#by this point

[tinyalechardy]

Scotch egg?

[brilla-brilla-estrellita]

Six Somethings Sunday!

Hello friends. I am couch-ridden with a sprained ankle. Do you know what that means?

It means I can't busy myself running around all day and forget/run out of time to do a post! So thank you to @monbons and @blackberrysummerblog for the tags!

I've posted a few times about Fettuccine and Foreplay and it's quite short, so I'm done teasing that one (it's in beta!). Instead, I'll share from my Wednesday x Carry On crossover fic. I don't think I've ever actually publicly made the connection that this fic is also the one with the Deaf OC, so, surprise!

Delilah is Penny and Shepard's daughter. I wasn't sure at first whether this would take place at the same time that Wednesday & co are at the school, or if it would just take place at Nevermore Academy some other time, but I can't have Thing and Delilah not meet and get into shenanigans together!

I also really want Simon and Baz's daughter to go, too, and I very much want that daughter to be Tori from our Heartstopper crossover, but Heartstopper x CO x Wednesday just feels like too much... so she may just be a very Tori-coded character...

Anyway, here are six bullets points (and some sub-bullets for bonus) from my planning doc:

Delilah notices Thing signing with Wednesday and Enid, them responding to him

he points at Delilah – Wed doesn't look, Enid waves

Thing taps and points again, Wed and Enid approach

Say Thing noticed Delilah signing earlier and wanted to meet; Delilah fascinated and so fucking excited

Thing, Delilah, and Enid set up date to hang out and learn from each other

Delilah: can we invite my dad? He would be so excited to meet you.

still won't know ASL, but what does that matter when the people at school who do understand sign know it from Thing, who has his own language? More opportunity to communicate regardless?

Enid gives them the scoop on everyone – first lead of who to talk to about alt magic??

Tagging: @onepintobean @martsonmars @thewholelemon @iamamythologicalcreature @artsyunderstudy @facewithoutheart @cutestkilla @shrekgogurt @ileadacharmedlife

[voxuli]

Thinking about how Vox is as a boss and how I want to position him with his employees that's different to Valentino's methods and even Alastor's.

I like to think that with his focus on brand and perfection, Vox generally prefers a honey over vinegar approach. He is obsessed with reputation and highly manipulative, and he positions himself as the Nice Guy overlord. Whereas Valentino rules with vices and abuse and Alastor with fear, Vox rules with guilt, expectation, disappointment.

All of Vox's contracts are temporary... At least on the surface. In theory, anyone can leave once their contract runs out--most choose to renew, because they're well aware what their options are otherwise. Others find themselves indebted to Vox or one of his companies, to which he offers a generous payment plan that they can work through over the next couple of decades. He's sympathetic, but he has a business to run--and what's a couple of decades to the rest of your afterlife, pal?

Also worth noting is that not all of Vox's employees are in soul contracts to him. Vox is well aware that the way his employees speak about their jobs can be more damaging than anything external. Of course, at the point he's at, he's unlikely to be unsealed from his position of power by a few disgruntled employees. But he thrives on attention... With positive attention being his favorite by a long shot.

To that end, working for VoxTek (voluntarily or not) can be one of the better jobs in Pentagram City. It might be generous to say they provide a living wage, but it's still a wage--and their healthcare and other benefits are top notch.

Also enforced.

Further locations can get away with lax behavior, but for the buildings that Vox most often travels between, VoxTek employees are expected to be at their best for work. You will have a mandatory biannual health screening; you will buy the healthy food provided in-house because bringing in outside food isn't allowed; you will use your alloted exercise break each day for exactly half an hour, and your productivity will be tracked in the remainder.

And if those employees don't like it? Or if perhaps they don't meet the defined standards of excellence? Well! VoxTek is sad to see them go, but there's no shortage of sinners ready and willing to take their place.

[radiosummons]

Not to bully my #1 blorbo or anything ...

BUT HOLY FUCK TATTOOINE WAS NOT KIND TO HIM!!!!!!

You really expect me to believe that these are supposed to be taken ONLY TEN FUCKING YEARS APART FROM EACH OTHER????!!!!!

This? Sure. I will concede. Tattooine is a desert planet with two fucking suns. It makes sense that he'd look a bit rough/aged.

Combined with all the, you know ... stress. Yeah, okay. Sure. Yes. I totally believe that this looks like Obi-Wan aged 10 years. All things considered, I'd say he's doing pretty okay. Sure, he could use a little more moisturizer and maybe some extra lotion on the day to day.

But overall, I'd say he looks like a decent, weathered 40 yr old man.

(Yes, I'm aware the Kenobi show came out 13 years after ROTS and this obviously helps in Ewan McGregor looking, well, 13 years older. But you get my point).

BUT THIS SHIT!!!!! ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME??????

This is supposed to just be 20 FUCKING YEARS APART?????!!!!! WHAT? DID OBI-WAN JUST GIVE UP ON USING ANY OUNCE OF SPACE FANTASY SUNSCREEN?????!!!!

FUCK ME.

How the fuck do you go from looking like a refined 30 yr old man to an 60+ YEAR OLD MAN in the span of 20 YEARS?????!!!!!

HE SHOULD HAVE HAD AT LEAST AN EXTRA TEN YEARS OF LIFE TO HIM!!!!!! WTF, OBI-WAN???!!!!!

Anyway, my new headcanon is that Obi-Wan just got lazy after rescuing baby Leia, and just kept forgetting to use his morning morning moisturizer and fucking sunscreen.

No wonder this man needs Cody around. Motherfucker let himself accelerate his age by an early 20 yrs. Wtf.

[asknightmareanderror]

"You accidently bump into nightmare" oh hey sorry

N - "...oh...hello."

E - "...pretty used to that happening now..."

[astronnova]

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[charlesoberonn]

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real

There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations

Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that

The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.

There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)

The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.

Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.

Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.

[sadclowncentral]

nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

[saszor]

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

second way more important edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

[goldenandhappy]

Routine Amputations.

Routine.

Amputations.

excuse me what the fuck

[lambergeier]

the real danger of spending too much time with friends is you stumble out of ten days of happiness and good food like oh my god THAT was real life. my job means NOTHING

[beaft]

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

[onepiece-polls]

Ignoring all the equaling real life with fiction... Did that anon just say having sex with a child is okay because it's part of "Japanese culture"?????!?! Wtf?????

By this point I'm not even sure what anon meant to say anymore 😅 it just... made no sense at all

[eagleeyethree]

[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