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do you feel positive, negative, or neutral about inaccurate plastic skeleton halloween decorations? like what's going on with this guy's everything?
you may not know this, but I am something of a specialist on amphibian skeletal anatomy, and this… thing is a sin against my entire field.
Frogs do not have ribs. Where is its pectoral girdle? Why does it have mammal feet? What even happened to its hips? Why does it have SO MANY VERTEBRAE‽ And what in the seven hells happened to its skull? Hypertrophy is one thing, but this… this is just lazy. They seem to have decided to give it a beak??? And the nostril is super far back and also somehow integrated into a bone¿?¿?
What in the name of Eru Ilúvatar is going on‽
#holy hells this is horrific#only 265 days to Halloween#frog#except really not a frog#this is a particularly mistreated dog#and even then#ugh#answers by Mark#csevet
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country bumpkin merlin not knowing anything about city life and accidentally courting arthur without knowing
merlin, watching gwen give lancelot her favor: why do you do that
gwen, heart eyes at lance and not paying that much attention to the conversation: so he knows i’m rooting for him
merlin, with an Idea: ah.
gwaine, lover of chaos, pisser offer of nobles and royals alike, ultimate wingman: merlin…you have such lonely lips. shall i introduce them to mine?
merlin, unaware of the game gwaine is playing: so you can steal my breath away? i think not, scoundrel
arthur, crushing his goblet in his hand:
merlin: arthur’s been in a bad mood recently :( i should cheer him up
merlin, remembering when arthur was put out when merlin brought morgana flowers and not him: i know just the thing
merlin, bringing a bouquet of carnations, roses, and tulips and setting them on arthur’s table while he’s eating breakfast: good morning, sire
arthur, trained on flower language in hopes that one day when he was to take a queen he could woo her easily, trying not to audibly choke on his sausage as he reads merlin’s declaration of love sitting in front of him:
arthur, who recently found out about merlin’s magic and was trying to find a way to bring it up, catching him in the act and watching merlin panic to explain himself:
merlin, Freaking: and i swear to you arthur, i have only ever used it for you. my magic is yours. my life is yours. i am yours. i would never do anything to harm you. i have protected you for years and will continue to do so at your side if you’ll have me
arthur, already believing them to be courting, desperately trying to figure out if that was a proposal for marriage or not but tired of being confused and deciding fuck it: here.
merlin, taking it: i…uh…huh?
arthur, watching merlin with hawk eyes and trying to figure out what he’s thinking and feeling: it’s my mothers sigil
merlin, confused as FUCK but is focusing on the fact that arthur is handing him something of his mother rather than a death sentence: my…my lord?
arthur, realizing how scared merlin’s must be about him finding out about his magic and trying to comfort him while also proposing, killing two birds with one stone: i will always keep you at my side, merlin, so long as we both shall live. if you’ll allow me.
merlin, almost collapsing with relief and tearing up, smiling at arthur as if he had parted the storm clouds to allow sun to shine down on them in that moment: of course…of course, arthur. always and forever.
merlin, watching the castle staff rush this way and that: wow. this banquet must be incredibly important
sir leon the long suffering, day one ride or die, one of the original merthur shippers: banquet? merlin, this is for your wedding
merlin, overworked and exhausted: my WHAT? to WHO??
leon, regretting everything he’s ever done in his life that led him to this moment: to…arthur?
merlin, over joyed but also absolutely befuddled: i’m getting married to ARTHUR?????
leon: you two have been courting for the past year or so, have you not?
merlin: i’ve been COURTING ARTHUR?????? FOR A YEAR?????????
#merthur#i spent like an hour researching medieval courting rituals to make this#and even then#i did not find much#so if there’s someone out there who is like weirdly knowledgeable about 6th century courting rituals#feel free to add on#bbc merlin#arthur pendragon#merlin emrys#sir gwaine#sir leon#sir lancelot#guinevere#i literally started this post bc i was thinking about the misunderstanding between merlin and gwen and merlin’s giving arthur his favor#and then i kept going#but i didn’t have much else in the ole noggin to write#i’m sorry#please forgive me
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today’s fun writing fact: did you know that most writing coaches estimate that it takes around one hour for the average writer to write 1000 words?
I know what you’re thinking — that’s really slow! I can write that in 20 minutes. Right, but that assumes that when you started typing, you knew exactly what you were going to write — every line of dialogue your characters were about to say, every description perfectly pre-planned, etc.
And then you have to go back and edit it. And tag it. And cut out parts that don’t work and add new bits. So by the time you’ve got that “short” fic all ready to go, you’ve probably spent at least two hours on it, maybe more.
So yeah, as an author, I cringe seeing the “this was so short!!” comments on fics, even when they’re well-intentioned. Because someone just took 2+ hours out of their day for something you could read in less than five minutes and be done with.
