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platypusisnotonfire · 7 months ago

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I was talking with a coworker this week about one of the preschool kids we coach being a scarily good climber and how that was going to be a problem REAL soon and I mentioned how my brother and I were once found on a rooftop at the neighbors when were were still in diapers and she was like “that explains SO much about you.”

#I’m not exactly sure how to take that #but #true facts about me #honestly I was way worse than my brother #moving on through the years I was the one to jump off the stupid height and brake both feet when he stood at the top and was like #uhhhh that looks dangerous maybe not #any perilous event he got involved in was led by me #except for the time he fell through the ice on our neighborhood lake #that was him just being impulsive and thinking the ice was for sure thick enough #I rescued him with a stick and some knowledge of physics and weight displacement #we almost died so many times as kids and boy was it by accident that we survived #this has unfortunately added to my hubris because ‘I havnt died yet’#although my logical brain knows that it was not by any means because I was particularly clever or adept at surviving #but sheerly by chance and good luck I haven’t died from many things that by all rights should have ended me

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luminarai · 10 months ago

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Attempting to get the beast used to a dental hygiene routine is… well, it’s going.

(She stayed that way for a solid 8 seconds despite hating being held belly up so I think it’s safe to say that Mim is not beating the ‘tiny speaker playing elevator music instead of a brain’ allegations any time soon.)

#cecil blogs her life #my art #digital art #artists on tumblr #Mim the cat #cats on tumblr #cat art #comics #black cats #she’s actually pretty good about it normally - like she doesn’t enjoy it but she lets me do it without too many complaints #ofc I make sure to do it as quickly as possible and give her lots of dental friendly rewards lmao #she’s currently sleeping on top of me so I think I’m forgiven #I don’t believe she has any current dental issues so it’s mostly preventative #esp bc we don’t know exactly how old she is or what her life was like before I adopted her #this is probably seven different kinds of heretical but anyway #shout out to Tom my childhood priest who once told me not to take the bible literally after I asked him where the dinos were supposed to #fit into genesis. incredible. anyway I’m a non believing heathen now so meh #who cares #these tags are a RIDE wtf cecil

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shorthaltsjester · 4 months ago

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maybe this is just because it feels like a metaphor for how tlovm uses vex in general (and i could write an essay about it and have and will again) but something that i both understand tlovm choosing to do and deeply hate as a choice they made is vex no longer being the one to break thordak’s crystal even though vax was still the one to kill him. especially since the show was very explicit about thordak being responsible for killing the twins’ mother and also set it up as a sort of avenging of percy, it felt tonally weird to literally just have vex hanging out in the background for both the crystal breaking and him being killed. it’s fine (deeply upset voice) i understand that adjustments to pike’s vestige made this make sense for the plot but. glad to have vex continue to be a witness in tlovm moments that in the campaign her agency in were delicious character moments. it’s fine.

#cr team respectfully i think you need to think more about the consequences of your Cool Action Choices #on your central characters’ agency and growth #particularly when they are women whose names start with k and v #i think pike does better because there is the extra attention of How To Fit Her In The Story #but for every great moment of character reinterpretation of vex and keyleth there are about five where i’m like.#these characters are animation tradition pilled and not in the fun adventurous way i mean in the #medium that got away with treating women as objects in much more extreme ways for longer way. where i think the echoes are harder to extract #from common tropes and shit that aren’t exactly harmful but do take keyleth and vex. both characters who fit well into archetypes #but who are interesting because of how they subvert them pretty consistently #and instead just have them subvert them on occasion and we’re left with just. innocent flower who occasionally has rage #can’t kill vorugal on her own. can’t crack thordaks gem. why is she there (i said tired and sad for other reasons) i’m being hyperbolic #and cold and charismatic woman (now . trope identical mourning widow 👍) who occasionally is given depth (typically in romantic context)#which sure great. yay action sequence yay npc backstories and motivations. could i get a slice of the time and effort percy and scanlan get #to trace their arcs through everything they do #with keyleth and vex. please. Please #to be clear. this isn’t like. i think the characters are being targeted (certainly don’t think the cast doesn’t have a say either)#this is me saying i think the say they have/choices they’ve made aren’t very compelling ones #tlovm spoilers #vex’ahlia #tlovm

