#;;musing: the assistant

[alexandriteobscuraarchive]

Childhood Homes (And Why We Hate Them)

[malusrecord]

[raining-anonymously]

no more fiddleford bill rivalry. henceforth they are miserable TOGETHER about how badly they fumbled ford / how oblivious ford is. ford smiles at them and goes back to his work, not noticing the blushing or the starry eye, and they both look at each other like ‘he’ll never want either of us that way, will he…’

[cloistergardens]

hi everyone!! I hate having to do this but I just escaped my emotionally abusive partner only to end up back with my even more emotionally abusive family. I have the opportunity to move into an apartment with a friend at the end of July, but I need money to help with the security deposit/1st month rent as well as a uhaul trailer to get all my things out of my family’s house and into the apartment. $1800 should cover hitch installation on my car, trailer rental, my half of security deposit & rent, and hopefully gas for the 19-hour drive. ven/mo, pa/ypal, and ca/sha/pp are all @/emrysemerald, ko-fi is emrys_emerald, and buymeacoffee is emryslinden. I can also take commissions (check this post) but I likely won’t be able to complete them until August.

I know there’s a lot of posts like this going around, but I really appreciate any support you can give!! thank you so much in advance 🫶🏽🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[verum-artifex]

Showstopper

[littlequeenies]

March 13, 1974 - John Lennon and May Pang at the gala dinner for the American Film Institute tribute to James Cagney, Century Plaza Hotel, LA.

Screencaps from her documentary "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story".

[melinoelabs]

"Oh we're just insects to-"

"Just" insects? Just insects?

Have some self respect!

No single clade of animal has killed more humans than insects!

So the next time some 'higher being' goes about its 'mysterious ways' around you, remember your place in the universe.

Jab your insignificant proboscis through it's ineffable dermis, gorge yourself on the delicious taste that only comes from buzzing beneath the notice of the transcendent, and leave it with the only thank-you note it'll notice, that exquisite itch that says:

'Thanks for the meal and enjoy the malaria.'

[neoflorilegia]

are men not beefy anymore? i'm gathering pics for old school moodboards (this is my writing blog this is my party) and every single man on faceclaim directories is muscular but not beefy. this character EATS. this character LIFTS. he was raised on literal mountains and the first time the other main characters see him they're stunned by his vibes alone

he's also a cutie pie. he giggles.

[cruel-hiraeth]

you start learning french to flirt with neuvillette, but your pronunciation is so bad that each instance turns into an impromptu language lesson.

[gemkun]

looking for : an assistant that is immune to one gambler’s whims and silver tongue , if this is you please contact the doctor

[alexandriteobscuraarchive]

[an-stoirm]

Coworker: "-opens mouth- ... -closes mouth- ... -blinks- Do you have a religion?"

Me: "-beaming- Yes, I do!"

Coworker: " ... I was just going to curse God for giving me a uterus XD"

Me: "Oh, in my religion, I'd ask you which one ;D"

[age-of-moonknight]

“A Little Chaos,” Moon Knight Annual (Vol. 5/2024), #1.

Writer: Dan Watters; Penciler and Inker: Marco Renna; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[avacynthia]

"Miss Cynthia is out-of-office. I don't know for how long. But she's not accepting any challengers, either. She has several obligations to attend to over the next month--which you should have known. I keep her schedule updated daily on the online challengers portal."

Seated behind her desk in the Sinnoh League's lobby, a visibly-irritated Fumiko doesn't even bother looking up from her piles of paperwork or flashing monitors, waving her hand in a dismissive shooing motion. (She's already so done here. This could have just been an email...)

"...You're dismissed now. In other words, leave. Now. Have a lovely day..."

[verum-artifex]

Nova's radiance, like dawn's first light,

Onyx's depth, a starless night.

Together they dance, both fierce and bright,

Guiding my hand, making art take flight.

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Mystery Scientist Theatre

First things first, the cover. Yes it intrigues me. Kicking off our cover serial in Wano which could do so many things. One thing I always pointed out was Kiku being left with the ambiguous ending potentially sets you up well for that. But what we have so far is very vague, very symbolic, very worthy of its own post. With that out of the way, 1109 is very fine and it has some things I like...but it's kinda short and feels like it's lining things up for after the break. Starting with the natural conclusion to where we left off:

Yeah yeah shifting to bad guys trying to stop the broadcast. Keeps us on the island for a bit. Perfect excuse to set up another cutaway if we are doing a Rashomon...Toei you better Interdimensional Cable this bit of the Vegapunks trying to fill ten minutes. I want the full version unredacted, it has to be comedy gold. Good job Shaka, you managed to posthumously give us another hurdle here on Egghead. Now we gotta protect the broadcast. Aaaaaand deal with five spooky hell demons!

We somehow escalated again. The pattern seems to be we do that then pull away. All while our big iron buddy still hasn't done his thang...

Short one because the chapter does kinda speak for itself. But I liked this. First, it's just cool that we do show relative time zones. I don't think we ever have before. Is this why Water 7 is often left out of worldwide reactions? Were they too sleepy? Amazing. We also get the lil secretary girl! Who we have met in cover serial format before but this is her intro to the mainline narrative. That said...given we'll need to dig into an intriguing cover story tomorrow worth mentioning her appearance like Moda and what we do with Pudding is another sign those are coming around and being less distinct from the main story.

But seriously, Alice you are so cute I just want to give you a big hug and have you as my own secretary. Are you trying to be the queen of the administrative assistants? Because you're well on your way. For what it's worth too...look how quick we shifted to protecting a global announcement and dealing with enemies that can't just be smacked around around this lil capable girlie taking care of everything already. That's all very much in our wheelhouse. Cool lil scene.