#be proud of me lma

[iamnorthstrike]

It was the following morning after a rough night in, and despite the ache overarching in his legs like the soft burn of the rising sun, he'd get up and stretch his arms...

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SHIRTLESS COYOTE JUMPSCARE HI CHAT !!!! Consider this a gift because Uncommon blazed my Swashbuckler Murch art from earlier this month lma 💖✨

[number-0-iz]

Live thoughts of Bridgerton

Season 3, episode 1

Colin getting dressed in the carriage lmao

He is definitely better looking but I still don't think he's all that hot. Sorry not sorry. Maybe I'll change my mind.

Ah yes big ass feathers

SIGN LANGUAGE CHARACTER YES.

I love that. I don't speak ASL (also mainly cause English isn't my first language) but it is so cool.

The queen be bored lmao.

Charlotte as fierce as ever.

SINCE WHEN IS ELOISE INVOLVED WITH SEASONAL STYLES?

Me the whole time Fran was walking: don't fall don't fall don't fall

WHAT'S WRONG

Player Colin is...a little weird lma

ANOTHER ONE OF PEN'S SISTER FOUND A HUSBAND OH I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER.

NOW IT'S PEN'S TURN!

Oh shit the sister doesn't seem to like him 😭

Rip aunt Petunia, she seemed cool.

Oh u feel like the truth from last season will come out about the Featheringtons.

ELOISE SEEING PEN ELOISE SEEING PEN

Ugh friendship with Cressida? Eloise?

This is probably why she suddenly keeps up with seasonal styles?

God I hope they didn't change her too much or that she didn't lose herself.

I am not even 15 minutes in.

At least Violet seems to know something is up with Eloise.

"Tender young ladies." 😭

Damn all of the flirting jesus

CRESSIDA'S MOTHER IS SUCH A BITCH

Damn Portia has it all planned out huh

PEN AND COLIN MEET UP OOP

OOH HOW SHARP

I too would take a deep breath like that if I had to share a carriage with Portia

I AM A SUCKER FOR BOWS

"NO! Outside. Where our mother can't see." He says with a grin.

Lmao I love this man.

ELOISE IS READING EMMA

Please don't tell me Eloise has given up on being keen to learn and intellectual and a feminist

Because if she has, I will throw my phone at the wall.

"I lost the battle and I have no appetite for the war. I've joined the winning side."

So you mean to tell me that you have truly given up on your principles Eloise?

I wish Eloise would listen to Pen and they would be friends again.

"She was a very cold lady."

"She is colder now, I'm afraid."

AYE YO WHAT THE FUCK 😭

That was so savage.

Please let Mondrich and his family get a lot of cash as an inheritance.

A TITLE GOR MONDRICH'S SON?!

THIS IS EVEN BETTER 😭

They deserve it

NEWTON COCKBLOCKING KANTHONY LMAO

Aww their hands.

Ah another fantastic ball of Lady Danbury.

Oh Kate looks beautiful!!

PRETTY PEN IN A PRETTY DRESS

Aww Mr. Finch is so proud of his sister in law. Greenest flag.

UGH NOT A CONTESSA

I got distracted by Instagram reels when I went to look for the playlist of classical music covers used in the new season.

OH PEN US SO AWKWARD MY SWEETIE

Oh awkward Eloise

Ugh rude men

KANTHONY DANCE

PEN AND FRAN FRIENDSHIP

Oh Debling seems interesting.

NOT CRESSIDA STANDING ON PEN'S PRETTY DRESS! WHAT A BITCH.

And Eloise tried to apologise and Pen ran away 😭

OH THE SCENE FROM THE PREVIEW

"I overheard you." OOOOH

OH MIGHT THE FEATHERINGTONS LOSE EVERYTHING.

Cressida is a bitch. Eloise should not approve and be angry.

Oh sensitive Cressida? Damn.

How did I only now notice that Kate is left handed lol

COLIN VISITS

"BUT FRIENDS DON'T LOOK AT EACH ITHER THE WAY YOU DO."

Oh no not Penelope's scathing Whistledown letter

This'll be bad

GO MONDRICH FAM

Footman: Lord Kent. *proceeds to bow* welcome to your new home.

The kid: aye yo what the fuck

"I will never forgive her." Oh Colin if only you knew.

Well that was quite something! I really liked this episode if I am being honest! God I already wanna turn back to my season 2 Bridgerton AU with my OC that I made a few years ago but never posted. Am I going to watch episode 2 rn? Yes because I cannot wait. Will I leave yet another long reaction list like this one? Probably not cause I want to get a handle on my phone usage. But maybe another time! Until then!

