#Hoops screenshot

[theonlyhoopsfan]

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[nugromancer]

When I say I cackled...

[etapereine]

today’s jonas lore is that both grischa and one of the devo team riders who rode gran camiño have specifically mentioned that jonas taught the younger guys how to make coffee on the bus

[warwickroyals]

Sunderland's Royal Jewel Vault (47/∞) ♛

↬ The Duchess of Glencairn's Circles Bandeau

The Glencairn branch of the royal family is arguably the most “royal”, with ties to Sunderlandian, Russian, and Danish royal families. This tiara originated from the trousseau of Grand Duchess Anastasia Georgiyevna, the ill-fated daughter of King George I of Sunderland. Anastasia inherited her mother’s theatrical side, and several jaw-dropping jewels are linked to her. The Bandeau was created in the 1890s and features diamond hoops intertwining around central pearl and diamond elements. The tiara is versatile; the pearls can be swapped with emeralds. It remained in Russia until the royal family was deposed in 1917, after which it entered the Sunderlandian royal family through the Grand Duchess’s granddaughter, Esther, Duchess of Glencairn. The tiara was worn by Esther and her second daughter, Princess Frances, who wore the bandeau as a young woman in the 1980s. The jewel parted with the family in 1994, having been sold to relieve the estate tax the Glencairns faced after Esther died in 1988. In June 1995, the tiara was auctioned at Sotheby’s, where a private buyer scooped it up for a staggering $200,000. Creation: Bolin in the 1890s Provenance: 1) Grand Duchess Anastasia Georgiyevna 2) Natalia, Viscountess Jungman 3) Esther, Duchess of Glencairn Other Wearers: Princess Frances of Glencairn Commissioned/Purchased by: George, Prince of Danforth Status: Sold

[sarahkomik]

GAY FUCKS

[freezi-drink]

Easily my favorite Bob's Burgers joke. (5.19, 11:30)

[quintsjacket]

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i really wanted to include hooper on the left but i couldn't find a photo i liked enough, rip :( i'll probably swap the orca out for him at some point

[mistbornthief]

powerpuff girls

[steddio]

Steve Harrington falls asleep in the weirdest places/most uncomfortable positions and Eddie is dying of cute.

you're absolutely right anon!!! steve exudes major dad energy, he can and will fall asleep anywhere, anytime, whether it's upside down on a folding chair or in the back of eddie's van between boxes of equipment or one time curled up underneath the d&d table because the session went too long. the party starts making fun of him trying to poke him awake but eddie is just like:

because he doesn't want to wake up steve. and then he just spends the rest of the session distracted, looking at steve adoringly like that's my sugar plum sweet pea precious baby sleepy boy

[theonlyhoopsfan]

You see him in doorway or an alleyway like this, what you doin? 🤔

[whisperofthewaves]

ohhoho nice shot. also I can't stop thinking they gave him the 1996 juliet's angel wings for this party

[reap-the-game]

In the name of getting both of the boys their rightful features for the wedding, I changed Gia's eye markings to be on face paint instead of on his diffuse (you can tell which is which by the lips but that's minor and I'll probs give him a temporary lip gloss for the occasion).

Learned new things!!! Namely baking from one UV to another in Blender.

[eggs-n-ham-sam]

I am sad to say disabling Hardware Acceleration doesn't work for me. Extension programs work tho.

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[shironezuninja]

Years ago, I probably wouldn’t need VPNs to protect me from accessing sites like ReadOnlineComics.com or KimCartoon.net. Now we need them to prevent alarming pop up windows from interfering with our researching instincts.

http://ReadOnlineComics.com

[nonasuch]

Miss Universe National Costume 2024, Part 2!

Splitting this off into a new post so I'm not clogging up everyone's dash quite as much.

Miss Malta is some sort of environmental protection Sailor Scout. I think the giant bow would look better on the back of the skirt but otherwise this is solid.

It has just come to my attention that I skipped over Miss Albania and several other A/B countries, back at the beginning. I sincerely apologize! She went to all this trouble putting together a Fifth Element cruise ship passenger costume, and I nearly missed it.

Miss Armenia, in what even I have to admit would be a legit Princess Leia fit.

Miss Bahrain, adding some green to her Gold And Vaguely Historical look, along with what is either a comically large prop chalice or an upside-down lamp.

Miss Bangladesh appears to believe that adding two plush tigers from the toy store around the corner from the pageant venue will conceal the fact that she is just wearing a tiger-print evening dress. Miss Bangladesh is incorrect.

Miss Belgium. Girl. No.

Miss Belize let the seventh-grade art class do her whole costume, which was a bold choice.

Okay, I think that's everyone I missed! Back to alphabetical order. And I should have to rely less on shitty screenshots, now. Some countries were benefiting from the low resolution, tbh.

