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Pleased to meet you. You can call me Variety. This tumblr is a miscellaneous jumble of things, including lots of art and fandom ramblings. For more about me and what you can expect me to post, see this post
I also have a fanfic tag.
And, of course, feel free to ask me anything.
AIM: ladygyr (All lowercase.)
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May 31, 2012 with 1,036 notes
        tags: video games.

matchbook-stories:

mindcathedral:

friendlytroll:

phemiec:

drvalkyrie:

videogamenostalgia:

Humble Indie Bundle 5 released!

Arguably the best one yet. If you don’t know about the bundles, it’s pay what you want, DRM free, and you’ll be supporting charity and indie developers at the same time.

Pay more than $1 and unlock Steam codes for all of the games.

Oh wow. This sounds SO tempting. ;3;

YEss, got it. I already own psychonauts though (if you’ve never played psychonauts this is worth it just for that)

You broke? Me too! Go do this.

This is definitely one of the best Indie Bundles yet. Immediately buying it. You should, too!

Gdi i need a laptop that can game

Personally, I am seriously considering partitioning my Mac and dual booting it with Windows, because of stuff like this…. (Also haha Amnesia is included, I think I see a sleepover on the horizon which will mostly consist of my friends and I getting the pants scared off of ourselves.)

Edit: Wait, wait, wait, these all work on macs with pretty much no problems? Okay no I am sold.

May 31, 2012 with 48,763 notes
        tags: Shakespeare. romeo and juliet.
friendlytroll: snailchimera: ohdanielle: reading-angel: lightningrapunzel: 221b—tardis: THANK YOU I’m a Shakespeare addict and fan but i hate that play. Can we petition going to have Romeo and Juliet replaced in schools by Much Ado About Nothing? We still get plenty of angst but with twice as much (at least) falling-in-love and also it ends with a double wedding! HAPPY ENDINGS FOR EVERYONE! Maybe then we’d get cultural references to Claudio & Hero or Benedick & Beatrice which would be so much more bearable than all those people try to compare themselves to Romeo and Juliet - unless you are teenagers who are going to commit mutual suicide, that’s really not a comparison you want to make. WORD. All of this. I will fight to my last breath for my literary belief that it was a parody/satire of the love stories of the time, and all the stupid syrupy over dramatic lines are MEANT to be funny and ridiculously unnecessarily over the top.  I;ve had to go over this thing line by line and I am so terribly convinced of it.  Was actually just thinking along the lines of what Luc said earlier on in the week myself. It would make so much more sense if were supposed to be read as a parody.

friendlytroll:

snailchimera:

ohdanielle:

reading-angel:

lightningrapunzel:

221b—tardis:

THANK YOU

I’m a Shakespeare addict and fan but i hate that play.

Can we petition going to have Romeo and Juliet replaced in schools by Much Ado About Nothing? We still get plenty of angst but with twice as much (at least) falling-in-love and also it ends with a double wedding! HAPPY ENDINGS FOR EVERYONE!

Maybe then we’d get cultural references to Claudio & Hero or Benedick & Beatrice which would be so much more bearable than all those people try to compare themselves to Romeo and Juliet - unless you are teenagers who are going to commit mutual suicide, that’s really not a comparison you want to make.

WORD.

All of this.

I will fight to my last breath for my literary belief that it was a parody/satire of the love stories of the time, and all the stupid syrupy over dramatic lines are MEANT to be funny and ridiculously unnecessarily over the top. 

I;ve had to go over this thing line by line and I am so terribly convinced of it. 

Was actually just thinking along the lines of what Luc said earlier on in the week myself. It would make so much more sense if were supposed to be read as a parody.

May 31, 2012
        tags: giantalbinowalrus. conversation. Also I'll take that Great stuff comment as a compliment on my taste haha. nsfw. because further recommendations. I guess.

giantalbinowalrus replied to your post: Shousetsu Bang*Bang recommendations

Heh, I remember reading “Daniele and the Lion” a long time because chira, I know I have it saved in my PC somewhere. Great stuff, all of these~

Bene! According to the stuff buried in my “recommendations” tag, I read Daniele and the Lion sometime around/before April of last year. Which seems like an awful long time, heh. (Chira and Muun are a wonder team, seriously.) Oh, and that’s… Probably a smart thing to do, actually, I should save down the stories I’d re-read/haven’t read yet instead of relying on my internet connection.

And it seems I forgot one story from my list! (Which I know because it was on previous lists, god bless my past self for being the kind of person who feels compelled to blog recommendations of smut and keep them tagged properly.)  Across the Universe (no clue which issue), for which the summary (according to me back in October) goes like so “Pretty fascinating! Pretty hot! Even more hot if things like ritualistic actions are your thing (probably not, I don’t think it’s anyone’s thing but mine) but good otherwise anyway. Think strange folktale/fairytale but with extra smut. I think the ending is a little weak, but w/e, that’s more a criticism of the story. Pretty much the first S2B2 story I read, and a fairly awesome random first choice, I think.”

Although reading the words “there’s just something fascinating about gun kink, I guess” casually thrown about in my previous rec for Smart Aleck nearly singed my eyebrows off.

Oh and I guess there will be further lists to come?? Once I’ve read more stories and can make further lists, that is. In the meantime, “La muerte y el jardín” from the current issue is also pretty darn good, I reckon!