[ashwithapen]

yooo writer questions tag!!

thank you @yesireadbooks

no pressure tagging @leisoree @palebdot @tea-and-mercury @the-stray-storyteller

clean questions list at the bottom below the cut!!

1) What motivates you to write?

hmm good question... motivation has always been a really tricky thing for me in every aspect of my life (which more recently i learned could be in part because of dual adhd+autism), but at the end of the day, it usually comes down to want, one way or another. i want to write to define these ideas and characters and places i can't stop thinking about. i want to write because the song playing demands i do so. i want to write to prove that i can do it, even when i doubt myself, even when i convince myself that everybody thinks i'm worth shit. i want to write because i've never been much of a speaker, and with a pen, i can tell you what my lips never will. so a combination of all of that, i think.

2) A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud/happy of. If not maybe share a line of someone else's work you love (just please credit them)

ooh ok. honestly, i have quite a few lines that i'm quite proud of, that i go back to however long later and have to pause at because Damn, I Wrote That?? but a recent one was actually in an email—of all things—that i sent to our therapist in which i ended up writing ~4k words just to explain something we've been keeping very private for a very long time. i had been doing that thing where you try your best to explain yourself away before you even get to the whole point, and when i realised that i was just going in circles and sounding pathetic, i cut myself short with this absolutely banging one-liner:

all this prelude as if it will soften my casket.

like daaamn i sound Philosophical and Poetic and shit :0

3) Which OC makes you smile every time you think/talk about them and what are they like?

there is this one dork (affectionate) that i made a few years back for a thing that never went anywhere, but i keep him around in case an opportunity comes up. his name is Scott Thomas and he was originally a sorcerer in training. he's a teen (he was going to be a part of a series that spanned about 6 years), has a secret alcohol problem, enjoys not sleeping, and is a professional couch surfer. he has a little sister who the reader wouldn't have even known about until his dying words where he asks the protagonist to go save her from his childhood home which, upon visiting, reveals that his other-worldly hilarity was a classic result of trauma and abuse. he's just a silly, classic-vans-wearing, hoodie-dwelling, guy. the type to try and fix a bullet wound with a bandaid. love that kid lmao

4) What process of writing do you enjoy the most?

it's a small thing, but the moment when you have The Idea that is The Best Idea You've Ever Fucking Had. getting to sketch out the idea, seeing it fit into the plot, figuring out how everyone reacts to it and in what ways it changes the story. the excitement of it all, that "i can't wait" when you think about how your readers are going to react to what's happening. ugh i love it <33

5) What part of writing do you think you are the best at? (Yes stroke your own ego it's okay)

again, the little things. the add-ons tied to the backs of sentences with em dashes, the palpability of every emotion as dictated by whichever little inflexion that character lives with, the pauses in the conversation where the birds chirp outside. just whatever i can do to try and make it feel like a real sensory experience and not just words on a page, whether it be the temperature of the air or the traffic in the streets.

6) What is something in the writeblr community is most enjoyable?

i like how people here are excited about what they do. i like seeing people be endorsed with their own worlds and so willing to share about them.

7) A writing tool/device you use that helps you with writing? (It could be speech to text, a writing program etc)

OMG OK so i'm shit at reading lmao, so everything i write is written just freestyle, fuck it all, forget the spelling, just get it on the page. then it goes through Grammarly, just for spelling (i don't like when it tries to rewrite my sentences or tell me that my grammar is poor. i'm good with grammar and neglecting to use an "and" there was a stylistic choice, get off my back.) (i've been using the free Chrome extension for everything i've ever put effort into writing), and then i reread it with the help of text-to-speech for any words that Grammarly might have missed because they are technically spelt correctly, but they just weren't the word i was trying to write anyways, and for anything that sounds a bit funny out loud sentence-structure wise. for someone without a beta reader, Grammarly and Read Aloud (the Chrome TTS extension i use) literally save my illiterate ass time and time again lmao. even my emails, even my essays, sometimes even longer posts on here (like this one lol)

8) A piece of worldbuilding that you like in your own story? (It could be the magic system, a particular place in the story, a law etc)

tbh most of my stories have relatively modern settings (which makes sense because i typically write psychodramas rather than fantasy or sci-fi, so most of my "worldbuilding" consists of me googling shit like "how long is the train journey from Brighton to Newcastle" lmaoo), but i did have an unfinished world i made not even for writing purposes, just for daydreaming, called Aldenhors which i still have an unfinished digital map of (made with Inkarnate). maybe i finish it before school starts back... anywho, Aldenhors had a unique calendar: 16 months a year, 20 days a month, 5 days a week, 20 hours a day (roughly 8 light, twelve dark). the months were named Annua, Verlo, Manna, Klaus, Jaes, Deboh, Firen, Liero, Caden, Temma, Fento, Quazo, Sprill, Wideo, Oraah, and Ulyss. which month you are born in determines what you will be innately skilled at and in which way you use/channel your power depends on your race. the majority of the inhabitants of Aldenhors live to the west of the Wyvviet Mountains and nobody crosses over to the east because it is said that horrors await there.