The next time you see that author put out a 1-2k chapter, remember to do the math! And leave a comment 💜 that’s how you keep those updates coming.
#this has been a PSA#lol#writing#fanfiction#writing things#authors#author things#ao3#archive of our own#fanfic#fic#I can write prob a little faster than that but I’m a fast typist and I don’t care about typos as much as I should lol#and even then#it’s taken years to get to the stream of consciousness level where you can just start typing and not stop
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#yes we love him#but imma level with you#without the lov I don’t think he would have gotten very far#and even then#the plan is not great#I want him to survive and be like#you know on second thought#there were maybe better options#Tomura is doing great but Dabi#not so much???#mha#boku no hero academia#bnha#mha memes#Dabi
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we don’t talk enough about how important it was that gale and john lived. they lived. boys cried to their mamas if they got assigned to the 100th. they were known to fly in the ‘purple heart’ position. they’re group was titled bloody, unlucky, cursed. everyday going up in the sky was an 9/10 chance you wouldn’t be coming back. and one time they didn’t. over bremen, and then munster; 15 months in the stalag luft three and they lived. and they almost didn’t. but they came HOME. and history books call this the power of friendship gmfu
#read this article ab them and like. they really did have the title ‘cursed’#and even then#even then#they survived#*together*#clegan#mota
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Everyone here thinks you have to 100% agree with your chosen politician/leader. I hate to say this but if you agree with everything, as in absolutely everything, they say, you are in a cult/likely brainwashed.
#Harris 2024#you do not have to love your politicians#you don’t even have to like them#as people#just what they stand for#and even then#not everything#tumblr#hellsite#hellsite (derogatory)#Biden#us politics#USA#Biden 2024#us elections
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the thing about bakugou and attraction is that he's not shallow and i don't think he has a type. like, he considers the value people have—who they are, what their strengths are, their passions, their goals, their mindset—and i think those are the most defining factors for him when it comes to 'liking' someone.
and yeah, he's a man. he has initial and instant attractions to people. but i think they're fleeting and go as quick as they come. so i think he doesn't pay much attention to physical appearance, per se, when it comes to deciding who he wants to give his time to.
but—when he does decide that you are the person he wants to give his time to, everything about you is suddenly so attractive.
#what i'm trying to say here is#bakugou snorts and rolls his eyes and tells kaminari to get his tongue back into his mouth whenever he sees jirou#and he does that for a long time#yes he finds other people attractive — maybe even very much so#but he's not DOWN BAD for anyone in that way#until he meets you#and even then#before he gets to know you he'll think you're another pretty face#and then once you two talk more and spend more time together he's like#oh my god. i'm a meathead.#alcdsjal#but he's NOT A MEATHEAD#bc he literally only gets so insanely stupid attracted to you once he gets to know you#but he's never felt such physical desire in his life that way that he feels like an idiot LOL#✿ thoughts: bakugou
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Truly, my sympathies to people watching IWTV and are getting tired/bored of different perspectives. I'm not bored or even remotely tired.
Interviews by their very nature are perspective based. The story has this specific framing. As did the first book. They added to it with Armand now being an active participant and Daniel being more seasoned at interviewing. I understand how Armand's very edited and hyperbolic take on events that Book Lestat describes in The Vampire Lestat rubs people the wrong way. I do think that one could argue the way Lestat writes his own autobiography is the objective truth (note Armand in his book does not contradict Lestat). However, sorry to say, there is never an objective truth. The truth is always subjective.
I was raised by a whole family of lawyers and if I learned anything is that you can spin things in any way, but an objective truth will never exist. Not in crime, not in person to person storytelling, not in fictional storytelling. Hell, viewers seeing the SAME show CANNOT come to a consensus. Why? Because we all put our thoughts, experiences, and feelings to it. That's all perspective.
We see Louis give Armand a kiss in bed. Some think aw domestic and cute. Some think Louis is deliberately withholding and rewarding Armand for good behaviour. Some saw the act they put on in E2 as some version of truth and domesticity and some think it's only an act. Some think Dreamstat is actual Lestat out there somewhere and some think it's Louis' conscience.
Yes, the narrative will confirm one thought or another on some things but not all of them. They're deliberately left up to interpretation. Something btw, Lestat urges the reader to do in TVL when he does not go into details about his time with Louis and Claudia. And part of that has to do with perspective.
We could have a straightforward narrative with no corrections and no perspectives. But would that be as interesting as seeing how minds that far exceed our own twist and bend and interpret events? Would it be as interesting as seeing a vampire who tells himself a story so that he can carry on living despite being miserable? Would it be as interesting as this vampire who tells himself a story get pushback on what he's saying by someone who notices errors and inconsistencies? Would it be an interview at all? Or would it be, as Daniel put it in the very first episode, "a fever dream told to an idiot."
