Source: depressioncomix
as long as i’m thinking about it
the colourverse is what i am working on right now, so let’s talk about the colourverse. every title is either a book or a sub-series. for example, advent is definitely at least two books, amen is four, vergence might be one.
- vergence // AU historical fiction + fantasy + political drama + there are dead people here, there, there are dead people everywhere (it’s what happened when i decided i wanted to write 1. a fictionalised version of the decena trágica and 2. something about vanadium veridian) // male main character (vanadium veridian)
- advent // fantasy + science fiction + coming of age drama + there are dead people here, there are dead people there // female main character (marie alessandra veridian)
- cause // fantasy + spy drama + there are dead people here, there, and on the ceiling // female main character (catherine hydan), female lead narrator (alice mar), varied secondary cast
- cataclysm // science fiction + political drama + everyone is dead oh no // two female main characters (cassandra anderson and amanda katzenstein), two male main characters (zeke cartwright and james anderson), plus a lady dictator (isabel veridian jones)
- amen // science fiction + political drama + there are secret police in? + oh my god please wake up please wake up // male main character (marcus anderson), female main character (leslie anne levine haydon-cole), varied secondary cast
- waveform // science fiction // ???????????????????? I AM NOT EVEN SURE IF I AM WRITING THIS ??????????????????? I PLANNED IT ON TWITTER IN A WHIM-FILLED HAZE?????????????
- help what is book
don’t mind me, just doing a genre and gender-of-the-person-most-likely-to-be-on-the-cover breakdown.
[Parents should] recommend some books with female leads that your son would enjoy reading. If your next question is “Why?,” then ask your daughter why she liked Harry Potter. She might say it was a good story, great characters, and a fantastic world. Who cares if the main character was a boy? In fact, girls will pick up a book with a hero or heroine equally. According to my excellent librarian resources, boys will actively avoid books with a girl as the main character. What’s the problem? I have no idea. Why should you encourage your son to read books with heroines? That’s easy. You want your son to grow up knowing that a strong female for a friend, wife or boss is normal and good.
Rebecca Angel (via msandrogynous)
Funny story, I actually didn’t want to read Harry Potter because it had a male lead. As I’ve stated before I’m a huge fantasy/sci fi fan and at the age when HP came out I’d already read a TON of books of that genre with male leads. I was really tired of reading them so I started only reading books with female leads which after I got past Francisca Le Block and Tamora Pierce’s serieses most of the books in that general age group that were fantasy with female leads were 100 page books I could read in two hours about unicorns or animals. We need a lot more young adult novels with female leads. We are getting some more (which is why I still read YA fiction) but it’d be nice to see some best sellers (that aren’t Twilight)
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Source: msandrogynous
This is why you didn’t make in into The Avengers
THIS IS WHY YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE AVENGERS
THIS IS WHY YOU FUCKING DIDN’T MAKE IT INTO THE AVENGERS
THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
#THE JOKE ISNT GONNA BECOME MAGICALLY FUNNIER BECAUSE IT WAS REPEATED AND BOLDED
The joke isn’t going to make it into the Avengers because it was repeated and bolded.
None of you are getting into the Avengers with that attitude!
These posts are why tumblr is not in the Avengers
THESE POSTS ARE WHY TUMBLR IS NOT IN THE AVENGERES
THESE POSTS ARE WHY TUMBLR IS NOT IN THE AVENGERES
(via velizaraptor)
Source: ceronprime
i have emotions about They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
it is basically what you would write if you wanted to write the perfect song for worming under my skin and taking up residence as a knit-together addition just under the epidermis made of fibrous itch and feelings
hey guys: SCIENCE
Since I obviously cannot stay the fuck away from tumblr, I might as well do something useful with my time here. Except writing. (Yes, I realise I said that writing would occur in times of stress, but five terrifying years of diplomas and degrees seem to have completely exhausted my stress globes.) I’ll write more fanfiction once my thesis is done utterly and totally reducing me to a bleary-eyed pile of neuroses.
