#can you tell I’m going insane???

[oliviascully]

So about the martini thing…

Imagine if the DM era did occur during the 70s/80s. Daniel takes Armand to his favorite restaurant and bar, Duke’s. They make the best martinis there, and no other place can make them quite as good. Daniel talks about how he’s tried to replicate them or get the bartenders to share their exact mix, but they won’t.

Armand uses the Mind Gift to learn the martini recipe from the bartender. He doesn’t tell Daniel this. But one night, he surprises Daniel with a martini at home, and to Daniel’s total delight and surprise, it is an exact replica of Duke’s.

[bluejulius]

Howdy Train Your Dragon??

HEAVILY INSPIRED from @tragisbawls western AU and also I believe that one “Howdy Train Your Dragon” post by @wardenofdragons

please let me know if I’ve made any mistakes in crediting but these guy’s posts were my main inspiration fr

enjoy some WIPs, currently I’m making them for reference so I can draw the gang doing some scenes

might have gone a bit insane over the festive season and fallen head first into this western AU. basically everything is the same but instead of Vikings it’s cowboys! I’m gonna colour these all and want to do more art/drawings of this too bc it has been occupying my thoughts lol

more info 👇

- set in a fictional Old West, similar to how the canon treats Viking lore and accuracy, assume this is the same 😂

- in this AU, Hiccup loses his leg before he meets Toothless in some sort of stampede/horse-related accident, which makes Stoic, the cheif of the town, more protective of him/not want him to go near them

- Hiccup finds Toothless as a wild mustang, trapped in a gorge. Hijinx ensue, Hiccup saves him, and they bond.

-Hiccup and Fishlegs live in the same town. Astrid, Lout, Ruff and Tuff are part of a group of travelling cowboys from out of town or somethin lol. Something happens and Legs and Hic have to travel with them for a bit. Haven’t worked everything out yet but if people have ideas feel free to let me know!

- Ruff and Tuff are in charge of the supplies wagon and they often confuse Barf & Belch with their arguing. The poor horses go in different directions or one of them might stop while the other keeps going 😭

- Meatlug is usually seen pulling a little wagon with extra supplies/Fishlegs rides in the wagon sometimes when they go on adventures so she ends up being the slowest in the group, similar to how she is the slowest of the gang’s dragons

- Hookfang is an Arabian horse and he has a really firey temper and has a similar relationship to Snotlout as in the canon. Snotlout made Hookfang rear up on his hind legs once, but Snotlout fell off and Hookfang left him in the dust 💀

- Astrid is the leader of the cowboys. Stormfly has little braids in her mane as that’s Astrid’s way of showing affection.

(alsomyaskboxisopenifanyonewantstodiscusthisauI AM HAPPY TO YAP-)

[aliettali]

your bodies seed the stars

[frindoka]

[the curtains close for a show that used to be yours.]

[gothra]

I’ll never forget when I was arguing with a person in favor of total prison abolition and I asked them “what about violent offenders?” And they said “Well, in a world where prisons have been abolished, we’ll have leveled the playing field and everyone will have their basic needs met, and crime won’t be as much of an issue.” And then I was like “okay. But…no. Because rich people also rape and murder, so it isn’t just a poor person thing. So what will we do about that?” And I don’t think they answered me after that. I’m ashamed to say I continued to think that the problem was that I simply didn’t understand prison abolitionists enough and that their point was right in front of me, and it would click once I finally let myself understand it. It took me a long time to realize that if something is going to make sense, it needs to make sense. If you want to turn theory into Praxis (I’m using that word right don’t correct me I’ll vomit) everyone needs to be on board, which mean it all needs to click and it needs to click fast and fucking clear. You need to turn a complex idea into something both digestible and flexible enough to be expanded upon. Every time I ask a prison abolitionist what they actually intend to do about violent crime, I get directed to a summer reading list and a BreadTuber. It’s like a sleight-of-hand trick. Where’s the answer to my question. There it is. No wait, there it is. It’s under this cup. No it isn’t. “There’s theory that can explain this better than I can.” As if most theory isn’t just a collection of essays meant to be absorbed and discussed by academics, not the average skeptic. “Read this book.” And the book won’t even answer the question. The book tells you to go ask someone else. “Oh, watch this so-and-so, she totally explains it better than me.” Why can’t you explain it at all? Why did you even bring it up if you were going to point me to someone else to give me the basics that you should probably already know? Maybe I’m just one of those crazy people who thinks that some people need to be kept away from the public for everyone’s good. Maybe that just makes me insane. Maybe not believing that pervasive systemic misogyny could be solved with a UBI and a prayer circle makes me a bad guy. But it’s not like women’s safety is a priority anyway. It’s not like there is an objective claim to be made that re-releasing violent offenders or simply not locking them up is deadly.

