#CONSTANT VIGILANCE !!

[anxietyriddenllama]

[agentreynard]

oh how delightful

It turns out my kid is between slightly and severely allergic to various tree nuts, which means I have literally in an instant transformed into Allergy Mom. Fortunately I've been accommodating people's dietary restrictions since adolescence and am not a jerk, so that's all right. But I can now look forward to at least 11 years of opportunity to judge other people who are (or may be) jerks. Great.

[doctoraxiom]

The two keys to a good flan-

Evaporate your milk

Don't let it form a skin

[brucewaynehater101]

The damage constantly being tested by Batman must've fucked Tim up. How often does small gestures, such as Bruce adding an extra spoonful of sugar, cause Tim to spend a significant amount of time analyzing for clues?

It would be exhausting to constantly monitor Batman and his demeanor

[acnelli]

Do you have a dog?

I’m not answering these kind of questions, sorry (or not sorry if you’re a scammer).

[ri-afan]

If wands are a conduit for magical energy, then ‘the business end of a wand’ is factually wrong and handles are false advertising and thus even holding out a wand handle-first still doesn’t mean they are disarming themselves.

One could argue that having a wand touch your skin at all could be considered you being armed then if you’re focused enough on how your magic can move through and from you (and not thinking about Wandless magic).

[erinwantstowrite]

peter parker would HATE having the hiccups

this made me cackle because you're so right. peter would get the hiccups and start cussing himself out and dick would be giggling at him the entire time

[falleri-salvatore]

Huh? Why won't you tell the full story? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_realignment#Political_realignment_in_United_States_history

American History Lesson 🤔

[mutantmayhems]

Raphael keeps a constant vigil over Leo, waiting for him to wake up.

THE FARMHOUSE IN TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (2012) requested by anonymous

[braxix]

Elrond: Happy Birthday Glorfindel! What are you doing?

Glorfindel, scared: Every year Erestor throws a cake at my face.

Erestor, with no cake: Glorfindel! Happy Birthday!

Glorfindel: Hmmm...

Elrond: Glorfindel?

Glorfindel: *Turns around* yea-

Elrond: *Throws a cake at his face*

Erestor: Never let them know your next move.

[acciosriracha]

God(Crooks) & his Malfoy Servant

They act like they despise each other but can't actually stand being away from one another too long.

Also Draco smothers Crooks with kisses at night to keep him away from their bedroom. They both pretend to hate the nightly ritual.

[topaz-eyes]

Heads up that this article is paywalled.

The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders

The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs.

Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice.

Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it.

Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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[vee-isaweirdartist]

Y'all prob saw the video I reblogged so here, I hope nobody though of this before

Now I wanna include her in more art,,,,

[adokle]

Dragon Kingdom on the mind recently.

Got to visualizing some subordinate char notions for the Shinobi clan, plus The Bride of Constant Vigil. Initially thought advisors but settled on a personal guard detail for special occasions.

L to R: 

-Tetsu Strong as an ox, quick as a horse, and as hardy as a camel. His specialty is as straight-forwardly apparent from his appearance as his demeanor is from his expression. 

-Kaiko An enjoyer of stage magic, misdirection and sleight of hand, she's most formidable with her concealed blades, and thrown objects in general, thanks to her quick observation and reactions. Another trick up her sleeve is to "fly" (read: glide) with a sufficient run-up thanks to her cranial surface area. 

-Constant Vigil Leader of the clan, these three, as many others defer to her.

-Pearl A quintessential example of a shinobi. One who fully covers himself on missions (and in general) due to his exceedingly opalescent scales that even an advanced chameleon's environmental blending can't obscure. So, he employs the ninja basics to great effect, making for an effective, well rounded, no-gimmicks warrior with a specialty in stealth tactics.

[a-sunset-outside-my-window]

fic recs of the month

This is just a collection of my fic recs for the month of march, have fun <3

The Lab

by @de-sire-blog (de_sire) on Ao3

“I don’t get it,” Sirius says truthfully. “Remus is such a nice person, why does everyone pretend like he’s some kind of wicked stepmother?”

James laughs joyfully and winks at Sirius. “Are we even talking about the same person?” He holds out his hand above his head. “Big guy, about this tall, curly hair? Temper like a sleeping dragon? Smart, but a bit full of himself? Can kill you with his eyes?”

Sirius raises his eyebrows and laughs as well. “No, I don’t think we are talking about the same person at all.”  

A love story about healing, new beginnings and growing up. Academia! Romance! Shared cigarettes, cute cats, lots of coffee and the most amorous business trip you have ever seen.

the hare and the hound

by @steelycunt (aeridi0nis) on Ao3

‘He’ll never have to do it again, Remus realises. He can just keep being good, if he just behaves, he’ll never have to do it again, never with the dark and the bleeding and the crying. He just can’t give them reason to be angry at him, and he won’t, he hasn’t. And his mum is right – the drink does make him feel a little better.’

or:

Remus is a terribly behaved five-year-old. He doesn’t really think so himself, but his parents lock him in the cellar every month, so he must be doing something to deserve it. Well, not anymore. He’s got a plan, see, sort of. He’ll never go downstairs again.

Dusk

by @theresthesnitch on Ao3

“That’s not fair.” Sirius was crying now, and Remus swiped his tears away with his thumb. “This isn’t fair. We haven’t had enough time. It’s not fair.” 

“I know, love.” Remus leaned in for a kiss, and wondered if it would be the last. “I have loved you for sixty-two years, and it’s nowhere near enough.” 

Or

Sirius loses his memories.

Lupine

by @wolfstarbuxks (BayleyWinchester) on Ao3

Lupine adjective lu·pine | \ ˈlü-ˌpīn \ Definition of lupine : WOLFISH

Teddy is Remus' everything in life. He'd do anything for his son - including going to the same zoo, twice a week for a year so that his son could see the wolves that he had fallen in love with.

And if that meant that Remus got to met a sexy zookeeper, who was he to complain?

CONSTANT VIGILANCE and COMMON SENSE

by darkbluedark on Ao3

In which Alastor not-yet-"Mad-Eye"-but-still-quite-Mad Moody does as Alastor "Just Mad" Moody does, and brings a sneakoscope to an Order meeting.

~The kind of fix-it that makes so much sense that the fact that it isn't canon should be considered a plot hole in itself~

A Brief History of Dragons

by @eyra on Ao3

It's lovely up here; all meadows dotted with wildflowers, wind-beaten tracks criss-crossing this way and that through the fields, weaving inland to the pinewoods. The sun's hot on his back as he passes ramshackle stone walls, long since crumbled to piles of ancient rubble and scree, and then the path winds downwards, still following the line of the coast until Sirius finds himself outside an old white cottage, tucked away behind the hill with a rose garden that faces out to the sea.

Sirius moves to Cornwall for the summer and meets a rude, beautiful boy who is writing a book that may or may not be about dragons.

The Phoenix Agency

by LupinsChocolatePraline on Ao3

Sirius Black is excited to start his first full-time job after Uni, but this life change doesn’t sit well with his boyfriend who is difficult to live with on a good day, abusive on all other days. Sirius is good at pretending that everything is alright, he can even convince himself, but sometimes he wishes things were different. The problem is – Fabian is all Sirius has. Or so they both think.

Remus Lupin is a senior copywriter at an advertising agency, currently single by choice, and very comfortable with his unchanging daily routine, his familiar colleagues and his company-issued ergonomic chair that’s been his for three years now. When his favourite graphic designer is replaced by a twitchy, fresh-out-of-university Sirius Black, his peaceful routine takes an unexpected hit.