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Top Summer Events and Vacations of 2013
Yesterday, I missed posting Money Monday here on the blog because I spent the day with my soon-to-be college girl and my sweet grandson at the zoo! You know I am a money saver, and each year, our zoo holds a $2 admission day! Is it hot…Yes! Is there a lot of people….Yes! But do I love making the memories & getting such a discount…..Yes! So in a way, I was actually saving on a Money Monday instead…
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#best family vacations#bucket list summer#day at the zoo#family bonding#family vacations#summer memories#summer vacations#Summertime
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I like to think that when Mini Mal the son becomes a kid (like 6 yrs old) he gets so good at magic that no one can track him anymore except for dad. Uncles Silver and Sebek would always have their hands full searching for him with zero luck. Malleus is always on top of exactly where his son is though, but when Silver and Sebek beg him to tell them where the little prince is, he'd only chuckle quietly and say "Hm, I wonder."
That's because he knows that his son's hobby is following and getting a kick out of his uncles desperately searching for him.
So when Silver and Sebek approach their master again to beg for coordinates, Malleus hands them a map with an encircled location and simply says "Have fun," with a smile. The pair rush to the specified place with the boy secretly in tow.
It's a little village currently holding a festival. Popcorns, cotton candies, ferris wheels, roller coasters. Magic. With sparkling eyes and mouth agape, the little boy finally appeared between his uncles to excitedly drag them around the festivities.
Their kindly king had asked them to take a break.
#i love the thought of busy dad malleus sending off his knights with his children to different wonderlands#so that they can still experience having fun even on the days he couldn't attend to them#ofc he does his best to free up some time for their entire family to go on vacations#he's very responsible#twisted wonderland#ventique rambles#malleus draconia#sebek zigvolt#twst silver
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Plush Pep's travel in Europe (more photos below the cut)
I wish I could have took more pictures with him but I was a little too socially anxious to haha. Maybe next time!
(I posted some of these photos like a month or two ago on reddit, so don't mind if you've seen the pisa tower pics before)
#i took these pictures back in the summer but i didn't get the chance to post them#i wasnt in the right mental state to get back to posting on social media after my trip#my family got a call from the boarding kennel that my childhood dog passed away while we were still on vacation#2 of my best friends left me not long after that#it was too much to handle to say the least....#sorry#im being too personal here#anyways here's the tags#pizza tower#peppino spaghetti#peppino plush#doodle does other stuff#this post keeps getting formatted weird so I have to edit this constantly haha
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New photo of Boyd! ❤️
August, 2024
Tatiana posted to her IG story few minutes ago!
Thank you so much, Tatiana, for sharing this photo with us! ❤️
#boyd holbrook#<3#love him#admire him#he’s incredible#he’s the best#new photo#thank you tatiana#boyd and his family#vacation#august 2024
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JOHN LARROQUETTE as Don Moore SUMMER RENTAL (1985), dir. Carl Reiner
#he's got that dad-driving-a-boat stance DOWNNNN#my shock when he was just a really nice divorced guy. most normal john larroquette character (real)#I am 100% buying this on DVD and forcing my extended family to watch this on vacation next month#john larroquette#summer rental#*#this movie perfectly proves the point I've been babbling about incoherently for weeks. he is such a neighborhood dad crush#I am 13 again and his kid is my best friend and he picks us up from our girl scout meetings or drives us to the pool. and I am in love#he is so tall and nice I am embarrassed to talk to him and can never look him in the eye#<- see I decided to say it here instead of letterboxd this time
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Okay, but why did they write Sheila like that? Like she gets next to no screen time, despite viewing the girls as family, and then suddenly doesn't want Darryl covering for them anymore (which don't get me wrong, she's valid for it but it's a 180 reversal of the like one personality we had going for her) and like. The sisters needed friends, and Sandra Prosper is on the show for nine episodes but they just. stick her in the background, give her a line or two, and that's it. And I mean, Darryl is a main character for seven seasons, and she's his wife. Even though he wasn't one of the main main characters, you'd think they'd do literally anything with her like c'mon.
