#leekie

[ssreeder]

sreedieeeee

am I up to date with itf?? ABSOLUTELY not. it feels like a worse betrayal than the divorce but alas, such is life. I just wanted to update you that I went to spain for a week and my pasty ass didn’t get sunburnt Once and I need you to be proud of me :D

anyway love you to bits and pieces (like your lightbulbs after I’ve smashed them all ;3)

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU FOR NOT BURNING YOUR PASTY ASS!!!!!

but also pissed because like where the fuck was my invite?? I wanna spain too. Also idc that you’re not caught up on liab,,, some of my very best mutual don’t read liab right now and I still lub them (just to be clear I love the people who are reading more but that’s ok you’re fine)

in the most cabbage man way possible:

my lightbulbsssssss!!!!

[parison]

Reread John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids last year. I'd sit in my garden and read, overlooked by potentially the largest Scottish thistle I've ever seen. It'd nod in the breeze, towering over me, as I read about the Triffids lurching from their planted beds to wander the English countryside. Spooky stuff. Triffids are a design challenge I revisit a lot - this was a stab at them from about a year ago.

[alecmagnuslwb]

If there is one show I wish I could scrub entirely from my brain and watch for the first time again it’s absolutely Orphan Black

[beetleskeleton]

Artfight has begun!

And my first attack of the year goes to @leeky-studios with the return of cat-ified Bob! Just a fun piece all around :)

[vexic929]

big version of my new icon by @leekiings <3333

[ironpour]

do you think american internet chefs over salt their food?

who are any of us to say when we aren't tasting the food? i know what you are referring to but so many american chefs are using lower sodium/ less salty salt crystals - diamond kosher whatever. and i also really think a lot of them have a point about when to season and how to do it properly so you don't have to put salt on at then end.

anyway. beany leeky greens with greeky rampy beans. period

[clonethemidwife]

for reasons™️ which I am not yet at liberty to disclose, can the talented members of clone club point me to a high quality clip and/or gif of Cosima asking Delphine if Neolution is Eugenical or Utopian and Delphine replying that it’s Neotopian (from 1x06: Variations Under Domestication)

[no-nic]

já: jed (2x), antisérum, Driving to Mad; nic (2x), všecko, těpic, Colourfull Beads; trůn (2x), propadliště, záchranný člun, Leeky Spoon; vir (2x), AVG, knír, Jaromír, Ir / valach / bohatýr, Happy New Year; ráj (2x), peklo, bye bye, Ostravian Pie

ty: moje hloupé kotě

tento příspěvek byl vytvořen z potřeby oslovit někoho "moje hloupé kotě" & mizerně jim zahrát Nohavicu na ukulele ≽^•⩊•^≼ 🎸⋆⭒˚｡⋆ ♬♪

[spindrifters]

it's KEFTES DAY

[kingsmedley]

@abstractreign asked: 💘 + How does Joshua feel about how romance is portrayed in media— whether it's in books or shows or film?

"I think it's fun, but ultimately the portrayals of romance found in media are rather unrealistic and oversaturated, exaggerated for the sake of entertainment. Real romances are mundane, but that doesn't make for good storytelling, so writers either make it overly perfect or dysfunctional. That said, it is good entertainment, so I suppose my main gripe is that it's everywhere, shoehorned in whenever possible simply because people can't conceive of a story without romance."

[ssreeder]

SREEDIE YOU UPDATED YOU ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT BASTARD

look at my hubby, always cheering me up right when I need it most :3

(I’m choosing to believe the universe made your “let’s-save-this-marriage” sense tingle and that this is not pure coincidence shhh)

ANYWAYS I’m off to read the chappie now <333

My spider senses were tingly I knew you needed 25k of random interactions that don’t make much sense until they make so much sense? Does that make sense?

MWAHHhhhh *smashes my lightbulbs before you can*

[abstractreign]

📃 ( → @kingsmedley )

( → send in a 📃 and i will discuss one scenario that had been living in my head rent free !! still accepting )

{ i've actually thought about my josh somehow having a more meaningful conversation with highness? potentially giving the latter advice, even if he's likely going to be pretty blunt about it. i think it could be good for both of them, in good part because i feel like it'd be pretty difficult for highness to know what kinds of remarks would actually throw off mine.

of course, they'd need to get in a situation that warrants that — or become close enough for it, whichever comes first — which is also why i'm interested in them interacting some more~

[johnthestitcher]

Robert Burns’ Night Supper!

In honor of Robert Burns' birthday, Scots and non-Scots alike are celebrating his birth with a special supper. We started with Haggis puffs and a Kilted Cocktail (Irish whiskey, scotch, lemon juice, simple syrup). The main course was a haggis-stuffed pork roast wrapped in bacon (Strictly Kosher!), served with a cold leek salad and tatties (mashed potatoes), served with whiskey gravy (turkey gravy with thyme, bay leaf, and scotch mixed it). Stop turning up your noses - the tastes are FABULOUS! We saved half the pork to celebrate with a friend on Friday night, where we will also have my rendition of Cock-a-Leekie soup - another Scot specialty!