May 30, 2012 with 5,673 notes
        tags: harry clarke. edgar allen poe. art. Illustration. my one true love!.

jessfink:

ianbrooks:

Poe Visualized by Harry Clarke

From the 1919 deluxe edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Harry Clarke reached deep into those dark, flinching corners underneath the bed and ripped out the grotesque horrors that lurked within, creating these macabre illustrations that accompanied Poe’s disturbing classics like “The Pit and the Pendulum” and the “The Telltale Heart” perfectly. In the same vein as Stephen Gammell’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark monstrosities decades later, these illustrations are sufficient evidence that while some stories can be even more frightening when left to your imagination, it takes a truly visceral artist to give those shadows form and really scare the bejeezus out of you.

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Harry Clarke is fucking amazing. My step father owns an original copy of the 1919 Poe book these illuatrations are featured in. I used to sit there and carefully pour over those frightening, gorgeous, intricate drawings. Really, look him up.

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May 30, 2012 with 6 notes
        tags: music. Cab Calloway is the bessst. and this is a great remix. electro swing.

Minnie the Moocher (Cab Calloway) - remixed by Swagger Jax

What a great remix. 

May 30, 2012 with 13 notes
        tags: art. doge. both kinds.
gluethegrue: I tried digital painting last night. i really wasnt sure what i was doing so i just winged it 9_6. This is for all the people who tell me doge is like, a title, whenever i call my dogs doges. Pictured: A doge, wearing the clothes appropriate to their social standing.

gluethegrue:

I tried digital painting last night. i really wasnt sure what i was doing so i just winged it 9_6.

This is for all the people who tell me doge is like, a title, whenever i call my dogs doges.

Pictured: A doge, wearing the clothes appropriate to their social standing.

May 30, 2012 with 1 note
        tags: Crossed Genres. kickstarter.

Signal Boost: Crossed Genres Kickstarter

gogglesque:

Bart and Kay have done a great job putting out progressive SF/F, and make a point of representing women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color. Be sure to go throw some dollars at them so they can keep it up! (Also so you can get a sweet deal on CG books and ebooks, among other things!)

Dang, I didn’t even know this was happening! Crossed Genres is really great. If you’re not familiar with it, you can read some stories from their archives here. Basically, like the poster above said, progressive speculative fiction with all the sorts of things one wishes one saw (more often) in mainstream Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

May 30, 2012 with 1,132 notes
        tags: ahh sugoi. palaeontology. queue post.

princekarkat:

scarfmouse:

[These prehistoric] African crocs appeared to have had both upright, agile legs for bounding overland and a versatile tail for paddling in water. Perhaps that lay at the crux of their evolution and drove the explosion of Cretaceous crocs across Gondwana that began some 145 million years ago.

National Geographic, “Strange Crocs of the Sahara”

ah yes because what you really want in a crocodile is for is to have LONG LEGS FOR AGILE BOUNDING, jesus christ, why dont you just go all the way and make them spit acidic venom as well

crocs

where did you go wrong

you could have been

the very best

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May 30, 2012 with 7,298 notes
        tags: supernatural. funny. queue post.

mellifluousbell:

freedom-star:beesmygod:

my aunt and my sister are watching supernatural and my aunt just went “why dont they put salt in a hula hoop and just hula past all the demons”

WELL

WHY DONT THEY???

THE MENTAL IMAGE

SCREAMING

Someone write the writers and the director and the producer and the PA. This needs to be in the next season.

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May 30, 2012 with 75 notes
        tags: art. comic.
lalage: Ahem, so, er. Last year I drew a short story for Shousetsu Bang*Bang (best description I can think of for SSB*B is “the English prose equivalent of Beboy GOLD”, which is a collection of BL one-shot stories, if your eyebrows shot up after this line stop reading here). Many things happened after I submitted it and thus the presence of this story on the internets completely slipped my mind until I saw it again on my dash today, accompanied by kind words from friends and strangers. The sound made by my heart expanding to infinity was almost loud enough to drown my mortified screams. If you enjoyed the story (and I am glad if you did!) please also think happy thoughts in the direction of minimoonstar and Basara (two names I never thought I would ever mention in the same sentence): the former for constructing the brilliant idea of 25 rooms, and for thinking of and running SSB*B in the first place, and the latter because the whole idea of repeating lives came from thinking too much about Motochika and Motonari. And now you know. link (warning for mature content), also to Shousetsu Bang*Bang’s main website, although be warned anything written by Shukyou will most likely make you cry Further to the topic of S2B2 stories, this one here which is so beautiful that it is almost absurdly beautiful.

lalage:

Ahem, so, er. Last year I drew a short story for Shousetsu Bang*Bang (best description I can think of for SSB*B is “the English prose equivalent of Beboy GOLD”, which is a collection of BL one-shot stories, if your eyebrows shot up after this line stop reading here). Many things happened after I submitted it and thus the presence of this story on the internets completely slipped my mind until I saw it again on my dash today, accompanied by kind words from friends and strangers. The sound made by my heart expanding to infinity was almost loud enough to drown my mortified screams.

If you enjoyed the story (and I am glad if you did!) please also think happy thoughts in the direction of minimoonstar and Basara (two names I never thought I would ever mention in the same sentence): the former for constructing the brilliant idea of 25 rooms, and for thinking of and running SSB*B in the first place, and the latter because the whole idea of repeating lives came from thinking too much about Motochika and Motonari. And now you know.

link (warning for mature content), also to Shousetsu Bang*Bang’s main website, although be warned anything written by Shukyou will most likely make you cry

Further to the topic of S2B2 stories, this one here which is so beautiful that it is almost absurdly beautiful.

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