Tracing My Steps

ckburch:

Hey gang, it’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means that there’s going to be sales, sun (hopefully), and suds (BEER), and while I can’t provide sun or suds, I can provide sales. Except this is a free giveaway, so that’s different from a sale. Or is it? DEFINITION PENDING.

Anyways, my little sci-fi/horror novel The Icarus Voidis currently free to download via Amazon.com for your Kindle or smartphone if you have an e-reader. It’s a story about a spaceship designed to dive into stars for scientific research, and it discovers an alien artifact in orbit of the Sun. I had a lot of fun writing it, and it’s gotten a mild bit of attention, but it’s kind of difficult to really hype a book these days, I think. Usually books find their way across my scope of attention if they’re a part of a series of novels and it’s three books into it, or if it’s the latest novel by a great author who doesn’t get mass media attention usually. Unlike a song or a video, it’s tough to spread the word on books, ebooks, what have you, out here on the interwub. It’s a bit more of an investment: “Will you dedicate the time necessary to reading my novel?” It’s a little bit more than three minutes of concentration, and doesn’t meme easily.

So I have a request: if you think this LOOKS interesting, will you reblog it? Just to signal boost. Maybe you’ve read it, maybe not, but really, most things we reblog on Tumblr are things we think look interesting. Maybe my novel LOOKS interesting even if you haven’t read it, or you’ve checked out the link and you thought “It looks interesting but I’ve got seven books I’m reading all at the same time while writing my Wholock slashfic.” A simple reblog might show this to someone on your feed who might think “That’s REALLY interesting” and give it a deeper look. I’ll give you the puppy dog eyes if that’s what it takes, I really will.

Anyways, beyond that, here’s to a grand Memorial Day Weekend, with lots of drinking and sunshine and cheap deals to spend cash on. Me? I’m seeing Avengers again with the kids. Nothing like some Hulk-on-alien action to make Summer so very “AWWWW YISS”

Ahaha I love these.

jackscoresby:

villa-kulla:

Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?

And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?

Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?

The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.

FFS

imwithkanye:

Brad Pitt Eating Things. Yes, it’s a Tumblr.

Pure unadulterated sexy.

bumblebeemouth:

Clickthrough to access the most important website of the decade.
Put in your measurements and it gives you all of your sizes to pretty much everywhere you’d shop.

This is quite possibly the best thing to happen to me in months.

OMG. This is going to be terrible for my newly acquired online shopping habit. Although I definitely could have predicted that Forever 21 size M would be a perfect fit because uh, I may have bought 6 or 7 dresses from them in the past 2 months. 

(via thefiascofactor)