#I grew up in this era

[delcat177]

I keep thinking about how kind of mean and hopeless the Harry Potter books were in worldbuilding

Harry Potter is set up to be poor and miserable and have nothing, and to have all of that "corrected" by finding out he's a wizard and his family is rich and he'll never want for anything again

Ron Weasley is set up to be poor and miserable and have nothing and suffer forever for it

Like, I grew up in the extinct middle class that was between lower-middle and upper-middle, just middle-middle, but it was an economically depressed town in an economically depressed state, and my economically depressed friend fucking HATED Ron

I also hated Ron, everyone hated Ron, but it was more the past few days I've really been thinking about the difference, that if you're poor, you get to be poor as a wizard, you get this representation but it's as The Ron, and for the entire time that the audience is supposed to be going along with Harry on this new, magical journey...your MC role is to be *nice* to poor people as your defining characteristic of this dynamic, because oh, look, being poor sucks ASS and everyone will hate you and make fun of you.

JKR just...didn't worldbuild for shit. Like, she made all these pretty, silly, wacky things, but under the cozy Wonka-esque trappings of "oh what a lovely place I wish I could live there", life is unreasonably hard and unreasonably unfair for an Earth where magic is real.

"If Muggles knew about magic, they'd want it to solve all their problems all the time" yeah Christ forbid you solve problems, you can't even get student loans running you senile old fuck

[narwhalsarefalling]

my mother taught me to crochet when i was young. she was left handed, so she taught me how in the bathroom mirror so her hands would be in the right position.

she learned to crochet from her grandmother, who was right handed. her grandma was the one that originally used the bathroom mirror to teach her granddaughter properly.

i find something poetic about that. here in this bathroom mirror, through generations, we adapt to our young who have a different way of learning and interacting with the world

[viktorpartner]

Haven't been able to think about anything other than the victorian/edwardian/WW1 twink and his 80's punk almost-boyfriend for a week, send help

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

okay so steph is definitely a music purist?

we can all agree on that right? like she's a 'said she was born in the wrong generation in middle school' fleetwood mac, david bowie, the mamas & the papas, niche modern indie artists and also chappell roan kind of music listener. obviously. but.... i dont think we've really considered pete's music taste?

pete, who is a science, left-brained kind of kid, so he probably does not actively go out to look for music and is instead just provided music by the people around him?

pete whose older brother is theodore spankoffski and so his earliest and most fond and nostalgic music influences from his childhood would have come directly from ted's cd collection???

basically what im saying is peter spankoffski has the most trashy, early 00's ke$ha, black eyed peas my humps era, all american rejects ass music taste in the world

that boy had bowling for soup's 1985 memorized at age four, his guilty pleasure music is hollywood undead's everywhere i go, ted did his first decent person move in years when pete came out as trans as a kid and stopped listening to grow a pear by ke$ha and pete forcibly made him play it because it's a bop

and then his only friends are a weeb and a theatre kid.

steph gives him the aux cord on a date to be nice, as a sign of trust, and is blasted in the face with the most uncurated mess of j-pop, sondheim, weezer, and like... owl city's fireflies and that's just a fact

[unknownarmageddon]

hello kross nation

cross belongs to jael peñaloza killer belongs to rahafwabas

+ individual versions with notes!!!!

[kingdoms-edge]

Today being the last day of 3ds online has me feeling very nostalgic and wistful. I love the switch but it does not have the magic of the 3ds. It's not just about dual screens, it was the accessibility. It was less expensive, more portable, had more cheap games you could play with your friends, and a lot of people underestimate just how fantastic some 3ds games are. Streetpass alone was a phenomenon, and along with 3ds menu themes, illustrates a sort of magic that I feel nintendo has been losing sight of since the switch.

With the way games are going in the modern day (higher price tags and system reqs, tons of focus on AAA titles, people needing graphics to be absurdly good for no practical reason), I find myself latching onto my older games more and more. Sure, some of it is a nostalgia-tinted lens, memories from a happier and simpler time of life. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing.

Even after the online services go down, I'll always be playing my 3ds until the hardware breaks to unusability and I can't find another one. I'll play locally with my friends whenever we can. I lament how things must change, but I go on anyway. Here's to my favorite console ever made, may it never really die.

[szynkaaa]

First sitting pose ref here

Been working on an extensive document to flesh out Oz more, the origin of the blood manipulation power, her ancestor's backstory and how much the Celestial Court sucks, and her connection with Sun Wukong / the Destined one

The biggest tragedy is that I gave her those cool powers but she can't even use them LMFAO. I think that realistically speaking she would not be able to learn to fully control and master it in her mortal life span.

