#Connected to my nonsense

[fighting-these-demons]

YOUR TAGS!!!!!!!!!

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I NEED TO ROPE YOU INTO THE WAVELENGTH AND CAUSTIC CHEMISTRY AND M/K AND LAB PARTNERS AND EXTRA CREDIT EXTENDED UNIVERSE SO BADLY

I NEED THIS IMAGE TO INCITE INTRIGUE AND PSYCHIC DAMAGE SO BADLY

YOU'LL PROBABLY LOVE D*MASIA TOO AND TOBY DRAWS SUCH AMAZING ART OF IT!!!!

[daonepiece]

((lots of thanks to @banjlong baby for helping me with the dialogue!!))

[kirnet]

Now, that look like something my old auntie taught us how to make when I was a tyke. Some folks call them bird traps. Old auntie told us they were devil nets. You put them around the bed, catch the devil before he get too close... I always just though it was something for children to do. Keep them busy. Tell them stories why they're tying sticks together.

[buryam-soul]

Musings on Cyno/Alhaitham/Candace + language

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Candace tells Cyno he sounds like a textbook when he speaks in the desert tongue. More identifiably rainforest than passing merchants or even some scholars. Cyno confides that Cyrus never told him from where in the Sands he's even from; no tribe to seek out, no dialect to learn from, no folktales or traditions to even remember.

Candace starts helping him learn the Aaru dialect since. "Lending" it to him. Maybe Aaru Village wasn't the home he was born in, but she made sure it was the second home he was always welcome in.

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Cyno taught Alhaitham simple Matra code when he was Acting Grand Sage. "Status check", "ok", and so on, in case of emergencies. Alhaitham first uses this in the Grand Sage office after a long day; stress had stolen from him speech and sign and writing, leaving behind weak taps and scratches of "escape needed".

Cyno starts asking "status check" more often since. Still in code. Even after he returned to being Scribe, even during meet ups with friends, an escape to silence can still be necessary.

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Alhaitham asks Candace why she writes to him in Vedanagari script in personal letters. Her calligraphy is more stilted compared to her writing in Deshret script. Candace admits she craved a connection her father who was an Akademiya scholar; she couldn't spend much time with him growing up due to her Guardian training.

Alhaitham starts writing more letters to her since. Longer letters. About the Akademiya, calligraphy, and maybe someone who knows what it's like to seek your parents through written word.

[owari-no-suffering]

shoutout to lan wangji and luo binghe for being endlessly tormented by their love interests' mixed signals, reaching their breaking point, and then proceeding to never be normal about their (always reciprocated) crushes (turned husbands) ever again.

[goldenpinof]

Daniel, stop being so mean to your mother-in-law

[t00thpasteface]

in terms of "tumblr users will misinterpret a post and agree with it" one strange thing i've seen a few times is reblogging fanart i put a lot of painstaking effort into and then tagging it as a completely unrelated thing from an unrelated source material, and then getting really excited talking about it as if it's something else and how well it fits that other thing. i always feel like i'm getting talked over. like i put more work and thought into this than just the manual effort of moving my pen... there's symbolism and fun little nods to things or whatever... reblogging because you think it's pretty but you "don't go here" is awesome, but saying it's completely different subjects instead... idk it just feels reductive, like it's ignoring everything but the vague concept of the illustration, even ignoring the appearances by pretending the subjects are something else. and it's already fanart so i'm not even asking for much 😭🙏 i'm not a content generating machine, please stop ignoring the thought i put into my cartoons 😔

[sssssaarn]

Me when unicorns have been such an important part of a my life ever since childhood, and likely fall somewhere under the alterhuman umbrella for me, but I have no clue where:

[philcoulsonismyhero]

There's a lot of lines in Amongst Our Weapons that make me want to wave my arms around and yell incoherently about Peter and Nightingale and how far they've come and how much they mean to each other, but right now the one I want to yell about the most is this one from right at the end:

Image text: 'The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building,' said Nightingale. 'You taught me that.'

Because, like. Peter wanted to be an architect. The thing he always wanted to do was to build things. And look what he's built! He hasn't just rebuilt the Folly as it was, he's built something modern and completely new out of its constituent parts and he's done it by caring about people and being interested in how things work and by what Beverly jokingly calls 'compulsive networking'.

And everything he's done for the Folly, he's done for Nightingale on a personal level too.

Nightingale was So isolated when Peter first met him. His police colleagues didn't want much to do with him, his social circle seemed to consist of Molly and Dr Walid and not much more, he was completely out of touch with the modern world. And to his credit, he was the one who decided to take on an apprentice, but that was pretty much all he was planning to do. Train up a replacement for himself in case he got killed, pass on the Forms and Wisdoms properly, keep the status quo going.

But he chose Peter, and suddenly he's got an apprentice who wants to study the science behind magic and modernise the Folly's record keeping and work out better ways to liaise with other police and fundamentally Make Changes. Nightingale ends up with all these connections through Peter, to Beverley and the other Thames girls, to Lesley, to Abigail, eventually to the rest of Peter's family, to other police like Guleed and Stephanopoulos and unfortunately for him Seawoll... He has people he can rely on, and who choose to rely on him, and not just for magic -I especially love how Peter's mum eventually starts using him to babysit Peter's dad, and the fact that he helps Abigail's family with her brother. He's not alone anymore, and he goes from just living to genuinely thriving.

And it's all down to Peter, and what the two of them have built together. In fact, they've built something so significant that in a few years Nightingale isn't going to be necessary anymore. He's been Britain's Last Official Wizard for seventy years, all the weight of that tradition resting on his shoulders alone, and in a handful of years Peter has helped him to build something that'll be able to take the weight instead if he wants it to. There are people who can help do everything he's been doing alone and more, so finally he can think about what he actually wants for himself. (And don't even get me started on his arc re: teaching and discovering that it's what he wants to do for the rest of his life, I Will start yelling even more.)

And it's Peter who's taught him to let other people take the weight. That you can build something stable and lasting if you're willing to share the load. The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building.

Not bad for a wannabe architect who can't draw, huh?

[idlenight]

When I have kids I will tell them this was Ricardo Ortega:

[quirkle2]

first proper comic i've ever made! this is for my fic rainspeak; treat it as a bit of a "deleted scene" that takes places right after chapter 13

i never wrote anything from reigen's pov during the last few chapters bc 1) i wanted to focus on the kids, and 2) i'm not totally confident in my ability to write something compelling from that pov w those circumstances. so here's a comic instead <3

[salarymanwaka]

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[okawarihappylife]

i am once again thinking abt the lost potential that is hypmic.

[intotheelliwoods]

sees art of old leo* cool! awesome! what does the robo arm attach to

sees art of peepaw leos stump where the arm is not attached* beautiful gorgeous! how does the prosthetic connect to that

sees art of peepaw leos clean cut, lightly scared, seamless, little no armed stump* bestie HOW. DO YOU ATTACH. A MECHANICAL MACHINE DESIGNED FOR FIGHTING AND DURABILITY. TO THAT SLEEK FLESHY CHOP.

[wolkewatcher]

anyone know if we have isolate harder tomorrow