#and off white walls

[nukenai]

Almost completely finished painting the reptile room today. I have several spots that needed really severe spackle repair, so I'll paint those tomorrow after they dry. They needed repair because they had planks of fucking wood screwed AND!! NAILED!!! to the wall in those areas. The nails were deeply sunken into the wood, so I needed to pry the wooden planks off the wall which damaged them. No big deal.

I discovered the walls were originally green. All nails in the wall, plus the wooden planks, had been painted over at least twice. When I replaced the outlet covers. There was like a ridge of paint raising up around them, because they had also been painted over in ghastly off-white.

This wasn't the worst of the paint jobs in my house. The kitchen had 2 layers of paint over 2 layers of fucking wallpaper and painting that room almost made me give up entirely on humanity.

But now my reptile room is a gorgeous lavender and I'm going to attempt to put my new shelves together tomorrow. We'll see how that goes.

[kizzer55555]

Core Gems

So when a ghost becomes injured, they have a last ditch defense where they retreat into their core. And I mean, injured badly where their body is rip apart to the point they can’t hold a solid form anymore. And they basically go into a hibernation state until they are strong enough to form again.

Ellie, Danny, and Dan are all injured in a final battle against the GIW. The organization was destroyed and the ghosts were safe but the halfas ended up being so injured that they reverted to core form and then went to sleep for a bit. When they woke up, they were still weak but at least recovered enough to gain consciousness. And realize…they are in some kind of auction…in the middle of a heist. It appeared that two furries (one in a bat costume and one in a cat costume) were ducking it out. And they…they were a necklace. All three of them had been turned into a necklace with their cores as gems accompanied by sapphires, pearls, and opals. And frankly gorgeous craftsmanship as the metal was crafted around their cores as if to cradle them and the other gems.

Unfortunately, they were too weak to take a form properly, they could still feel the strain on their bodies. But at least they could still communicate through their auras. Then the cat lady punched a hole in the glass container surrounding them and grabbed their necklace.

However, the bat grabbed the other end and it resulted in a sort of tug-a-war. Meanwhile, Danny, Ellie, and Dan were having a back and form commentary on the situation and what they should do. Completely unheard by the other party.

In the corner of their eye, the three halfas finally noticed a third contender. Some kind of clown who was…hold on…holding a gun?! And it was pointed straight at the two fighting furies who had yet to notice him. The ghosts’ protective instincts went into overdrive and they frantically tried to shout, yell, move. Just do something to warn the two but their cries fell on deaf ears. All they succeeded in doing was faintly glow which immediatly caught the attention of the fighting duo. The two turned to look at the strange necklace but right at that moment, the clown fired and a gunshot rang throughout the auction room. Having no other options, Danny and the others poured every ounce of ectoplasm they had to try and phaseshift, making the two furries intangible as the bullets passed right through them, but in their shock, the two jumped away in opposite directions and accidentally ripped the necklace apart. Gems and pearls went flying and the three cores bounced along the ground.

Luckily, the two finally noticed the clown and went to deal with him and his minions who had appeared. Seemingly putting their fight on hold and forming a temporary truce. The three halfas could only watch as the battle finally wound down, ending with the cops barging into the place and arresting the clown and his grunts, the cat managing to escape with half the scattered gems and pearls from the broken necklace along with a few other jewelry pieces (none of their cores though) and the bat leaving through a skylight.

The auction continued and in the end, despite being broken, their necklace seemed to have caught someone’s interest. A man named Bruce Wayne bought up every piece of the shattered jewelry wear. The auctioneers appeared relived that the item managed to sell in the end and gratefully gave it to him.

Bruce had no idea what happened at the auction, but he could have sworn that some of the gems faintly glowed right before he and Selina were shot. If the necklace was some sort of magical item, then he needed to understand exactly what has been brought to Gotham. It was unfortunate that Selena had taken some parts of the necklace but he utilized his vast wealth to make sure all the other parts ended in his possession. Now he would take them back to the mansion for examination.

