#i totally fangirled

[pikapeppa]

"Love is like water or air. It is an infinite force of nature, and giving love to one person doesn’t mean there is less of it for anyone else."

-- Halsin from an upcoming chapter of my own fic lmao

Meet Brynn Bladetongue: half-drow sorceress-bard, at your service, with the two loves of her life, depicted with ABSOLUTE PERFECTION by @jukeboxindie! Don't mind me, just deeply obsessed with this perfect art of my babygirl with her boyfriends 🥰

You can read about Brynn and each of her boys here on AO3!

[emmathe82nd]

Watching dan and Phil videos from 2009 and thinking about how the interactive space adventure video was one of dan’s favorite videos

And how when he visited in December before Christmas Phil probably asked him what kind of video he wants to film and dan probably told Phil how incredible his interactive space adventure video was like how did he even do all that it must have taken so long. And Phil was probably like well we could do one together if you want, I can show you how I did everything and you can be in the video! And then they made the interactive Christmas adventure video 😊 and dan was probably fangirling so hard

In case anyone didn’t know stillarchivingdnp has uploaded playable versions of both of these videos by putting the links in the description instead of having annotations so if you haven’t seen them because YouTube made them unplayable go watch them:

[loveinhereyes-flowersinherhair]

@awomanunkind casually dropping the most accurate statement ever said

SHES SO RIGHT!!!!

[lovely-menza]

I went to pink floyd's their mortal remains in buenos aires last tuesday so I feel like sharing some pics I took there (bc I took a lot) :D

[ms-demeanor]

Since some people might want a Mac, I'll offer a Mac equivalent of your laptop guide from the perspective of a Mac/Linux person.

Even the cheapest Macs cost more than Windows laptops, but part of that is Apple not making anything for the low end of the tech spectrum. There is no equivalent Mac to an Intel i3 with 4 gigabytes of RAM. This makes it a lot easier to find the laptop you need.

That said, it is possible to buy the wrong Mac for you, and the wrong Mac for you is the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. Get literally anything else. If it has an M2 chip in it, it's the most recent model and will serve you well for several years. Any new MacBook Air is a good pick.

(You could wait for new Macs with M3, but I wouldn't bother. If you are reading these guides the M3 isn't going to do anything you need done that a M2 couldn't.)

Macs now have integrated storage and memory, so you should be aware that whatever internal storage and RAM you get, you'll be stuck with. But if you would be willing to get a 256 gig SSD in a Windows laptop, the Mac laptop with 256 gigs of storage will be just as good, and if you'd be willing to get 8 gigs of RAM in a Windows laptop the Mac will perform slightly better with the same amount of memory.

Buy a small external hard drive and hook it up so Time Machine can make daily backups of your laptop. Turn on iCloud Drive so your documents are available anywhere you can use a web browser. And get AppleCare because it will almost certainly be a waste of money but wooooooow will you be glad it's there if you need it.

I get that you are trying to help and I am not trying to be mean to you specifically, but people shouldn't buy apple computers. That's why I didn't provide specs for them. Apple is a company that is absolutely terrible to its customers and its customers deserve better than what apple is willing to offer.

Apple charges $800 to upgrade the onboard storage from a 256GB SSD to a 2TB SSD.

A 2TB SSD costs between $75-100.

I maintain that any company that would charge you more than half the cost of a new device to install a $100 part on day one is a company making the wrong computer for you.

The point of being willing to tolerate a 256GB SSD or 8GB RAM in a Windows laptop is that you're deferring some of the cost to save money at the time of purchase so that you can spend a little bit in three years instead of having to replace the entire computer. Because, you see, many people cannot afford to pay $1000 for a computer and need to buy a computer that costs $650 and will add $200 worth of hardware at a later date.

My minimum specs recommendations for a mac would be to configure one with the max possible RAM and SSD, look at the cost, and choose to go buy three i7 windows laptops with the same storage and RAM for less than the sticker price of the macs.