#charmed#sheila morris#we literally know nothing about her#job family (besides darryl and the boys) hobbies opinions#ffs they didnt even give her a joke like something she did on vacation on spring break in college#like she genuinely ceases to exist the moment she's off screen#best demonstrated in that she's defined by what the narrative needs#and they do not do it well either#like i love the morris family so much but sheila is so hard to characterize#bc what am i supposed to work with? two contradicting perspectives on their relationship with the sisters?#darryl didnt get many plots either but we at least got something#and dj and michael are basically ocs with canon last names#but sheila? i got nothing man you cant make that make sense without SOMETHING more
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i love my family so much. @actuallylukedanes had plans to go with their spouse to the state fair yesterday, and i planned to use my alone time to work on projects. but when i idly mentioned that i wished i could go to the fair too, because smaller local fairs were an essential and literally-every-year part of my life growing up, my best friend said there was no reason i couldn't--and their spouse's reaction to the idea was to be enthusiastically in support.
these two people, my own chosen family, not only gave me a ride so i could enjoy the day, but spent as much of it with me as possible just because we could all have fun together. and they never once made it seem like i was crashing their couple time, and when i chose to try and walk the grounds rather than using a mobility device (like i do during zoo visits that make leander happy) they never once treated me like i couldn't handle it and enforce my own limits or like i was dragging everything down by needing breaks.
so this is just an appreciation post for my people, who were happy to invite me at the last minute for a day of sun and strangers and entertainment and curly fries and testing my limits. it was nice to be reminded that i'm capable of more than my everyday routine, and also to be reminded of the way i used to live, that i miss. spontaneous plans, and trading spoons for experiences without regretting it, and not assuming that i need to stay home while everyone else does things (or assuming that i should avoid being around two people who don't get a lot of time together, cuz i don't want to bother them).
yesterday was a really good day.
#and in october i get to see black violin perform! and for my birthday i'll be seeing hadestown!!#will i be paying off my credit cards forever in order to both have fun and cover my basic needs? probably.#but it's really unbelievably nice to have fun at all--while i also have a safe place to live and access to groceries.#so i'll find a way to figure it out.#life stuff#actuallylukedanes#b who still sometimes surprises me by being so welcoming#(curly fries made at a fair are truly the best thing that don't exist anywhere else.#every year of my life before adulthood i waited all year long for the fair to start again#and every year i got to have those fries and it was just one happy memory i could count on#when actually not that much in my life was stable and reliable joy that way.#so the fair involved my family and my creativity and even my survival when i started selling things there#but the memories are all good ones--i don't remember a single bad thing.#i guess now that i think about it...fairs are my disneyland.#lol which is probably why i don't understand the appeal of actual disneyland#i already grew up in mine and when disneyland doesn't have livestock or free pens or plentiful food samples#it's hard for me to understand how it could be anywhere near as fun!#--this may be one of the things that marks my upbringing as rural.#other people had family vacations to amusement parks or natural wonders#i thought free stuff from local businesses was the height of luxury and seeing rabbits was exotic)#/tag abuse
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oh i caught covid btw. hashtag Yay
#im a bit pissed abt it bcus its literally not my fault. family came home from vacation and i caught it that way#SICK TO THE BASTARD DEATH OF IT#thankfully it seems to be very mild but you know. not happy.#i am making the best of a bad situation and drew some links today though. happy happy happy#hope everyone is well. please for the love of god wear a mask. peace and love on planet earth#personal.txt