Stop complaining about haggis - your mouths are watering!

"Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot ..."

 (hey- I married a Scot!)

[beetleskeleton]

Another attack on @leeky-studios! Phil has been hit with cat-ification beam.

[aerial-ace97]

Aldous Leekie Reframing?

So I’m watching Orphan Black for the third time right now cause it’s amazing and one of my favorite TV shows of all time.  Anyway, I’m becoming convinced that Leekie might have been the best of the Dyad Institute and maybe the best bad guy of the show besides those who clearly or even just effectively swapped sides (AKA Helena and Paul).  Spoilers though so I’ll put my reasoning under the cut.

To start off, I am by no means calling Leekie a good guy.  He was known to kill in order to keep the experiments safe, as in the case of Olivier (to be fair he was a sex offender so I don’t feel too broken up about it and you could argue Leekie hired him but with how many heads Dyad has there simply is no way to know that).  He also supposedly killed Rachel, but oh it turns out no he didn’t, so did he just... burn documents or something.  He did have grandiose ideas about eugenics but that’s... everyone in Dyad and he honestly was mostly just a figurehead while others did the real work.  He also had a creepy relationship with Delphine.  Maybe?  We never got the full picture on how that worked though.  Certainly his status was above her and so you could make a point for work place exploitation but besides that... I’m not really sure what’s creepy about their relationship.  Is it just ageism?  Rachel and Ira are creepy because Rachel LITERALLY raised Ira from four years old.  We know nothing of the history of Aldous and Delphine.  Aldous was... also vaguely an asshole and superior around most people.  Not exactly a crime akin to the monumental violations we see from others on the show.

On the other hand, Aldous was deeply committed to maintaining as little intervention with the subjects as possible, or at the least, the most that we saw (I guess besides Marion Bowles but she was hardly even a character and MK’s revenge list with her named crossed off suggests she was involved with Helsinki so... not a great look for her).  He didn’t try to kill any clones we know of and forwarded the greatest impetus for curing the clones of anyone in the Institute.  When Rachel went out of her way to have one of her sisters murdered and autopsied he was disgusted.  Not to the extent anyone should have been but with more genuine frustration than anyone I can recall in the Institute.

When we compare him to other members of the group there really is no contest with most of them.  Virginia Coady advocated for genocide and rape.  Her cadre of clones, while arguably manipulated, were also rapists.  PT Westmoreland experimented on a child and eventually killed him in cold blood, manipulated everyone around him to do his eugenic dirty work, stole blood from dozens of youth and let them die thinking they had a cure, you name it.  Evie Cho had dozens of babies euthanized when they were ‘defective’.  Ferdinand massacred clones.  And Rachel, for all people try to argue for her redemption and as manipulated as she was, went a long with both Westmoreland and Ferdinand, held back Cosima’s cure, tried to kill her mother and Sarah, did have one clone murdered, manipulated and abused Kira, and was perfectly fine with however many clones had to die.  Sorry Rachel fans but her being manipulated doesn’t absolve her.  Everyone is a product of others.  No upbringing makes Rachel vindicated.

Of course Prolethians fair no better with all of them abusing faith in order to manipulate the murders of clones.  Tomas was abusive, Henrik a rapist, Bonnie a murderer and abusive.  Probably way more crimes for all of them.

There are only two members of Dyad who may have had any chance of being better.  Susan Duncan being one.  But... Susan Duncan was still ok for a while with experimenting on Yanis in the horrible tests he went through.  Speaking up isn’t really stopping it and she should’ve cut and run then and there.  Also had that above creepy relationship with Ira.  I don’t know that she couldn’t have been aware of some of the Helsinki stuff and other things that Dyad got up to as essentially the head of Dyad for a time.

Ethan Duncan is the other contender and yeah for all intents and purposes we’re left to believe he was better than Leekie but he was also... only very briefly ever a member of Dyad.  Certainly not the Dyad we see in the current age.  So I find it difficult to count him.

This is all worthless info of course.  They’re all scheming and cruel eugenicists more interested in profit and science than actual human lives.  But in retrospect of watching through the seasons I feel like Leekie shines as not so bad when we stop and think about it.  Course he might have been.  In an alternate story where the Club sides with him over Rachel in season 2, maybe he becomes the worst of the worst.  But I can only judge by what actually happened.

[jupitercl0uds]

potatoes should be banned from soup they add no valuable flavour and instead turn what could be the world's most succulent soup into nothing but the world's most unpleasant texture experience no matter how much you blend it.