#especially magpies

[egginfroggin]

Shooting Star

(Frantically telling myself that I'm not going to do this with every member of the zodiac, I'm not gonna do a monochrome portrait of each of them with their symbol in gold haloing their head, I'm not gonna do that I'm not I'm not gonna - *thinks about how to pose Dipper and the grunkles* frickign dang it)

[many-gay-magpies]

i love how dead boy detectives presents such a diverse mix of the campiest, most over-the-top tv characters of all time, and the best representation of actual real-life human beings i think i have ever seen on television

[ask-the-nine-links]

Wild ! Wild ! Look ! *Shows a rock super proudly*

:D

Wild: Ooooh, that's a really shiny rock! Where did you get it from?

[fictionadventurer]

Sitting on my hands kicking my feet waiting to hear when you watch Skeleton Crew finale :333

I watched it!

It stuck the landing!

It did everything I wanted it to do (except technically one thing, but it was close enough so it counts) and didn't do anything I didn't want it to do!

What a good story! Maybe the Star Wars property that best captures the tone of the original Star Wars! Plus a great '80s kid's adventure!

[trevisos]

i think magpie would get along so well with some of y’all’s rooks. please imagine her kicking it in antiva as a regular degular de riva assassin in ur playthroughs. u will find her with a bottle of booze and a deck of cards on the highest available rooftop in treviso should u need her services (no strings attached one night stands and/or someone to play wicked grace with mostly. or assassination. i guess.)

[wolfeyedwitch]

When it's 3 years after the fact and you realize that you accidentally helped a friend name a character Tim Drake.

*facepalm*

To be fair, it's a nickname? But still. When my friend went "hey what should my character Septimus's last name be?"

I said "Drake," because fantasy setting, and it sounds cool, and why not.

It wasn't until later that we got into the whole "Septimus is kind of a mouthful, what would people actually call him?"

And that's when Tim came up as a nickname.

And I put NONE OF THIS ALL TOGETHER until just recently when reading Batfam fics because that's the rabbit hole my current fandom fixation went down via crossover introductions a la dpxdc.

I think I need to go hide in shame now.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

Crashes in

Points at Luci and Magpie. Drops ENTER: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO FAKING YOUR DEATH

Listen. Gestures at their whole thing of putting up an act. Points at how it's "just the job" for Magpie. Points at how Luci simply Decided that's who she is now if she wants to live.

"I don't think I'm that guy" followed by the immediate implication that Yes You Are. You understand.

I was initially just going to say Magpie trying to manage the torment nexus that is the facility but. I think it works for whatever the fuck's going on with Luci too

Ok this part actually links to the album lore. It tells the story of Some Guy that decides to fake his death and live a new life as someone completely different, but his lies eventually catch up to him and he loses everything because of it

Stares directly at those two. You understand.

OUGH . MAN. GRISPS. yea this was the one i remembered hell yea fuck yea hell yea me when i 💥💥💥

AND THE. GOD. YEAH. YEAH... NODS.. yes yeah verily exactly. head in hands. Especially with the parallel of the two of them; changing implication and tone for each side of the coin but ultimately keeping the same heart, for lack of a better term..

especially struck by the [Please excuse our current appearance] snippet in which regard; because its something that can very much intently be a note on Magpie's initial presentation of a Hey Dont Worry About It, It Is What It Is over top of a (god this fucking sucks); but from Luci's angle it reads as a Point And Laugh These Idiots Have No Fucking Idea What They're Doing ^w^ (completely unaware that she is, in fact, one of These Idiots(tm) in a way she would never come to really understand.)

the back and forth, but it still very very intently rings clear for both of them; with a sense of foreboding they are both, with different levels of intent, completely ignoring.

head in hands.

