#excellence in the home

[cygnetbrown]

Embrace Excellence: The Key to Successful New Year Goals

Every year, most people start a “New Year’s Resolution”. They create a list of various things that they want to do or quit doing. Most New Year’s Resolutions don’t last until the end of January. Some sources  say “Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day” is January 17 while others consider the second Friday in January as “Quitter’s Day.” This is not exactly what the polls reveal. According to the…

[saydesole]

Black Southern Blues Singers

Happy Black History ✊🏿

Marvin Sease 1946-2011

Betty Wright 1953-2020

Johnnie Taylor 1934-2000

Denise Lasalle 1934-2018

Z.Z Hill 1935-1984

Ms. Jody 1957- Living

Mel Waiters 1956-2015

Tyrone Davis 1938-2005

[livwritesstuff]

Honestly, Eddie doesn’t know why it had taken so long for him to realize his and Steve’s children could understand the shit that came out of his mouth.

(It took an embarrassingly long amount of time).

Even when Moe’s third or fourth word was fuck, he didn’t realize it (and she was using it mostly correctly too, which should have been a serious flag, but nope).

What made him realize it was when they started repeating the shit that came out of his mouth. 

To strangers.

In public.

The first time Eddie had been really caught off guard by something one of his daughters said was when Moe, who was three at the time, had proudly announced to an unsuspecting grocery store cashier, “Daddy says my Papa’s a DILF!”

And, like, Eddie had just heard the term for the first time, and obviously he was goddamn delighted by it because…duh. Steve. 

It just hadn’t occurred to him that his toddler might have caught it too, but little pitchers have big ears, or so the proverb suggests, and Eddie had taken it as a wake-up call that Moe isn’t a baby anymore (tragic as it may be).

He’s not the only problem though – Steve is just as bad, (if not worse, because he really doesn’t bother to check where their kids are before he starts running his mouth).

One particularly damning incident was at a restaurant, which is something they don’t even do all that often because, seriously, going to a restaurant with very young kids should be an Olympic event or something.

(The last time they all went out to eat, Nancy and Robin had made a drinking game out of all the times Steve and Eddie had to take a child to the bathroom and ended up so far gone that Eddie had needed to drive them home).

The incident started with the waitress asking, “Can I get you started with anything to drink?”

And it had ended with four-year-old Moe confidently announcing, “My Papa needs a fucking margarita.”

Thank god, the waitress had been a twenty-something college student and thought it was hilarious, but Steve had still been completely mortified.

[bunnyspine]

a silly goose!! - ★

[batsyheere]

When thinking on timelines with DC and Danny Phantom, I always figure Dick Grayson and Danny Fenton being around the same age makes sense. Like, that 90-2000s tech and culture, the formation of the Justice League and the Meta Acts? It would make sense to have a time period with no basis for such things when it concerns Danny not reaching out to other heroes or for the Anti-Ecto Acts being slipped into law. And it wouldn't be weird for Batman not to hear about all the ghostly happening of Amity Park when he would primarily be focused on Gotham (and somewhat the League).

It feels like a good set up for Danny being a great mentor for others based off his own struggles as a teen vigilante with no preparation or proper support. He can finally reach out to other heroes, lend his own experiences and power to a fight even if he does decide to start retiring from the vigilante scene.

Then you have Dick Grayson trying to strike out on his own, form his own identity, and I feel like Danny would be weirdly intuitive? He immediately clocks Dick as a teen vigilante and is just there for him in the ways he always wished someone had been for him.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

[queenlucythevaliant]

For what it means is this, among other things: that for whatever reason God chose to make man as he is—limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—he had the honesty and courage to take his own medicine. Whatever game he is playing with his creation, he has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that he has not exacted from himself. He has himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.

