#amateur attempt

[gillyp]

WEEKLY TAG WEDNESDAY

tagged by @suzy-queued thanks sorry for my amateur attempt

Name: Gill

Age: half century plus a decade minus one

Location: Cheadle, Stockport, U.K.

And now...

Latest music discovery: Oh wow, I don’t know

Latest movie: hmm, no tv and not watched a movie in years

Last TV show you finished: SHAMELESS US, nothing has made me want to watch it since then.

Most recently started book.: only real book I’ve read in seems like forever is Saving Grace by Rachel O’Rourke

Most recent trip out of town: Went to wales with friends

Most recent trip out of the country: Not been out of the country since I was 16 😬

Most recent gift you made yourself: bought myself a new silver chain

Most recent gift you made to someone else: bought some slippers for my sister who has broke her foot for the second time walking in sliders 🙄

Most recent text message you received: My friend letting me know she had a driving lesson in the morning and she’d see me later in work.

Most recent text message you sent: A text to my friend letting her know I have an interview in the morning and I’d see he later.

Last fic you read: Just opened the next chapter of Battlefield Chicago by My_Brain_Melted

Last drink you had: tea, strong, milky with one sugar

Last thing you ate: Digestive biscuits

Latest piece of clothing you bought: A couple of tops for work

Latest piece of advice you received: You can do this

Latest piece of advice you gave:

Just try it , we can always do it again

Latest thing you promised yourself: To stop undermining myself and have a little more faith

Not tagged anyone … anyone can give it a go 😊

[solarfire-art]

I always had this vision of Achilles in the style of Alexandre Cabanel’s The Fallen Angel, holding Patroclus’ body in grief and rage. So I sketched it because it is way above my skill level atm but I had to get it out of my head 😅

[jacazull]

The Rottmnt Caseys and the very little canon content we have of them only draws me more and more to them as characters, and I am so into everyone’s takes about Junior adjusting in the past. When I was watching the last couple of episodes of the Owl House a few months ago, this scene made me think of Casey and Junior having a little heart to heart after a late-night patrol.

[cakeyouareoh]

FRINGE 5.12 - "Liberty"

[artificial-absinthe]

Given that it evidently will take much more time than I had, naively (or arrogantly) expected, here's one of the fragments I'm working in for a little animation video.

This was made weeks ago when I tried to finish the video for the megasound week.🪦

[firestorm09890]

hey that's. hey. that's. not at all the same line

Ienzo-

[amphibianaday]

May I have a temnospondyl?

day 1358

i found this really neat blog about temnospondyls while looking for reference images! bryangee.weebly.com/blog/the-world-of-temnospondyls

[leavethepuddle]

I have not even attempted to write fic since middle school and now twenty years later myatb has compelled me to write 1000 words of porn. who am i. who is this show turning me into.

[tevanbegins]

Flying Lessons, Hot Rewards - tevanbegins - 9-1-1 (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Summary:

A few weeks into dating each other, Buck reminds Tommy about wanting to take those flying lessons from him. Tommy isn’t sure how serious Buck is, but Buck is persistent that he wants to learn. Things get hot and heavy as Tommy teases Buck and Buck tries to convince Tommy just how dedicated he is. Tommy’s fees might be competitive, but Buck knows how to drive a hard bargain!

Notes:

A flirty, smutty, and fun Tevan fic ;)

[eldhuug]

How did the cowboy become so lonely? Why was he stripped from his companions on the trail like the calf's painful separation from their mother? The late watch and silent hours of two companions around a fire keeping their herd safe and each other sane, what tender dreaming could have been done in those early hours when the night sky enveloped even the earth. All this they did as their own herd, in pairs, together, lassoing down their sun every morning to move ahead another day, together, singing not the lonesome blues without the harmony of men who shared similar souls

[v7n5]

I think the moment I wised up as an artist was when I finally accepted and started to appreciate the fact that traditional art will NEVER be/look like digital art.

[tacit-semantics]

Love it when you’re learning a new fiber art and it’s got obvious technical similarities to another fiber art like yessss we’re the birds and the beaks out here

[edge-oftheworld]

every time I get out the instruments to try play/sing easy for you to say I’m like. they literally had no reason to put so many octaves in there

[firestorm09890]

okay here's something that's been plaguing my thoughts since I made the "did Ienzo help with the gummiphone" poll

I'm sure Ienzo could have made some educated guesses about the involvement of the replicas in the Keyblade Graveyard but how the hell did he manage to guess one might be left empty there? Why wasn't it Vexen who tipped Demyx off about something like this? And the way Demyx says this makes it sound less like Ienzo just went "well I'm not really sure because I never saw the original replicas perish but maybe there could be one available on the battlefield" and more like Demyx is coyly referring to a credible source and was waiting for an event he knew would happen. which is. peculiar.

