ttwasteland:

Cartoon Special – Teen Titans (2003) Season 1 EP01

In this special donor only episode, we are joined by Hub’s niece and nephew, Molly and Jacob! Along with his delightful 11 year old co-hosts, Hub watched the first episode of the 2003 ‘Teen Titans’ cartoon! This one was a heck of a lot of fun to record! Enjoy! Enjoy!

CURSE YOU HUB!

You are bribing me with cute kids and one of my favourite shows?! This isn’t fair!

I’m supporting your dumb Patreon, now, but I’m not happy about it. Alcohol is YUCKY. 

(Otherwise I would have been supporting you a long time ago. Paying money indirectly towards something that tastes bad makes me have my squished-up-angry-face. 

Maybe my $1.36 (or whatever translates to an American dollar right now) can go to Cory’s comics? Or gifts for Lisa? She’s a co-host now and deserves Patreon money!)

Love you guys.

(Note: this is not meant to imply alcohol is evil. I’m reminded of buying orange peppers for my Very Little Sister, even though they taste awful, and complaining for the next hour about how terrible it was. What if someone mistakenly thought I LIKED them? The horror! Enjoy your dumb beverage of choice, and thank you for all the joy you’ve given me over the last year.)

UPDATE: It is as good as I expected. If these three started a series, I’d watch Teen Titans every week with my son and then listen to the episode with him. It would be great.

I’m guessing that’s because the porn fic was a different pairing each chapter? I’ve seen quite a few like that and it is disappointing to find out that it’s not a continual fic with the pairing I searched for. (I’d prefer it if authors uploaded those sorts of fics individually or sorted into series for each pairing, to make it easier to find what you actually want to read.)

ao3commentoftheday:

Fics that are actually collections are a tricky thing. As an author, I’ve posted fics separately and felt like it was “cheating” somehow (upping my number of fics by doing that) but as a reader, I really want to be able to find just that one or two chapters that I liked out of the 30 that are posted. 

In a case like you describe above (which might or might not be the situation of this anon), I think I’d title each chapter with the ship involved. That would help people find what they wanted and avoid what they didn’t. I’d also mention that fact in my summary. 

Yeah, writers seem to gravitate to fic collections. Most readers I know prefer separating them. If you’re an authour who are willing to consider separating your fic, here are some points to consider:

  • Readers LIKE big archives
    • A full archive is exciting – lots of fic to read! This person will keep me busy for so long! 
    • We can see the word count on fics, you aren’t ‘tricking’ us into thinking you have more stories than you do. Put them into a series, if you want, so we can read the shorter stuff in one go – but all those stories are STORIES, and short fic is fun! I WANT to see that you write lots of short fic.
  • Readers lose the information they need to chose fic in a collection
    • If someone is looking for two characters interacting (most people don’t tag all the ‘&’ relationships in a fic, so we have to search both tags and hope) they’re likely to be disappointed if they try your collection.
    • The word number count means nothing. People like drabbles or super short stories? They can’t find yours. People annoyed by those? They may start your collection and end up dissatisfied, or avoid it even though your stories are longer than that.
    • If one of the tags is a squick or trigger for a reader, they’re likely to avoid the whole collection. 
    • You can’t add a summary that will draw people in. There are too many tags to give us an idea of what to expect. Unless I know you already, I see nothing to entice me in. It’s not a good sales tactic.

    • If someone wants to search for a specific story from the collection later … yeah that’s not working. 

    • The stats on your page usually tell me how many times you’ve written in my favourite fandoms. I don’t want to have to check each collection, see how many chapters it has, and hope each chapter is actually from that fandom/has the characters I like.
    • It’s also nice to see how frequently you write a new fic, so I can have accurate expectations.
    • You don’t show up on searches as much – the might be in every search, but only once, because you only have ‘one fic.’ So you get less exposure and I am less likely to recognize your name.
  • The stories themselves are harder to read

    • Our brains have been trained in certain ways. Ending a fic tells your brain to let the story go, it’s done. ‘Next chapter’ doesn’t. Unless the stories build on each other, I find that the mood from the previous story usually affects how I read the next one in weird ways. I know they’re separate, but my brain doesn’t.

