#another epic FAIL

[mudwerks]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

throws these at you

[rin-sith]

Ages ago, I promised a sequel to my Ruthlessness sketches with my new Poseidon design, and well... See, I had a very specific vision for this, my beloved 🫶 favorite song in the whole entire musical. And I guess I was finally brave en- I mean, found the time to bring it to life. Enjoy 🙈🌊🔱

@glisten-inthedark look at what I've done now

[g00seg1raffe]

A (comparatively) Brief Thought about Steve Harrington's Names

Lucky Stevie has full names in three different languages and they're all equally incriminating in different ways!

For context: Steve's parents meet just as the summer of '66 is ending, in a perfectly legitimate bar with absolutely no connection to organised crime in Chicago. They introduce themselves as Christopher (call me Chris, Christopher is shite) Harrington and Anita (but you, bello, can call me Tina) Martino. They are both lying.

See, America is it's own little world. Founded by desperate refugees and religious extremists, the USA is the New York of the western world - the perfect place to disappear, because no matter your sins, there's always someone weirder. And in this totally not shady bar in Chicago, these two strangers have a lot of sins.

Mr. Ciarán Ótis Marcin Ó'hArrachtáin is what some might call a terrorist. Those 'some' are, of course, all eejits who seem to be fecking delirah with the Brits treating the Irish Free State as a colony. But Ótis and Martyna didn't raise a spineless dosser, not on tales of the shite they saw in Nazi Poland. Ciarán wants to be just like his mama, so does the only thing he can at sweet sixteen and joins the IRA. It was a grand old time - until some spanner decided to start the boarder campaign, make some things go boom, then it all goes arseways and suddenly he's a wanted man. Now he's legged it all the way out to this bar in Chicago where he can find some mostly-legal work, set himself up as someone who doesn't need to check over his shoulder every five seconds - and maybe he can take a chance on this absolute ride of an Italian who's just walked in, Jaysus -

Sig.na Alessia Stefania "Pieterina" Serafini has made a name for herself as a mafiosa. Beloved, wild, ruthless granddaughter of Don Alessio - caporegime since nineteen and well on her way to consigliere - and, right now, in molti problemi with la Cosa Nostra. So much problemi that she's been effectively smuggled into the US, like that goddamn heroin shipment that started all these problemi... ah well. She just needs to lie low for a bit (a decade) with her American cousins on the less than legal side of Chicago before she can return to her cosca and the people she actually trusts not to stab her the moment she turns her back - and maybe she can have some fun with this bello, bello Irishman who's looking her way, dannazione -

So. Discussing the evolution Mr and Mrs Harrington's relationship is gonna have to wait (though I'd love to hear from you guys) - the important thing here is the family history.

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Tina's side: Alessia Stefania "Pietrina" Serafini.

Tina's father is Vincenzo Serafini and her grandfather is Alessio Serafini. Her first name is the feminine of her paternal grandfather's name. Steve's middle names are also from them.

(In case it wasn't obvious, the Serafini family are heavily involved in the Italian mafia - potentially involved in the Ciaculli massacre in '63 - and also have ties to the American mafia.)

Tina's mother is Pietra Tedesco and her grandmother is Stefania Tedesco. Her middle name - Stefania - and her son's first name - Stefano - are from her maternal grandmother. "Pietrina" is a diminutive nickname for Pietra - they're saying she's just like her mother, and since they figured this would be easy and natural enough for Steve to remember, his agreed Italian 'cover' surname is Di Pietro.

(Pietra is the feminine of her father's Petri Tedesco - which is itself the new name chosen by the German runaway Peter Thälmann. No relation to German Communist Party Leader Ernst Thälman, no sir, nothing to see here.)

So: Stefano Alessio Vincenzo Serafini - or, when he doesn't want to advertise the mafia part - Stefano Di Pietro.

Chris' side: Ciarán Ótis Marcin Ó'hArrachtáin.

Chris' father is Ótis Ó'hArrachtáin, and his paternal grandparents Steafán and Keira Ó'hArrachtáin. He gets his first name from the masculine of his grandmother's name, his middle name from his father, and gave Steve his grandfather's name.

(Steafán and Keira worked their asses off their whole life to put their kids through school, ennabling Ótis to work at the Irish embassy in Poland, where he managed to smuggle a handful of refugees past the Nazis to Britain, of which his future wife, Hannia Marcinkiewicz, was one.)

Chris' mother is Anita Marcinkiewicz. He gets his middle name from her surname. Steve gets his Irish 'cover' surname from that.

(Anita and her son are very similar as teenagers and young adults - the same heady cocktail of jaded rage and a naïve sense of justice, motivating spiky teens in parallel shitty situations to commit near-suicidal acts of heroism, with similar results. Just what did Anita do? Nothing you can prove, of course...)

(Yes, Anita Marcinkiewicz and Anita Martino - a wild coincidence that kicks of conversation for our young lovers in Chicago. Not in any way manipulated by an omnipotent fangirl who wants her OCs to have something neat to make slightly awkward but unexpectedly wholesome small talk about over a Guinness and a Negroni in a bar in Chicago). (This is why Chris calls his wife Tina all the time when anyone else would get shot if she's feeling anything less than saccharine.)

So: Steofán Ciarán Ótis Ó'hArrachtáin - or, when he'd rather avoid any connection to the wanted terrorist - Steofán Ó Máirtín.