So let's say you want to get a 14" Macbook pro with the lowest-level processor. That's $2000. Now let's bump that from 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD to 32GB and 2TB. That gets you to $3000. (The SSD is $200 less than on the lower model, and they'll let you put in an 8TB SSD for $1800 on this model; that's not available on the 13" because apple's product development team is entirely staffed by assholes who think you deserve a shitty computer if you can't afford to pay the cost of two 1991 Jeep Cherokee Laredos for a single laptop).

For $3000 you can get 3 Lenovo Workstation laptops with i7 processors, 32GB RAM, and a 2TB SSD.

And look, for just $200 more I could go up to 48GB RAM and get a 4TB SSD - it costs $600 to upgrade the 14" mac from a 2TB SSD to a 4TB SSD so you could still get three laptops with more ram and the same amount of storage for the cost of one macbook.

I get that some people need to use Final Cut and Logic Pro, but hoo boy they sure are charging you through the nose to use products that have become industry standard. The words "capture" and "monopoly" come to mind even though they don't quite apply here.

"Hostile" does, though, especially since Mac users end up locked into the ecosystem through software and cloud services and become uncertain how to leave it behind if they ever decide that a computer should cost less than a month's rent on a shitty studio apartment in LA.

There's a very good reason I didn't give mac advice and that's because my mac advice is "DON'T."

[birdy-bat-writes]

Y’all…there’s a crisis we haven’t addressed. It’s come to my attention that we, as a society, haven’t written anywhere NEAR enough Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) fanfiction!!! 😔

I encountered that mesmerizing Reed Richards Marvel Rivals character and…I slipped and fell and accidentally watched all the fantastic four movies and Reed is so cute!! He’s so adorkable and he’s so clueless at times but he’s tall, kind, smart, goofy, and totally dreamy! Why is there no fanfiction for him?

Truth be told, I know there will be an influx of fan content when Pedro pascal’s Reed Richards drops but I think we should give some love to Ioan Gruffudd and John Krasinski too, so if you have any fanfic recommendations please send them my way! 🤭

Like… do you see the vision? This nerdy dreamboat right here can be our new obsession! 🫢🫣

[luckyxmisfortune]

heard of the new farmer?

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[hogwartslegacypics]

for everyone else who thinks seb and f!mc’s size difference is cute

[onceuponalegendbg-rwby]

The Queen has returned!

V1 finale time, baby!

Wonder if she also thinks Blake’s cat ears are cute? Not like she and Yang are both simps for Blake or anything. Lol

[vivianthepigeon]

MY POST WAS MENTIONED IN A YT VID??

It was for like 0.3 secs but HUH?!?

(Btw shes ColeyDoesThings on yt)

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Chapter 57-60 (so much is happening I’m just making a bullet point list of me screaming about things as I read) ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Onyx Storm SPOILERS

CHAPTER 57

There’s something about the fact that Xaden doesn't sit in the Throne of Tyrrendor during the “meeting of chaos & war strategy debates” in Chapter 57... like; he's not sitting, not resting or just watching, he isn’t doing it like a King who’s never seen war first hand choosing from a towers safety; he’s doing it like a soldier, as someone who will be on the front lines beside them, and thus discusses it with them as such (on all levels; giving space for the lowest voices to be heard, for equal among the rebels, even against other leadership in higher stations). And in that holding his command among them with such powerful ease to the claim simply because of how he holds himself; he doesn’t need a throne or symbol or higher seat to be the leader he is… so idk… gonna go fan myself now.

Brennan saying OUR sister

How dare Theophanie even suggest Jack as his brother… and remind me of Liam again like that cause ow😭💔

Sloane going after Dain and him just taking the punches yet her listening… I’m watching them🫢

Melgren wouldn’t see the rebellion though👀👀

Xaden does have a point; her in danger is him in danger.

Not the “worse than dying” trope. NO!

Okay, this planning accepting ahead of time is actually pretty smart😂 yes Violet will of course save Mira, obviously Xaden is going after her, let’s just get that out of the way; even Brennan says it for himself going for Mira too.