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hi robin :] very random but im watching craft videos while i eat dinner and it got me thinking about ur ceramics. giving u permission to ramble about the ceramics process (or literally anything abt ceramics), if you want to <3 idk anything abt ceramics like not a clue but im very curious and every time u talk abt them i stare at u w sparkly eyes (also i've recently developed a HUGE respect for all 3d arts bc holy shit making it look right at all angles ?????literally how)
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Hi thank you so much!! staring at you with the same sparkly eyes,,, watching craft videos while you eat that's so cool,,, Also, weirdly enough, I have the same "how???" thoughts about doing 2d art. I have trouble conceptualizing making something look right from only 1 angle; that seems like a lot of pressure. with a sculpture, if something doesn't look right from one angle, I know there's probably some structural problem, and I turn the sculpture around a little bit and usually figure out that the problem is deeper than what I thought. I'm thinking of ears, specifically—how, often, my problem with the outlines of my ears (seen from the front) is that the back of the ear isn't full enough, I need to add clay, and just nudging the clay to fix the outline wouldn't Work. and I wouldn't have known if I couldn't turn the sculpture around. the respect and awe goes both ways
longgg ramble about the ceramics process below the cut :]
okay SO. the ceramics process, huh? Well, I mean, I'm really in love with the sculpting part, where you take wet clay and make it into an Animal with Bones And Muscles. I just love the animal form—I think in a similar way to how you love the human form and the way clothing folds. I do wheel-throwing too (I make cups, bowls, that sort of thing), but I've been sculpting since I was like 8 years old and I'm way better at sculpture. it's one of a few things in my life that I take genuine pride in. I love teaching people about sculpting, too!! nothing better than seeing someone instantly grasp the insight I spent years developing <333 ANYWAY
one thing that often surprises people about clay is that it's very... flexible, water-content-wise. clay is basically made of a bunch of small "plates" of dry material with water in between. the water makes the entire structure flexible, which is why clay shrinks and goes brittle when it dries. and clay is always drying out. small sculptures like the ones I make, especially ones with thin limbs (more surface area for the air to leech moisture out of) dry out within half an hour. I have to add water to the thin parts every so often the whole time I'm sculpting. but of course the clay has to be firm enough to hold the creature's overall shape, so it's a balance. it's always a race against time. it's super exciting. To Me, anyway
it takes a day or two for a sculpture to dry. After the sculpture dries out, that's when I paint it with my special pigments. (pigments that survive 2,000+ degrees of heat!!) Like this:
these are the same sculpture. the first picture was from right after I sculpted the wet clay; the second picture is after it got painted.
Then once a sculpture is made, it sits and dries, right? the water leaves the clay. but not ALL the water. that's why you "fire" the sculpture: you put it in a kiln and heat it up to ~1800°F. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DEGREES. at that point, all the water boils out and the clay CHEMICALLY CHANGES. the "plates" begin to bond to each other. But they don't bond all the way in the first firing, because you want the clay to still be porous / hydrophilic. you want it to SUCK IN WATER. this is because you want GLAZE to attach to the clay.
Glaze—at least the kind of glaze that I use—is basically DIY glass. It's a lot of very fine silica (sand) with other stuff (like powdered metals) in it to give color. The sand-metal-powder is suspended in water to make it usable, and I stir up the glaze in its liquid form and dip my sculpture in it, and the super dry clay goes YAY WATERRR I'M SO THIRSTY and GRABS the glaze, and the powdery part is left on the surface of the sculpture while the water goes into the clay. it feels funny on your skin when you hold a sculpture in the glaze; you can actually feel the dry clay accepting the water. it feels like... have you ever dropped water on a bone-dry wooden board and seen the water spread out in the direction of the wood's grain? it feels like that.
the sculpture is left looking white and powdery and generally not very attractive. unfired glaze is just... thick white chalk.
