yahighway:

“My local library branch started doing this “Blind Date with a Book” thing, thought you guys might like it. The shelf was full when we got there, but was like this as we were leaving. The books are wrapped in paper and have different designs on them, and then a few words vaguely describing the subject matter of the book. Things like “Drama”, “Plot Twists”, “espionage”, etc. The only thing exposed on the book is the barcode that you use to scan the book out. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.”

There’s a future book dinner party in here. Genius.

nudityandnerdery:

Remember that time Gandalf convinced the whole party to flee so that he could take out the Balrog and not have to share any of the XP? Shows up the next session with fancy new robes and everything. What a jerk.

serotonin - happiness, satisfaction
dopamine - love, passion, pleasure
acetylcholine - learning, memory, dreaming

I WANT THIS BECAUSE OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS

leupagus:

downlo:

thecakebar:

Why cakes fail (reasons why)

Useful!

Yeah, useful in reminding me why I NEVER FUCKING BAKE.

hungrylikethewolfie:

fucknodansavage:

zloi-medved:

dan savage is the person who founded the It Gets Better campaign, and is also reknowned for his “Savage Love” advice column that deals with sex, sexuality, love, and whatever other freaky stuff readers write in about

and he’s like, totally all about GSM rights, y’all!

as long as you’re a white cis homosexual male, anyway.

oh, and don’t be fat. being fat is sooooooo gross.

there’s this lovely incident where he tells a reader who indentifies as “minimally sexual” (somewhere between the spectrum of asexual and heterosexual) and all minimally sexual and asexual everywhere to stop “inflicting themselves” upon “normally sexual” people.

With all the minimally sexuals out there making normally sexuals miserable, NSNA, it should be obvious to all regular readers that there’s not exactly a shortage of people who aren’t interested in sex. With that being the case, why would you even contemplate inflicting yourself on a normally sexual person? Why not go find another minimally sexual person? You’ll be doing your minimally sexual self a favor, you’ll be doing your future minimally sexual partner a favor, and you’ll be doing all normally sexual persons everywhere a favor by removing two minimals—you and your future partner—from the dating pool.

what a fucking asshole

in the same column, talking to a woman who recently came out as queer, he refers to her tactic of telling a bisexual friend she doesn’t want to pursue a relationship because she’s still unstable from the coming-out process as “a baby-dyke variation on “I’m just not ready for a relationship right now.”“

“baby-dyke” lmao okay asshole

we also have this awesome incident where a woman writes in about how her once-gay-ex-husband-now-transexual-ex-wife has gone through a series of events in her life - first, coming out as gay, and then being diagnosed with HIV, and now declaring that she is undergoing hormone treatment and preparing for surgery to become a woman. this is having a negative impact on their 15yo son, and the mother writes in, concerned.

savage’s response? he repeatedly refers to her ex as a tranny and as a man, and just shows very little regard for the whole situation in general.

Divorced parents, gay dad, the HIV bombshell… and now, so suddenly, a woman. That’s an awful lot for a high-school-age kid, especially a boy, to deal with. The tranny activists are going to jump down my throat for this, but… it seems to me that your ex could’ve put off the sex change until after his son was out of high school. One of the things parents are supposed to do is make sacrifices, big and small, for the sake of their children. And while I think people have a right to do pretty much as they please (and parents are people), I also believe that children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives. Perhaps I’m a transphobic bigot, but I honestly think waiting a measly 36 months to cut your dick is a sacrifice any father should be willing to make for his 15-year-old son. Call me old-fashioned.

Unfortunately, your ex wasn’t willing to make that sacrifice (selfish tranny!), or it never occurred to him to make that sacrifice (stupid tranny!).

what a fucking piece of work

(same article, he also states that sexually dominant women are rare… okay :/ he must have poor google skills)

he basically says no one should date bisexual people because they’re all sleazy heartbreakers:

I’m not saying bi guys are bad people, or they don’t make great one-night stands. Bushes, bathhouses, and sleazy gay bars are crawling with bi guys. But if a guy wants more, he’ll have an easier time getting it from another gay man.

[…]

Judging from my mail, Andrew, when a gay guy or a straight girl gets involved with a bi guy, someone always winds up getting hurt. And guess what? It’s rarely the bi guy. So while I wish the rules and the risks were the same for everyone, it seems that in this instance they’re not. 

[…]

No, there are definitely some people who should fool around with bisexual men: OTHER BISEXUAL MEN! Jesus Christ, bisexuals — if straights and gays treat you unfairly, then why not turn to each other for love and comfort? Judging from my mail of late, there’s an unlimited supply of easily offended, extremely verbose, highly ethical bisexuals out there looking for love. Fuck each other!

