Steph is a 2011 graduate of Gettysburg College (majored in history, minored in Civil War Era studies) and current graduate student at Pratt Institute (library science with a focus in Archival Studies) who loves baseball, anime, writing, drawing, Rogue Squadron, cars (and Top Gear), comedy (especially its history and, naturally, the British variety) and her cats and Old English Sheepdogs. Fond of Stanford even though she doesn't go there. Has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. Created the 30-Day Baseball Meme. One time she made a music video about Buster Keaton's love affair with trains. Since she's an archivist-in-training, she often preserves things on her own. See her scans here.
Author of the webcomic The Historians, the excuse to draw dead comedians called Comedian Heaven, and Londinium, a novel in the making set in 1863 London. Scriptwriter for the webcomic Home By Now, a story about time travel, music, history and general hijinks (meet the incredible artist here!).
Very occasionally posts about herself when she's not posting about baseball, dead people, Top Gear or her pets.
I love the internet.
(Submitted by unshadowed-heart)
This has happened to me at least twice: Ells started as a comic relief side character and became a main character, and half the cast of Londinium has been through this.
Oh my God, this has hilarious potential. I almost want to reblog this with the Ask Rogue Squadron Tumblr just to see what people do.
(via cherrycolouredx)
Fuck everyone else, THIS GUY
IS MY HERO
FOREVER
GEDDAN
Actually, this is improved because of a) the anonymous horse mask and b) he’s wearing a Yaranaika? shirt.
Footnote: I have a horse mask. I bought it something like ten years ago in a gag gift shop in Lancaster County, PA, long before it meant anything on the internet. It’s the black version.
(via staturescout)
It’s a thing…I’d love to know how it became a thing.
Yes, this exists. I may have to do this. Will probably start tomorrow since right now I’m working on art and will probably be doing so until 4 am again.
- All-time favorite character in Star Wars
- Favorite member of the Rebellion
- Favorite member of the Empire
- Favorite Jedi
- Favorite Droid
- Favorite type of ship, or specific ship
- Favorite planet
- Favorite movie in the original trilogy
- Favorite movie in the prequel trilogy
- Favorite photo that’s related to Star Wars
- Favorite battle
- All time favorite scene in any of the movies
- Favorite quote
- A scene that makes you happy
- A scene that makes you sad/angry
- Photo of your Star Wars related things (books, action figures, posters, shirts, etc.)
- Your favorite moment in The Phantom Menace
- Your favorite moment in Attack of the Clones
- Your favorite moment in Revenge of the Sith
- Your favorite moment in A New Hope
- Your favorite moment in Empire Strikes Back
- Your favorite moment in Return of the Jedi
- Something you wished was different in the series
- A character you didn’t like in the series
- Your favorite book/series from the Expanded Universe
- Your favorite Obi-Wan Kenobi quote
- Your favorite Yoda quote
- Your favorite Darth Vader quote
- Best Star Wars related story/incident you’ve had
- Why you love Star Wars
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Send me some fucking numbers
ahh what the hell
I would do this if there weren’t so many dating questions on there. Still haven’t been on one of those, oops.
(via notbisonsdivision)
After dinner, of course. Need to eat first!
…and I have a few things to say regarding it.
‘This,’ by the way, is something referred to as the ‘kawaii voice meme,’ which I can easily see being stereotyped into ‘Something Weeaboos Do.’ Basically, the point is to put on the cutest voice you can and read the following:
- Say your username and your name with the proper honorific.
- Where are you from?
- What is your favourite anime?
- Pronounce the following words: Kawaii, Sugoi, Desu, Kakkoi, Bakemonogatari, Konnichiwa, Ohayou, Onigiri, Sushi, Onegai, Arigatou, Neko, Nyan, Hasubando/Waifu, Ochinchin, Manko, Gomennasai, Sayonara, Naruto, Onii-chan, Musume, Zetsubou shita, Meido, Mahou Shoujo, Hajimemashite
- What do you call an attractive male
- Who is your waifu for laifu?
- What are you watching this season?
- Who’s your favourite touhou?
- Why aren’t you kawaii?
First off, you don’t use an honorific when talking about yourself: I never refer to myself as ‘Diorio-san’ when I speak Japanese. That’s what other people address me as (or, if we’re close friends, ‘Sutefu-chan’ is just fine). Typically, -chan is used for something/someone small and cute, so it’s not often applied to adults (unless, of course, you’re dating and the other person is just that moe).
Most of the words and phrases used here are commonly used in anime/manga/J-pop, which is probably why they’re the ones being used. If I were to say a phrase such as “Kutabare Yomiuri,” it would probably confuse most non-Japanese speakers, including people at a convention. Likewise, if I were to start off a conversation with, “Darvish o dou moimasu ka?” (“What do you think of Yu Darvish?”), it probably wouldn’t go over well. Unless, of course, you know who that is. Which you should, because his slider is amazing.
The thing about this meme that I really think is going to lead to stereotyping, though, is the ‘why aren’t you kawaii’ question. It’s one thing to use the Japanese word for a noun in a sentence, but when people use adjectives in sentences that would make more sense just entirely in English, people tend to judge them for it. Whoever created the meme might end up dubbed a weeaboo - which sucks, because it means they’ll be negatively stereotyped without people even meeting them.
Basically, I’m just worried that all these girls doing this meme are going to be negatively stereotyped unfairly just because the phrases and whatnot are what people consider to be typical “weeaboo speak.” Nobody deserves to be negatively stereotyped. Ever.
- 1: Are you a virgin?
- 2: What do you want to major in?
- 3: What's your sexual orientation?
- 4: Are you crushing on anyone? If so, who?
- 5: What's the cutest thing someone's ever done for you?
- 6: What are the top five places you wish you could go before you die?
- 7: What was the scariest moment of your life?
- 8: If you could take something back that you said or did, what would it be?
- 9: Do you think that the person who sent you this number was cute?
- 10: If you had to name three important details about you, what would you say?
- 11: Are you allergic to anything? If so, what?
- 12: Have you ever been in love? If so, are you still in love?
- 13: Do you like sports? If so, which ones?
- 14: What are four things you can't live without and why?
- 15: Do you have a facebook? If so, would you add the person who sent you this number?
- 16: What do you like to do in your spare time?
- 17: What are your biggest fears?
- 18: What are two of your biggest weaknesses?
- 19: What are your three biggest insecurities?
- 20: If you could write anonymous letters to three people, who would you send it to and what would you say?
I’m insecure about my appearance because boys never tell me I’m cute/pretty, only girls. This stems back to middle and high school when the boys who made fun of me called me ugly.
Give me a character (or ten) from any fandom you know I’m in, and I’ll let you know:
* How I FEEEEEL about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
DO THIS!
Why not? I’m going to go pick up some lunch really quickly, so do this whilst I’m out!