9) What piece of advice would you say to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

pretend you are creating a rant post about some media that isn't yours that the most recent episode/chapter/whatever of was released and you are a theorist. start with something like "okay so recently in [WIP name], X and Y did so and so and now X doesn't know how to feel about Y, right? well, i think that..." and just pretend to be taking part of a mass discussion happening online. keep going until you hit something golden, then write that golden patch into the real story. get yourself excited for what happens next. be your own fan. if you don't like what you're writing, then how can you expect anybody else to? some more advice is to pick up an idle hobby like crocheting, make a playlist with the vibes of your WIP, sit down, and just go at it, thinking the whole while about your OCs and your setting and all that jazz.

10) Tag some people whose works you love/have been your biggest supporters:

in terms of people whose work i love, there are two people in particular who come to mind. @inkskinned, i love the way you articulate absolutely everything that i've read of yours. one day I'll crack the code and reach your level. @thechildoflightning, although you've moved on from tumblr, your encompass series on ao3 is one of my favourite literary works ever and it will never cease to inspire me. thank both of you. when it comes to my own supporters, i'd want to tag every single person who has liked even one of my posts about any of my WIPs. as that's not possible, i'll have to name some people in particular, however, neither of these two people has a tumblr to my knowledge. anyhow, thank you to the two guest users "!lurk" and "The-Kings_prince" on ao3. without your two names littering my inbox sporadically, i know for a fact i would not have written quite as much as i have by this point.

and that concludes this essay! :D

clean question list below :)

1) What motivates you to write?

2) A line/short snippet of your writing that you are most proud/happy of. If not maybe share a line of someone else's work you love (just please credit them)

3) Which OC makes you smile every time you think/talk about them and what are they like?

4) What process of writing do you enjoy the most?

5) What part of writing do you think you are the best at? (Yes stroke your own ego it's okay)

6) What is something in the writeblr community is most enjoyable?

7) A writing tool/device you use that helps you with writing? (It could be speech to text, a writing program etc)

8) A piece of worldbuilding that you like in your own story? (It could be the magic system, a particular place in the story, a law etc)

9) What piece of advice would you say to encourage others to write if they are having a rough patch?

10) Tag some people whose works you love/have been your biggest supporters:

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#jake explains some things and steven cries a little and then when marc gets knocked back to the inner world jake punches him in the face lma

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Lmao sad angry boy Dick who wants revenge after his parents' death and Bruce watching him angst around the house for a week before kicking the door open to Alfred's bedroom and apologizing for his own behaviour because holy shit Alfred this is so hard, why won't he eat his food? He hasn't taken a shower in three days and glared at me when I asked him to then threw a spoon at me and yelled I'm not his dad, I am so sorry, please help me 😭

1,456 notes - Posted March 17, 2022

#4

Bast: This is T'Challa. He is the king of an extremely technologically advanced nation and comes from a long line of avatars. He is also incredibly beautiful and highly intelligent. An excellent fighter. I am so proud.

T'Challa, standing very regally beside her and looking stupid hot in his robes: It is wonderful to meet you.

Khonshu: This is Marc. I found him dying in a dumpster. He is very mentally ill and also hates me. Don't get too close if you haven't had all your shots yet. He bites and does not let go.

Marc, standing half behind Khonshu, glaring at everyone and covered in dirt: Gimme my mask back.

Khonshu: I told you, you can have your mask back at the end of the party. Be patient. It's only a couple hours.

Marc: You're ruining my life.

1,655 notes - Posted May 25, 2022

#3

Steven: I am having a terrible time! This is a terrible time!

Marc: In my defense. You were not supposed to be aware we were having a terrible time.

2,028 notes - Posted April 4, 2022

#2

Percy calling Nico to check in how he’s doing and Nico’s just “yeah i finished the job, I just got a pizza and then I’m gonna sleep and head home tmr” and Percy does the long-distance thing of “lmao, save me a slice” and screams when Nico’s hand shoves a pizza into his face through a shadow.

5,917 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Battinson and Dick's relationship would definitely be Dick prodding the waiter with a "He asked for no pickles actually" while Bruce laments his burger full of pickles and stares out the window in silent misery.

