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kataranah · 25 days ago

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There is no such thing as a fish and on Neptune it’s raining diamonds.

These are facts that make the absurdity of this big old universe more clear.

This could be a comfort to me. It should stop me from taking myself too serious. It should encourage me in embracing the fullness and mysteries of life INCLUDING myself. I want it to be my “prescription for hope”.

I’m not there yet. But I truly am trying.

#Lulu Miller #Why Fish Don’t Exist #just finished this great book #trying to hold on to hope #literature #personal #lungfish #dipnoi

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puppetmaster13u · 9 months ago

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Prompt 271

“Grandmother is visiting,” Damian suddenly said with no warning and with his usual not-quite demanding tone.

“Who?” Tim wasn’t the only one to startle, seeing as Bruce had practically froze, a downturn to his lips in a silent show of confusion.

Damian scowled. “Are you deaf Drake? Grandmother is coming to Gotham to, quote, make sure I am being properly cared for.” None of them had known that Ras was with anyone actually. At least Tim was pretty sure that would have been in the files.

“Oh?” Dick didn’t quite crouch to Damian’s height but it was a near thing. “She-” “He,” Damian corrected, interrupting him. They all exchanged a glance before Dick continued.

“Is he coming to the Manor or…”

Damian scoffed again, a tiny bit of a flush against his face. “No, Grandmother will most likely be staying with Akhi-”

Now wait one moment-

“YOU HAVE ANOTHER BROTHER?!”

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Deadly Decisions #Danny & Ras are the homoerotic rivals that no one knows if they’re flirting or attempting a murder #It’s actually both they’re just also both Immortal #Danny to Jason: You can become a crime lord if you finish college- you’ve said you wanted to get a degree this is ur chance #Dusan (nodding): Mother has made all of us finish at least our basic education nephew #Why yes this does mean that RH has just made the heads in a duffel bag debut & the bats have no clue it’s Jason #Normally Danny wanders the universe but RAS (affectionately derogatory) HOW DARE U TRY TO HIDE THE GRANDCHILDREN #Morally Gray Danny #He’s well over 300 and that has an affect lol #Also has some fun fae vibes thx to his ghost half & human half finally balancing out #Let Jason & Damian be brothers #Tiny Damian: Akhi look I found a frog :>#Jason (newly not brain damaged & has no clue who this small child is): …. That’s great #Tiny Damian: *GASP* Akhi you can talk now :D #Fuck it- all the Al Ghuls deserve fangs from ecto contamination #Is Danny actually Dusan & Talia’s mother? No one knows and no one wants to ask the probably immortal fae being okay #Danny brought Damian a ghost hound puppy & Jason an original signed Pride & Prejudice book #How come Bruce wasn’t aware of Danyal? Talia forgot to inform him that the mother she was speaking of is in fact still alive #He disappears for a decade sometimes longer she was using past terms how was he supposed to know

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greatstrangerdinosaur · 5 months ago

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They're cute

#dunno if it was their storyline or if I just have a thing for short haired goth girls but sheesh they're becoming my favourites #the dragon prince #drawspit #they're reading some book about human traditions or something I suppose that's why he's confused #anyways I need to finish this season it is great but I only watched like a half of it so far

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deoidesign · 4 months ago

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My comic is so pretty...

The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!

#almost done with my 8th episode... which will give me. two weeks. of buffer...#id really like at LEAST a month... but to be more comfortable id like two #which means 2-6 more episodes before I come back!#I've got about 7 weeks so its possible. but i do still have to finish book 4 #so much to do ..........#I decided for my next comic im doing 3 updates a month.#having 10 days instead of 7 to make an episode is such a huge huge huge difference...#difference in quality and in my health!#anyways the comic is really pretty im really happy with the work im doing rn #the environments especially. im getting to spend a nice amount of time on them and theyre turning out so nicely #its nice to be able to write with a lot of different environments and not have to redo panels when I get to them cause of time #cause every time theres a wild angle? you need a new background...#so sometimes. often actually. there just isnt the time to make the backgrounds for those and i have to make them more flat...#which is fine. it doesnt really affect anything narratively. but. idk. it's kinda sad right?#anyways yeah! 10 days will be much better.#36 episodes a year is about what ive been uploading with my hiatuses on the weekly schedule anyways!#so might as well cut out that super stressful middleman and just commit to that #52 a year is just such a huge difference and i have to accept its not possible to me #i will hurt myself trying to do that. and i want to make comics my whole life!#so i cant push myself that hard now and sacrifice my future. we're gonna go slower after this...#anyways yeah cant wait to come back but also time. if I could get an extra week like a secret one just for me #where theres no chores no nothin just me and my work #thatd be great! so go ahead and do what you gotta do to give me a little pocket dimension #me: ugh i want to return right now...#the more logical me: NO we need the time to finish everything!!!!!! NOT right now!!!!#time and time again #ttawebcomic #comic panels #hiatus stuff #adam and steve

