#don't mind my thumb

[more-than-a-ghosti]

i'm back >:)

[okaioh]

something I really loved about the qsmp was how it made people who didn't bother learning another language - LEARN another language (if that makes sense)

Like

I just had my friend who only speaks English, doesn't bother learning any other language, who only watched Phil during qsmp, tell me "saudades meus ovos or whatever" (I'm missing my eggs)

WHICH IS SO CRAZY TO ME - THIS GUY DIDN'T TAKE SPANISH IN HIGHSCHOOL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE AND HERE THEY ARE TELLING ME A PORTUGUESE SAYING ??? All because of a minecraft server ffs I miss it sm

[feroluce]

Randomly consumed today by the thought of henghill cuddles, but like from a specific point in their relationship, like after they've only recently started laying in the same bed together.

It's something that takes them a long time to work up to; they both have nightmares, and yeah, Dan Heng is a Vidyadhara and he can heal himself beyond anything Boothill could accidentally do to him, but still. Boothill is made of metal now. He's heavy. It wouldn't take much, just a single flailing limb to cause some damage. He still gets up after Dan Heng falls asleep, and sneaks down into the guest cabin in one of the other cars.

But he'll lay in bed with Dan Heng until then. At first Boothill would always try to situate a blanket between them, because well. Metal isn't exactly pleasant to cuddle. But more and more lately, he's noticed Dan Heng keeps worming his way around their soft barrier and just kind of...rubbing his hand along him? Open palm up the curve of his side, across the planes of his chest, into the star-shape at his solar plexus, down the plates of his abdomen, back to his side again. Fingertips tap soundlessly against metal, or press into dents and divots, or smooth over old scars in the steel.

"Ya don't hav'ta do that, ya know."

"Does it bother you?"

Dan Heng's hand has already stopped, settling somewhere on the futon, neutral ground. Boothill clarifies that no, it doesn't bother him. But he can't feel any of it. He only knows he's doing it because he can see the motion out of the corner of his eye. Dan Heng doesn't need to go through the extra effort to do things for him like he would someone with a normal human body.

And Dan Heng goes quiet, just long enough that Boothill gets curious and turns to look at him over his shoulder. He has the cute little furrow between his brows, like when he's thinking.

And then he opens that pretty mouth of his and says, "That's alright, I think I'm doing it for myself, anyway" and Boothill nearly wheezes because wow, Dan Heng is almost never quite that honest when it comes to himself fdklsajlkd

Boothill cackles in surprise and asks point blank what he means, because what could he be getting out of that? Given the implied permission, Dan Heng's hand starts it's usual route again. Side, chest, solar plexus, abdomen, side. Boothill can practically hear him chewing on his words.

"I like that you're warm," is what he finally says, and Boothill suddenly feels like a bullet has just grazed something vital. "All the processes you run increase your temperature," Dan Heng's hand fans out across a span of steel and he holds it there, like he's soaking up the heat. "And your metal is smooth, it feels pleasant to touch," his fingertips move in circles, slip into a divot perfectly sized, rub back and forth. Boothill silently wills one of his cooling fans threatening to open up to stay closed.

"I like how you feel under my hands. That's all." Headshot! No recovery possible.

"...Suit yerself, then," and Boothill quickly turns back over before Dan Heng can see it in his face, how close he just hit to his heart.

[thebrainrotsreal]

FINALLYYYYYY. My guys of the jury, this has a tracked 30 damn hours and boy does it feel like it. ANYWAYS, I return for more AU shenanigans because Get Redeemed Loser AU lives in my head rent free. Felt like a nice way to experiment with more vertical style comics? Which is SM EASIER TO PANEL THAN CLASS LAYOUTS. I get why they're so much more common nowadays. Comic,,, so satisfying but at what cost,,, i'm tired. So proud of the top half tho :3.

Okay back to AU brainrot, Mark and Wasp fighting over one of their core differences! I think this is early in their relationship where Mark still thinks Wasp can at least understand what it's like being Nolan's son, only to get smacked in the face with how pride Wasp holds in that title. Anyways, look below to see my suffering made into video.

local artist redoes like 4 damn panels 8 bajillion times and screams into the sky ♡ also if you want fic of this au you should read the fic that @avisisisis wrote about it, ooooo you wanna read it so bad, it's good :3

[gingermintpepper]

I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict 👀 for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)

SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??

OMG OMG THIS ASK IS A GIFT. IT IS A GIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS

I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).

Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers 😂Part of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? 💀

Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.

(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)

(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)

Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.

[carpsoup]

compilation of this guys colours haunting me

[graviconscientia]

Well! That was quite refreshing, wasn't it?

[obstinatecondolement]

I am, like, familiar with the concept of drawer fic, obviously, but even when I write something so stunningly niche that I'm pretty sure I am the only person in the known universe who would ever want to read it, I still feel like I ought to put it online and make it everyone's problem.

[animerunner]

That moment when you get a random DM request from a server you've not been active in a long time. So your not sure why their deciding to DM you.

And the timing aint great because your on Day 2 of a migraine.

[franeridan]

the way luffy regularly goes "we are the bad guys, actually" in the manga is something so dear so special to me

[inklingofadream]

Does anyone else have the "smart" ads (the ones that get dropped at designated points when available rather than those recorded as part of the full audio file) on TMA that are completely out of control? I wanted to start a relisten for fic reasons, and on 2 separate podcast apps (stitcher is dying like. tomorrow. so i'm trying to switch) and "Seed", which is the very first trailer and should come in at about a minute COUNTING all the non-content administrative stuff about what the show is called/when/etc got so many ads loaded onto it is was over 6 minutes. I literally could not find the actual content on the first app, because they were loaded on the front AND BACK end with the actual trailer somewhere in the middle.

Like I respect the need to put ads on stuff to stay in business, but 5 minutes is a bit above average for shows that I listen to that are an hour long. 5 times as long as the audio I came for, though??? 5 minutes attached to a regular episode isn't that much better, that's like a quarter as long as the entire episode! And they aren't filling the slot with a really long ad, there are like 10 in there! They're normal, short ads, there are just a billion of them

[eldritch-nightmare]

so anyways im glad that as a collective we can agree that this is the best creepypasta bot i've made

it's the one with the most thumbs-up and that's the only criteria i am considering in this observation.

[elenadoeslife]

I love the way my natural nail polish looks outside 💗

[virgovirgo]

can't... focus...

[tinknevertalks]

Tfw LiveJournal sends you an email saying it's someone's birthday soon, and you haven't spoken to them since 2010 when they literally stopped posting on LJ, and you have no idea how they are because you only spoke on LJ. 😔 Hope life is good, Thorny, and that you've been watching Picard for all the Seven content (and been over the moon that she has a girlfriend - canon wlw!). And I hope you're still dancing. :)

[muffinrag]

psyched myself out about my T injection this morning and ended up pricking myself with the needle 5 separate times. im a big scaredy baby apparently