#all from a single PICTURE

[letterstotheflre]

swifties understand that relationships can end on friendly terms and no one has to cheat or be the bad guy challenge

[umblrspectrum]

do you ever like wanna make something cool but you dont know how so you just sit around like a moron for 5 hours straight pretending you know how

me neither

on a more serious note i know ad astra as a whole isnt over but i still want to thank daybreaker for their fics. what friends are for was the very first md fic i ever stumbled upon when trying out ao3 for the first time, and prior to joining the server i was checking it near daily for uploads. god knows if i'd be as deep in ao3 as i am now if it werent for this story and convenient timing. Thanks for the story.

[starry-bi-sky]

danny and officer martinez's relationship in "late at night, when the nightingale sings" in a nutshell:

Martinez: FREAK! GET YOUR FUCKING KID!

Battinson, on the other side of the crime scene: he don't bite

Martinez, with Nightingale firmly attached his arm, visibly biting him: YES HE DO!

*points at them* Danny is the Bugs Bunny to Martinez's Elmer Fudd.

Another Officer: i can't believe you're fighting with an actual twelve year old. Martinez: i swear to god that is not a twelve year old, that is a little hellion that crawled out of batman's shadow one dark and stormy night and decided to dedicate his existence to tormenting me. Officer: Are you really that mad about him putting a sticky note on your back-- Martinez: thats not the point

in danny's defense: the word "freak" is. a mini beserker button for him for.... obvious ghostly reasons, so like, even if its not directed at him, he still very much unappreciates Martinez's insults at Battinson. Danny may or may not be projecting.

he's not going to hurt the guy! not in any serious or permanently disfiguring way at least! But he is going to leave mean sticky notes on the square part of his spine that he can't reach, and stick salt in his 3AM Late Night Crime Scene Coffee, and kick the bottom of his heel while he's walking so he stumbles. And other petty, infuriating things that tally up and boil over, over time.

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another album art inspired one- all colorpicked aside from benreys eyes

[fromtheseventhhell]

One major factor missing from most debates on Arya and Lyanna's beauty is that they're being judged by their society's extremely patriarchal values. In both looks and personality, that context is essential to understanding how others perceive them. George explores the misogyny experienced by non-conforming women, especially with Arya, and it's interesting how he plays with that regarding their physical beauty.

Her mother used to say she could be pretty if she would just wash and brush her hair and take more care with her dress, the way her sister did. (The Blind Girl, ADWD) "You never knew Lyanna as I did, Robert," Ned told him. "You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee." (Eddard VII, AGOT)

These two quotes offer a nice summation of this idea. With Arya, her supposed lack of beauty is defined by her being a non-conforming wild child. Her hair is messy, her face is dirty, and she's often in "lower class" clothing while engaging in unladylike activities. None of this says anything about her physical beauty but it tells us everything about how she's perceived. Arya could be pretty...If she conforms to society's standards for a highborn Lady. With Lyanna, however, we get the opposite. Where Arya is judged based on her personality, Robert's romanticization of Lyanna is rooted solely in her looks. He doesn't know anything about the person she really was. There is an assumption that, because she looked a certain way, her personality must fit and Robert imagines her much softer and more passive than she actually was.

That Arya isn't pretty or Lyanna wasn't wild are two perceptions that George specifically pushes back against. This is where people miss the brilliance of them being linked as literary mirrors; it is largely about us learning more about Lyanna, but it touches on more than that. The significance of them being written as wild, willful, and with their own beauty is that George isn't writing his female characters around patriarchal expectations. When people debate their beauty, that's often the trapping they fall into. Beauty and non-conformity are treated as mutually exclusive factors when the story itself never makes that point; this is also the logic that leads people to the (incorrect) conclusion that Lyanna and Arya aren't meant to be similar. Arya's self-esteem issues around her looks and being a Lady make this a topic certain to be addressed in the future; George has made it a part of the story. The conclusion shouldn't be that "looks don't matter", but that looks aren't indicative of a character's value, personality, or morality.

[blakbonnet]

Ed learning how to sketch and doing these elaborate ones of Stede and getting frustrated when he can't get the nose right but trying to get it to look as much like Stede as he possibly can, and then eventually graduating to make full body sketches and the walls of the inn are littered with smudgy charcoal prints and sketches of Stede reading naked, Stede cooking naked, Stede fishing naked, and in every single one Stede's dick has a little smiley face drawn on it c:

[what-my-rotting-bones-will-sing]

Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy. Photo taken by me 🖤✨

[flickering-nightfall]

i am going to scream

[thebramblewood]

Gwen's eager to put her name to some hard-hitting journalism, but first she has to navigate a less than inspiring interview subject, a broken computer, a malfunctioning elevator, and the strangest nightlife scene known to man.

Gwen: Lilly-Bo Chique, you're one of Bridgeport's hottest rising stars. Tell me, what should people know about you?

Lilly-Bo: Umm... I don't know. I guess I really love pizza. Let's see. What else? Oh! Did I tell you my favorite food is pizza?

-

Lilly-Bo: Gather round, all! It's scary story time!

Lala: Oh my god, Lilly, your scary stories are always, like, so... scary.

Bar Patron: Oh, hell no! The last time I stuck around for one of these, I couldn't sleep for an entire week.

Hot Female Bouncer: I could've sworn we banned this bitch from the premises! Time for me to kick her weirdo ass out... again.

Elvira: What do you mean, I can't come in? I'm a celebrity, damn it!

Tough Male Bouncer: [unimpressed snort] In your own mind maybe.

Elvira: I'm a fucking vampire! I could rip your goddamn throat out for this!

Tough Male Bouncer: Go ahead and try.

Gwen: What is in the water in this place?

[munkustance]

Guys! GUYS!

It's loving Tantomile hours!!!

[koka-mi]

[perfectly-clear-from-here]

if life was perfect there would be a tranquility base hotel + casino film. send post.

[pardonmydelays]

unpopular opinion but i really miss those days when it was all about the music in taylor swift fandom

[shower-racoon]

imagine if the Terraria bosses were on tumblr. what would they even post

[irradiatedsnakes]

race to block as many dialtown askblogs as physically possible

[cosmogyros]

Literally can't pay my rent until I get paid for September, which hasn't happened yet. Today is Friday, and Monday is the last day of the month. I'm so tired of being poor.