    • People like me, with memory/name issues, get completely lost. I already have trouble remembering which fic title connects to which story I’m reading. If you put unconnected stories under one name, I check the previous chapter to figure out what happened last, and it’s a DIFFERENT STORY … I sometimes lose the ability to follow any of your other fic. I have to reread the entire specific series every time you update. It hurts my poor ADD brain.
    • Some people like only reading your most recent, polished fic. Others like starting at the beginning and watching you grow. Have you tried to read a collection backwards? It’s hard.

A writer isn’t doing something ‘wrong’ by using collections. They aren’t offensive. Unlike with tagging, I don’t steer clear of writers who have collections or anything. 

But I find the collections offputting and ignore them.

a fools guide to not wanting to die anymore

colacharm:

by me, a fool who doesnt wanna die anymore 

  1. never make a suicide joke again. yes this includes “i wanna die” as a figure of speech. swear off of it. actually make an effort to change how you think about things.
  2. find something to compliment someone for at least 4 times a day. notice the little things about the world that make you happy, and use that to make other people happy.
  3. talk to people. initiate conversation as often as you possibly can. keep your mind busy and you wont have to worry anymore
  4. picture the bad intrusive thoughts in youe head as an edgy 13 year old and tell them to go be emo somewhere else
  5. if someone makes you feel bad most of the time, stop talking to them. making yourself hang out with people who drain you is self harm. stop it.

Yo, I was wondering, what is your take on Brucie? Like, we know that everyone in gotham thinks he’s an idiot, but what /kind/ of idiot? ‘Dick of a playboy but still charismatic’ idiot? ‘Positive and kinda womanizing but not disrespectful’ idiot? ‘Stupid but with a keen business instinct’ idiot? Or not an idiot at all, just carefree and rich enough to be able to afford not thinking? What’s Brucie’s rep? (sorry if you’ve been asked this already, feel free to ignore it, I’m just curious)

jerseydevious:

i prefer brucie as an affable dolt. like, you like this guy. he’s nice to be around, and he’s kind of sweet, and he frequently looks like a lost lab. he waves enthusiastically to the fish in the aquariums he sees, and sometimes he taps the glass to get their attention until you tell him that’s actually bad for the fish, and he gives you the most devastated look and promptly apologizes to the fish. there’s a 70s comic where vicki vale yells at him for forgetting arbor day, and that’s about what i’m going for.

see, the thing is, i think bruce has fun playing the idiot most of the time. it matches his sense of humor, which is generally very dry, and pushing the envelope to see how stupid he can be and have people still take him seriously, i think, is a game to him. 

its-life-jim:

gracieminabox:

postmodernmulticoloredcloak:

brokenclara:

everythingyousayplusone:

matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll:

helloitsbees:

I can’t stand people who say stuff along the lines of “lol history professors have the most boring job in the world”

like. buddy. have you ever met a history professor??? i’ve witnessed roughly five (5) separate debates that ended in full-on, hoarse-voiced shouting matches and at least one (1) fistfight

All historians are just angry, salty, bitter people who hate people long dead and fight about headcanons.

@brokenclara

❤

Historians are condemned to a life of horrors because they look at what people do and are like ‘oh god oh my goood gOd wHY sToP the last time someone did that it ended in 275 years of war and two million and a half dead people and also Poland stopped existing for a while jesus fucking christ dooon’t do thaaat’

Basically being a historian means wanting to bang your head against the nearest wall and yelling at the news on tv 70% of the time and staring into an imaginary camera like you’re in The Office for the other 30% because the thing went exactly like you had foreseen because it had already happened in 1756 but no one listened to you

@its-life-jim 😉

LIFE GOALS

ttwasteland:

Cartoon Special – Teen Titans (2003) Season 1 EP01

In this special donor only episode, we are joined by Hub’s niece and nephew, Molly and Jacob! Along with his delightful 11 year old co-hosts, Hub watched the first episode of the 2003 ‘Teen Titans’ cartoon! This one was a heck of a lot of fun to record! Enjoy! Enjoy!

I am so excited to listen to this, you can’t believe. This is going to be a DELIGHT.

