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I’ll have to add that to my reading list!
Outside of Discworld, do you have a favourite book?
Oooh, so many but my knee jerk reaction was to say The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, all three books (The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and The Winter of the Witch) are amazing, I think about them a LOT. What about you?
Ahh, I read that one, it creeped me out in the BEST way!
Outside of Discworld, do you have a favourite book?
Oooh, so many but my knee jerk reaction was to say The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, all three books (The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and The Winter of the Witch) are amazing, I think about them a LOT. What about you?
Outside of Discworld, do you have a favourite book?
Oooh, so many but my knee jerk reaction was to say The Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden, all three books (The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower, and The Winter of the Witch) are amazing, I think about them a LOT. What about you?
My husband had been telling me to read Terry Pratchett since way before he was my husband. He told me there was a book called Good Omens that he thought I’d like so I waited, like, 10 years and then I read it and he was right. Then I read The Colour of Magic and was like hmm, okay, interesting, but I wasn’t blown away and I BARELY remember reading it so I went on with my life and read a ton of Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood and a lot of other things, but no more Pratchett, no more Discworld.
Maybe I just wasn’t in need of it yet but when I was going through a hard time I decided to try again and I think I read Reaper Man and fell in love with DEATH, and then because I mostly read whatever is available at the time on Libby I grabbed one of the Witches books and decided that I wanted to BE Granny Weatherwax when I grew up (ha) but in fact was 80% Nanny Ogg and 20% Magrat (no complaints, and I’m Granny when the situation calls for it) and so I read every single Witches book. I’ve been hooked ever since.
I didn’t think I’d love any of the characters more than the witches and thought hey, people love the City Watch books but different strokes for different folks, I’m sure they’re still lovely, I just won’t love them as much and I was SO wrong because Pseudopolis Yard and Ankh Morpork feel like home and I’d kill for Vimes and Carrot and Angua and Vetinari and Colon and Nobbs and all the rest. I love them. I’m reading that series in order and just finished Jingo (my favorite so far) and I’m waiting for The Fifth Elephant to be available. I cannot wait.
Anyway, long, rambling post to say how much I love Discworld and all the people on it and my family is probably getting REALLY sick of hearing about it but phooey on them. And now I’m off to spend some time with Tiffany Aching and the Nac Mac Feegle. I love them too.
I haven’t used this blog in a REALLY long time (the last thing I reblogged was from Rogue One and that came out about a billion years ago) but I need quiet, mindless scrolling (so TikTok is out) and Reddit (or, well, Spez anyway) can kiss my shiny metal ass so here I am. I actually tried to make a new account and was surprised I already had one. Completely forgot it existed. Turns out I Aten’t Dead. Anyway, here’s Wonderwall*.
*There will actually be no Wonderwall. Sorry.
Rogue One novel - Bodhi Rook - (insp.)
“The Rebellion needed him. Jyn needed him. Her father, who’d set him on this path, needed him. He braced his legs and got ready to run.”
my aesthetic
— but oh, how the devil rejoiced // k.s.
BARB LIVES!
Had a dream that McDonald’s had a big ad campaign that just said “WE HAVE IT” in black cryptic writing. So I went to a drive thru and said “I saw the sign. Can I have it” and the speaker was silent for a solid ten seconds before saying “do you think you’re ready” in my voice and I screamed and drove away
I’ll leave this here. A message that I think we all need today.
i was sitting on my couch, in tears, and my dad, an Old Liberal, sits down next to me and he says
‘i know i can’t say anything that will make any of this better, but i want you to know that, in 1980, when i was 18 years old, i watched the country elect ronald reagan, and i was just as devastated as you are now. it felt like everyone had gone insane. my friends and i joked about moving to canada or japan or england, just like you are with your friends. i was angry then, and i’m still a little bitter now, but I got through it. we all did. donald trump is not ronald reagan, i know, but if i can get through it, so can you.’
anyway that soothed my hurt a miniscule amount, hope it soothes you a bit
“OUR FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN,” National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., October 14, 1979. Photo © Ted Sahl, c/o @sjsu. 🏳️🌈 (at Washington, District of Columbia)
when i say “unfollow me if you support trump” im not saying it ironically. no, seriously, if you support trump then i dont want your disgraceful ass to be in any way associated with my blog. get out.
#KeepKissing
next time someone tells you Muslim countries oppress women, let them know Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal have all had female Presidents or Prime Ministers and 1/3rd of Egypt’s parliament is female but the US has yet to even have a female vice president and can’t say “vagina” when discussing female reproductive rights
“Pence is no Uncle Joe.His record as governor indicates that he is willing to completely undermine the core values of a free country in order to impose his own vision of theocratic control.
While Donald Trump is a bumbling political idiot, Mike Pence is actively against the people and possibilities that we need to help America to have a strong future. His career has been built on hateful exclusion, not intelligent inclusion.
Here are some things that every voter should know about Mike Pence:
- Science and invention helped build America, but Mike Pence is 100% anti-science. He chooses not to accept the preponderance of evidence that supports anthropomorphic climate change, and he thinks schools should be required to teach Christian “creationism” mythology alongside evolution in science classrooms.
- Mike Pence is anti-environment. As governor, he has vetoed every piece of environmental regulation that has crossed his desk. He doesn’t want the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, and he does want to open up pretty much every part of our country to oil and coal companies. No more wildlands under Pence. He is one of those irresponsible extremists who think that God gave us the world so we could just use it up, and when it is all used up the second coming will occur. There is no Biblical basis for this belief.
