Fun fact: there’s a virus that makes bugs iridescent

disease that makes you beautiful then kills you

clickbeetle is my favourite everyone else can go home

I love how Ten is so shocked Jack joined Torchwood like oh no, gasp you’d never believe Jack would be heading up the “Find the Doctor and Shoot Things” club

Childhood sweethearts~

prints!

Talking to a customer about classic children’s lit and how many of them firmly believe that fresh air and sunshine will cure any number of unspecified Victorian illnesses. I mentioned The Secret Garden and how much I like that the protagonists are basically just feral gremlin children who are very unpleasant to be around until they somehow manage to socialize each other.

Then I said, out loud, “on a scale of Sarah Crewe to Mary Lennox, how well did you handle being raised by a nanny in Edwardian India,” and realized that tumblr really has ruined my speech patterns for all time.

#the difference between Sara and Mary being that Mary was emotionally neglected and Sara was not#Sara has a very loving and involved father who prioritizes her happiness#perhaps to a fault but Sara does grow up very secure and with inner resources that give her resilience and a strong sense of compassion#which help her a LOT in what she has to go through#whereas Mary's parents completely rejected and ignored her and had no investment in raising her into a well-adjusted person#she has never been loved and thus is unable to show love to herself or anyone else#so restoring a garden that's been neglected as she was is a kind of therapy for her#and so is being surrounded by people who do actually engage with her and care about her or at the very least lead her toward growth#so basically The Secret Garden is about two children helping each other heal from emotional neglect#while A Little Princess is about a girl's fight to keep her abusive environment from taking away her self-worth and integrity

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An excellent analysis of one of my favorite novels

Just thought to myself "can't women have a bad time in fiction without rape being involved" which really shows you how much you're in the fucking trenches if you are both a horror fan and women fan

Anyway. There's lot of places for these stories don't get me wrong but HUGE shout out to women in horror stories that have terrible things happen that don't involve: pregnancy, motherhood, and/or sexual assault. You too deserve to have a cronenburg eqsue body horror transformation because you trusted a glowing green liquid to solve your problems

Two perspectives that deserve peer review

clearly not the first time she's heard Harleen making noises through a pillow

And clearly not the first time those noises were a muffled "please, please, please, please..."

Easily able to crawl inside of?

"Does the author respect women" is a third distinct question from either of the other two.

Good naps will have you sleeping in poses usually reserved for dead insects

Together, we're unlimited.

Amy Winehouse backstage at Concorde 2 in Brighton, May, 2004 - Photo by Roger Sargo

reblog if you dont have a bra on

LOOK alright I know I've said some things about the French in the past, BUT.

If they do this I will be singing La Marseillaise in the fucking streets.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

Go on France!

I’m curious and wondering about fandom overlap, so have another poll