REMEMBER KIDS, ONLY EVER PURSUE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR OWN KIND! DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS! DON’T DIRTY THE BLOODLINES!

one of his crowning moments of sheer asshatery, where a rape survivor writes in with concerns about a previous article. 

he starts off okay:

I’m extremely sorry that you were raped, DRARS, 

but then it just gets

so much worse

so quickly

although your baseless accusations of rape make me doubt your claim to be a survivor of rape. The feminist bloggers are going to accuse me of thought crimes: If a woman says she was raped then, by God, she was raped. (Tell it to the lacrosse team.) If this is a thought crime, well, I plead entrapment: I wouldn’t have had these illegal thoughts if you hadn’t sent me such a stupid letter in the first place.

so basically “sorry you got raped but lol i don’t believe you really did and now i’m going to mock you”

the letter she was expressing concern about was a man who has a sexual fetish for fucking a woman while she’s asleep. his wife consented while awake, but in her sleep, she “whimpers, turns away, and otherwise makes herself inaccessible”. if that isn’t her body clearly unconsciously expressing that it does not comfortable with those sexual advances, i don’t know what is.

savage gave the man the advice to drug his wife so she would be more prone while sleeping. he then states, “I’d be willing to pop a sleeping pill now and then to keep my boyfriend happy, so why not Ambien?”

because how he thinks and feels and would act is the blueprint of how everyone should, clearly!

he finishes it off beautifully.

I hereby withdraw my consent for you to read Savage Love. If you continue to read my column against my will, well, we all know what word to apply to your actions.

who let this man near an equality movement?

he continues to show stunning disregard for asexuality when he apparently disparages the sexuality on a podcast (that i refuse to listen to - his grating, pompous voice dripping with crass superiority gives me a headache), and receives this letter from an asexual woman who only discovered that asexuality even existed several months into a relationship, explaining her asexuality, and was completely open with her boyfriend about it. she was fully expecting to get dumped, but her boyfriend was very understanding and they’d been together three years as of the sending of the email.

in savage’s response, he says the only possible way any man could ever love her and want to pursue a relationship with her is if they were “either a fool or a fag”.

then he expresses the belief that homophobic POC can do way more damage to white homosexuals than racist homosexuals can do to POC.

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and as the piece de resistance, an anon super helpfully reminded me of the FUCKNODANSAVAGE tumblr

for your browsing convenience

^ This is like a greatest hits summary of why we exist!

Saving this for the next time someone asks why I loathe Dan Savage with a fierce, burning passion.

katbelleinthedark:

latitans:

deefic:

isali3:

goddamnhella:

Lookin’ good there, boys.
…Especially you, Loki.

(The Mighty Thor 12.1) 

you’ve gotta love how Loki is so into this idea. He’s just … brimming with excitement.

So, like. Here’s the thing.

First of all, in the Þrymskviða, there’s no explanation for how Mjǫlnir gets stolen: Þórr just literally wakes up at the start of the story to find it gone. Then he’s all like, “Loki. Loki, my hammer is gone. Help find it!”

And Loki’s like, “Righty-right!” because he’s pretty agreeable like that in most of these sagas.

So Loki goes to Freyja and borrows her falcon cloak, then uses it to fly to Jǫtunheimr where he finds Þrymr, the king of the jǫtnar. For the record, the sagas record Þrymr as “plaiting gold bands” for his hounds, as well as smoothing his horses’ manes when Loki arrives. Just, yanno. To add some characterisation in there for you.

So anyway, Loki’s all like, “Dude. Did you steal Mjǫlnir?”

And Þrymr’s all like, “Lul yup. I buried it. I’ll give it back when I’ve married Freyja.”

So Loki dutifully flies back to Ásgarðr to relay this news to Þórr. The pair of them, in turn, go to see Freyja and tell her, with all the tact you’d imagine, she has to marry Þrymr to get back Mjǫlnir. Freyja’s answer can be summed up as: “Har har fuck you no.”

With Plan A having fallen through, the æsir have a meeting to try and decide what to do about this SRS BIZNESS.

And then? Well, here’s the kicker. The guy who comes up with Plan “First, We Dress As Women”?

Is Heimdallr.

No shit.

So Heimdallr’s all like, “No, seriously guys this will totally work. We dress Þórr up all pretty, like a bride y’know? And we stick Brísingamen”— that’s Freyja’s Special Necklace, for those playing along at home —“on him and, voilà!”

And Þórr’s like, “Dude, no. I’m not dressing up like a girl. The guys will call me a fag.”

To which Loki goes, “Man up and put the fucking dress on, Þórr. I’ll come too. It’ll be fun.”

