#Built for Trouble

[gameraboy2]

Built for Trouble by Al Fray Dell Books A167, 1958 Cover by Robert McGinnis

[raspberry-beret]

Art Weekend - Built for Trouble Cover by Robert E. McGinnis

Originally starting as a cartoonist, Robert E. McGinnis began working in advertising art in the mid 1950s. In 1958, he painted his first paperback book cover and became a hoghly sought after designer. He was well known for what became "McGinnis Women" or long legged, alluring women that graced not only mystery covers but also romances, gothics, and Westerns. One of McGinnis's most iconic works would end up being a movie poster, depicting Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

My mom (and my sister) said that both baby Stan and Ford are adorable but Ford is cuter and she likes him better and I think my heart is shattered.

This post is dedicated to my favorite kid Stanley panels:

My mom didn’t even like him when I showed the one where he murders those two kids 😭😭😭 that’s the best part!!!

[lucyllawless]

Okay so I was re-watching (for the 100th time) and noticed a few details that could point to Rio being connected to Nicholas in some way. I'm gonna put on my clown nose for minute, so follow me for a second

First we have this shot of Rio.

Followed immediately by the shot of this clock. The mama bear and cub represent Agatha and Nicholas. But then we have the baby bear holding a flower.

And we all know who is connected to flowers/plants.

There's even the little flower/plant motif details on their 70's costumes. And the specific placement on Agatha’s oufit 🧐

And then there's this quick shot of a blanket with a flower print next to the Ouiji board which is spelling out Nicholas' name.

Quick last thing. I googled the meaning of Vidal and this is what came up. It can’t be a coincidence that they chose that name.

We're all 99.9% certain that Rio is death. But wonder if she can also affect life somehow? Life and death do go hand-in-hand as we know. And flowers are synonymous with spring/new life.

This might be a reach, but the writer's/show runners are masters of layered storytelling and don't do things on accident. I mean Rio being Nicholas's other parent isn't that crazy considering Wanda literally had her kids using her magic and sheer will.

[thebramblewood]

Presenting... The Mourningvale Files.

Tag / Next

[crows caw overhead]

[leaves crunch underfoot]

Naomi: Are you sure this is the right place?

Micah: It has to be. I checked the map at least a dozen times.

Naomi: [shudders] Well, I'm creeped the fuck out, and I'm calling Grandma Cassie. Shit! Straight to voicemail.

Micah: You know she never leaves her phone on in the Realm. Anyway, this is it. Mystic Crossroads. Mourningvale. Just like she said.

Naomi: What is she playing at, and who the hell is this friend who owed her a favor?

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Naomi: I don't like the looks of this at all.

Micah: I don't know. I'm kind of into it.

Naomi: You would be.

[bunnieswithknives]

The sillies!! Might gonna change Demon Laios' design later and I still need a name for whatever this AU is

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

Can you imagine post-Odyssey life for Telemachus though?

You're just sitting in your palace having lunch, trying to ignore your very much in love parents who have absolutely no shame whatsoever; Athena, who's both your friend and your dad's kind-of-friend-former-mentor-turned-sort-of-mother, is just chilling; Hermes, who's your dad's great grandfather, is laughing as he causes some kind of chaos and you think might also be giving you drugs (?); Ares, who for some reason has some weird fanboy puppy crush on your dad, is playing with your dog as if that's completely normal, and of course Aphrodite is with him because why not???

You decide that maybe you'd just take a walk along the harbour - for some reason the ocean has been unnaturally calm ever since your dad came home.

yesssssss! i love love love this! (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

i love to think that after everything, ithaca just becomes the hotspot for the gods & goddesses to hang out. telemchaus keeps collecting them as friends like pokemon. odysseus is very wary at first of course, but calms once he realises they aren't there to cause any harm to his famiy or island. he deffo makes sure to tell hermes to stop trying to slip telemachus some moly though dhdhdhd

and yes i would like to think poseidon also eventually makes a physical appearance, curious as to why all his family keep taking holidays trips/visits to the island to hang out with odysseus and his family