THEN I fire the clay a SECOND time. The heat varies, but I always fire to at least 2,244° F. >:D >:D >:D and the sandy glaze actually MELTS INTO GLASS. and I open the kiln, which has the products of about a year or two of work in it, and I WEEP IN JOY because everything has COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED. firing is always risky. some of the sculptures always fail somehow—they break in firing for various reasons, or the glaze runs onto the shelf, or the glaze color turns out different than I thought. but some of them always come out BETTER than I imagined. and it's always a process of discovery, slowly unloading the kiln, layer by layer... the objects still warm from the heat of their firey transformation... hot enough to burn, if you're unloading before they've cooled enough, which I usually do because it's just so exciting...
and my glaze shrinks slightly more than the clay does. imagine that: a thin layer of glass shrinking more than it can take. you can actually hear it breaking. little quiet "plink! plink! plink!" as the glass shatters just a little under the stress. we call it "crazing" and it leaves little cracks in the glaze, like so:
you can also see tiny bubbles in the glaze on the rabbit's inner ear!
I just. (physically shaking) I just love ceramics so much. The sculpting part feels almost like meditation. it's almost a form of worship, for me, it's religious, it's a little version of creation, a way to look at bodies and try to express how they work. For the simple sculpture, I just make them from memory, but I work from references for my difficult sculptures—for instance, here's the little pile of images I collected to make my recent tiger:
the painting part is just plain fun, putting cool designs and stuff on a 3-d object in a low-pressure way. and then the two firings are pure magic. pure delayed gratification. it's incredible. you're telling me this thing I shaped with my mortal human fingers survives TWO THOUSAND DEGREES OF HEAT? you're telling me I get to MAKE COLORED GLASS? out of SAND and METAL? you're telling me after all that, I get to open up the kiln which has put these things through immense heat and see these beautiful objects and go I made those?????
YEAH. SCREAMS.
thanks for reading, I hope you had fun <333
#HIII#hi what a fabulous ask??#sorry I'm a little late; I was on a like vacation family visit thing#back now!! just in time to answer your ask and then vanish offline for a few more days I'm afraid OTL#this is so technical... augh... I only care about chemistry in the context of ceramics but in this context I go INSANE about it#sorry I wrote you a whole essay on the ceramics process... do you forgive me... do you still love me#ceramics#Robin speaks#am I *GOOD* at anatomy? eh... not the best! do I *LOVE* trying to figure out anatomy? YES
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one of my favorite jack posts of all time is this one from 2018 that’s just a compilation of people’s first impressions of him because it’s literally just so fucking funny
tag yourself im cries a lot and buddy the elf
#sometimes I check it for accuracy as a silly jokey joke#omg I just had the best idea ever to draw jack based on these things#I shall do that within two weeks time as I am one day away from a vacation sadly ^.^#spn#supernatural#spn shitpost#shitpostnatural#jack kline#this is literally a time capsule post like I was in middle school when I discovered it#spn fandom#spn family#jack spn#trying so hard to give this enough tags without cross tagging irrelevantly#yea ok fuck that we’re cross tagging I need this to be seen it’s so funny#sam winchester#dean winchester#castiel#tfw2.0#team free will 2.0#spn season 14#I miss hoodie jack so so much he deserved to wear more hoodies#the way he literally owned a bright red one and we only got to see it when kaia wore it#truly a tragedy if I ever saw one#omg and the sweatpants from when he was dying#and the silly little socks . I am very emotional about his wardrobe I’m sorry gang#the autism won im crying over his socks gang#of all the things to be sad about#oh yeah and his checkered pj pants and bright yellow vans#crying snd throwing up#jack
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What are the the babies/ sparklings favorite vacation spots? Where do they like to go to have fun and play with their creators? Something like that.
Their creators are constantly busy with politics n shit so the sparklings rarely go on vaca, when they do tho every moment is precious.
Starting with the prime siblings, Sentinel loves feeling rich and important so he loves going to expensive hotels and such. He just loves to have the feeling of power wherever he goes even on vacation, little prince 😅 Optimus is a very simple sparkling, as long as he is in his creators arms no matter where he goes he will be happy. Though he is especially fond of going to the beach, he enjoys making sandcastles with Elita or just sitting by the shade with Alpha as they both watch Ultra swing Sentinel around on his hammer. Elita the spoilt child she is loves a spa holiday, the spa resort Alpha and his gir- *slap* colleagues usually go to has a special package deal for little sparklings like Elita and she loves it.
