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busterkeatonsociety:

This Day in Buster…March 10, 1930

“Spite Marriage,” with the title "Kalpean kreivin häät,” opens in Finland. Meaning “The Wedding of the Pale Count”, Buster Keaton’s co-star Dorothy Sebastian was out for the count in this bit!

I… I need to make that dress. Or one similar.

i might make a d&d session sentence starter meme because last night had some memorable & funny lines

icedsilver:

niuniente:

dungeonmalcontent:

froody:

froody:

I own a book that should not exist.

I collect old books. Mostly turn of the century stuff published between 1870 and 1920. My parents did too. They emassed a collection of books somewhere in the thousands. They got them out of abandoned houses, at auctions, as gifts and at every antique store on the east coast. My dad cleaned out his house after the divorce and I got some of the books. I planned to keep the good ones and hopefully sell some of the ones I didn’t have room for. For the past several days I have been researching the different titles and publishing dates to see how much they’re worth, usually it’s somewhere between $15-$50 so I’m not getting rich off it any time soon. I encountered this book:

Beautiful, right? Screams late Victorian period opulence. Definitely keeping it. I check for an owner’s name or little note on the title page, I love books that were Christmas gifts long ago. Instead I find this:

A gift for a student as an award for her academic success. From either 1875 or 1895. Very fucking cool. I search for the Chatsworth Institute of Baltimore Maryland in hopes that I am holding a significant piece of history in my hands. No such Institute has ever existed in Baltimore, none. Not historically, not currently. There is a Chatsworth school in Maryland but it’s a contemporary public school. I cannot find record of this school anywhere online, there is nothing left behind, it must have been a formal school to afford to give awards. There should be some trace of it. It’s like this book came from an alternate universe.

Let’s go to the title page:

Beautifully illustrated by a W Cunston or W Gunston. Neither name being up anyone. The name of the author of this book is nowhere to be seen. The publisher is London based and mostly published childrens books (including the words of Beatrice Potter) and that is the only concrete fact I can get. Googling “Eilon Manor” and “The Four Sisters” brings up very little. I sift and I find a book called Eilon Manor published in 1863. Like Baptista, it’s an incredibly boring piece of literature for Victorian young women. The author is listed as D. Richard, no first name, no gender, no location. D. Richard does not seem to exist either.

I cannot find any other copies of Baptista a Quiet Story. I cannot find D. Richard or W. Gunston. I cannot find a publishing date on this book. It is truly as though it slipped out from another parallel dimension.

Both of my parents confirmed they’ve never seen this book in their lives, it was not in the house when they moved in, they don’t remember buying it or rescuing it from an abandoned building. They have no idea where it came from. This is me right now:

Do you want warlocks? Because this is how you get warlocks.

@blood-and-pepper​

Forbidden literature

To do:

1) Write book.

2) Include professional looking title page and publishing info.

3) Print on good paper and research professional binding styles. Might have this done professionally. ONLY ONE COPY.

4) Find local book collector. Might put a fake ad out saying I’m trying to rehome great grandma’s library or something.

5) Break into book collector’s house.

6) Hide book somewhere inconspicuous. I’m thinking a teenager’s bookshelf, if available? If you put it in the main bookshelves, maybe it never gets touched until they die, at which point you risk it being thrown away. The teenager will likely move out in a few years, and find it then, if not before. Alternatively, buried in the middle of a semi-permanent stack of books that will eventually be reshelved, but probably not immediately, is also good.

7) Wait, with the satisfaction that someone’s life will be a little more interesting for this mystery.

Bonus: Have the book set in the real world, all very normal. Briefly, casually reference a president who, in reality, lost their election.

charlesoberonn:

basic-banshee:

cooliopumpkin:

basic-banshee:

basic-banshee:

justluckyiguess:

basic-banshee:

basic-banshee:

basic-banshee:

bazfloralsuit:

basic-banshee:

sweet-chesus:

basic-banshee:

basic-banshee:

I keep using my girlfriend with unusual work hours to get out of coworker interactions and happy hours and hanging out.