As procrastination is obviously not procrastination if it’s to do with SCIENCE, I’ve started this tumblr here, which is about SCIENCE. You guys should go and ask things, in the ask box. I’m (mostly) a biologist (welp) but you guys should also feel free to ask things about science and social issues, the scientific process, what it’s like to be a scientist - I will answer all your questions, AND MORE (time allowing), and occasionally post interesting scientific articles. If you want a second opinion on the biology of your fantasy/sci-fi species, I’m up for it. Looking for a plague to help wipe out a quarter of the population? I can help you with that. Want to know what I think about vaccine denialism? No, you don’t. Let’s not go there. No, really. No, really.
tl;dr: you should ask me questions here. For science.
Reblobbing for the people on the other side of the world.
exo is cool
go check this out
Source: exoscopy
have shouted “don’t be an asshole, asshole!” at gizmodo commenters
Whoever fights monsters…: Disorders of Thought
Some signs of disordered thoughts:
Thought broadcasting: The belief (delusion) that your thoughts are so loud others can hear them.
Thought insertion: The belief that your thoughts are not your own, but have been inserted by someone else.
Thought withdrawal: Believing that someone/something is pulling thoughts out of your head
Tangentiality: a pattern of speech consisting of oblique, irrelevant replies. The individual will often digress from one topic to another.
Circumstantiality: indirect speech, takes time to get to the point because the individual is adding excessive detail and remarks. They do not steer off topic, but they do give the impression that they will never reach the point they are making!
Perseveration: repeating the same words or sounds, or responses, even when prompted differently
Pressured Speech: increased rate of speech, often very difficult to interrupt, often quite loud
Flight of Ideas: an almost continuous flow of speech, that goes from one subject to the next, to the next. The listener can often see how the individual moved from one topic to the next - it’s not just randomly switching topics, but more like the individual is talking about one thing, which reminds them of something else that they then start talking about, and so on.
Loosening of Associations: shifting from one topic to another during speech, with no discernible connection to the listener between the topics. The switch in topics seems completely random and nonsensical. They may compare two statements they made which appear to be completely unrelated to the listener, and the individual does not seem to realize the apparent of lack of connection between thoughts.
Ideas of Reference: interpreting casual or random incidents as having personal meaning. For example, hearing someone say something on television and believing it was directed at you, or meant for you.
Neologisms: words made up by the speaker, or a way of contracting a combination of words - often a word they are using to describe some highly complex idea - often seen in schizophrenia and brain disorders
Habitually:
Tangentiality
Circumstantiality (pathologically in fact)
Flight of Ideas (also pathological)
Loosening of AssociationsOccasionally:
Pressured Speech
Ideas of Reference (I have worked pretty hard to identify this shit and clamp down on it after it once led to a suicide attempt)
NeologismsOnce:
Thought broadcasting (as a child)
Perseveration (as a child)Never:
Thought insertion
Thought withdrawal
Habitually:
Thought broadcasting
Tangentiality
Circumstantiality
Pressured Speech
Flight of Ideas
Loosening of Associations
Occasionally:
Ideas of Reference
Neologisms
Once:
Thought insertion
Never:
Preserveration
Thought withdrawal
Source: criminalprofiler
I think the problem is they’re mistaking violent misanthropy for violent misogyny.
pretty sure in new canon leslie drops religion after the events of casey johnson’s walk
impulsive leslie is impulsive
i mean literally like “welp fuck you then”
but i’m not sure
because making her catholic was a random decision
and i don’t
actually
understand catholicism
“You’ve got a spare f-f-finger,” Tamsin pointed out, head tilted to one side. “Uh. Sorry. But you do.”
this is infinitely better out of context.
“Listen. D-d-d-don’t take this the wrong way, but—”
“What’s the wrong way, then, so I can avoid it?” he interrupted.