So the æsir get the pair dressed up all pretty-like, and soon bride!Freyja!Þórr and maidservant!Loki are heading off to Jǫtunheimr in Þórr’s goat-driven chariot. Seems legit.

Þrymr certainly thinks so, getting all his guys to set up all fancy for the bridal feast. “Get out the good aurochs!” says Þrymr. “And all the best treasure for my new bride! I heard she likes necklaces. Get lots. Pretty ones!”

The evening rolls around, and it’s Bridal Feast time. And Þórr is all like, “Food? Do I!” and eats:

• an entire ox
• eight salmon
• “all the sweetmeats women should have” , and
• three salds of mead (I have no idea what a “sald” is either, for the record, and neither does Google).

To which Þrymr is all like, “Wow. I’ve never seen a chick put so much away.”

Luckily Loki is busy thinking, not stuffing his face, so he says, “No but seriously. Freyja was so keen to get here she hasn’t eaten for eight whole nights!”

Þrymr obviously takes this as a good sign in a new bride, so goes to sneak a kiss beneath “Freyja’s” veil, only to get a Fiery Þórr Death Glare.

“Dude, WTF?” says Þrymr.

And Loki’s like, “Er… she hasn’t slept, either. ‘Cause, yanno. Eager. Legit, man, I swear.”

Anyway, then Þrymr’s sister comes in and asks for rings as a bridegift. In return, Þrymr orders Mjǫlnir brought in, and put on “Freyja’s” lap, so they can get married over it. (Apparently hammers were like celebrants in those days? Or something? Who knew!)

So this happens, and Þórr is like, “Fucking finally!” and grabs the hammer, and kills Þrymr, then all the jǫtnar, then even the lady who wanted the rings. And this murder in particular gets an entire stanza of puns devoted to it! Vikings, right?

Anyway. That’s pretty much how that goes.

And now you know.

And Þórr’s like, “Dude, no. I’m not dressing up like a girl. The guys will call me a fag.”

To which Loki goes, “Man up and put the fucking dress on, Þórr. I’ll come too. It’ll be fun.”

Lol, for a moment there, I felt like I was back in my runology class and the lecturer dude was telling us about Nordic sagas. In a dudebro way, of course.

nathoyt:

alaelia:

honorized:

joosboks:

msanimanga:

itstrivial:

#CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEEEEEEA

HAVE YOU EVER STIRRED THE CREAM IN WITH A LONE TEASPOON

OR ASKED THE STEAMING KETTLE WHY HE STEAMS

CAN YOU DRINK WITH ALL POSHNESS OF THE BRITISH

CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEA

CAN YOU PAINT WITH ALL THE COLORS OF THE TEEEEEAAAAAAAAA

YOU THINK THE ONLY TEA CUPS WHO ARE TEA CUPS

ARE THE TEA CUPS WHO HOLD A DEEP DARK BREW

BUT IF YOU DRINK LIGHT ORANGE TEA OF STRANGERS

YOU’LL TASTE THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEVER KNEW

HOW DARK CAN THE ORANGE PEKOE GROW

IF YOU POUR IT NOW, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW

AND YOU’LL NEVER STIR THE CREAM IN WITH A LONE TEASPOON

FOR WHETHER WE LIKE BLACK, OR HERBAL GREEN

 WE MUST DRINK WITH ALL THE POSHNESS OF THE BRITISH

WE MUST PAINT WITH ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TEA

YOU CAN OWN THE LEAVES AND STILL

ALL YOU’LL OWN IS LEAVES UNTIL

YOU CAN PAINT WITH ALL THE COLOURS OF THE TEA 

I have just witness the most glorifying post in the history of tumblr.

pretty much omg #saving this

i’ll be honest i cried a little bit

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

areyoutryingtodeduceme:

One of the most amazing things to come from the fandom tea blend craze on Adagio is seeing all of the creative and amazing recipes the fans have come up with using the tea as a base! This is just the first batch of a LOT of such recipes, please give them a try, and enjoy eating your tea as well as drinking it!

• Doughlocks by Mollquil
• Douglas Richardson’s Iced LemonTea Cookies by fireraineddown
• Gingerbread Jims by vitaminelise
• Harry Potter Muffins by dragoon811
• John Watson’s Jamtastic Cinnamon Muffins by gatissimo
• Loki Facial (Not for eating, but amazing nonetheless!) by witchitaito
• Shouty Mycroft Cupcakes <3 by frankenunicorn
• Three Continents Cocktail using Watson infused Vodka by theotherwillow
• Spacey Wacey Cupcakes by kitsunecoffee

If you have your own fandom-tea inspired recipes, please tag me or ‘whatpeoplebrew’ so that I can find them!

CASUALLY BRINGS THIS BACK