#BUT ANYHOO x2

[avian-hearts]

UUUUUUUUUUUUU,,,,,,,,,, HE'S SO SO CUTE

[buryme-atmakeoutdawn]

Wow I really am gay AND SAD

[spikrock]

i am posting these a little late cus i spent most of today packing or in a car..

anyhoo, i just felt bad for rabbit this whole episode, poor guy. there are a handful of episodes where he messes something up and spends the whole episode trying to fix it only for the queen to not care at all. poor guy x2

i think the tweedles are very funny in this scene

[actualbird]

//taps microphone. hi hey hello good evening, i just wanna say

seriously, where do you guys keep coming from????? (affectionate x2)

i dont understand why theres this many of you here given that 90% of what i post are too-long rambles and erratically timed writings but i am very grateful still 🥺, especially to all the sweet people who always show their support and enthusiasm for the stuff i make.

anyhoo, thank you for following and i hope that you guys are enjoying ur stay <3

[dassandre-00qpidsarrow]

Dassandre’s Masterpost 2022

Wow!  Another amazing 007 Fest has come to an end already!  I’m in awe at all the fabulous fan works created by everyone on all the teams.  I was again honored to be a part of Team Q-Branch this year, and I think we pulled together some darn good stuff!  Go Team Q-Branch! I want to give a particular shout out to my partner in writing crime, @boffin1710​.  Not only was he an amazing writing partner, but the graphics he generated this year had many of us sobbing in the wings with No Time to Die angst.   Anyhoo ... on to my Masterpost, and this year’s is a doozy!

Dassandre’s 007 Fest 2022 Master Post - 1811 points

Written Fiction - 860 points (additional categories noted, and their points totaled in those categories below)

Rings (rare pair)

Château de la Résurrection: Part One (Fix-it Day, Story Header Graphic)

Château de la Résurrection: Part Two 

Château de la Résurrection: Part Three (Prompt Exchange Fill)

Alone at Last (Queering the Character’s Day)

Without Being Told: Chapter 130 (rare pair)

Without Being Told: Chapter 131  (rare pair)

Death Ends Life, Not a Relationship (rare pair)

Life is Pushing Past It (rare pair)

Calamity  (rare pair)

Other Fan Creations - Graphics  - 150 points (additional categories noted, and their points totaled in those appropriate categories) 

Not Even Death

The Boffin and the Bureaucrat (plus meta)

Ellery’s Garden: Tomatoes (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden: Tomato Jam (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Courgettes (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden:  Courgette Fries (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Brussels Sprouts (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden:  Crispy Brussels Sprouts (recipe)

Ellery’s Garden: Pumpkins (head canon)

Ellery’s Garden:  Stuffed Pumpkins (recipe)

Things James and Q Never Thought They’d Say (head canon, rare pairs, Head Canon Day) x 10  Note:  These were originally posted individually on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to their new collective home on Ao3.

Best Memory of Partner (head canon, rare pair, Polyamory Day)

I Love Boffins (Q-Branch Day)

Villain Walk-Up Songs (Villain Day; Scav Hunt Fill)

The Agent (Meta Day; Scav Hunt Fill)

Dad Jokes (Scav Hunt Fill)

The Ties that Bind (head canon, rare pair)   Note:  This was originally posted on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to its new collective home with other WaterVerse head canons on Ao3.

Family of Five (head canon, rare pair)   Note:  This was originally posted on Tumblr during Fest, but this link is to its new collective home with other WaterVerse head canons on Ao3.

Til Next Year 

Scavenger Hunt Fills - 120 points

Bond Actor/Actress Crossword - #10

Collaboration with a Teammate - #2

Anime Character - #65

Five Songs for Bad Guys - #4

The Raven Pastiche - #22

Bond’s Business Ad and Logo - #88

Dad Jokes - #15

Find the Difference - #54

Animal Newsletter (Animal of Bond Day)- #97

Gift to Member on Another Team #83 - Life is Pushing Past It 

Theme Days - 15 points

Fix It Day

Head Canon Day

Queering the Character’s Day

Polyamory Day

Q-Branch Day

Villain Day

Meta Day

Animals of Bond Day

Miscellaneous Points - 340 Points 

Beta - Day One Photo Prompt Writing - for @boffin1710​ 

Beta - Harry Potter and the Fucking Audacity - for @ato-the-bean​ and @anyawen​ x 10 chapters

