#also I will include all sorts of kids

[puppppppppy]

fake ep idea + doodles

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[aston-axo]

Niki Lauda convincing everyone he was anything but as insane as the rest of them was the biggest con he ever pulled. I'm enamoured with the workings of his mind.

Something in me broke when I got near the end, and he was like "No, I WILL take time out of my book to complain about people stealing my clothes, the house never having yoghurt, and this one guy trying to sell me a meadow above market price, but I ain't having it."

Also,

>barges into rival's room >today i vin ze championship >refuses the elaborate >leaves

[dsntwrk]

help me i've gotten so deep into the steddie rabbit hole i haven't gotten this stuck on something since destiel

this really isn't good for my health

THESE ARE THE FICS THAT I SUBSCRIBED TO / LIKED READING (I'VE BASICALLY READ 1/5 WORTH OF STEDDIE FICS COMPARED TO DESTIEL FICS - I GOT INTO DESTIEL 4 YRS AGO, I ONLY STARTED READING STEDDIE FICS SOME TIME LAST MONTH WTF)

tbf, i have taken breaks from destiel to read other fandoms/fics so, ig the timing works out? if you think about it?

[guinevereslancelot]

fifth graders will look you right in the eye and say shit like "crap isn't a swear word" and "well our teacher lets us say it" and "no, mr. [name] says crap all the time and he lets us say it"

[variousqueerthings]

I think it's also interesting to see how things change depending on the time in which they're being engaged with. so I see things about rose today that point out that she's written to be 19 when she meets the doctor and that's a big age difference (which... I understand the point is it's a big age difference because billie piper was 23 and eccleston was 40, and then dtennant was like 34/35 when he started which isn't so big of a shift but anyway the optics I get what people are getting at, but also I think it does oversimplify a lot of what's actually going on in the written dynamic, anyway-)

and also that the rtd run's Themes start coming together properly around s3 (although they are present from day one), and in some ways at this point, because nu!who has been running for... fuckn. actually quite a few years, which is wild to me as someone who started watching as a kid, and I wonder if classic!who fans felt the same way about their show and anyway -- she shifts from being Literally The First Companion You'd Seen For 17 Years (not counting the movie and fan things and the sketch) Who Was Defining A New Era For A New Generation to... a companion

comparable to other companions, comparable to the rest of the show

we sift through the writing to see what worked and what didn't (in our opinion), and we know how the ten-and-rose storyline Really ends, and how the ten storyline ends (sort, of because now that doctor and donna are Back), and we know what happens afterwards, and we talk about tenrose with a 2020s eye, and rose is "just" one of the people that travels with the doctor, one of several, and notably the one who gets most of the sunshiney doctor that buries a lot of the (wonderfully portrayed) angst of the latter half of the rtd show, and doesn't have as much lore as everything after that, so the story is "just" more simple overall

and to me she's kind of incapable of being just that. doctor who was still a risk that first season, it wasn't a done deal that it would have legs at all, never mind that it would continue for as long as it has. rose was created to be the Face of what nu!who was, moreso than nine/eccleston, because even with the extra angst and the eccleston gravitas, we know the doctor, the doctor is established, it's not actually the doctor that needs to sell what the new show is going to become and what the Feel of that new show is going to be (I mean, partly ofc, but-)

rose was doing so much heavy lifting and she succeeded! she was the face of who before dtennant or any other doctor or companion of his era and subsequent eras. she was created to appeal to a demographic of girls who wanted someone relatable in science fiction, because rtd wanted this to be for the girls, and billie piper came into it off the back of being a popstar and it changed her entire trajectory (for the better I think/hope -- there's a lot of bad shit in billie piper's past and I'm always sending her a fond thought)

nine/ten-and-rose were It! not calling it romantic or platonic or any secret third thing (haunting the narrative), but simply It! that's why it has so much staying power as a ship (which, my opinion on shipping has been somewhat *eh shrug* in later years, but in early-days when that was how you engaged with dynamics that got to you, of course it was going to be massive). it's so hard to properly describe how "for the time in which it was made" that this dynamic was written for, and how successful it was. it was rose that breathed doctor who -- and the doctor's character -- to life, as much as herself

she sets the stage for everything that comes next, both within and without the show proper

and I'm always so pleased that rtd at the time was thinking about what was needed to create this character and he opened with a shot from a girl on the estate with messy hair, clumpy eyeliner, and a minimum wage job, and went "that's the girl who's going to go on the adventure of a lifetime, that's the girl we're seeing the story through and relating to, because that's what girls (and uh... those who were girls at the time - and their parents and the boys) should be seeing."

I know rose isn't the first working class companion including classic!who, but she set the tone for nu!who and her family and background are important to why she is who she is, and is explored

"I've got no A-levels, no job, no future-" said the girl about to see the universe

she was very much for teenagers, and so she reads differently when you're an adult watching it back (much like those "teenager saves the world," novels you loved as a kid), but that's why she's 19 at the beginning. that's why she's billie piper (who does a perfect job). she was there to bring a new generation into this story, and it was perfect. and then she grows up. and we grew up. and she had adventures and it was brilliant and she survived and she made a life for herself. that's her story

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[itspileofgoodthings]

also it’s interesting because. my family is deeply unsentimental (in a very powerful way) and society is divided into the pretty heartless or the pretty sentimental (generally speaking) and I’m sort of this walking heart wound of emotion trying to straddle these lines (and having a hard time of it!) but one of the things that does guard me from being more sentimental than I am is the secret cruelty and unfairness that lurks at the bottom of all sentimentality.

