Charging up for a future marathon of Dirty Pair and 009-1. Just need to find them online…

tacoposey:

what if we just created a fandom for a tv show that doesn’t exist and we build it up really big and make a ton of inside jokes until the internet just accepts it as a real show and it starts getting included in polls and gets it’s own imdb page and a group of outsiders go crazy trying to find dl links

Kakumeiki Valvrave is pretty mad decent. Just sayin’.

I have no interest in being 
put on the map. 

I can’t eat an atlas; 

I don’t want more 
white men in their 
adorned white uniforms 
dazzling with medals
and gold braid and knife-steel 
showing up on my shores 

literally trading my house 
for their songs, 

buying my children 
with jewelry-boxes 
and my parents 
with curtain-beads; 

I don’t want 
pale-skinned demons 
spitting on elders’ graves and 
pouring their liquor on indigenes’ shrines, 

they can keep their books 
and their foreign whispers 
if it comes at the cost of 
colour on a page; 

I can’t eat an atlas, 

and I want these monsters 
off of my beaches 
and out of my schools, 

I want these monsters 
to take their hands off my lovers 
and put the bricks of my houses 
back where they found them, 

I’d rather have a land 
than a cartographer 

so I’ll do whatever I can 
for my nation to 
fade into the steam of the 
boiling water above Durga’s kettle-hot rage, 
like fog of war, 

so these demons 
can get lost, 
lose hope and drown,

and leave our paradises alone.

There is only a handful of peeves I have when it comes to how we talk about media these days. One of them I happen to stumble across online every once in a while: someone will post a quote from an interview with one author or another, always a man, more often than not a stalwart of one kind or another of genre fiction. I never need to know the author’s name; it’s for the most part unimportant. What is important is whether the journalist will say those ill-fated words, and he always does: “So, tell me, sir, how are so you adept at crafting strong female characters?”

I cringe the moment it happens, every single damn time.

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it takes a lot of dedication 
to start spinning a story 
that you never want to let go, 

to never find full stops 
because you only find them in gravestone grey, 

to keep piling on commas 
til commas are rare 

and golden and lily-scented and 
taste like forbidden love’s lips, 

to love your story now, 
to feel like it’s true, to want it to be true 
because if it’s true, you are 
alive at least in this 
really long Act Two 

brimming with conflict. 

you have become the lady of so much, 
of the whodunnit and 
the haunting. No 
sovereign deserves you, 

and it’s that you’ve scored a sovereign 
that we are so enamoured of you 
silvern tongue.