Dorothy Sayers on the Incarnation, "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" (emphasis mine)

[stairset]

[demynom]

Onceler ass

[thatcorridorman]

I archived the magnus archives

idk link to the full thing is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vA6kin0H5bk_Nu15WTnwmAEPTAx9MLVO/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117712544114786577413&rtpof=true&sd=true

I genuinely don't know what anyone would use this for, and honestly doing recreational paperwork is crazy and i need to sit with myself for a bit and think about this one

anyway john's case numbering system sucks so i made a new one, not really that good but it acts better as a call number system. In real life there would be albums and catalogue numbers but thank god the magnus institute archive does NOT exist so that's not an issue

[gabriestat]

one of my favorite pictures of endurance is this one frank hurley took of himself while giving a presentation on new zealand and his home to the crew. humankind has always yearned for powerpoint

[haleandwellmet]

very serious repressed 4 repressed relationship

i made a very stiff workaholic MC for @hpowellsmith's Honor Bound and they ended up in a korzhamance! Did they make each other worse? yes :^) Did I love every second of it? without a doubt.

MC lore below the cut because I am rotating them in my mind:

Oriole Bittersea (not to be confused with my dnd character Oriol Battersea who I did base their character on) is a 44 y.o disgraced field medic clinging to their military job like it's a speeding train they just managed to hop onto the back of.

Extremely dutiful, overly reliant on structure of the military to shape their life, and pragmatic, yet kind of artless, they ended up being a slightly more naive version of Korzha lol. I did not realize that was happening because I went it completely blind and didn't know much about the characters except what it said on the tin.

I actually thought they were gonna romance Fiore, but Oriole is someone who would prioritize work over any social commitments so they kept being drawn to Korzha instead, because spending time with Fiore felt frivolous.

ALSO similar to Korzha, Matia ended up being a close friend who helped them unbutton a bit. Side note: I want Matia to be my friend irl, I can't wait to do a more Matia-centric run.

No spoilers, but after several painful fuck-ups and continually failing to look after their health, Korzha remains their last tie to a military they're not really sure they want to be attached to anymore, while Korzha is in it deeper than ever. I did not have the heart to break them up after everything, but they are in for an interesting future together :^)

oops the tragic, personality-based doppelbanger situationship has committed accidental war crimes!

[petitesmafia]

hc i just think Dazai once swapped all the regular chairs in the pm meeting rooms to tall ones so when the execs met, Dazai watched in amusement as Chuuya struggled to sit (he had to do a little hop to get on and off the seat) and laughed at Chuuya's feet dangling bc he couldn't touch the floor

ofc Chuuya could've asked for a new chair BUT he's never one to hold up or interrupt a meeting for his own personal issue so he just deals with it...tho the second he locks eyes with Dazai and sees his (fake) innocent smile Chuuya just Knows it was him (he immediately starts plotting his own revenge)

Chuuya, looking a bit uncomfortable: Dazai, sweetly: Chuuya? is smth wrong? is the chair too...tall for you? all the execs turning to look at Chuuya: Chuuya, gritting his teeth: not at all. Dazai: just wanted to make sure <3

Dazai, trying not to laugh: oops! Chuuya would you mind picking up my pen next to your seat. i accidentally dropped it Dazai: if it's not too difficult of a trip getting down from your chair, ofc Chuuya: 💢💢💢 it's fine. i got it.

[pushing500]

Brace yourselves for what will surely be a big and impressive fight...

Or not, I guess. I assume that's bugged, but we won't question a godsend when we get it.

I imagine that the "press unit to the back of the throat to inject and clamp inside the base of skull and thread ultrafine wires through your brain" part of the mechlink installation process is... uncomfortable, to say the least.

At long last, Kwahu feels properly like himself for the first time since he's existed. The Jones boys are one step closer to being properly identical! <3 <3

Kwahu's first mechanoid!!!

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[ranticore]

re: the excerpts you just posted, may i ask what program you use to write in... it looks really easy on the eyes

libreoffice!!!!!!!!! you can customise the colours of the workspace (i make it all low contrast grey but you can pick whatever). i'm a libre shill i recommend it to everyone as a ms word/excel/etc replacement. it's free and open source and has a UI similar to pre-2010 MS office (before they introduced the bastard ribbon)

[weareravershq]

Rema being welcomed home in Benin City 🇳🇬🦇