#congrats on your existence

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier as Aiden Evans Moving On: Visiting Order

[sickly-sapphic]

I promise you body positivity can exist outside of bringing down the other end of the spectrum of the body you're praising. You are, in fact, capable of saying you enjoy ass without calling no ass ugly. I promise you it's possible to enjoy hairy bodies without absolutely shitting on hairless ones. You can call someone's straight, black hair pretty without shitting on curls and dye in the same sentence. Heal 🤍🗣

[cowboyslikedean]

“my fav character could never perpetuate a harmful societal construct because they’ve been a victim of societal constructs and also they’re Good and the construct is BAD so if they had done that THEY would be bad and they’re not they’re Good.” have any of u met a real person ever

[galwithalibrarycard]

I just find it funny how every single character on Grey’s Anatomy is terminally divorced. Like even the episode where a couple meets for the first time, you look at them for one scene and it’s like, you are already divorced. In two and a half seasons, you’ll be literally divorced, but you are already, spiritually, divorced. And this is every. Single. Couple.

[kedreeva]

(Long time lurker)

Good thing: we got our boiler and heating fixed so we FINALLY have a properly warmed house this winter (the fact that we got it all done completely free is even better!)

Proud thing: I got approved for disability benefits so I don’t have as much guilt about not being able to work and can help my Dad out more with money

The BEST thing:

This guy! January will be 9 years since I brought home and he made my life better ❤️

What a guy!!!! Give him a little smooch on his head for me, I love tricolor dogs.

I give to you, some tricolor mice in return!

[anonymusbosch]

today after work i sat in the car in the parking lot for 30 straight minutes staring at my phone ("vegetarian options near me") staring out the windshield at the gray sky (slowly getting darker) staring at my phone ("hi [manager] i was not cool with") and staring out the windshield trying to swallow some seething and a headache to drive back with a cool head.

i don't - i don't get angry. not really. frustrated, grumpy, irked, annoyed - sure. i am not moved to out-loud anger: raised voice, yelling, outbursts. whatever rises I am capable of biting back.

kept my cool long enough to get a Vegetarian Options Near Me (note: bad) and long enough after that to go buy ingredients that i can make food with in a hotel microwave. took care of some of the needs of the flesh. called partner. could relay nothing but the insanity of the work conversations and, in speaking, heard again the words that had driven me to muteness earlier

"I would have just said 'what the fuck' out loud" says the phone.

and I had, alone, in my car, quietly, "what is wrong with you" and "what the fuck" and "what is your problem", but not in conversation.

for which i am giving myself several gold stars today and resolving for tomorrow:

* literally leave the conversation and walk away while they're talking to you if they don't give you grace to leave

* don't play their games

* data, document, propose solution. ask for nothing. especially permission to do your damn job

* buy a fucking soldering iron.

[beepbeepmfkr]

Say it with me folks, the concept of the "male loneliness epidemic" is a thought pattern meant to examine the negative affects of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy on men. If you cannot engage with conversations about how men are negatively affected by toxic masculinity without rolling your eyes and saying something to the effect of "sucks for them, maybe they shouldn't be such pigs", congratulations, you are missing the entire point.

[erraticdementiac]

rewatching ouran ep 21 has me on another plane of understanding.. Like to me it only serves to prove that kaoru is competitive ranking levels of autistic. no seriously. Hes trapped in a room w a mfer he barely knows and his first instinct is to fucking trauma dump about [REDACTED],. and then he leaves. with his brother; Hikaru!! who enables derangement

[angerydome]

This is one of those things where, to get on the same page, I feel like I’d have to backtrack so much, it isn’t worth interacting with the post.

My man, which “people” are you talking about?? Because I’ve run into none who fill that particular Venn diagram overlap.

People think of echo chambers as always being a positive reinforcement of your particular ideas and values … but sometimes you subject yourself to an echo chamber of guys you hate, and those guys are a weird, fringe minority that you’re only encountering because you specifically sought them out to exemplify everything you hate.

I would know — I’ve absolutely done it. And I’ve spent the last few years specifically trying to NOT do it.

[fingons-rad-harp]

i have, in the past, said things like “love a good toxic yaoi but nothing will ever beat silvergifting so what’s the point” and i was right but waltjesse

waltjesse came close

[papa-evershed]

Martin Evershed: Close-Up 📸

[paperbackfable]

Ark: Survival Ascended (1? More some day?)

And last but not least, we have Ark! All of these are from The Center, the first one from the day it came out on ASA, I'm pretty sure. Couldn't tell you about the other ones, though? I think they're from the same day...

hehe. daylight to sunset to midnight. also that last one is modded; it's draconis glaucus. admittedly i mostly just run around and do whatever in creative so i don't know how good they are normally, but i think they're neat and i like them so. they're here. hehe

Bonus lighting thing they added that wasn't in Evolved because I think it's really cool looking:

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

Considering what NATO did (ot the lack of action), we have to give Ze credit for not screaming at them and calling them names five minutes straight in his latest nightly video.

