#We don't have time to unpack *all* of that

[galaxythreads]

* family time being with or without your siblings if you have them, or just forced time with your parents. Scheduled out being like Monday you do this together, Tuesday you do this, etc. You have one maybe two free nights a week. If you don't want to participate that's too bad. You don't get to say no without it becoming a thing. Like forced bonding time. Regardless of whether or not it was enjoyable, was it mandated?

Reblog for a bigger sample size if you can, I'm deeply curious

[can-of-pringles]

Me thinking about Viktor again: Blorbo time :)

Also me: Is the reason I've been thinking about Viktor because I feel like my undiagnosed joint pain problems are getting worse and I feel like I can relate to him more?

[iltaimpi]

A New, Very Real and Serious Vessel: The Gun

{ The princess pulls out a gun and immediately pulls the trigger. You die. There isn't any time for everything to go black. You just die. }

[marragurl]

The idea just hit me: Ratio’s students are called his ducklings 

He’s fully aware of it and makes no move to stop it from spreading around campus. 

Being considered one of Ratio’s ducklings is kinda a big deal because those are the students who are willing to put in the effort and work to keep up with Ratio’s teaching style. 

They are both terrified of him and respect him so much that all the other students are in turn terrified of them. And while the ducklings don’t get any special treatment from Ratio, there’s something special and comforting about being part of the group of students who are willing to stick with Dr. Ratio’s coursework. 

This is how I see it happening: 

It started during Ratio’s first few years of teaching. Not his first year because I fully believe his first few classes were really controversial and had a lot of dropouts once his personality and harsh teaching style were made known. 

It took a while but after a few years, there’s finally a class with no drop outs, even if it’s super small. However, this class are also the students who are dedicated and truly want to learn and refuse to quit even with Ratio’s standards. 

(They still complain and cry of course, the student life is all about pain- no this is not me projecting as a uni student, I’m perfectly sane I promise-)

And of course, like any other student who needs to understand wtf is going on in class, his students do everything in their power to create study groups and attend his office hours, which are 100x scarier in the beginning since that’s prime one-on-one time with Dr. Ratio. 

At least in lecture the man is a hundred seats away from you. Here, he’s speaking directly to your face as he explains just how wrong you are and giving advice on how to fix that. 

At first, due to how unused to Ratio is from having a class of students who are truly trying to keep up with him (whether they’re succeeding is up to interpretation), he only spends time with them during lecture and office hours for the first few weeks. 

And then it spirals.

Around campus, you begin to see the esteemed Dr. Ratio being followed by a gaggle of students tripping  over each other, constantly asking question after question and him answering each one. Even as he’s being blunt, he never looks like he’s trying to outrun them, and even stops occasionally to write in one of the student’s notes.  

The ducklings nickname started out as a joke when someone made the connection of his students following him like baby ducks after lectures, and spiraled a bit more when one of the students found one of his rubber ducks in his office.

And so after finals, that first class of students got together for a nice drinking party to celebrate their freedom. A few drinks in of reminiscing about the class and how they’ll actually kinda miss Dr. Ratio, someone made a joke of buying some rubber ducks for the good doctor. Continuing on the high, an entire gaggle of drunk uni students just pull up to a craft store at 3am and start hunting for ducks. Another brilliant student laughs at the idea of personalizing each duck, and the rest of the class find the idea so funny that they buy out an entire aisle of craft supplies and get to work.

The next day, hungover but still committed to the bit, the entire class show up to Ratio’s office and each hand him a personalized rubber duck along with a terrified thank you for the class. 

Ratio would give his usual denying spiel of how “it is unnecessary” and “your education is all the reward a professor could want” but this is his first ever class with no dropouts and who all managed to pass their finals. 

The man is a failure at not caring, he is crying on the inside.

So he keeps the ducks on a shelf in his office. 

Somehow, the duckling nickname just cements itself after that day, and each class afterwards, despite all the pain and grumbling of the students, are always referred to as Ratio’s ducklings because only the truly insane (dedicated) stick it out and follow after him. 

And after each final, his little ducklings always give him their own personalized rubber duck that he continues to add to his shelf that he always had within eyesight of his desk. 

(the first class of ducklings are his personal favorite, though he’ll never claim to have any)

I’m incapable of not adding Aventurine whenever I talk about Ratio nowadays, I just have to accept that I love them both too much now. 

