90stv:

the reason mulder is very suave and cool during the first episode and then never again is because he spent 3 years alone in a basement thinking of dope shit to say to impress girls. “nobody down here but the fbi’s most unwanted” “that’s why they put the i in fbi” “something cosmic” like COME ON!! bro’s been practicing those lines he made flash cards he rehearsed them in the mirror. problem is he got too excited and used them all within the first like 2 weeks so by the fifth episodes he’s like. Please Like Me Lol

clitcheese:

jk rowling 2020: hedwig was only posing as a female owl, really he’s a sexy bi goth guy

the Harry Potter series is now known as one of the biggest steaming piles of pop culture shit of all time, and Tara Gillespie’s ‘My Immortal’ (2006-2007) is known as a work of genius, it’s studied in universities, and has the better live action version of the two. this is snake eating it’s own tail bullshit. if i travelled back ten years to the past, this would be harder to explain than the donald trump pee tapes

brehaaorgana:

j.k.r. needs like one close friend to sit her down and go: “okay, but, go over this with me again. you decided the evil snake your dark wizard kept as a pet and vessel of his fragmented horrific soul – the one that has to be murdered in order to defeat the evil wizard – is in fact….an asian woman who was cursed to eventually become a beast and monster in her own body. am i getting this right? the asian woman turns into a snake because her bloodline is cursed and then she becomes the pet of a white supremacist with magic. you invented a body curse specifically for turning women into monsters and your first thought was not like, subversion of fairy tale misogyny but….to add a layer of racism? just trying to understand here.” 

nausicaaharris:

i think a far better metric for sci-fi is not “hard” or “soft” or “science fantasy” or whatever but the ease with which one can fuck aliens

from one end to the other, the scale is:

  • it is impossible to fuck aliens because we have not found any
  • it is technically impossible to fuck aliens because we have not found any, but you can fuck a wide variety of genetically-modified humans
  • it is impossible to fuck aliens because no alien species has anything resembling sex
  • it is difficult to fuck aliens due to divergent anatomy, but with great care and dedication it can be done
  • it is difficult to fuck aliens due to travel difficulties
  • it is moderately difficult to fuck aliens, as they are down to clown, but it requires a degree of courage
  • it requires no special effort to fuck aliens, because that’s hotter than reasonable levels of biodiversity
  • it is easy to fuck aliens, and you are cross-fertile with them because this is a universe with the Strong Hodgkin’s Law
  • it is easy to fuck aliens because you are all descended from ancient bullshit progenitors

(obviously there are intermediate stages but i do think this is a useful rubric)

star trek canon goes through 5 of these depending on era and species