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littlestkoi-n · 8 months ago

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the rage I feel when reading Blood of Olympus chapters 45-56 is almost equivalent in magnitude to the absolute joy I experience when reading The Last Olympian chapters 1-23.

remember when percabeth was good? when they meant the world to each other but had other people they cared about (nico, for one. both of them. so much), other worries and other storylines aside from their romantic plot? and when nico's completed arc wasn't repeated for no reason other than to dump more trauma on the youngest character in the series? when background characters were included in the story not for all the unnecessary last minute romantic subplots but because they were fun and fascinating to learn more about? and were actually friends with main characters? remember when grover was percy and annabeth's best friend forever? and antagonists were actually interesting and intimidating and had compelling goals? and the story revolved around friendship and family and loyalty? and death was definite and loss was palpable and battles were thrilling?

yeah. good times.

#rr crit #pjo #hoo #hoo crit #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #oh how i love them in pjo. how they loved.#grover underwood #<- remember him?#nico di angelo #will solace #dumpster fire of a canon relationship ->#solangelo #anyway!#last olympian will forever be the best book this man wrote #how can you finish one of your series so perfectly then fuck up so bad while ending the next story #cuz goddamn does blood of olympus boil MY blood #ESPECIALLY those last fucking chapters omg #why would you massacre my boys rick #putting nico and will in a room together for the first time just to turn will into a total asshole. great move thanks a lot!#will had so much potential from his previous appearances #you could've left it at that dream message nico had #that was nice!!! actually!!#instead you ruined all of it with a few chapters #justice for tlo-tlh will solace cuz that was one nice background character with potential to become a great main one day #nico deserves THAT will. not this piece of shit he meets #also nico and percy friendship in hoo is... nonexistent???#what is that about #fucking hell richard

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tgtbata · 22 days ago

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my year in art, including two pieces from @semifinaldraw. thank you guys for being here and talking to me and looking at my art. it's a joy every day <3

#yia*#a #so once more with feeling:#still working as a doctor still at the same workplace still overworked and bad at many things - but getting better at others #still struggling to finish my thesis but making progress i think #fell back into football big time (hi teo) and so happy for it. the euros were great and i booked tickets for a weuro match next year with #my mom so that's something i'm looking forward to in 2025 already #if you're even slightly interested in football pspspsps come to me i have yaoi to sell you #had an amazing vacation in sweden with my family. take me back to walks through the forest with just my pocket knife a bowl for #collecting berries and my mp3 player (that was in august so august was weakest art-wise haha)#bought a new mattress and yes in the life i lead that's a highlight (for real)#here's to 2025 and sharing it with you :)

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ricky-mortis · 7 months ago

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Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)

More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.

For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.

#guys look I made an au!#I hope to do more with this because it’s so much fun to think about and draw #I’ve been meaning to finish this for ages- had the idea like two months ago #I’m particularly happy with Red Tailed Hawk Curt- if you don’t know they are a very common bird of prey in the US- but very cool #there’s one that lives not to far behind my house AND I saw one quite literally yesterday #and curt just had that vibe y’know #the vibe of that bird #also I was a massive bird nerd when I was a little kid so this is scratching that itch from when I was 10 #so I’ve got the books I can consult for this thing #At least for North American birds #but yeah very pumped about this #fun fact: the sound you hear on tv used for the bald eagle is actually the sound of a red tailed hawk #I’d like to thank the lovely ryoko-akari for giving me that radical fact #I think it would be silly if they could make bird sounds #just for fun #let my guy Owen hoot- let Curt screech I think #alr what do I call this au guys #wings are forever #birds are forever #spies are birds #birds used to be used by the government for espionage there has to be something good #OK after some consultation we’ve got one- from the fantastic swingingthehatchetnow- I give you:#Spies are Forever: Live and Let Fly #isn’t that great yall #man’s a genius #ok regular tag time #spies are forever #tin can brothers #tin can bros #tcb spies are forever

