Magica, Banana Fish, Perfect Blue, Soul Eater, AOT, Dorohedoro, K project, Your lie in April, Alice in Borderland, Angels of Death, Fairy Tail, Kekkai Sensen, Mob Psycho, Nana, Eden of the East, Durarara, Spirited Away, NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE, Yuppie Psycho, Bioshock, Apex Legends, TFM, Roblox, Yakuza games, TEKKEN, Detroit Become Human, Yttd, Warrior Cats, Tokyo Ghoul, Nekojiru, Bastard (comic), Home (comic), Gremoryland, Paranoia Agent, Death Parade, Terror in Resonance, Deadman Wonderland, Monster, Blood -C, Red Data Girl, Princess Jellyfish, Noragami, Tuca and Bertie, Project Zomboid, Lollipop Chainsaw, Saints Row, Rocket League, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, ENA, Mekakucity Actors, Heartbreak High, & More!! (RECS ALWAYS APPRECIATED!)

ARTISTS :3!

Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem, The Alchemist, Rico Nasty, BKtherula, Earl Sweatshirt, TV GIRL, Beach House, A$AP ROCKY, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Steve Lacy, SZA , BROCKHAMPTON, Megan Thee Stallion, MF DOOM, Outkast, Deftones, Kid Cudi, Playboi Carti, Tay K, Dadaroma, Malice Mizer, Gulu Gulu, Three 6 Mafia, Tommy Febuary6, J Dilla, Childish Gambino, Beyoncé, TNBH, Snoop Dogg, Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, Rihanna, Kali Uchis, Mac Demarco, Korn, Mitski, ROAR, The Garden, Tame Impala, Blood Orange, Project Pat, Thundercat, Death Grips, Black Dresses, Girls Rituals, Devi Mccallion, Cats Millionare, EAT BABIES?, Eve, Fredric, King Gnu, j^p^n, RAV, Type O negative, Nero's Day at Disneyland, Datfootdive, SHOW/GAME OSTS & Beyond!!

ONE SONG I'm v into RN! 📌

#Spotify

[system-of-a-feather]

How about 7 & 46 for the song game.

7. A song from a genre you don’t usually listen to

"a genre I don't usually listen to" is kinda hard to do cause I don't really have genre's I particularly listen to other than instrumental whereas I'm kinda spread between a number. I guess I usually am not that keen in "classic rock" kinda stuff much so I guess

46. A song that you wish more people knew about

There are honestly a few and not many are clicking but I think Esmerelda needs more popularity

In terms of "people need to listen to this" in terms of it being very important / good messages / valuable to know and have in life - most of NF's discography.

King Gnu is just a band I think that needs more talk XD

#alter: riku #king gnu #nf #nf music #music posting #music #ask #asks #song ask #songs #music ask

[ferios-favorite-styles]

♬おすすめの曲 プレイリスト♪ Ferios List 174

2023/11/25～12/1にリリースされた邦楽の中からチェック。個人的に聴きたい曲を集めたリストです。

【掲載アーティスト】

2 Μ Ο Я Ο / King Gnu ブリキノダンス / Ado Moonthief / キタニタツヤ ROLLS ROYCE / VivaOla 2MANYTIMES / SIRUP, CODY JON, Taka Perry What the Hell / TOSHIKI HAYASHI(%C), おかもとえみ Aftershow / SATOH, Harry Teardrop Honey / Kaneee Run This Town / Kay-on 東の果て、夜へ / me2 Fells / Nissy(西島隆弘), Saweetie ねぇ / 7, ZOT on the WAVE カナデ / GADORO White Snow / MALIYA Tokyo Hometown / ALICE, Renato Iwai, Daniel Baeder Violet Racer / Fake Creators, LITE, DE DE MOUSE Continue / 4s4ki ゆめうつつ / POPPING EMO ダブル・プッシュ・オフ。 / MAISONdes, 水槽, A4。 愛 need your love / 冨岡愛 華奢な心 / アイナ・ジ・エンド APART / YAJICO GIRL Opal / 碧海祐人 Strange World ~bedroom ver.~ / Name the Night リインカーネーション / ロクデナシ キラーワード / chilldspot 一輪花 / tuki. mist / SennaRin Sister / Vela 初恋 / Tele 最善 / EOW Alien City Roast / ぷにぷに電機, Shin Sakiura Happy Prince / エレファントジム, YILE LIN Face to Face / uruwashi, Cikah 不可思議のカルテ / fox capture plan, Chihiro Sings たゆたう / Hana Hope 柔らかい影 / 松木美定 Keep on / Dubb Parade

