#THE RAIN? THE POOL?

[moodymuu]

More background practice. Love liminal Pools. Also thought it would fit Moon’s vibe. Idk why

I’m not very proud of it but that’s why it’s a practice

[juniper-clan]

Moon 14: Birth of Venus

(AKA the twins!)

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[localceilingdevil]

pools of gold (pog...)

oh to be an iterator crammed into a small box after nearly killing an ancient ... only to transfer its conscience into a slugcat and run wild like a rabid animal ....

[tenspontaneite]

At least three scavs hanging from a single pole moment

[daddy-long-legssss]

Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2013 and 2018

"Someone told me a thing about LA that’s really stuck with me: ‘You sit by your swimming pool and fall asleep with your Pina Colada and then you wake up and you’re 50 years old!’ We’ll have to wait and see but I don’t think that’s going to happen to me." – Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2013 [x]

"This is where my machines and my piano are. That's what keeps me there for now. I had not considered staying there for so long. But I guess I fell asleep next to the pool, a cocktail in my hand, and I woke up five years later (laughs) ... At first I came to California because I needed to change my life, reinventing myself, I felt that I disappeared ... I got used to the comfort, to the habits, it was necessary to change the setting." – Alex Turner on living in Los Angeles in 2018 [x]

[strangledplanet]

[shawsimmer]

Hiiii ! Hope you're doing well :) I love love love your Raines' gameplay ! I was wondering if you could show us their house ? It looks so cozy and colorful ! Thank u

hiii! ty & i hope you are as well :) and sure! here are the most recent photos of their home, except i haven't redone venus' room yet now that she's a (pre)teen. it was sooo hard to find a house with enough rooms and space for them.

it's always gonna be a wip bc it's always changing. i really need to give eva, judah, and kato a better bedroom. it's so bland compared to everything else. also if you see windows missing nO YOU DONT.

i play with aging on ( though i'm quick to turn it off when things feel rushed ), but i don't think my age settings are very consistent lol. i'm so bad about moving tf on. i like really long and drawn out gameplay. i feel like it gives me time to really develop every sim and get to learn their personalities, likes/dislikes, etc. i mean, i've been playing w my current sims for years and i haven't made it past gen 2 in either of my saves. i used to get really bored with my sims and gameplay in general (school, job, marriage, baby, repeat) because i wasn't that attached to any of them. i never got to know them or have them accomplish anything because sim days are so fast. playing w long lifespans allows me to get everything i want done in each life stage and it's honestly made me love my sims that much more. fun fact: i created eva and her save for the sole purpose of wanting to try out short lifespan gameplay ( for quick casual gp + less screenshots so i could just enjoy the game w/o the pressure of posting) and i told myself that i'd stick to it....and well, we see how that went. also i do like seeing my sims age, even if it's bittersweet, though i'm not looking forward to any of my sims dying. i've never had a sim that i actually care about die :(

settings: newborn 7 days, infant 14 days, toddler 16 days, child 28 days, teen 28 days, young adult 40 days, adult 60 days, elder 60 days.

also each season lasts 2 weeks in my game. i wish it were longer, but i absolutely despise winter in game.

[lil-dragon-rawr]

TOH x DC: Eda Becomes a Chem Teacher

Masterlist

TW: Eda eats a mouse

So, Eda has a great character arc where she recognizes a problem in society (school) and makes it better when she becomes an adult (by opening her own super cool school). But she needs a job while she and her various kids are hanging out in Gotham because the landlord doesn't accept snails. And since Gotham is famous for people disappearing and/or going rogue, there's usually jobs to be found in many schools but particularly in the chemistry department since chemicals - and the know-how of how to mix them - is a hot commodity among rogues.

Anyways, Eda gets a human teaching certificate and becomes a chem teacher. The problem? She makes potions, not reactions and solutions. The other, much larger problem? She is learning human chem - which should be a good thing, right? - but you forget that this is Eda we're talking about. AKA Wild Witch No. 1 for decades, queen of mixing magic and blowing stuff up.

