lyra, actual labyrinth-dweller and internet maenad. -- participating in casual deification as a hobby.
prophetic and pathetic.
"Who says I need a partner to dance? Here in this tower I am mistress of all; the reindeer, the knightâs armor teetering in the corner, various discarded disguises, crowns, crumbs and bones. Will you rescue me?" donkeyskins.
This is a little comic I made about the journey I went through in discovering that I’m ace and coming out. It’s drawn in the same simple style I used for my hourlycomics, which is really only a step above thumbnails, but I wanted to go ahead and share it. At some point I plan to redraw it properly for my comic site and Tapastic account, and maybe even print it!
One thing about the comic’s timeline that I wanted to address… When I first came out as ace on social media last November, I actually did come out as demisexual. But since that time, I gained a greater understanding of both myself and the ace and aro spectrums, and realized that demiromantic ace was a much more accurate fit for me.
In the months that followed my coming out as ace on social media, I slowly began coming out to close family and friends in real life. I was worried about how the people closest to me would react, but it’s gone pretty well so far!
I made this comic to address the doubts, questions, and confusing aspects of myself that made it so hard to understand or explain how I felt before I found the ace community. I especially wanted to represent those who, like me, didn’t realize they were ace for years because they were misinformed or didn’t even know it was an option… who fall into the gray area of the ace spectrum or aren’t sure how to define their asexuality… who worry about whether they’re “ace enough” because they’re gray ace, sex favorable, or both. I hope this comic helps any fellow aces who feel like they can relate to it! :)
(And BTW… any flames from discoursers about my support for ace inclusion in the LGBTQIA+ community will be used to toast marshmallows and then deleted.) ;)
why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead
this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job
Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety?
“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.”
I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…
I mean.
“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”
“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.”
Me, reclining on my Casper Mattress, working on my squarespace site, listening to a free audible audiobook, picking at a nature box, wearing a high quality pair of socks and printing postal orders from Stamps Dot Com: ye why do u ask [i begin to shave my legs with a harry’s razor]
the signs as ridiculous things alexander the great did according to plutarch
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aries: once cried because there were so many worlds to conquer and he hadn't even managed to conquer one taurus:
(when nobody could tame the horse bucephalus and the horse was ordered away) kept talking about how bucephalus was a wonderful horse and they were losing a beautiful creature by taking him away over and over until finally his father let him try to tame the horse gemini:
slept with his copy of the iliad under his pillow cancer:
treated the conquered persians well after he drove king darius to flight because, in his words, darius was his enemy, not persia leo:
would get pissy whenever news of one of his father's great victories would come because he was worried his father wouldn't leave any conquering for him to do virgo:
had a habit of quoting poetry and plays and even did so in terrible situations such as when his father was killed or he was wounded in battle libra:
had a great distaste for athletes and would set up all sorts of competitions for poets and musicians and hunters while pointedly not awarding prizes for more athletic competitions scorpio:
once got mad at a guy and drunkenly threw a cup at him, then made fun of his father when his father was too drunk to do anything about it saggitarius:
traveled so quickly along the coast of pamphylia as to make a legend of himself and then played it off as if it were nothing special capricorn:
slept late on the day when he was supposed to meet darius in battle, and when questioned as to why he was sleeping as if he had already won, smiled and said that he was already victorious for finally getting to go into battle with darius rather than having to chase darius all over the place aquarius:
so admired diogenes the cynic that when diogenes was a dick to him he said that if he were not alexander, he would be diogenes pisces:
after a night of drinking would sleep usually until midday and sometimes even slept the entire day</p>
In 2013, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predicted the film industry as we know it would “implode” if/when, in the near future, too many wildly expensive blockbuster movies flopped. And if ever there were a year for an implosion on that scale to occur it would be 2018, the year when there are nearly as many major studio tentpole releases as there are weeks in the year. Well, here’s the thing …
2018 will see the release over 40 massive, tentpole movies. There are nearly 20 releases that happen exactly a week apart. This means that Marvel’s Black Panther will have only a week to make most of its money before Pacific Rim 2 steals its audience, which will give the unnamed Marvel/Fox movie a week to make its money before Wreck-It Ralph 2 comes out, which will only have a week before The Flash and/or Tomb Raider comes out, because Warner Bros. is dumb and scheduled two of their own tentpole movies for the same day. And all of those movies will be released in February and March, the two months studios usually use as a landfill to dump the movies they think suck. The year isn’t just crowded; it’s a clusterfuck, and there are going to be big casualties. There are too many massive movies and not enough people to watch them.
just a snapshot of some of the blockbusters being released in 2018 so u can actually see how fucking insane this industry has gotten:
Avengers: Infinity War, Ready Player One, Pacific Rim 2, Aquaman, Toy Story 4, Deadpool 2, Black Panther, The Flash, How To Train Your Dragon 3, Ant-Man And The Wasp, Jurassic World 2, The Predator, Fifty Shades Freed, Jungle Book: Origins, Marry Poppins Returns, Tomb Raider, Alita: Battle Angel, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them 2, The Secret Life Of Pets 2, an animated Spider-Man movie, Hotel Transylvania 3, The Wolf Man, Wreck-It Ralph 2, the Star Wars Han Solo spinoff, the Transformers Bumblebee spinoff, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Gigantic (Disney’s next hand-drawn animated musical). Madagascar 4, Independence Day 3, Gambit (an X-Men spinoff), The Invisible Man, Venom (a Spider-Man spinoff), Uprising (Bryan Singer’s big-budget movie about a war on the goddamn moon),Mission: Impossible 6.
TL;DR version: blockbusters actually haven’t made money for the studios for the past 10-12 years – at all, on average, even for the
Disney/Marvel machine – because the market can’t support more than 5-6 successful summer blockbusters per year. 5-6 is the number of movies your average interested person can make time to see, so to a degree, it doesn’t matter if there are 12 or 18 or 30 releases beyond that. They’re all massive loss leaders designed to enable partner sales of ancillary goods/services.
In other words, the purpose of the movie is to get the largest number of people hooked on a fandom. Then ABC or Netflix can make money off spinoff TV series, Lego or Hasbro can make money off toys, and so on. Disney or Fox make money off the deals they have with ABC/Netflix/Lego/Hasbro – not from the box office.
So the crash isn’t going to be because there are too many movies: you’re already seeing some of the adjustments predicted by the blog author (Matthew Ball), like variable pricing in the form of season or premium passes with tie-ins. The crash is going to be because there’s an upper bound to the number of active fandoms an average fan can participate in at once. And I actually suspect that number is higher than 5-6 per year, because you’ve filtered out the punters who would tag along to see the Avengers but can’t be arsed to buy a Iron Man mug or watch Jessica Jones on Netflix – in the new model, a punter is useful for reducing the initial loss but uninteresting beyond that. What you’re trying to do is turn a punter into a fan.
(Matthew Ball had an interesting ancillary point about how the original business-to-consumer model of the movie industry is crappy because it behaves like a commodities market: past return is not a predictor of future success, long lag time in scaling production up/down to meet demand, pricing is the same across the board regardless of the quality of the individual product shipment, etc. In other words, Hollywood tried to sell art and found that art behaves like corn, so now they’re trying to sell something else.)
