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you know, i think i've figured out why i can't read brokeback mountain au fics.
its bc annie proulx is an author who writes as much about characters as she does about the specific settings she puts them in. they're so deeply rooted to their envionments, and so understanding the setting is crucial to understanding who her characters are.
imo, you cannot remove ennis and jack from 1963-1983 era rural wyoming and texas. otherwise, it all falls apart and no longer do the characters really make much sense.
#ive always struggled w this like i cannot for the life of me read brokeback mountain modern au fics or whatever cause IT JUST DOESNT WORK!#ennis in particular is just SO tethered to late 20th century wyoming#like as much as we still have toxically masculine men like him in the lresent day imo you cannot just take his character and place him#in a city in the modern day#the only brokeback fics that work are canon compliant and canon divergent#and even then theres a few popular canon divergent ones that i like 😒😒 at for various reasons lol#the ramblings of a mad man#still brokeback posting
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📍Chicago, USA 🇺🇸
#video#paradise#view#paraiso#explore#travel#trip#vacation#landscape#adventure#buildings#city#usa#eua#chicago#modern architecture#day#morning#music#train#tecnology
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Since the modern Machete and Vasco are reincarnations of their former selves, do you think they might occasionally experience remnants from their past lives in the form of things like vague memories/dreams or feelings that they can't quite explain?
Such as how maybe Machete wouldn't be able to watch stabbing scenes in shows/movies without getting a faint ache in his chest, or an imaginary metallic taste in his mouth. Maybe Vasco would tend to get especially clingy and oddly concerned about Machete's well-being during a particular time of year(around whenever the previous Machete was assassinated).
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#muffled wailing#it would be kind of waste if they didn't experience vague déjà vus on occasion#answered#anonymous#Vaschete scenarios#modern au#but it could be positive vibes just as well#unintentionally visiting places that used to have significance to them#and getting that unreal feeling like you've been there before#not to mention passing by their previous homes (if the buildings survived to modern day)#when they visit Venice together for the first time both are secretly a little weirded out by how familiar some corners of the city feel#but don't bring it up because it seems silly
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Buddhist priest from Saigon, modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam
French vintage postcard
#postcard#ansichtskarte#briefkaart#southern#photography#carte postale#vintage#vietnam#postkarte#photo#historic#postkaart#ephemera#priest#sepia#city#modern-day#modern#buddhist#french#ho chi minh city#saigon#minh#tarjeta#postal
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I drew the guys on brand enough times that I think I deserve a lil bit of self indulgent semi-humanization. for funsies
#when i say drew them on brand a whole bunch i mean that animation ough i know it doesnt seem like ive drawn them on brand so much but#i promise i did#might continue this where pep goes to see spader in the deadworlds or whatever and brings him back as a ghost or something#like we were talking ab the other day e#yknow#mispelled draws#misp draws#adventure time wizard city#adventure time distant lands#adventure time#peppermint butler#bonnibel bubblegum#princess bubblegum#bubbline#marceline the vampire queen#marceline adventure time#this is like the midway point between fully on brand designs and my modern au designs#mashup babeyy#every time i draw pep he looks different BDJSBZKCBSK#his litlle stripey stripes remind me of a cat#wizard city
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As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.
These two turned out to be... not the best choices.
The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.
To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.