But now the company holiday party is upon us.

And I’ve been lying about the girlfriend.

I suddenly really empathise with the characters in Hallmark Christmas movies.

I like that people have two reactions to this post.

Reasonable: “just say she couldn’t make it!”

Chaotic:FAKE DATING AU

Well, which one is it going to be?

And so it begins

having the DMV area Craigslist bookmarked has never come in handy before but now

Update, Craigslist has flagged my post as inappropriate.

Apparently you can’t solicit a date as a “gig”

I now see my mistake

Update: a date has been acquired. This is true lesbian solidarity in action.

My wife has now read this and wonders how baby gays are even meeting and mating

Can confirm I am meeting and mating just fine

By the way I’m in a relationship with this woman now

This is the feedback I’ve been looking for

XD I need more hijinks in my life!

Does everyone know a petulant child who hates being told what to do, but if they think it’s their idea, they’re all for it? That’s my inner child. For a long time, I tried forceful techniques to make my anxiety go away, thinking it would work if I was bossy enough. I’ve since learned that it’s far more effective to try gentle reframes of mind, like this one.

If you struggle with making to do lists,

Start with a list of only 3.

Three!

Practice it for around two weeks. Create consistency.

Remember, the most important part about achieving goals isn’t necessarily achieving the goal itself- it’s being consistent enough to achieve it.

Once you get the habit of setting 3 tasks a day, accomplishing them, and you feel that it’s getting too easy now, THAT is when you step out of your comfort zone and push boundaries.

Thenraise that number to 4 or 5 but don’t skip to an unnecessarily large number like 7 or 8 immediately.

Personal growth involves lots of baby steps. Kind of like accelerating a car - don’t go 0 to 100 immediately, go 0-10, 10-20, and then so on.

mysticdreamerme:

• Write smut fics for the following characters:
  

Takumi - IN PROGRESS
Tatsuya - NEEDS TO BE RE-WRITTEN
Shinji - Needs to be reuploaded from writing blog
Isao - Needs to be reuploaded from writing blog
Hikaru
Shou

• Write fluff fics for all characters characters - 1/?
  
• Make a moble masterlist
  
• Upload all fics to AO3 (EeveeDream) - STARTED
• Make character profiles? - STARTED

• Reblog trivia from the ADS blog - STARTEDthere’s so much
  

• Write smut fics for the following characters:
  

Takumi - IN PROGRESS
Tatsuya - NEEDS TO BE RE-WRITTEN
Shinji - Needs to be reuploaded from writing blog
Isao - Needs to be reuploaded from writing blog
Hikaru
Shou

• Write fluff fics for all characters characters - 1/?
  
• Make a moble masterlist
  
• Upload all fics to AO3 (EeveeDream) - STARTED
• Make character profiles? - STARTED

My To-Do List Pads available now for another few days.

30 x A5 to-do lists in each pad. Printed onto Envirocare 100% Recycled paper. Made & Printed in Australia.

gingerly-writing:

“You think you’re better than me-”

“I am better than you. I have always been better than you-”

“Then why did our team choose me over you?”

homunculus-argument:

Words that I didn’t think were uniquely finnish but I’m surprised to learn english seems to lack:

Kohtalotoveri- companion/comrade in fate

A person who shares the same fate as you, or someone whose fate is similar enough to yours to be comparable. No need for familiarity or emotional connection of any kind - it can be a perfect stranger. Someone who got the same shitty fortune as you did is your comrade in fate regardless of who they are to you personally, just the same as anyone with the same name as you is your namesake.

gingerly-writing:

“Come on,” the villain goaded. “Hit me harder. I know you can do it, I’ve felt it myself.”

The hero swallowed. They could hit harder, it was true. But only when the villain could fight back. Only when the villain was hitting hard too.