‘Scary’ and ‘intimidating’ are two words that would never be used to describe me on sight, and don’t worry, it’s really hard to get on my bad side. Even the antis aren’t there, because they’ll outgrow this nonsense eventually.
I’m guessing that was some time ago, Anon, because I can’t recall the last time I seriously had anything negative to say about anybody’s writing, I’ve become a super-picky infrequent reader, writing’s hard and needs cheerleaders, we’re all just trying to have fun. But I’m glad if whatever I said worked for you and no harm was done.
Nobody could keep a straight face in Ghana’s parliament when MP John Frimpong Osei began listing the names of some villages in his constituency that included references to genitals.
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These are the English translations for the Twi names:
Etwe nim Nyansa – “Vagina is Wise”
Kote ye Aboa – “Penis is a Fool”
Shua ye Morbor – “Testicles are Sad”
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The BBC’s Thomas Naadi in the capital, Accra, says such names are normally given by the first settlers in those communities and are drawn from the life experiences of those individuals.
Of all the billions of pages that make up the Internet, one of my very favorites contains “No Reservations: Narnia,” a work of fan fiction, from 2010, by Edonohana, a pseudonym of the Y.A. and fantasy author Rachel Manija Brown. The story is exactly what it sounds like: a pastiche of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” and C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Channelling the casual charisma of Bourdain’s first-person writing, Brown finds him visiting the stick-wattled burrow of sentient moles, where he dines on pavender (a saltwater fish of Lewis’s invention) and Sussex Pond pudding and is drunk under the table by a talking mouse. He slurps down eel stew and contemplates the void with mud-dwelling depressives. He bails on an appointment at Cair Paravel, the royal seat of Narnia, to bloody his teeth at a secretive werewolf feast.
The real Bourdain died almost two months ago, at the age of sixty-one, of an apparent suicide. Many of us who were fortunate to know him have been left sifting through our records, pulling out bits of unfinished conversations and half-plotted ideas. A few months before his death, I had e-mailed him Brown’s homage, after years of casually wondering if he even knew it existed. The question had also occurred to Brown herself: “No Reservations: Narnia” is her most popular piece of fan fiction. (She told me that she suspects it might be her most popular work, period.) When we corresponded, before Bourdain’s death, she said that she sometimes worried that Bourdain had been sent the link dozens of times.
There persists a mistaken belief, outside the world of fan fiction, that it consists of bad writing from floor to ceiling—ham-handed, indulgent, turgidly sexual, and thoroughly amateurish. For a full-throated defense of the genre, see the Harvard English professor Stephanie Burt on the subject. Or just read Brown’s story, which is so well-told, so deeply researched, so uncannily on point in its representation of the culture and cuisine of Narnia, and so faithful in its mimicry of Bourdain’s writing voice that it is sure to charm any reader who gives it a chance. Including, as it turns out, Bourdain himself. After I sent him “No Reservations: Narnia,” he replied that, contrary to Brown’s concerns, he’d never come across the story before. “This is astonishingly well written with an attention to detail that’s frankly a bit frightening,” he said in an e-mail. “I’m both flattered and disturbed. I think I need a drink.”
So if a porn bot reblogs and puts a link to your selfies you can do this
SO IF A PORN BOT PUTS A LINK TO A PORN SITE/VIRUS YOU CAN FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO HAVE IT REMOVED. ALSO IF ANY REMOVES THE ORIGINAL CAPTION OF YOUR POST TO BOOST THEIR BLOG YOU CAN REPORT THEM (AND GET THEM REMOVED) TOO.
YOU CAN ALSO FILE A DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) AGAINST THEM TOO. http://tumblr.com/dmca
WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES?
SIGNAL BOOST THIS PIECE OF HEAVEN Y’ALL
YES PLEASE
Boosting because I didn’t know this was a thing!
I’d imagine this could work if someone reposts your selfies too.
referring to adult male actors as their babies or whatever
pigtails
saying ‘hubby’
if they say organic on facebook a lot
always introducing themselves as a ‘mommy’
that last point becomes tenfold if they have no children
thanks OP for reminding me that I only have 6 months left to enjoy Harry Potter, wear pigtails, and watch Disney movies!! obviously the moment i turn 24 im going to become a decrepit old hag who should have no interests outside of raising children. this is a very woke post, you’re so smart OP
#what is up with the trend of being lowkey misogynistic #and passing it off as quirky relateable humor for the youths #who are usually themselves young adults
The best part about getting older (like, old enough that I could very well be the mother of a 23-year-old, but I don’t like kids so I never had any) is that you can look at posts like the OP and think, dang, there is absolutely nothing about those opinions that are worth a moment of my concern.
Thor and Loki find Odin hanging out in Norway, but is it Norway now or Norway way back when? Is this how Norse myth got its start, that the Asgardians jumped backwards and rebuilt their civilization the best they could, always and already knowing that Ragnarok lay ahead, and exactly how it went down.
I keep seeing these posts about people shocked that people 20+ are on tumblr.
Look, if you’re a kid or, hell, if for any reason you’re uncomfortable that someone 35+ is following you, message me and I’ll unfollow you. I’m not here to be a creeper, I’m here to talk about robots.
Just realize that with 30+ year old franchises there will be 30+ year old people who grew up with the franchise and still love it. Tumblr may be a relatively recent platform but fandom as an institution is waaaay older than I am and the Transformers fandom in particular has fans in their 40s and 50s whom I am personally acquainted with, fans who have adapted from photocopy fanzines and snail mail mailing lists to bulletin boards, newsgroups, forums, and, yeah, tumblr, in their many years of fandom.
If you’re a teen and the only other fans you know are people your own age yeah, I can see why this might be surprising. With the internet it’s easy to get a mental picture of who you’re talking to that doesn’t reflect the reality.
Just be advised that the internet is an all ages free-for-all and people don’t magically age out of fandom at 20. Or 30. Or 40. Or 50.
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