Speculation Time My Beloveds!!

America needs to step up its political verbal judo

absolutely brilliant

Same silly hand-wringing, different format. No wonder Neil is at home here on Tumblr

below is the letter received by Neil Gaiman from the “concerned mothers of america” in ‘92, and his response :)

he mentioned this letter in a recent interview with Pink News:

“I remember getting a very grumpy letter from the ‘Concerned Mothers of America’, informing us that due to the number of gay characters in Sandman they would be boycotting us and we had to repent,” he said.

“We never repented and the sales just went up, and up, and up. So I never really worried about their boycott.”

Food for thought:

The Furies of Greek myth, in order to not be directly named to draw their unwanted attention, were referred to as *The Kindly Ones*

Look at this distinguished gentleman. Look at the way he is reading the paper, mmmyessh, very distinguished.

COS Edward, for @suiilee ,for no particular reason. With glasses, also for no reason, I just like to give people glasses. @suiilee you keep reminding me of COS, I will need to watch it again soon. I remember when the movie first came out I loved that he had a pony tail - that was before he had one in the manga. Those were the days, eh? P.S. get sticker here

Loving this, will have to check these novels out~

tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like

“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”

and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent

What is your favorite meal or food description? Your answers are always excellent and I adore your tumblr

Favourite description of an individual dish?

The beer was brown, the bread black, the stew a creamy white. She served it in a trencher hollowed out of a stale loaf. It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter. It was the sort of stew that warmed a man right down to his bones, just the thing for a wet, cold night.

Davos I, ADWD

This is a description written with love. I want to try a few spoonfuls of this! And I don't even like cream-based stock!

Well spoken sir/ma'am.

"You came out whiter!"; Racism and the Walkerton twins

As the only girl who was of mixed ethnicities on her white mother’s side of the family, and who had up until now been forced to largely ignore any other side of her, the story of Sal Walkerton (and the drama from the internet) strikes home. So many people are saying “How can Walky be ‘whiter, they’re twins!” and it’s just… a little offensive to be honest, because it’s suggesting that racial traits have no bearing on racism, just skin color. That two people who look alike wouldn’t be treated differently if one acted differently than the other. Even worse, people are using their last line of defense and saying, “Well how can they be racist to their own children, they’re their parents”, which just erases the concept of parental-child abuse.

Because people are being… either ignorant, or oblivious when it comes to subtle plot hinting, here some of the moments where it’s been made pretty clear that Walky has at least considered himself different than Sal in terms of the whole race issue. I actually dug into the archives SPECIFICALLY because people keep saying “it was never made apparent,” or that Sal was just making a low jab to get at Walky. And, well… I found even more evidence than what I originally remembered going into it.

It starts to become noticeable around a year ago:

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What can we do to help? Are we doing a full RT boycott? Starting a campaign to expose the corruption?

ROOSTER TEETH THREATENED TO RECAST ARRYN FOR NOT ACCEPTING WHAT THEY WERE WILLING TO PAY HER?? THE FUCKING B IN RWBY??? THE MOST POPULAR IP TO COME OUT OF ROOSTER TEETH???? WHAAAAAT?????

What, pray tell, does golf have to do with vampirism?

You'll never take me alive!!

happy pride month from the one and only hatsune miku