Blood Manipulation [ Marked Me Like a Bloodstain ]

An unnatural ability that laid dormant inside Oz until she got isekaid into Ancient China. Inherited from her ancestor. 

List of powers that she could have if she was an immortal who has cultivated for centuries and honed her powers. Unfortunately, she is just a girl from the modern world trying to survive so the powers are wasted on her lol

Can shape her own blood into weapons and use them to fight. Risks of major blood loss

Can also turn enemies blood into weapons, provided they lost enough for her to use their blood

Can turn her blood corrosive, useful for melting objects and things. If someone swallows few drops of her blood, could melt them from the inside

Can bloodbend, control living beings like puppets, and crush internal organs

Stardust Tears [ Eyes Full of Stars ]

Tears full of stardust. Highly sought out for it’s healing properties

Drinking pure Stardust Tears can heal any poison and illness

Few drops of tears can heal any physical injuries in an instant

Can be used as an ingredient for making healing elixirs

Also able to see through transformation and disguises, and tell apart which are clones and which are not

[nanamin-nah-nanamine]

Something something famous rockstar au with lead vocalist! Satoru and Bassist! Suguru and you’re the lucky fan they ask to sign an nda….

The lucky fan who gets to be on her knees between the two of them cockdrunk and whining. Satoru’s cock down your throat and seeing the flash of a Polaroid with Suguru telling you to smile for the camera🥴

I will probably be elaborating on this

[deep-space-netwerk]

So I wanna tell y'all about something very near and dear to my heart.

This is the Psyche asteroid, or, at least an artist's representation - we don't know what it actually looks like yet, but this is a fair enough guess. It's a roughly 200 mile wide asteroid in the asteroid belt, and it's made almost entirely out of metal. Its composition makes it unique; it’s the only large metallic body we know of in the entire solar system.

We think it might be the core of what used to be a planet.

When solar systems form, they start out as disks made of interstellar gas and dust, called protoplanetary disks. Here's a picture of HL Tauri, one of the best images of a protoplanetary disk we have.

That dust globs together into larger and larger pieces, and eventually forms hundreds of "planetesimals", which are rocky bodies about a kilometer across. Planetesimals had very erratic orbits compared to the modern planets - the dust of the protoplanetary disk caused friction and drag, which threw them off course.

They frequently collided with each other, and either broke apart or stuck together and grew even larger. Arrokoth is actually a leftover planetesimal, a time capsule from the early solar system, and we were able to visit it wayyy out in the Kuiper belt with the New Horizons probe!

Once planetesimals get to be about the size of the moon, we call them "protoplanets". Protoplanets were fundamentally different from their planetesimal siblings - we believe they were differentiated. When an object in space gets big enough, a combination of radioactive decay, impacts, and gravitational pressure causes them to heat up and melt. Denser materials like iron and nickel sink towards their centers, while the lighter materials rise to the surface. The differentiation process is why Earth's core is made of iron, while the surface is primarily rock.

While protoplanet orbits were much more stable than those of planetesimals, they still eventually collided with each other until everything settled into the planets we see today (though gas giants had a few extra steps - that's a different post!).

We think the Psyche asteroid was a protoplanet, well on its way to becoming a bona fide planet, when an impact struck it hard enough to strip away its rocky layers, leaving behind the dense, metallic core - like in this illustration.

More and more, we think  the properties of a planet's core are fundamental to its long-term evolution. Venus, Earth, and Mars are all roughly the same size and roughly the same distance from the sun, cosmically speaking, yet they're so different! Venus has hell death clouds, Earth is home, and Mars is dry and dead - why?

The Psyche asteroid gives us the unique opportunity to actually observe a planetary core directly - it's much harder to dig to the center of a planet than it is to go to space, so that's exactly what we're going to do!

On Thursday October 12th at 10:16am Eastern, the Psyche spacecraft will launch and begin its journey to the asteroid belt! You can watch at https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/!

I've been a part of this mission for over four years now, and I can't speak highly enough of the team that made it happen through all of the ups and downs. Good luck out there, buddy. We're all rooting for you :')

[justafandomgirly]

Sirius “Your mother wouldn’t approve of how my mother raised me” Black

And

Regulus “But I do, I think I do” Black

[atchamcrepin]

A still frame from the animatic I'm working on. The japanese text is just a lyric from the song～ 😺

[rookflower]

thinking about the character again (cinderpelt) and it's likely unintentional and a result of either her shifting narrative role from young go getter to wise mentor or a shift in how the books display their own politics but i find something really tragic in-universe in how she develops from a character who will actively and willingly break the warrior code when it conflicts with her own morals (immediately lying to cover for graystripe and silverstream, acting in direct defiance of her leadership to nurse littlecloud and whitethroat back to health) but overtime through her role she gradually grows more god-fearing and pious and embodies somewhat of a "starclan is always right, even when they are cruel, and we need to accept that" position

[androdragynous]

so much LGBT identity discourse boils down to "this person has different comfort levels with different terms than I do and I think that's Wrong" and it's like aren't you tired. aren't you tired?

