#ansel gates

[hislittleraincloud]

A pungent fragrance with heavy notes of urea, skatole, and leather with a hint of raspberry, Ansel is the scent you want your man to wear when he's hard on his back, mouth wide open and ready to receive whatever you're ready to give.

Have you had enough to eat today? The night's still young...with Ansel.

@brenli 💩

[therulerofallpotatos]

[thesevenwondersofawitch]

I'm back with an origin story-esque edit for Laurel Gates and her family!

[anotherbluesunday]

Character Moodboards for Star Atlas Pt. II

🪐✨chapter two of Star Atlas coming soon. to catch up on this interstellar romance, click the link below.✨🪐

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[hislittleraincloud]

Thank the gods someone else said it, so I didn't have to. Been thinking about the whole I Can Fix Him/Her thing a lot since it's rife in Wyler 🤢 Maybe even worse with the Wenclairs (love the babies but it's really bad, and then the forced romance shit coming from Wednesday's mouth every time someone tries to write Wenclair is so out of character/OOC that's it's worse than anything I saw in Potter back in the day). But we're talking Wyler/Tyler rn.

I've also been thinking of Xavier and how much he suffered through this hot mess of a storyline. How fucking cruel was it to assign Xavier to do his Outreach Day community service with the motherfucker who assaulted him the previous year? No one seems to have thought about that one enough (except for the writers, who knew what they were doing with that, for once).

I read somewhere that Doohan has said that Tyler didn't know who Wednesday was when she came into the Weathervane to get her quad, but that's bullshit. Tyler was already in deep with Laurel, and Laurel's plans were clear by that point. And when Laurel stated at the end that W was never getting to the train because Tyler was sent to intercept her, that actually also applied to the very beginning...there was no way Laurel would have allowed Tyler to take her to the train station the night of the Harvest Festival either. Him giving her her father's file was a means to manipulate her to stay, not a kindness that she thought that it was. (It was also a clue to shove in her face about Gates' hidden motivations -- since Gomez was accused of murdering her brother. Foreshadowing at its finest.)

Don't even get me started on the inexplicable bullshit that was Woe What a Night. (Wednesday dancing her famous dance with the dude she was just told was a bigot and assaulted an outcast...it's inexplicably stupid and ruins the dance sequence for me. It feels like it was edited poorly, since Wednesday stood there staring at him for the last dance like she had just found out about the assault...it's just a jumbling of what should have happened.) Tyler and his stupid fucking entitlement manipulation. "Oh, you asked the kid I beat the fuck out of last year? But I thought we liked each other!" 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮

Tyler may have been groomed a little (we're led to believe that he's a little older than W, so he's at least 17 or 18) by Laurel, but he was a POS before Laurel. Hell, for all we know, Tyler's Hyde was brought out by the boot camp he was sent to by Donovan and merely brought under control by Laurel. Wednesday's "explanation" in the conservatory was wrong, IMHO, especially since there was no "Galpin Family Secret" when Ansel was alive (Ansel Gates died and orphaned Laurel when she was just a kid...long, long before Donovan ended up with Francie; Tyler was born around 2004, Ansel died close to ~1991 if Laurel was sent overseas as a kid); she had been wrong several times in her conclusions. Prima Mutatio (my own term for the first turning of a Hyde, so I'm just going to use it) is hinted at being something that is not exactly forcefully or purposefully unlocked directly by one person, but by a traumatic event, like childbirth (Francie and her Hyde first coming out). Fester didn't even know what brought out Olga's Hyde when he knew her; that she massacred people during a live performance hints that pressure/nerves/something completely random can bring out a Hyde's Hyde, without them being commanded to kill.

It's pretty clear in the original pilot script and in the nuance of Sheriff Galpin's behavior that he hadn't a clue she was a Hyde until Tyler was born. Tyler's bigotry was picked up somewhere, and (despite the Wenovan moments I've picked out for us in fandom*) Donovan is a (soft) bigot as well, spurred on by the Garrett Gates "murder" and whatever else he experienced in his youth with outcasts. He outwardly groans when he sees the Nevermore outcasts file into the square on Outreach Day...so he is still harboring anti in him. Still, he's bound by his duty as a cop to protect them, and despite her being the daughter of the dude he thought was a murderer, he softened after Episode 5 about Wyler...unknowing(?) that his son was manipulating her all that time. (And already suspecting that he was the Hyde...he knew once the photos came back. Which goes to question: If he knew that Tyler was a Hyde, how could he give them his blessing with Gomez? Seems a bit dangerous and careless to the little thorn in his side, but then again, he also warned Tyler to stay the fuck away from her in Episode 6...not for his sake, but for hers.)

Thank the gods Ortega said that Tyler is off the table for Wednesday as a love interest. I hope she sticks to that, because it would be infinitely worse for the show if she sank into that I Can Fix Him role that fandoms latch onto.

TLDR;

Fuck that monster.

*But Torrrrrrr if you think he's a bigot too, then why Wenov -- SHUSH. Donovan loved an outcast so much that it broke him, and it broke him to fear that Tyler would turn out as violent and fucked up as Francie was. I really hope the new season, if they include Tyler which I think they will, will explore that further. McShane and Ortega had the most chemistry/underlying in their scenes (watch how Ortega speaks with him versus the way she speaks with Weems & other adult authority figures and with her peer characters, or family members...the only other one she speaks to so casually, and the only other one she let her smile out for, is Uncle Fester), they can pull off a backstory on what happened with Francie in a way that might garner Tyler and Donovan some sympathy despite their bigotry, especially if they want to go that "I can fix him" route with Tyler.

