Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just:
Here’s a funny little joke
Here’s something that you can tell is a joke but don’t get and will only figure out five years later
Here’s a surprisingly cool fantasy concept
Here’s a unique and well written simile
Here’s a lil guy
Here’s something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day
Here’s something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day
Here’s a character that you can barely understand what he’s saying
Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned
Here is the dumbest fucking pun you’ve ever heard but in the best way
Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way
Here is a plot twist that you can’t tell if it’s genius or stupid
Congratulations! You’ve finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!
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Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here’s a funny little joke Here’s something that…
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement…
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.
In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They’re the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.
I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.
And it kills me that so many people don’t know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.
Over the past decade, there’s been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There’s this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.
Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.
Don’t fear age. Don’t put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.
Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.
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With Winnie-the-Pooh and The Battle of Hastings sharing an anniversary today, did you know that E. H. Shepard once drew this amazing scene for an exclusive book bag?
I love that none of them have weapons. Except Kanga, who has a fucking morningstar.
that is roo
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I’ve been thinking about this daily since it crossed my dash
little mans is 100% correct.
I’m gonna put I AM BRAVE OF THIS MEETING on my cubicle wall at work and never explain it.
Think about the donuts of your day!
Is Crowley gonna “go evil” in season 3, or is he going to be a miserable little dude
TomfhainesMore Gaiman snark!
Good Omens Season 3 opens with Crowley's wedding to Sadie. They make love passionately behind a screen for the rest of episode 1 while people dressed as enormous rabbits bring them jam sandwiches, and talk about the weather. Then Crowley gets eaten by goats and dies, and we never find out if he would have been good or evil, happy or sad, or indeed if he would have had anything else to do in Season 3. It will be frustrating for the audience, but very artistic.
I’ve added five new limited edition prints to the shop at www.tomgauld.com/shop. This is one of…
I’ve added five new limited edition prints to the shop at www.tomgauld.com/shop. This is one of them.
A friend of mine sent me a video of that time you performed Science Fiction Double Feature from Rocky Horror on Craig Ferguson. How on *Earth* did you manage to not laugh during that?
That was the third take. Someone who was me messed up the first two.
For those who are curious
This is one of the new, limited edition prints I’ve made. Get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
This is one of the new, limited edition prints I’ve made. Get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop
I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They…
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I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They ask me a question and I just… answer it…
The scariest part of a haunted house is the unscripted social interaction.
Scary nurse in a creepy voice: “Do you have an appointment to see the doctor?”
Me: “Uh. Do you accept walk-ins?”
Scary farmer: “I like to kill people!”
My friend, brightly: “I like to die!”
Zombie : “AARRRGH”
Me : “Do you get dental insurance?”
Zombie : “TEETH!!”
This happened to me.
Scary prison dude: HELLO
Me: Nice to meet you!
Him: (pause) No it’s noooooot
My worst horror house experience was when I couldn’t find the (rather obvious) exit and the guy chasing me with a chainsaw stopped, sighed and pointed me to the exit, saying “please scream as loud as you can when you run out there” and just left. I disappointed the horror house chainsaw dude and I will never get over that
Guy: They are all my friends.. (motioning to hanging corpses; then grabs a noose) Will you be my friend?
Me: Sure totally, you made me a friendship necklace? Oh my god your so sweet?
Guy: … Yes.. Please, let me.. I cant I cant just go (laughing).
– Got to walk a second time through–
Same guy: My friends -wailing-
Me: I came back I just really wanted to be friends so bad
Guy: (laughing more) Please, Im not allowed to laugh.I went to a Haunted House and literally befriended every actor there.
Specifically, I remember;
There were zombies walking around in the waiting room. I said “Hi!” and he gave me a high five. Every time he passed from then on, I got a high five.
Near the end, there were these twin little girls. “Come play with us.” They said. “Okay!” I said. “Forever.” They said. “Oh, sorry, can’t do that. I’m busy.”
I could hear them giggling.
Guy playing Freddie Kruger: Remember, you are all my children!
Me: thanks dad
A small chorus of teenagers: thanks dad
I went to a haunted corn maze once. Someone ran at me with a chainsaw. I just stared at him. He hung his head and walked away. I left.
The Real Horror Is The People We Dissapointed Along The Way
IM CRYING
My friends and I were in a really dark part of a haunted house and couldn’t find the exit, so the guy who had just jumped out at us had to say “to your left” in his same scary voice he’d used to scream and we were like “thanks!”