17,332 notes - Posted March 17, 2022

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[323398149]

It's been 10 years

I'm low-key not even a swiftie anymore (kinda, sorta)

I'm living my dream career (technically) (sorta)

And it's not once an hour, it's not once a day, it's not once a week, a month, or a quarter. It's more like once a year that I miss him. It's not even miss, it's more like think about and contemplate the past and relate it to my present.

I don't even know him. I just know the concept, the memory.

And I know that even the memory was terrible and gross and toxic.

But let me explain what happened recently that triggered these annoying, lame, over-done thoughts:

I got new skincare. I've been eating and sleeping well. I've been praying/meditating. I've been maintaining a positive outlook and been happy and hopeful recently. I finally started wearing nice makeup and I finally have the most fire wardrobe rn that I coulda only dreamed of in the past.

And so I've been getting a bunch of compliments recently of ppl telling me I'm glowing. Specifically three ppl from different parts of my life all used the same word.

But the thing is that none of those compliments feel like they hold any weight.

I already pulled the hottest guy in our grade. He was in love with me. ME! AND keep in mind that that was the ugly, loser, insecure, shitty, judgemental, mean (honestly SO mean), stupid, fifteen year old version of me. Not this sorta stable, medicated, whole, adult version.

Remember that gorgeous older white girl that asked him out? Or all those gorgeous tall academic girls crowding around me in grade 12 asking me questions about him because they couldn't understand how this RUSH loser could have been worth his time? and they wanted to know everything they could find out about him from me before they made their moves. Or when tiffany didn't talk to me for a year and then later apologized because she felt bad for letting a man pit her against me. And Jessica obviously (that one was just sad). ALSO LETS REMEMBER all of this was grade 11+12 so I didn't even have any communications with him at this point but I was still being interrogated about him.

Anyways my point is lmaooooo I think when my heart broke at 16 idk but maybe a part of it really did die. It's hard to describe it but I feel like a part of me is dead inside. Ever since then, anytime I've gotten attention I haven't felt special or grateful. I almost resent it. I feel annoyed that they're telling me something I already heard in a way more special way. Like they're parroting and copying it but they'll never be able to meet the magic or rush I used to feel when he said it.

There isn't a magic to it anymore. Now love feels very clinical. I guess I stopped believing in love? I guess at too young an age I became bitter and now just chalk it up to hormones and chemical imbalances.

And recently I heard someone talking about falling in love and I literally thought "agh that sounds terrible why would anybody want to FALL in love??! sounds like it would hurt smh". I just want to gently like drift into a soft stable comfortable kindness with someone. That's all.

Anyways idk if it's the new taylor swift album coming out (which pls be proud of me I haven't heard all the way through yet and I'm hoping to never hear it and stay halal) but yeah idk if I'll ever love anybody like I did that one time at fifteen which didn't even lead to anything and had zero payoff so it feels so wasteful and annoying that it happened.

But then I think about how like what if I end up dying alone and that ends up being the only thing I ever had worth remembering so maybe it's not so bad and maybe even tho it didn't pay off in a bigger way, maybe it was worth something.

Anyways but loooooooool like LMAO don't get me wrong like I know I know let's definitely not forget that it was literally NOTHING. Absolutely nothing happened but two teenagers feeling seen by eachother.

Tbh one of us should cash out on it and write a teen novel.

Wait after typing that out I just had a terrible realization. Lmaooooo jeez Louise this is why I'm supposed to journal so I can make sense of my toxic period thoughts.

With j I felt like "well duh you should obviously be saying that to me because you don't even compare to him. You saying that does not validate me in any way. I'm out of your league." BUT GUYS IT'S NOT MAGIC HELPPPP

I think I'm just finally grown up and confident and whole??? I don't feel "magic" from external validation. I know I'm a baddie helpppppppppp which I didn't know back then. Which is why I'd probs get hella endorphin release when he'd write those damn poems because I wanted someone ELSE to tell me good things about me. But now I know them in my own brain. Woah. Big thoughts. So maybe we're grateful to him for giving me that back when I really needed the attention. And now I'm ok with dying alone loooooooool and I don't need anybody to make me feel good. How interesting.

Well that was a weirdly wholesome exercise/rant. Glad we did this lmao @ my multiple personalities. Catch y'all on the flip side.

[beatdisc]

The Mark Of Cain's landmark 1995 Henry Rollins-produced album "Ill At Ease" receives the vinyl treatment for the very first time, along with the entire Livid Live '96 performance!

