Back to that bar in Tokyo

liiiiiife. I’m honestly surprised that I’ve actually reached a level of Busy...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:31:53 +0900

liiiiiife. I’m honestly surprised that I’ve actually reached a level of Busy that’s held me back from tumblr.

I’ve really only got 1.5 months left to get everything settled in Japan and then the amount of money I’m going to spend over 2 weeks in Australia is gonna be really really irresponsible, but afterwards I’ll officially be back in San Francisco on August 18th and it’s exciting and terrifying.

eatingcroutons: youidiotkid: Official Playstation Used Game...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:43:39 +0900

eatingcroutons:

youidiotkid:

Official Playstation Used Game Instructional Video (x)

#THIS ISN’T SHOTS FIRED #IT’S A GODDAMN NUCLEAR BOMB LAUNCHED AT MICROSOFT

And Microsoft absolutely deserved it for their online requirements and used game DRM bullshit.

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Google Search on Google Glass

moving to Japan was so easy. My life in two suitcases. Moving from Japan back to the States? My life...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:41:49 +0900

moving to Japan was so easy. My life in two suitcases.

Moving from Japan back to the States? My life in two suitcases plus boxes upon boxes and closets full of stuff I need to donate and WHERE did these 3 extra suitcases even come from?

The Angel Head Tilt

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:10:22 +0900

demigods-in-the-tardis:

221b-bag-end:

misha-let-me-touch-your-assbutt:

evawrites:

Castiel:

Gabriel:

Zachariah:

Lucifer:

#They’re like a family of curious puppies.

reblogging because i read that tag as “family of curious pineapples”

how is there even A GIF OF THAT

We’re the Supernatural fandom. We have a gif of everything.

catofhope: horror—terrors: wwabbajackk: the fact that almost...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:30:37 +0900

catofhope:

horror—terrors:

wwabbajackk:

the fact that almost forty thousand people on this site of complete morons actually understand this makes me so happy omg #tybg

fun fact: If you separate the 4 and the 2 making them different numbers. Then translate them into Japanese shi, and ni. Then put the words together, shini, it means death (shini-gami = god of death). So knowing that

The answer to the ultimate question… of life, the universe, and everything is…

death.

crown-of-weeds: brimming with danger: incandescentquill: tatterdemalionamberite:...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:33:41 +0900

crown-of-weeds:

brimming with danger: incandescentquill: tatterdemalionamberite: binghsien:…

incandescentquill:

tatterdemalionamberite:

binghsien:

aporeticelenchus:

heidi8:

sonneillonv:

dressthesavage:

narwhalsareunderwaterunicorns:

anglofile:

spicyshimmy:

how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH FEELS’

was caesar like ‘ET TU ODYSSEUS’

sometimes i wonder

oh my GOD

the answer is yes they did. there’s a lot of research about the highly emotional reactions to the first novels widely available in print.

here’s a thing; the printing press was invented in 1450 and whilst it was revolutionary it wasn’t very good. but then it got better over time and by the 16th century there were publications, novels, scientific journals, folios, pamphlets and newspapers all over Europe. at first most were educational or theological, or reprints of classical works.

however, novels gained in popularity, as basically what most people wanted was to read for pleasure. they became salacious, extremely dramatic, with tragic heroines and doomed love and flawed heroes (see classical literature, only more extreme.) books in the form of letters were common. sensationalism was par the course and apparently used to teach moral lessons. there was also a lot of erotica floating around.

but here’s the thing: due to the greater availability of literature and the rise of comfy furniture (i shit you not this is an actual historical fact, the 16th and 17th century was when beds and chairs got comfy) people started reading novels for pleasure, women especially. as these novels were highly emotional, they too became…highly emotional. there are loads of contemporary reports of young women especially fainting, having hysterics, or crying fits lasting for days due to the death of a character or their otp’s doomed love. they became insensible over books and characters, and were very vocal about it. men weren’t immune-there’s a long letter a middle-aged man wrote to the author of his favourite work basically saying that the novel is too sad, he can’t handle all his feels, if they don’t get together he won’t be able to go on, and his heart is already broken at the heroine’s tragic state (IIRC ehh).

conservatives at the time were seriously worried about the effects of literature on people’s mental health, and thought it damaging to both morals and society. so basically yes it is exactly like what happens on tumblr when we cry over attractive British men, only my historical theory (get me) is that their emotions were even more intense, as they hadn’t had a life of sensationalist media to numb the pain for them beforehand in the same way we do, nor did they have the giant group therapy session that is tumblr.

(don’t even get me started on the classical/early medieval dudes and their boners for the Iliad i will be here all week. suffice to say, the members of the Byzantine court used Homeric puns instead of talking normally to each other if someone who hand’t studied the classics was in the room. they had dickish fandom in-jokes. boom.)

I needed to know this.

See, we’re all just the current steps in a time-honored tradition! (And this post is good to read along with Affectingly’s post this week about old-school-fandom-and-history-and-stuff.

Ancient Iliad fandom is intense

Alexander the Great and and his boyfriend totally RPed Achilles and Patroclus. Alexander shipped that hard. (It’s possible that this story is apocryphal, but that would just mean that ancient historians were writing RPS about Alexander and Hephaestion RPing Iliad slash and honestly that’s just as good).

And then there’s this gem from Plato:

“Very different was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his lover Patroclus - his lover and not his love (the notion that Patroclus was the beloved one is a foolish error into which Aeschylus has fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still beardless, and younger far)” - Symposium

That’s right: 4th Century BCE arguments about who topped. Nihil novi sub sole my friends.