#my art#tf reconstruction#transformers#bumblebee movie#tf shatter#tf dropkick#maccadam#transformers au#semi-introduction to my idea for antagonists in tf:r - specifically being movie villains slotted into my au#bc if the main crux of the main reconstruction story in autobot city is about hot rod and her rise to becoming rodimus prime#which comes from the First movie - why not loosely adapt other movies too??#ive got ideas for most of them already - kinda jumping back and forth between the modern day story and my pre-war ''downfall'' story#which gives my brain a break from thinking about one to think about another#anyway - i imagine the first ''episode'' of tf:r would be like. hot rod shows up in autobot city on her first day > meets the team#> gets assigned arcee as her partner > arcee hates it > they over hear shatter talking to someone they don't recognise because rod's nosey#> huh that's weird > they intercept it next time by accident > its a communication to starscream about the city's defenses#> they take it to ultra magnus but they break the pad on the way because they were arguing about it#> ''hot rod i know you're new here. and you're intrigued about the war and everything. but we shouldn't be suspicious of everyone wearing a#purple badge. give them a chance.'' > arcee drops it bc she doesn't wanna start trouble + ''magnus will handle it. he always does somehow.'#> rod does not drop it and makes blaster monitor shatter's messages for anything unusual > blaster indulges her bc he's endeared to her#> he does end up intercepting an encrypted message > rod immediately acts and chases after shatter and dropkick on an outside-city mission#> arcee goes after her to stop her from fucking up really bad > blaster unencrypts the message. it's a rendezvous point to start an invasio#> magnus kup blaster and perceptor all head out to help the two young'uns before they get in over their heads#> rod and arcee meet and fight starscream and barely make it out by the skin of the teeth thanks to the more experienced autobots arrival#> starscream shatter dropkick and whoever else is there are driven off#> day is saved - magnus commends rod's gut instincts but rod goes back to what magnus said about not trusting bots with purple badges#> she was right this time but its an exception not a rule and most other decepticons in the city want to live in peace#> magnus also commends that attitude and the team head back > starscream starts plotting his Next Big Plan#''post credits'' scene of magnus putting the request in for springer and blurr + robot dinosaur opening its eye in the dark👀👀#longwinded but ya thats like the Clearest idea for Specific Events so far other things are Stuff I Want To Happen
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I'm just gonna start blocking people who send me essay length asks trying to argue about stupid shit because their personal experience was different
#the person who said american schools dont brainwash kids and proceeded to go on a 700 word rant about all the cool stuff their school did#like dude im sorry your lived experience isnt universal#and learning about the history of countries like mexico and france =/= learning about modern cities in 'third world countries'#so many places dont even offer world history until high school as an elective#like no fucking shit we learned about other countries in school but teaching us the the history of egypt does nothing to help us understand#parts of it are just as modern and lively as like. new york#they literally make us pledge allegiance to the American flag but you're gonna argue kids are taught american idealism because your friend#in texas had mexico DAY in school. like let that sink in. mexico day is your argument against mine#*arent taught
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i went thru my summer clothes and found my matching hawaiian shirt that i got for me and my stepdad and my autistic brain immediate thought to make this
speedpaint in read more
#i made this in a cold sweat like i made this in two days like HUH#i'm not okay but it's fine#i gave up on the background but um modern au bc it's a city#i can't get chilchucks daughters out of my mind#dungeon meshi#delcious in dungeon#chilchuck#chilchuck tims#mayjack#fullertom#mayjack chils#packpatty#my art#mirroredgiraffe#chilchuck is your lesbian daughter single
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Rip merlin, you would have loved tesco next to the castle
#i know he is still alive#it's funny in a context i swear#just google the castle#chateau de pierrefonds#or just castle of pierrefonds#and go on the street view#in series they always show you it from a certain angle#so you don't see a modern city basically at its wall#and i guess there must be some supermarket (eg tesco) quite close to the castle#so#merlin would love having tesco just outside the citadel wall in the canon era#he would be buying energy drinks#(he does in a modern day... so...)#let's pretend i'm funny#merlin#merlin emrys#merlin bbc#Q
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*bounces up and down in hopeful excitement*
Hey hey HEY DANMEI FANS—specifically of modern/contemporary-based danmei!!!
The gift exchange event called Neon Tangyuan (set to end Feb 12, 2025 during the Lantern Festival so don’t panic because it’s not for Christmas!) just released their treats list!!!
You don’t have to be a participant to create treats, so if you have a modern danmei you wish had more art or fics, you can try checking the prompts and see if there’s anything from your favourite underrated modern/contemporary danmei that sparks your creative fancy!! There’s Saye, e-sports novels, Kiss the Abyss, Priest novels, 188男团 novels, and more (I’ve tried to tag some of them for more exposure but I didn’t get to tag all of them)!! 👀
I’m personally not affiliated with the mod team at all, but last time I checked, they don’t have a Tumblr, so I figure I’d share about it here. :D
(And yes, for me personally, I did absolutely take the chance to ask for 188男团 content hahaha. My obsession absolutely came at the right time SLFNKSSH. I’ve also got my fingers crossed this helps me ease into being eager to create again!!)
