(hides face) Yeah, have had things like this happen. Deepest sympathies…
There is an advanced readers proof edition of the US edition of Neverwhere, in which “flat” was find and replaced to “apartment”. People said things apartmently.
There is an advanced readers proof of American Gods in which “round” (as in he walked round the lake) was changed to “around”, in which someone wore around spectacles.
I was lucky, they were caught before the actual book came out.
this is cruel and NOT funny. Chile only uses this position when defending itself from predators; whoever took this photo obviously put Chile in a stressful situation for “likes” and “follows”. please stop reblogging this.
My grandmother is Japanese and really likes to give gifts. Often those gifts are Japanese desserts or other food, but sometimes she just slips me cash, folded up inside a tiny, beautiful envelope. But she likes to pretend she’s not giving me money, so when possible, she’ll hide it somewhere that I will find later.
Today I spent the afternoon with her doing chores and tech support, and she clearly felt this warranted a significant gift in return (no matter that I enjoyed myself). But she forgot to slip something into my pocket or bag before I left, so instead she rushed outside as I was starting my car, making the old-school “roll down the window” gesture. Once I complied, she was forced to acknowledge she was handing me money, but she also tried to minimize the gesture.
The result was that she said, “Thank you, dear! I just wanted you to be able to… to buy yourself a hamburger,” and then handed me a darling little envelope that turned out to contain $100. And all I could think was:
the fact that we as a society have the muppets and they are not everywhere in our cultural consciousness is appalling. why aren’t the muppets hosting the oscars. why aren’t the muppets commentating the olympics. why aren’t the muppets coming to a theatre near me every year with a new adaptation of a classic novel. genuinely what are we doing.
They literally have a license to print money if they just brought in Chris Evans or any other MCU actor to pine after Miss Piggy and they just. Haven’t done that. ESPECIALLY at the height of the MCU when it actually meant something.