1. 17:28 22nd May 2013

    Notes: 4631

    Reblogged from apeacebone

    Tags: memeask box

    Send me a word and a character/series/pairing and I will write a drabble:

    moodymarshmallow:

    squirreltastic:

    Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips.
    Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.
    Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
    Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.
    Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.
    Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
    Autolatry - The worship of one’s self.
    Cagamosis - An unhappy marriage.
    Gargalesthesia - The sensation caused my tickling.
    Capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
    Lalochezia - The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
    Cataglottism - Kissing with tongue.
    Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss.
    Brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunder.
    Grapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene pictures.
    Agelast - A person who never laughs.
    Wanweird - An unhappy fate.
    Dystopia - Am imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.
    Petrichor - The smell of dry rain on the ground.
    Anagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
    Malapert - Clever in manners of speech.
    Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.
    Concilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
    Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
    Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

    Ayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
    Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads no where.
    Baisemain - A kiss on the hand.
    Druxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
    Mamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.

    Oooh, this could be a lot of fun. 

    Pairings please?

    I have been wanting a fic meme, and this looks promising. :) Ask box here.

     

  2. 16:56

    Notes: 64

    Reblogged from fanhackers

    Tags: kindle worldsfanfiction metagood overview of the new platformand the problems with it

    Amazon announces publishing platform for licensed fanfic

    fanhackers:

    PaidContent reports that in June this year, Amazon will be launching Kindle Worlds, a legal publishing platform for fanfic. According to Amazon’s announcement, Kindle Worlds will start out by allowing fanfic based on Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries.

    It’s not necessarily bad news that companies are trying to create options for “licensed” fanfic, and I’ll leave the in-depth analysis of the legal aspects of this to professionals. Legal issues aside, though, I certainly hope that Kindle Worlds won’t become a model for other attempts to legalize fanfic. This concept seems to repeat a lot of fan-unfriendly aspects of previous forays by companies into the weird world of fic monetization. Kindle Worlds would allow fic authors to sell works “without hassle”, as PaidContent says, but apparently also without many rights, and within the boundaries of extremely strict content guidelines.

    The platform refers to fandoms as “Worlds”. Copyright holders can give Amazon Publishing a license to allow fic writers to upload stories about licensed media to Amazon Publishing, which will then offer the stories for sale. Since this is not a self-publishing platform, Amazon Publishing will be setting the prices:

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  3. 16:43

    Notes: 856

    Reblogged from sakuratsukikage

    Tags: dragon age 2isabela

     

  4. 16:40

    Notes: 312

    Reblogged from signcherie

    Tags: educationeconomicsunemploymentoh well said

    I am one of the lucky ones. I managed to turn my history of science and philosophy degree into graduate education in a semi-practical field. I’m not too worried about my employment opportunities once I finish my PhD. But I have friends who are suffering. They are being bounced around between unpaid internships, or desperately sending out resumes, or stuck working in underpaid fast-food jobs when they have master’s degrees. It’s nasty out there, and for baby boomers with secure pensions to shrug their shoulders and say that we should have been more shrewd with our career planning when we were seventeen and there was no recession and everybody was telling us to follow our passions is not just wrong; it’s also insulting. It’s a deliberate attack on unemployed and underemployed young people, aimed at implicating us in our own misfortune and diverting attention away from political choices that are needlessly exacerbating the recession. That this wrong and hurtful narrative has been accepted by the media and political elites is a big, big problem.
    — Why The Practicality Trolls are Wrong | Earnest and Jest (via brute-reason)
     

  5. 16:22

    Notes: 33

    Reblogged from bridgetanatale

    Tags: kindle worldsfanfiction metafandom metapublishinggood thoughts

    Some Thoughts on Profit, Art, and Fanfic

    bridgetanatale:

    I have read a number of reactions to the news that Amazon is now going to offer licensed fanfic for sale and there are two issues that I see that I haven’t seen anybody talk about. The first issue is what a shit thing this is for women. The second is what a shit thing capitalism is for art.

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  6. 14:31

    Notes: 26

    Reblogged from ouyangdan

    Tags: chivarlysexismchivarly is a form of sexismoh yes it isco freaking signed

    ouyangdan:

    no let’s talk about that bullshit for a moment, how women are often compared to children, shunned from public spaces for having the audacity to have children, talked about but not to, and otherwise treated like we are some sort of resource or commodity that needs to be guarded or protected or shut away.

    and then while all of that is happening, we are expected to take it with a smile on our demure faces because it just shows how much the people (and by people i mean men) in a (kyriarchal) society care about us and only want good for us and here let me hold the door for you because you’ll always be a little girl in my eyes.

    no fuck you and your chivalry and your backhanded and internalised misogyny.

     

  7. 12:30

    Notes: 14400

    Reblogged from barbeauxbot

    Tags: ducksducklingsfaith in humanity

    spindlebug:

    sweet-bitsy:

    breanieswordvomit:

    caffeinated-zombie:

    So, in the middle of everything today, we ran across a hellaciously distressed momma mallard and a bunch of her baby ducks that had fallen down a sewer grate. Another guy was already trying to fish them out, so my friend and I called animal control before we tried to fish the rest of them out. When Animal Control got there, we had all of them out and the mother duck quacking very happily. I was surprised - none of us got snapped at or hurt. I was even holding onto a bag at one point that had all of them in it and she just watched me. 

    I love how the duck is perched on the guy’s butt

    I’M SO HAPPY

    AH GOSH this has made me so happy
    what wonderful people

     

  8. 12:26

    Notes: 334

    Reblogged from fearliath

    Tags: sophie turnersansa starkASoIaFgame of thronedoes any actor understand their character better than sophie turner?I doubt itgame of thrones spoilers

    1. Vulture: Now that Sansa's married to Tyrion, who's been so kind to her, will things get better for her?
    2. Sophie Turner: [laughs] Well, it basically means that she is kind of trapped in King's Landing with absolutely no means of escape.
     

  9. 12:24

    Notes: 400

    Reblogged from ouyangdan

    Tags: star treksexismdamon lindelof

    I’m absolutely down for defending the first-class status of genre fiction that boldly goes where no or few stories have gone before. But if you think that working science fiction and fantasy relieves you of your obligations to coherent plotting and character behavior, or if it’s an engine to deliver free naked ladies, then you can stay in your mom’s basement, and off my bandwagon.
    — 

    Alyssa Rosenberg, in Damon Lindelof’s Blithe Treatment Of ‘Star Trek’ Sexism And Why Genre Fiction Gets No Respect (via themarysue)

    We were watching the 2009 Star Trek with the commentary on the other day, and I finally heard the Lindelof “how do we get our wives to watch this movie” quote in context. It was every bit as horrifying as it was out of context. The Star Trek universe has always had its issues with sexism, but it blows me away how dismissive the current production team seems to be about them. (And I enjoy the reboot movies! But I also recognize how problematic they are, in this and other ways.)

     

  10. 11:00

    Notes: 48357

    Reblogged from thewaroffivequeens

    Tags: catshee

    bonefield: I love it when cats have this reaction to things, it’s just like, “HUMAN, EXPLAIN THIS BULLSHIT.”

    bonefield:

    I love it when cats have this reaction to things, it’s just like, “HUMAN, EXPLAIN THIS BULLSHIT.”

    (Source: tankwang)