[mrsfrecklesmarauders]

2012

"There's no way this is my mother"

Sirius saw the girl in the picture and didn't recognize her. But there was a sensation that he knew her very well. She seemed familiar but too far away.

They there were, the same gray eyes he saw when he looked into the mirror everyday. The same arrogant eyebrows. The same cheeky smile. The same black hair.

Many members of his family told him that he looked like her. But Sirius didn't believe it until now.

"Oh that's Wally in the flesh" Uncle Alphard said as he lit his cigarette "Back when she was fun anyway"

Fun, she did look. At least in the old picture he was holding. Walburga looked around eighteen. She was truly beautiful, as she glowed in her youth. She was wearing a cool red dress, ripped thighs, boots and a leather jacket that Sirius would definitely fall in love with.

Walburga wasn't smiling at the camera. She was poking her tongue out. And showing rock fingers. Walburga didn't even like rock, did she?

Sirius couldn't have gotten his good taste from his boring mother.

"Your mother changed a lot" Alphard explained, as if he was reading his nephew's mind "I suspect it was your father's doing... But she is not longer the cool girl from the picture"

It hurt even more, Sirius figured. He felt better believing he had nothing to do with his family. That he was different and better than all of them.

"She was a bit of a rebel, alright" Alphard added with a nostalgic smile "Quite like you, I may say"

No! Sirius didn't like it.

A cold hearted Walburga that had always been strict and boring was so easier to hate than this cool version of her. A girl that once was full of life.

It told that Sirius had the possibility of having a cool mother. Or getting along with her at least. If he was like her, she should like him. But she didn't. She didn't even care about him. He was nothing but a burden to her.

Sirius wondered what happened to her to make her so indifferent. So unattached to everything. Full of fancy things and still beautiful but empty inside...

He put the picture away.

****

1995

"Are you done taking the picture, Alphie?" Walburga asked with a smile.

"Mother is going to hate you posing like that, Wally" Alphard said, putting the camera down "You know her..."

"Ladies should behave under God's gaze..."

Both siblings recited at the same time, then laughed.

"The woman is so annoying. She thinks rock n roll is Devil's music" Wally added.

"Not our fault the Devil has good taste, though" Alphard said making his sister laugh.

"I'm going out" Walburga added carefully.

"Now?" Alphard scoffed "It's your birthday"

"My... My friends want to celebrate with me for a bit..."

Walburga blushed. She wondered if Alphard would like Alex. Probably not. They wouldn't have anything in common. If only Alex knew how posh her family was. He would laugh.

"Your Hogwarts friends?"

"Yes" Walburga blinked innocently. She actually didn't have friends. Only Alex.

Alphard sighed "Wally..."

The girl didn't even let him finish "Please... Please, Alphie!" and she made a lost puppy face because she knew how her brother melt with it "You need to cover me, please"

"Cygnus and I are here for your birthday, Wally" Alphard explained "You can't leave. Mother would get annoying and Father..."

Alphard didn't need to finish the sentence. They both knew how their father was. He lost his temper and they all suffered the consequences. The three of them were afraid of him.

"The girls helped the maids decorate the cake" Alphard changed the subject "Bella is gonna ask a lot of questions if you're gone. She's very clever and intuitive for an eight year old"

Walburga gave him a comforting smile "I'll be back in time for the cake. I promise"

Alphard took a deep breath "Promise it"

Walburga smirked triumphantly. She kissed her brother's cheek. Alphard would always be her favorite brother.

"I promise! I promise!" she jumped on her feet "I promise I'll be back..."

Alphard smiled and winked.

"Where are you going, Wally?"

They both turned to look at the new voice. Walburga's smile disappeared from her face.

Orion.

She couldn't believe he was back from Boston. That boy was the reminder of Walburga's darker years at school.

"A skank!" her classmates would whisper "So slutty that she even does it with her own cousin"

"So disgusting! Having incestuous sex doesn't give you like a venereal disease or something?"

"She probably doesn't care"

"I mean I get that Orion is devilishly handsome but he is her cousin!... Who is next? Her two brothers?"

"Eew!! Such a whore!"

Giggles. Giggles and more giggles.

Walburga didn't notice that she was clenching her nails in her palm until she felt pain and she realized it was bleeding.