"The record is UN-BELIEVABLE. It's just one of the best things I have ever heard. I'm so proud to be involved." – Henry Rollins

Ill At Ease (Gun Metal Grey Vinyl) - $90 - Limited edition, fully remastered deluxe 2LP embossed gatefold sleeve on gun metal grey vinyl. Featuring the singles First Time and LMA, plus crowd favourites Tell Me, The Contender and Pointman. Expanded 2LP edition contains 5 bonus tracks!

Livid Live ’96 (Blood Red Vinyl) - $50 - Complete 30 minute set from Brisbane’s 1996 Livid Festival, remixed by ABC engineer Phil McKellar and pressed on limited blood red vinyl.

#themarkofcain#illatease#lividfestival

[kalijhomentethi]

I FINISHED THE MOVIE

i knew it i was rIGHT, i recognized the name of the scientist!!! She was doc ock!!! I’m so proud of myself for being able to recognize her despite the long time i spent not consuming Spiderman content

NOT MILES FACE PLANTING ALL THE WAY DOWN 😭😭

GWEEEEEEEEEEN

SHE’S SUCH A BADASS HOLY SHIT

“You don’t get to like my haircut” FNAKFNAKFJAKFNSKVBFJ

SHE USED TO BE IN A BAND??? HELLO???

AUNT MAY 😭😭😭

I teared up when Aunt May talked to alternate Peter,,,, mY HEART 😭 “You look tired, Peter.”

OK WOW SHE KNOWS SHE’S ALTERNATE PETER

ok what the fuck, the og peter parker must’ve been batman or something

HIS LAIR IS SO COOL!!! he has so many suits and vehicles and gadgets!!!!

“you think you were the only ones who thought of coming here?”

SPIDER NOIR

ANIME GIRL

PIG

help i love them ajgjaodjaknaofkf

spider noir is so damn COOL!!! he talks like one of those old detective movie characters (which is what he is gainakfkaofj) AND HE PUNCHES NAZIS!!!! 💯💯 10/10 spider noir is now my fave

ngl peni’s appearance made me go ANIME??? she’s like. peter parker as dva and that’s RAD

peter porker (LOL) is straight out of looney tunes and i love that

“one of us needs to stay here to destroy the machine”

all the spideys: ILL DO IT

yall. stop being so self-sacrificing 😭

but then. when they started pressuring miles i was like, oh no :( once again teared up for the poor boy

he turns invisible when panicking and when he doesn’t wanna exist 😔

JFC PROWLER (yall how does he know the guy’s name when he was never mentioned—) IS UNCLE AARON NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

he still ran to aunty may’s house when he found out 🥺

ok all of em fighting was cool and all but miles just panicking broke my heart. also i was like NOT THE HOUSE!!! NOT THE CAR 😭😭

and when prowler dangled miles off the roof, i just knew miles would take off his mask. Aaron immediately backing off :( BUT GOOD GOD I DIDNT EXPECT THE GUNSHOT

miles is rlly good at swinging around bodies—//SHOT

god i cried again when aaron died. a part of me wished miles would actually face his dad and explain instead of going invisible (involuntarily). but no, his dad now hated spideys even more :(

i just sat there silently as miles through all the shit in his room and went OOP when the notebook when flying back right at him. Cue the spideys entering his room.

BFOSJFIENDKSF THEY RLLY STUCK TO THE CEILING AND MADE THE BOY FAINT LIKE THAT

oh my god they all lost someone dear to them :(

i just completed pork’s sentence before he finished speaking,,,, “the worst part about this job is that you can’t save everyone” MY HEART HURTS

“we’re probably the only people who know exactly how you feel” 😭

when the others started saying goodbye and peter took the goober from miles, i started crying again dbakfnaofjs HE CAN’T CONTROL HIS POWERS 😭😭😭😭 HE LOST SO MANY PEOPLE AND YET HE CAN’T AVENGE THEM

i was outright sobbing when miles’ dad came by. “I love you. You don’t have to say it back.” FUUUUUUUUUCK

i wasn’t even trying to wipe my tears man. i was just sitting there crying.

Then the lightning traveled through his body and he basically super saiyan’d his way out of the webs. i was like OH?

then the roommate woke up and saw the shit around the room and went fuck this im going back to bed LMAO such a mood

IT’S A LEAP OF FAITH LETS GOOOOOOOO

the music in this movie is so fucking good.

AUNT MAY IN THE LAIR 🥺 I LOVE HER!! “took you long enough.” FJAKDJSJS

WHY DID MILES SPRAY PAINT THE WHOLE SPIDERMAN SUIT THO?? there was already a black suit 😭😭 that bugged me so much but ig he chose that suit for sentimental value

HIM SWINGING THRU THE STREEEETS

fucking goosebumps!!!!!!!

—

ok timeskip to the spideys invading the special event

“it can’t be that easy.”