Kind of feel like Miss Maldives had a luggage mishap and she's just wearing the outfit she packed for a slightly dressy dinner.

Miss Martinique's costume would honestly have looked better in the shitty screencap version. The construction is... bad. It's bad.

Feel like we're in a little bit of slump here. Miss Mauritius did not stick enough butterfly appliqués to her gown to conceal that it is, in fact, just a regular evening gown.

Slump officially over! We are so back. Everyone say thank you, Miss Mexico.

I would like this better if it had just committed to the giant skirt and not felt the need to make it a Sexy Miniskirt look. Sorry, Miss Moldova.

Miss Mongolia wanted to stand out from all the other gold armor on stage, so she decided to a) wear cooler armor and b) bring a bow and arrow instead of a sword. Great work, Miss Mongolia.

Starting to feel like I'm picking on the smaller countries that probably don't have a huge pageant culture or the budget for really elaborate costumes, but on the other hand Miss Montenegro's costume is super low-effort AND the fabrics look cheap, so what am I supposed to do?

Okay, this looks like a pretty standard Miss Universe Sexy Bird, yes? Well, THIS is how Miss Myanmar entered the stage:

She had to fight her way out of that thing! God only knows what the visibility was like in there.

I think the hat is doing most of the heavy lifting to keep Miss Namibia's costume from being Just An Evening Dress, sadly.

Oh, yikes. It's more obvious in motion but Miss Nepal's bodice looks like it's made of craft foam and it fits real weird. The rest of it looks a little like she got together with Miss Cyprus and a pile of tablecloths for a sewing bee last night, I'm sorry to say.

Miss Netherlands has chosen a Tribute to Delft. I think if I were in charge of this costume I would do a much fuller skirt that falls from the waist, instead of the weird trumpet-skirt-with-hoop we've got here. And, obviously, I would make the windmill on the bodice actually spin.

It looks like she's having some issues keeping the wings and peplum in place, but I really like Miss New Zealand's costume from a design perspective. It at least slightly resembles the bird it's supposed to be (New Zealand fantail) and I think the feather pattern is meant to be in a Maori art style.

Miss Nicaragua is a Sexy Cathedral, which I think might be a Miss Universe first and is definitely a big old step closer to drag.

Okay, pausing here to get the next batch ready.

[codenamethebird]

I'm loving all the discussion about Melinoe's anti-human prejudice, but I don't see anyone discussing my favorite, so u get more of my rambling. I also got these screenshots from YouTube so you get sketchy Hades, but I actually only just got this dialogue in this patch haha (I forgot to screenshot it myself).

I'm obsessed with this bit of dialogue because it houses some beautiful Hades character development. One of his big flaws that caused like 75% of the problems in Hades 1 was his eternal punishments. Orpheus and Eurydice, forced to be apart. Achilles and Patroclus, also forced to be apart because of Hades contracts. And in this case Sisyphus, being doomed to always push up the rock.

Hades was convinced that they deserved their punishments, that they could not change, so they should never be free. Zag had to go through a bunch of hoops to change their fates, and Hades just grumbled through it all. But people can change, Sisyphus is a prime example of that. The way Hades' voice actor says that last bit "He forgave me anyway" just murdered me.

What an emotionally pogninent moment from a man who has realized his mistakes, but it's too late (to him at least), and now all he can do it stand in chains, in a prison he made, drowning in his regrets.

And then this is how Mel responds:

I just, omfg Mels nooooo babe, your Dad has just had some brilliant character development, what are so saying.

She is so dismissive. She totally missed the point of what he was trying to say. There's like no thought that went through her head, just "fuck that dumb mortal, don't feel guilty dad." Mel doesn't even try to even slightly engage with it, the moment he mentions a mortal, it becomes unimportant.

Hades, while blatantly disagreeing with her, doesn't exactly reply to her dismissal of Sisyphus. Which makes sense I doubt he wants to really argue with her and the context of these chats he is trying to get her to leave quickly considering their location.

But he does name Sisyphus here and reinforce the fact that he was a king. Which I note because Mel just called him "some dead mortal". And he appeals to a much more emotional thread with the whole thing with Bouldy, something Mel would understand a bit easier.

And Mel does call him a king in response, which while not his name, is more personable than "some dead mortal". But ultimately, she respects him because he was kind to her dad, not because she remotely comprehends the emotions and regrets that Hades is feeling with this character development.

And considering what else we know about her, I think it's very safe to say she still thinks Hades shouldn't feel guilty about anything. That this mortal is ultimately unimportant and deserving of his punishment.

But yeah tldr, i find it endlessly hilarous how Hades has this lovely moment of self reflection and then Mels immediately dismisses it with a simple "fuck that mortal".