[tiredassmage]

Okay. The stars might be aligning today. Something might be working out in my favor and, perhaps, I can finally bring y'all in on. the absolute shenanigans that have finally taken shape between Alucren and Tyr.

Incredibly strong urge to ID him as 'the bastard man in question,' but. look, he is. I wouldn't exactly be wrong.

Anyway, in an attempt to be brief, Alucren is recruited to Imperial Intelligence when the class story's already kicked off. He's maybe three years older than Tyr and I need to establish now that that does not mean he's the older sibling. This will make sense in a minute. Perhaps.

So, he's designated Cipher Eleven and, largely, he knows Tyr by reputation as Cipher Nine, but they don't. really interact directly until they're some of the limited survivors of ImpIntel's fallout and Alucren becomes Tyr's Class-A Nuisance in Sith Intelligence. Eleven fucks with Nine because somebody's gotta see the guy loosen up, he argues. Which is hilarious because out of the two of them, Alucren is the one with the largely unbending loyalty to the Empire and the Sith.

[Everyone be thankful he wasn't the main subject of the Imperial Agent storyline. I don't think he'd survive the winter. Definitely not with his pretty aviator sunglasses in-tact about the galaxy and how it works, at least.]

The code I've cracked about this is that it is a largely one-sided mess fueled mostly by a lot of insecurities on Alucren's part. He's the only son of four children, and as loving as that family set up was, he still feels a responsibility to his family's name and legacy [and they have quite a long one in service to Imperial domestic interests; sidebar, Alucren's kind of a walking encyclopedia of Imperial history because of this. Let him take you on a museum date and tell you historical fun facts. Enrichment!]

And Nine has a whopping reputation as being one of the best Ciphers Imperial Intelligence ever trained. Of course, Alucren isn't... in on how much that also essentially turned Tyr's life inside out and wrung it out like a dish towel, but, hey! Details! And Alucren is, in a word, stubborn. And maybe a little competitive. And not all that certain of his own position in the service.

So, what's a guy to do but develop a homoerotic, one-sided rivalry with his essentially boss given Tyr's sort of right-hand man status to Lana? It's totally straight to think, "yeah, bet if I kissed him, that'd shut him up," right? Right! According to Alucren.

[oh honey you got a big storm coming, son]

Tyr is, largely, either willfully or just blatantly kinda... not on the same page about this. At least in Sith Intelligence. Alucren's whole attitude bit is a little grating, but Tyr's a professional and. mostly can afford to set aside the inconvenience of dealing with Alucren's smartassery to get their respective jobs done.

And then, in really short summary, the plot keeps happening. Alucren may or may not develop a bit of a crush on a Sith he starts serving [a smoking hot certain Wrath of the Emperor belonging to @hyrohkaah] (congratulations on the bisexuality Alucren!!!). It takes. a while for Alucren to really sus any of this whole Deal out about himself because he's very image-oriented. He has a Presentation to maintain about himself. Luckily for him, Tyr's a perceptive little shit and. eventually also not above throwing some of his stupid shenanigans back at his face.

Ultimately, there isn't any romantic attraction between these two fools, but Alucren still likes to take Tyr's patience and control for a spin around the block for the thrills and Tyr occasionally yanks back just as hard for the amusement. Sometimes this looks a lot more like indignant siblings arguing over their LegoCity build that's taken up the basement floor and sometimes it means are they flirting or fighting and the answer is yes.

And I'm also going to say Alucren's loyalty becomes... a lot more interesting for that sort of healed relationship between him and Tyr. :3 Alucren's a man that will always call the Empire home, so he'll probably end up serving it the rest of his life. But he also knows Nine is not a man to do anything by halves, and he does nothing without extremely good reason. And it'd just be a shame if I made them confront the possibility of shooting at each other. I mean. >.>

Spoiler alert: Alucren's probably not anywhere near as certain of his ability to follow through with that threat as he'd like to be. It'd surprise both of them, honestly. But you didn't hear that from me.

Anyway. He's a bit of a loser, actually, and I love him. Insultingly and affectionately. He's just.... a little like my pathetically sopping wet greasy alley rat. Unfortunately, he's adorable. And if someone punched him, he'd probably still deserve it.

And that, my friends, is the insane Tom & Jerry shit that has consumed me in the last two weeks or so about Alucren and Tyr. I'd usually say thanks for coming to my TED Talk, but this man's ego is already the broadside of a Destroyer in size and we just don't need to encourage that.

[brick-van-dyke]

Thinking about how batshit Zionists are when they're like *say obvious thing that's common knowledge is Actually Fake* and I just ??? Are they okay in their little echo chambers. I think they should go for a walk and get some fresh air, maybe touch some grass (not the imported one from Europe though, the natural grass preferably).

[sesamenom]

four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree

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okay so they aren't the most traditional 'calling birds' but I was running out of bird coded people so here's some gulls of Ulmo! looks like the action's picking up... :)

[Day 5]