Ninja sparklings now, Jazz always dreamt of going to a concert specifically one by an interstellar DJ duo, unfortunately his creators wouldn’t allow is since he’s literally a baby and being around such an environment could damage his audio receptors. So Jazz will have to wait until he’s abit older to have the time of his life. Prowlie is always in awe whenever Yoketron takes him to the cybercrystal caves hidden in the deep mountains of cybertron, the formation of crystals and the intricacies of the stalagmites and stalactites never fail to drop the jaw of this little organic enthusiast. He will always find these natural phenomenons fascinating. Drift is of course a weird one, while he does love the gorgoes and serene energon falls in the outskirts of Iacon, he never has the excited look on his face compared to going to the medical unit and seeing his favourite doctor, THE doctor of course. Yoketron and Dai are starting to feel uncomfortable with their sparklings obsession with Dr Ratchet…
#sparkling siblings au#tfa optimus prime#tfa sentinel prime#tfa prowl#tfa elita one#tfa jazz#tfa drift#but of course the best vacations are ones spent with family#and their creators are really the ones making these moments worthwhile
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were there any pre canon concepts for adrien's/felix's room? i hate the canon one so much the layout confuses me
Afraid not. I think the closest we have is the information that Felix/ Adrian's family owned a hotel (this is before he was made into the villain's son.) A lot of early and even current ladybug is pretty focused around Marinette. Nathan-Felix-Adrien as a character is shockingly inconsequential to the narrative as a whole. (Which is probably why he was so easily edited throughout development whereas Marinette stayed pretty consistent.... And is also apparently still the case from what I've heard of the recent season.)
You can actually really see a lot of the inspiration that it transferred to the agreste mansion... But it also lost a lot of style and flair. Richard had a lot of art deco inspiration in the buildings associated with his character. And you can kind of see that in the hotel piece here. It's all connected, at least I believe it is.
It makes sense that the current one is frustrating. It's a mix between " oh this is what a fabulously wealthy teen boy would like" being full of video games and literal arcade machines, but still having like no personality? Like it's big. Because Adrian is rich. And it's like... Largely undecorated because Gabriel is like a minimalist or whatever... Except for all of the stuff that Adrian has because he's rich. And that's literally the end of it.
Edit: If I were to fathom a... A room that does line up with that hotel era then I would do something like this, except with more whites and golds rather than blue... Or just tailor it to however the cat's relationship to his father is.
#It's like go one way or the other man#is he overprotected and not allowed to express himself? then give him the bare bones room with nothing but the bookshelves.#or is he spoiled and sheltered where he can literally do whatever the fuck he wants to his apartment-sized room.#I never particularly like depicting Felix as a character who benefits from his father's wealth#largely because I'm caught between that crossroad of not really wanting to depict a rich character#but also you can't divorce that from Felix's narrative and still indulge in him being related to Richard#my favorite depiction is that sure his family is rich. But his father is also incredibly strict.#Felix gets the bare minimum. he gets a room. he gets a bed. he gets a desk. And because Rich is a generous soul... A bookshelf#but this isn't your house boy. And if you want to live here then you have to live by my rules and you have to fulfill my requirements#he has no rights to privacy. he has no rights to a space of his own. he has no rights to pick his hobbies. not while he's living there#and it's all painted in that bright white because if anyone's going to be a minimalist it's going to be Richard Sphinx#no wonder Felix likes to escape into books or hide at the library or spend his time in the park#no wonder he takes so easily to being chat when his life is like this#in Stark contrast to private Jets and literal yacht vacations and the best toys that daddy's money can buy energy that Adrian gives off
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Pluto ~ The Hills Have Eyes ~ 1977
#kmthirteen#skinetom#kmthirteenhorror#skinetom horror#horror#midnight spookshow#skinetomgirls#70’s best year for horror#pluto#wes craven#family vacation#cannibal horror#cannibalism