“it was that easy.”

LMAOOOOO

NOT PETER SAYING SORRY TO NOT HIS MJ 💀

gwen’s face 😂😂😂 shes like oh my g o d. FACEPALM. I LOVE GWEN SM. i really love how they animate the masks to show their expressions

peter: im sorry for everything

mj: oh dw it’s just bread

😂😂😂 LMAOOOOOOOO

—

ok now theyre in the underground lab

all of their spider senses tingling and suddenly everyone’s fighting something

Not the classic anvil and hammer ajdkajskakdkanfks

MILES!!!!!!!!!

Everyone being happy to see him 😭😭

Marvel vs Capcom but with 3 people tag. Miles, Gwen, and Peter really took their turns beating Ock up.

“Watch out, this’ll take a while.”

*Doc Ock gets smacked with a bus (train?)*

“Oh, nevermind.”

😂😂 i love this movie

NOOO the robot is dead :( but the spider came out so ig the robot could be rebuilt? I heard something like the robot had the soul of something.

EVERYONE SAYING GOODBYE 😭😭 DAMMIT TEARING UP AGAIN

“Thank you. From the both of us.” Peni holding up her spooder 🥺

“I love you all.” WE LOVE YOU TOO SPIDER NOIR!!!!!! “And I’m taking this thing with me. I don’t know what it is but I’ll find out.” HE’S SO AAA

“Take this hammer. It fits in your pocket.” 😂 PORKER FNSKKD

“Do I get to like your haircut now?” LMAOOOOO I’m glad Gwen now accepts Miles as her friend <3

PETER STOP IT WITH YOUR SELF-SACRIFICING TENDENCIES AND GO HOME

“How will I know I won’t mess it up?”

“You won’t.”

“That’s right. It’s a leap of faith.”

GOOSEBUMPS

and then miles decided to 1v1 kingpin in hand-to-hand combat ok boy, good luck getting smacked around ajfkajfksjfksnf

HIS DAD WATCHING HIM AND CHEERING HIM ON 😭

NOT THEY SHOULDER TOUCH!!!!!!! SHDJSJDKSNFKSNF

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Ending

Ok criminals apprehended 👌

His dad immediately answering the call 😭

“Do you know who did it?”

“I thought I did. But I was wrong.”

AND

“Do you wanna “put up” your art in a privately-owned establishment like the police station?”

NAWW NOT MILES HUGGING HIM IN SPIDERMAN FORM

“I love you!”

“Oh and, look behind you!”

BROOOOOO KINGPIN’S IN A FUCKING WEBBBBB GOOD SHITT

from ur friendly neighborhood spiderman <3

kingpin does NOT look happy LOOOL

everyone applauding 💖💖💖

THE AARON GRAFFITI 😭😭

Miles finally found out what he wants to do 💖

Peter tried to patch things up with MJ!!

Gwen is fine again with making friends <33

Noir opened up a thing to show the Rubik’s cube LOL

Porker is happy being back in his world!

AND NOT THE PARALLELISMMMM

It started with “I’ve been the only Spiderman for 10 years,” and ended with “I’ve been Spiderman for only 2 days” which is fine because “I know that there are others like me.” 😭😭

WAIT WHAT

GWEN WAS CALLING TO MILES? WAS ANOTHER PORTAL OPENING UP? DID SHE CALL OUT TO HIM EVEN WHILE BEING IN HER OWN WORLD?

—

Post-Credits Scene

Wtf. The dude looks like evil Spiderman. The Multiverse didn’t collapse apparently. And he has a device to travel to the other universes.

THE SPIDERMAN MEME LOOOOOOOL

YOU POINTED FIRST

NO YOU!!

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Final Notes

I really really really love the soundtrack. Time to play it on repeat.

If Spider Gwen is from another world, then where/what is the Gwen from Miles’ world? Is she also a spider person?

I love it when all of them get their spider senses tingling. Everyone just gets squiggly lines above their heads.

The spider that bit Miles was labeled #42. Assuming that another one was the spider that bit Peter way back, where are the other 40? Are there spiders with numbers above 42? What if they had a Spider-verse within their own world this whole time?

I was calling the group of spideys “Spider-people” this whole time and I felt very satisfied when the cops on the radio called them the same thing.

