#at a certain point

[authenticity2025]

At a certain point, I just have to try not too think to much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart. Jonathan Franzen

[ravka-bracket]

Round 1B: Harshaw vs Oncat

[depressedwoman39]

i think at a certain point once it crosses the threshold of 1am and the money you got refunded from your MET that you get to keep ends up losing any value or sense and you spend 100 dollars on a mobile game because really god that last character you need to get all the legendaries will really make you happy this time and you're breathing heavily while you enter your card details and you know in your heart of hearts that this is a bad idea that this is one of those things you're supposed to fantasize about and then sigh and say god if i had a million dollars and just keep moving but you cannot keep your hands from moving and you are watching yourself make a bad decision and there is a new paralysis there not the kind that keeps you in bed and from applying yourself in school but the kind that keeps you from making the right decision the kind that keeps you away from those self destructive tendencies but you cannot for the life of you start to stop yourself so you finish entering your card details and you get sickly sad and you start to vomit a little bit and you remember every awful thing you've ever done and it is gripping you in a way that no one has ever been held like before but you cannot for the life of anyone remember when it was not like this. and now you have meg in brawl stars. follow for more tutorials

[rosecoloredtarot]

Tumblr challenge: have a post about herbalism and no one brings up grapefruit or St. John’s Wort*

*obviously counter indications are important to know and both of these are common examples. But not every post about herbalism needs a list of beginner’s safety concerns. A very specific point does not necessarily need to be broadened.

[skipppppy]

Highkey one of the funniest parts of Gravity Falls is how obnoxiously close they come to revealing Ford’s existence in the early seasons but never do out of just. Cosmic levels of dumb luck

Episode 1 Stan nearly catches Dipper with the journal and it’s passed off as a gag about Gold Chains for Old Men magazine. In Time Travellers Pig they go back to the Shack 30 years in the past and miss Ford opening the door on them by literal seconds. In bottomless pit Mabel gives him a set of truth teeth that make him incapable of lying and he tells the twins TO THEIR FACES that he regularly commits massive tax fraud and if they had asked him to elaborate he would’ve told them who he was impersonating. In one of the shorts Dipper and Soos find a sentient omniscient mailbox that will answer any question in the universe, and right before they can ask it who wrote the journals Mabel shows it a video of herself snorting gummy worms and it kills itself out of disgust. The entirety of Dreamscaperers is them delving into the depths of Stan’s psyche, going through his memories, all while fighting his brother’s ex-boyfriend and it somehow just. Doesn’t come up. Bill never mentions him. Their grandpa Shermie never said anything. Their parents never said anything. Either the universe was conspiring to cover it up or they are genuinely all that oblivious

[hammerandsickbro]

i do believe that if you have a r*pe kink, you should die. and i don’t think that’s unreasonable.

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[charmwasjess]

I’ll never quite get over just how integrated kids are into daily Jedi life and the implications of that.

Dooku’s Temple "job" for years seems to have been “teaching lightsaber preschool.” Sifo-Dyas, the guy with the scary doom visions? Oh yeah, they have him working with infants, bringing babies to the Temple as a Seeker. Jocasta Nu is constantly depicted interacting with the younger generation of Jedi, teaching, helping, or mentoring. In TCW, she knows all the Padawans on sight. 

There’s just something really ordinary and charming to me about this. Sure, Dooku is a terrifying 2m of spider limbs in a robe, but he’s still going down on one sinister knee to check out the little crying kid who got a finger crunched by one of those wooden training swords. How many of the TCW-era Jedi were once babies who played with Sifo-Dyas’s hair loopies or cuddled on his chest as he pointed his T-6 back toward the Temple after another successful Seeking mission? (Space is, after all, cold. 🥺) You just know Jocasta is in very reluctant possession of knowledge of every single teen Padawan drama, crush, or breakup. She tries to stay out of it, but she’s broken up fights and pulled particulars into her office for tea and a gentle lecture on the inherent self-destructiveness of gossip. 

And these are not “just some” Jedi - they are all combat trained, politically important, at the top of their rank and even each sit on the Council at some point in their lives. The Jedi Order really went “super powerful space wizards with laser swords, yeah, but they should also all definitely know how to change a diaper." 

[pangur-and-grim]

Hope you don’t mind unsolicited kitty cat pictures of my new worm-beast! Forcibly reminding myself that randombred cats can look like anything and that this elongated fella I found living at the local zoo is not in fact an oriental-type/lemur hybrid.