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i <3 feeling like i'm literally always making the wrong choice
#every passing day i dig a little deeper the bottomless debt i owe my parents#monetarily and morally#and god i wish i could kill myself but noooooo i tried again and i can't fucking do it i can't#so i just. i don't know i want to be incapacitated i want to be in the psych ward forever.#i don't want to fail and never make enough money to pay for their retirement home#i don't want to have to visit them every god-knows-how-often#i don't want to be fifty years old and still having to exist in relation to my parents#and god they've done nothing BAD i shouldn't want to cut all contact with them#but it's so. i don't know. i don't know how people even do it.#like you always have to come back home you always have to act right you always have to think abt them and text them and call them#and nothing you do is ever right and you want things that can't coexist with their happiness and peace of mind#and you're an asshole in every way you're an asshole deep down and you're an asshole outwardly too#but you can't stop wanting stupid things and acting weird and demanding#and it's a curse upon them to have you near but it's literally so fucking ungrateful of you to stray away a little#and you still do it because you can't stop wanting to follow things instead of keeping to your resolutions#and trying to do the best for them#and nothing is ever the best for them it's always just bad choices cause you shouldn't even exist you're just wrong you're born wrong#you don't want things that are good for them too and you're not capable of good things#dad wants to go on vacation at his family's like twice a year. mom want to stay home and take care of business and relax this year too#even now that grandma is gone and doesn't require her to be near. cuz emptying the flat & all of that.#and it's just. cool cool i make the wrong choice whichever way.#if i stay with mom i'll make dad's family sad and inconvenience my mom and leave dad alone#if i go with dad i'll leave mom alone (also alone to work on the flat) and i'll be an annoying asshole to dad and his family#because i'm too stupid and egoistical to pretend to be fine with things that mildly inconvenience me for five seconds#and either way i won't do any fucking work because i'm a sad piece of shit and i'm going to fail the fuck out of school next year#broadcasting my misery#vent
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anyway. it’s been a rough week
#on my last day of my family vacation and like… it was awful. emotionally#my family are so fucked up lmao and i barely got to talk to either of my sisters bc they both brought plus ones :) :)#and i’m still reeeeeeeling from one of my best friends from college revealing she had a full on affair w a coworker a few years ago#while she was living w her gf… and the fact she kept it secret from me for sooooo fucking long like come on#it explains everything it explains why i havent felt close to her in years there was always this between us. and in all that time the amount#of convos we had abt feeling disconnected and me thinking maybe even I had done something or failed somehow. NOPE!! she’s been lying to me#for years :)))) and years :)) and this isn’t even the first time she’s kept a huge secret LOL#AND. oh my god. my current roommate is finally at the end of her abusive relationship and is actively suicidal rn#she’s watching my cats alone while telling ppl she doesnt care if she lives or dies.. girl no offense but you HAVE to survive one more day#for the sake of my fucking cat. bitch. so i have to deal w that when i get home and it’s going to take up all my time. i just know it#UGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AND I STILL CANT FIND A THERAPIST!!!! ive been without one since mine quit being a therapist a year ago#😖😖😖😖😖😖😖 pray for me lmao!
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[guy who is always complaining about drawing backgrounds] well what if I
#hm i should make an original art tag#wip#ghaar'ak'tatoo#drawing a background is surely the best way to practice using a brush i am still unsure about. surely i shall have no gregrets#(i won't. because bullshitting cliffs is like my favorite type of background to draw)#there's sand cliffs in a beach i used to go to during vacations (it's a famous tourist spot of my family's hometown)#so i kinda love the look of sand cliffs#and of course i'm gonna draw my sand guy in my favorite sand#i don't particularly enjoy sand but it sure does make some pretty landscapes
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