wastemanjohn:

i just saw a post on reddit titled “the writer is cooking but the food doesn’t agree with me” and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don’t like the direction it’s going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think “the writer is cooking but the food doesn’t agree with me” should be the new “don’t like don’t read.” dead doves may give you diarrhea but don’t make that everyone else’s problem.

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aethersea:

Grammar PSA

the expression you’re looking for is reining in. it is NOT reigning in. it comes from horseback riding.

you REIN IN your horse when you pull on the rein to tell him to slow down.

similarly, you GIVE HIM FREE REIN when you loosen your grip on the reins and let him run as fast as he likes.

that’s where the metaphor comes from. you can rein in your evil vizier when he proposes a little too much child murder, or you can give him free rein when you need your enemies obliterated and only underhanded treachery will do. but unless he actually pulls off that nefarious coup he’s plotting, the only one reigning here is you.

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theladyeowyn:

Babylon 5 - S02E02, “Revelations”

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I forgot that G'kar literally compares himself and the Narn to the Jews

Not a drop of cowardice, they just said it outright

greelin:

[very clearly enamored AND elated] He fucking bit me.

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aye-of-newt:

ALT

ALT

and Jinx took that fatherly wisdom to heart

(via hextechdystopia)

Still doing my Babylon 5 re-watch and man they do the horrors of war so well. In Season 2 we meet the Earth Force marines, we see them as human people, we see them trying to do a job, believing in the good of their cause, we see them as living and complex

We know they’re not all coming home.

And in any other show, we’d see our main cast check the casualty lists and look sad, and it would fade to black at the end of the episode, but we see them. They were just alive a moment ago (a literal day in the show) but we see them. dead. some with their eyes open, still looking surprised.

We know they’re not coming home.

gran-maul-seizure:

mweedowo:

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robotshellyeah:

we give Lennier a lot of shit but in his defense if I worked closely with Delenn every day for 5 years, I too would fall so helplessly in love with her that I would have no choice but to be extremely weird about it

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