Productivity Hours x 3

Piece of Meta x2

Head Canons x 15

Recipes x 4

Round Robin Writing - Juggling Act

Comments - 182

Prompt Fill Sheet Bonuses  - 13 points

2002 Prompt Exchange - #8 (Write a circular fic in which the story must end how it began)  Château de la Résurrection

2018 Prompt Exchange - #31 (Poly Relationship; plus previous year fill bonus) Death Ends Life, Not a Relationship

2022 Prompt Exchange - #99 ("I don't know what any of that means.") - Without Being Told - Ch. 131

Additional Bonus Points - 313 points

Collaborative Prompt Table ( @ato-the-bean​) - Things James and Q Never Thought They’d Say (30 points)

Theme Day Bonus (15 points)

Featured a Rare Pair x 17 (85 points)

Comment Bonuses (80 points)

Head Canon (28 points)

31-Day Challenge (75 points)

And that, I believe, is that.  Looking forward to next year’s Fest already!!

[lukewarmlifter]

It's been a few since I checked Tumblr I'm sry! Anyhoo here's another little haul :))

❥Mïchaêlś

Earrings x2- $18 (for @xmyownsugardaddyx ❤️)

Pens x4- $8?

❥Márshálłs

Lash sets x2- $20

Toque- $15

~Total Saved: $61~

[xodarbiox]

in my excitement, i fooked up!

lots of progression since getting my first betta in january 2019 july 2019- i ordered fish online for the 5th time. ordered what i thought was 3 new female bettas for my community tank, they were having a sale on so excited me  got one standard girl (no species specified) and 2 super deltas, was all excited for my new girls. some bumblebee gobys (fucking cute things they are) and some guppies.  well they arrived in the mail, overnight shipping is awesome. but, i fucked up and the super deltas, were boys. pretty boys, one has a chunk out of his tail though, looks fine so maybe an old issue. but they are boys.  so currently i have a breeding cage with one boy in it. and another ontop of the tank in a jar while i wait for a new tank to heat up.  tomorrow ill be going out for a new heater and filter and ill set up another tank for nemo (the tail chunk missing one)  so thatll be 4 tanks. x2 -10 gallons i think it is. around 40 liters. im australian. (they are a roomy smallish tank) my main boy Little Dude and the new SD will have them.  a 4 foot community tank, or around 200 liters - for all the girls and my other fish and a 2foot so around, 100 liters? which i think ill put Nemo in as hes got a chunk missing, he can have a bigger tank. maybe put some tetras in with him also as he seems pretty friendly.  my community tank is heavily planted, and the others will have cuttings of these plants. with random statues etc in them. i think im ganna put a large dragon in nemos tank and try and grow java moss off it.  anyhoo ill post pics from my phone soon.  wish me luck in the store having the heater/filter i need.  ohh and my mystery snails eggs hatched, i have 38 or so new baby snails roaming also. so they will be shared out among the tanks. 

[steverogersified]

So Cap #3 was very intriguing. Coates is moving things along at the perfect pace. 

It’s starts off with Sharon being sent on a mission assigned by Ross but she quickly figures out that she’s been set up (you go girl!)...

Meanwhile, Steve and T’Challa have been secretly working together to get to the bottom of who has been creating the Nuke clones and causing the terrorist attacks...

..Coates isn’t even in the general vicinity of messing around. These (above) panels are so on-point. You go, Coates. 

“Close ties with Washington”. Shocker.

Narrator: she was not shocked.

Again. Not surprised. 

And yeah, Steve, love you, but you really should start expecting this stuff. That said your persistence to believe in people, in basic human decency, no matter how many times you’ve been burned, is one of your more endearing traits so, keep being you, buddy.

And awww, T’Challa is a sweetheart. Good pep talk there, king. It’s as if T’Challa heard my thoughts.

I interrupt this review to bring you T’Challa, Steve and Okoye, otherwise known as Team Awesome™, striking a majestic pose...

