You and I will always be back then

#why do people hate destiny #i mean on one level it’s generic but on another it’s douglas adams let loose on a tired dalek script #and boy does he have a time (via @scriptscribbles)

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

“Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

“He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

“It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

“If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

And, of course: “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

the one that will always stay with me is “Arthur Dent was grappling with his consciousness the way one grapples with a lost bar of soap in the bath,” i feel like that was the first time i really understood what you could do with words.

From an interview with former Doctor, Peter Davison (via nightskyonkrikkit)

Douglas Adams is the best when it comes to describe characters

they need to teach classes on Douglas Adams analogies okay

“He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.”

"Stones, then rocks, then boulders which pranced past him like clumsy puppies, only much, much bigger, much, much harder and heavier, and almost infinitely more likely to kill you if they fell on you.”

"He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.”

"It looked only partly like a spaceship with guidance fins, rocket engines and escape hatches and so on, and a great deal like a small upended Italian bistro.”

"If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.”

And, of course: "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t."

I think I need to read this man’s work.

fun fact: If you separate the 4 and the 2 making them different numbers. Then translate them into Japanese  shi, and ni. Then put the words together, shini, it means death (shini-gami = god of death). So knowing that

The answer to the ultimate question… of life, the universe, and everything is…

death.

That fact is not fun.

Well, the number 4 in Japanese can also be translated to Yon. So if we have the words Yon and Ni and then put them together, it is yonni, which translates to nothing (as far as i know) in Japanese, however, in Sanskrit, it means vagina. 

So therefore, the answer to the ultimate question….of life, the universe, and everything is…

vagina

Life comes from the vagina only to be later greeted by death.

i just hit myself in the face my phone

y’all fuckers are over analysing this shit it was supposed to be a joke none of this fucking japanese secret number bullshit

But overanalysing shit is half the fun of reading/watching shit.

I am all of them.

I'm sorry did you put Zaphod Beeblebrox behind someone else?

On a scale of self esteem?

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

"I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."

"He had seen the whole universe stretching to infinity around him - everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was the most important thing in it."

A little late for Towel Day, but still in that same spirit.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate

SUDDENLY RELEVANT

The Pirate Planet was an amazing episode

"…good looks are no substitute for a sound character."

The Pirate Planet - season 16 - 1978

I love how Romana is biting her jelly baby all in the Doctor’s face even as he’s telling her off for stealing them.

this is my favourite quote ever

Still one of my favourite books of all time

"Davis liked to dance."

i

ok

"They day they lost the pig was also the last day of mild winter." -page 42,  Pillars of the Earth

"Riders did not control so much as work in concert with them." -Wolfheart

"Sometimes, while she inspected my head in search of lice and other parasites, she would speak to me in a hushed voice."

“‘I should head home actually’ I said ‘I’m kinda tired’” - Fault in Our Stars

"Professor Stratford sank back into his chair, his silence heavy with meaning." Knightley Academy  yup pretty much

the nearest book to me is a dictionary

what does this mean

"Two widows were in the lounge of the Seniors’ Centre."

"Although parody and irony have appeared to be dominant modes of image production and interpretation in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, they are not the only modes invoked in popular culture."  - Practices of looking, an introduction to visual culture.

Riiiight.

"Of course, here on Earth, we are not tall enough to chimney-sweep our volcanoes."

Oh-ho-ho, even the books are making short puns at me now. You win this time, universe.

Trent doesn’t say anything except, ‘Do you want to go to The Roxy tonight or what, Clay?’

That’s really helpful, thanks a lot B.E.E

ORGANZA: A sheer fabric with a crisp appearance that will crease easily. - Dressmaking: The complete step-by-step guide by Alison Smith

"On the surface, this seems logical."

So I have a Spock kind of love life?

"Jenny was dreaming about being in her apartment and petting her cat."

SPOT ON!

"Use white magic, beginning with yourself." — The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

"It worked."

"SUSPECT, VEHICLE AND WEAPON INFORMATION"

This is how you tell that I’m at work.

"Why?" asked Larka. (Why? indeed… Book was The Sight by David Clement-Davies)

"Now we can jump in and generate a bunch of different dog designs." 

"Each individual Pokemon has its own Nature and Characteristic." WELL.

The man bowed low and worshipped the Lord

Vogon poetry is of course the third worse in the Universe

Loved the movie, but the book is a million times better.

Still, great movie. Poor Martin Freeman seems to be getting type-cast though, because let's be honest; Arthur Dent, Bilbo Baggins and Sherlock's John Watson are the same person