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Of course, as half Irish and half Italian - or, well, 1/8 German, 2/8 Polish, 2/8 Irish and 3/8 Italian but who's counting. Aside from me -

The point is, he's Catholic as fuck. He can be non-practicing and still Catholic (bc fuckboi), he can lose his faith and still be Catholic (bc interdimensional hell monsters), he can be an atheist (bc Irish) and still be Catholic, ok - he is Italian and Irish, there's no cure.

So, yeah, he's definitely been christened. And sure, you can old give any old name to the government (fuck them anyways) as long as it suits your purposes. But your christening name is the one that God knows you by, okay, you don't want to lie to the priest and end up with the wrong name tag when you get to heaven (or if, I guess).

What I'm saying is the paperwork says Steven Otis Harrington, but some poor Father/Reverendo gets hit with Stefano Stiofán Alessio Ciarán Vincenzo Ótis Serafini Ó'hArrachtáin. Good fucking luck!

[lebanesetoaster]

My dumb ass: I can definitely sew a stuffed dog from scratch from a pattern I haven’t seen before in two nights. I’ve got this.

The pattern: trace pattern piece, add your own seam allowance, pin the pieces together, then tack them, thennn sew them. And sew on the line. And don’t forget all the darts. And all the hand sewn parts. And also for some reason you sew the eyes on last after it’s all assembled, and the puppy has a cute little patch around his eye and that alone is like six steps??

Also me: *finds a half finished teddybear that was meant to be a gift for a newborn* (that baby is now two) (I had been wondering where that bear got off to)

[continentalblue]

ryland grace is so babygirl to me

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

this but carlo & moretti😔🤨 thats all thank you

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Not surprised it is a ScreenRant writer. Of course they would argue that X-men shouldn't go backwards while praising the current era for being nostalgic for a previous era while also having no clue what the era was like.

Small casts? Small stories? In the Claremont era?

[boyslit-moving]

fun fact: I've tried to play Morrowind two times and failed so bad i gave up

attempt #1, i didn't realize there were leveled areas instead of the whole game leveling with you so i went a-wandering, lo i went a-wandering and happened upon a scary beastie with many a fang and claw who had thirty magnitudes of level over my own freshly feeble hand

attempt #2, i wandered into someone's house and peeked into a barrel and apparently you can't even look at someone's food supply anymore without being branded a thief and murdered on the spot anymore. because of woke

[unforth]

Well, no one can see this, because it's a fill for the Rare Kink Buffet, BUT, this hidden mystery work that won't be revealed until May 30th is my fill for @duckprintspress May Trope Mayhem Day 1 - Secret Relationship!

I don't actually see anything in the rules for the Kink Buffet that says I have to keep what I've made a secret until the 30th, but in the spirit of the challenge, I'll just leave us at:

Fandom: Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Any Major Archive Warnings Apply? Yes

Ship: Bingqiu

Length: 2,984 words (that I just wrote in like. 80 minutes. without editing. um. sorry.)

So, be on the look-out on May 30th, and I hope the requester and anyone else who reads it enjoys. :D

[wistfulphantom]

sooo i wanted to doodle adam (saw) today and i just finished, but omg its hard drawing ppl and making sure their defining features are well represented! I know i still struggle with it, thats why i prefer to draw animals and creatures, lol! It was good practice tho! Ill have to practice more in the future .. !

I also downloaded ibis and krita for my tablet and i tested them out briefly, and im excited to see what i can make with them in the future. Ive done digital art before, but its not my fav medium to create art. But who knows! Maybe this time ill find a good flow and make some digital stuff!

[zmediaoutlet]

26

wooo wine party time (tbh it's a little early for wine, but it is never too early for salt.)

is everyone else seeing that 26 as massive? Well, it deserves to be, because:

26. Most shippable character?

You know it; I know it; Dean knows it; my cat knows it. The rest of fandom knows it too, out loud if cool and in their hearts if not. The dude forms insta-connections with everyone. The Dean's Family Theme starts playing when he spends a little too much time with a gas station c-store clerk. And, given what we know about how Dean treats his family --

I guess since these are Salty Asks the implication is that I should vagueblog or bitch or whatever, but tbh I'm feeling more or less at peace with the world (at the moment) and it's really just celebration hours. Dean's relationships with other characters really are fascinating, and the reason they go so instantly into shippable territory is that Dean thinks he has a tough outer shell, and I guess if a viewer is deaf-and-blind they might think he does too, but the truth is that it takes a plastic spoon and the arm strength of a toddler to crack that shell and then he's just spilling guts all over the place. Even with characters he ostensibly hates -- Crowley, Ketch, ahem Alastair -- he puts up this tough guy facade and then it takes 45 seconds for there to be some exchange of emotional truth, even if it's spiky. It's why it's so easy to toss him into bed with all and sundry. Crack open even more, sweetheart.

The benefit of 'ship,' too, is that it doesn't have to be nice. We're not imagining Dean and Ketch shacked up in a 3br/2ba in Wichita when we're talking about shipping them. It's just that there is an open and interesting connection that can be drawn between the two characters that makes talking about whatever relationship they do have interesting. In SPN, just on number of connections, quality, volume, etc -- no other character comes close. Enjoy getting fucked by all and sundry, bud. :)

(wine party: salty or not, your choice)

[skaluli]

they left a nice comment on my profile :]]

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[enstarsrefs]

..........whoever submitted butler izumi and himeru to my askbox can you send me an ask just so i can get your url, i forgot privately answered asks just vanish entirely

[dangerouskitty]

sooo I treid and faild at painting #icespice

[myqualities]

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