#spotify #jpop #jhiphop #jhiphopmusic #jmusic #jrock #japanesemusic #japanmusic #japanpop #nowplaying #newreleases #newsong #newmusic #音楽 #音楽好き #邦楽 #新譜 #音楽好きな人と繋がりたい #おすすめの音楽 #音楽のある生活 #プレイリスト #ferioslist174

[colorisbyshe]

90-99

90: Routine by Silent Siren

91: 告白の夜 by Ayasa

92: Power by Exo

93: All Comes Crashing by Metric

94: this one is embarrassing everyone look away... SG by DJ Snake, Ozunna, Megan thee Stallion, and Lisa

95: Hikoutei by King Gnu

96: Better Off Alone by Alice Deejay

97: Harder, Better, Faster, Strong by Daft Punk

98: Knife by Traxx

99: I just by Red Velvet

Honestly, looking at at how many tracks on my top 100 are by Japanese artists yet my #1 genre is kpop makes me think that apple music is kind of racistly grouping all korean music under "kpop" (when when it's NOT really pop) while a lot of japanese music is allowed to be grouped under... actual genres, like classical, rock, alternative, etc

And a lot of japanese music is put under "anime" even when it wasn't used in an anime OP... so..... apple music I have QUESTIONS and all of htem make you look like fucking ass

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

for the book ask game: 4, 6, 10, 15, 19

4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

i like to think i read a lot of nonfiction, and i do 100% check out that section, but mostly i just beeline immediately to the science fiction (/fantasy if they're grouped) section lol

6. what books have you read in the last month?

recently i checked out life in victorian england (exactly as exciting as it sounds lol, but pretty decent) and the james patterson book witch and wizard (which is. a james patterson book) from my school library and read them! i enjoyed them both, i had read w+w a long time ago and got the nostalgia from that plus had an interesting experience noticing flaws that weren't there before. meanwhile, the victorian england book was written by a brit in the 60s and actually started out like... weirdly bigoted and self congratulatory? but it definitely got much better as it went on, and didn't distort the facts or anything.

i also read to see the stars, a little indie novella by lyra alice schneider (she deserves support. go support her), and read monstrous regiment near the start of this month, like an october 22 type beat, and that book of course kicked ass. gnu terry pratchett + ily discworld <3

10. do you have a guilty fav?

probably james patterson books like i mentioned above, like maximum ride and stuff. i'll also read a kids book ive read 500 times instead of a new book sometimes ahaha

15. recommend and review a book.

that's what i've been doing and now i'm tired!!!! for the author's sake, i'll recommend you all to see the stars- it's creative, it's queer, and i fell for the leads pretty quickly (there's two, and i really like one of them, melis/meliste). the story takes place on a lost colony, which was founded in the 22nd or 23rd century and socially regressed while everyone else advanced - but meanwhile, humanity was conquered by a federation of planets, which this colony escaped. it's interesting! it's the cultural deviation idea you also find in stuff like generation ships, but with a bigger, more textured world. i'd give it 4/5 stars. it's short, which means it's a nice light read, but they have other books, if you want more!

19. most disliked popular books?

i don't dislike things i'm a positive person <3

i woulddd actually probably say song of achilles? the thing is i haven't read it but i have a mutual who HATES it and also the reason i haven't read it yet is i tried but it just. did not draw my attention at all sorry... i do actually not like a lot of books but the thing is i don't like them because i started reading them and didn't get into them so i dropped them and that's not a great framework for criticism.