If you want a straightforward non-challenging version of the story, the 1994 movie exists. It's not perfect and a lot of details are missing, but there's only one, unchallenged perspective to it. And even then...how many people didn't (want to) see the queerness in it?
TL;DR I get being frustrated or tired or bored by the way the show is trying to tell the story, but at least it's doing something a little different and not word for word.
#interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#it doesn't have to be everyone's cup of tea#i just find it really interesting that a bunch of people want a more basic form of storytelling#i don't agree with every choice made but they're doing something different and i appreciate it#and i don't mean different as in revolutionary#i mean different for this specific source#and even then#marius tells his own story#pandora tells hers#armand tells his#daniel tells a very specific part of his life to lestat#as does jesse#maharet tells us the origins of akasha and that's written down as fucking mental hearsay because lestat wasn't there when she told the stor#like i get that yeah it's lestat's story etc but there's other stories too and who tells them is always additionally fascinating#because i say tell their story but a lot is narrated to someone else#please don't flame me this is just my opinion#i know im probably in the minority
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Rereading Rhythm of War and listening to how Gavilar talks to one of the most driven, talented, amazing women in Alethkar like:
I want to haul up this man's soulcast statue and bring him back to life just so She can be the one who gets to kill him this time.
#cosmere#navani kholin#gavilar kholin#rhythm of war#brandon sanderson#the stormlight archive#tsa#i really truly hate this man#the level of committed dedicated verbal avuse he heaps upon her#because you can tell how intimidated he is by her#how dependent he is on her#so he must try and tear her down as low as he can#and even then#hes still quaking in his boots#i want to throttle this man#i want jasnah and dalinar to hear what he said to her#so they can revive and then kill him#because they would#how fucking DAFT do you have to be#how IDIOTIC#to try and insult and tear down such an amazing woman????#i love navani so much ok?#im happy she found better#and honestly????#never loved szeth as much as i do in this moment
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40k is literally just Italian Futurism for people with just enough braincells to know blowing things up IRL for the aesthetic is probably bad
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i vaguely remember seeing a post about the woman on tiktok illegally digging a tunnel under her house to make a storm shelter, but i did not realise that 1) she has 0 qualifications and works in IT, 2) she got into her areas watertable and started pumping groundwater out into her yard, 3) when a fire broke out, she recorded herself putting it out with a fire extinguisher in one hand and her phone in the other, 4) she hit a radon gas bubble, 5) shes located somewhere with big sulphur pockets and as she got into the waterline, she might have produced sulphuric acid which leaks into the aquifer, aka she could be poisoning the local drinking water, 6) she lives on a CUL-DE-SAC, 7) shes just been releasing silica dust whilst not using respiratory gear herself, let alone warning her neighbours, and 8) her neighbours have said the ground would randomly shake sometimes but many of them felt they couldnt report it to local authorities for fear of deportation.
she has now been stopped and seems to think that since shes only tunneling under her property, itll be easy to get permits to continue. she also drives a tesla which... yeah, that sounds about right.
#kai rambles#tunnel girl#im just#maam you brought a geiger counter with you and like that very much showed that you had hit a radon air bubble#and even then#you were like#yeah#ill keep going#like shes clearly selfish and this whole thing is also a demonstration of the dunning kreuger effect#but most people have some level fear towards radiation#enough so that i would hope it would be enough to stop them#but nope
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#don’t be a dick#being mean isn’t cool#doodles#bad art#lousy drawings#doodle#be nice to other people#don’t push lil things over#unless you’re a cat#and even then#just be nice#bullying
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guys i am going through it
#HE GAVE UP EVERYTHING FOR HSY’S PLAN#HE HIT ROCK BOTTOM#AND EVEN THEN#HE SACRIFICED HIS LIFE TO SAVE A WORLD HE WASN’T EVEN A PART OF#everything is fine#orv#yoo joonghyuk#silly screams#orv spoilers
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Darius Bowman
#darius bowman#jurassic world chaos theory#jurassic world#jurassic world camp cretaceous#he was a child thrown to a leadership role#and even then#they blamed him for things :((
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Also, I refused to put any weight behind this love triangle because it’s clear that Sam-dal doesn’t like Sang-do(?) in the same way he likes her. They have major friend energy.
Not to mention how she played off raising her arm so that his hand would move after she saw that Yong-pil noticed? Yeah, sorry sir. You and your Lambo ain’t getting the girl.
Sidebar: I want to note (again) that Ji Chang Wook’s smile is SO lovely and that his eyes are also lovely (re: dangerous.)
#welcome to samdal ri#welcome to samdalri#there are very few instances where i WOULDN’T pick ji chang wook#and even then#it would be a struggle#he’s just yummy#ji chang wook#shin hye sun
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