oh this ain't it

I disparaged tumblr a lot back in the day before twitter got all fucked up, but, well, that outage last night was pretty difficult for me not going to lie

casting wall-to-wall white people wasn't actually enough apparently they also had to literally put white skin wallpaper on the walls

Howling, did not appreciate this was the extent of my influence: someone very offline asked my friend what fandom was and my friend began "so, you know like The Terror" ("what's The Terror?")

tumblr is another world... a better world...

MAKE IT STOP www.facebook.com/share/r/18YH... (yeah I could simply look away from the ""wuthering heights"" promo but no) (although it's pretty unavoidable here. it's on the bus stops it's on the buses) (note to self do not go to the south bank this weekend)

shut up shut up shut up (fic AU where they're in a different situation and different stuff happens and all of the characterisation has been changed... ie why bother)

I stayed up SO late writing last night but this could have been avoided if I'd simply turned my music off and started actually writing earlier than 1.30am. What an idiot.

This presents a nearly irresistible option for a journalistic second mention: 'the Grammy Award-winning spiritual leader'.

oh wow is it actually no longer january finally

One overlooked aspect is that graduates are now forecast to cover 83% of higher education costs – the funding system has been almost entirely privatised.

the rec center last week with my beatles-related tumblr post, the rec center this week with an oasis-related tumblr post... the rec center you are in my walls

staggeringly stupid answer (because she's staggeringly stupid). there's entitled and then there's 'don't mess up MY moodboard from my teenage bedroom' www.buzzfeed.com/natashajokic...

I love custard apples so much. Who's with me

Such excellent analysis (and fandom historical context)! also this is where I am right now, but back in regular non HR fandom

As soon as back from work and cooked and eaten and washed up and it could actually be writing time... I'm dead tired fall asleep couldn't stay up any longer

This is so selfish of me but someone who's in a bad situation is coming to live with us for a while and we don't really have any choice but it means I will lose my room of one's own and wfh space for the duration and I'm really stressed and upset about that. tbh.

oh my god they're doing themed nights for your yaoi at the club... this is amazing

did my tax return I've been procrastinating on doing since September six days before the deadline please clap (took maybe about 45 minutes)

Just watched the first three episodes of Studio 60 for the first time. Absolutely howled with laughter throughout (not at things intended by the creators to be laughed at)

Joanie clothing has ceased trading? noooo I bought so many things from them!

want to read fic but also want to write fic (currently at work, doing neither)... the eternal struggle

watching forest gump. lieutenant dan's quite fit

Panic bought birthday cake from a central London bakery with no prices on the labels and GUESS WHAT cost a fucking fortune

Luckily I had a 4 hour meeting at work today and then am meeting a friend so it's fine AO3 being down all day actually it's fine it's FINE

When you find an incredible advertisement while cataloguing a mid-20th century archive but have no-one to show it to - and then #NationalCheeseLoversDay comes along...

I actually had a discussion about this yesterday. The hate for fanfiction has 4 components: 1) It directly defies capitalism. Capitalism tells us that only things that are profitable are of worth. Most fanfic is free and so people equate free to bad. 🧵 #fanfiction

foxes screaming-fucking extremely loudly right outside my bedroom window... they didn't put that in fucking fleabag did they

Very fascinated by this from a UK comedy industry perspective. 1. 6x30 audio comedy costs about 75 grand, if you're paying everyone 2. This would have all been BBC R4 stuff 15 years ago (and the BBC could do it a bit cheaper since they already have studios etc) beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1704...

On this date in 1994 (which was 12 years ago, obviously) the first episode of The Day Today was broadcast on BBC2.

if you stick around in rpfland long enough your legacy will choose you

Spam AO3 comments that are just a very long string of random letters and characters? Extremely annoying. Not even crafted into a fun little message of hate.

thank you allegra! this is very good. the latest round of "what's a slash?" coverage due to HR has been driving me steadily nuts

Really didn't want to visit the US in The Current Climate... but it does now look like I will be, for a few days at least

Turns out that being obsessed with a new fandom is what gets me starting a load of WIPs, but wanting to move onto something else is what gets me to actually finish and post some of them. Care (but not too much).

Oasis have fucking ruined my Discover Weekly playlist. No I don't want to listen to 2006 landfill indie that I already listened to the first time around

okay but IS IT? is it really?

honestly just tell me I'm funny that's all I ever want to hear (funny because of my highly intellectual wit etc, not funny because I slipped on banana skin. 🚫 physical comedy)

She was really only saying this at the end of the session in the context of learning how to sit with feeling feelings, which is apparently *not* the same as thinking (I for one am devastated to learn this),

revealing to my husband there's an entire third (older) Gallagher brother and blowing his mind

Was properly in a writing flow last night for once in my life - really had to force myself, annoyed, to stop in the middle and go to bed by 2.30am

Saw a lot of grim skyscapes this weekend. The east of the UK just doesn't grey up like the January west 💜

Goddamnit I really am normally largely immune to baby fever but I spent Saturday with a very smiley very cute nine month old (and his inquisitive 3yo brother)... repeating to myself that one novel day playing is very different to no sleep and FOREVER

Two glasses of wine and a lovely home cooked meal at a friend's house and now I'm staying in a moderately nice hotel in Liverpool because it was discounted because the trains aren't running properly. Does it get any better than this. (payback comes tomorrow in the form of a rail replacement bus)

watched Human Traffic. weren't the 90s cool

how can you do anything in this weather other than sleep and sleep and sleep

Oh, you're worried you'll miss out on students who arrive at 18 already with expertise and in alignment? Who have already been "encouraged to engage critically and independently"? Only one possible background that kind of student can come from, after all. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

hm seem to be at the fandom point of getting myself too wired to get to sleep for hours for several nights in a row now so I need to. not be like that.

ice is evil actually (I'm talking about the slippery stuff on the ground but the other one too, sure)