[starry-eyer]

‘the black bastard of the wall’ moniker is the exact opposite of the ‘white wolf’ moniker and this perfectly highlights the irreconcilable differences between book Jon and show Jon

[lloydgaymerdyke]

I hate them.

[pansyfemme]

for a looooong time now i’ve had this particular… thing? (i know it’s related to my psychosis/being schizospec bc. thats what my therapist says. but i don’t know what’s the right term..) everytime i wear headphones at night where i swear i can hear people i love talking badly about me but can’t quite make it out over the music but it completely disapears when i take them out. ive been dealing with it since middle school and it used to drive me fucking nuts but now it’s all just part of the music listening experience for me… hashtag i lov e music

[guess-i-do-art]

You know those chocolate covered coffee beans? I feel like those would be Shadow’s favorite desert type thing.

Except he only eats the like 80% dark chocolate cacao ones. Otherwise they’re too sweet for his taste.

[littleworlds-posts]

[ghostly-knight]

All of the Ro'meave brothers are gods favourite sacrificial lamb. All three. In completely different ways. They are completely different but completely the same. Different lambs, but all nothing more than a sacrifice in the eyes of their parents, society, and even Irene herself. The Ro'meave brothers are a herd of sheep ready for the slaughter and take it in stride; both fully knowledgeable and completely unaware of what will happen, what is happening, and what has already happened. The Ro'meave brothers are all the favourite sacrificial lambs picked out by Irene herself.

[surely-sims]

If you need another hint on the riddle, then your hint is i literally wrote the exact answer down on the hint 👀

[elephantbitterhead]

The kitchen is done & I have finally taken some pictures. Images on the left are from our initial house viewing (rows 1 & 2) or from the kichen right before we tore it out. Removing those stunted Ls on the ends of the galley has made the kitchen much better. Somehow we have more cupboard space and more floor space, which probably indicates that the original kitchen was cursed.

Long-suffering mutuals who know that yellow is not my favorite color might wonder about the yellow cabinets. We decided it was the best light-ish color that also looked good with the dark wood counters. Cream was too plain and too light (and inevitably filthy on lower cabinets), green was either too dark or too pasty, grey was dreary, brown also dreary, orange looked mental (as did red), the available blues didn't go with the stove, etc. etc. until I was like 'yes, sure, yellow OK whatever I give up.'

[likeabxrdinflight]

tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked

[babybirbb]

carmy and richie are the autistic x adhd duo

[tariah23]

I just think that you aren’t as “progressive,” or whatever you think you are if you can’t talk about American imperialism and fascism without being weird about black Americans, man. You’ve already lost the plot.

[joeloverture]

no actually i do think it’s weird that in 2025 we’re going to watch a white girl torture a latino character for entertainment

[dog-bonezzzz]

sometimes i feel like some of the hlvrai fandom needs to remember these are not corporate soulless characters owned by rich white guys made solely for profit. the science team (and the others) are a group of stranger's half life gmod improv roleplay characters. the cast members have shown they do check on the fandom from time to time these characters do belong to normal everyday people. be mindful

[peridots-pixiwolf]

been forever since i posted any art here so. wheat field i drew as a tribute after finishing portal 2 three months ago upon you all :]

[Start ID. A sketch-like, pixellated rendering of the seemingly endless wheat field at the end of Portal 2. The wheat is golden with harvest, and stretches out to fill the entire lower third of the frame, the sky is a deeper blue and dense with far-off clouds. Uncountable rows of almost-parallel lines, some much on the shorter side and others long and sweeping, shade and highlight the grasses, give texture to the sky and clouds, and halo the sun at the top center. Each of the four blues that make up the sky are the exact inverse of an orange tone in the field, and vice versa. End ID)

[Start ID. An edited version of the previous, wherein the transparency in the sun has been filled in with white and the sky with blue. An obvious filter has been overlayed which makes the whole piece look vertically striated, like the effect of an old computer or console screen, darkening it overall and creating odd tinges of red, green and magenta in some spots. End ID.]