The thing about Tyler is the consequence of a general attitude that took over narrative in the last years: the belief that nobody is inherently evil, that there are good reasons why a character does despicable things, and they can be "fixed" making them "good". EG the behavior is the result of something sad that happened to the character, or the character is misguided/lied to/brainwashed, or was traumatized. So if the character is confronted with "the power of love"(TM) and heal their trauma, they will abandon for sure their evil ways.

Also, a lot of people believe that suffering purifies (a very Christian concept, I'm saying it as I was raised Catholic), and that somebody who suffered a lot can't inflict pain to other people; and that if they do horrible things noonetheless then they deserve our compassion because, well, it's not entirely their fault if they are a piece of shit; and sooner or later they will understand their predicament and stop inflicting pain to the others.

It's like the audience (and sometimes also writers and narrators) completely forgot that sometimes people are just rotten and are willing to step on the others for their personal advantage, ot just because it amuses them. Just like in Tyler's case.

I personally think that people can change, but I think you’re correct to an extent. Other than giving them the chance to change, sometimes people are just bad. And yes, sometimes it can be explained with nurture vs nature, but sometimes it can’t be. Two kids can come from the same type of household and come out completely different, yknow? And we have it confirmed that Tyler was a bully. The kids that bully Eugene said he went “soft”. He assaulted Xavier bad enough to get court ordered therapy. He was already a jerk to outcasts before Thornhill came along. She made him worse, that’s for sure, but he was already a bully.

I’m also a believer that people don’t just get a pass because something bad happened to them, except in very nuanced cases. And Tyler very clearly enjoyed what he was doing. He said as much in the police station. He should be held accountable. And until we get more information on Hydes and how they actually work, that’ll be my take.

I mean, in my eyes it was clear that he didn’t care about Wednesday past the attraction that he may have felt when they first met. But he very clearly had fun taking advantage of her. I mean, the dude kissed her, probably knowing that she’d die in a few days. That’s just despicable to me.

[aliciarose-art]

he’s very lost (but doing his best)

[mangamithedragon]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you’re in the possession of a PC and an NVIDIA graphics card you need NVIDIA Ansel. High quality screenshots even in games that don’t have a photo mode.

[munibutterfly11111]

Moon in aries male celebrities

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Golden Gate before the bridge. Photo by Ansel Adams.

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"Oh, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or of a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all; but then it passed, nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and in the end one grew old and looked cunning like Father Anselm or wise like Abbot Daniel, and still one knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening."

- Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund

[h/t Whiskey River]

[faerunsbest]

Do you you think Ansel if Rolan wasn't with his person yet but both have neon flashing signs flashing over their head of in love with the other would help get them together even with a small comment like oh yeah their favorite artist is getting an exhibit soon in the city.

Theses two have very siblings vibes.

They could get along like two peas in a pod but Ansel is a little bit 'princess' in nature she needs someone who won't mind taking care of her because she gets overwhelmed extremely easily and rolan already has so much to take care of.

Cal can afford to focus on her and give her easier needs. She's like a high maintenance plant, rolan needs someone who can put up with all the baggage he has, and she would absolutely drown.

Of all the people I've made for rolan I think it's he would have e the most chemistry with sybyll but ma'na would have endless patience for everything rolan has going on.

Cal is by nature a caretaker and he would appreciate anything she can give back, anything at all. She's a listener, for him, she's just one of those that can like 'hold the flashlight' if you will. Lol

[hislittleraincloud]

Just had to post this again because yanno what...it's a good soundtrack as a whole for what it will encompass in the future for the Afterburn Universe/story and the Gates Family background. I really can't wait to get fucking 8 done so I can write something that isn't harnessed by canon.

Plus my baby (🐶) chose this one over the regular Afterburn soundtrack to listen to during our adventure outside yesterday. She's hardcore, despite her cute n' fluffy appearance.

[ophierian-vp]

[theeboyracer]

Didn’t take too many photos, but now’s a good time to visit the De Young. Check out both the Kehinde Wiley exhibit and Ansel Adams! (B&W photo from the latter exhibit but not Adams).

[spinmeround]

Ansel Adams, Golden Gate Headlands 1950

[flibbleynova]

Astarion

🎮- Baldur's Gate 3 📸- Nvidia Ansel | Frans Bouma Photo Tools 🎨- Lightroom Classic

[novankenn]

the Hunted - Close Call

[Chapter List]

With two meters left, the pair stopped and turned to face each other. They smiled before leaning in for a well-earned celebratory kiss.

Ruby: AHEM!

The pair stop and turn their heads to see Ruby, Blake, Yang, Nora and Ren standing just before the open gates..

Joan / Pyrrha : AH, COME ON! HOW?

Yang: Blake hacked your scrolls…

Nora: What took you guys so long?

Blake: Come with us quietly.

Ren: I’m here against my will.

Joan: NO! NO! NO!

Pyrrha / Ruby/ Yang / Blake / Nora: Joan?

Joan: You FIVE…

Ren: AGAIN… I’m here against my will, I gave up.

Joan: Oh, okay. Thanks for clarifying, Ren.

Pyrrha: Joan, it’s okay… 

Joan: No, it is not! I’m almost home where I can get Grandma’s ring and propose, and these FOUR are ruining it!

Pyrrha: Propose?

Joan: I decided I was going to after that first night… (sniffle)

Pyrrha: Propose?

Joan: (sniffle) Pyr?

Pyrrha reaches out with her semblance, pulling the first metal object she can locate. As soon as it touches her hand, she’s on the move.

KLANG - KLANG - KLANG - KLANG

Without a word, Pyrrha drops the frying pan, takes Joan’s hand and leads her into Ansel.

Ruby/ Yang / Nora / Blake : Ow.