#danmei#modern danmei#fic#fanfic#fanfiction#kuku rambles#188男团#shui qian cheng#beryl and sapphire#priest#case file compendium#ferocious dogs of old#don’t pick up boyfriends from the trash bin#kiss the abyss#a break in the clouds#poyun#pixiu’s eatery no way out#flying gulls never land#inferior by nature#I can do it#salad days#city of angels#drink drank drunk!#the approach#tailhook#AWM: PUBG#FOG#mou mou#fake slackers#saye
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gnome culture emphasizes playfulness and a good sense of humor partly because gnomes are physically small and vulnerable and tend to settle in wild places with a lot of hazards and if they had to take every completely real threat to their safety seriously while also Taking Them Seriously they'd just be paralyzed by fear
#take it easy but take it#good and healthy to be afraid sometimes but you gotta learn to laugh about it too or you're gonna implode#turning this over in my mind with the half-cooked concept I was thinking about the other day#about a gnomish (philosophy? saying? entire parable?) about how the More you live the closer you are to death#not as a cautionary tale against doing stuff but as a cautionary tale against avoiding danger at any cost#the world is too full of risk for a gnome to live like that! if you're not taking any risks you're not really living!!#you learn riddles and practical jokes and illusions and trickery because you'll need those skills to survive#and you're going to remember them and get good at them and not become obsessed about catastrophizing over them because they're FUN#the world isn't full of Terrible Dangers to Fear the world is full of THRILLING CHALLENGES that YOU can be clever enough to overcome!!#you're going to cheat death again and again so that when she finally catches you you giggle like a child and say 'good game!'#gnome stuff#worldbuilding#felix insp#idri insp#melliwyk insp#<- this applies to mel the least because the Culture is still there for her but she grew up in a very arcane modernized city#like in a gnomish neighborhood of a bigger integrated/ human city#so the survival value of this was less a factor for her#than for my blorbos who had to grow up with the extremely real possibility of getting eaten by wild animals
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trying to get back into draiwng again forreal so i can do some 6 month overdue art trades and i started drawing bata but got way too into niche regional dress differences and realized that if she's from gunib district then she wouldn't wear this kind of headpiece and the clothes from gunib district are probably the most boring out of all of them in terms of jewelry etc so idk if i wanna transplant her to somewhere else or what.
#shes literally from modern day so it doesnt have to be 100% accurate bc its her interpretation of folk costume anyways#but i KNOWWW she'd get mad at me if she was real#bat1a#talking abt her again but she lives in a neighbouring village and is family friends with shamil and kinda has a crush on him#she and liliya are internet besties and theyve visited each other a few times! she has highspeed internet because she has a job#taking environmental surveys for a university-run project from the city#and sometimes she has shama drive her around to stuff#also she has kinda fucked up teeth bc thats cute#she and liliya are the same age. when she gets older i can imagine her making traditional crafts and stuff like that one lak woman on IG#who makes traditional balkhar pottery and dolls and is suuuuper adorable#but its difficult bc much like shamil she also fucking hates tourists#a difficult balance.#also i named her bata bc i saw a post abt names and I don't remember if I had her concept already drawn but unnamed#or if I came up with her after but it was very cute and it fits her perfectly :33#r. if you somehow went on Tumblr again i hope you know I still hate you and you're a bitch for blocking me#and if we meet in person you're going to need a second nose job to fix what I'm about to do to your face
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Vietnamese theatre in Saigon, modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
French vintage postcard
#theatre#tarjeta#postkarte#postkaart#vintage#modern-day#saigon#minh#french#vietnamese#modern#sepia#photo#ho chi minh city#city#vietnam#postcard#postal#historic#briefkaart#carte postale#ephemera#ansichtskarte#photography
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People say that Ghost is Soap's self control, his retrain. The impulse control to Johnny's chaotic energy.
Some might even go as far as to say he's the the mind behind Soap's more careful choices-
It's funny and Ghost laughs at it. Not in their faces, of course, but privately. Jokes about it with Soap, made it an inside joke between them.
