December 2011
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Yet another brief note about Tumblr fights:
I think we should all recognize that even as dumb as these disagreements may seem, they are approx 5000% less hostile than they would’ve been on Usenet in the mid-90s because I can remember hearing about an A.S.G. (that is alt.showbiz.gossip, the sister newsgroup of alt.gossip.celebrities, which was gentler but populated by a lot of the same...
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We’re nearing the end of the year and I know that because there are blog warz on Tumblr and every time I read a reblog I have to ask myself if the reblogger is agreeing with the OP or is mocking the OP with ~*secret irony*~.
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brianvan:
bmichael:
it’s almost impossible to make fun of a news story without making fun of its subject, which is a kind of interesting thing to think about.
The trick is not to care either way, because all adults ought to learn how to take a fucking joke.
You know when someone says something and it is the Platonic ideal of something they would say? Like if you were writing this person...
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Public stories about the sex you’ve had should, I think, not be stories about sex or about you.
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Listen, I don't normally make Spotify playlists... →
But if this “So You Want To Have A Sexy Evening” collection of songs doesn’t get you laid, I just don’t know how to help you.
“Wanting and Wanted” — Darling →
This is a track from a friend’s demo that I first heard in ‘09 and I just remembered that it existed and that I love it. This band doesn’t exist anymore and I’m not sure my friend still performs at all so this isn’t a “support my friend’s bannddd you guyyss, rebloooggg” kind of post. I just like this.
(Also I don’t understand Tumblr’s audio...
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Michelle Dean: And let me not lie about the fact... →
michelledean:
And let me not lie about the fact that I am jealous. I am jealous that I can’t write lazy novels about me and my friends hanging around New York not knowing what to do with myself and get them published.
Why be jealous of these garbage manifestos or their authors? Their advances aren’t enviable and they are well regarded by a very small, insular group of people, most of...
filigree asked: That hair twisty thing you mentioned on small galaxies? I think you mean the Topsy Tail. Oh, the Topsy Tail. Memories.
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And just to be clear, re: this post, I do think anyone who has experienced major tragedy should be allowed to just go crazy for a year because, from my own personal experience (and I think it’s fair to call what happened in 2010-11 a tragedy), these kinds of massive crises disrupt your faith in everything — the goodwill of God, the goodwill of other people. It just fucks with your head...
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Rifling Through The X-Files: 1x06 "Ghost in the... →
smallgalaxies:
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Let’s Get Serious For a Second
“Ghost in the Machine” serves the same function for Mulder that “Squeeze” served for Scully. Just as Scully confronted the career path she might have had, in the form of school chum and asshat ladder-climber Tom Colton, the re-entrance of Lamana into Mulder’s life signals a similar...
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“Everyone is expecting us to do another year like 2011. You’re not going to get...”
– Steven Moffat on Series 7. (via doctorwho)
Oh, Jesus Christ.
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Michael Fassbender Cock Watch Countdown: 48 hours
golden-notebook:
When will the injustice end and the screencaps appear?
Have you considered going on a no-coffee strike for your cause? Take the entire country hostage by threatening to stop drinking coffee until our long national nightmare is over.
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Being a successful poor black kid is doable! Just...
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cordjefferson:
If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible. I would make it my #1 priority to be able to read sufficiently. I wouldn’t care if I was a student at the worst public middle school in the worst inner city. Even the worst have their best. And the very best students, even at the worst schools, have...
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Tip: Never get bored and google "Ned Stark is a...
Because there are sure to be about a million whiny arguments about why Ned Stark is supposedly not a terrible father.
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If You Are Openly LGBTQ And You Make Comics...
gailsimone:
Or know someone great who is and does, I would appreciate hearing from you. Just a short bio on your work, and a link, if you have one, would be lovely.
It’s for something cool, but I don’t want to give away too much yet, while we are still in the very early stages. No one will be solicited or anything like that, no lists are being made up for any reason, just trying to get a good...
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Rifling Through The X-Files: 1x05: "Shadows"
smallgalaxies:
“When I die, I will haunt all your asses.” — Benjamin Franklin, drunk, possibly.
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I’m going to be honest, you guys. “Shadows” is almost offensively boring.
So before we get to a lengthy plot summary, let’s talk about the most fun thing about “Shadows”: terrible fashions. Specifically the terrible fashions of Lauren Kyte, a lady who is being haunted by her ghost-boss…and an...
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Okay, you win, Internet.
I watched exactly half of a Lana Del Rey video.
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Someone let me know when Alex Balk writes his “both Christmas and humanity are terrible, at least we won’t have to celebrate either when we are dead” post. Because I am in need today and all December days.
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So MoGlo linked to a Jezebel post titled “The Real Reason You Shouldn’t Fuck Your Professor,” and the “real” reason is basically…the sex could be disappointing?
And the writer, who is a prof himself, talks about how he was super lucky because he dated and slept with a lot of his students immediately after he had stopped teaching them and he never was hit with...
Unsolicited advice: If you’re ever wondering how to fix a somewhat rage-y morning, I’m just going to say that watching clips of Vincent Cassel does not hurt.
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I am talking to my very best friend
….who has linked me to the blog of a girl she knows. A girl whose boyfriend pays all her bills (e.g., rent and tuition) and bought her a Mercedes. She definitely envisions herself as a very Sad and Deep “strange and unusual” Lydia Deetz type for the millennial set.
I would be super amused at her being a relic of a time we have all moved past (i.e., LiveJournal circa 2002) if...
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Rifling Through The X-Files: Episode 1x03:...
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Mulder freezes. His entire body stiffens as he slowly turns back to face her. “This won’t bring her back,” Scully says, not because she’s tired and wants to home, or because she’s frustrated with cleaning up his messes (though she probably is), but because she is pained by his suffering. She does not yet love Mulder, but, per “Squeeze,” she has chosen him. She has had...
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Rifling Through The X-Files: Episode 1x02:...
smallgalaxies:
Creepy as hell, even before he married Courtney Stodden.
“Squeeze” is the first legitimately scary episode of The X-Files, and also its first MOW (Monster-of-the-Week) episode.
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The Plot
The location credits tell us we’re in Baltimore, MD. A businessman carrying a briefcase (N.B. I refer to all men wearing suits and carrying briefcases as “businessmen”) walks back to his...