- Females make up more than half of the American population, but Mike Pence is anti-woman. He has said the Disney movie “Mulan,” which was based on a centuries old Chinese poem, was the work of a “mischievous liberal” trying to groom young children to accept women in combat. “Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan’s ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis,” he wrote on his radio show’s website.
- He obsessively pursues a personal vendetta to take Title X funding away from Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood provides abortion services. Title X money CANNOT be used for abortions. Abortions are paid for by the recipient or through private, tagged donations. Taking away Title X will not impact abortion services, but it would leave thousands of women without access to cancer screenings or birth control.
- Speaking of birth control, Mike Pence once again revealed his historical ignorance in saying that condoms are “modern” and “liberal.” He thinks all women should be pregnant unless they can’t afford a baby, in which case they should abstain from sex, even if they are married. That’s right: sex is only for procreation in PenceWorld. If you can’t afford the diapers, then hubby should be sleeping on the couch.
- Mike Pence is also anti-gay, to the point of denial. He doesn’t want the government to pay for cancer screenings, but he does want the government to pay for abusive “conversion therapy” programs that systematically undermine the victim’s self-esteem, and then indoctrinate them into robotic gender-appropriate behaviors. He has signed into law a bill that allows discrimination against LGTBQ customers based on religious belief.
- As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence was personally responsible for an outbreak of AIDS when he refused to allow clean needle exchanges for drug addicts. Instead, he asked people to pray for the addicts.
- Mike Pence is racist. He thinks there is “too much talk” about institutional racism in law enforcement because “police officers are human beings.” His solution is unity through “faith.” The Indiana governor has tried to prevent Syrian refugees from settling in his state because the “pose a threat to safety of residents.” Pence argued that his policy was based on fear, not race, so it wasn’t discriminatory. A Federal Appeals Court dismissed his racist arguments on October 3, 2016.
- A Federal Court also had to block his bizarre anti-abortion law that required burial or cremation for fetuses, whether miscarried or aborted, no matter how far along the pregnancy had progressed.
- Mike Pence is pro-birth, but not pro-life. He once funneled $3.5M dollars from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families into programs that counsel against abortion. He wants those women to have those babies, but he doesn’t care if the kids starve or live on the streets afterward.
- Mike Pence has refused to comply with federal guidelines aimed at reducing prison rape.
When you add it all together, you can see that the most dangerous part of the Trump-Pence ticket is …that calculating quiet man who will be leading the charge from behind. Mike Pence is basically against anyone who is not white, conservative, Christian, and male.
When Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, he challenged a longtime Democratic congressman for a seat in a Republican-leaning Indiana district. He seemed to have it in the bag until voters were stunned to learn that he had been using political donations to pay personal expenses including the mortgage on his house, his credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees, and car payments for his wife.”
http://www.smobserved.com/story/2016/10/10/opinion/mike-christian-sharia-pence-is-scarier-than-donald-trump/2081.html
To all of my friends out there and ESPECIALLY my trans friends, if you hadn’t done so now, PLEASE GET A PASSPORT. President Obama made it VERY easy to get your gender marker changed on your passport. All you need is:
- An ID that resembles your current appearance (just get a new photo taken on a driver’s license or ANY government issued ID) - Passport photo that resembles your current appearance (From any drug store)
- Proof of legal name change (if applicable)
- A physician statement that indicates you have either completed or are in process of treatment for gender transition (the hardest part) No surgeries, no red tape, no bullshit. And when people try to harass you or puush you around because “Hahaha your ID says your x” Whip out your passport and shut them DOWN. I carry mine wherever I go and I know a lot of my friends who live in the south do so as well. This law could VERY easily change under a Trump presidency and I haven’t been as serious about anything as I am about this. PLEASE GET A PASSPORT. Even the passport card (which is half as expensive as the book is!!!) will do. Just please if you can, get ONE ID that matches who you really are.
And I know to be able to get all of this together is a sign of privilege in the first place, and from one black, trans, queer women to all of my vulnerable siblings I will rot in a jail cell before I let this country harm any of us and I this I swear. I will NOT take this lying down. PLEASE Signal Boost!
“I covered a lot of Trump rallies as a journalist. I didn’t feel any hatred. People were more curious than anything. I was never assaulted. I felt like most people were just supporting him because he wasn’t part of the establishment. Or because they were tired of politics. But it was confusing. Because even though I didn’t feel like they hated me, these people were supporting someone who said I should be banned from the country. Even the father of one of my best friends supports Trump. This man had me over to his house. I went to Thanksgiving with him. My friend asked him: ‘Dad, how can you support that man? Our friend Zahra is a Muslim.’ He told her: ‘Don’t worry. He won’t do everything that he says.’ Today has been difficult. These last few weeks, it was mostly speculation. There was suspicion that most Americans supported him but I could hope that it was wrong. But now that hope is gone. And I have to feel differently. I have to feel like maybe most Americans don’t want me here. And I feel like no matter how hard I try, I’ll never be part of the community. And even if they’re friendly to me, or if they invite me to Thanksgiving, deep down they believe that America is a country that belongs to white people.”
Well, he's gonna be president now
That’s one more thing to worry about.
“I first ran for Congress in 1999, and I got beat. I just got whooped. I had been in the state legislature for a long time, I was in the minority party, I wasn’t getting a lot done, and I was away from my family and putting a lot of strain on Michelle. Then for me to run and lose that bad, I was thinking maybe this isn’t what I was cut out to do. I was forty years old, and I’d invested a lot of time and effort into something that didn’t seem to be working. But the thing that got me through that moment, and any other time that I’ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it’s about the work. Because if you’re worrying about yourself—if you’re thinking: ‘Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?’ – then you’re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done.”
Ghostbusters Halloween Appreciation Post