Things that sound fake but actually happen in the first Tarzan novel (1912)

mikkeneko:

phantomchick:

itsdoomisaudible:

nightcrawler-fan:

mademoiseli:

lesserjoke:

  • Tarzan grows up in the jungle because the sailors on his parents’ ship mutiny and maroon them there. Two decades later, the sailors on his cousin’s ship ALSO mutiny and maroon him and Jane in the exact same area where Tarzan happens to live
  • He’s raised by apes after his parents die because one of them who’s been carrying around her own dead baby is moved by the maternal spirit to drop its corpse in Tarzan’s crib and pick up the human baby instead
  • Tarzan teaches himself how to read and write fluent English by reading his parents’ old books
  • He later leaves Jane and co. really passive-aggressive notes telling them that he’s Tarzan and they better not touch his stuff
  • Tarzan also rescues them from various jungle troubles in person, but he can’t communicate with them because he can’t speak/understand spoken English
  • Jane and her friends spend their entire time in the jungle thinking that there are TWO DIFFERENT people who keep saving them: their reclusive host who leaves them salty messages and signs his name Tarzan of the Apes and then that other guy who lives with the apes
  • Literally they never put two and two together until Tarzan tracks them down in America and tells them he was Tarzan all along
  • Which he does in French
  • Because back in the jungle he rescued a French guy who taught him how to speak that language
  • So Tarzan can read and write English but speaks only French by the time he leaves the jungle
  • Jane goes back to America while Tarzan is off helping his French friend, and he follows her all the way home just to arrive the day before she’s gonna marry a rich guy to cover her father’s debts. It’s literally one of those Taylor Swift STOP THE WEDDING tropes, but with this weirdly buff ape man yelling in French instead
  • Jane’s father has debts because he borrowed a ton of money to charter a ship and follow a pirate treasure map he found, which, logical. We’ve all been there
  • The sailors on that ship are the ones who mutiny and maroon Jane earlier on, after finding the treasure and deciding they want to keep it for themselves
  • But Tarzan sees them rebury the chest and he digs it up and takes it with him to America to find Jane. The sailors are later very confused when they go back and find the treasure missing
  • Meanwhile Tarzan’s friend keeps trying to convince him that he’s the son of those two adult skeletons in his cabin, but Tarzan is all like, nah, I’m pretty sure that baby ape skeleton in the crib was theirs.
  • Oh also yeah, Tarzan totally just left all three skeletons lying around until his human friends showed up and were like, boy, you’re nasty
  • Also Tarzan needs a lot of convincing to believe that his ape foster mom wasn’t his birth mother
  • Like an absurd amount of convincing, really
  • His friend finally proves it by dragging Tarzan to a fingerprint expert in Europe to compare his prints to the baby ones that his dad fortuitously recorded in his journal just before he died.
  • The fingerprint proof means he’s actually the heir to his family’s title and wealth instead of his cousin, but he decides not to tell Jane about it
  • Because after Tarzan interrupts her wedding plans and gives her the pirate treasure (so that she doesn’t have to marry the rich guy), she turns down Tarzan’s own proposal and agrees to marry his cousin instead
  • And he’s like, alright, and leaves
  • Truly one of the great love stories of our time
  • I think she does change her mind and marry him in one of the sequels, but there are literally over two dozen of those that by all accounts are even weirder than this one and I just honestly don’t think I’m ready

Was Edgar Rice Burroughs ok?

@markhamillz

This is accurate and that book was amazing 10/10 recommend every time Burroughs was a real weirdo and it was so much better than the movie please read his nonsense

I read this book and I can attest to the accuracy of the above statements.

But I feel the need to add that Edgar Rice Burroughs was a salty mofo! 
He threw such shade, what a dude.

Ok so here’s the story; he was working as a pencil sharpener wholesalemen for seven years (I know, startlingly mundane) when his wife had their second kid in 1909, he was bored beyond occupation and had copious spare time and began reading pulp-fiction magazines. In 1929, he recalled thinking that

“…if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.”

So what I’m telling you here is, this guy read something went this is TRASH, i could write better trash, in fact I WILL.

An inspiration to us all.

All of this is true, but not all people know the context. The story is ridiculous and bonkers, but that amusement was killed for me by the constant and EXTREME racism.

Also, really awful depictions of animals.

Sometimes you can take into context the time something was created. Personally, I find this book too offensive to do so.

Your mileage may vary, but I don’t want someone going in expecting a fun romp and running unprepared into Burroughs depiction of the African village near Tarzan’s territory.