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winedogs · 1 year ago

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been looking at all the IPPY awards and feedback and posts today and many of the high scoring images are lovely and inspiring but many of them are skillfully shot and edited while also being completely devoid of JOY and WHIMSY and it’s driving me insane so. here are some joyful and whimsical dogs at the mall

#have also been talking a lot to another local pet photographer who does similar work to mine #but we have kind of the same dichotomy where her work is more technically correct but I often find it soulless #idk I feel like I approach it differently but the whole reason I want to take beautiful photos of my dogs is because I enjoy them #and I want to always remember them exactly how they are- goofy and real and imperfect #and as I continue to work on the technical aspects I want to make sure I remember that #it doesn’t matter how Artistically Composed an image is if it doesn’t capture some personality #anyways ignore me I’m just Thinking Thoughts #dogs #photo

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fractallogic · 5 days ago

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Yes indeed we ARE already at the point where I’m watching reels from the guy who cooks for a sorority house at UNR and I’m like you know what actually maybe I want THAT to be my job. I could cook two meals a day for 28 people with full creative control (especially when they’re not made to order).

I thought hard about trying to be a personal chef before I decided to go to grad school and go all in on linguistics, but I think that could potentially be too fussy and rely too heavily on plating skills that I simply do not care about

And then there’s the woman who’s a baker at an inn, but that’s too early. I could do that if I were a morning person. Or if there were (and hear me out here) an afternoon/evening baked good need.

But this guy making the sorority house pulled pork Mac n cheese or chicken Caesar salads or what he calls BREAK UP CHICKEN (liberally garlic oil’d baked chicken thighs with a slice of provolone on top, over some orzo, with some tomato basil cream sauce on top)?? Hell yeah I could do that. Brunch on weekends, lunch and dinner all week? Sure thing.

What does your resume need to look like to be a cook at a sorority house. What connections do I need

#he does a lot of MEAT dishes and I’m me so I’m like ‘why do you only have three lil broccolinis.’#listen I have an ever-growing vegetarian and vegan and keto and gluten-free repertoire #I feel like I could cook for a sorority in Eugene. why not.#this is almost literally a fever dream at this point though so grain of salt #someone in the comments described him as ‘like the Bob Ross of cooking’ and you know what. sure #wyd when the only thing you want to do when you’re depressed and sick is to cook for other people #people are all ‘I wish I could cook and clean for you!!’ and I’m like I’ll take you up on half of that offer #which actually is exactly what I did the day I was laid off #one of my friends here was like TELL ME WHAT TO DO. do you need to go out for dinner. do you need me to go to your house and make you dinner #and I was like you know what. I need you to come over so I can make you dinner #and you have no idea how goddamn healing that was #my love language is the love language of every grandma known to man:#‘did you eat. how about some food. do you need some soup??’#and then they did the dishes for me at the end #and we ate the desserts that ANOTHER friend door dashed me because she lives in Ohio and couldn’t actually pick up desserts 🥺#and had some tea and admired what a dumbass the cat was being #it was REALLY NICE #I’ve also cooked and baked more than ever lately #I have that whole ass London fog cake in the fridge #I just. want to have delicious food #(I say as I contemplate finally getting up and making some plain goddamn noodles because it’s midnight and I finally might be hungry)

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birthmarkbuckley · 16 days ago

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So my pet project rn is my 911 hunger games au and it’s very fun to write and plan but unfortunately the sheer scope of possibilities is so wide that I keep doubling back on most of my decisions (except for the casting of Katniss/Peeta/Haymitch). Once I realised I could change the quarter quell twist into whatever I wanted I got a little tooo excited

#911 abc #Hannah’s work #madney is everlark btw but not exactly… I’ve added some twists and turns lol #also buck as prim is perhaps the most inspired take I’ve ever had even though I do think it’s incredibly basic #I’m so tempted to write a prequel/alternate version tho because I want Eddie to be a victor but I’m so set on madney being everlark…#im not sure yet how I’m going to work this out but trust it will be done #it’s very fun to mix 911 canon events with games arenas btw. I’m having such a blast #911 #madney #buddie #madney fanfic #911 fic