[aroacearchangel]

i’m going to say something that might be controversial and i’m sorry if this is cringe or whatever but i can’t sleep:

dan and phil are like. the perfect example of my ideal qpr. have they kissed. maybe. irrelevant. did they form an almost instantaneous soul binding connection within days of meeting in person. yes . are they literally soulmates, as proclaimed by mr howell himself. also yes.

did they design a house to live in together and still have separate closets. also yes . when they’re apart for even a few weeks they are soooooooo sad. i’m just. hooollyyy shitt.

in response to the age old question “are they dating or are they friends?”: does it actually change anything? they’re dan and phil :]

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[funkyracoon1219]

The Lovers (reversed)

[ozzyeelz]

I cant believe I made this with my own two hands

[myrquez]

Bezz for Sky Sport Italia

-“In the VR46 groupchat, when you talk about the new Ducati riders that are going strong, like Marc Marquez.. how is it (what do you guys think about it, how does it feel like)? The Devil wears Prada? Look at Marquez..? I just wanted to address this topic.

“Well, we talk about it much more in person than on our groupchat-

“But it doesn’t go unnoticed. (You do talk about him)

“No, we pay attention to everything. With Vale is difficult not to, he has always taught and still teaches us to pay attention to every detail, so we always try to understand everything around us. Marc is going very strong, and we watch him and try to learn from him.

“So he’s like a benchmark! (nice pun right there)

“He’s like a ��tool’ that we can use… wait, it does sound bad, I mean he’s a rider, but he’s a rider that we can ‘use as a lesson’. We can look up to him, as if he was a teacher.”

[ju-nebugg]

moments from trb that make me lose my mind (pt. 1)

- “‘gansey’…it was a real voice spoken from someplace almost too far to hear” and blue’s voice on the digital recorder being “not a whisper, but a loud cry from almost too far away to hear”

- ronan’s pet names for adam (runt, poor boy, science guy)

- every time gansey says something wild but it’s given a very gentle descriptor

“what fresh hell is this?” gansey asked pleasantly.

“prison,” gansey said agreeably.

- “what’s ashley?”

- monmouth being called a “dreamer’s laboratory” like UGH

- declan’s voice being a voice that “explained the safety procedures of this 747 we’re flying in today”

- noah’s first goddamn line of dialogue being “i’ve been dead for seven years.” these boys are so stupid <3

(whelk thinks later that “czerny didn’t really have a sense of humor. he just sometimes said things that happened to be funny”)

- RONAN FUCKING LYNCH PLAYS TENNIS?????

- “[ronan’s] code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. it wasn’t that he didn’t condone them; he couldn’t understand them”

- all of their little mannerisms (gansey rubbing his lips, ronan chewing on his bracelets, etc)

- president cell phone <3333333

- “ronan had picked off all his moving-dolly scabs, and he would have picked off adam’s as well if he’d let him”

- ronan and his tender, loving relationship with foul language

“ronan released a string of profanity so varied and pointed that gansey was amazed that the words alone didn’t slay declan”

“it was a long, involved swear, using every forbidden word possible, often in compound form…there was something musical about ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together”

- gansey trying to stop ronan from fighting declan by saying “you’re ruining your face”

- “he’s your dog, gansey. you leash him.”