But yea, I like to imagine Aventurine finding out about the ducklings nickname first and teasing Ratio about actually having a heart and caring, which Ratio just denies and tries to justify as him being an attentive professor. But then Aventurine finds the rubber duck shelf and it’s just too sentimental for him to even think about joking. 

Adding to my headcanon of Aventurine being really curious about different subjects, I imagine that when he gets comfortable, he constantly asks Ratio questions about anything and everything. Ratio happily replies and teaches him. 

I like to think that one day, Aventurine would make his own personalized rubber duck to gift to Ratio as a 'thank you' for always indulging him with his questions and that rubber duck just becomes Ratio’s favorite. He gives it a little podium in his house and office and he constantly carries it around with him. He has photos of the damn thing. His first class find out about the duck and needle him about having ‘no favorites’ which he denies. Aventurine finds it both embarrassing and really cute. 

(I’m kinda pulling from my own experience with one of my old professors. She was terrifying but by god did I actually learn during her class. Every one of us would complain for hours about her exams, and boy were the averages terrible, but we were all also deeply committed to attending every office hour and defending her against the other students. It was like ‘She’s a harsh and insane professor, but she’s our harsh and insane professor.’ Everyone knew you were serious if you chose to take her class instead of other professors for the same course, she was that infamous. If I take 5 seconds to psychoanalyze myself without getting depressed, maybe that’s why I really like Ratio - outside of the burnt-out gifted child thing with emotional expression issues that also hit way too close to home. He just really reminds me of one of my own professors that I still really respect to this day) 

[galamerapple]

happy if you tell him to submit he will saturday!

[justanotherhh]

something i enjoy about blitzø as well is that he's not a typical leading man for an action show, nor is he a typical leading man for a queer show. he's capable and got that "extremely bad at communication" thing down you might see in a lot of narratives about straight guys (especially straight guys who shoot guns) but i think is less explored with queer men, and he's also incredibly camp without any shame attached to queerness itself, he crossdresses, he's a punky goth gay, he flirts relentlessly (and often unhealthily) to get what he wants, he's got that kinky switch energy, and he's exuberant, and emotionally closed off, and incredibly rude, and very sad, and very caring, and very action-hero/anti-hero, and all in a narrative that explores these dynamics from an explicitly queer point of view.

i think it's amazing that he's as well-received as he is, considering how much he exists outside of clear categories for what people think a character "should" be, but i've seen him play well for bro-ey types as well as the most faggoty audience members (that's me), and the translation isn't for the queer audience to make, it's for straight audiences to get onboard with a complex queer character and it clearly works!

there's really something to be said about the queer lens for both of the shows, but i do think blitzø has such a specific fascinating pov for what one might call the "badass action guy who's also great at seduction" type character. he's really hitting some extremes for the spectrum of how one typically allows characters to exist

a queer masculinity in a genre show

[vaperarmand]

Okay, so this is literally out of nowhere and I never read the books so idk anything about Night Island but I feel like someone might enjoy this thought - if past devil's minion occurred and Armand put Daniel's name on the paperwork for Night Island and then they're no longer together and Daniel obviously has zero memory whatsoever of quasi owning an island.

Then!! Imagine, in the late 80s or so, one of Daniel's colleagues at some National Paper of Record is like, hey Danny, you know that weirdo tax fraud mall island off Miami I've been looking into? Want to hear something funny? Dug into the paperwork and the guy who owns it is also named Daniel Molloy. And Daniel is like, other Daniel sounds like a shithead! And they laugh about it while looking like News Reporters in Big Important Movies About Journalism, and then some other colleague is like, haha, Danny, you think this guy is why the IRS keeps auditing you? And Daniel is like, immediately like, if he is, I hope you hunt him down and expose him (Daniel is genuinely incensed about being audited multiple times when he lives in a fourth floor walk-up and has to deal with trying to get his kid's stroller on the subway) (Story never ends up going anywhere - maybe vampires' lawyers are really good at making everything seem as boring as possible?)

