I won’t lie, the way everyone talked about Sir Terry Pratchett made it seem like he was alive, I literally just found out he died 5 years ago. I guess the saying “memories keep people alive” was very true for Terry Pratchet. Huh.
That’s rather the point.
#GNU Terry Pratchett
GNU?
Bless. GNU is something from the Discworld books that Terry came up with (I’m quoting the Guardian here):
Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. . . . The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
The best thing for me, as an ex- Starbucks employee, is the horror that genuinely is the milk delivery when it’s only you and one other shift member. Though, I did end up learning how to carry six individual gallons of milk at once.
[ID: Four gifs of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says, “I think the sublime confusion is from 19 to 29. You think you are late for everything, you’re a has-been, nothing is happening, there’s no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you’re 30.” /end ID]
He once gave a class in Guadalajara and said “Ustedes los jóvenes están en la edad exacta de la desesperación. Yo nunca me sentí más acabado y viejo que a los veintitantos. Decía ‘ya me pasó la vida y no hice nada’. Pero estoy aquí para decirles que no: tienen un chingo de tiempo”
Which translates to “You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I’d say ‘life has passed me by and i did nothing’. But i’m here to tell you that’s not true: you have a lot of fucking time”
Hey, it’s 11:20 pm, and I’ve been left unattended. Who wants to enable some DIY fuckery?
I’m going to assume the notes are full of people grabbing popcorn, but anyway, I took a mad turn and decided to deep clean the kitchen at 10 pm. Naturally, I’ve got distracted and started fixating on organizing my main kitchen cabinet/counter space area
Id: a white tiled kitchen with brown kitchen cabinets with the doors removed. The shelves are full of miscellaneous jars, bottles and utensils. /end ID.
I got it looking pretty good, if I say so myself. Everything we use daily is in this space. It’s just… a little too visually cluttered for me. It’s also frankly dull, and I need as much serotonin as possible right now.
So good thing I found some scraps of this yellow Van Gogh wallpaper leftover that look like they might fit.
Id: the same cabinets with a swatch of wallpaper being held up in front of them by a white hand. The wallpaper is a yellow version of Vincent van Gogh’s Almond Blossom painting. /end ID.
So ignoring that my oven is dismantled on the floor behind me, let’s chase some late-night dopamine and find a step ladder.
ID: the same shelves as above but emptied and clean. Or about as clean as these cabinets installed in the ’80s are ever going to be. /end ID.
Okay, so renter-friendly hack here for those of you not yet shackled to a money pit built on top of a hell mouth: if you’ve got a wallpaper you want to use but it’s not peel and stick, or it is peel and stick, and you’re worried about it damaging the paint underneath, you can use painters tape and some double-sided tape to hang regular wallpaper without having to worry about the surface beneath. I’ve done this on feature walls, but it works best for smaller areas. Like, say, lining the inside of a cabinet.
ID: an empty shelf with two rolls of painter’s tape, one green, one yellow, and a clear tape dispenser that contains double-sided sticky tape. /end ID
You can do this with blue painter’s tape, but I’ve found that can sometimes peel the finish underneath if it’s left on for long periods. I prefer to use green frogtape, though if you’re really concerned about protecting the finish underneath, they also make yellow tape designed for delicate surfaces. It won’t hold as much weight and can be prone to peeling, but it’s an option available if you’re anxious.
Regardless of what you use, you’re going to want to line the edges of what you’re papering and then layer a strip of double-sided tape on top of that. For larger spaces, you’ll need to use strips at greater intervals, but I’m doing a small space, so I’ve gone with a simple rectangle.
ID: the same shelves with all four edges lined with yellow frogtape and a strip of invisible double-sided tape layered on top.
You’re going to want to measure the dimensions you need and give yourself a little leeway to trim off and ensure a snug fit. I’m working with scraps so I skipped that part.
Id: the image on the left shows the yellow wallpaper laid out on the counter. The image on the right shows the wallpaper slotted into the empty cavity of the cabinet. The edges visibly overlap and need to be cut.