so peculiar, in fact, that I felt the need to go check the Japanese version (because you know how the localization gets sometimes) but uh. I don’t know colloquialisms in that language (and Demyx is very colloquial) so it wasn’t that helpful when it came to parsing the tone. The meaning is roughly the same- “they need another replica, Ienzo told me I might be able to find one here, so I’m waiting”- HOWEVER, there’s an indication that Ienzo is merely the named representative of a larger group, which I do know is a thing that happens that often gets translated into English oddly.

that actually solves a few things questioned above. how did they know something would happen to one of the organization members that would leave a replica available? well that one’s still a mystery. probably not a relevant one. the when and where’s of it? from Vexen. why didn’t Demyx mention Vexen then? because Riku knows Ienzo better and Demyx likes Ienzo better and the writers wanted to get in another “Zex- er, Ienzo” in. simple as that. though Ienzo being considered the “leader” of the RG crew even after Ansem TW came back is a great sign for Ienzo fans and Ansem haters alike

hope you enjoyed this net zero information post 👍

[triflesandparsnips]

Um. Izzy WAS rude first in that scene, though. The first thing he says isn't "still it's a nice room", it's "I was thinking what a complete misuse of space this is" or some such Badminton bullshit--and that's deliberate. He's deliberately being paralleled with Badminton with that line. Fucking piece of shit Izzy apologist bullshit.

My darling! My peach! Thank you for pointing out the true meaning of this scene, which, obviously, is the historical art of

COURTSHIP THROUGH CONVERSATION

As you and I both know well, dear heart, a popular publishing genre of the time was SAMPLE DIALOGUES between a wooing lover and a coy mistress -- as seen here, and here, and here, among many other places, several of which also include Etchings of a Curious Nature that I may only Hint At ere I too quickly tax your Gentle Sensibilities.

But leaving that aside, my darling moon and stars and small heavenly bodies that have been previously miscategorized as planets but that I nevertheless hold sacred in my heart-- there is a delightful subset of courtly conversation that, quite clearly, and as demonstrated by the canon and by your own dear letter, applies not only to our own tentative trembling tryst but also to that of Stede and Izzy!

I had not considered the matter before now, but your sly missive, so artful in its gentle tease and saucy in its declarations, reminded me strongly of what the sages called Mock-Complements, or Drolling-Complements. That is to say, when two would-be lovers, attempting to enter into a courtship but hesitant to appear too forward, treat their conversation with one another as if enemies rather than the hot-blooded lovers that they so dearly wish to be.

And so, just as your dear note falls between those lines, so too does that conversation between Stede and Izzy! For as you well know, since you most definitely reviewed the scene so as to ensure utmost accuracy in your thoughts and feelings before penning your note of Deep Romantic Interest as to My Person, behold:

Between a Roguish Sailor and a Fallen Gentleman. The Rogue, all courtesy How goes the fuckery? The Gentleman, his sharp reply What are you doing in here?

My God! What flirtatious delight! What promise of future connubial bliss! Look how clearly the Gentleman attempts to indicate the mode by which he wishes to be wooed! No sweet embrace nor honeyed words for him-- he seeks the speedy wit of a clever lover, pushing away with one hand while beckoning with the other, all Beatrice to his would-be Benedick. See how very intentionally Stede behaves rudely first, because gosh, protagonists can very much be assholes in their own right regardless of the motivations of any nearby antagonists who happen to be sharing screen time with them and for whom perhaps the audience is overly concerned with demonizing to the point of willfully ignoring the very literal previous dang line of dialogue--

Which, of course, you know! Because you too studied this scene with care and attention, and so, with your letter, wished to draw my notice to the deeper meaning of this clearly loving moment. My thanks, dear Sibyl, sweet Relevator of Forbidden Love, for urging forth this understanding.

And yet! A sad conclusion is simultaneously revealed. The tragedy of this bathic pairing is that while Stede has studied the modes and methods by which he can indicate his interest, Izzy has not had as thorough an education in the Artful Ways of Wooing. Rather than a fanciful rejoinder, he instead mirrors Stede's gambit-- a noble attempt at meeting his would-be paramour halfway, but sadly, only a Recipe for Missed Meanings. Our sad Izzy's reply would seem to parry the Gentleman's overture, rather than enjoin it-- and leads them, thus, to the Comedy of Errors wherein now they find their love, and also Ed is around here somewhere.

But never fear, my pocket pumpkin of pleasant fancies-- I will not make this mistake! Just as you so kindly dropped your handkerchief of Rather Ridiculous and Perhaps a Touch Juvenile Displays of Media Illiteracy before me in hopes that I might take it up for you, so too shall I offer it back again, perfumed with the hopes, dreams, and delights of our no-doubt felicitous and quite impending nuptials.

[radiowaveangel]

The Philosophy of Self Destruction

amy aka spent gladiator 1 - the mountain goats / genius annotation - sanrenei / don’t be mean? really? - kate bornstein