2022's Calendar Quotes of the Month

2021 Calendar Quotes of the Month and all previous years

And with no further ado, 2022's Calendar quotes of the month were:

• January: Blorbo from my shows - Tumblr (KnowYourMeme entry)


• February: Man, these bitch-ass aliens - Rosa on Roswell: New Mexico (waxjism's latest hyperfixation show, now tragically cancelled, but the character isn't her Blorbo)


• March: It's like the grownups know what they're talking about - waxjism on house renovation advice from the experienced


• April: Congratulations on spotting the broom in the room - princessofgeeks on the lost broom that turned out to have been in front of our noses the whole time


• May: What year is it? - Tumblr on curious coincidences between the 2020s and the 1920s


• June: No yanks on the thread - a viral Twitter thread by Australian parsfarce aka fungbunger about American monoculturism and ignorance of the rest of the world (Gawker writeup)


• July: NO PUEDO CON ESTE HOMBREEEEE (I can't with this mannnnnnn) - a Twitter user on Dylan O'Brien in a singlet


• August: I am the piña colada of mental health - c3rvida3 on Tumblr


• September: Do fish have skulls? - cimorene


• October: Bats don't fly backwards - a video from... TikTok maybe?


• November: You are in a yellow wallpaper situation - Princess Weekes on Don't Worry Darling, YouTube


• December: FRÜHR WAR MEHR LAMETTA! ("There used to be more tinsel") - German proverb, from the 1977 film Weihnachten bet Hoppenstedts

Following my "tradition" begun (randomly) last year, I lettered all of them this year too! SNEAK PEAK:



( and all thirteen of them )

Wig Mystery (House of the Dragon's bad bleached blondes) solved!?

Because I have complained and marveled at the quality of the wigs on House of the Dragon - marveled at how bad they are, that is - I thought I'd provide a link to this post I just saw on Tumblr that explains it:

assessthatdress: aeronaudical: why did they ever even attempt to try and make another actor wear a white-blonde wig after orlando bloom in the lotr trilogy

Basically, the Tumblr post is talking about why Legolas's wig in LOTR looked better than any other white-blond wig you can name, and it's because the wigs in LOTR were, atypically, made using virgin northern european hair. The wigs in HOD, obviously, are not: they're probably made of bleached Asian hair, which is typically straight and stronger, and is hence sought after for expensive wigs because it can take dyes and treatments etc... but it's also much more available than northern european hair, I would imagine, although I don't know anything about the market, since global capitalism oppresses a big chunk of Asia in the so-called "global south".

I just couldn't believe that the wigs in HOD were synthetic, at least not on the primary characters, with this kind of budget. Also, I don't think they're bad enough for synthetics - they have some lace fronts that look quite good and there are some of them, at least in some styles, that manage to look more convincing, like Aemma's and Rhaenyra's when they're sweaty and unkempt, or the King's when he's old. This explains it. It's primarily the texture of the wigs on HOD that is wrong, but also the color depth, because it's much harder to achieve good artificial color when you have to start by bleaching. Even the texture of the hair, and the coarseness - because the strands are much thicker, it won't behave the same way in terms of split ends and flyaways.