#man this guy is wild

[quantomeno]

Wait I've just realised Don Paolo in Pandora's Box makes no sense

I mean, his actions in the beginning are fine. It totally matches his previous modus operandi to steal a mysterious and valuable artefact. Plus he did know Dr Schrader so it makes enough sense he'd target him.

But then...

Was he on the train with Layton et al? Was he just hanging around Dropstone? Did he take the Molentary Express because he saw the train ticket too? Or did he take the train because he saw Layton was planning to take it and thought he'd be able to work out the mystery of the box for him?

From his dialogue, it seems like he was trying to solve the mystery to find the Herzen family wealth, but then he hangs about in the hotel most of the investigation.

But that side of things I can sort of accept. The really big thing is his Flora disguise.

Because Flora was not meant to go on the train ride with Layton. If Don Paulo was observing Layton and learned he was going on the train and decided to hide on board (probably in disguise) then he would have known Flora was left behind.

(funnily, if Don Paulo had packed a Flora disguise assuming Flora was coming and then realised she wasn't, he could've gotten away with disguising as Flora anyway and just saying she didn't want to be left alone, exactly as Flora actually does. Flora could have been written out of PB entirely, which I'm glad didn't happen, but it would also have avoided her being stuck in a barn for a day)

But then he sees Flora has arrived and is like good, I didn't pack my Flora costume for nothing! Or did he have several plans? Did he plan to replace Luke if Flora wasn't there? Was he hoping to do Chelmey again but then saw the inspector was on the train too?

I guess he just keeps a Flora disguise around just in case. And then he saw the opportunity and took it.

I said this makes no sense but honestly this all does indeed seem to fit nicely with Paul's MO. and also he gets that Layton disguise very quickly in Lost Future, so I expect he does just have a massive set of disguises with him at all times and has been practising everyone's mannerisms just in case.

[raycatzdraws]

Wolfie and Four friendship appreciation doodles! They're shared secrets besties! I hope Four's distrust of the shadow crystal doesn't drive anything between them. Wild found his way into this compilation with a force. It seems I can't draw Wolfie and not include him too!

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[daily-smallishbeans]

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dream teamup honestly

[mwagneto]

i wonder if they realise how fucking funny these thumbnails are

[violetren]

The great thing about the White Collar OT3 is that at no point does the introduction of Neal into El and Peter's everyday lives never feels like a threat to Peter and El's marriage.

Like from the moment Neal shows up at their house in episode one he and El hit it off.

Within the first 5 episodes Neal and El have figured out they have similar knowledge and interest in the finer things, they're sharing looks over how Peter talks about and will react to things, El is telling Peter to trust in Neal a little, Neal is helping make sure they have a lovely anniversary, and El is calling Neal in to mediate/help prove her point in mini arguments to make Peter do stuff.

They also work really well because while Peter, El, and Neal might all be slightly different flavours and intensities of hyper competent adrenaline junkie weirdos, all three of them are intensely loyal to "their people" so the second El and Neal recognised that they both trust Peter as someone who will always try to do the right thing and respect them they were like "oh green flag."

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ok INCREDIBLY old content originally meant for this blog but in 2018 when i was just a wee lad with a little spinner propeller hat and big rainbow lollipop i went to a carnivorous plant convention in california and met a bunch of people who breed/collect/study these guys. one person was this collector who was slowly working on leaving the hobby or at least no longer growing plants, and he had a bunch of carnivorous plant related files he was charging like 50 cents for or something, and so i came into possession of these, which are examples of the kind of paperwork you have to have done to legally ship/trade endangered species of both plants and animals. functionally very boring paperwork, but something i found like, incredibly fascinating. i blacked out the personal id of the person and then immediately forgot to ever upload them, lmao.

these plants were bred and raised in a greenhouse and sold abroad, not taken from the wild, but because the species are endangered and often protected in their native countries (most of these are nepenthes, asian pitcher plants, a huge family spread throughout oceania and southeast asia), there's a lot more documentation that needs to be done regardless of their origin, both on the end of the seller and on the end of the buyer.

the rabbit hole on carnivorous plant trade is deep and kind of wild. there's plenty of common, non-threatened, greenhouse-grown pitcher plants on the market that people buy all the time, even non-collectors, but there's a whole debate to be had on if it's morally okay to be collecting the more endangered/rare of these plants in the first place. the big argument for breeding is that breeding them in captivity means there's more supply that's not poached from the wild, meaning poachers have less of an incentive to take the risk of taking adult plants from their habitats; from what i've heard, sometimes countries will issue permits for breeders to collect some wild seeds just to create a non-wild breeding pool to drive down the price. predictably, however, you also get people who are very much willing to pay a lot of money to get as rare of a plant as possible.

anyone familiar with the allure valuable plants have had over people throughout history can imagine the rest, but here's an article about a guy who started buying poached plants to enrich his private nepenthes collection, who then got busted by a fish and wildlife service agent embedded in his carvirorous plant circle. the plants this guy was buying were being sold to him without any CITES paperwork or declarations like the ones above; it was literally just a guy in indonesia taking rare plants from the woods around where he lived, selling them over facebook marketplace and ebay, and mailing them overseas as an undeclared 'gift' to get around customs. frighteningly small steps to take on all sides, to be honest.

(also, fun fact: another example of carnivorous plants that get poached are wild venus fly traps, which are only native to north and south carolina in the US. from what i understand it's a mix of people who genuinely did not know it's a native species and people who really are just going out into the woods and digging up plants to sell online. sometimes poaching is closer to home than you'd think!)

anyway. wild and interesting times in the land of plants recovered from a hard drive lmao

[yourlegacysnotyourstosee]

Moms be like “this is my beautiful daughter” and the “daughter” in question looks like this:

[leonardcohenofficial]

yelling at this article by long-time variety columnist army archerd (not sure if this was actually published in variety) about david mccallum's bondage adventures during the filming of "the alexander the greater affair"

[rythyme]

ok many of us have heard that news that Supernatural actors DJ Qualls aka Garth and Ty Olsson aka Benny are getting gay married.

I listened to most of the podcast episode to verify — and yeah! they're full on getting married, planning to grow old together, etc. etc. however — the wild supernatural lore doesn't stop there.

ty and dj first met at a supernatural convention in the UK. they got close when they went on vacation to turkey together after maybe having spoken like 5 times.

there is in fact a big supernatural cast group chat

dj hasn't watched supernatural. "[supernatural] is a tv show I don't watch, i'm not a fan of, because I know everyone on it" and "the last thing i want to do is watch them play pretend in my spare time"

Party On Garth is his favorite episode because he got to drink / pretend to be drunk.

dj initially wasn't going to take the supernatural role. the producers sent him a script and a few episodes to convince him. his first impression of supernatural was, "it's two underwear models chasing monsters?"

dj got beat up really badly by a cop when he was in Vancouver for his first supernatural shoot. Someone else had to explain to the cops that he literally hadn't even done anything before they released him with no charges.

other than that the most memorable thing about his first supernatural shoots was the catering. "the best sandwiches I've ever had" and "they had two kinds of soup. I love soups."

[daily-odile]

1,,,, 100 days,,,,,,,,, and 800 followers,,,,,,,,,,,,,

From the bottom of my heart, thank you everyone.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BAM!

[ritz-writes]

did u guys know aziraphale and crowley kissed on screen. thats wiid

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[cyberniix]

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