oh man imagine if someone used the pin post feature to stick the “do you love the colors of the sky’ post at the top of their blog and forced you to scroll down every single time would that be obnoxious or what
Was rereading B. R. Myers’ A Reader’s Manifesto (the original Atlantic piece, not the book) and by and large it’s still pretty good but this bit near the end where he’s recommending superior older fiction to read in place of today’s (2001’s) inferior modern products gave me pause:
By the same token, many of the adults who enjoy Harry Potter would be even happier with Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy (1946-1959) if they only knew about it.
Gormenghast? Really? That’s your “if you like Harry Potter you’ll like this classic even better” recommendation? Gormenghast? Are you sure? Like you talk a lot of smack (and rightly so!) about critics who dismiss anything “genre” out of hand and refuse to read anything not written in the litfic house style but if your classic fantasy rec for Harry Potter fans is Gormenghast I think it’s time to take some time off of reading litfic you hate and get caught up on your SFF.
There are some things I remember very vividly based purely on senses. What are some of your memories that are like that?
haven’t gotten the new ui yet. am ok in principle with taking the stuff presently occupying valuable vertical real estate and moving it to the presently underutilized side panels but from screenshots this doesn’t seem to have been done especially well. oh well, hopefully they’ll iron out the most glaring issues in the next few days.
the earliest recorded homestuck reference was made in the book of exodus when israel is referred to as the “land of milk and honey”
Who winning in a hand to hand death cage match where the winner gets to take over the other’s respective country.
Joe Biden
King Charles
I took out Putin to make it more fair
Watched a bit of Kung Fu, and it’s funny to compare it to Firefly, because these are both shows whose premise is (in part) “China meets the Old West” but somehow the one from 2002 has fewer (read: zero) Asian actors in the main cast than the one from 1972 that casts a white guy as the Chinese lead.
Lois Lane is not a bad driver. Lois Lane is an excellent driver. Lois Lane could arguably be a stunt driver. She's chased down the slipperiest leads and pulled crazy maneuvers in parking garages and pulled the drawbridge-turned-ramp stunt to get her story when the situation has called for it. She has grabbed the wheel of a humvee from the backseat when an IED turned both her MP driver escort and his partner to swiss cheese and she successfully navigated through a suddenly-turned-warzone to the American embassy while having a minor concussion herself. She's definitely a better driver than Clark, who, between frequently second-guessing other drivers, having to reconcile super-senses with operating a respectable used hybrid volvo sedan, and never going above the speed limit, basically drives like an old lady. But Lois drives like fucking Lupin III and it scares the shit out of both Clark and Jimmy.
Clark: *regularly breaks the sound barrier, has to be hyper-conscious of speed to make sure he doesn't injure anyone he's carrying or make them pass out from G-Force, is literally invulnerable*
Clark when he's in a car and Lois is driving:
I love the unintentional implication of the image. Cuz that's a replaced car handle that doesn't match the interior. Meaning that Clark's gotta have ripped out Lois' car handle at LEAST once.
Lois, sitting in the copilot's seat next to Clark: Smallville, you're going three miles under the speed limit in the center lane. Come on!
Clark, hands perfectly placed at the NHTSA recommended '9 and 3' positions as is appropriate for this model and year of car: Two cars ahead of us is a newly single mother of three. They're late for her oldest's tennis practice, the tablet's battery just ran out for the middle child, and the youngest has spat out her pacifier and it's rolled under the seat so now the middle child has to unbuckle her seatbelt to grab the pacifier from under the seat or else the youngest is just going to scream the whole ride.
Lois: ...
Clark: *has visibly broken a sweat*
Lois: Clark, what the fuck are you talking about.
bizarre that people are getting mad about collapsible reblog threads. when staff implemented the ability to shorten long posts by default i switched that on immediately, having all the long posts short and then expanding only the ones that interest you is obviously superior to having all the long posts long and being forced to scroll through all of them whether they interest you or not. are there really people out there who curate their dashes such that they only ever see long posts they want to read all of, whose mutuals never get into long arguments they don’t care about or reblog the same posts from each other so that you can see the same one a dozen times in the space of a week?
What is the most likely reason for someone to get your name wrong?
My name includes sounds that some people have difficulty pronouncing
Because my name is "foreign" people call me a modified (e.g. anglicized) variant
There is another common name that looks or sounds similar to mine
People see my name written and read it with a different phonetic pronunciation
My name is often just so unfamiliar to people that they struggle with it
People call me by a former name/deadname/name I no longer use
Another reason
There is absolutely no explanation… yet, they manage to say it wrong anyway
I deliberately trick people into saying my name wrong because I enjoy mischief
Everybody says my name correctly :)
Yet another poll on the subject of name errors — because all things come in threes and mostly because the notes on the other polls are very intriguing. I imagine multiple answers will be true for many of us (goodness knows they are for me), but try to choose whatever feels like the most common/prevalent reason!
Reblog, if you like, for a larger sample size to continue forcing me to wade through too many fascinating name-related notifications. But also for sample size. :-)