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ahalliance · 4 months ago

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how do i turn qantoine’s spontaneous marriage proposal to qetoiles into evidence of his early-days fear of qfrench drifing away and keeping secrets from one another

#the conversation takes place in antoine’s vod: L’ANNIVERSAIRE DE TALLULAH at 41 mins ish #like . okay . its such a fucking crazy moment to me that still lives in my head bc it’s a a joke . but it’s also not #he asks etoiles directly after spiderbit wedding . ‘don’t you want to get married?’#after it gets mentioned*#etoiles turns him down bc he ‘doesn’t have time to fuck [he] needs to kill everyone’#and antoine says ‘well but— just a marriage’ like it’s the act itself that is the most important to him not anything that could come with it #the confirmation of partnership . of having someone to rely on . something that feels to him maybe more certain and solid than the #friendships antoine had at that point . like if he felt things were slipping and he was being left behind he wanted the certainty of #something like a marriage that is traditionally considered More important and certain .#and i think the end of their conversation is notable in how antoine brings up the notion of betrayal — he getting betrayed by others and how #he’s fed up with it . after etoiles says no to the marriage (though specifying that he’s gonna think about it) antoine brings the whole #betrayal thing up after a pause . he doesn’t necessarily consider etoiles as having betrayed him but it’s that lack of certainty #certainty that etoiles has refused to give him that makes him start to open up about how he’s tired of people promising him things (or #seeming to promise him things) only to leave him out and in the dark . and there’s an insecurity there that really shines if you take this #moment into consideration with the Larger Shifting his character is going through .#like tldr ; qantoine has begun to realise that his friends are starting to form deeper bonds with other people and thus keep secrets with #them which to him means leaving him behind . taking notice of this he brings this up to his friends in . not exactly direct ways . he #talks about how he doesn’t like secret keeping but doesn’t seem to push much further and he also tries to remedy the issue #of feeling left behind by doing shit as discussed above ^ however on account of the InHuman i’m not sure he understands what he’s doing very #well . and as we know antoine doesn’t make much progress and ends up retreating into himself and beginning to keep his own secrets . to do #his own shady shit . to work in the shadows and not be honest with any of his friends either . to hold them at arm’s length despite how much #he still cares . the only person he puts his full trust into anymore is pomme . not ayp who he deems too underhanded . not bagz who he sees #as having started the whole ‘secret keeping’ stuff in the first place . and not etoiles who’s actively going down a path with the codes and #resistance that he cannot follow #that was NOT a short tldr . why the fuck am i writing dissertation length tags about MINECRAFT BLOCKS #god whatever who cares i get joy out of this thats what matters #anw if you read this far holy shit ur insane . thank you #i am going to bed now godbless !#jay rambles #qfrench.posting

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heyclickadee · 1 year ago

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So, my family is rewatching Rings of Power, and since I’m the one in the family that read The Silmarillion (like a masochist), I’m the one who keeps getting asked all the questions.

#‘did this happen?’ well broadly speaking yes but Tolkien never fleshed this part of middle-earth’s history out in much detail #but I know exactly where they got the idea for whatever it is most of the time #‘is Galadriel’s husband really dead’ of course not #‘did Sauron ever go by the name Halbrand?’ well not really but also how much time do you have because this is going to take some explaining #‘is that Gandalf?’ almost definitely but they’re doing the blue wizard thing with him by taking him to Rhun #also I think they’re making him the basis for the hobbit’s ’man in the moon’ song so I’m honestly okay with it #‘is the Queen lady’s nightmare significant’ Yes three times over but how am I supposed to say anything about it #without giving away what’s probably a season finale #‘what’s with the mithril?’ Hell if I know I’m as confused as you are about that #actually the Galadriel’s husband one was funny #because of course Celeborn shows up in the movies #but my mom wasn’t sure that was actually her husband #or some random blorbo #or a second husband #which then opened up the whole conversation #to how the elves are painfully monogamous even when their spouse dies #because they way they die is weird and also #they all still have generational and firsthand trauma from the fallout of that one elf guy who did get remarried #rings of power spoilers