...You’re welcome. 

Anyhoo, they break in to Nuke clone central and they kick major ass, because they’re Team Awesome and that’s what Team Awesome does.

And I’m going to have to interrupt this review, again, to bring you Steve Rogers kicking a Nuke clone in the face. Majestically.

... 

...You’re welcome x2.

So as I was saying, they came, they saw, they kicked some ass and then Okoye discovered something that set off of the alarm bells...

Meanwhile, Sharon meets Selene, the life-force sucking vampire mutant lady (bit of a mouthful as titles go).

And we get a cliff-hanger. Ugh. I hate waiting. But hey, Coates has me. I want more. Tomorrow, if possible. Have I mentioned how much I’m loving this run yet today? 

BTW: General Ross sent Sharon on that mission. He’s an ass and not to be trusted in any universe. People really need to remember this.

Captain America (2018) #3 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Artist: Leinil Yu

[rabbiteartrans]

Is there a name for like... the thing they do in some songs, especially in musical theatre, where they'll take a main motif of the song, usually the chorus, and extend it suddenly during the song's climax?

Cause that shit fucks

Right now off the top of my head i can only think of one example

Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid0

The chorus usually goes:

"Under the sea (x2)

[Couplet]

["Under the sea", or rhyming phrase]

[Couplet]

[Couplet]

Under the sea"

But at the end, at the song's climax, after what would usually be the last "under the sea", they repeat the structure from the first couplet, but then give us four couplets before the final "under the sea"

So:

"[Couplet]

Under the sea

[Couplet]

[Couplet]

[Couplet]

[Couplet]

Under the sea"

And it fucks and feels great (though in this particular example, adding those extra first 2 lines kinda diminishes the effect i think but anyhoo)

Sorry for the longwinded rambling

What's the name for that??? There's gotta be one, it's such a common trope!

[joannebernice]

1000 FOLLOWERS GIFT

THE ULTIMATE COUPLE PACK 2

Another 40 poses !!!!

So that happened. When i first started a tumble account i never in a million years thought i would find 1000 followers (or they find me rather). I feel sooooo happy right now even though this pack absolutely killed me!!! I don’t plan to do another one of these for at least 1000 more likes. And even then that would be too soon.

Anyhoo, i want to thankyou to all my followers that use my poses and support my work, and those who tag me so i can see your beautiful art stories etc … i really enjoy it. I don’t even think i’m that great at pose making actually!!! But you all seem to like it so i guess i will just keep going hahaha.

CLICK HERE FOR BIGGER VIEW

This comes with its own custom icon so its easy to find, and you will need to play these in game, these are not for CAS. You will need Andrew’s Pose Player for these to work well!

USE X2 TELEPORTERS WHERE YOU WANT THEM TO POSE TOGETHER. And in the center of the lounge for the seated poses. It works best with the pictured suite.

>>DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<

Like it if you download it, Tag me if you like for your pix. I love seeing other peoples art :) Happy Simming!

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[iserane-senpai]

If only the premise behind this project wasn't so ridiculous. 😂 It took most of my summer to complete this. It's not that it was a hard concept to create, there were just little subtle technical things that I wanted to contemplate. Anyhoo, behold this thing I did with an unnecessarily long name. The Ukulele Project: Left on Read It's 2'x2' and currently one of my favorite personal projects. I hope to have it in the years to come, just to put over a fireplace. 😂 I want to say that the completion of this...sculpture...painting thing signifies a new beginning. The inspiration behind this project actually sparked my September theme for my art challenge, that is Introspection. Looking forward to posting those pieces soon. The process for this piece will be uploaded Saturday! #art #theukuleleproject #sculpture #personalart https://www.instagram.com/p/B26dcHZl1_l/?igshid=1w1c1kfeupeb4

[mysynthfetish]

BOSS NS-50 Gamble.

Yeah so last Saturday I had to go to the Kyoto Concert Hall for our annual school (work) choir festival thing. It’s not a bad deal, we get paid a day of overtime, plus an extra paid day off added to our vacation time, and the upper grade classes really did an outstanding job this year, so I’m not really complaining.