[smokbeast]

💐💐💐✨✨✨💫💫✨✨💫🌞🌞🌞

[many-gay-magpies]

hozier first light intro mood

[cyb3r-mutt]

Okay so I’m originally from the uk and over there it’s a thing to always greet/wave at/salute magpies and whatever it’s something I’ve done forever and I’ll admit it turned into like a big thing for me and I will absolutely interrupt a conversation to say hello to a magpie and get super distressed if I can’t but whatever it’s fine. The thing is I live in Canada right now and people think I’m weird when I say hello to magpies and don’t believe me that it’s not just me and it’s very annoying me saying hi to birds isn’t hurting you??

[fictionadventurer]

Hellooo I am wondering do you have any good book recs or resources for if I want to learn about the progressive era or some of the lesser known presidents (Garfield Arthur McKinley etc?) I love your posts and I’ve been hankering for a while to know more and immerse myself in those time periods that aren’t Revolution Civil War or WW1 onward! :D

Naturally, I'm recommending the Presidential podcast to anyone who wants to learn more about the broader scope of American history. Going through history president by president means that you don't skip over any of the in-between stuff, and since you learn about each of these presidents as people, you get a very personal look at history. Each episode is about forty minutes long, so there's not much time commitment, and most episodes involve interviews with people who wrote books, so you have reading recommendations if you come across a president that you want to learn more about.

For Garfield and Arthur, I can recommend Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard. It's not the most scholarly book, but it's a very engagingly-written account of Garfield's life and death and all the history surrounding his story.

For the progressive era, I'm going to suggest The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I haven't actually read this one, but the couple of chapters I read on the Kindle preview were interesting, and Team of Rivals was fantastic, and since you specifically asked about the progressive era, I figure this is a safe enough book to suggest. It's actually about the friendship between Roosevelt and William Howard Taft (who is another fascinating forgotten president) and how their very different personalities brought them together and eventually tore them apart, as well as about how TR used the press to further his agenda, which seems like an interesting angle to take on the era.

(Oh, and this goes in a completely different direction, but for a book set roughly around that same time period, The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone is about the hunt to find new foods for American agriculture, and is full of fascinating history about how this all interacts with the events around the turn of the 20th century.)

Another podcast I can recommend is American History Tellers. I listened to their seven-episode arc about Andrew Jackson, and it's an immersive and engaging dive into American history from about the War of 1812 until Jackson's death in 1845, going pretty deep into an era of history that's usually glossed over.

[jils-things]

I know nothing about ur cockatiel bf or his source. Making u use this ask to gush about the game and the pigeon guy or only one of those things if you want (/lh)

I'VE BEEN TRYING MY BEST TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT MAGPIE AND I THINK THIS VIDEO REALLY HELPS SUM UP HOW IM FEELING SJSHSHAKAKAJA I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO BRING THIS CLIP TO MY BLOG BUT THIS SEEMS APPROPRIATE....

"since jts only both of us" my ASS now my blog knows abt my secret 😔😔😔

[many-gay-magpies]

i want to watch severance for that old man. and also the angry nepo baby

[punkahudsonia]

actually that's me in the top middle always great to get the family together

Corvids!! :D

[madampayne]

a little update even though nobody is reading this here

I haven't posted here in a while because... things have been awful, frankly, and I didn't work on Magpie for a long time, then some, and then let it sit for ages again. I've edited some more chapters which I haven't tracked here but I just keep seeing more and more problems. At the same time, the story and characters mean too much to me to just abandon, so the plan still stands to finish editing this and get it into the best possible shape and then see what people have to say about it.

On the other hand, there's still a few other manuscripts I could get into shape should I decide to shelve Magpie. Sun & Ocean Blue has drawn my attention lately, so maybe I'll go into revisions with that. Or finish the last bit of Hot Chocolate. Or finally write my middle aged cowgirl romance. Or my new idea with the working title Project Red & Blue.

Options...

[ballvillepanic]

loving getting spam email that i immediately know as spam. my facebook was logged into? i literally have never made a facebook account in all my years of being alive and im a grown adult, so they can have it lol