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[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

I don't venture too often into human au territory, but I bestow upon thee living-in-my-head-rent-free faceclaims Kabir Bedi Asparagus and Indira Varma Jellylorum.

[nikholascrow]

some bitches have 50+ ao3 tabs open on their phones

(it’s me I’m some bitches)

[hobermallowed]

iwtv + text posts part 49

[lazylittledragon]

tattoo designs for the portfolio >:))

ps: these aren't for sale and please don't use them bc i'm trying really hard to get an apprenticeship thank you!!

[marzipanandminutiae]

I've gotten some interesting responses to my post wondering if Um Actually 3 AM Is The REAL Time For Supernatural Occurrences was a traditional thing before I first noticed it in the creepypasta boom of the late 00s-2010s, as many of those creepypastas claimed. some of them along "guys. please. reading comprehension" lines, I admit

"Lots of cultures have a Witching Hour!" yes, true, but that's not 3 AM specifically. for a long time it was usually midnight, or an unspecified late night/wee hours of the morning period

"This author says 3 AM feels like depression or vice versa!" that is not about Spooky Things Happening; try again

"early Christian beliefs say-" "well, in traditional Japanese folklore-" sources??? (also from what I've seen while looking into this, the Hour of the Ox in historical Japanese timekeeping was between 1 AM and 3 AM- 3 AM specifically was the end of it, not the beginning. but it was a traditional time for curses)

A mention of 3 AM as a particularly bad time of night re: health, sleep, nightmares, etc. in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), which DOES seem reliable and close enough to what I'm talking about

Apparently the 1974 Amityville murders happened at 3 AM, and of course that house had a highly public (probably faked) haunting. So that could have contributed

I haven't yet found anything earlier than that Bradbury reference that SPECIFICALLY mentions 3 AM as a time when scary and/or supernatural things happen, WITH ACTUAL SOURCES

Interestingly, the Bradbury quote doesn't seem to refer back to an existing cultural belief in the idea of Evil 3 AM(TM). rather it's framed as the narrator's personal feelings around that particular time of night:

"Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to sleep, one or two’s not bad, you toss but sleep again. Five or six in the morning, there’s hope, for dawn’s just under the horizon. But three, now, Christ, three A.M.! Doctors say the body’s at low tide then. The soul is out. The blood moves slow. You’re the nearest to dead you’ll ever be save dying. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had strength to rouse up, you’d slaughter your half-dreams ... And wasn’t it true, had he read somewhere, more people in hospitals die at 3 A.M. than at any other time." [I can't find any credible studies of this, for the record]

so it seems like the seeds of the idea were floating around in the cultural consciousness for a long time, between unspecified Witching Hours and the Hour of the Ox curses and this probably erroneous but popular belief that most people who die in hospitals do so at 3 AM. but as for the very strictly-defined notion that Supernatural Things Are Most Likely To Happen At 3 AM...the earliest anecdotal reference I saw to someone having heard that was from the 1980s, and it doesn't seem to have really entered the zeitgeist with force until the late 2000s, earliest

unless someone shows me a source on something earlier, that's what I'm going with

which leaves my takeaway, as a paranormal believer, being: there's nothing supernaturally special about 3 AM, unless it has individual significance to a specific entity or haunting (ie residual apparition of an event that took place at that time). it's something people came up with for interesting fiction, as a fresh take on the longstanding western idea that the Witching Hour is midnight, and not even that long ago

[rockpaperscissuhs]

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH + BAND OF BROTHERS:

JOSEPH "JOE" RAMIREZ

Born October 5th, 1921, in Nebraska

Died April 8th, 1988 (age 66), in Martinez, California

Joe Ramirez enlisted in September 1942 (age 20) in San Francisco, CA, and he trained with Easy Company at Toccoa. Holding the rank of Private, he served in Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne. He was hospitalized in January 1945, and discharged in July 1945. After the war, he was married for many years, and had children and grandchildren. When he passed away he was buried with his wife, who had passed away 11 years earlier. Further information about him is scarce, but the brief character profile in the Band of Brothers series bible describes him as Mexican-American, and his personality as "sensitive and nervous."

Appears in Episodes 1, 3-8, and 10; portrayed by actor Rene L. Moreno

Sources below

A million thanks to @bleedingcoffee42 for tracking down this info for me!

[dozydawn]

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Trump Flip-Flopping Again!!! - Crime

Trump: Crime Is "Through The Roof" [No Source]

FBI: Violent Crime Near 50 Year Low [See Cite Above]

[larabar]

"so, that was fun"

[bitsbug]

art of one of my flight rising dragons. smile

[itsrainingbubbles]

Law and Luffy doing that baby project together at school with an electronic baby that records how well they take care of it

Luffy overfeeds the baby and law tried to take the batteries out far too many times after they couldn't get the baby to stop crying

So they failed the project and had to do it over again

Law is in charge of feeding the baby and Luffy under no circumstances should feed the baby, if he absolutely has to because law can't he has to inform law he will be feeding the baby and can't feed her more than half a bottle

When law can't get her to stop crying he finds Luffy to hand her over, Luffy is surprisingly good at calming her down

They settle into a routine and they're like real parents while taking care of their baby

They meet up as often as possible and switch her between the two so she 'can spend quality time with both her dads' and they even plan 'family' outings

Cora even provides law with a stroller and so law and Luffy are very much walking around school with a stroller with absolutely no shame, when asked why they do this they always say that it'll be more comfy for their daughter

So they end up getting really attached to her and are devastated when the project is over, even if law insists he didn't get attached to a doll they all know he misses her (he keeps the stroller in his room and hangs up pictures of her they took)

The two kinda got baby fever from it, they coo at babies when they see them and they talk about what their future daughter would be like and how she'll look

[salmon-artist147]

Was originally planning on finishing more before I posted, so far I only have the pieces of Four done as well as 4 others but for awhile I've been planning an LOZ Nier crossover and then when I got into Linked Universe by @jojo56830 I switched from just LOZ to LU and now that I have my own AU I decided to just go crazy with it and make a massive LoZ/Nier crossover. Specifically Nier Automata. I currently have a list of the Links from: @linkeduniverse, @lozriftsintime, and my AU @linked-history.

I'd love to add more Link Meets AUs to this massive idea but haven't gotten too far in it. If you have any Links Meet AUs that you'd like me to attempt please let me know.

I may make some specific references for each design and go into other specifics like the designations I gave the Links and my thoughts behind my choices.

Design notes under the cut.

For Four I tried to make them each look unique while still looking like a cohesive group as Jojo does in LU. For this I gave them all the half jacket like garments that are the top most layer.

I also stepped away from using the black palette that the anbroids in Nier Automata are known to wear as with all the Links that I plan to include I wanted to avoid them becoming a large black mass should I decide to draw any of them in a large group. One or two together would've been fine but it I drew any more then 4 together I wanted it to be clear where each was.

I will explain the designations/labels that I picked for each one if/when I do their solo references because I don't want to add too much for this first post.

[duhhck]

Last Supper 🩸🫀🩸 vampire yuri for those who partake <3

[vilcade]

Beautiful Teer Fradee 🍂 GreedFall | Spiders Studios

[ded-lime]

some time ago god knows why i set on a journey of reading through gaster tag (with plenty of picking and choosing) and when a fic goes on about sans being depressed and trying to bring him back my mental image meanwhile goes something like this

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