#chitra.txt #books #thanks for the ask!!!

[seananmcguire]

Periodically, someone will Blaze the post of all those many pictures of Alice, and I cry every single time. In the good way, I promise.

The only way I've survived losing her as well as I have is by focusing on the fact that other people grieve for her with me. I am not alone. She isn't here, but I am not alone.

I just miss her so much.

#alice #gnu alice #maine coon #blue classic tabby and white #baby come home #i don't care if you come back wrong #just come back #she was without flaw #i miss her always #i think i always will

[chrisbrekne]

Music video created with Don Gnu and Alice Carreri for the ‘Dance of the Year 2016′ in Denmark.

#musicvideos #double_size

[dimity-lawn]

Yesterday evening I found out what Carborundum looks like and had a sort of Pratchett induced I can't believe I missed that moment: Carborundum is rainbow.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #discworld meme #created by yours truly #realization(s) from yours truly #pratchett induced i can't believe i missed that moment(s) #monstrous regiment #alice goom #alice “wazzer” goom #betty manickle #betty “shufti” manickle #tilda tewt #tilda “lofty” tewt #igor #igorina #jack jackrum #maladict #maladicta #polly perks #polly “ozzer” perks #magda halter #magda “tonker” halter #jade #carborundum

[lavenderfables]

Rincewind is many things. A wizard. A coward. A reluctant tour guide. Twoflower's piece on the side while on holiday, but he doesn't learn that for several books.

#rincewind... the other woman #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #the light fantastic #novels #rincewind #twoflower #words from alice #text #y'all can reblog this if you want #I AM ONCE AGAIN SHAKING TWOFLOWER AND SCREAMING ''CHEATERRRRRR'' #WE ARE LAUGHING AND HIGHFIVE ABOUT IT

[dwampyverse-tournaments]

Best (Tertiary) Phineas and Ferb Character Tournament: Round 1

June 2

Beckham Fletcher vs. Beckham Fletcher

Pele Fletcher vs. Pele Fletcher

Beckham Fletcher vs. Eliza Fletcher

Super Super Big Doctor's Brother vs. Super Super Big Doctor's Brother

Suzy's Poodle vs. Brown Family's Dog

Annabelle Johnson vs. Nicolette Johnson

Hawkeye Johnson vs. Jack Johnson

Adrien Fletcher vs. Lucy Fletcher

June 3

Doofenshmirtz's date vs. Doofenshmirtz's evil date

Xavier Johnson vs. Fred Johnson

Newton the Gnu vs. Harry the Hyena

Karen the Cat vs. Maggie the Macaw

Admiral Acronym vs. Balthazar Harowitz

Candroid vs. Robot Candace

Brigitte vs. Garbog

Jose Doofenshmirtz vs. Lorraine

June 4

Thaddeus vs. Thor

Mr. Garcia-Shapiro vs. Mr. Tjinder

Normbots vs. Norm's old head

Mrs. Feyersied vs. Nana Shapiro

Biff vs. Biffany van Stomm

Lil' Sparks Melissa vs. Mishti Patel

Farmer's Wife vs. Flower Vendor

Carla vs. Coltrane

June 6

Beppo Brown vs. Bob Webber

Dr. Hirano vs. Mrs. Tjinder

Mr. Random vs. Professor Mystery

Planty the Potted Plant vs. Terry the Turtle

Albert Dubois vs. Alice

Amanda Johnson vs. Esmeralda Poofenplotz

Johnny vs. Steve

Tristan vs. T-shirt Cannon Guy

Talking Zebra vs. Wendy (Slushydawg girl)

#pnf #pnf characters #pnf characters tournament #phineas and ferb #dwampyverse #poll #poll tournament #tournament poll #poll bracket #dwampyverse tournament