a gigantic bombshell story drops in oshi no ko, rocking all of japan, and chainsaw man is still trending

aunt/niece bonding time

Playboy Magazine (July 1972)

**For the people asking I found the ring HERE

Had a dream I was watching a trabsmasc ytber pitch an ad for manscaped and he was just going off about how smelly and full of yeast his pussy was.

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

hey if you read the hobbit tell me (or reblog) which cover the first version you read looked like 

the one i read is the german version from the 70s and i will love butterfly wing smaug forever

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

Feeling vaguely annoyed about how smugly people dismiss GRRMs "what is Aragon's tax policy" quote. No, it's not the point of Lord of the Rings, but questions like, "what does life look like after the great enemy is defeated? How do you deal with the evils of society that can't be beaten with a sword and an army and good intention+effort? How equipped is a well-meaning, courageous war hero from the noble class to deal with or Eve recognize these problems? And how do you keep these problems from recurring in the next generation?" are good and interesting questions that are worthy of exploration. A Song of Ice and Fire asks those questions, as difficult and unpleasant as they sometimes are, and its answers are a lot more hopeful and nuanced than you might expect if you're only exposure to "GRRMs" work is the fucking Game of Thrones tv show.

By Crom! is my joke-a-panel autobiographical comic featuring life advice and spiritual guidance from Conan the Barbarian. It ran from January 2012 to May 2014, and is collected in two books, The Collected By Crom! and Full Colour Cromulence. You can read the archives on WealdComics.com, and grab the books in print and in PDF.

By Crom! will be tabling with Weald Comics at TCAF, VanCAF, TAAFI and possibly FanExpo Toronto!

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

SCREAMING

huh

Propaganda:

Harrow and Gideon; the power imbalance and pining and inability to communicate and understand each other and oh god the pining they just want to be loved and they're so bad at it

You know, people don’t usually get why I like Stannis so much. He treats women like shit and doesn’t seem to get that’s wrong, and usually this is enough reason for me to despise a character, specially when he insists in calling her Queen “Woman” and has not a ounce of respect for Asha. I’m not trying to excuse that.

But I’m a middle child and when I see his anger and bitterness about the lack of respect and consideration his brothers show him… I get it. Not playing the victim here, I know my sibilings love me, but there’s something to be said about the feeling of not belonging, of not being enough, that is so common among middle children. He almost starved trying to defend Storm’s End, trying to make Robert proud, and he succeded… I’m sure he thought maybe after the siege his big brother would finally value him… And then he got Dragonstone, and I know in Robert’s mind that was better than Storm’s End, but Stannis never saw it that way and Robert didn’t care to explain, which says something tragic about their relationship, and sets the ground for Stannis not trusting Robert with the incest and refusing to reach out to Ned in AGOT.

Yeah he makes mistakes, and he is also pretty unlikable 70% of the time. But… He cares, he fights, he considers himself responsible of his people and he is ready to die, to sacrifice the thing he loves the most for the greater good, because of the moral responsability he considers comes along with being the king. And I know it never would go that way because as I said he doesn’t respect women; but if he could bring himself to listen to Daenerys he could learn a thing or two about how you need to compromise sometimes but that doesn’t mean giving up your vision.

Anyway, I don’t know what I’m trying to say… Stannis is what happens when a dreamer convinces himself there’s something wrong about dreaming and decides to stop hoping, stop feeling, and start fighting for what he perceives to be just, because he is fully convinced to be the only one with the right and the ability to do things right. And that’s terrifying, but in his mind, he has no choice, because he can’t let himself have one.

I love this damaged soul with all my middle child neglected ass.