Eda, during her first class: hello everyone, I'll be your teacher this year, my name is Eda, please don't call me Ms. Clawthorne cause it makes me feel old

One particularly bold student who Does Not Care Because This Is Gotham: yeah but aren't you?

Eda, slightly miffed but proud that someone's standing up to a teacher/authority figure: oh perfect, a volunteer

Duke, who knows Eda as Signal: *starts freaking out because what does she mean by volunteer*

Eda: there are no wrong answers in this class and experimentation is encouraged, just run your plan by me so you don't lose any limbs

Eda, staring ominously into the distance: Titan knows I've lost enough of those already

Class: *is silent because when the lady with a hook for an arm tells you to talk to her before you start experimenting, you listen*

Eda, ignoring the panicked faces of students who have watched waaaay too many people go rogue: so today you'll all be learning how to make sleeping poti-um, solutions

(Cue confused whispering)

Eda: so the main ingredient you'll need is sleeping nettle, but I've found that concentrated valerian root works as a good substitute-

Student, raising their hand: what's sleeping nettle?

Eda, waving her hook vaguely: don't worry about it, it's not native. We will need a few chunks of water though as that will eventually vaporize and help the solution disperse as a gas - can anyone tell me what we might use to trigger a vaporization reaction?

Duke is pleasantly surprised to discover that despite Eda's...chaotic tendencies, she's actually a good teacher. The demonstration ends with her instructing the "volunteer" to wake her with a different brew sitting on her desk when she takes a whiff of the freshly-brewed sleeping solution. And sure enough, it only takes one whiff before she's slumped over her desk, snoring comedically loudly. The antidote, which she promised to teach next class before having the students brew their own sleeping solutions, works perfectly. The main problems are a) Eda doesn't use measurements and b) she's either on her way to becoming a rogue or is content to help others become rogues.

She gets a visit from Batman that night.

Batman, perched on the balcony of Eda's apartment:

Eda, trying to have a nice evening in with King and Luz: do you have a warrant?

Batman: no.

Eda: good, cause I wouldn't let you in even if you did. Anyways, what can I say to make you go away faster?

Batman: ...you started teaching.

Eda: astute observation from the master detective. You see that, kids?

King and Luz: *snickering*

Batman, used to the Batkids being similarly blasphemous: do you really think it's a good idea to teach people how to make potions? Especially in Gotham where the turnover rates are correlated to how many new villains there are?

Luz, very passionate: people only turn into villains if you treat them like villains!

Batman:

Luz: (•`-'•)

Batman, wondering when someone barely in their 20s got wiser than him (it was when he adopted a kid on impulse):

Eda, sticking to her (thankfully metaphorical) guns: look, people are going to do good things or bad things regardless of what they know or don't know how to do. The least I can do is help them learn to defend themselves! Besides, why should knowledge be restricted to the upper class? Everyone knows that if you're rich or famous enough there's only so many roadblocks that will actually be...y'know. Roadblocks. I'm just evening the playing field!

Eda continues teaching.

She teaches how to accelerate healing, how to ease chronic conditions, how to make darkness appear at one's fingertips. She shows students how to condense water molecules in the air and turn them into ice shards or even whole blocks of ice. She invites questions and discussions and new ideas. She gives bonus points for improving or modifying recipes.

Her class quickly becomes the school favorite. It's a mix between "easy A" and "learn how to make things go boom". Exam days are literally just "brew something new". It can be a variation on a recipe from class or a completely new one. The only requirement is that students tell Eda what they're doing before they do it. At the end of the exam, everyone grabs their concoctions and goes outside for a mock battle. (Technically, this part is optional and Eda retains the right to ban any student's creation if she thinks it's unsafe, but she supplies plenty of her own "relatively harmless" potions they can use.)

Things spiral when one student walks into her room during lunch (in their defense they just wanted to ask a question) and sees her talking to the weird new freshman, King, while her non-hook arm stirs a pot...on a counter six feet away from her.

