… which was fabulous - pure fannish catnip.

Go online and find it hasn’t been released yet in the US, which is, idk, wow. I’m not complaining, but this is not the usual order of things. XD

Gleefully anticipating fandom’s tidal wave. X3

tomewing:

In the “Blogs which would have made great Tumblrs” department.

Landlord constantly on fruit machine, occasionally taking money from the till to sustain him. Landlady smoking constantly, sitting bar side. Ours were the only drinks bought the whole time we were in there. Two punters in there, each alone. One left to the call of ‘See you tomorrow’ from the landlady, the other intimated over the urinals that he should be going home soon as he’d been in there since 11. Large screen pulled down showing the first air strikes against Afghanistan on Skynews.

If you’re going to break, shatter.
No explanations.
No limp-legged dog excuses.
No messing with this bullet proof vest fury
So popular with the cops and the presidents.

You’ve got to take the pain from the safety valve of your heart
And return it to your fists.
Fight your better judgment ‘till you’re sinister again,
‘till your body remembers what it already knows how to do—
bend back
and manifest grief.
Scream torches ‘till you embarrass the enlightened.

Please. No more polite conversations with your death wish.
Give it something useful to do.
Change your life.

Cause I can’t stand to see you like this.
So blue, my eyes turn green in your presence.
Listen—you are so beautiful,
Grass pushes through sidewalk cracks just to kiss your feet.

Maybe no one ever told you,
But the heart IS a metaphor.
Yours is growing so strong
You’ll have your rhythm back any day now—

Loving like rumours spread.
Dreaming like lunatic spacemen jump from their suits.
Living like you never forgot how.”

“The First Time,” Mindy Nettifee (via clavicola)

(via cloud-sinking)

tomewing:

I normally keep work talk on my other blog, or on my Twitter, but if you’re interested in how I spend my 9 to 5 this Wired piece talks about one of the things I sometimes help out on: DigiViduals, the market research iteration of Philter Phactory’s Weavrs technology (whose overall direction I have absolutely nothing to do with). The article starts with - essentially - geeks being poked with a stick, but gives a fair picture of Weavrs in their many guises: artistic, commercial, noisy, useless, useful, creepy in the wrong hands, sometimes incomprehensible.