CHAPTER 58

But Violet is both cadet and scribe…

The way Tairn assures her of her choice because he followed, he knows🥲

Aaric is there again… maybe cause he saw what Melgren didn’t? Hmm… I’m watching you Rebecca

Too soon to rub in the Andarna thing! “The Irid we lost”😭 she’s NOT lost she’s just gone for a bit AND COMING BACK

I mean… she didn’t say what brother lol ;-)

Lmao I misread the “runed” armoire as RUINED and thought it was from the first book spice🤣

NO, NOT ANOTHER complicated wording again! WAIT FUCK NO LIAR NONONO

MIRA NONONONONONONOOOO (I swear my eyes bugged out😱 and heart fell🖤 on that final line😭 of Chapter 58) NOT MIRA! NO. FUCKING. WAY. MALIK YOU CANT HAVE HER!!! NOT MIRA!!! YOU WILL NOT DIE TODAY!

CHAPTER 59

Please tell me this is a bad dream😅… a really bad dream walking moment?😭

Well, at least even the Venin also want Jack dead… guess we all agree on that!🙄

Hehe I’m sobbing🫥☠️

Xaden protecting them while Brennan and Violet try to save Mira and it’s killing me because is he fighting for them to have time knowing they’ll find a way or is this him giving them the last seconds they have together😭 and Tairns voice to her giving her descriptions so she doesn’t turn taking care of everything so she’s safe there for a second😭(and she knows it)😭

SLOANE BABE DON’T YOU DARE DIE — REBECCA WHY DID YOU GIVE ME A LIAM APOLOGY RIGHT NOW CUZ I’M ALREADY DYING HERE

NO! DAMMIT! NOT A REPEAT OF BRENNAN DRAINING HIMSELF TO DEATH!😭 WE ARE NOT LOSING ANY SORRENGAILS TODAY (let alone two) I FORBID IT!!!

How much are we trusting Aetos these days? lmao but damn what did he see😅😭👀🫥

No… Brennan saying sorry to VIOLET because he knows this will kill her… no nonono

Sloane’s full circle of saving a Sorrengail🥺😭🥹

Dain you just got points for letting her hate you, so long as Mira lives

NO MORE SECRETS (for real this time)?!

“God don’t I know it” — okay Dain and Sloane I see you… idk how I feel here but age; wait is Sloane only a year younger than Vi? I guess that’s the same as Xaden and Violet then… okay maybe? The fact he took her punches, is that the mark earlier?🥺😭🥹

Umm… so Sloane said Dain has more power than he should; does that mean something bad? Venin? Or like she doesn’t trust him to have power and it’s a political statement?

You are NOT a weapon😭

Brennan you are a miracle worker *breaths finally*

Me screaming at Rebecca for scaring me like that again over MIRA of all people (after the Ridoc incident I CANNOT ANYMORE… but also scare me and bring them back don’t leave them gone I can’t do it after Liam and every mention of that hurts enough so also stop hurting them)

OMG WAIT… the marks are gone after Sloane… the marks that sounded almost like Venin? Can Sloane heal Venin?? — What marks were on Dain and Brennan; did they all mark runes or something? Why does Dain grab his good wrist?

lol😂🫶I love Sloane🖕👍

I wish we had more Sloane and Liam… well… anything🥹

War zone mail… really?

Hehe Dain there’s a lot of explanations we all need😅

DO. NOT. TURN.

“ONLY EVER YOU”

WHAT PROMISE??

Sgaeyl and Violets nod of “protect them” agreement 🤝

“The Duke of Angst” 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah… another problem adds up😅😅😬 these final 10 chapters are CRAZZZYYYY

CHAPTER 60

Yeah the stubbornness always proves true…

The way Tairn almost broke dragon law for Violet because he wouldn’t leave her🥺

A rider a weapon — second year indeed

“Magic requires balance”

… who’s faster?? — ya know what I don’t wanna know

Fuck they regenerate?🤦‍♀️ Great.💀

“The same as shadows” — fuck. … command needs to not notice that please

lol Violet using the tree thrown at her to her advantage as a cover👏

… what is she supposed “accept”?