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shad0w-elemental · 3 months ago

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Day 12: Tome, VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?

would you want to know the Truth, even if it hurts to hear it?

#warframe #warframe fanart #tennotober #tennotober2024 #god i feel like ive done so much drawing this month and yet have finished nothing #fell into a funk working on day 3 and just stayed there for the last 15~ days #shifting focus to day 12 seemed to put the wind back in my sails though #what great truths do YOU think operator violet may find in grandpappy entratis diary #probably a mix of margin doodles of loid. sappy love notes. and random bits of void tongue (the latter provided by our resident void entity #my art #warframe operator #i guess wally is also there if you imagine he's talking directly to her through The Book

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livingtheparallellife · 18 days ago

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The moment I become fluent in your shivers...

#the nightmare before kissmas #i can't get this phrase out of my head #this is poetry #the book is so good!#such an unexpected treat #such a great world building #such complex characters #perfect read for this time of the year!#finished in a day #just go and read it!

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ash-and-starlight · 6 months ago

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“im glad that at least one of us has maternal instincts” zhu when i fucking get you >:(((

#ma was so happyyy with the kid oh my goooooddddd #rlly i REMEMBER when i finished reading swbts i was rooting for zhu/ma messy divorce in the second book dkfgjdk #when zhu is like oh i know that every step in my journey to greatness will only bring suffering to ma but well. sucks to be her ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#MA BABY LISTEN TO ME NOW DUMP HIS AAASS!!!!#i was at least hoping ma would yell at her until zhu realized she fucked up big time but alas :(((#once again tragedy of characters bound to society's roles :(((#fr in a kinder future modern au ma should dump zhu's ass a few times #and then get back together with them juuuusttt as baoxiang is gearing up to shoot his shot #laying his heart at her feet and she's just like ah that's so sweet of you but uh. the call of toxic lesbian situationship was too strong #you see i'm 95% of zhu's morality #we're getting married tomorrow <3 #and so ma is off getting 6 orgasms in a row while wbx is once again rebounding on mid nefarious sex with ayushiridara #u see the vision #anyway ONTO HWDTW WHO'S READY FOR THINGS TO GET MUCH WORSEE??? YIPPPEEEEE #tre reread #send post

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wildlyfreemoon · 7 months ago

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i just watched geek girl on netflix! i have some... criticism... but i actually really enjoyed it! very cute and has similar vibes to like angus, thongs and perfect snogging/bend it like beckham (which side note: both great movies directed by the same woman) but yeah! has the vibes of a 2000s british movie - combined with the under-rated use of a teen girl voice over!

#i dont want to get too into my criticism -- but it was mostly surrounding like representation (and nick...)#the main takeaway should be that i enjoyed the show! and it was great as someone who read the books as a kid #but also i dont remember anything really about the books...#also nick was american and that was just so jarring at times like i would not really notice and then boom! american accent #slay yuji tho #(not the first time ive said that --> as a jjk stan)#geek girl #geek girl netflix #geek girl show #netflix #wildlywatches <3 #wildlywatches <3 geek girl #hope they do a s2 or smth! gave me the same feeling when i finished as i had with angus thongs and perfect snogging #urgh now imagining geek girl but with (young) aaron taylor johnson!#also so many posts under the 'geek girl' tag which are.... n sfw... like so shocking when i was just trying to see discourse about the show

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fictionadventurer · 4 months ago

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Potential September Reading

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)

An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge

A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)

C.S. Lewis nonfiction

A sensation or mystery novel

A piece of one of the Psmith stories

Some kind of nonfiction book