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Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:48 -0700

…It’s been exactly a year since I graduated college. Wow.

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:47:58 -0700

…It’s been exactly a year since I graduated college.

Wow.

Two years on this website, and I’m finally setting up my queue. Personal tag for it is...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:00:57 -0700

Two years on this website, and I’m finally setting up my queue. Personal tag for it is #queueing solves everything. Why?

Because shameless fangirling, that’s why
Because LOOK AT THAT FUCKING WORD, IT HAS FIVE VOWELS IN A ROW.

theonlymagicleftisart: (Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon)

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:52:19 -0700

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Kurt Huggins & Zelda Devon)

lagertha-lodbrok: quaffledust: splicket: Video Game Logic...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:37:54 -0700

lagertha-lodbrok:

quaffledust:

splicket:

Video Game Logic (3)

i lost my shit

the best kind of logic

On Popularity and The Claw

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:34:19 -0700

lifeofkj:

saathi1013:

“See all the competently-written, nicely-formatted stories that a reasonable number of people have read, waiting in the big vending machine with all the other stories, looking hopefully upwards, waiting for the claw to descend and choose them? (It’s possible that this metaphor works less well if you’ve never seen Toy Story, but bear with me.) Every now and then the claw scoops up one of them, and it is this week’s Story that Ate Fandom, and it will be on twenty-six recs lists and get several hundred comments in a week.

“And whether that is your story or not, you will never know why. The ways of the Claw are mysterious. The Claw usually picks good stories, but it doesn’t always pick the best story in any literary sense. It picks the story that is exactly what people want to read right now. Maybe it is a story that has actually never been done before in your fandom. Maybe it is a story that makes everyone who reads it feel good and leaves them in a warm fuzzy place full of love for your story and the world. Maybe it is about penguins, and right now what everyone really wants is penguins.

“Maybe it is the new story by an author everyone is currently fascinated with for reasons that are unclear to you. The Claw picks authors, too[…]

“And the thing is, you can make yourself crazy about this, or you can just shrug and figure you will do the things you can do, and then sit back and see what happens. (You could also try chanting “The Claw is our master!” in a squeaky voice after you post a new story, although you might not want to try that at work.) It’s okay for your story not to be a Story that Ate Fandom. Maybe your next story will be. Maybe it won’t. That’s okay.

“And if you tell yourself so often enough, you may actually start to believe it.”

— Penknife
(Full Blogpost Here)

This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of fandom meta. I go back to it every so often, whenever I’m feeling insecure and overlooked, and it always helps. Forget it, Jake, it’s The Claw. Highly recommended.

Protip #2: That is actually the face I make when I’m plotting more nastiness to inflict on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:29:14 -0700

Protip #2: That is actually the face I make when I’m plotting more nastiness to inflict on ~~Corvo~~ ~~Emily~~ ~~Daud~~ ~~Lethe~~ ~~Etain~~ ~~Niamh~~ ~~Alex~~ ~~Aradhel~~ whoever. I’m not even kidding.

Protip: Smaragdina becomes infinitely more comfortable in front...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:03:00 -0700

Protip: Smaragdina becomes infinitely more comfortable in front of a camera if the cameraman gives her something to hide behind while he makes her help test out his new lens or whatever.

Translation: I… actually… look… adorable???? What?

softcastle-mccormick: lywinis: holographs: Firefly. <3 I...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:34:23 -0700

softcastle-mccormick:

lywinis:

holographs:

Firefly. <3

I need dis.

I don’t think you understand.

I NEED DIS.

I have the women ones and they’re gorgeous.

schwarzbrot: I wanted to play him. I wanted to create a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:12:00 -0700

schwarzbrot:

I wanted to play him.

I wanted to create a sound.

My sound.

starrysleeper: high-blogging: while my prof was setting up...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:58:17 -0700

starrysleeper:

high-blogging:

while my prof was setting up for his lecture…

gold

excuse me while I reblog this for the 36th time

Esma Boyle and Sheogorath

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:47:27 -0700

BOOZE! BOOZE FOR EVERYONE!

This is… surprisingly accurate. >.>

Hermione and Corvo.

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:15:42 -0700

…Bookworm-y and ridiculously determined? O.o I’m flattered.

Empress Jessamine and Jean/Luc Picard. I don't even know how or why, but I know that it's right.

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:08:46 -0700

…Am I really that classy? I-I’m not sure I’m classy enough to be their kid. O.o

miss-nerdgasmz: What ship do you think I’m the child of? #oH FUCKING YES #PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE I’M...

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:01:30 -0700

miss-nerdgasmz:

What ship do you think I’m the child of?

#oH FUCKING YES #PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE I’M SO CURIOUS #CROSSOVERS COUNT BTW LIKE IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE A STANDARD SHIP OR ANYTHING#WHICHEVER PEOPLE YOU THINK MADE ME

frenearden: I’m doing an art giveaway ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ) I’ll be...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:57:08 -0700

frenearden:

I’m doing an art giveaway ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)

I’ll be doing 5 digitally painted, full color portraits of a person/character of the winner’s choice (so it can be your own character or anything really…) The style/quality will be somewhere b/n those first two examples and the two BW ones at the bottom.

HOW TO GET IN ON THIS:

Reblog this post; likes and multiple reblogs will not increase your odds

Winners will be chosen at random in two weeks’ time on June 1st

I will make a post naming the winners and send an ask to work out the subject of the painting

I’ll be reblogging this a few times to make sure people see it. I don’t want like 5…people to reblog it ahahha that’d be embarrassing omfg please don’t let that happen. But! if you want to avoid seeing this post again block the tag #frenegiveaway

aicosu: More shots of my Jessamine in the gazebo. It’s really a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:34:29 -0700

aicosu:

More shots of my Jessamine in the gazebo. It’s really a shame you get such a limited time with her at the beginning of the game.

ianbrooks: Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:29:15 -0700

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli / posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth Cosplay by Anna Ormeli

I may not be afraid of God, but I’m definitely afraid of how awesome Anna’s near-clone-like cosplay of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite is, even nailing the same scenes and facial expressions. Really makes you wonder if the creators of the game concocted the character themselves, or if they perhaps had access to a Tear in another dimension and reverse-engineered the appropriately named Anna.

Artist: DeviantArt / Facebook

penetrates: Circe, The Enchantress - Edmund Dulac

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:43 -0700

penetrates:

Circe, The Enchantress - Edmund Dulac

ladyapril1: you do not know how much these scared me the first...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:23:03 -0700

ladyapril1:

you do not know how much these scared me the first time I saw them. Then they just got funny as hell. The closet one. OMFG