#don't take this too serious

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Very important question for you all today:

[ghostly-phantom]

In a few days, we'll reach the halfway point of the Yingdu arc. How are we all feeling about that?

[spicywarl0ck]

Happy Friday! How about “You’re breathtaking” for Fenhawke?

Thank you so very much for this ask x3 I had something romantic in my mind, but when I started writing, I remembered the first time I encountered Fenris in DA2, so this came out instead. @dadrunkwriting Pairing: Fenris/male Hawke Rated: T (only because of blood) Length: 519

There could have been many words he could’ve uttered when he watched the blood-covered elf step down the stairs, but he never knew why the following sentence had escaped his lips instead.

“You’re breathtaking.” Hawke couldn’t pry his eyes from the still faintly glowing eyes. He didn’t even notice the baffled faces of his companions as they looked at him in disbelief from behind him.

What he noticed, however, was the slight arch in the elf’s dark brows when he came to a halt before him, cocking his head to the side in slight irritation. 

“I apologise.” He chose to ignore the strange remark obviously as he paced around them. “When I asked Anso to provide a distraction for the hunters, I had no idea they’d be so numerous.” the elf added, his voice so smooth it baffled Hawke.

By the Maker, he had just watched this man tearing a heart out of a chest. That act alone should alert all his senses.

But he was a Hawke, and all he could think about was how beautiful the elf’s skin looked as the moonlight fell onto it and how the white hair fell so smoothly into his face. Not to mention the graceful way he moved around Hawke and his party.

“I…” he coughed as his voice gave way. “I take it they were looking for you?” 

“Correct.” The elf’s green eyes studied him as he turned around. There didn’t seem to be any more hidden hunters waiting to ambush them. “My name is Fenris. These men were imperial bounty hunters. Hired to reclaim a Magister’s lost property. Namely myself.” 

Hawke took only half the words in as he studied Fenris, getting lost in the green eyes and smooth lips as they moved.

He had never seen a man more beautiful or terrifying, but he couldn’t betray the fast pace his heartbeat took upon as it threatened to burst through his ribcage. There just was something about him.

“So, you needed help taking them out, I take it? So you hired Anso, who hired us?” Varric concluded since Hawke hadn’t been moving, the mage's lips moving like a fish gasping for water.

“Correct. I couldn’t face them alone, and thankfully, Anso chose wisely.” Fenris's lips twitched as he spoke his praise.

It wasn’t truly a smile, but enough to take Hawke’s breath away again. He realised it might have been that infamous love at first sight, which probably was a bit strange, considering the elf was still covered in his enemy's blood.

But honestly, that wouldn’t be the first strange thing Hawke ever felt or did.

“If they were slavers, then they deserve their fate.” Hawke tried to sound smooth but failed. At least Varric’s face told him so. “So what happens now?”

“They’re not the only ones in town. There will be more. Besides, ” Fenris ducked beside one of the corpses, face turning into a sneer. “It’s as I thought. Their Master accompanied them. I need to confront him before he finds me first.”

Fenris paused for a moment, eyes studying Hawke.

“And I could use some help.”

[alpaca-clouds]

Should we bring back the dinosaurs?

I spoke about gene editing yesterday and about species going extinct the day before. So let us lighten the mood a bit and bring both topics together: Let's talk about dinosaurs and wooly mammoths!

We are actually getting surprisingly good with that gene tech thingie, even though you hear not so much about it most of the time. But yeah, no, we are actually getting pretty good at it and at understanding what certain genes are doing.

And at least with the wooly mammoth we have found some DNA frozen in the ice. While we do not have a complete genum for them, we have a bit of it. And we are actually technically speaking able to re-engineer quite a bit from elephant DNA.

Same goes with the dinosaurs. No, we probably aren't finding mosquitos with blood that still holds DNA. But we have some bird species that are descendents of certain dinosaurs. Consider the mighty chicken, that has kinda sorta descendet from the velociraptor. (Also, yeah, news flash, dinosaurs are closer related to birds, than they are to reptiles.)

Like, some guy playing around with CRISPR has managed to give a chicken teeth. So, yeah, we might actually be able to re-engineer some dinosaurs. No T-Rex, no brontosaurus and no triceratops. But some dinosaurs? Certainly a posibility. Not right now, but in twenty, thirty years? Probably not off the table.

But that brings us to Jeff Goldblum Ian Malcolm:

Should we do that? Should we bring back mammoths or dinosaurs?

Let me make one thing clear: No, they probably will not start reproducing uncontrolably and then turn against humans in a more drastic way than any other animal might do. Sure, they could become an invasive species........ but they probably won't, because the earth they have once inhabited was so different from today, that they could very certainly not survive. Especially not the mammoth.

So, yeah. No Jurassic Park and no T-Rex running through New York or whatever happend in Jurassic Park 3.

Nah. There are other reasons not to do it.

And those reasons are simple: What for? Why do we want to bring back dinosaurs or mammoths? Sure, it would be cool to see a living, breathing dinosaur (even if it was just a velociraptor) or a mammoth. But... what good would come from it? Why do not invest all those ressources that it would take to do that into something... more useful? Something that is actually bringing science forward. Because, guess what: No, Alan, even if we brought back the brontosaurus, the revived brontosaurus would not tell us, whether or not the species moved in herds 150 million years ago!

And, of course, there would be just the animal welfare aspect. Because whatever animal we would bring back from the dead would probably have a very, very shitty life. It would be kept in a zoo, not be allowed to do its animal things. Would be part of a lot of science. It would just suck for those animals.