Anyway, just like, Armand accidentally being the cause of Daniel constantly having to produce volumes of personal information to the IRS to convince them he is not hiding income. Because unbeknownst to himself, Daniel is in fact the owner of a weird island off the coast of Miami that might some kind of scam.

genuinely i'm so SO obsessed with this and i think about this all the time. if interview with the vampire writers room were real ones they would make part of daniel's story arc in season 3 getting canceled on twiter and he only gets canceled harder once someone does some digging and finds out the author of interview with the vampire who claims to be a leftist and a man of the people bought an entire island off the coast of miami when he was less than 30 years old. now everybody thinks he's a nepo baby and they're not wrong they're just not right the way you'd think

[hunxi-after-hours]

oooh. if folks are interested in Chinese dance from traditional to modern, you might be interested in 《舞千年》 Dancing Millennium, which is a 2021 Chinese variety show produced by bilibili + 河南卫视 Henan Satellite TV (YouTube link here, bilibili link here).

there's a flimsy gesture at an unifying plot (collecting twelve dances across Chinese history to be included in an imaginary macguffin), but the show is really about throwing budget at a selection of dances and operatic excerpts with enthusiastic cinematography. my personal favorites are 《越女凌风》 performed by 陈奕宁 Chen Yining of the 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy (sword! dancing! SWORD! DANCING!!) and 《盛世双姝》 performed by 华宵一 Hua Xiaoyi and 王家鑫 Wang Jiaxin (just... trust me on this one. it's less than three minutes long and utterly mesmerizing). there are also a selection of folk dances and excerpts from dance operas, and everyone is, naturally, ludicrously talented

I'll be honest, I skipped most of the plot and just watched a 纯享 playlist of the dances, but the dances themselves are really cool!

[the-unconquered-queen]

Blades is so funny if you never get any of the mage skills. MC finds out they can do magic and they just... pass. No thank you. None of that for me, actually.

ESPECIALLY funny if you play as an orc. Bestie found out they have a skill that makes them rarer than one in TEN THOUSAND and they essentially go:

[dreamfilleddonuts]

Most of the cast is autistic. All the wammys? Autism. Light? Autism. Matsuda? Autism adhd combo. Misa? There is a whole bunch of stuff there and one of them is autism.

Also most of the fans with autistic headcanons? We're autistic ourselves. We SEE bits of ourselves in these characters. We see things we recognize as our own autistic traits. So anon's point is we're... being offensive to ourselves?

Calling Light autistic is genuinely an offense to the entire community. Get out of the fanon zone for a sheer second; he is an all-around horrible person.

Getting out of the fanon zone for a second; so is everybody in the story. Autistic people can be horrible people, not because they're autistic, but because they're people.

L commits human rights violations and he's autistic, not because of the human rights violations (duh) but because he simply is. Those two facts are unrelated.

Also, it's a head canon that you don't have to believe in. He's just a character I find comfort in.

I don't mean for this response to be hostile so I apologize if it came across that way.

[stedesparasol]

next ppl are gonna have beef with the cherry wood mast for emotionally abusing izzy by humiliating him in front of everyone

[doctorjennifermelfi]

top 5 funniest goldfinch moments

boris trying to rachel dolezal his way into being jewish by getting a tattoo

boris and gyuri giving theo a mini makeover before they go out to retrieve the painting and of course the deeply iconic "this is a turnbull and asser!"

theo's suicide attempt being foiled by the nutcracker suite because he can't possibly die to something so cheerful and annoying

boris making up a frankenstein of bible stories to try to draw an allegory ("i think that's not all the same story")

theo paying thousands of dollars over the years and being stressed to the point of stomach ulcers for the pristine safekeeping of a civics textbook from 2003

[orange-orchard-system]

Honestly my relationship with being mildly overt in my plurality and DID as a closeted system is like. I didn't build this closet that I'm now in. People constructed it around me despite clear zoning laws that nothing of the sort was meant to be built here, and now it feels like more trouble than it's worth to tear it down and inform the builders that it was never up to code in the first place. There's enough rotting wood here to make mold scream with joy and I'm honestly surprised it's managed to stay standing for so long. But I guess I can't complain, since even rotting wood and broken planks offer some form of privacy.

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

[editing-tips69]

just had a flashback to the time in 7th grade when i was deciding which of my beanie boos were most like dan and phil (raccoon and lion respectively ofc), and i meant to send a picture and message to my phannie friend group but i instead sent it to my other friend group who (due to me never shutting up about them) hated dnp and they mocked me relentlessly for like a week :)))))))))

[mwebber]

MONACO, 2010 ↳ for @skitskatdacat63