Note that the printing press in China is invented much earlier and it has basically the same effect. Social conservatives in the censor bureau censored huge amounts of literature and poetry because of the devastating effect it had on the literati class (who formed most of the government bureaucracy, let’s not forget: So your state governor can’t work this week because he’s having Baoyu / Daiyu feels.) This did not stop it from leaking out anyway, in secret editions and hand-copied versions. And OMG the feels that these people have. There’s basically a constant struggle between the censors and this underground fandom, most novels are copied chapter-by-chapter, with people inserting fanfic chapters when they don’t have all the material (so if you have chapters 2, 3, 4, 10, 12 of your favorite book you might write your own 5-9 and circulate them) or just writing straight-up fanfic (famously in Water Margin and Red Chamber it _becomes canon_ after the author’s death.)

This post is the best thing, every part of it. Nothing to add except wow.

I’ve reblogged this before, but it had less information on it then. Shakespeare is almost entirely stuff we’d call fanfiction nowadays and his histories are RPF. We have evidence medieval nobility did things a lot like weekend-long LARP as entertainment, with paid performers as game organizers and NPCs. For centuries, there have been rumors that Queen Victoria knighted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in order to pressure him into retconning Reichenbach and continuing to write Sherlock Holmes stories.

I was an enormous Tolkien geek in middle school, and went as far as reading a lot of his letters/a lot of Simarillion meta. The short version is, he deliberately left gaps in the Silmarillion because Tolkien, as a professor of language and mythology, believed that for nearly all of human history storytelling had been participatory and involved many tellers of the same tales. He thought early-to-mid 20th century pop-culture and mass media were destructive because people did far less telling of stories, claiming of stories, and reworking of stories. I am pretty sure that, despite being a stuffy old professorial Christian white dude who would probably not read any porny fic or watch shippy vids, Tolkien is beaming in his grave over such things’ existence - over participatory storytelling having finally made its glorious comeback, over the 20th century’s approach to narrative being firmly established as an abberant nightmare that is thankfully mostly over. Did we get mythos we all reference and participate in to come back in style? Oh, by Harry Potter’s scar and every Jedi’s lightsaber, have we ever pulled that one off.

unrealisticfangirlfantasy: sexy-little-pookie: jehanisnotdeadno...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:17:07 +0900

unrealisticfangirlfantasy:

sexy-little-pookie:

jehanisnotdeadnopenopejustnope:

tomsdarling:

dream-alittlebiggerdarling:

volatile-selfobsessedbillionaire:

glorytothelips:

genius-billionaire-stark:

I played the Glee’s version of Somebody That I Used to Know and the original at the same time and I got this.

#how to summon satan

Oh my god.

This Is so goddamned eerie

IM SCARED

it’s the fucking chorus what the fuck is this shit get it away from me omg theres a demon in my room bye guys

I’M CRYING

I thought everyone was just overreacting…. what the fuck. This is creepy.

NO GOD HELP ME.

WAT DID I JUST LISTEN TO. AND WAT IS THIS GIF. Oh my god I feel like Satan is watching me from my closet…

heLP

I kind of like it?

meereeneseknot: And that’s what happened. The End.

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:32:46 +0900

meereeneseknot:

And that’s what happened. The End.

wowwow gam e ofthrones best idea goodshowwow that’s gonna reqatchepisode imemdiately sohappy...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:46:06 +0900

wowwow gam e ofthrones best idea goodshowwow that’s gonna reqatchepisode imemdiately sohappy great favorite episode #1

zeezeescorner: Australia: The New South Wales Court of Appeal...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:33:42 +0900

zeezeescorner:

Australia: The New South Wales Court of Appeal ruled that people do not have to be officially registered as male or female, after Sydney activist ‘Norrie’ (above) contested this law. The judges panel ruled “as a matter of construction … the word sex does not bear a binary meaning of ‘male’ or ‘female.’” This means that transgender, intersex and other queer-identified Australians are no longer forced to fit themselves into a narrow gender binary.

Photo & read more: The Age.

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teflongrl: I always wear thermals.Ah, you’re probably fine...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:43:39 +0900

teflongrl:

I always wear thermals.
Ah, you’re probably fine then.

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thirsty-pocket: fartgallery: How to make an unrebloggable read more: Send yourself an ask In the...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:10:21 +0900

thirsty-pocket:

fartgallery:

How to make an unrebloggable read more:

Send yourself an ask

In the typing box thingy, type [[.MORE]] (without the period)

This makes anything underneath that text part of a read more, so write anything you want! People can like and comment on it but they won’t be able to reblog it

Congratulate yourself for beating the system

I’m not really concerned with making posts unrebloggable that much, but I bet a lot of my followers could benefit from this information.

hannibalistic-tendencies: hannibalspenis: madsturbating: POSTI...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:53:42 +0900

hannibalistic-tendencies:

hannibalspenis:

madsturbating:

POSTING BECAUSE HE’S JUST SO INCREDIBLY EXCITED IN THE FIRST MINUTE. HE CAN’T EVEN LET THE INTERVIEWER FINISH HIS QUESTIONS AND HIS ENGLISH GETS ALL SLURRED AND I JUST LOVE IT!

WOW HE’S ACTUALLY SO CUTE????????

Seeing him in interviews makes me realize what a fantabulous actor he is, because he is all chipper and high-voiced.

Aww, bab.

Ben Edlund Is Leaving Supernatural to Rejoin Eric Kripke at Revolution

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:40:00 +0900

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