#but it's very HEARTENING

[drdavidhuxley]

A lot of feelings tonight!

My 5th graders performed in our school fine arts night and one of them came up to me and thanked me for introducing him to theatre and how he’s going to do it in middle and high school 😭 I have created a Theatre Kid™ and I’m so proud 💙

I ran into his grandparents at Target afterwards and they thanked me again for giving their ADHD grandson an outlet and I could cry.

Like...there is so much wrong with my job and I doubt myself a lot but I get to influence these babies' lives and that's pretty effin special.

Yay for elementary theatre teachers!

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

[blank-house]

THE RA’S DATING??? I don’t know who I want to be in this situation.. 😖 (Will we see more of the Ra’s in the future?)

i one day hope to lovingly describe their relationship in front of you, the player, lmao. yes! any named npc will show up again.

[quinloki]

I try to avoid heavy topics here because I do enough politics and such on other social media platforms, but I wanted to share this for a couple reasons:

1 - it really breaks down Project 2025 and what impacts it'll have.

2 - it's got an easy access Register To Vote included in it.

The deadline might be past for some of you, but for others it isn't. I do hope you'll vote this election - and the ones after. The local ones that crop up throughout the year, and your state elections. I hope you'll volunteer what time you can to help others who face blocks to voting to help ensure they can vote.

I don't care what lies anyone else has told you, voting matters. It's important. There is no "lesson" that can be taught by withholding your vote. If you're sick of hearing "vote blue no matter who" you need to understand why you hear it.

Because people vote once every four years, don't vote locally, and what little progress is made is shattered every four years or so. Over and over, because the song of dance "don't vote to teach the [left/democrats/liberals] a lesson" has been being sung since before I was born.

The only lesson it teaches is that it's easy to dupe well-meaning Americans into shooting themselves in the foot.

If you're going to let your anger allow you to led around by the nose, there's no need to let me know.

[robininthelabyrinth]

I'm still not back to writing, sadly, but I'm hoping to have enough energy in the near future to post a few of the older fics that I wrote late last year and never managed to move onto tumblr or AO3. There's a handful of shorter ficlets, and the first few chapters of the longfic I had been working on (which was started as a response to all the questions in The Other Mountain of "how would WRH end up marrying in to the Lan sect"), and maybe some continuation chapters or at least outlines if I have any of those.

I hope everyone else has been doing well. If anyone has any recommendations for new fandoms, let me know - I am, as ever, in the market for something to read/watch/etc. and then rotate endlessly in my brain like an immortal rotisserie chicken. and hopefully then to talk to people about it!

[nitrateglow]

me: I accept other people's opinions about movies, even when they're different from my own :)

new york times: here's a list of the top 25 best movie jump scares and Wait Until Dark's not even on the list

me: >:(

new york times: oh and we skipped The Shining too

me: *explodes*

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

do we know yet if bill lawrence will be involved again in this alleged ted lasso s4?

[alienjaes]

Love catching up to a manga only to find I have more chapters to read. Like realizing you made enough food to have leftovers. Bliss.

[hella1975]

there's a very specific kind of vibe that comes with living with your friends in final year that it just does not have in first year or even second year. like as a fresher it's usually the first time any of you have lived away from home let alone with SO MANY people your age and it's terrifying and exciting and randomised to boot so it's generally carnage for a whole year in the best and worst ways, and then second year you pick who you're living with and it feels like for the first time you're doing this adult thing PROPERLY. you have a place of your own now. these are the people you've chosen to live with. studying gets serious etc. but it's still fresh. it's still new. you still don't know how to navigate it. but final year? final year is when you actually get it right. you know how to manage your time better. you know what works for you and what doesn't. studying is the main focus and you've been out in the world for three years now and it's not loud and boisterous like it was in first year and you're not exciteable and awkward like you were in second year. you're comfortable. every single one of my flatmates has their own friend group and we mainly keep to our own social circles, but we'll still meet each other back at the house after a night out and sit in the kitchen or my room to do the debrief. sometimes i'll go days not seeing either of them despite sharing a house but every now and then someone will softly call up the stairs that 'the heating's on!' or one of us will sneeze and the other two will yell 'bless you!' through the walls. the lack of interaction isn't interpreted as dislike in ways it would have been even last year, because we're all just old enough to be past that now and settled enough in our friendship not to worry about it. idk. uni is very loud and unsettling a lot of the time so it's been really sweet to see how almost boringly comfortable final year is.

[holdoncallfailed]

also i've been laughing all day at this comment on a weaponsetc post quoting john cale saying something bitchy about lou reed...a handbags at dawn declaration...

[utilitycaster]

VASTCHASM MENTIONED

[soloveyko]

fuck man. love this little country so much. that is all

[rainia]

drove into the city centre the other day and it was pretty cool how many palestine flags/bumper stickers/graffiti arts there were. Like there was even an apartment block where they had painted a giant flag across the whole building. it was kinda awesome

[bonefall]

slips in. i was following your clanmew challenge thing and want to know if these sound right? Pyrrsmeer! Opipwyr. Hwoo-ulnyams piagorll. [ Noncombatant-you-hello! Flickerpaw. Wind-clan learning-rank. ] Pi / Yass pishkaf nyyrwang! [ Saw/heard / Smelled/tasted red-squirrel rotten-quality they-rogue-contain! ] Urchborrl yaowang morrwowang urrgryyr. [ Snowpelt female-quality fast-quality they-clanmate-contain. ] " Snowpelt is a female and large. " Oskfaf ssufwang eebwang urrgryyr. [ Whitefur male-quality ? they-clanmate-contain. ] " Whitefur is a tom and small. " i know i def must of messed smth up somewhere so. :]

We'll be posting answers all at once in a couple of days so everyone can check their work (since there's a few people trying it out!) but I will say; You're doing really well!

We realized though we actually made a goof which you replicated, that's on us. In the Rotting Squirrel example, we bungled the grammar and accidentally put it in SOV word order instead of OSV.

Yass pishkaf nyyrwang mwrrgryyr should be "Yass nyyrwang pishkaf mwrrgryr," because "Rotting" is the OBJECT of the sentence, and the Squirrel is the SUBJECT because it's doing the containing. The squirrel is a literal object; but the rotting is the grammatical object.

(and this is why Clanmew wouldn't exist without Jace, grammar specifics like that soar over my head until they are explained OTL)

[longlostlorian]

Hi, Lorian! Longtime follower of your comics here. I was excited to see that the characters from "Resaturated" have made a comeback in "Fall Until Summer"! I was really moved by Resaturated when I first read it. The story resonated with me in a way I couldn't put into words at the time (I hadn't identified as ace yet). I noticed a while ago that Resaturated's website is no longer up, so I was wondering if that version is possibly available anywhere else? I hope you're doing well!

thank you so much, I'm really honored as a fellow ace to hear that it resonated with you. I'll try and figure out a lightweight way of hosting it on my main site; might just drop all the images into a single webpage? I'll post about it here when it's done. I also have a limited number of physical copies left that I'll throw onto my online store next time it reopens if you're interested, which shall keep the story safe from my fickleness for all time.

Not to tangent but my relationship with these characters is very silly, I've been rotating them and putting them in scenarios for uhh over 15 years now (as my own various queer feelings evolved over time), and at this point there's fully like, 4-5 similar, yet non-adjacent versions of the story you can't even read anymore. I will put re-sat back up somewhere so it does not share this fate!

[cappurrccino]

i know that like. the dream is to just get paid to do whatever you want forever, but on god i want a job where i'm actually kept busy with things that have some sort of procedure and schedule and are a good use of my skills because i am losing my mind sitting here doing nothing