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un-pearable · 2 years ago

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ngl it’s very funny to me how fanworks treat the fall as SUPER DUPER SERIOUS and threatening considering all the other shit that happens. from a purely conceptual standpoint “guy falls off boat” would rank wayyyyyy below “guy channels so much Godly Creation Power he esplodes” and “guy thrown into volcano” and “guys are dramatically crushed between the immovable hands of giant mech beast” and “girl tragically poisoned as casualty of the heroes winning” yet its Guy Fell that they went with. hilarious. i mean that completely seriously i love how much the trilogy tried to walk back the silly stuff and give them like, actual human limitations and injuries but only bc the juxtaposition is comedy gold. fall damage was possible but only then. in the pilots they got flung fifty feet into stone walls by their dragons and walked away fine

#text✨#ninjago #and like it’s not even the oni gas that fanart n fic makes a huge deal of???#sure some of it is and that makes sense but the amount of stuff i see going “oh i’m gonna take it seriously cole must be SO fucked up”#i get why and glad you’re having fun but it’s like.#okay it’s exactly like idw suddenly deciding sonic can sprain his ankle suddenly.#guy walks away from explosion unscathed and breaks his leg stepping off a curb #old post i excavated from the drafts but i STAND BY IT it’s so so so funny bc of the comparison #fall damage existed only in the oni trilogy just like how real guns only existed in skybound

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hsslilly-blog · 15 days ago

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first half of 2016 is interesting for claire. she’s having to retake classes and visit admin every other day because she thought dating her professor was a good idea. it was not. he’s out of a job and it doesn’t look like she’s graduating in may! she thinks it’s stupid because it’s not like she was using the relationship for grades. rolling eyes emoji. and then addison is not on speaking terms with her because #fuckclaire and her stupid selfish hypocritical self. and then they’re cast in a movie together and they have to act as if they’re best friends. did i mention the cult? claire is having a bad time and you know what happens when she’s having a bad time. a weird man is always there to prey on her and this time he calls himself her benefactor, and claire loves a title. maybe things will get better now #TRUST. oh also addison’s mother dies and sebastian is here too.

#i want claire and sebastian to get into the cult in a similar way. so when they finally talk again and claire tells him what’s going on he #realised this entire thing is Actually a cult and they’re preying on people who aren’t in a good place in life #<- if you think about it it actually takes a very long time for claire to get into the silver circle. like. right.#i know pixelberry went for the Evil Guys Control The Industry angle but um… this makes me a bit uncomfortable. haha! let’s think of #something else while still being critical of the hollywood industry and what it can do to vulnerable people #also i’m pretty sure they were inspired by scientology. still sad there wasn’t a tom cruise stand in #anyway. sebastian realising claire is in a very similar position to the one he was when the silver circle approached him years ago is what #motivates him To Do Something. because it’s like wow this whole thing is bullshit.#i think i’m maintaining the idea of claire being lured into the silver circle by the promise of Getting Funds For A Movie. hollys movie #like in canon. but maybe i’m changing how exactly that works. because in game this is the point where pixelberry starts to distance #mc from acting/fashion/directing and more to the role of Producer because it was easier to write around/code. lmao. and i hate it #so im going to think about claire and holly first before deciding how this happens. but i want it to be like. Light in the Darkness #i like the idea of the benefactor not ever getting in contact with claire throughout all of her years in hollywood university #she receives that first letter when she gets in and her tuition is paid regularly but no word from him #until this point. which i think would factor into her decision of joining the silver circle and stuff #okay that’s enough rambling #oc: claire swanson #oc: sebastian ballion #also. worth mentioning. i think hunt gets pretty depressed about losing his job lmaoo and claire is like damn what do i do #i don’t think he blames her because it’s was really his own choice. but humans are more complex than that in the end he did lose a #significant part of his life which he has put um. many years into. and claire feels guilty about it