- “when ronan was hit…he became so urgently present it was as if he’d been sleeping before”

- gansey momentarily thinking ronan was dead in the church, and that “his corpse woke now only because gansey had commanded it to”

- blue imagining her dad watching her proudly when she sits under the beech tree

- ronan studying latin so intensely as if “his life depended on it” HUH WONDER WHY

- glendower “the king” being described in gansey’s journal as being buried beside “his cup, filled with possibility” + “look at all the potential she holds in that cup. look, she even looks like you.”

- ronan “Captain Frigid” lynch and adam “Trailer-Park Boy” parrish

- “why don’t you let ronan teach you to fight? he’s offered twice now. he means it.”

- “‘i don’t have a brother, ma’am,’ adam replied. but blue saw his eyes dart to gansey.” OH MY GODDDD

- gansey picking the page of cups TWICE before picking the death card.

- calla saying that ronan is creating, and blue responding with “he’s pregnant?”

(pt. 2)

[jeeliebeeliegoomiebear]

On Isolde and Many Doors (and One Key)

Thinking about Isolde and how she feels like she is constantly trapped in a small cramped room full of 1 million doors. Each door represents a presence that haunts her, an identity that lives inside her that calls to her from beyond the grave, a new mask to dawn.

If every person in the world were to have a room, most would have just one door, their own. But not Isolde.

Isolde feels like an empty vessel who is only there to serve as a point of entry for other people and their spirits. She has been forced to become so repressed by her environment, upbringing, and her nature as a medium that she finds it easy to forget herself. Her “self” is not someone she has ever been allowed to know.

The room grows increasingly smaller, claustrophobic and strangling her with pressure as the amount of doorways in it only increase, every new person she meets a new doorway she is plagued with, a new voyeur who has granted themselves full access to her life and her body. Something she is now willing to let them do. It is easier that way. Easier to let someone else command her vessel, something that never solely belonged to her to begin with. An escape from all the pressure, the expectations, the perfection demanded from her. It is something she should do. The duty of someone like her. Something to hide her wretched face from view, to give the people what they want, to uphold her family’s legacy. A performance that was never allowed to end. Each new door lead right back to that.

The only exception is Kakania. The only person Isolde believes has ever really seen her as more than a host for other identities or something to mold into shape, prop up as a set piece. A perfect lady. The star of Vienna. A tragic heroine. A dangerous hysteric witch. A curse manifested. The only one who was ever interested in finding Isolde’s door and that door alone. When she is with Kakania, a new door does not appear in that ever shrinking empty room, although at first she expects it to. For the first time she meets someone and is not greeted with a new ghost to haunt her. Not a door. But a key. A key that Isolde knows can unlock her own door, even when she herself cannot find it.

[clemisnotanorange]

another thing i noticed, not once did hetch refer to ranboo by his name, only “hero” . compared to the original live stream where hetch was noticeably a bit nicer to ranboo and actually used his name.

in the founders cut he’s definitely colder, meaner, and more corporate (i couldn’t find a better word), compared to the original live stream where his voice is definitely much softer. he dehumanizes ranboo in a way. to him, he’s nothing more than an actor, the hero of the story.

[princeanon]

Something something red = ruthlessness blue = mercy except Polites’ headband is red and Poseidon is blue something something when Polites dies Odysseus starts on his path towards ruthlessness something something Poseidon is the one who ends up begging for mercy something something ooh look what you made me do look what you made me do look what you just made me do look what you just made me do

[lelslizzylebs]

Possibly a crack theory? Please tell me what you guys think.

In chapter 56, we see this picture of the interpersonal dynamics of Laios’s party pre-story. 

There’s somebody not shown who’s attracted to the hubby-hunter and hates Laios (probably as a direct result). Somebody she considers a prospect.

There’s also one person who 1. We know was part of Laios’s party pre-story, and 2. Is not shown in this panel. 

Am I crazy? It doesn’t look like it worked out, especially given that he left before she did, but do you think Dandan could have had a thing for her? Do you think that might have been part of the reason Chilchuck disapproved of her behavior so strongly?

[sleepy-spaceman]

As wonderfully tragic as it would be for simon and bob to have been the two people who died in the accident that happened before he worked for goddard futuristics, im on the side that jacobi is midland after the events of wolf 359, because that man deserves to have at least two friends that aren’t dead.