And then after a few moments of patting blindly at the wall he says again in the same ominous voice “your other left”
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THIS!!
THIS IS AN AMAZING WAY TO THINK OF CHRONIC PAIN
I wanted to point out that Nurse Hadley, the woman in this video, is a hospice nurse. This is what people say to and about patients who don’t have long left to live. The fear of addiction and dependence on pain medication is so strong that people deny their literally dying family members proper pain management. You’re never going to please the “but what about addiction” people, ignore them and take the meds you need to function.
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There are political newspaper comics that aren’t this succinct
It’s the capital letter shouting that I love so much.
I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣
It’s the capital letter shouting that I love so much.
I am just a humble unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity, but I will…
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I am just a humble unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity, but I will tell you motherfuckers one thing: if you try to steal money from the poor via treating or diagnosing tuberculosis, you will remember the name nerdfighteria.
It’s pronounced “sheee-it” in the southern fashion.
How did X get even stupider.
THIS BITCH EMPTY
XEET
o7
It’s pronounced “sheee-it” in the southern fashion.
Best of Neil’s stage directions/commentary in the good omens s1 script book
Best of Neil’s stage directions/commentary in the good omens s1 script book
I went back and read this to help me cope after s2, as one does
There’s an auction to support the Motion Picture and Television Fund for healthcare for those…
There’s an auction to support the Motion Picture and Television Fund for healthcare for those striking in Hollywood and there’s the usual Zooms and dinners with actors, but some of the biddable items are absolutely unreal in the best way
The Union Solidarity Coalition | eBay. Net proceeds benefit our crew healthcare fund
I am peculiarly ubiquitous.
TomfhainesGuess who is catching up on his Neil Gaiman tumbling? :-D
Um excuse me Neil this is a star wars
WHY ARE YOU BACK IN MY FALAFEL
I am peculiarly ubiquitous.
Good afternoon, Mr. Gaiman. Thank you for your great work with Good Omens, this is the first series in my life, which seems to be very simple, but catchy at some deeper levels of the subconscious. You said that you have known for a long time how Good Omens will end. Can you tell that this will be a happy ending for Aziraphale and Crowley?
TomfhainesI do enjoy the rubbish that he spews when people ask him about details that he's not going to reveal.
Crowley and Aziraphale will both be eaten by space-time-goats in the first episode of Season 3. Sadie and Dottie then team up to investigate the deaths of their husbands. In the end they discover that the Space-Time Goats were actually working for Crowley's old Nemesis, Doctor Unmentionable. He tumbles screaming into a volcano, and is eaten by lava sharks.
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Actress, Miriam Margolyes: When you know your worth, you know your worth.
She is beautiful and I love her.
She also recently said that JKR’s TERF remarks are fascist. So please, continue to stan a hero.
And she’s a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians, was one of the first people to say ‘fuck’ on British TV, proudly called herself a dyke during a televised Australian citizenship ceremony with their PM, and has been with her partner since 1968.
MIRIAM IS A QUEEN.
I love her. She is fat, she is old, and she is happy with both and damn proud of being herself. That’s how it should be. That’s what we should all strive for.
If you have not watched this, do yourself a favor and do so.
She is cuddly, cute, funny, wise and occasionally naughty when it’s most effective, and reminds me of a favourite aunt or indeed my own Mum.
A true Queen. :)
She’s Despair (and I have no doubt several other people) in the Audible Sandman adaptations (she had already been Mrs Owens in the full cast Graveyard Book), and I was so excited to meet her. This is me fangirling out while Miriam is cool. Photo by Dirk Maggs.
moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying…
TomfhainesWait.... what?
moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.
[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter “K”. The closest is Kenya, which starts with a “K” sound, but is actually spelled with a “K” sound. It’s always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]
Irregular Webcomic! #5040
For anyone who's confused, that's a large unit of pre-2002 Irish currency.
(via Put garbage in a garbage can people, I can’t stress that...
TomfhainesIt just keeps getting more relevant!
Someone made Felonies Georg into a graphic. Bless.
Someone made Felonies Georg into a graphic. Bless.
That’s an average of almost two per president.
Soho has taken the Crowley route and gone mini!
Soho has taken the Crowley route and gone mini!
Check out this amazing BTS of how creator davidminiatures (IG) brought the spirit of Good Omens 2 and Soho to life. @neil-gaiman