[arolesbianism]

A mini Meiro ref

[aroacesigma]

i need to put the doa trio in a punk band au so fucking bad you guys dont understand .

[sonknuxadow]

Honestly the thing I'm most worried about uf they make Eggman fat in Sonic 3 is I'm 95 percent sure they're going to come up with a BS excuse.

Like yes Eggman was planned to slowly turn more game Eggman like as the movies progress (Sonic 1 gave him his red outfit in the end, Sonic 2 made him bald, gave him the signature stache and made him a bit crazy, Sonic 3 might be giving him his signature bulk and probably some other things) and it sucks that they'd have to use a fat suit in order to get Jim to look the part but I don't want it them to phone it in as something like it being an effect of absorbing the Master Emerald and I'll be real disappointed if its something like 'oh, he just let himself go'

Maybe Eggman had a scientific reason to bulk up, or maybe he just thought he looked good with some extra weight, or maybe it is a side effect of something but he knew about it before hand and was okay with it. As long as its more of a choice then I think I'd be more okay with it.

we dont really have the full context yet of course but the descriptions of the teaser going around are making it sound like they went with the "he let himself go and gained a lot of weight" explanation. and idk man maybe it just sounds bad out of context but im tired of fatness being portrayed as gross and a negative trait and weight gain being used to signify a character becoming Worse in some way. fat people are just people and the body type someone has doesnt have any morals attached to it. again maybe it just sounds bad out of context and the movie wont make his weight gain into a joke but my hopes arent high because being weird about fat people is not new for sonic media at all

[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

[cultivating-wildflowers]

Your knitting circle sounds like a hoot! What knitting project are you working on?

Getting into this knitting/crochet group has been such a treat and I love it and the ladies I've met. It's such a fun mix of personalities and it's almost never dull.

This week was a bit unusual because I was the first one there and the second person was a newcomer who seemed just as nervous as I'd been my first time. I'm not great at conversation with people I don't know--I learned most of my conversation skills from Shannon Hale and, when lost, revert to my grandmother's habit of reacting to everything with an exaggerated, "Tch. Well, isn't that just [adjective]!" (Often her adjective of choice was "Cute!" This applied to everything from my aggressive dog to my second car, a rusty black crossover SUV.) The third arrival was the college student, who is also shy, so things were exceedingly awkward until Ruth with her German sensibility completed the group.

The rest of the cast are three old ladies who remind me of my aunts in various ways, except at least two of them are Catholic (one sincere and one who seems to approach it grudgingly as a matter of course). There's a foundational member I've never met who apparently winters down south with her brother. She was expected back by the beginning of June and hasn't turned up yet and no one knows what happened to her. Over time the group has seen other folks as well, including a mythical "young man who was really good at knitting" who up and disappeared one day. Unfortunate, that loss.

My current project is a sweater! It's given me a great deal of grief but the end is in sight. (And it's actually crochet, not knitting, because I haven't reconciled with knitting yet.)

Unfortunately my house has really bad lighting and it's cloudy outside have a picture of it on my kitchen floor (yes, that is carpet). The lighting never does the color justice; it's a soft green-blue color:

@parlaypeach Here's the direct link to the free version of the pattern, but it is a doozy. These are my notes on my printed copy (some of it is row counting and I restarted a few times before I was happy with the size):

I chose to decrease the arms as I worked them down to the cuff and then gathered the cuff. Somehow this gave me almost the same stitch count as what I think the pattern called for without that decrease. But I'm not sure, because we get two stitch counts in the entire pattern and they're for the first two rows. So riddle me that.

I'm also adding proper ribbing to the hem and putting in ribbing and button holes along the front edges, whereas the original pattern just has you work a basic narrow row along the edges to give a somewhat finished look.

Oh, and where the stitch type switches partway down I opted for a simple stitch instead of the reverse stitch in the pattern because I prefer how it looks.

Warning: You WILL need to size down. My yarn is listed as worsted but feels lighter (knitting ladies agree), I sized down my hook, and I adjusted my stitch count, and this thing is still big. But oversized is fine. (I also am not at all matching gauge so there's that. My rows tend to be short but my stitches tend to be wide?)

Also, this is the first sweater I crocheted, and the pattern. This first one was more straight-forward and, y'know, written correctly (I have MANY of this artist's patterns bookmarked), but the one I'm working on currently has that nifty way to shape the shoulders and I didn't have to join the arms as separate pieces, so I do like that about it.

[meownotgood]

au where I help aki heal his inner child by forcing him to play all of the games I hyperfixated on in my youth

[heartbeetz]

Don't wanna find the post I saw earlier (lazy) and even if I did I wouldn't reblog it directly bc I'm Shy but um. If you want pictures of f/os with weird fucked up inbetweens / smear frames then:

These are all like different insects to me. In a way.

[orcelito]

Done with hiking. I got knee deep in some streams heheh which is my preferred state of being. Between my water shoes and my short shorts I was Fully prepared for this. I also dipped my head under some waterfalls. And my arms. Really it was only my tank top and shorts that I didn't dunk, and even then they got splashed some. I probably wouldve gone full aquatic if I didn't have my phone with me lol

I'll be posting some pictures after I get better reception. I had a lot of fun!