With actual living animal species, we can have long discussions about the pros and cons of zoos. But we will never rewild the mammoth. We should not rewild the mammoth. Because it does not have any habitat left. Same for any dinosaur.

So, I am with Jeff Goldblum on this one. Maybe we just... should not do it.

(Even though bringing back species that we as humans drove to extinction in recent history would be an entirely different story.)

[cana--merula]

Couldn't continue reading the fanfic I started reading this morning on my way to work on my lunch break because ao3 was down and now you want to tell me it's still down on my way back home?!

[nationmckinleyscorset]

Society if women were allowed to do this:

we need to free the nipple so bad im so serious we should be so far past the point where girl children are told they have to keep their shirt on while their brothers and cousins get to run around shirtless or women shamed for breastfeeding or trans men needing top surgery to go outside shirtless without getting judged at best and arrested at worst or girls getting taken out of class for not wearing a bra like this should be a priority

[ghostie-gengar]

people draw N harmonia two ways

[mechaseraph]

Sweethearts 💕

Less edited versions under the cut

+some other sketch I had of em

[missmacfire]

Know the difference! ✨

[emeraldspiral]

I'd say "grandniece" instead because there's no way Ms. Bitters fucks.

Random Thought:

Penelope Spectra (Danny Phantom) is ABSOLUTELY the granddaughter of Mrs. Bitters (Invader Zim).

Mrs. Bitters is VERY proud of her granddaughter for all of the misery she spreads. She just wishes she'd get out of that "staying youthful" phase.

[thegreatgremlingang]

broke: Jiang fengmian thirsted after cangse sanren and took in wei ying bc he was cangse sanren's child

woke: Jiang fengmian was literally just good friends with cangse sanren

BESPOKE: Jiang fengmian and cangse sanren formed the Wei Changze simp club so they could collectively thirst after wei changze and jiang fengmian took in wei ying bc he was WEI CHANGZE (and his homie cangse sanren)'s child

[pirateshelly]

You know I do think that the fandom does at times give Louis a little too much flack for the whole not wanting to kill people thing. Like yeah he can be self righteous, he can be hypocritical, he can sometimes seem more concerned with being perceived as a good person than actually being one. But objectively "oh fuck I wasn't given a full understanding of what exactly it was I was signing up for here and now I have to spend eternity killing people to survive and I don't think I'm actually on board with that so I'm going to try to come up with ways to, like, not have to do that" is kind of an extremely normal and reasonable reaction lol. And also (hopefully) the one the vast majority of us would realistically actually have. Like the sheer amount of "ugh Louis stop being so pretentious and judgy about murder 🙄" takes do sometimes feel a little bit silly

[accirax]

🌟🍬🤖🎈Congrats to Wonderlands x Showtime for finishing their 4x4!🌟🍬🤖🎈

[ftl-faster-than-life]

Barry being canonically closer to Dick than Bruce in age is rrrreally funny actually. That's Bruce's emotional support twink and bestie.

[posi-pan]

for anyone who has ever seen someone claim pansexual was coined on social media by teenagers in the early 2000s, the 2010s, and even in the past few years, and believed it or wondered if it’s true, or known it’s not true and been annoyed by the misinformation, this article is for you!

after listing out all of the claims i’ve seen, i succinctly debunk them by laying out a brief overview of pansexual’s history dating back to the 1960s, both as a term generally indicating universal appeal/inclusion and a term indicating sexual freedom/attraction to all genders. i include a look at pansexual’s use specifically within queer spaces, with a focus on bisexual spaces, as well.

i also touch briefly on omnisexual and polysexual existing in similar contexts to pansexual dating back to the 1960s. and finally, i discuss a little bit about how when, where, and by whom a label is created doesn’t determine the validity or usefulness of it, because these claims come with the implication that new labels, labels created by kids, and labels originating on social media aren’t legit forms of queer expression and identification.

happy pan week! 🥰💗💛💙

[marvey-sideblog]

sorry but harvey being submissive in bed is the most delusional take ever this man is dominance incarnate, “i like to bend people to my will”… “good boy”..”puppy”….”I want it to know who it’s DADDY IS” like cmon now!!! that man dcks mike down each time he gives lip and it’s cannon..

anon he contains multitudes! yes he would do these things, yes he could dominate mike and enjoy it. but! that man has to be macho in-control all the time and sometimes, anon, he really fucking enjoys (like, a lot) when someone he's attracted to completely manhandles and controls him.

He LOVES it. It is so so sexy to him.

And he LOVES when Mike talks back to him, when Mike is telling him what for. Yes sometimes the sexual satisfaction would come from putting Mike in his place over that...That would 100% be sexy to him. And Mike would 100% LOVE being subm/ssive to Harvey; that boy has Fantasised. Yes, Mike's "aye-aye, Captain" did things to Harvey, that is a scene of all time (and, tbf! Mike is actually the one taking the lead there! Harvey Captain fantasy where Harvey still gets to be subm/ssive.......). BUT. Harvey would also LOVE Mike turning the tables on that. Mike's an equal to him, and Mike taking control would be so hot, for both of them. There'd be a lil amusement for Harvey and then he'd genuinely be so turned on by it. I'm not talking about Season 1 Mike. I'm talking about the people they became together, to each other. Sometimes their sex is pure vanilla just love...Sometimes Mike would tell Harvey what to do and relish in it; they both would.

And, for the matter at whole...You think when Harvey's mind wandered about Jessica, he was thinking about domming her? NO. It would be Jessica domming him in every never-gonna-actually-happen flitting fantasy. Yes, ma'am. Come now. He'd be giddy at that.

Harvey is not one dimensional he actually loves to be playful and feminine and pushed into the mattress and told to take his shirt off.