Because... It's completely wrong. Completely wrong. But not extremely wrong, his Johnny is chaos incarnate, sometimes he does need a hand to pull him out of the crazed fog his brain gets after setting off the most beautiful of explosions. Or to guide him back after rage clouds his senses.
But that's about it.
In reality Soap is constantly holding himself back, with dangerous smiles and tempting words. He hardly ever shows his true colors or motives. Cunning, like a fox.
It's all about appearences
And what people, in their... Closed up minds don't see yet is that- It's not Soap McTavish that needs restrain (he still bites) or a hand on his shoulder-
But Simon Riley.
The Ghost, who looks calm collected in it's all imposing figure is nothing but a weapon at ready for Johnny to use.
One moment he'll be still, immobile, listening. Waiting, always waiting. Patient-
In the next one, after a simple look from Soap and a soft command. He's butchering the battlefield like he was born -made- for it.
Finishing everything in record time and going back to him, drenched in blood, stance at attention.
Johnny let's the most animalistic side of Simon come out. Let's Ghost take over with no judgement, only swiping the blood from his face with the same gentle caress you would use on a wild wolf. Love coloring his eyes in dark shadows.
It reminds Simon of the depths of the ocean. Dangerous, deadly magnetic and so so beautiful. John smiles up at him and he can't contain himself but to kiss his knuckles. Worshipping.
Because the truth is:
Soap disregards his orders with a roll of his eyes
Ghost waits patiently for them with admiration
And the reality is that: Johnny is the mind to Simon's heart.
The thoughts to his actions.
#this came out a little wonky but i dunno how to better articulate this#TLDR GHOST ISN'T SOAPS IMPULSE CONTROL#soap doesn't need someone to hold him back#ghost however would dessimate an entire city if soap asked him#a frown on his brow and ghost is sharpening his knifes ready to kill#TLDR SOAP IS GHOST'S SELF RESTRAIN CUS GHOST IS INSANE#they're both sick in the head <3#anyways i could spend the entire day talking about Simon's devotion to Johnny#and Johnny's obsession with Simon#but alas i must restrain myself or i will be locked aways 😔#manyrambles#cod#call of duty#cod mw2#call of duty modern warfare 2#simon ghost riley#john soap mctavish#call of duty ghost#call of duty soap#ghost/soap#ghostsoap#soap/ghost#soapghost#ghoap#if there are typos.... i wrote this on my phone and I'll cringe at them after posting
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Finished the batch of animations I downloaded last time, might do some with Ghost next because I already have his model...
#call of duty modern warfare 2#cod mw2#cod soap#john soap mactavish#cod fanart#cod gif#fun fact i made the last gif during a power outage we had today in the city#and i was racing against my laptop's decreasing battery the whole time#the moment i finish rendering BOOM#power back#the power of dancing restored my electricity!#anyways these are like. really fun for me to do for some reason#its like. extremely monotonous bc i have to fix textures for an hour for each gif#but it gives me time to wind down after a full day of doing uni work#and the end result is funny#also yeah his hands are completely broken the auto rigger really hated them...
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So, at the hill in summer. To look, at the sky above. What a beautiful sky! Sky, clouds. And, grass is so green. It is so nice to sit in the grass. And from the hill, by the way, it opens a cool view.
At the civilization of the future. You sit in a grass, in a forest. Relaxing. Having a free time. And look at two such a big buildings. So, there are even more of them there. But these two are in a photography. High buildings. Even, hard to say, how much floors it has. Maybe, it is possible to flight straight in space, having such buildings.
Maybe, in this building, a very clever engineers are working. And they make a calculations, writes programs. And, as a real thing, they plan a space flight, maybe, something like that. At a real space ship. And in the evening, after working day, they run to the grass. To sit and drink a tea.
And from a hill it is opens such a view. Almost, like two rockets. Which are rising to space. So, things like this, really cool things, you cannot find, maybe for everyday! And also, a cool weather - very summer!
#photo#photography#summer#park#forest#city#buidlings#high#sunny day#at the hill#green hill#grass#tree#civilization#progress#relax#free time#amazing view#seesights#something interesting#arhitecture#desigh#future#modern day#rocket science#nice day#hills#bush
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