I'll be honest, this is the first cat I've seen that could actually be a Balinese cross.

if you'd only shown me the first photo, I would have 100% believed that was a Balinese. the fur and body type are so specific. and then the last photo couldn't be a Balinese (because of the white spotting), but I'd still believe it was an Oriental Longhair.

it's only the second photo that made me go oh......that's not quite right.....that's not how that should look.........

so I'd say the possibilities are:

you found a cat that has coincidental similarities to a Balinese/Oriental (cool!! awesome cat! the breed had to get the traits from somewhere, makes sense!)

you found a badly bred Oriental Longhair with a wonky face (not likely, OLHs are rare and tend to have a more standardized show-type appearance)

you found a Balinese cross (cool!! awesome cat!)

in any case, they are very beautiful and I'm an admirer of their special white stripe.

[lucabyte]

some thoughts on Claude

alt title: diversity win! this Butch Nun is crafting bombs in an unventilated room in her convent while actively courting Mother Superior! Do Not Give Them Access To Unlimited Power No Matter How Nice They Are

+ bonus

[unpretty]

not keeping an ad-free tier is bonkers imho, it was at a perfect price point where you could say, "yeah sure that's not too much money" and spring for it even if you didn't actually need it (i've got adblockers on desktop and mobile, i'm never going to see an ad regardless). hell. they could have let ad-free subscribers get grandfathered in at their older price and then announced the change in advance. people would have RUSHED to get the lower price point locked in. instead... this.

[justladders]

This is your protagonist, everyone. This is the man sap that we’re supposed to cheer for.

[royalarchivist]

Phil: [Seeing the giant eye in the sky] JESUS. Oh ok, that's not–

Sneeg: Oh yeah, that's– yup. Isn't that cool? It's just a giant eyeball–

Phil: [Logs out]

Phil: Purgatory in 2025. Like… do we just never log in? 'Cuz I'm like, never logging in. [Laughs] Dude–

[depressedwoman39]

at a certain point once your vape dies and it's late enough at night and you've already spent too much time wondering about if picking up smoking would be less stressful (not necessarily healthier) for you the mounting toll of being 976.9 miles away from your boyfriend and lacking the sufficient dopamine reward from sucking down fruit flavored vapor tears begin to well in your eyes and it gets really really hard to see for a moment and it's stressful because you're watching one of your favorite shows but it occurs to you that you were watching this with your boyfriend and now you're wondering if it's immoral to rewatch the episodes in a different order because you just needed that tonight and you aren't getting enough sleep and you're 76.2% sure that you're bipolar and you just want it to get better but the ceiling fan keeps clanging the way ceiling fans do and the laptop is making some lovely colors through the welling of your tears and you forget you were so very deeply sad for a second until the tears roll down your cheeks and you can see the screen again and you just start thinking about how much easier it would be if he was here to watch it with you

yknow?

[fishcop]

bwah! Scar session seven superhero design!

[maxx-the-queer]

Idk how others in the fandom feel about this, but to me, Isabela's presence in Veilguard is frankly bizarre.

Isabela has wildly different endings in DA2, depending on Hawke's decisions and relationship with her. If you didn't form enough of a friendship or rivalry with her, she fucks off with the Tome of Koslun and never comes back. If Hawke decides not to defend her, she gets given up to the Arishok and Qunari. (It is implied she escapes regardless, but that's still a pretty significant thing to brush aside!) If Hawke romances Isabela and follows through on her quests, they stay together at least semi-permanently (barring whatever happens to Hawke in Inquisition).

Except, when you meet her in the Lords of Fortune - she can never mention any of that. She doesn't explain her new philosophy around the finding of cultural artefacts and how her Tome of Koslun debacle shaped that. She can never mention Hawke in any capacity, which is especially weird if your Hawke romanced her.

She does makes comments like "Kirkwall taught me a lot about family 😌" which makes 0 sense if your Isabela absolutely hightailed it out of Kirkwall or got thrown to the Qunari. What was the lesson she learnt, exactly? "I was right the whole time, fuck emotional vulnerability and fuck caring about anyone else?"

She's also one of the few characters who make an appearance other than the Inquisitor and Harding who has a close connection to Varric from previous games. You're telling me she has absolutely nothing to say about his death?

Her return strips her of any complexity and sidelines any of her past relationships because Veilguard just completely refuses to engage meaningfully with the stories before it.