Cue freak-outs, debates, and many, many more theories. Bets are placed among the student population (minus King - the entire school worked together to make sure neither he nor his "buddy" Damian Wayne found out about the betting pool). Most popular bets include Eda has several hyper-realistic prosthetic limbs aside from the hook, Eda is just a straight up witch, and King is weird because his mom is Eda who is a witch.

The betting pool gets even more chaotic when they're working on brewing blabber serums and Eda warns the class that a blabber serum is just a few degrees shy of a horrifying monster serum. Nobody really knows what to do with that information, but a student who tries to make said horrifying monster serum during the next exam doesn't get to drink it during the mock battle because Eda snatches it out of their hands when they try to walk outside. She brings the vial to the front of the classroom and explains what the student did, the expected effectiveness of it, and the fastest way to reverse the effects, which turns out just involves exposing the subject to copious amounts of ice.

Betting pool expands to include "Eda lost her arm to a horrifying monster that she created" and "Eda was force-fed an overcooked blabber serum and turned into a horrifying monster".

Then Eda caught and ate a mouse that had gotten loose in the cafeteria, and the betting pool immediately split between "Eda is a witch and does weird witchy things as a result" and "Eda turned into a horrifying monster and still has some of the horrifying monster urges"...which are both technically true.

The students collectively agree that whether or not Eda's a witch or a monster or just a really weird lady from Connecticut, she's the most fun - and most relevant (this is Gotham) - chem teacher they've ever had. No one tells their parents about the mock battles. If the school does an inspection of the class, everyone is on their best behavior and talks loudly about how much they love the class. Someone sees the mock battle on exam day? Don't worry, it's definitely just a water balloon fight with special effects.

The school board doesn't know what to do. She's borderline unhinged, and the reactions she's teaching definitely shouldn't be possible. Is the school going to get targeted for her skills? Should they get rid of her before she inevitably goes rogue? But they can't fire her because where are they going to get a replacement?

Turns out, this is the safest the school has ever been. Not only did Luz and King befriend Wallace Cobblepot*, aka the Penguin's kid, Eda also befriended Wallace because he's in her chem class. The other Imps really like Eda, too, so their parents are in on it as well (minus Mad Hatter, who is currently in Arkham's hospital wing recovering from burns). Any rogue that so much as sniffs near the chem lab gets a house call from the Penguin, if not the Riddler and Scarecrow, too.

*See Part Four

But rogues aren't the only ones protecting the school anymore. Most students who have taken Eda's class carry around sleeping solutions, flash freeze potions (referred to as Mr. Freeze Could Never if another teacher is nearby), instant darkness brews (lovingly called Batman-in-a-Bottle), mini-bombs, and various healing potions. Also, with all the mock battles they do, their aim is getting really good.

Overall, the school board and students think they have a handle on things, albeit in vastly different ways...until someone else from Connecticut applies for the band and orchestra teacher positions, which have been open since the beginning of the year.

[not-your-rain]

album cover redraw

[luthoniel]

.🌿🌱

[localceilingdevil]

boy why you so ○ ○

[solarflareanon]

I was feeling... very silly this artfight.

Pretty sure my thoughts started with "Maybe I'll do a water theme this year" and ended with "I'm putting everyone in the pool." Despite or because of the silliness, I really like how these came out! I only regret not having more time to put characters in pools.

Turns out a lot of the owners of these lovely characters aren't on tumblr, but here's some links to the best of my ability:

Woim belongs to @jue-jack

Stella belongs to Troopercat

Soleil and Mango Tango belong to LunaCantSpell

Altan Leif belongs to Gh0stVill304

The Belmar belongs to Charrific1998

and Jackle belongs to Mr_Omlette

[barnyardjestercosplay]

𝚃𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗, 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎. 𝙼𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎.

Naruto: @chewybreadcosplay Sasuke: @barnyardjestercosplay Photo: sixofswordsphoto Sasuke wig: posewigs

[rhydianbites]

one of the many joys in life is taking a shower and shaking off before i get my towel

[strangledplanet]

[fluffyfangirl]

Elmax Week Day 1 - (Rainy) Summer Days (or what if S3 went without the UD and the MF and they just had the must fun time instead)