The Mistress of Distress

where to find me

Tumblr is in its death throes and I’m very busy in RL (not bad busy, just busy busy).

So, in case you want to find me later, I’m msdistress on dreamwidth as well.
I don’t tweet much, but I log in to Twitter occasionally, and my handle there is pirate_alia.

So, I’ll see you around, I guess?  

Hey Tumblr…

I thought you might want to know that in preparation for the impending death of Tumblr on the 17th, I archived Helenish’ entire* tumblr blog to The Wayback Machine.

I know people were archiving fannish blogs to other sites, too, but I figured one more archived copy wouldn’t hurt.

You’re welcome.


*or at least I tried to archive it as completely as I could. I might have missed one or two read mores, but I’m certain that at least 95% of the blog is there.

troisoiseaux:

“I shall never forget the occasion where I was visiting a school as a writer and the whole place suddenly fell into an uproar because the school tomboy - a most splendid Britomart of a girl - had beaten up the school bully. Everything stopped in the staffroom while the teachers debated what to do. They wanted to give the tomboy a prize, but decided reluctantly that they had better punish her and the bully too. They knew that if, as a child, you do pluck up courage to hit the bully, it is an act of true heroism - as great as that of Beowulf in his old age. I remember passing the tomboy, sitting in her special place of punishment opposite the bully. She was blazing with her deed, as if she had actually been touched by a god. And I thought that this confirmed all my theories: a child in her position is open to any heroic myth I care to use; she is inward with folktales; she would feel the force of any magical or divine intervention.”

— Diana Wynne Jones (via intomyth)

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seamusquigley:

“I don’t want to be a pet robot.”

“I don’t think anyone wants that.”

That was Gurathin. I don’t like him. “I don’t like you.”

“I know.”

He sounded like he thought it was funny. “That is not funny.”

“I’m going to mark your cognition at fifty-five percent.”

“Fuck you.”

“Let’s make that sixty percent.”

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells, The Murderbot Diaries

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factysatin:

dangerousyako:

An Artificial Condition is such a great representation of Hufflepuff-Slytherin friendships

you’ve got Murderbot the anxious Hufflepuff mom friend who instantly imprints on and needs to protect anyone who shows vulnerability for 0.5 seconds and needs to protect them

and ART the chill and self-assured Slytherin friend who’s perfectly ready to kill anyone who harms its crew and its Murderbot

BONUS POINTS in the world’s cutest twist the Slytherin friend can’t watch scary movies without the Hufflepuff holding their hand

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sockablock:

someone who doesn’t watch critical role caption this

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shiijose:

reblog this and put in the tags where youre from and what temperatures you think are too hot and too cold to go out in

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