Next, you’re going to want to take an Exacto knife and trim up the edges. When you’ve got everything neat, smooth it out against the tape. There should be a little give if you need to peel it off and move it around a bit.
Will it be perfect? Probs not if this is your first time or you’re working with scraps like I am. Practice helps. Practice and not kneeling on a kitchen counter at what is now 12:16 am.
ID: the empty cabinet now has a layer of the yellow wallpaper adhered to the backing.
Ta-da *jazz hands*
Brb I need to rummage through my scrap pile and see if I have a section big enough to finish this cabinet because of course I didn’t actually check before I started. Because why on earth would I do a sensible thing like that?
Hey, PDX locals… sort of a shot in the dark here but yesterday we had a box of inventory for our shop stolen off of our porch. If you see these pins floating around (they’re all brand new designs of mine so the ONLY way someone could have them is from that order) please … idk, I just want the pins back please?
No questions asked, no reprisals, nothing. I just … it was like $1.5K retail in inventory and now I don’t have them to sell at ECCC.
The video game controller one comes in a bunch of different flags. Bi, pan, trans, trans + More Color More Pride, ace, rainbow.
Jefferson: I didn’t think Aaron liked … Tall people.
Jefferson: “But listen: Aaron might have married a white boy just to annoy me, specifically. It’s a thing he would do!”
Rio: “I can’t hear you. I’m asleep. I have a shift in four hours.”
I really wish there was a way Uncle Aaron lived and came back to meet his “husband” at some point now.
Aaron: …Miles…I love you, and I am proud of you…but you are somehow the smartest and dumbest boy I have ever known.
Miles: Says the man who used his big brain to become a criminal when he could’ve been a black Tony Stark with that gear he made. And thought working for the Kingpin, who everyone knows will throw his minions away like tissues, was a good idea!
Peter: He makes a good point, babe, you did kind of mess up first–
Aaron: Call me babe again and see what happens. I’ll whoop you with a collapsed lung.
All I see is “fake marriage au, but it’s also enemies to lovers”
Bruce Wayne in the middle of a robbery/hijacking at a gala or something, completely done and just so tired mentally and physically and really not wanting to sneak out and get suited up as the bat: Hey can I like pay you to do this another day? Can…is that something I can do?
The villain of the day knowing damn well that Bruce is always a nice hostage, always willing to play along with their schemes and sometimes fun enough to try and stop them: you good bro?
Bruce: If I give you fifty thousand dollars right now will you let everyone go?
Harley: Oh yeah just wire it to my bank account! But first *puts on doctor coat* let’s talk about you
Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn’t be a “”“gender critical”“” activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive
The GCs are Terfs. A specific type of transphobe. Quite a few British celebrity got recruited to their ranks and they have the money and clout to do a lot of damage unfortunately.
Terry passed away before Rowling started her downward spiral and played a significant role in creating the current toxic atmosphere around Trans rights in England . It is good to see that his daughter ,who is also a writer, stands up for human rights.
That’s despicable trying to “recruit” someone who’s DEAD. Not to mention there’s NOTHING in Pratchett’s books—including the ones of essays, articles, and speeches—to suggest he join in if he was alive.
And obviously his own kid would know his private opinions so hopefully the assholes will see her tweet and back the fuck off.
(GC stands for “gender critical”, when you see that it usually means that you’re talking to/about terfs who are trying to rebrand their image).
For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of terfdom.
But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.
Terf rhetoric basically revolves around throwing shit at the wall and then crawling around in anything that sticks, but the underlying transphobia is always present.
Rhianna Pratchett is the best.
“Terry Pratchett” is now a trending topic on twitter and everyone is just slamming the people who claim he would be transphobic. It’s been really nice to see
Panromantic demi/ace, mad scientist. She/hers or they/them pronouns.
Creator of the famous pumpkin bread (ALL HAIL THE PUMPKIN BREAD!)
Avid ficcer/lover of fanfic.
Science nerd par excellence.
