siamese cats getting really fucking distressed at their owner being in the shower
I miss my cat who used to do this. Although luckily he had a more flutelike meow. “woooo! wooo!”
Awww. Victoria does this EVERY SINGLE DAY and it is the most mournful sounding howl.
I was studying Lydia’s armor so I could draw it for a Lulubell comic and I suddenly noticed her ARMORED KNEEPADS.
It’s good to know that in a world of uncovered knees Lydia is taking the Skyrim-wide arrow-in-the-knee epidemic very seriously.
Also you know what else is nice, that I thought I’d mention while I was here, is that the female armors in Skyrim look actually practical and functional and not super fanservicey. There are still a few offenders (I’m looking at you, lady Forsworns) but for the most part the warrior women of Skyrim are efficiently dressed.
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Meg Giry Gaston Leroux, the Phantom of the Opera (via incorrectphantomquotes) |
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for my entire life.
oh my god
Vittoria Vici’s Wedding Crown, anyone?
“I miss Astrid, even if she tried to kill the dragonborn. After all, she did it to protect her family.”
Finally somebody understands this!!
She struck a deal with Commander Maro to turn over the Dragonborn in exchange for the safety of the rest of the Dark Brotherhood. He was the one who went back on his end of the deal and attacked the Sanctuary. (And can you actually blame him; they effectively ruined his life.)
She didn’t just wake up one morning, like a good deal of her hatedom seems to think, and decide “What should I do today? I think I’ll BETRAY EVERYONE I LOVE. Starting with you, Lulubell.”
!!! Aww, thank you! :D <3
I got tipsy at one in the morning and made a strawberry lung cake.
I…can’t really explain this one.
Hahahaha I got the text from you at one in the morning; I did not realize that was the actual time of cake.
the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway
“Sorry, eighteen-year-old Marguerite. I know it’s hot as balls in Virginia in summer, but the fact that you are in clothing that matches the cut of boys’ clothing in order to keep you cool is inappropriate. You see, you have these dangerous appendages. Boobs? Oh, no, those are practically illegal. I was talking about legs. And dare I say it, thighs. And these are very sexual, legs. Admittedly, if you cover up your legs, we’re only going to find something else to complain about. Your red nail polish or red lipstick, maybe. Your large earrings. Your hair. It’s safest just to cover everything and be plain as a plucked goose. Admittedly, we’ll then shame you for not taking pride in your appearance, but at least you won’t get into any trouble with the administration. It’s a lot easier to program an entire culture to blame victims and systematically shame the bodies of an entire gender than it is to teach people manners. Not even complicated manners like ‘How to serve a six-course meal,’ but simple manners, like ‘Don’t stare at a girl wearing literally the same style of clothing you are’ or even - ha! - ‘Don’t stare at girls who don’t want to be stared at.’ I’ll let you off with a warning this time. Count yourself lucky. If anything had happened, you’d only have yourself to blame. We’re really doing this for your own good.”
One of the proudest moments of my life remains the day when I took my bra off in the commons and shoved it in my backpack after Tharp told me it was inappropriate that its strap was showing from underneath my tank top. I maintain that the only reason I didn’t get written up for it was because I managed to just totally astonish him.
“Although the social media service has become red hot — it averages about 75.8M posts a day — it generated just $12M in revenue last year and hopes for $100M this year, Forbes says. CEO David Karp began to sell ads for the site just a year ago. Yahoo has more than enough cash to make the deal. Still, Mayer could use Wall Street’s support for the biggest acquisition that she has made since taking charge in July.”
Oh lord. what’s their plan to milk more money out of us?
‘Mayer wants to incorporate Yahoo!’s products — including search, email, and its popular homepage — into the “daily habits” of its users, in an echo of the “toothbrush” philosophy espoused by her former boss, Google CEO Larry Page.’
That sounds like Yahoo wants to clutter up the Tumblr interface so that we’re looking at it through a Yahoo frame with lots of Yahoo products being pushed at us. (On a practical level, this probably means a move forcing us to log in with Yahoo IDs, as happened with Flickr.)
I find it significant that on the same day, Yahoo closed its venerable messenger chatrooms, which were where fans and RPers found a voice in the mid-nineties, because they don’t “add much value.” On the one hand, yes, products like AIM are so last century. On the other hand, the “value” Yahoo is talking about is profit. If users are only talking to and sharing things with one another, instead of interacting with the host site and clicking ads, it makes no money.
It seems that Karp created a site that scaled more quickly than expected, and Tumblr’s maintenance costs have been outstripping its revenue. So Tumblr had to do something to save itself. But what if you’re reaching for a life rope, and someone tosses you a leash?