(i was also actually thinking of eventually heading in this direction in my silly "friends in higher places" au, that i keep yapping about in my posts dhdhdhd) (really gotta write out the rest of the dinner scene first though)

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

Hey so I’ve mentioned this a lot of times on my main blog, but I wanted to put this out over here since it is Hallow’s Eve. I always give out little tchotchkes on Halloween along with candy. This year, I’ve completely switched over to 100% doohickeys and doodads— think mechanical pencils, shaped erasers, little notebooks, squishes, vampire teeth and spiders rings and all. It started years ago in college when I signed up for a dorm Halloween event where kids from an area that was too dangerous to really trick or treat through got bussed in to trick or treat at our dorm. I bought some candy and dollar store Halloween themed stuff with what i had. And you know what the kids went ape shit over?

Motherfucking. Mechanical. PENCILS!!

These kids could not get enough of them. They literally went “PENCILS??!” I had never seen kids get so hyped up for pencils lmao. They were the first things to go. Candy is fleeting; the little pencils you can bring to school to flex are eternal, until you inevitably lose one of the refill parts and then they aren’t but listen, in that one moment they are infinite. And its nice thinking that maybe some kids who don’t always have access to school supplies not only get them, but get them in fun shapes and designs.

Anyway. I recommend people to give out fun stuff like this not just because kids seem to genuinely enjoy them, but also because there’s this thing called the Teal Pumpkin Project here in America. You can put out a teal pumpkin to show that you are giving away non-candy items and sign your address up so parents of children with allergies know that there are houses their kids can safely and happily trick or treat at! It’s a win-win! Plus, if you accidentally bought too much, it’s not like candy— just pack it away, pencils and fidget spinners will be good next year, too! :)

[candycryptids]

Malta and Azazel go to the carnival for a spirited night out OuO There's a new haunted house that Az thinks Malta will like...

... And of course Louis is there to meander about while Malta bullies Az with all the jumpscares...

Azazel uses He/Him and belongs to @meatybits Malta uses They/It

[doveywovy]

i think the funniest response for hashirama to have about tobirama & izuna becoming a couple is for him to have a sort of "the sins of the little brothers are placed on the big brother" response (much how he took responsibility/punishment for tobirama killing izuna in canon)

so he finds out they're together and hes like omg congrats!!! lets have a group date some time or something haha yayyy konoha community how amazing!!! and then he spends like five months being deeply passive aggressive with madara. if tobirama misses family dinner for a date with izuna, hashirama "misplaces" madara's finished paperwork from the day before and only "finds it" after madara's already redone it all.

[columboscreens]

[spacedlexi]

the way the ericson group were at the outbreak just a bunch of troubled kids who made various mistakes or committed crimes and were judged by a system that punished and abandoned them instead of giving them the support and love they needed, are then nearly a decade later put into a situation where now they must judge a troubled child for the mistakes and crimes hes committed against them. and 5 to 3 vote them out 😭

[foap-enjoyer]

Me playing MW 2022: Yo I love Nikolai omg hot Russian man such a cutie pie I'd let him hit. Me playing OG MW: I hate you so fucking much you ugly son of a bitch why are you so annoying even without saying ANYTHING??? GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE

[psalmsofpsychosis]

hiiiiiii hey hello i'm gonna start killing and maiming if i see one more person equating intelligence and a philosophical mindset in life and needing depth and substance in things with "being so privilaged and having a troublefree life" like, you're so fucking stupid get well soon <3 but also being intelligent and seeking substance in your everyday affairs and leading an ordinary life/paying fucking bills are not mutually exclusive concepts. I'm sure it hurts a lot of people to actually have to own the fact that they're just intellectually lazy comfort seekers but i have met extremely intelligent and sharp people who have been carpenters, plumbers, taxi drivers, beggers on the streets, homeless people, teachers on pansions, people with various forms of physical and mental disabilities, old people, children in abusive households who have profound ideas. Like, it's gonna sting something vicious to have to admit to your own stupidity and superficiality, to admit that your choice to rot within the impossible boundaries of your current worldviews and beliefs is a conscious, deliberate one that has got nothing to do with how much money you have in your bank account, but like. poor people can be fucking intelligent and have substance and depth, and in fact they do. While paying bills and working mcdonalds jobs. Attributing personal substance and wits to wealth and devaluing someone's search for meaning by calling them "privilaged and spoiled with no worries in life" only highlights how deeply you've bought into classism and high society's "poor people have no virtues and that's why they suffer, it's what they deserve for being good-for-nothings" idealogy.