This is the concert hall as seen from A Place Into Which Entry Is Forbidden. Can you tell how much I pay attention to (and obey) Do Not Enter signs? Shit, I had an “official photographer” pass anyway so whatever. Hahaha! In any case it’s a fantastic venue obviously. When it was over, I thought I’d walk a few km over to Circus Coffee, a nice, small (really small!) shop that roasts its own beans, some of which are sourced from single origin farms or whatever coffee growing thingies are called. Bought 300g of some beans I forget exactly what the deal was but from Central or South America someplace. Sun-dried small lot stuff. Considerably cheaper than Starbucks Reserve (got one of those literally a 5-minute walk from here) and just as good. If you take the trouble to find sun-dried small lot beans, I think you almost can’t go wrong. In any case, yay. I saw an odd sign along the way:

Two hands clasped, making a heart shape, but “human brain” underneath. Whaaaaaat? I’ve been in Japan twenty goddam years now and I still don’t get some of this shit. Amusing but confusing. Also along the way I found Ecogreen Recycle Shop, which was a big surprise. I’ve known about the place for a couple years as a friend of mine (Bigfoot) did a panel and designed stickers for the shop. Here’s the top of the panel:

Yeah so if you recognize this and go “Wait, what? THAT Bigfoot?” Yeah, THAT Bigfoot. Met him here when he came along with Mike V on their Japan tours. I literally walked right past the shop and then stopped, my subconscious screaming at me “HOLD ON A GODDAM SECOND, LOOK BACK! LOOK BACK!” And BAM there the shop was. Freaky shit. So I walked in and looked around, and found a BOSS NS-50 with no power supply, as-is, for ten bucks. Well, ¥1000 but same difference. It was in really good shape. Hmmm. Yeah ok. Why the hell not? So I had to source a power supply, twenty bucks. Moment of truth, turned it on, works fine. Yay! But no no no I can’t leave shit alone, we know this. Time for an overhaul! LED swapout and total electrolytic capacitor replacement. Went with Nichicon KT Audio grade caps. Took maybe an hour and a bit start to finish. Woohoo!

Before.

After.

In action. Pink (“sakura”) LEDs for Overload (why not?), Blue instead of red for the Reduction meter, and Green for Reduction On. Looks pretty snazzy. Total cost, about 50 bucks. Groovy.

Since I went through the trouble of writing down all the cap values, and couldn’t find a service manual online anywhere, I figured I may as well share the info, though I have doubts as to whether anyone will find it useful. Who knows. Here goes: C1 4.7u, C2 1u, C3 1u, C4 10u, C5 100u, C7 10, C9 1u, C11 100u, C16 4.7 (tantalum but I went with electrolytic for less KABLOOEY! chance), C17 4.7u (same as C16), C19 1u, C26 10u, C28 10u, C29 10u, C30 10u, C33 10u, C34 10u, C38 10u, C39 10u, C45 10u, C46 10u, C47 10u, C48 10u, C49 10u, C50 10u, C51 47u, C52 47u, C53 10u, C54 10u, C55 10u, C56 47u, C57 47u, C58 100u, C59 100u, C60 100u, C64 47u, C65 47u, C66 1u, C67 220u, C68 220u, C69 470u, C70 470u, C71 100u, C72 100u, C73 220u, C74 220u, C75 100u, C76 220u, C77 220u, C78 100u. So it’s 50 caps in all and here’s the shopping list:

1u x5

4.7u x3

10u x19

47u x6

100u x9

220u x6

470u x2

The shop I bought these at (Digit, or maybe dejitto, in Japanese デジット, an offshoot shop of Kyoritsu in Osaka) only had the 50V versions of the Nichicon KT Audio series I went with. The highest rated original cap was in the NS was 50V, most others were 16V with one or two oddball 25V in there too if I remember right. I read a page online from a shop that mods these and other similar BOSS Pro series half rack units, and regarding the NS-50 they were adamant about the thing being run at its absolute limits because of using low-voltage rated caps (predominantly 16V), but whether that argument holds any water or not I can’t say. It works, it sounds clean, maybe a bit cleaner than before but it was already pretty goddam transparent (it’s not supposed to color or affect the sound anyway) to begin with. Anyhoo, that’s that.