I love the “Okay, one more time from the beginning” line. When more characters were added to the comic pile until eventually Miles also had his own comic, I was like 🥺

In conclusion, this was a cinematic masterpiece. I love it. It was a rollercoaster of emotions. Can’t wait for the sequel. HOPEFULLY SILK IS IN THAT ONE!!

watching into the spiderverse

[therealvalkyrie]

just wrote the first 500 words of painter’s hands and guatemalan coffee part 2!! if i keep on top of my goals, i should have it out by the end of this week *knock on wood*

i’m going to go to bed, but i just wanted to document that i had a productive day today and i’m proud of myself:

- hung up the laundry i’ve been putting off for two days

- did two loads of dishes

- wrote 500 words

- rediscovered some poetry i wrote last year (would that be something y’all are interested in seeing? it’s not fandom-related, just mainly tidbits from my life)

- ate two full meals (leftover salmon for breakfast and beef vegetable stew for dinner) and several snacks

- avoided caffeine after 3pm

[weenierufu]

here are,,,, some backgrounds i made lm A O,,,

[sn0wbat]

oh heck, more trollsona sprites?? well that’s cool i guess

also, i read up on a bunch of space player class speculation, and it seems like i’m just an immature maid of space. i dunno if it’s true at all, but it seems pretty appropriate for now. 

[caffeled]

                  ❛     kiss   my   ass   you   sanctimonious   bastard .

[roysexton]

VIDEO: https://www.facebook.com/KatesMedia/videos/1499275900428916/ I love my brilliant, kind, creative friend Gail Porter Lamarche. She shared her wisdom and wit with me and a strangely absent Rob Kates on Legal Marketing Coffee Talk today. We discussed the importance of authenticity, the magic of #music and fabulous #parenting, the benefit to firms of marketers who engage the community, how much we love Legal Marketing Association - LMA International, the fabulous learning and connection at #LMA21, the power of #digital thought leadership, how to coach #attorneys to network with intentionality, Norman Love Confections, Theatre Nova, #tacoTuesdays, beloved #furbabies, and more. And how proud we are of ass-kicking Laura Toledo! Shout outs to beloved family, friends, and colleagues include Nancy Leyes Myrland, Gina Furia Rubel, Heather Morse-Geller, Lindsay Griffiths, Megan McKeon, Kelly MacKinnon, John Byrne, Ross Fishman, Don Sexton, Nancy Slome, David Ackert, Passle, James Barclay, Tommy Franz, Kevin Iredell, Maggie Stuart Watkins, Adrian T Dayton, and more! (at Saline, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV34-zNv1c9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Why Laurie’s physical features matter

If you follow me, you have probably seen me complaining about this before: how movie and tv adaptations of Little Women consistently ignore the fact that Laurie is described as tall and dark (”brown skin”) with black eyes and black curly hair.

It isn’t just about representation (though it is important) but about who Laurie is as a character, why he is the way he is and how his relationship with his grandfather is the way it is.

Laurie’s physical appearance tells us that he is half Italian, and that he looks Italian, and LMA makes a point of emphasizing that:

"How I wish I was going to college! You don't look as if you liked it."

"I hate it! Nothing but grinding or skylarking. And I don't like the way fellows do either, in this country."

"What do you like?"

"To live in Italy, and to enjoy myself in my own way."

"That's why he has such handsome black eyes and pretty manners, I suppose. Italians are always nice," said Meg, who was a little sentimental.

“He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American.”

“for in the Italian part of his nature there was a touch of superstition”

“The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself”

“She watched him for a moment with artistic pleasure, thinking how like an Italian he looked, as he lay basking in the sun with uncovered head and eyes full of southern dreaminess, for he seemed to have forgotten her and fallen into a reverie.”

An explanation as to why this is so important can be found in Marmee’s explanation:

"Mother, why didn't Mr. Laurence like to have Laurie play [the piano]?" asked Jo, who was of an inquiring disposition.

"I am not sure, but I think it was because his son, Laurie's father, married an Italian lady, a musician, which displeased the old man, who is very proud. The lady was good and lovely and accomplished, but he did not like her, and never saw his son after he married. They both died when Laurie was a little child, and then his grandfather took him home. I fancy the boy, who was born in Italy, is not very strong, and the old man is afraid of losing him, which makes him so careful. Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician. At any rate, his skill reminds him of the woman he did not like, and so he 'glowered' as Jo said."

Laurie is an orphan who lost his parents at an early age. Mr. Laurence, who had cut ties with his son, learns that his son has died before they could get reconciled, and that he had a grandchild he had to take care of from then onwards. As he doesn’t know what to do, he keeps Laurie in Europe, attending school there. Laurie was practically an institutionalized child. Mr. Laurence finally hires a tutor for Laurie, and brings him home to live with him. By the start of the novel, they have really known each other for a very short time.