[anathemafiction]

Slowly but surely, Romanus is starting to use more Latin...

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The back of your neck bristles. "A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi," you whisper to yourself.

Ahead, a cliff, behind, the wolves.

[rileys-battlecats]

If you haven’t already answered this yet, can I ask why MicaClan chose the territory they currently live in? It seems like an interesting decision to choose such a different area to try to survive in. Although the more lush area probably means less droughts and higher elevation could possibly mean less flood risks, avoiding the two major issues that caused them to move in the first place. They still have to relearn everything though in such a different area. Or was there less thought behind it and it was more just get to higher ground to avoid the water and then they got tired of traveling and decided to stop once they were sufficiently high up?

Also can I ask what kind of border threats they faced when establishing their new territory? Were there other groups of cats? Was it mostly predators and dangerous animals? Did dogs or twolegs pose a challenge to their borders?

Sorry I kinda have a lot of questions haha I just really like your story and characters and settings and everything and wanna know all I can about them and get a deeper knowledge of everything

I AM SO HAPPY TO RECEIVE THIS QUESTION

You're right that there were material aspects as to why they chose to settle where they did; the mountain seemed like a good place to avoid any more catastrophic floods with the high elevation, the spring-fed stream that runs through the territory also seemed like a guarantee against any future droughts, and the area had plenty of prey to feed the clan. But the real deciding factor was the soil!

The idea was basically that they found a place where the very ground seemed to be blessed by Starclan. I've written about this on the blog before, but it was wayyy way back and I haven't mentioned it again since then HAHA, but I based Micaclan's territory on a place I used to hike every now and again. The area used to be the location of a mica mine, and the ground there still sparkles with all the tiny shards of minerals in the ground (which is actually why they're called Micaclan; I gave them the name before I'd fully decided on the clan not being from the area originally lol). So they basically were like "if this isn't a sign from Starclan then I don't know what is" and set up camp! It ended up being the right choice in the end, because they found the Moonmirror in the abandoned mine on their territory, which gave them much needed access to Starclan (even if they can't use it outside of emergencies).

For border threats, I imagine them dealing with all sorts of things, especially in the beginning when they were just establishing their borders. I think of micaclan's territory being far enough from human civilization that they don't have to worry about construction or cars or anything, but close enough that they have a human hiking trail acting as one of their borders, or at least having a hiking trail close enough that they have to deal with the occasional stray dog or human. In addition to this, predators like black bears or coyotes would make trouble for the clan, and maybe a mountain lion drifted through the territory at one point (which would have been a harrowing time indeed).

As for rogues or other groups of cats, I think they might've brought that trouble with them! It's hard to conceal a big group of cats traveling in search of a new territory, and I think they drew some unwanted attention on their way up to the mountain. Maybe other groups noted them, and decided to let the strangers do the hard work of staking out a good territory before swooping in to take their place? I don't think there were any other cats living where Micaclan ends up, so they wouldn't be contesting land with any other resident cats. Those that threatened their new borders were usually looking to try to take their place. Basically they were like "so the weirdos you pegged as 'death within the month' 5 moons ago are actually now thriving and looking well-fed and healthy living on the mountain? I guess it can't be THAT dangerous, why don't we live up there instead? they can find somewhere else again, they're obviously good at finding nice territories."

the general gossip on micaclan as a group through the years basically goes like this: I heard there was a big group (a clan?) passing through looking to set up a new territory, hope they don't settle here -> apparently that big clan that passed through a few moons back is living further up the mountain? wonder how long it'll be before they're eaten by bears -> there's a big group of cats living further up the mountain, maybe the mountain makes for a good territory after all... -> there's a weird cat cult up the mountain and if you step on their turf they will Kick Your Ass