Inane English

Jun 19

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.” Stephen Fry (via pale-afternoon)

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Jun 18

Re. That Wil Wheaton post: I’m friends with a lot of people who like to nitpick movies and TV shows. The result is I HATE discussing anything I love with them because I know they’ll shit all over it and probably laugh at me for my tastes. Or I just end up hating things I initially enjoyed.

don’t be a dick

wilwheaton:

If a big part of your enjoyment of a thing on TV or movies is nitpicking it to death, that’s cool.

… but shitting all over the people who enjoyed the same thing without nitpicking it to death is really not cool.

shredsandpatches:

kaitg:

Reason #1,324,789 of why I love this show.

This was a casual side conversation between Bashir and Sisko about a fellow crew member, completely unrelated to the episode’s plot, and its just so sweet.

It’s nice to know that if you’re a pregnant father-to-be on DS9, your buddies Julian and Miles will build you a hatchling pond, buy you baby clothes, and throw you a shower eagerly attended by the station’s commanding officer (who was practically beaming with joy when he found out that you were expecting).

How wonderful.

He gets referenced a bunch of times, too! I’ve been rewatching the show because of the AV Club reviews, and I just saw an episode where Jake mentions babysitting for him. :D

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wilwheaton:

My review of Star Trek Into Darkness
I don’t go to the movies very often. I think the last time I went to a theatre on purpose was to…
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“[Hannibal’s] arrogance is not sort of outward – there’s no dismissing of fellow man, no sense of offense or, “You have offended me, good sir.” With Hannibal, he’s not so much offended as he is kind of observational, and there are moments of his micro-expressions that [unint.] a big scene. I love the look after he snaps his patient’s [Franklin, played by Dan Fogler] neck when he’s confronted by [fellow serial killer] Budge [played by Demore Barnes] and drops [Franklin] like a bag of rocks, and just looks back at [Budge] with this innocent kind of, “Well, what’s next? What shall we do now?” It’s so delightful, because it wasn’t like, “I just killed a man because he had it coming because he was annoying,” it was like, “Well, that happened, and now I’m curious what happens next.” Bryan Fuller, on Hannibal’s perfect face [x] (via fuckinghannibal)

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“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, “I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.” Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now.”

Amy Poehler (via freeasabirdfaraway)

I just love her.

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pobody:

Dumping a drink on a guy’s head always looks cool on tv but its kind of impractical for real life. Don’t waste good gin. Down that sucker and toss the ice in his face.

(via latenightfondue)

“A brief silence follows the name, always, in any civilized conversation.” From ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ by Thomas Harris.

moonyandthediamonds:

hesdeadjim:

buttodenkirk:

have u ever accidentally befriended someone who is very very irritating

#the best part is #you dont know #if mccoy is talking about spock #if spock is talking about mccoy #or if theyre both talking about kirk

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joebloodyhunter:

Continuing from yesterday’s warm-up drawing: Lady Hawkguy and Pizza Dog!

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“If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.”

Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\

I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said

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I’ve embraced the weirdness and now accept that I get a fierce appetite when I watch Hannibal. What this means is that I’ve spent too many nights in the past week sitting in front of the TV, gorging myself on fresh fruit while I catch up on episodes.