Laurie wants to go back to Europe, to tread his roots, to be in the place to which he, by temper and looks, feels like he belongs to. Laurie’s appearance is a constant reminder that he doesn’t quite fit in Concord’s society, and this only changes when the Marches make him one of their own. That’s why he has a mother-son relationship with Marmee. That’s one of the reasons why he is so dejected when Jo refuses him. That’s why he is so lousy at college.

Mr. Laurence, on his side, is terrified of losing Laurie, the same way he lost both his children --both musically inclined, as was Laurie’s mother, of whom Laurie bears the resemblance-- (and one can suppose, his wife) at a young age. It is no wonder that he doesn’t want Laurie to play or dedicate himself to music. It is only his story arc with Beth that helps him recover from his aversion to music, and it is under this light how important for him as a character is his offer to Laurie, after the failed proposal, to go to Europe with him, try his art and enjoy himself. Mr. Laurence wants to be there for his grandson and correct somehow what he didn’t do for his son.

Laurie isn’t just a standard boy-next-door. He is a character in his own right that cannot be understood properly unless his background is taken into account, because it significantly shapes his temper and the way he relates to other characters in the novels. That’s why it is important for him to be played by an actor who has dark skin, black eyes and curly black hair.

[voidtouchedicarus]

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~) 🌼🌻

hgfhgf OK I GUESS. SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG I’M........... havin a hard time apparently lma o,,,

I guess I do like my fashion sense as of late-- and even on work days I feel really comfortable in my nice dress shirts (hopefully more so when my binder comes in within the next few days). It makes me feel confident.

Not to sound vain but my hair is ON POINT lately and i’m feeling peak masc-androgynous and like a general bad bitch when my bangs flip down over my left eye.

Even if work is rough af lately, i’m getting better at making drinks faster despite the pressure/speed I have to keep up w, proud of myself for that.

Been doing more art lately, and trying to keep up w doing art, even if i don’t post it all, just to keep myself from gettign too rusty. And i’m not 100% UGH’d by my art currently, so that’s good!?

I’M TRYING BUT IT’S HARD TO THINK RN UHHHH getting better about not accidentally/subconsciously misgendering myself at home?? or in my head???

[zabobzionek]

My entry for Back to Alola zine I drew back in November! The zine will be viewable for everyone, we got allowed to post full pieces right now as there's some delay in putting the zine together ;u; I'm still so proud of it! I fought with perspective and my shading technique during drawing this one, I think I did a great job! I'm looking forward to drawing more complex pieces from now on, it's a great challenge c: Man, I think I learned a lot during drawing all those zine pieces it's amazing Gosh I soo love Pokemon Sun and Moon, especially those dorks! I had a lot of fun playing the game - finished the main storyline, 100% Pokedex here I come! Also, did you know that I made a Team Skull Grunt cosplay? B) Here's a small preview, I don't have much photos of me in it though - https://twitter.com/carrsscrap/status/916616239820177408 (In a more wintery manner, it was so cold I had to prepare myself to not wander around the con place half-naked lma o and look at this cheap wig I bought last minute)

[thesevenactsofmercykayla]

What I took from this process and some rehearsal pics and vids

With every performance I do at LMA I feel as though I better myself as there’s always something new to learn. I think this time around I took some time looking into beats and actions than I ever had before. We actually took some time as a class to work out what the beats and actions were for each scene which is something I always tell myself I’ll do as an actor but never actually get round to doing so I was happy to sit down and get to spend some time on. I found this worked so well for me and gave me clarity for each scene, it was nice to know exactly what my character’s aim was that isn’t just written out in the script for me. For example, scene one I decided Lavinia’s aim is to scope Caravaggio out and show him that she’s an artist too, she’w much more than a prostitute. Her overall objective for the play I’d say is to be proud, and to be loved. This technique really helped me out and it’s definitely something I will continue to use going forward.

I will also take the new way of learning lines from this process, it’s so much easier and I’m gutted I didn’t use this technique earlier. Learning lines was definitely a limitation of mine this term before I set in that method of line learning.

I already knew how much music can change a scene but I was definitely taken aback by how well it worked in this show and so I will definitely be thinking about music for every performance I do in the future, even if it’s just to make a playlist to keep for myself.

I enjoyed working with a split cast, it meant there was more time to focus on just our performance. In the past we’ve had both cast working at the same time and it really did take up a lot of rehearsal time. I also learned that although I enjoy ensemble work, I also enjoyed work with just the two cast members my character met throughout the play. It was easy to build up chemistry as there was only those to to focus on.

Below are some pictures taken during rehearsals, this also allows you to see a little bit how we had the our half of the stage set up, there was a table, an easel with the painting on and a ladder, quite minimal but very effective. We also got given a huge realistic canvas with the painting on it that we would use, we were all super excited about that.