abitch-in-the-matrix:

Season 6 Willow was powerful enough to raise the dead and send people to another dimension. She couldn’t magic some money to pay the bills? That would have been helpful really.

Part of Willow’s problem was that she was powerful, but didn’t think things through. So I feel like if she had done that, it would turn out that the money get clocked as counterfeit, or is traced to a robbery, or something that would get Buffy in more trouble, cause the writers had this whole BOOTSTRAPS! thing going on that season.

Anonymous asked:

We should go back to using terms like "hobby horse" instead of "special interest" or "hyperfocus".

Just acknowledge that some people really like certain subjects, no need to clinicalize it.

olderthannetfic answered:

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Hobby horse strikes me about like soap box.

olderthannetfic:

pro-anomalocaris:

olderthannetfic:

pro-anomalocaris:

I don’t what’s weirder, the idea that ‘special interest’ is clinicalizing something (sorry I refer to something I have a especially intense interest as a special… interest… gee I wonder why someone would use this term for it?) or the phrase 'hobby horse’, which I have never heard before in my life but which sounds like a horsegirl term.

A hobbyhorse is one of those toys that consists of a stick with a horse’s head on the end.

In a metaphorical sense, it’s a topic that someone just won’t stop riding. It suggests tedious and frequent returns to the subject.

How long ago was it used? My parents are in their 80’s and 60’s and I’ve never hear this, nor have I ever encountered it in what I’ve read, despite reading a fair number of older books.

I wouldn’t say it’s wildly common or anything, but it’s not obsolete, particularly in the metaphorical usage.

Do kids even have these toys now, though? I definitely have one in the house somewhere from my childhood, but I haven’t seen any in ages. The horse costume from mummers’ plays is still called this as well, but that’s obviously going to come up in limited contexts.

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The google n-gram results suggest “hobby-horse” was the more common version in the past. Now, they’ve all settled into relatively minor usage… aside from “cock horse”, which I suspect just turns up in endless reprints of Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross.

As a data point, I had a hobbyhorse as a kid in the 1960s, but it’s been a loooooong time since I’ve seen one in the wild. I’ve seen “hobbyhorse” used as a term for a spcial interest used much more recently and frequently than I’ve seen the actual item.

sephiroths-stuff: “hunter-rodrigez: “pulling-aggro: “skunktaildax: “” treasure planet is a fucking phenomenal film and was released during a time where it was destined to be forgotten by everyone ” Fun fact: Slitted pupils only give you an advantage...

sephiroths-stuff:

hunter-rodrigez:

pulling-aggro:

skunktaildax:

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Originally posted by glory-in-fire

treasure planet is a fucking phenomenal film and was released during a time where it was destined to be forgotten by everyone

Fun fact: Slitted pupils only give you an advantage when your eyes are just a few inches above the ground. They help you focus on small and close up prey in the horizontal plane. That’s why they’re primarily found in animals like snakes, foxes, cats and reptilians.

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Round pupils don’t work as well when they’re that close to the ground, they’re more suited for hunting larger things that are also further away than pouncing distance, which is why larger predators like tigers and humans got them.

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But that doesn’t mean your cat person character or whatever, needs round pupils, it just means it is implied that they mostly hunt small animals and that they look like this while doing so:

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@altocat imagine sephiroth

Reblogged from altocat

homunculus-argument:

A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don’t introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go “oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character” and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn’t impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone’s dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn’t come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that’s already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

whatshisfaceblogs:

BTVS “Every Outfit” !!! Xx

Can’t believe I got there in the end! When I started I genuinely never thought I would get to this point!!!

BTVS is my favourite show and Buffy is my fave fictional character, no competition! I’ve always loved her fashion and it felt right to express my endless love for my gal but drawing all her looks!!!

This is my magnum opus! My greatest artistic achievement!!!

I wanna thank you all for the love and support during this project! First and foremost I was drawing this series for me but the excitement y’all shared honestly helped me fly through it! After finishing an episode I couldn’t wait for y’all to see it!!!

It has meant so much honestly and I’m so happy you all where here for the journey!!!

The other Buffy ladies will get their love eventually! Lots of my fave ladies will get their love soon! But I won’t be doing an every single outfit series for another character, it feels right that Buffy will hold that honour!!! ♥️

a-kind-of-merry-war:

a-kind-of-merry-war:

a-kind-of-merry-war:

So there’s going to be a general election

There is going to be a general election in the UK on the 4th July.

You can register to vote here. It should take five minutes. ⬇⬇⬇

Register to vote
Get on the electoral register so you can vote in elections and referendums.
GOV.UK

You will be asked for your national insurance number, but you can still register if you don’t have one. Your national insurance number will be on any payslips or tax forms if you’re not sure what it is.

If you are voting in person, you will need photo ID. If you do not have photo ID, you can apply for a Voter Authority Certificate FOR FREE. To apply, you’ll need a recent digital photo of yourself and proof of your identity.

Apply for a Voter Authority Certificate here ⬇⬇⬇

Apply for photo ID to vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’)
Apply for photo ID to vote (Voter Authority Certificate) in some elections and referendums in Great Britain if you do not have an accepted f
GOV.UK

If you are unable to vote in person, you can apply for a postal vote HERE or apply for a proxy vote (where someone else votes on your behalf) HERE.

UPDATE:

  • The deadline to register to vote is Tuesday 18 June
  • The deadline to apply for a postal vote is Wednesday 19 June
  • The deadline to apply for a proxy vote is Wednesday 26 June

If you need to register to vote or apply for a postal or proxy vote, make sure you do it before these dates!

You have until 11:59pm TOMORROW* to register to vote, if you haven’t already done so

*11:59pm on the 18th June

plague-of-insomnia:

urban-trek-thru-middle-earth:

Just looked at a blog where the header description said ‘sometimes I reblog posts I like so I don’t forget them’.

And I feel like that, right there, explains so much about how the site has changed in the last few months.

People now think reblogging is an unusual behaviour, rather than a default.

Tumblr newbies, please, for the love of baby Jesus, reblog the posts you like. That is the whole reason the site exists - for you to collect all your shiny fandom objects in a single space. Which you can organize to your heart’s content. Or not organize at all, if that’s your jam.

Our blogs are intended to be collections of posts, not collections of likes.

THE ENTIRE POINT OF TUMBLR IS REBLOGGING.

Liking does absolutely nothing. There is no algorithm like on IG that will use likes to throw content at people. If you don’t reblog, then no one who doesn’t follow that person (or happen to find it in the tags) will see that post.

Tumblr is supposed to be your bookcase where you show off all of your pretties: the posts you like and the ones that you want to promote to support the other creators in your fandom/community.