WHO IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?!?

OMG. YES. BODHI 👏counter it👏

Her mother was the balance to THEOPHANIE… this is so much worse fighting essentially… her mother

Wait wait wait… what balance does Violet break?

LILITH FOUGHT THEOPHANIE BEFORE?!?

“Dunne” — that one now… intrigue.

It isn’t her… but it’s Rhi!!! —

— POV SHIFT — let’s go TEAMWORK TIME!!! (I love our girl so much🥹) THE BEST OF US — now no dying OKAY?!

CHAPTER 61; here I come with the energy of I ain’t gettin no sleep cause of you talk ain’t gettin no sleep cause of me; THEOPHANIE

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[mochimochimona]

Fortiche Studios are the GOATs

So, I got my hands on the german edition of the Arcane Artbook and Fortiche Studio is so awesome! And this quote made me laugh so hard, but context first: so they are talking about their influences, one of them being Monster. One of the team said that Jayce is reminding him of the protagonist, which he didn't like at first because he was so boring. He had the feeling Jayce was like that in the first season: Jayce just following (Mitläufer, someone who's just following others with no own agenda, no standing, no own personality), who makes wrong dicisions. Until at the end of season two, where he accepts the mistakes and the bad decisions he made and finally, WHO HE IS.

Yeah well, WHO IS HE AT THE END? FORTICHE HUH? What do you mean??

(also they "confirmed" in the artbook Jayce and Viktor are brothers turned enemies lol). I haven't read the whole thing but I think Fortiche were JayVik shippers, Linke and Riot were not and Fortiche did the french thing and...did it anyway :D This is very insightful, I may or may not be a Fortiche Studio Fangirl now. Also everyone at Fortiche seemed to be a Viktor Truther haha. This is wholesome honestly.

[ficsforeren]

aree you gonna write for sung jinwoooo???

GIRLLLL AT THIS POINT I MIGHT HAVE TO THE THIRST IS REAL 😭

i've read the manhwa four times by now it's crazy how addicting it is and he's just so SO COOL like he's cool in the anime but in the manhwa he's like HNNNNGGGGGGH

the part that makes me want to write for him so bad is the way he gets SO ANGRY whenever the person he cares about is hurt, like that man does NOT hesitate to kill ANYONE who lays a finger on them he's CRAZY protective especially when it comes to his baby sister which... makes me want to write... jinwoo x reader fic where we get to be his sister and... you know...

CAUSE LOOK AT THIS SHIT (SPOILER below the cut)

this man was in the middle of a dungeon raid when he felt something wrong was going on with his sister

he then left the raid, abandoning the other hunters who desperately needed his help for protection (he lent them his shadow soldiers but still) then he jumped on a fucking dragon and flew toward his sister

the first thing he did after he got there?? GIVING A GENTLE HEAD PAT

AND A HUG

and then he stroked her hair back and saw the bruise the monster left on her

and god he was PISSED

then he proceeded to beat these monsters with his OWN HANDS, no shadow soldiers, no daggers, just BARE HANDS AND CLAWS

[elliedafish]

OMFG. I’M GONNA CRY HAPPY TEARS. So basically, y’all know the feeling when some makes a video and you comment and they like it… yeah that kinda happened twice in a row. One of them is someone I recently subscribed too and she hearted my comment directly (omg. She knows I exist in her orbit.🥰) and the other is someone I’ve been watching for about 2 years or so and she replied to the comment thread I was in thanking us for being long time fans. TWO IN A ROW. Parasocial YouTuber relationships go hard.💜💜

[intrigd-voyagr]

I have a feeling the sonny pillows won't sell.. Curious if interest changes once I get the photos in and open shop

[its-all-papaya]

was just reading a fic that made me think about the fact that i work daily with athletes in a sport where ice baths are very extremely common, and i am just now imagining what would happen if i was ever like 'hey guys, we're sending cameras with you today!' like. it's insane that f1 teams just do that.