house md’s worst and best hate crime is wilson’s “i should have spent my life being more like you. i should’ve been a manipulative, self centred, narcissistic ass who brought misery to everything and everyone in his life” followed by house’s “you’d still have cancer” and then wilson’s “yeah, but at least i’d feel like i deserved it!” house risks his entire life to let wilson do too much chemo. wilson didn’t even ask him to do it. house gives up the last of his vicodin to stop wilson’s pain. he lies to wilson about it. house tells wilson that all they need in life is each other. house promises to let wilson die in his apartment instead of being taken to a hospital. he risks everything because wilson asks him to. then wilson tells house that he deserves cancer. there is no fucking reason for this. it’s the best thing they ever did.
I saw some James Webb Telescope scientists give a talk and one of them said this was her favorite image because she had waited and worked 25 years to see this.
Learning that Brad Dourif is the voice of Chucky the killer doll did something to my brain and now I keep sneaking up behind people and saying “My lord, Gandalf the Grey is here. He’s a herald of woe” in a bad Jersey accent
“I fuckin TOLD ya to take the wizahd’s staff!”
BRAD DOURIF WAS WORMTONGUE?
Yup, that is none other than Brad “Gendahflooid” Dourif
He apparently really got Christopher Lee when he dropped the english accent for the first time. Chris told him to stop doing a terrible American impression.
Hardcover rebind of Holes by Louis Sachar! My paperback cover was starting to flake away, so I did my best to rescue it. The bookcloth is Eister Duo, and all of the decals are HTV. I only had enough confidence to put a single actual hole into the cover (right through the O!) although I briefly considered riddling the whole cover case with them - the idea was dismissed because of Structural Concerns. Maybe next time.
A brief attempt at speckling the edges was made (yellow, for yellow spotted lizards). It doesn’t look very good - I blame my no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather for this, and all other imperfections.
Beautiful work; I love the endpapers.
@perfectlynormalbooks How on Earth do you rebind a paperback? I’ve never been brave enough to tackle one. Very impressed.
I’m not sure if what I do is standard or normal (as ever), but my rough process was: cut off the cover pages, clamp the resulting text block in my book press to keep the pages from slipping, carefully strip the spine & glue from the rest of it using a hot iron and scraping tool, and then reapply several layers of glue to keep it all together, just like I’d normally do with a perfect binding.
After that, I treated it the same as any case binding textblock - glued on a spine strengthener, added endpapers and headbands, etc, then made the case and glued it all together. I’m sure there’s tutorials that explain it much more succinctly and correctly than I have, though - I’d definitely go check those out if you’re interested in trying it.
“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”
And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.
So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.
supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this
It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.