She didn't like the way Orion looked at her. As if she was a delicious piece of meat.

Walburga was not fourteen anymore. She was not letting that arsehole manipulate her anymore. She was in love. She had Alex now.

"It's none of your business, Orion" she spat.

Then she leaned to kiss Alphard's cheek again.

"Thank you, Alphie" she whispered in his ear "Don't worry. I'll be back"

Then with a nasty look at Orion she turned around and left the room.

Orion walked towards Alphard.

"Are you seriously going to let her go dressed like that?"

Alphard didn't respond. He just pushed Orion against the wall so hard that he groaned in pain.

"I told you to stay away from my sister, didn't I?"

Orion smiled evily.

"She is a freaking adult now" he spat "She doesn't need her stupid faggot brother protecting her"

Alphard put an arm against his throat, choking him.

"Disgusting pig, she is your cousin"

Orion coughed trying to breath "Second... Cousin..." he managed to say.

Alphard pushed him to the floor furiously. He gave him a disgusting look. The walked away.

"Stupid cock sucker" Orion mumbled as he coughed on the floor.

****

2012

"You're late again, Sirius" Walburga said "Where did you go with Alphard this time? You always take too long with him. We were waiting for you to have dinner"

Sirius was very silent and very curious. Walburga conserved her beauty. But she was nothing like the girl from the picture. She dressed elegantly, always. With makeup and jewelry. Always neat.

"I told you, Wally. I don't like Sirius hanging out with the faggot of you brother" Orion commented as he took a sip of his wine.

"Alphard is not a faggot" Walburga answered calmly.

Orion snorted in a mocking way. "Right"

Sirius was too busy staring at his mother, trying to recognize her that he didn't defend his Uncle as always.

"What are you waiting for, boy!" Orion tutted "Sit down!"

Was it really true his father changed her? Alphard didn't want to go into details.

Walburga had noticed she was being stared, though.

"What are you looking at?" She spat "You're late and you are staring at me without respect? Do I have something on my face?"

Shame. Sirius thought.

Sirius wondered how his life would be if Walburga continued to be the girl from the picture. Just like he was now.

What a hypocrite! She used to be a rebel, she used to hate the family and the money as well. She used to lie to sneak out. She used to smoke and drink behind her parents' back. Alphard had told him that.

Wasn't it hilarious that she dared to control her son like that?

The irony of it all and the grieving of the old Walburga made him smile.

"Nothing, Walburga"

Sirius took a seat next to his brother that seemed relieved that he had obeyed.

"Pass me the potatoes, Reg?"

"Yeah" Regulus obeyed looking at his brother curiously.

Sirius was using his mocking expression. Trying not to laugh under his breath. He probably seemed like a crazy person.

"So what did you do at your Uncle's exactly?" Orion asked raising an eyebrow.

Sirius bit his lip not to laugh.

"Just talk" he said "He showed me some funny pictures about you guys in the past" and he looked at his mother in the eye.

Walburga moved on her chair uncomfortably. But she held his gaze.

"What a crazy man" Orion tutted as he continued eating.

Sirius and his mother continued looking at each other defyingly. Regulus looked between them like a tennis match.

He was not giving in. But he figured Walburga wouldn't as well.

Shit, Sirius thought. Maybe there were similar in some ways after all. And Sirius didn't like that.

[asteraws]

started watching digimon :•)

[keepingmyoptionsfluid]

The idea that Tommy, a closeted gay man who was desperately trying to fit in in a hyper macho and discriminatory environment, isn't allowed to have any growth from when he was over compensating and was a dick to Chim really pisses me off. He literally had canonical growth to the point he was going for drinks with Chim and Hen in Bobby Begins Again and they got him a fancy leaving cake.

Why isn't he allowed to grow and be better? Because he's white? Because he "gets in the way of buddie"? Because no one is allowed to say and change at all over a decade?

Like this is a queer fandom and I'd bet a lot of money that a ton of people in this fandom said and did things they weren't proud of when they were younger, especially before they came out so they could try and hide it.

I know this is quite a young fandom too but like, it was literally only a decade ago when "gay" was an insult at school and doing anything that could be get you accused of being gay was fucking social suicide. You guys have no idea how lucky you are that people at least get called out for that shit now cause they didn't when I was a kid. I would have done almost anything to just be ignored, let alone accepted, rather than being openly bisexual.

So yeah, I think Tommy is allowed to fucking change as a person because Bobby, Chim and Hen came into his life and allowed him to stop repressing. Stop being such fucking assholes. You aren't any better than him, and frankly the way some of you behave makes the way Tommy acted when he was first in the show look like a fucking saint. Touch some grass.