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dirtbra1n · 2 years ago

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it’s always when I have things to be doing that this happens but it’s like. I don’t know I’ve gone so far into weird love territory and I’ve been here so long that when I go back and really look at canon it’s like it’s new to me. because like do you ever think about how hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club. like it wasn’t a recommendation or anything that decision was made. and absolutely if tashiro genuinely GENUINELY didn’t want to do it nothing bad would have really happened, someone else could have done it, sure. you know? but at the end of the day tashiro, in the midst of his running away, had that thought, like. not in a thought bubble but in a b Hold on

in the narration box. like it’s not a fleeting in-the-moment thought like the whole poor shmuck thing. I’m not explaining this well. it’s just you get the impression that tashiro thinks about things a lot and also tangentially kind of thinks about his hanzawa senpai a lot and that realization of burden is so significant to tashiro that he takes on the position of captain

and he doesn’t look him in the face when he does it, and I love it. I love when things are indirect and subtle and sort of reluctant because it’s human and speaks to sincerity and tashiro’s grounded…ness that he isn’t unflinchingly happy to do it. he still doesn’t really want to do it. but he will. and he’ll do it WELL. because and this so matters hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club because he knows tashiro and has been watching tashiro as a fun kouhai who he likes a lot and who makes him laugh like literally no one else in the world, and he knows that he would be a good president because he is, amongst other relevant things, a good person. the right kind of good person! he wouldn’t have forced tashiro to do it because frankly he couldn’t REALLY force tashiro to do it, tashiro has a way of getting around things (pudding head….) but he decided tashiro would be captain, because he knows tashiro, and tashiro decided to take that on, because he sees hanzawa. he decided that tashiro would be captain, and tashiro decided to accept that decision because hanzawa decided correctly.

and tashiro cares, and encourages his senpai to rest, and we get the FUCKING.

that just speaks VOLUMES. hanzawa masato who notoriously stays busy for at least one of two known reasons that sound a little contradictory but aren’t actually is resting right now. hanzawa masato who is so weird and so unknowable to his juniors is wearing a small smile that, unlike so many of his other ones (ominous as they are, usually), shows for only contentment. he’s resting right now. like the tashiro gonzaburou hanzawa masato dynamic IS so weird I’m not delusional for that. but my favorite thing that I think I do a really bad job of showing is that their exchanges go back and forth and are so much fun for the both of them, and it’s exactly like PING PONG. well matched and silly and hanzawa masato knows tashiro gonzaburou and if tashiro gonzaburou doesn’t know hanzawa masato he sure as hell sees him, and wants to know him, just a little at least, and it’s all so much. I’m resting right now. fuck. anyway

#bangs fist on the floor. is on the floor.#hanzawa to tashiro #hanzashiro #and really the fact that tashiro is hiding around the corner to hear the milk tea exchange with miyano. and then brings him some #ASSUMING HE DIDN’T ALREADY KNOW. it’s just like. i wish i was more comfortable writing tashiro he’s so much to me #silly little guy for sure. but intentionally taking on a burden for someone else when it’s explicitly something he doesn’t want to do #(or maybe just something he felt he wasn’t qualified to do. depends. probably both)#and doing well at it. the person hanzawa masato is trusting in the most.#just. someone who doesn’t want to be responsible but will be and someone who old people LOVE and someone who accepts things without judgment #and someone who will hide in a box on the floor to hide from his senpai and just as well walk right up to him and hide his face #and accept the trust masato was putting in him.#like this of all things isn’t really a burden to masato because he’s. he’s RESTING right now. of all the pies he has fingers in #this might actually be his favorite. for a number of reasons that are mostly speculative #but it’s SYMBOLIC of a burden. am i making any sense at all. i might not be #masato is giving this one away because it’s not really a burden to him exactly. but tashiro is taking it because he feels it’s a burden but.#how do i say this. it’s not a burden to masato but it IS a weight on his shoulders whether he realizes it or not #and tashiro takes it from him—not unreluctantly—because he cares. because he wants masato to rest.#i think talking this long is manifesting a tin cap on my head. i should go #dirtbrain digression #tldr it IS weird love. but just not AS weird or the KIND of weird that i’d have it be. haaaah i’m sick

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beanmaster-pika · 2 years ago

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A sizeable chunk of the fanbase (especially those who read the webtoon) seeing Collei in 3.0: aw thank goodness she’s doing well and even has two dads who are in love :)

Hoyoverse half a year later, writing Cyno and Tighnari into an event that in-game half of Mondstadt considers a lovers’ festival: shit shit shit shit shit we have to no-homo this