Meanderings of a Fandom Geek

Wherein I drop the funny, interesting, important, moving, amusing, and educational things I find around the net.

Potterhead. Whovian. Tribute.: In return he saved me...

popcltrgeek:

andicanalwaysseeyou:

… or why I think Moffat set up the perfect scenario to save River from the Library in the series finale.

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I absolutely and completely agree with every bit of this, with one exception. That gif from the Library doesn’t have Clara in it….

Ahhh, yes, I see that now. I feel like a dork and retract my one exception. This is beautiful head canon, and just in case Steven hasn’t already thought of and planned on these things, we should let him know the signs are all there. Clearly River Song has more to do, and she’s not about to let a little thing like canonical death stop her.

(Source: areyoumarriedriver)

In return he saved me…

andicanalwaysseeyou:

… or why I think Moffat set up the perfect scenario to save River from the Library in the series finale.

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I absolutely and completely agree with every bit of this, with one exception. That gif from the Library doesn’t have Clara in it. That’s Donna. 

Still, I would totally buy these little seeds of possibility and really hope something like this is used to bring us more River Song in the future.

(Source: areyoumarriedriver)

im-your-favorite-actor-and-i:

proud-member-of-hermits-united:

danstiel:

englishyoutubersfeels:

vickymaree:

sit-down-john:

the only thing worse than your otp dying

is half of your otp dying

Okay Satan time to turn off the computer.

you know whats even worse? one of the half’s watching the other half dying.

I THINK THAT’S ENOUGH NOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH

what if one half is forced to kill the other

DONT EVEN GO THERE

every bit of this has happened to River Song & The Doctor - multiple times.

(Source: clarinet-oswald, via memyselfandironman)

memyselfandironman asked: I might have asked you this before but do you think Buffy saying "I love you" is what Cassie meant when she told Spike, "One day she'll tell you"? Or do you think it was one of the other important things that Buffy told him? Because those other things he seemed to really take to heart, and he brushed off the "I love you" so I've never thought that was what it was.

Oooh, that’s a tough one.

I’d honestly have to go back and watch the eps from “Help” to “Chosen” again and see if something else jumped out at me. My first instinct, though, is to say that Cassie did mean the “I love you” but Spike either couldn’t let himself believe it, or was falling back on his self-deprecation as a defense mechanism because he couldn’t afford to get emotional when he was dealing with the Liz Taylor pendant and its effects.

It’s hard to pinpoint, sometimes, what a psychic person is talking about. At New Year’s, a friend of mine was in a very liminal state and had messages for several of us. To me, she said “it will happen just like you dream” and I still, nearly six months later, have no clue what she’s talking about.

beben-eleben: A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)  Dear Cutie-Pie, Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.” It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior. And I got angry. Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.” Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.) If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you. Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting: I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking. I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you. I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you. I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart. I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart. I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness. I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred. In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common: You. Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you. Your eternally interested guy, Daddy Everyone should have a Daddy like this.

beben-eleben:

A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)

 Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.

And I got angry.

Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”

Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)

If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you.

Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:

I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.

I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.

I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.

I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.

I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.

I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.

I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred.

In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common:

You.

Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you.

Your eternally interested guy,

Daddy

Everyone should have a Daddy like this.

(Source: followandreblog, via stut--ter)

moriar-t-e-a:

rachaelsrambles:

Guys, hey, guys. Do you remember that time that Coulson called Natasha and she ended up forming the Avengers?  Remember how she did that by digging up Bruce Banner and introducing Steve to him then was the voice of reason when Tony and Steve were bickering and then how she brought Clint back from being mind controlled so that they can be a team? Remember that? Remember how the Black Widow out smarted a god? Remember that time she kept her shit together when the Hulk attacked her, even though she was really scared? Remember when she knocked an alien off his flying scooter and figured out how to drive it despite it being extrateresstrial tech, then got her ass up to the top of Stark Tower, found Loki’s staff and saved the world from being invaded by turning off the machine?

Remember how she was the central character of the whole freaking movie?

Anyone else remember that? I sure do. 

#and remember how they didn’t sexualize her #remember how she was independent and didn’t need a male crutch #remember how when loki implied that she needed a man she completely tore him down #remember how natasha romanov doesn’t take shit from nobody #especially not a man

Yeah, Nat’s a badass. And yes, the tags here - love them.

(Source: iamnevertheone, via memyselfandironman)

I could have had the perfect body, but it was either that or bacon. I chose bacon.  Oh but Jennifer, honey, you DO have a perfect body. There is no “the perfect body” because that implies there can be only one. Perfect bodies are not like Highlander Immortals. We’re all perfect.
I could have had the perfect body, but it was either that or bacon. I chose bacon. 

Oh but Jennifer, honey, you DO have a perfect body. There is no “the perfect body” because that implies there can be only one. Perfect bodies are not like Highlander Immortals. We’re all perfect.

(via knittywriter)

Just Friends: The One Where Everything Changes (and Some Things Never Change)

randomactsofdouchebaggery:

Summary: Kurt exhales. Reaction to 4x21 “Wonder-ful”
Word Count: 600
Rating: G
Notes: Mimsy suggested I make this into a  series, so expect more “Just Friends” moments until these two get back together for good. Feel free to drop a prompt in my ask.

Also on AO3 | S&C | FF

Previous stories in this series: The One with Condoms and Lube | The One with the Boy Scouts | The One with the Romance | The One with the Truth Bomb | The One with Veronica and Bruce | The One That’s Just So | The One That’s Acoustic

That first week home seems to fly by. Kurt spends his time hanging out in the choir room and at the Lima Bean, acting as if nothing is out of the ordinary. But the truth is, everything has changed. Then again, everything is the same.

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EEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!1!!!111!!!!!!!

I loved it. Those little moments of inner thought in between the scenes we see in the show - it’s perfect. <3

(via randomactsofdouchebaggery)

jonxdaenerys:

If you’re ever feeling sad just remember that:

1. You are not the author or 50 Shades of Grey

2. You will never hate life as much as Robert Pattinson

3. You will never lose as many friends as the Doctor

okay, the first two made me laugh, but that last one just hurts.

(Source: wayward-daughter-in-a-bluebox, via struckbycourage)