This is one of the first gifs I’ve saved to my computer

It’s so great

I love how when Tyrion tells everyone at King’s Landing to not to ignore the requests and warnings of the Night’s Watch, they all laugh at him for believing in grumkins and snarks and white walkers. Like, two hundred years ago there were giant flying lizards who breathe fire, but no, ice creatures from beyond The Wall who can reanimate corpses are too outlandish to believe in.

earlier today i had my mind blown

it’s THREE TIMES BIGGER WTF

maps are liars

i don’t know if i can overstate how much the-book-is-better-than-the-film-or-television-series people get on my nerves.

the whole purpose of making a book into a film or television series is to deviate from the original content. if canon and adaptations were exactly the same there would be no point in recreating it. films aren’t trying to do the same things as novels, and just because films aren’t always able to have the same level of intimacy as a book doesn’t mean films are worse.

if you don’t like an adaptation of a novel, that’s fine. but don’t use ‘the books were better’ as the crutch of your reasoning, because it’s a really weak one. if you watch a film or television series expecting to get out of it the same experience you get from reading, you’re going to be disappointed more often than not because people don’t watch films for the same interaction they look for in books.

I know, you look at this, and you’re like, what kinda freaky torture device is this!? This is how you think the device would generally operate:

But no, this is not a torture device. Well, maybe it is, but it’s not big enough to fit a person in. Just a foot.

http://www.giuseppezanottidesign.com/us/women/wedge_cod44501885tt.html

And it can be yours for only $1425!

It really blows me away how sometimes a student will pull out their phone charger to rescue their phone from half a day of no battery, and then at the same time have the nerve to ask me to borrow a pencil or a piece of paper.

….for real? This is really happening right now? You’re responsible for bringing like, four things with you to school every day and a phone charger is not one of them.

Okay, so this is Anton Yelchin.

Look at him. He’s 24.

He’s going to be in the new Star Trek movie.

And do you know how old he is in the movie?

Seventeen. They are pretending he is seven years younger than he really is.

And THAT, I believe, is the reason so many students at my job think I’m a classmate. Because in stupid movies and television shows they get people in their mid-twenties to play teenagers and now they can’t actually tell the difference between the two age groups.

Just look at Glee. I don’t think there is even a real teenager in their cast, and they are supposed to be high school students. Hah.

In other news, today I found out that the oldest pictures of “me” on Facebook are pictures of goldfish and screenshots of WoW characters. So yeah.

Phantom Character [fan-tuh m kar-ik-ter]
noun 
1) A phenomenon experienced by readers of George R. R. Martin where a character is expected to enter a scene, but never does due to Martin killing off literally every single character in the stories except for Varys, who spends the entirety of the last novel slowly going mad because he no longer has anything to gossip about nor anyone to gossip with.

Also, spoiler alert. Don’t worry, if anything I did you a favor and spared you 1200 pages of disappointment. Not that we’ll be alive to see the 7th novel published, since it’s projected for an early 2089 release date.

I just read a complaint about people reposting gifs they didn’t make without giving credit to the creator. Because like, gifs are a creative expression capable of being ‘stolen.’

I don’t understand how someone can consider it ‘their work’ when they take a few sequential images from a larger collection of images. Snipping a piece of someone’s original content (movies/shows) doesn’t make it belong to whoever cuts it any more than quoting an author makes the quote belong to the secondary speaker.

Whatever. This post is dumb. I just don’t understand how someone calls a gif theirs. As if creating gifs was an arduous process that warrants recognizing the person who takes the 3 seconds to do it.

Freshman student: [Says expletive]

Other students: WHOA MR. HOPPER DID YOU HEAR THAT?

Me: Yeah, she’s got a dirty mouth.

Me: [Pauses in a moment of hesitation]

Me: Clean it up! [Tosses pack of Orbit gum to student]

Students: ………..

Me: Yeah, that happened.

Students: So is it like cool if we take a piece?