[f-fibro]

Nov 19

Finished reading Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s book The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move and Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life. Going to incorporate elements of it into my life and hope it works. 

Anyhoo, the flare-up seems to be disappearing at last! Phew 😅

I can’t seem to muster up energy to post my daily intake on the bad days, so I’m wondering if this log won’t be of use, since it’s important to find out what gets me back on track. Well I’ll keep trying.

Did Abseiling Level 1 last weekend, which fortunately had quite a few participants who took a while, so I didn’t need to strain myself much. Signed up for Kayaking 1 Star on the upcoming weekend, to get a new licence as well as clock some Vitamin D 🙂

Also, back to reading Gene Eating by Dr Giles Yeo. This scientist cracks me up at times 🤣 And eating Blackmores Sleep Sound Formula again, which helps me sleep 😴

Breakfast: Iced coffee x2, Tokyo honey banana, small sweet potato

Workout: Walk // pilates reformer

Lunch: Wasabi citrus tuna with brown rice, corn, black beans, lettuce, avocado, furikake, tobiko // iced latte with oat milk

Workout: Walk

Snack: 99% chocolate

Dinner: Avocado miso poke, brown rice, lettuce, wakame, pineapple, cherry tomatoes, carrot, corn, furikake, tobiko, umami drizzle

Managed to get five colours of fruit and veggies! :D

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Meds: Alzytec, Nasonex, Lyrica 150mg

Supplements: Now Foods Acetyl L-Carnitine 500mg, Thorne Basic Prenatal, fish oil, Now Foods Women's Probiotic, Now Foods Betaine HCL 648mg, Now Foods L-Glutamine 500mg, Blackmores Sleep Sound Formula

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Reading: Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite by Giles Yeo

[otc-dramaturgy]

Mathematical Monday

I’m not entirely done with Magic Mondays yet, never fear! I am, however, switching it up this week as I compile all my research for PROOF’s first rehearsal on Wednesday. Before I begin, though, I’d like to clear up one little thing: I’m told that my previous post on math (last Thursday featuring Sophie Germain) made it sound like I don’t like math. But I actually really like math. I just don’t like that my skills have gotten so rusty.

Okay, so now time for some math��a little history of one of the greatest conundrum’s: Fermat’s Last Theorem. 

You’re probably familiar with the Pythagorean theorem (right triangles, remember), which states:

x2 + y2 = z2

There are a lot of whole number solutions to this equation, including the most basic 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2

Seventeenth century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat theorized that there are NO whole number solutions for the related equations:

x3 + y3 = z3 x4 + y4 = z4 x5 + y5 = z5 x6 + y6 = z6 ...and so on.

The tricky thing with proving the theory of Fermat’s is that there are an infinite number of equations and and an infinite number of possible values for x, y, and z. That’s quite a lot to bite off. But Fermat claimed he had a proof, he just didn’t bother to write it down. Very thoughtful of him, really, to give mathematicians something to amuse themselves with in the next couple hundred years. 

Mathematicians pretty quickly proved that there are no solutions to x3 + y3 = z3 and x4 + y4 = z4, but they couldn’t quite get the infinity part. Enter—guess who? Sophie Germain!

From FERMAT'S ENIGMA: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh:

Germain adopted a new approach to the problem which was far more general than previous strategies. Her immediate goal was not to prove that one particular equation had no solutions, but to say something about several equations. In her letter to Gauss she outlined a calculation which focused on those equations in which n is equal to a particular type of prime number.

Quick reminder: prime numbers are those that can only be divided by 1 and themselves: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17...etc.

Germain Primes are prime numbers p such that 2p + 1 is also a prime number. So they include 5, because 11 (2 x 5 + 1) is also prime, but it does not include 13, because 27 (2 x 13 + 1) is not prime.

Anyhoo, 

For values of n equal to these Germain primes, she could show that there were probably no solutions to the equation:

xn + yn = zn

So she made an invaluable contribution to its proof. However, it still wasn’t solved... 

Aaaannnnd we’ll get to that on the next Mathematical Monday! Wouldn’t leave you on such a cliffhanger if I weren’t concerned you might be getting like this: 

So mull over that for a bit and then come back for more next week!